Convergent Trading: Recent Episodes
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Join us for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with FuturesTrader71, brought to you by Convergent Trading. An exceptional opportunity to delve into the mind of a professional futures trader, this interactive webinar will cover a wide range of topics from market trends, risk management, technical analysis, to the psychology of trading.
FuturesTrader71, or Morad Askar, is widely respected in the trading community for his ability to break down complex concepts into easily digestible insights. His expertise in futures trading, combined with his focus on the crucial elements of risk management and trader psychology, makes this a can't-miss event for traders at all levels.
Whether you're a seasoned trader or just starting out, don't miss this chance to gain knowledge from one of the best in the industry.
In this session, we will discuss the charts and tools we use to assess the market narrative and finding likely plays for the day. We will also cover how we determine our bias, stalk a trade, and decide when to hold to target or exit a trade. If you're interested in learning more about the tools we use for our homework and how they help us trade effectively, then this webinar is for you.During the webinar you will learn about:• The tools we use to complete our daily homework• How we assess the market narrative to find the likely plays for the day• Understand which charts help us determine our bias once the market is open• Which charts do we use to stalk a trade• What tools help us determine when we hold to target or exit a trade• See real-world examples of how our tools have helped us identify market opportunitiesThis webinar will help you gain valuable insights into how we approach trading using the CT approach's tools. You'll also have the opportunity to get your trading questions answered during a live Q&A session. You don't want to miss this one!
In this webinar, Convergent Trading will host Jared Tendler - a world-renowned mental game coach - to discuss practical strategies to maintain confidence during adversity and stay grounded during periods of success. Emotional capital is just as crucial as financial capital to consistent execution and success in trading. Jared will share insights on recognizing and overcoming self-doubt, improving decision-making under pressure, and developing a mindset for long-term success. Don't miss this opportunity to improve your trading performance with one of the world's leading experts on the mental game of trading.
In this webinar, FuturesTrader71 will interview Convergent Team Member CT-Jaguar to discuss his experiences and advice for traders participating in Funded Trader Programs.
- The discussion will cover the following topics:
- The Layout of a prototypical funded trader program
- The common issues and potential pitfalls to look out for
- What kind of trader are these programs designed for?
- What is the likelihood of success?
- How can you improve your odds of getting funded
Through the end of November 2022, we're offering $50 off on new quarterly memberships, use code "FUNDED" at checkout! - https://community.convergenttrading.com/store/
In this webinar, FuturesTrader71 will address the differences between analyzing setups historically, and executing them on the hard right edge. A good trade is easy to spot retrospectively, however, traders often dull their own edge due to poor execution in real time. Traders may be able to identify high-quality opportunities, however are unprepared for the entry, execution, and management of that trade. During the discussion we will cover:
- How execution mistakes can dull the edge of a profitable strategy?
- What a good trade should feel like?
- The role of confirmation bias and recency bias in our decision-making
- Practical suggestions for improving your execution
In this session, FuturesTrader71 will discuss scalp trading and the key elements that you must account for to be a scalper. FuturesTrader71 started his career as a high volume NASDAQ equities scalper and moved to scalping futures markets at his prop shop. We will answer questions such as how traders blow up their account scalping, how scalp trading puts us in a fight with algos and how beginning scalpers can improve the odds in their favor with the right tools and setup. You don't want to miss this one!
R-Factor is one of the most valuable tools in a professional day-trader's kit and a key component in consistent profitability. Many traders obsess over the win-rate of setups and completely overlook the importance of R-Factor. In this webinar FuturesTrader71 will break down:
- Why R-Factor is so important?
- R-Factor's impact on trading results
- How traders can adjust their R-Factor to maximize opportunities?
- R-Factor's role in Risk Management
During the presentation, we will also be taking questions from the audience related to the topic. If you're looking to quickly improve your trading performance, you'll want to join us for this webinar!
In this webinar @FuturesTrader71 discusses the common trading failures we have seen over the years and the process for correcting them.
During the webinar we cover:
- The Most Common Trading Failures We Encounter
- The Death Spiral of Common Failures
- The Expectations & Beliefs We Must Embrace to Succeed
- Remedies for These Common Failures
- Example Using the Current Market Narrative
- Question & Answer
Market Theory, Technical Analysis, and other Trading Concepts are important elements in a trader’s learning endeavors. However, sometimes the best way to learn is to cut through the theory and take a look at how a professional trader goes about executing in markets live. Each morning during the Trader Bite, FuturesTrader71 lays out his scenarios for the upcoming session. In this webinar, we’ll take a look at how he executes these scenarios and updates his market biases, if necessary, as the session plays out. He’ll show us the soup to nuts process on how he develops trading ideas live during the session.
During this webinar we’ll cover:
- Laying Out the Pre-Market Plan
- Analyzing and Navigating the Open
- The Trigger Point to Execute Our Trade
- Trade Management
- Closing and Completing the Trade Cycle
Oftentimes, traders are underfunded and over-leveraged. For many of us, the goal is to take a small amount of money and turn that into a large amount of money. To achieve this lofty endeavor, it is critical that traders give themselves the best chance at success. In this webinar, FuturesTrader71 will walk us through how he would approach growing a small account in today’s markets.
During this webinar we cover:
- The 8 pre-requisites to knowing you are ready to grow your small account
- Setting a clear and actionable process for trading
- How would a professional/prop trader approach growing?
This is a Convergent Member-Exclusive webinar that we’re releasing publicly for the very first time! Here’s a chance to get a deeper look into the education provided in our community. In the webinar, we perform a statistics-based study and help traders to get thinking about how to implement these practices in their own trading.
During the webinar we cover:
- Historical probabilities and what they are
- What historical probabilities aren’t and can’t offer
- Why do people get lost in statistical discussions
- How extracted statistical information can be used
- A walk-through example of generating a preliminary statistic from which we can build a setup with an edge
In this webinar, we are joined by Jared Tendler, a performance coach revered across several competitive disciplines. Jared works with some of the world's leading traders, poker players, professional golfers, and Esports athletes. FuturesTrader71 and Jared discuss the Mental Game, and insights from his new book: The Mental Game of Trading.
Volatility is a double-edged sword. On one side, the greater the volatility, also the greater the opportunity for traders. On the other side, volatility often results in traders deviating from their trading plan, trading from a more emotional state, and incurring loss streaks. It is critical that traders have a plan for the various market regimes and conditions. In this webinar, FuturesTrader71 will discuss the adjustments traders should make to compensate for times of higher volatility.
During this webinar we discuss:
- How can we recognize when volatility has increased & when an adjustment is necessary
- How do we compensate for volatility in our sizing, stops, and targets
- How do we manage heightened emotions, overtrading, and FOMO during volatility?
In this special Public Event, we address how to approach trading like a professional trader working on a prop desk, and how you can implement these practices in your own trading.
During the webinar we cover:
- What prop traders think about that retail traders do not
- Key differences between Prop vs Self-Directed accounts
- Approaching risk management like a professional
- How to effectively use leverage
- Scalping as a day trader - pros and cons
- How to assess where you’re at in your development
- When should I become a full-time trader?
- When can you set a tighter stop loss?
- What scale out of your position?
- Becoming a pro while having a full-time job
During this Trader Spotlight Session, we will welcome back Anthony Crudele to share his insights on what he believes to be the Common Traits of Successful Traders.
Anthony has over 20 years of experience in trading Futures and cut his teeth on the floor of the CME as one of the youngest members in the CME Group’s history. He continues to trade Futures today and is also actively involved in Crypto markets. Anthony is the host of Futures Radio Show, and has an excellent YouTube Channel. Over the years, he’s spoken with and interviewed hundreds of highly successful traders, including FuturesTrader71 on numerous occasions, and has gathered many key insights from other industry professionals.
In this webinar, we are excited to welcome back Jeff Snider. Jeff has appeared in previous Trader Spotlights to highlight the massive Repo Market and is a prominent voice in the global macro space.
Jeff is the Head of Global Investment Research at Alhambra Investments. Alhambra currently manages over 230 million in assets for more than 200 clients. The firm believes its thorough market and economic research that drives its strategies are what differentiates them from the competition. Jeff spearheads those investment research efforts.
In this webinar, we have on Kelly Farrell of Diamond Capital Management. Diamond Capital Management is a fund specializing in S&P 500 Futures and Options products. Their systematic and proprietary rules-based investing program touts competitive returns relative to the S&P 500 Index with lower volatility and drawdowns, which is the fund’s goal. Kelly is a portfolio manager with over 30 years of investment experience and has an extensive background as a professional trader. Kelly is an “Other Time Frame” (OTF) participant and discusses with us her approach to markets.
During the webinar we discuss:
- Kelly’s journey into becoming a fund manager
- How the fund arrives at its edge
- The multifaceted trading approach the fund executes
- How a fund manager looks at risk
What do the world’s best professional athletes, poker players, and traders have in common? They’ve each developed a Mental Game to support performance at the highest level.
In this webinar, we are joined by Jared Tendler, a performance coach revered across multiple disciplines. Jared works with some of the world’s leading poker players, traders, professional golfers, and Esports athletes. Jared will discuss the Mental Game, and insights from his new book: The Mental Game of Trading.
Traders must evolve with the market and this includes having to diversify the product/instrument that we trade.
Our focus during this session:
- Do we need to add an instrument or should we replace the one we already trade?
- What parameters can we define to select a new product to trade?
- Will a new product fit our risk profile and account size?
- What are some ways we can extract statistical information that will drive our decisions and approach?
- What are the steps to put together a set of setups or elements that will help us succeed with a new product?
Tune in to hear us discuss how moving to a new product can be a game-changer. We have the advantage of more and more micro/small products to choose from such as the Small Oil on SMFE (SMO), Micro-Crude (MCL), Micro-Bitcoin (MBT), Micro-DAX (FDXS) on Eurex and others. We believe exploring diversity in products has never been better for individual traders.
Convergent Trading opens this session up to all traders interested in a discussion about "making the turn". We go over the common experience of a trader who is doing the work and is seeing consistency in their results and answer questions live during the webinar.
During the webinar, @FuturesTrader71 covers a breif overview of Volume Profile and how traders can utilize it for developing setups. The webinar discusses the following topics:
- Volume Profile basics
- How the auction develops over time
- How large players reveal their intentions on a day-to-day basis
- How to recognize and take advantage of the traces that the major players leave behind
- Key Setups that combine Volume Profile with Order Flow
During this session, we will go over the steps that traders must plan for to "Trade Right". The discussion covers the soup-to-nuts program for formulating a sustainable plan of growth as a trader. With this, we will kick off a 2021 that will hopefully help traders stay focused on their path to growth.
FuturesTrader71 and the CT Head Traders (LongShortorFlat, NanaimoTrader & Tendex) chat about their path to professional trading.
The traders discuss:
- Each CT Head Trader’s background and journey
- Their experience turning professional
- How they evolve with the markets
- What they see other traders do that they wish they can help with
- Their opinion on the shortest path to trading success for others to follow
Jul 09, 2020, we hosted a special Convergent Trading Member-Only webinar with trading psychologist, Dr. Andrew Menaker. As a special bonus, we've made this webinar and podcast available to everyone! Dr. Menaker went through a number of key trader psychology Q&A questions asked by our members, based on his real-life experience working with traders.
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"The two biggest traits that are associated with successful trading are resilience and open-mindedness." - Dr. Andrew Menaker
For more information about Dr. Menaker, please visit https://www.andrewmenaker.com/
On Tuesday, March 28, we held a special follow up Q&A to the extremely popular webinar on the repo markets with Jeff Snider, Head of Global Research at Alhambra Investments. FuturesTrader71 asked Jeff Snider many of the questions that were asked during the webinar that we did not have time to cover, in addition to several emails that were submitted after the event
You can learn more about Jeff by visiting https://alhambrapartners.com/.
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On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, FuturesTrader71 met with with Jeff Snider, Head of Global Research at Alhambra Investments. They discussed what the Repo market is, how this market is used, why the Repo market can cause large moves in equities markets and what Jeff’s view is on how COVID-19 might unfold. You can learn more about Jeff by visiting https://alhambrapartners.com/.
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Convergent is proud to host Erik Townsend of Macro Voices, arguably the best global macro podcast available, to discuss COVID-19 and its impact on the markets on March 11, 2020. Erik was one of the first to publicly sound the alarm on his podcast and we are now seeing the contagion effects of this virus and the resulting market panic. Join us to learn the latest. You can learn more about Erik Townsend by visitinghttps://www.macrovoices.com.
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This special webinar with Futures.io, will discuss new trading opportunities with the new Micro E-Mini Equity Index Futures products from the CME.
- Intro to CME Micro-eMinis and what they are
- Comparison of Micros and eMinis – Costs and specifications
- Expectations for when they are launched in May
- Setting up to execute them properly using the eMinis for homework
- A plan template to trade Micros
- Anchoring our trading on statistical probabilities and knowing our product
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In this episode of the Convergent Trading podcast, Morad Askar (FT71) interviews Yra Harris (www.yragharris.com), an experienced trader with a unique big-picture macro-style focus. Yra has 42 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading and is a member of the CME, served six years on the CME Board of Directors, is a Registered Commodity Trading Advisor, a Registered Floor Broker and a Registered Pool Operator. Morad takes a look at Yra's background, intuitive insights into the currency and commodity markets and his approach to executing and managing trades.
In this episode, FuturesTrader71 recounts his journey from trading at university, to SOES bandit, then running his own prop trading firm. This session is hosted by our partner, Futures.io.
In this episode of the Convergent Trading podcast, Morad Askar (FT71) interviews Joe (Tendex), a head trader with Convergent Trading. Morad digs into his Joe's background, approach and discovers what his opinion is on a variety of topics based on his 20+ years of trading experience.
FuturesTrader71 presenting his experience in answering the question “How do I know I’m on the right track as a trader?” This session is hosted by our partner, Futures.io.
In this episode of the Convergent Trading podcast, Morad Askar (FT71) interviews Aaron Fifield of ChatWithTraders.com to gain insights on what Aaron has learned over his 162 and counting interviews with top trading industry professionals.
Link to shownotes: convergenttrading.com/convergent-trader-spotlight-aaron-fifield
In this inaugural episode of the Convergent Trading podcast, FT71 interviews Anthony Crudele of FuturesRadioShow.com
Link to shownotes: https://convergenttrading.com/convergent-trader-spotlight-event-anthony-crudele/