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Prop Trading Secrets: How Successful Traders are Living off the Markets

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ISBN: 978-1-394-24316-7

January 2025

288 pages

Description

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.

About the Author

KATHY LIEN is an internationally published author, Managing Partner of BKTraders, and the former Director of Currency Research of DailyFX.com and FXCM. At BKForex LLC, a firm that she co-founded in 2007, her experience in developing trading strategies using cross-market analysis and predicting economic data surprises serve as key components of BKForex’s analytical techniques. A seasoned FX analyst and trader, she also has experience trading a number of products outside of FX, including interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities and futures.

ETIENNE CRETE is a swing trader from Montreal, Canada, and has been trading full-time since 2017. As the founder of Desire To Trade, he assists aspiring traders in developing profitable strategies and achieving financial independence. Etienne’s platform provides educational videos, a podcast, and various programs to help traders become profitable and scale up their trading. Through the Desire To Trade Podcast, he has interviewed over 400 successful traders and experts, sharing valuable insights on trading for a living.