Option Alpha Review – Is the Subscription Worth It?
Option Alpha is an options trading platform started by Kirk Du Plessis. The site covers a broad swath of options trading strategies, but the site is mostly focused on the more quantitative based spread style of options trading, as opposed to something more...
Lex Van Dam – Million Dollar Traders Course Review
Lex Van Dam is a Dutch trader who gained prominence for his appearance on BBC’s Million Dollar Traders, where he put up $1 million dollars of his own capital to teach novice traders to become profitable traders, in a recreation of Richard Dennis’ Turtle Trading...
SMB Capital Foundation Training Review – Is It Worth It?
SMB Capital is a proprietary trading firm located in New York City. The firm was started by Mike Bellafiore and Steven Spencer in 2005. SMB provides coaching, training, and capital to traders, and they employ an “eat what you kill model,” meaning traders only get paid...
Bulls On Wall Street Trading Bootcamp Review
Bulls On Wall Street is a trading school founded in 2008 by Kunal Desai. The material they release is mostly focused on day trading and swing trading using technical analysis, time & sales, and level 2. Bulls On Wall Street is one of the more prominent trading...
Tim Grittani – Trading Tickers Review
Trading Tickers is a trading course created by day trader Tim Grittani. Grittani rose to prominence due to his amazing feat of turning $1,500 into over a million dollars in just three years. Grittani is one of Timothy Sykes’ famous “millionaire students.” In this...
ClayTrader Review – Is Clay For Real?
ClayTrader is a day trader who sells educational courses on technical analysis, level 2, options, forex, and other trading topics. ClayTrader markets himself as a normal guy that doesn’t drive a Ferrari or live in a mansion. The frontpage of his website says “I'm not...
Anton Kreil’s Professional Trading Masterclass Review – Is it Worth it?
Who is Anton Kreil? Anton Kreil is the founder of trading education and asset management company Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management. He started his career working at investment banks like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and J.P. Morgan. He rose to...
How Trading Compares to Poker and Blackjack
Trading and investing draw distinct comparisons to blackjack and poker, all three are situations of uncertainty in which your success depends upon you putting the odds in your favor. There are no sure things, outside of cheating (insider trading, collusion with the...
Review of Jesse C. Stine’s book: Insider Buy Superstocks
Insider Buy Superstocks: The Super Laws of How I Turned $46K into $6.8 Million (14,972%) in 28 Months is a book written by trader Jesse C. Stine in 2013. The title alone is enough for one to express some skepticism, as these “How I made X% in 2 years” type of trading...
Lessons I Learned from Scott Fearon’s Dead Companies Walking
Scott Fearon is the founder of hedge fund Crown Capital Management, which he opened in 1991. Since then, he has shorted over two-hundred companies that eventually went bankrupt. Over his many short selling successes, suffice to say that Scott’s learned a thing or two....