Interview with a Full Time Trader and CTA

[MattZ]

This is a recent interview we conducted with our customer who is also a CTA. We hope that these interviews will help you in your own trading as well. Enjoy!
https://optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/e-mini-sp-trader-interview-sam-beckers/

 

[tommcginnis]

Wow.
I'm barely 20 minutes in, and had to sign back into ET to thank you for posting this.
Great interview.
*Realistic* trader -- who knows of what he speaks.
*Reasonable.*
Solid, solid stuff. RARE.

Way big .

 

[MattZ]

Wow.
I'm barely 20 minutes in, and had to sign back into ET to thank you for posting this.
Great interview.
*Realistic* trader -- who knows of what he speaks.
*Reasonable.*
Solid, solid stuff. RARE.

Way big .

Thank you so much for these kind words. We will try our best to bring solid and practical content to the ET community.

 

[MidwesternTrader]

Agree, great podcast full of applicable knowledge here. Thanks for posting.

 

[PennySnatch]

This is a recent interview we conducted with our customer who is also a CTA. We hope that these interviews will help you in your own trading as well. Enjoy!
https://optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/e-mini-sp-trader-interview-sam-beckers/

I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

 

[lindq]

I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

Very nice interview. Particularly nice to hear from someone who walked a similar trading path as mine, during the same time frame. And came away with the same lessons.

The market around 2000 put a lot of people out of business. But those of us who managed to hang on and survive the margin calls came away with a big respect for risk, and the need to always consider worst-case-scenarios.

 

[MattZ]

Very nice interview. Particularly nice to hear from someone who walked a similar trading path as mine, during the same time frame. And came away with the same lessons.

The market around 2000 put a lot of people out of business. But those of us who managed to hang on and survive the margin calls came away with a big respect for risk, and the need to always consider worst-case-scenarios.

I feel that today more than ever there are those who want to be full-time market traders, especially when everything is so accessible and priced right(in my opinion). However, having those who have been trading for years bring a sense of practicality as to the hidden challenges that some may not consider. The comments here and the overall gratitude is really appreciated. I will do my best to find more traders whose views can help the trading community.

 

[_eug_]

I enjoyed it as well. Thanks for sharing.

 

[slugar]

Thanks for sharing very informative!

 

[fan27]

This is definitely one of the better trading interviews I have listened to. There was good info regarding system development/trading that I had not considered before. thanks!