I hope all of our members had a very nice long weekend and are ready for a short trading week. With Bitcoin over $50,000, and a volatile blockchain market, we are all in for a treat. We apologize for the website issues last night and this morning, but it is all fixed now. Every Monday, our education team, Carlos, Mike and Kyle, offer an Onboarding and Technology session for new members. Due to the website issues,...

Please note that the market is closed on Monday, February 15, in observance of George Washington's birthday (the Presidents’ Day federal holiday). George Washington, a founding father of the United States, is certainly one of my favorite and most respected historical individuals. His vision for democracy and separation of powers in the newly found republic has been an inspiration for so very many. Success in any endeavor comes from being resilient and surviving the learning curve....

In this week's Strategy webinar, Carlos and I hosted a one-hour town hall meeting with Andy Kershner, CEO of Kershner Trading Group. With hundreds of traders, and offices in NYC and Austin, they are one of the most successful proprietary trading firms in the US. Our last question to him concerned the advice he would give to new and developing traders. His response? He said to use STOPs, to use STOPs, and to use STOPs. It’s...

Dear Traders, We are set for another eventful week with some big earnings on the line. Bitcoin has already surged to a new all-time high of over $44,000. It’s also been reported that Tesla has purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. Traditional trading has always been based on either fundamental analysis or technical analysis, but as Peter discussed last week with Jack Schwager in the first episode of a new season of Talk with Traders, many...

Dear Trader, As many of you know, Wall Street is on fire and the short squeeze of GameStop ($GME) is now on the desk of the President and the politicians. The White House has announced that they are monitoring the situation and the Senate Banking Committee announced this afternoon that they will be holding a hearing into the matter. What happened? Melvin Capital and Citron Research shorted GameStop (over 120% in short interest) in order to benefit from...

One of my concerns in life is that I will wake up one morning and realize I'm the guy who doesn’t know how to use the latest technology or has never even heard of the newest social app that everyone else is talking about. It’s a fast-paced world and I truly do not want anyone to think of me as a degenerate, uninformed digital illiterate! Part of this of course is related to our business. The...