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Prop Trading Secrets
How Successful Traders are Living off the Markets

Kathy Lien (Author), Etienne Crete (Author)

9781394243167, Wiley

Hardback, published 27 January 2025

288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.499 kg

14 revealing interviews with some of the world's best proprietary traders

In Prop Trading Secrets of Successful Funded Traders: How Individual Traders are using Proprietary Trading to Achieve Financial Freedom, Kathy Lien, author and managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management, and Etienne Crete, full-time trader and founder of Desire to Trade, deliver a collection of 14 revealing interviews with proprietary traders successfully making a living off the markets.

You'll explore insights from veteran traders with over 10 years' experience in the markets, winners of a variety of trading championships, and contemporary prop traders using methods like funded accounts to trade other people's money. You'll also find:

  • A thorough introduction to the different kinds of prop trading, including funded trader programs
  • Ways to get started with prop trading, trading methodologies, specific trading tips, and the most useful indicators of price movements
  • What the world's best prop traders have in common and what sets them apart from the rest of the pack

Perfect for new traders, Prop Trading Secrets of Successful Traders is an incisive look at the discipline that belongs in the libraries of anyone with an interest in proprietary trading.

Preface vii

About the Authors xi

Chapter 1 The Shift in Prop Trading: From Big Banks to Everyday Traders 1

Chapter 2 Prop Trader Secrets: Discover What the Best Have in Common 5

Part I Prop Trading Champions 11

Chapter 3 Rob Hoffman 13
Won over 30 Domestic & International Real-Money Trading Competitions

Chapter 4 Davide Biocchi 29
10-Time Real-Money Trading Champion

Chapter 5 John Bannan 49
Top Three Robbins World Cup Futures Trading Champ

Part II Prop Traders Turned Fund Managers 65

Chapter 6 David Floyd 67
Running a $7 Million Fund with over 30 Years of Trading Experience

Chapter 7 Sunny Harris 87
Ranked Number One Commodity Trading Advisor in the US for Two Straight Years

Chapter 8 Ali Crooks 101
From Failing in Business to Running a Regulated Fund

Chapter 9 Aatu Kokkila 119
From Best World of Warcraft Team in the World to Best Systematic Currency Fund Two Years in a Row

Chapter 10 Andres Granger 129
The $10 Million Crypto Fund Manager’s Story to Success

Part III Prop Trading Pros 147

Chapter 11 Jean-Francois Boucher 149
Losing It All Trading Options, Fighting Leukemia, and Becoming a Profitable Funded Scalper

Chapter 12 Austin Silver 167
The Multiple-Times Funded Trader Who Is Not Afraid to Fail

Chapter 13 Alyse Amores 189
From Single Mother with a Few Hundred Dollars of Capital to Trading $8 Million

Chapter 14 Matthew Miller 203
From Penny Stocks to Withdrawing $309, 000
in 85 Trading Days on Funded Accounts

Chapter 15 Nick Syiek 223
Made $3 Million by 23 Trading Forex and Indices

Chapter 16 Vince Koehn 241
Funded Futures Prop Trader with $1 Million in Profit

Chapter 17 Ultimate 10-Step Checklist to Jumpstart Your Prop Trading 257

Index 263

Subject Areas: Finance & accounting [KF]
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