Anthony Crudele
A CME seat at 21, an early screen on the E-mini and the microphone the futures industry talks into make Anthony Crudele the rare floor veteran who is also its best-known broadcaster.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026
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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.
Trades
Index futures
ES · NQ · RTY · options on futures
Style
Environment first
consolidation · trend · mean reversion
Trading since
1999
CME seat · runner from 1995
Background
CME pit
23-year exchange member
X
100K
followers · Sep 2026
Hosts
NinjaTrader Live
weekdays from 8am ET
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BEST KNOWN FOR
The futures industry’s interviewer
Crudele founded the Futures Radio Show in 2014, billed as the first podcast dedicated to futures trading, and has since recorded roughly 250 conversations with people like Linda Raschke, Larry Williams, Anna Coulling, Peter Schiff, Yra Harris and Jim Bianco. Since March 2025 he has led NinjaTrader Live, a six-day-a-week broadcast for active retail futures traders, after joining the brokerage as a senior vice president. Underneath the microphone is a floor-trading pedigree: a CME seat at 21 and an early seat at the screen when the E-mini S&P moved to Globex.
IN ANTHONY'S WORDS
“There’s not been one thing that I could think of in my 30 years in this business that has moved the needle more to getting people into our business than prop trading.”
John Lothian News, July 2026
“One of the most important things to understand if you really want to be a successful trader is that everything works sometimes, but nothing works all the time.”
X, August 2026
“I spent over two decades as a full time futures trader and scalper, and I learned your edge isn’t just your strategy. It’s your focus.”
X, June 2026
Anthony Crudele's latest video
“Will the US and Iran Make a Deal? Oil Price Outlook at $90 ft. AzizSapphire” · published Sep 30, 2026 · 385 views · figure as stated by the creator
Who is Anthony Crudele?
Anthony Crudele started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1995 as an 18-year-old runner, a job he took while recovering from a serious car accident after high school. He worked as a clerk in Eurodollar options, moved to the S&P 500 pit and, in March 1999, obtained his own seat, making him, as he tells it, one of the youngest members in the exchange’s history. He has been candid that he lost his first account within six months. He rebuilt, and when the E-mini S&P migrated to the Globex screen he was among the earliest independent traders to follow it. He remained a CME member for 23 years.
A heart attack at his trading desk at 36, which he attributes to the stress of scalping, reshaped his approach. He moved from pure scalping to what he calls a hybrid: reading the market environment first, sizing selectively and, in his phrase, knowing when to "trade big, small or not at all". He has since spoken often about heart-rate control, mindfulness and treating focus as part of the edge.
In 2014 he founded the Futures Radio Show, a long-form interview podcast that has run to about 250 episodes with a 4.9-star rating on Apple Podcasts. Its guest list reads as a who’s who of futures trading and macro: Linda Raschke, Larry Williams, Anna Coulling, Brian Shannon, Jason Shapiro, Peter Schiff, Denise Shull and Jim Bianco. CME Group, NinjaTrader and FTSE Russell are among the show’s listed sponsors. His 2019 "Trading Futures with Anthony Crudele" roundtables remain the most-watched videos on his own channel.
In October 2024 NinjaTrader announced a partnership naming him senior vice president of NinjaTrader Live, and in March 2025 the broadcast launched. It runs weekday mornings and afternoons plus a Sunday session, with Crudele leading a desk that includes economist Tracy Shuchart and strategist Jim Cagnina. NinjaTrader’s chief executive called him "the leading voice for active retail futures traders." His own channel and podcast feed went quiet for a year while he built the show. In July 2026 he took the programme to London for FIA IDX, and in September he resumed publishing guest interviews under the NinjaTrader Live banner.
Three decades in, Crudele is the connective tissue of retail futures: the host every serious trader has sat down with, the floor veteran newcomers learn the history from, and now the face of a broadcast that runs six days a week. His openness about the heart attack that changed his trading, and the humility of "everything works sometimes, but nothing works all the time," are why the industry keeps listening.
How Anthony trades
Environment before setup
The framework Crudele teaches starts by classifying the market environment rather than hunting for a pattern. He sorts the tape into three regimes. In consolidation, price is two-way and range-bound. In expansion, or trend, it moves in one direction. In mean reversion, a stretched move pulls back. The trade plan is a function of which regime is in force, and the environment is read on the daily chart and executed on 60- and 30-minute charts, occasionally down to three minutes.
His main instrument for that read is a 20-period Bollinger Band set at three standard deviations, with Fibonacci levels drawn from the band peaks, supplemented by anchored VWAP with one-, two- and three-standard-deviation bands. In 2021 he published Beacon, an open-source TradingView indicator built around the same mean-reversion logic, which has drawn more than a thousand likes on the platform.
Sizing, risk and instruments
The mantra "trade big, small or not at all" governs sizing. Position size is set in dollars rather than contracts and scaled to conviction about the environment, and a large share of the discipline is declining to trade when the read is unclear. Where a futures stop would need to be too wide, he uses options on futures to define the risk instead. Holding periods for his documented trend strategy run one to five days, a long way from the pit scalping he started with.
He trades index futures (the E-mini S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 2000), and his chart work on Instagram ranges across crude oil, gold and the indices. A pre-market note, "Deli’s Daily Note," sets out the environment and key ES, NQ and RTY levels for subscribers. As with every trader profiled here, the approach is described from his own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
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Anthony Crudele's career timeline
Joins the CME floor as a runner at Lyn Waldock at 18; later clerks in Eurodollar options and moves to the S&P 500 pit (self-reported). source
Obtains his CME seat in March and begins trading as an independent; follows the E-mini S&P onto Globex as one of its earliest electronic traders. source
Founds the Futures Radio Show, billed as the first podcast dedicated to futures trading. source
Discusses his heart attack at 36 and the shift to a lower-stress, environment-first approach on the AlphaMind podcast. source
Publishes the open-source Beacon indicator on TradingView. source
NinjaTrader announces a partnership naming him senior vice president of NinjaTrader Live (October). source
NinjaTrader Live launches in March with Crudele as lead host, broadcasting six days a week. source
Takes NinjaTrader Live to FIA IDX in London (July) and resumes guest interviews on his own channel (September). source
Keynotes the inaugural NinjaTrader Live University session for students on the MIAX trading floor in Miami (25 September); hosts Bill Fleckenstein and Jared Dillian on NinjaTrader Live. source
Anthony Crudele's videos
LATEST
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Prop firms Anthony works with
No prop-firm partnerships announced.
He has not announced a personal prop-firm partnership.
He has publicly described retail prop trading as the most effective on-ramp the futures industry has had for bringing in new traders.
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
ANTHONY CRUDELE: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Anthony Crudele trade?
Index futures (the E-mini S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 2000), sized to a read of the market environment, with options on futures used to define risk when a futures stop would be too wide. He began as an S&P 500 pit scalper and now trades a slower, environment-first approach.
What is Anthony Crudele best known for?
Hosting the Futures Radio Show, the long-running futures-trading interview podcast he founded in 2014, and leading NinjaTrader Live, the broker’s daily broadcast, since its March 2025 launch. His floor history (a CME seat at 21 and early E-mini trading on Globex) underpins both.
What is Anthony Crudele’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 Anthony Crudele use?
He has not announced a personal prop-firm partnership. He has said publicly that retail prop trading has done more than anything else in his 30 years in the business to bring new people into futures.
What is the Beacon indicator?
An open-source mean-reversion indicator Crudele published on TradingView in January 2021, built around the standard-deviation logic he uses to read whether a market is consolidating, trending or reverting. It is free to use on the platform.
SOURCES
- Anthony Crudele: Aboutaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- Anthony Crudele: YouTube channelaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- PR Newswire: NinjaTrader partnership announcement (2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- NinjaTrader: NinjaTrader Live launch (2025)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- John Lothian News: Crudele at FIA IDX (2026)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- MoneyShow, speaker profileaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- AlphaMind podcast, episode 33 (2020)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- TradingView: Beacon indicatoraccessed Sep 14, 2026
- Futures Radio Show: Apple Podcastsaccessed Sep 14, 2026
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