Alpine Trader
The everyman of prop-firm streaming, a former EMT and DJ who trades the Nasdaq open live every trading day across a stack of funded accounts and gives evaluations away to his viewers.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026
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Alpine Trader is a US-based Nasdaq futures scalper who moved from small-cap stocks to futures in 2023 and now streams live at the market open on nearly every trading day. He trades an opening-range strategy across many funded prop-firm accounts using a trade copier on Quantower. He runs the free Alpine Trading Fam Discord of close to 3,000 members and is known for daily evaluation giveaways tied to his own payouts.
Trades
Nasdaq futures
NQ · MNQ · also ES, YM
Style
Opening range
ORB scalps · 25–30 ticks at the open
Futures since
2023
small caps before that
Based
United States
YouTube
28.6K
subscribers · Oct 2026
Discord
2.9K
members · Alpine Trading Fam
Streams live
Mon–Fri · from the 9:30 am ET open
Next stream: Mon–Fri · from the 9:30 am ET open · open channel
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BEST KNOWN FOR
Every trading day, live at the open
Alpine Trader streams the Nasdaq open on YouTube on essentially every US trading day: seventeen of the twenty in the month to 14 September 2026. He trades a stack of funded prop-firm accounts through a copier and narrates an opening-range scalp he has honed to 25–30 ticks. His most-watched videos are the practical ones every funded trader searches for: what the consistency rule means, how long an Apex payout takes, why he moved from Tradovate to Quantower. Patrick Wieland flew him in to trade on the BDH floor in 2025, Trades by Matt hosted him at the open in 2026, and Feedspot ranks him fourteenth among futures YouTubers to follow this year.
IN ALPINE'S WORDS
“This is my unique ORB strategy using the opening range volatility to scalp 25–30 ticks consistently at the very open.”
YouTube, February 2026
“Day trading is one of the hardest things we do, but one of the most rewarding. Never give up, as an EMT I learned to always pursue my dreams, and as long as we have health for ourselves and our families, everything else we can overcome.”
YouTube, January 2024
“Your trading journey is yours. Mine is mine.”
YouTube, April 2025
Alpine Trader's latest video
“10.16 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ w/ prop firms. Friday = Giveaway day!” · published Oct 16, 2026 · 3.2K views
Who is Alpine Trader?
Alpine Trader publishes under his channel name only. What he does share is a life outside the charts. He is a former EMT ("as an EMT I learned to always pursue my dreams") who runs a DJ business on the side and credits it with keeping him in the game long enough to make trading work. A car enthusiast, skier and New York Rangers fan, he opened his YouTube channel in 2015 and traded small-cap stocks before the volatility in that corner of the market pushed him into futures in 2023.
Futures suited him. Within months he was funded at Apex, TickTick, Bulenox and Leeloo, and by early 2024 he was documenting payouts, milestones and the mechanics of running twenty or more funded accounts at once. The channel passed 15,000 subscribers in April 2024, on a day he says also brought a $49,500 payout request and an earthquake. By September 2026 it sits at 28,500, with more than 3.5 million views across 828 uploads.
The format is the live stream. He goes live at the 9:30 am Eastern open on essentially every trading day, runs for two to three hours, and titles each replay by date: "9.14.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms." The 2026 goal, stated on stream, is a stack of ten to fifteen daily-payout accounts, and September’s titles track the run: "$1000 daily payout reached again, 9 days in a row". Each time he hits the number, a Take Profit Trader evaluation goes to a viewer. "Member Monday Giveaway" and "Trap Tuesdays" are fixtures of the week.
The strategy is his own opening-range approach, "no ICT," as he puts it: use the volatility of the first minutes to scalp 25 to 30 ticks, copy the trade across every account, and be done. His most-viewed videos are the ones every funded trader eventually searches for: an explainer on the consistency rule, a full timeline of how long an Apex payout takes, a walkthrough of copy-trading multiple accounts for free. His is also the channel that persuaded a wave of prop traders to switch from Tradovate to Quantower with multiple Rithmic connections.
The peer group has noticed. In March 2025 Patrick Wieland brought him to the BDH Day Trading Floor in South Florida for two days of live trading watched by more than 85,000 people. In August 2026 Trades by Matt hosted him at the open. The free Alpine Trading Fam Discord has close to 3,000 members, and Feedspot lists him among the top fifteen futures YouTubers of 2026. He has become the model for a particular kind of trader: not a guru, just a working guy who shows up at the open every day with the camera on, wins, losses and payouts all on the screen.
How Alpine trades
The opening range, scalped
Alpine trades the first minutes of the cash session. His opening-range approach reads the volatility of the open (the initial push, the trap, the range that forms) and takes a scalp of 25 to 30 ticks on NQ or MNQ. ES and YM stay on the screen for confirmation. By September 2026 his stream titles were calling the setup the “Opening Momentum Trade”. He describes it as his own ORB method rather than any imported framework, and "Trap Tuesdays" is the weekly reminder that the first move is often the wrong one.
Because the target is small and the setup repeatable, the edge scales by repetition rather than size. The same trade is copied across a stack of funded accounts, each with its own daily-payout rules, so one clean scalp can be a payout on several of them.
The stack and the tools
The account structure is the other half of the method. He has run twenty to thirty funded accounts at once and currently favours daily-payout accounts at Take Profit Trader. He executes through Quantower with multiple Rithmic connections and a copy trader, a setup he has documented in tutorials that remain his most-watched videos. His rule explainers on consistency rules and trailing drawdown are the practical companion pieces.
Losses are streamed too, and he is candid that daily payouts and daily discipline are the same thing. As with every trader profiled here, the method is described from his own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
See how the wider prop-trading field is positioned in NQ while you study a method like this: MarketFramework's Positioning Edge shows live long/short splits across ES, NQ, MES and MNQ from real evaluation and funded accounts, and Prop Backtest scores strategies against prop-firm rules.
Alpine Trader's career timeline
Opens the Alpine Trader YouTube channel in July. source
Moves from small-cap stocks to futures; first Apex payouts documented in May and June; publishes the Tradovate-to-Quantower video that becomes his most-watched. source
Publishes the consistency-rule explainer (January); passes 15,000 subscribers (April); reports $240,000 in year-to-date payouts (May, self-reported). source
Trades live for two days on Patrick Wieland’s BDH Day Trading Floor in South Florida in March, watched by more than 85,000. source
Posts 2025 results in January; attends the Max Options Trading "Live and Unfiltered" conference; guests on Trades by Matt at the open in August; Feedspot ranks him #14 among futures YouTubers. source
Runs a nine-day streak of $1,000 daily payouts in September, giving away a Take Profit Trader evaluation each day (self-reported). source
Alpine Trader's videos
LATEST
10.16 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ w/ prop firms. Friday = Giveaway day!
10.15 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ w/ prop firms. Need a green day.
10.14 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ - Internet Restored! Need Payouts though!
10.09 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ - Friday giveaway day!
10.08 .26 Day Trading Futures NQ - keep the green days coming!
9.14.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms. Passing Evals and Member Monday Giveaway!
9.11.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms.
9.9.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms. Another $1000 daily Payout = TPT Giveaway!
Figure as stated by creator9.8.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms. $1000 Daily Payout = reached again! 9 days in a row
Figure as stated by creator9.4.26 Day Trading Futures w/ Prop firms. $1000 Secured again = TPT Giveaway! $4500 week!
Figure as stated by creatorMOST POPULAR
Why traders are switching from Tradovate to Quantower! Quick tips to get started!
What is the Consistency Rule? Funded accounts with Apex Trader Funding & Other Prop Firms.
yeah you can make the money too if you are profitable and follow some rules.
How Long Does it Take To Get Paid from Apex Trader Funding Prop Firm? Full Timeline!
SHORTS
Prop firms Alpine works with
All six firms appear with code ALPINE in the description of every live stream from 17 August to 14 September 2026. He is also a Quantower partner (code ALPINE).
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
ALPINE TRADER: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Alpine Trader trade?
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ) and the micro contract (MNQ), with ES and YM on screen, scalped at the 9:30 am Eastern open using his own opening-range strategy and copied across a stack of funded prop-firm accounts on Quantower.
What is Alpine Trader best known for?
Streaming the Nasdaq open live on nearly every US trading day, copy-trading twenty or more funded accounts, daily evaluation giveaways tied to his payouts, and the practical explainers funded traders search for: consistency rules, Apex payout timelines, Quantower setup. He has guested on Patrick Wieland’s BDH floor and on Trades by Matt.
What is Alpine Trader’s net worth?
He has not disclosed his net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firm does Alpine Trader use?
Take Profit Trader is his headline partner, whose daily-payout accounts he trades and whose evaluations he gives away on stream. His descriptions also carry code ALPINE for Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, Lucid Trading and Phidias, plus a Bulenox link, as of September 2026.
When does Alpine Trader stream?
Weekday mornings on YouTube from the 9:30 am Eastern open, typically for two to three hours, on nearly every US trading day. Mondays feature a member giveaway and Tuesdays are "Trap Tuesdays."
SOURCES
- Alpine Trader: YouTube channelaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- YouTube, 14 September 2026 stream (description with partner codes)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- YouTube: What is the Consistency Rule? (2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Patrick Wieland, live at BDH with NuttyBar and AlpineTrader (2025)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Trades by Matt: Alpine Trader joins TBM for Market Open (2026)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Feedspot, futures trading YouTubers (2026)accessed Sep 14, 2026
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