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What I Learned About Coaching Eminis: Academy Style

September 4, 2011

I used the Trading  Strategy to coach a slew of day traders while I was coaching people with Eminis, Academy in the states have great potential.  It wasn’t easy balancing day trading, traveling extensively while living overseas, and working with the Emini Academy to coach others, but I did it.  I got to meet a [...]

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Why is Learning to Day Trade So Damn Hard?

August 8, 2011

The idea of learning how to day trade is super easy isn’t it?  You find a stock, buy it really low and sell it really high and then poof!  Millionaire!  You buy and sell it million times and make thousands of dollars a day.  If it’s so easy why isn’t everyone doing it? It’s not [...]

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Tradestation vs NinjaTrader: Reviews- Which one is better?

July 25, 2011

Deciding whether NinjaTrader or Tradestation is better is similar to deciding which kid is your favorite.  You just can’t do that!  These two programs are the only trading platforms that all futures traders use.  These two platforms are the only ones I have been using for my roughly 10 year day trading career.  I share [...]

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Working Overseas: Day Trading and Travelling in Iceland

August 3, 2010

I never considered traveling to Iceland in my lifetime. Not because of the cold weather, simply because I didn’t think there was anything to see (boy was I wrong). I was actually day trading while traveling throughout Iceland. They call it the land of fire and ice because it sits right on the convergence of [...]

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What is Day Trading?

June 4, 2010

There are two ways that people invest in the market: there are investors and day traders (I share how I make money day trading at TheDayTradingAcademy.com).  Investors are in the market for the long haul.  They place their retirement and savings into the market with a simple premise that the market will go up over [...]

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Owning your own business & working for yourself: Get Started Day Trading Part 2

May 27, 2010

We discussed the advantages of getting started in the day trading industry in our last post.  If you have decided to take the plunge it’s time to start looking for your strategy (assuming you’re not creating your own).  First and foremost, you want to identify what your comfort level.  Do you want a strategy where [...]

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Consider Day Trading for your own business? Working for yourself?

May 25, 2010

We are in the midst of one the most severe recessions in history and yet there is still an opportunity to make money and be successful.  I have personally seen a man go from nothing to wealthy within the last two years with just the stock market. But why Day Trading?  Isn’t it gambling? In [...]

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THE BEGINNING OF THE E-MINI ACADEMY

May 4, 2010

The Emini Academy started way before this video was made but it was the beginning of the formality of the business. When I first joined Chris Dunn to start coaching students it was roughly in June or July 2010 and the company as you now know it was called the Daily Trading Profits.  While I [...]

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