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Working futures traders who also teach: books, courses, masterclasses and communities.

Aaron Korbs

Aaron Korbs teaches Volume Profile on the S&P, runs the Tradacc academy and built the Speculators Podcast, home of ICT’s first in-person interview, into a who’s who of futures trading.

ES · MES · Index futures

Al Brooks

He wrote the book on price action, four of them in fact, and more than thirty-five years in he still shows up almost every day to read the E-mini S&P 500 bar by bar for anyone who wants to learn.

ES · Index futures · Bitcoin futures · Forex

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.

ES · NQ · RTY · Index futures

Axia Futures

London’s professional futures desk with the doors open: real trading floors, a decade of training on the price ladder, and the footprint tutorials that taught a generation to read order flow.

ES · Bund · Crude oil · Gold futures · Eurex & CME

Big Char Trades

Big Char Trades has documented his Nasdaq futures trading in public since his first day in August 2024, and he teaches his ICT-style model free on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Discord.

NQ · Index futures

Big Daddy Max

Army veteran Big Daddy Max made the 15-minute opening range breakout his signature and built Max Options Trading into a live network of up to six futures shows a day.

NQ · MNQ · ES

Carmine Rosato

The New Jersey day trader who turned the depth of market, heatmap and footprint into a teachable craft, and built a 228,000-strong audience of retail futures traders doing it.

ES · NQ · Index futures

Directionday

The Dominican trader behind the Shrimp Strategy, who teaches Smart Money made simple in Spanish and posts his Nasdaq futures trades for nearly 13,000 Telegram subscribers.

NQ · Index futures

El Trader Financiado

Leo Basanta’s El Trader Financiado gives Spanish-speaking prop traders a 13-firm comparison site, free NinjaTrader tools and account giveaways settled by the Nasdaq close.

MNQ · MES · NQ · Micro futures

Flow Zone Trader

One half of a UK DJ duo turned Nasdaq futures day trader, Alex streams the New York open live every trading day and teaches his Flow Zone method to 142,000 YouTube subscribers.

NQ · ES · MNQ · Index futures

FuturesTrader71

A pioneer of Volume Profile education, Morad Askar has traded futures in Chicago since 2002, run his own prop desk, streamed 2,750 pre-market Trader Bites and founded a regulated futures broker.

ES · NQ · Crude oil · Gold futures · Index futures

ImanTrading

ImanTrading filmed his path from beginner to funded futures trader and gives every lesson away free, from hour-long guides to his own Categorical Trading method.

NQ · Index futures

JoseTradesNQ

JoseTradesNQ is a Nasdaq futures trader who goes live for the New York open on weekday mornings, trades one 8 am opening-range setup and builds his own trading tools.

NQ · MNQ · ES · Index futures

LumiTraders

Dasha of LumiTraders turns ICT concepts into plain-English lessons, trades ES and NQ live every weekday morning, and wrote a 407-page guide to the ICT 2022 Mentorship.

ES · NQ · Gold futures · Crude oil

NinjaTrader

The futures platform and brokerage that has equipped active traders since 2003, now pairing pro-grade tools with free education and a live trading show six days a week.

ES · NQ · MES · MNQ · Crude oil · Gold futures · Bitcoin futures · Micro futures

Oscar Fontecha

Oscar Fontecha trades the Nasdaq open every weekday morning and gold every weekday evening, live on YouTube in Spanish from Bogotá, for Latin America’s prop-firm traders.

NQ · Gold futures

PB Trading

Patrick, the P in PB Trading, is a Miami NQ trader who learned ICT from his best friend Blake, co-created ICT for Dummies and trades one setup at the open, the 9:30 Patty Swing.

NQ · ES · Index futures

PJ Trades

The fastest-rising creator in futures, a ten-year NQ trader who went public in January 2025 and within eighteen months had a Discord of fifty thousand and a signature model with its own indicator.

NQ · ES · Index futures

Powell Trades

Known to viewers as the rejection block guy, Powell is a Norway-based Nasdaq futures trader whose 10 a.m. setup other creators now teach as the Powell 10AM Model.

NQ · Index futures

Price Action Volume Trader

The software developer behind Price Action Volume Trader, teaching Volume Profile and order flow on ES and NQ to 64,000 subscribers and building the Sierra Chart chartbooks to go with it.

ES · NQ · Gold futures · Bitcoin futures

ProlongWealth

A futures trader on YouTube since 2009, ProlongWealth scalps the Nasdaq, reviews prop firms in plain English and runs PropFirmSave, a Discord of more than 9,000 traders.

NQ · MNQ · Micro futures · Index futures

Prop Firm Match

Two traders built the prop-firm comparison site they could not find: vetted listings, 12,000+ verified reviews, a 14-hour live futures desk every weekday and the Prop Firm Expo.

NQ · ES · Index futures

Roderick Casilli

The Futures Fanatic, a Merrill Lynch alumnus who moved to futures the year the E-mini launched, now spends every market close live teaching micro-futures traders to "trade like you mean it."

MYM · MNQ · MES · MCL · Micro futures

The Traveling Trader

Z, The Traveling Trader, teaches futures day trading in free courses on YouTube, trades CPI and Fed days live, and has been filming from the road since 2018.

NQ · ES · Gold futures · Micro futures · Index futures

Tori Trades

Victoria Duke turned a no-indicator strategy from her uncle into the most-watched trendline tutorial on YouTube, a 700,000-subscriber channel and one of the best-known names in retail futures.

Crude oil · Platinum · Gold futures

Trader Drysdale

The fastest-growing educator in futures, Chris Drysdale took his channel from four thousand subscribers to sixty-seven thousand in fourteen months on the strength of one idea: the VWAP Wave System.

NQ · ES · Gold futures · MNQ

Trading With JesseW

Jesse Acosta, the lifelong entrepreneur behind Trading With JesseW, trades Nasdaq futures across a stack of prop-firm accounts and turns each new rulebook into a plain-English explainer.

NQ · ES · Index futures

TTrades

The self-described student of the market whose million-view ICT tutorials grew into the Fractal Model, a candle-closure system taught to 535,000 subscribers and on NinjaTrader Live.

NQ · ES · MNQ · Index futures