Aaron Korbs

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The Profile Method and the Speculators Podcast

Korbs is the Volume Profile educator with the best Rolodex in futures. His Speculators Podcast, launched in May 2022, has sat down with Inner Circle Trader, Al Brooks, Jack Schwager, Jason Shapiro, Topstep’s Michael Patak, Brian Shannon, Tom Basso, Anthony Crudele and dozens more. Its ICT episode, the trader’s first face-to-face interview, has been watched 1.17 million times. Underneath the microphone is a method. The Profile Method is his development programme built on Volume Profile, auction market theory and order flow for S&P futures, taught through Tradacc, which holds a 4.3 Trustpilot score from more than 460 reviews.

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Aaron Korbs's featured video

“Inner Circle Trader’s 1st Face To Face Sit Down Revealing Market Secrets | Speculators Podcast EP 19” · published Feb 9, 2023 · 1.2M views

Who is Aaron Korbs?

Aaron Korbs tells his own story plainly: no high-school diploma, "from nowhere Arkansas," pressure-washing windows in his hometown while he scraped together his first $10,000 for the markets and lost it. What followed was the education every retail trader recognises: funded accounts burned, money paid to gurus, late nights on YouTube, until Volume Profile clicked. "I felt like a blind man regaining sight," he wrote in his September 2026 letter to new students. He has traded S&P 500 futures with it ever since.

He opened his YouTube channel in February 2018 and built it on tutorials that still draw traffic years later. A 2019 Sierra Chart Volume Profile setup video is past 140,000 views, "Profiting From The Profile" past 110,000, and an order-flow and market-depth explainer past 85,000. His 2022 review of being funded for $300,000 at Apex Trader Funding is one of the most-watched prop-firm testimonials on the platform. Around the content he founded Tradacc and The Profile Method, a development programme with live Zoom calls, daily market breakdowns, accountability coaches and one-to-one coaching. Alongside it sits the Funding Accelerator, a step-by-step route to passing prop-firm evaluations with a single VWAP-based strategy.

In May 2022 he launched the Speculators Podcast, and within a year it had done what no one else had. In February 2023 he sat down in person with Inner Circle Trader for the reclusive educator’s first face-to-face interview, an episode that has now passed 1.17 million views. Fifty-four numbered episodes and thirteen "Supercut" compilations later, the guest list reads like the syllabus of a trading degree: Al Brooks, Jack Schwager, Jason Shapiro, Topstep chief executive Michael Patak, Brian Shannon, Tom Basso, Jared Tendler, Merritt Black, Humbled Trader, Anthony Crudele, Roderick Casilli, Bran Barrett and Matt "Pax" Kenah among them.

Korbs’s own approach is short-term intraday trading of the E-mini and Micro E-mini S&P during regular hours, two to four hours a day, with no overnight risk. His 2026 output has focused on the practical layer of the method: which timeframes matter for daily, micro and composite profiles, the "Line in the Sand" composite trade, double-distribution days. In September 2026 he added Chart Therapy, a new series in which he reviews individual traders’ charts on camera, and an explainer on CME’s new nano ES contract that became his fastest-growing upload of the year.

He signs every video the same way, "Happy Trading & Don’t Do Anything Crazy!!", and the phrase captures the appeal. Korbs is the trader who came from nothing, found one method, and has spent eight years explaining it patiently to anyone who will listen. Along the way he has quietly assembled the most complete oral history of modern futures trading that exists on YouTube.

How Aaron trades

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Prop firms Aaron works with

The four firms are listed on Tradacc’s funding-deals page as of 14 September 2026. He has also hosted Topstep’s chief executive on the podcast and describes a long relationship with the firm.

We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.

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