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TRADER PROFILES
All trader profilesFuturesTrader71
FuturesTrader71 is Morad Askar, a Chicago professional futures trader active since 2000 who moved from NASDAQ scalping to the Chicago Board of Trade in 2002 and ran his own prop firm from 2003 to 2010. Widely credited as a pioneer of Volume Profile education, he co-founded Convergent Trading in 2017, founded the regulated futures broker EdgeClear, and has streamed 2,750 episodes of his daily pre-market "Trader Bite."
ES · NQ · Crude oil
Aaron Korbs
Aaron Korbs is a US-based S&P futures trader and educator who specialises in Volume Profile and auction market theory. He founded the Tradacc academy and its Profile Method programme, hosts the Speculators Podcast, whose 2023 interview with Inner Circle Trader has passed a million views, and publishes Volume Profile education to about 58,500 YouTube subscribers.
ES · MES · Index futures
Anthony Crudele
Anthony Crudele is a former CME S&P 500 pit trader who obtained his exchange seat in 1999 and was among the first to trade the E-mini S&P electronically. He founded the Futures Radio Show podcast in 2014, joined NinjaTrader in October 2024 as senior vice president of NinjaTrader Live, and now hosts its daily broadcast while trading index futures around a market-environment framework.
ES · NQ · RTY