Limit Up! Podcast

Though it's not always easy to believe, markets are not rigged by machines. There are benefits to electronic human trading and benefits to trading algorithms, which operate based on a set of rules.

We talk with Jared Broad, CEO and founder of QuantConnect, about the basics of algorithmic and quantitative trading to find out what point-and-click traders should know.

Host Eddie Horn and TopstepTrader's John Hoagland break down the interview and share some of their personal stories trading.

Raman Chadha is the founder of the Junto Institute, which helps entrepreneurs and high-performing leaders realize their potential. That potential doesn't lie in your IQ - but instead in your emotions. In fact, studies show that more than 50% of performance is due to your emotions.

Without being a trader, Raman captures the essence of how traders can stay motivated to succeed - for all the right reasons. He also talks about the importance of community and why traders should strive to be part of a community like TopstepTrader.

Improving your trading in 2018 starts today. But how?

Mick Ieronimo, a long-time trader and TopstepTrader's risk manager, outlines five concrete ways to be successful trading in 2018. It starts with how you define success, which Mick says is about making progress and shouldn't be tied to any financial goals. Then, it's about taking what the market gives you and managing yourself through the ups and downs.

Todd Horwitz is a 38-year veteran trader who started on the floor and successfully made the transition to the screen. He had to learn to translate the euphoria, fear and madness of the crowd into electronic trading - analyzing price and volume.

In this episode, Todd shares his secrets to trading well - from what a great trading setup looks like to why he reminds himself of poor decisions he's made in the past.

Why do high-performing traders work with trading psychologists? To become even better. If you're not paying attention to your emotions, you will have a challenging time trading, says Trading Psychologist Rande Howell. In his 15-year history helping traders, Rande has worked with traders, portfolio managers and money managers throughout the world.

We explore how traders can better be in tune with their emotions and strategies for implementing change into their trading. Rande also gives a couple of exercises that you can do at your trading desk to become more mindful.

What does it take to be a full-time trader? That's the question we explore with Tracy Shuchart on this episode of Limit Up! Tracy provides insight of how she quit her job in pharmaceutical sales and moved to Chicago with no contacts to pursue trading full time.

We explore the daily life of a Crude Oil trader and what she does both before and after the market to set herself up for profitable trading. She talks about her trading strategies and why she's so dependent on charts.

And she also talks about how her trading was shaped by blowing up her first account - something that she thinks all good traders have done at one point or another.

In this special bonus episode, we talk about TopstepTrader's funded traders - who withdrew more than $47,000 in profits in November. Funded Trader Risk Manager Mick Ieronimo drops by the broadcast booth to talk about what every trader should know from our funded traders' success. To put everything in context, Dr. Jinnie Cristerna, a trading psychologist, talks about how a trader's relationship with money impacts their performance.

Rich Friesen is the creator and developer of Mind Muscles, training traders to improve their performance through awareness. In this episode, Rich talks about how traders should view their performance, how they can take stock of their emotions, and why they shouldn’t fight them. Rich even gives traders an easy exercise they should do each day before they start trading.

Peter Davies day trades the S&P 500 and is the founder of Jigsaw Trading. In this interview, he talks about how traders can think about and create a trading strategy that works with their personality and view of the market. And find out why Peter strongly recommends that traders learn trading on a short timeframe, instead of swing or position trading.

This interview is rich with insights into how a successful day trader views markets, so we hope you enjoy. Provide feedback to [email protected].

Yra Harris is a veteran trader who started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange before migrating to the screens. In this interview, he talks about some of his most challenging trades, why one of his best trades ever was where he lost a substantial amount of money and his outlook for 2018. But most importantly, he provides invaluable wisdom on how you can succeed in trading learning from his experience.