Band of Traders - Together We Trade

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By: Kyle Hedman

Education is the foundation of successful trading and community/support is the glue that holds it all together. At Band of Traders, our mission is to provide you with educational resources to sharpen your trading skills. Our thriving Discord community is a great source of inspiration, motivation and camaraderie. We are bringing together traders of all levels for no-nonsense insights into the trading world. We don’t sugarcoat the truth because traders must have the ability to evaluate their trades, strategies and emotional states in order to achieve personal growth. That growth is an integral part of becoming a master tr...

From Poker to Options to Forex - Ft. Jason Graystone
Last Wednesday at 9:07 PM

Jason Graystone, Host of Always Free and professional Forex trader joins Kyle to discuss how Jason’s poker background helped him when he made the switch to trading. He emphasizes the importance of having a strategic mindset, discipline, and a logical approach to trading while also talking about the challenges of maintaining confidence and consistency. Jason also shares some insights on the impact of a negative money mindset and we wrap up with a discussion on why he prefers trading currencies.

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Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortgage (ML...


Apex Fills & Using Momentum - Roundtable
Last Sunday at 2:31 PM

This week’s roundtable features a lively discussion around Mr. Banks’s recent “experience” with an Apex eval account, and Fleri shares some ideas about how to incorporate momentum into our trading. The panelists discuss their experiences with Apex, highlighting issues such as lack of transparency and poor customer service while also mentioning Top Step as a prop firm with good customer service. In terms of gauging momentum, they emphasize the importance of watching rotations and levels, as well as volume and tape reading, to determine the strength of a move. They discuss the significance of counter rotations and the disr...


“Only a Trader Could Understand This” - Humanity w/ Anthony Crudele
04/11/2024

Anthony Crudele, host of Futures Radio Show joins Cleo and me to share how he got into trading and podcasting, and the (mostly) positive impacts of them on his personal life. The conversation then shifts towards sustaining success and how it can be harder than attaining it initially. Anthony shares how the pressure to keep what you have and continue building on it can be overwhelming… External and internal pressures, such as expectations from others and the fear of losing what you've gained, make sustaining success difficult. Navigating this requires envisioning yourself as a successful trader, acting as if yo...


Reviewing Q1 - Roundtable
04/07/2024

Joining the roundtable this week is Vanta Trading’s Baba Yaga and JoelMC for an open discussion on everyone’s trading over the past 90 days. From the emotional challenges to protecting the process, the hosts share their personal growth and the areas they’ve identified to focus on for the next quarter. The good, bad, and ugly highlights the impact of emotional trades on PnL and they wrap up by Boldly predicting the number of evals passed by the community next week!

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Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortga...


Informal Economics for Traders, Ep. 3: Labor, Employment and Wage Analysis, Ft. Eric Mason
04/04/2024

In Episode 3 of Informal Economics, we start off by answering homework questions submitted to us from the previous episode before tackling labor economics and employment trends. Eric then delves into the concept of price elasticity and its influence on market strategies before shifting the conversation to signals in the labor markets and the breakdown of jobs by sector. He explains the complexity of wage analysis and challenges common misconceptions about minimum wage that digresses into a discussion about trade skills and other college alternatives

If you have any questions for Eric to answer in the next episode...


SBF Sentenced & Exploring Scalping - Roundtable
03/31/2024

Fleri and Vanta Trading’s Baba Yaga join this week’s panel to give their thoughts on the resolution of two major cases in the trading space, and share some of the ideas they’ve been exploring after last week’s conversation with 2yrflipper! The good, bad, and ugly features more good than bad this week and the Bold Predictions has everyone guessing what the Sunday gap will look like.

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Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 38 states, if you need anything mortgage-related, reach out to her a...


“There’s Always Another Trade” - Ft. Niels Koops
03/28/2024

Niels Koops, 14-year market veteran and founder of Tradrr.com joins us to share his trading journey, along with some of the key lessons learned in the early days. Niels emphasizes the importance of controlling emotions and focusing on a single market. He then shares his experience with using footprint charts and the DOM as trading tools, which leads us to discussing the creation and development of his trading platform, highlighting the challenges and unique features. To wrap things up, Niels gives us some insights into using footprint charts and the significance of high volume nodes (HVN) and low...


“I Expect to Scratch Every Trade,” Ft. 2yrflipper - Roundtable
03/24/2024

This week, the band is joined by special guest 2yrflipper for an incredible conversation about his extensive bond trading career, which includes a deep dive into timers, algorithms, and his success in scalping bonds for one tick with an 8-10% win rate. 2yrflipper also offers valuable tips, like preferring a programmable mouse to hotkeys and utilizing audio cues for tape reading, all interspersed with tales from his days in the trading pit!

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Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 38 states, if you need anything mortgage-related...


“I Should Have Just Sold It All” - Ft. Dan Rawitch
03/21/2024

Dan Rawitch, the founder and Head Trader for University of Options, joins Kyle this week to share his experiences in starting and selling multiple businesses, how he managed to continue trading while running said businesses, as well as some of the lessons he learned along the way. From an early start in finance, Dan’s impact to the sector has been felt in many industries, such as credit reporting, mortgage lending and even automated trading bots!

Sponsors and Friends

Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 36 states, if yo...


What Makes a “Good” Low? - Roundtable
03/17/2024

Fleri and Vanta Trading’s Mr. Banks join in this week to discuss market highs and lows and share insights on what they need to see when determining whether or not those will be traded through or respected before sharing what their morning routines look like. The good, bad, and ugly features a painful reversal and a Sim faux pas and the bold predictions gets opened up to everyone in a March Madness Bracket Challenge (Password: Vanta)

Sponsors and Friends

Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Maki at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 38 states, if...