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September Live Trading Room Challenge, Coaching, News, Events, Q & A and More.

September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Curt MelonopolyGeneral Complimentary Newsletters, News, Office Memorandum, Trading ChallengeAlgorithms, coaching, Compound trading, Events, learn to trade, News, Q&A, services, Trade Alerts, Trading Challenge, Trading Room, updates

September Live Trading Room Challenge, News, Events, Q & A and More information below will be of value to existing members, those asking about our services and new on-boarding members.

Good morning!

I responded to existing member questions and emailed a number of welcome letters to new members over the last 24 hours and as I’ve went along sending the email responses I’ve added and edited information.

To be sure you all have the information included in various emails to new trader members on-boarding to our services and various other questions, I have included a master new member on-boarding letter example below that you can review (it’s more efficient in these busy times at Compound Trading).

This letter also serves as important service updates to existing members to Compound Trading.

I will also publish this to our public facing blog and include a link to this document from our question and answer and home pages on our website (it has been some time since it has been updated).

Below is the new member on-boarding information example (actual new member email that was emailed – excluding private information):

Welcome to Compound Trading Group!

Your subscription for the main trading room (main trading room in this new member example) starts Sept __ and expires Oct __ – it does not automatically renew. If you wish to continue in future simply re-visit the shop page, you can cancel anytime.

Be sure to read our Disclosure and Terms and Conditions. There are a number of trading / alert platforms executed to and by our lead trader and/or trading team.

September Trading Challenge

Our lead trader (link to third-party Agilience Authority Index: “Curtis Melonopoly is rated Top 250 in world for stock exchanges, covering also Economy of the United States and Mathematical Finance“) will be in attendance to the main trading room the month of September, 2018 from Thurs Sept 6 pre-market through to Sept 31 recording his attempt for personal best. The video recordings of his September trading challenge will be available thereafter at our online trading academy link – many trading highlight / review videos and feature blog posts will also come from his attendance. You can find the Compound Trading You Tube channel here and our trading information blog is here (unlocked and member locked posts – many article posts are unlocked to public for study reasons over time also).

About Our Lead Trader / Trading Team at Compound Trading

Our lead trader is a thirty year veteran that services a wide swath of clients from beginning learning traders (in private trade coaching and trade boot camps) to significant institutional funds (conventional technical data services through to algorithmic structured data).

You will find the technical skill-set of our staff to be above average and at times perhaps even challenging. Keep in mind however, that we present trading set-ups in such a way that even the early learning trader to the world’s most sophisticated managed money firms have the data they need to execute trading plans.

We have many new traders that have on-boarded to our trading methodologies that have learned to trade from scratch that are now trading in the top 10% on the market (our minimum goal for our members).

Read the first post in the Freedom Traders series for an idea of where our lead trader started, his story that includes a painful learning process and how this may help you as a trader that needs to learn how to trade in the green.

When You Learn It You Are Free. My Personal Stock Trading Story. Part 1 of “Freedom Traders” Series.

In short, you will have access to very conventional charting through to advance structured algorithmic structured charting (including black box) – traders at all levels of growth find it advantageous.

The Trading Focus of Our Lead Trader / Trading Team

Our lead trader and/or trading team alerts trades in the following instrument categories; regular equity markets, futures and crypto currencies. His trading focus encompasses; the seven primary algorithm models in development at Compound Trading, day-trading momentum stocks (usually premarket and/or early in regular market hours) and swing trading conventional equities (as swing trades are triggering buy/sell areas of the charting models he will execute trade alerts at various levels). There are over one hundred equities that we are developing algorithm models for on our swing trading platform.

The financial instruments we trade and/or alert to our members include; regular equities and derivatives (day-trading and swing trading), commodity futures, commodity ETNs and ETFs, Crypto futures and swaps (mainly Bitcoin $BTC $XBT swaps). We also have an options platform add-on currently in development and is being used by our team now.

The seven Algorithmic Models and accompanied Newsletters are as follows; Crude Oil $WTI $CL_F $USO, Crypto $BTC $XBT, SP500 $SPY, Volatility $VIX, Gold $GLD $GC_F, Silver $SLV and the US Dollar $DXY. Each newsletter option provides (as available during development); announcements, video training, algorithm models, conventional charting, day-trade and swing-trade set-ups, buy-sell triggers, trade-alert & price-target re-caps, news and trading plans.

We also publish a morning pre-market report as time allows by our lead trader (subscription, but included with live trading room subscription) and after-market reports on occasion (free).

In summary, the algorithmic trading models developed at Compound Trading Group are conventional charts built out to include algorithmic charting (structured charting for deeper insight and knowledge of the instrument trade), through to coding for our near term digital trader platforms and machine trading).

You will witness in the trading room and on reports sent to members conventional charting on various time-frames to various forms of algorithmic charting models for the various trading instruments we trade in the markets. The structured algorithmic trade charting models are advantageous to traders learning, advanced traders, technical and fundamental traders, option traders and more.

September Trading Challenge

You may have seen this Tweet on the lead trader’s feed with respect to the September Live Trading Room Challenge;

Trading for my personal best for 1 month in September. Live in main trading room daily. Recording the whole month. 3 ways to watch live.

– Live Trading Room 999.00
– EPIC Oil Algorithm Bundle 399.00
– Trading Students 399.00
– Video set after 1499.00

https://twitter.com/curtmelonopoly/status/1036638335043809280

There are a number of ways to become involved and learn from the September Trading Challenge, they are as follows:

Live Trading Room 999.00.

The link to subscribe to Main Trading Room is here.
Main Trading Room subscription includes Premarket Newsletter, Real Time Twitter Alerts, Main Trading Room with broadcast and charting, Private Discord Daytrading Chat Server) *Requires application to acceptance and non disclosure execution prior to attendance.

EPIC Crude Oil Algorithm Trading Room Bundle 399.00.

The link to subscribe to the bundle that includes the Crude Oil Trading Room, Crude Oil Trade Alerts and Oil Algorithm Reporting is here.
EPIC is our first and as such most built out algorithmic model to date. Included in the EPIC oil trading bundle is access to the main trading room as needed because often our traders share (specific to crude oil trading) charting data and trading set-ups specific to the trade of crude oil.

Trading Students 399.00.

Trading students can take advantage of the one month trading challenge for a special one time fee of 399.00. We want the new traders to learn and as such our existing students have been given a bit of a break here. Email Jen direct at [email protected] for an invoice to be sent to you as there is no option for this special on our website store.

Videos: Learning to Trade Video Set (when Trading Challenge is complete) 1499.00.

Email us to get on the list or simply download the series from our online store at the trading academy section of our website when the video set is posted for sale. Current members will receive 30% off.
This video series will be advantageous for the beginning trader, intermediate and advanced.

Legacy Trading Membership 1499.00.

The legacy membership is for serious full-time traders that want access to all of our services (some exclusions below) and direct 24 hour video feed access (web cam) to our lead trader’s trading desk.
Includes all access to all Newsletters, Alerts, Trading Rooms, Algorithm Models, Online Coaching Events, Webinars and 24 hour live access to the Lead Traders personal trading desk (via webcam as available).
Some services are excluded (that have limited space for example), such as Trading BootCamp in person attendance (virtual attendance is included) and one-on-one trade coaching is not included but all virtual coaching class events are included. Commercial licensing is not included.
As more services are launched they are included. For example the machine trading platform (coding of algorithms) launching 2018 and all access to lead trader trading platform via webcam are included.
Follow this link to register as an All Access Legacy Member.

Attendance of Lead Trader in September in the Main Trading Room is structured as follows (the trading in September will be open 24 hours a day):

Live Trading Room Schedule.

Sunday Futures Trading starting at 6 PM Eastern – Usually action does not start until later around 2 -3 AM Monday morning and in to premarket on regular markets. But he is typically in attendance at futures open Sunday around 6 PM. He usually alerts to his Twitter and/or in Discord when he is in session for futures.

He typically notifies clients in the premarket report and copied to his Twitter feed and / or Discord main channel lounge of his schedule for each trading day.

Premarket 9:15 – 9:30 (at times he does trade premarket also and will engage the room earlier than 9:15, he usually alerts members on email, Discord and or Twitter that he is in room in premarket trading when this occirs)

Market Open 9:30 – 11:30

Mid Day Review 12:00 – 12:30

Futures Markets 6:00 PM and through the night session.

Various other Attendance – he alerts to members as needed.

After the end of September he and the trading team will continue in the trading room, at intervals typically as noted above and perhaps not at as high of frequency at times (specific schedule pending travel and other professional obligations).

Trade Alerts

Trading set-ups / trades are alerted to various platforms (depending on the trade) as follows; regular reporting newsletters, special reports sent to members, various Twitter alert feeds, in the live trading room and to the trading chat rooms on Discord (there are private member servers and a public facing side of our Discord trading chat room channel). Click the link to attend to the public facing side of the channel and as / if you subscribe to specific services for specific instruments there are private side chat rooms and associated invite link(s) that will be made available to you (the private side servers are specific to the algorithmic models in development for oil, crypt etc and swing trading.

As a main day-trading room member your access is to the main trading room and public side Discord Server Chat Room (there is no private Discord server for the main trading room).

The Twitter alert feeds for the swing trading / day-trading are included in your membership for the main trading room (follow the Twitter account feed links below). The oil and crypto trade alerts are add-ons you may or may not wish to subscribe to in future.

As a member to the live trading room will provide you access to our team’s trades anyway but some members just find the alert feeds on Twitter to be additionally convenient. Many trades are discussed and/or alerted to main trading room that are not otherwise alerted to Twitter feeds.

Trade alert feeds are found here (please return an email to us so we know your Twitter feed and can open the trading alerts feed to you);

Day-trading Alerts

Swing Trading Alerts – Swing trade alerts are also now alerted by way of email to members (in addition to Twitter).

Crude Oil Trade Alerts

Crypto (Bitcoin, BTC, XBT) Trade Alerts

Newsletters Currently in Update (processing rotation flow).

We are updating our algorithmic and charting models on all of our services to be released to members prior to the September 14 -16 Cabarete Trade Coaching Event. The goal is to use the event as a time to have all services upgraded for members and bring our models another step forward.

At times you will find the newsletter rotations and / or lead trader attendance to the main trading room to be intermittent.

In other words, depending on our development mode in modeling and/or software coding and development, timing in markets, seasonality and various other factors the newsletters may be daily, weekly or more intermittent. This is an important consideration as a member. For example, recently during earnings we published five weeks of swing trading newsletters in a ten day period for our swing trading members. Normally there would be approximately one newsletter per week in that specific service. The swing trading newsletter regular rotation is recommencing this week, but that is an example.

Also note that at times we publish updates to models, charting, trade set-ups etc to members by direct email, in the private side discord channels specific to the instrument and subscription, to You Tube and in various other ways.

The bottom line to this topic is that all updates have to be out to members prior to the September 14, 2018 trade coaching event and following the event we expect to be on a fairly predictable rotation until the next surge in updates (usually every 3 months or so).

Main Services Menu and Locking in Member Fees

Follow this link to the main trader services pricing and features menu page for clarification and / or a simple one page menu board to our trading services structure as needed.

Our members fees for the most part steadily increase in price, this applies only to new registering members as long as you do not allow your existing subscription to expire. Most subscriptions are not automatically renewed and as such you need to revisit the online store and / or reach out to us at renewal or provide payment on time to invoices emailed to you.

The next price increases are expected mid September.

Contacting Us

As needed you can contact our lead trader direct on his personal Twitter feed, in Discord on private message or on email at [email protected]. You can contact myself at info@compoundtrading or in Discord.

The Main Trading Room

To log in to the main trading room follow this link (as of Thursday premarket – he will not be in attendance today, Wednesday);

https://compoundtrading1.clickmeeting.com/livetrading

The password is “_____” and you will be updated to password changes as they occur by way of email.

The trading room is not a chat room in the typical sense (as with less advanced trading rooms). Try and keep chat to private messages – you will find our clients to be serious (many are professional / institutional money managers, run commercial trading enterprises or are monitoring the trading room as they attend to their regular professions) – the need for trader chat is as such limited in the main trading room (unless of course you are wanting to share a trade set-up and thesis for the trade and/or trade alerts of some form).

The focus is on the broadcasts by our lead trader and or trading team specific to the schedule and instruments I’ve noted above.

Reach Out

Anything at anytime you need please reach out to us.

Welcome aboard and lets get you trading.

Warm regards,

Jen

Learn How to Trade Stocks (Build a Small Account) Following my Journey. Part 5 “Freedom Traders” Series.

May 13, 2017May 29, 2017 Curt MelonopolyFreedom Traders, Lead Trader Blog Post, Trading ChallengeBuild Small Account, Compound trading, Freedom, How To, Learn, Stocks, Trade, Trader, Trading, Trading Challenge

The two week trading challenge is over and I failed. My goal was a two week double up. But the 34% I did hit IF done every two weeks is 1M 1,000,000.00 in 6 mos. That’s my new trading challenge and I explain how these trading challenges can help you learn how-to trade stocks and build a small account.

This is Part FIve of the “Freedom Traders” Series – How I Learned to Get Over the Wall and What May Help You.

There are links at the bottom of this post to Part 1 : My Personal Stock Trading Story. How I Blew up Two Accounts and Then Learned How to Trade, Part 2 : Trading Checklist – Rules I Follow Before Triggering, and Part 3: Now I’m Inspired!.A Struggling Trader That Inspired Change, Part 4: We Want (Need) You! Apply to Nearest Recruiting Station.

Introduction:

This post is about my journey in challenging myself to become a better trader and how that might help you learn how to trade stocks.

There are many ways to become a better trader that I can administer in my discipline, but one thing that happens when you trade day in and day out is that focus gets easily lost in the noise. The noise of the markets, this thing called life and the noise in running businesses and more.

Hopefully this method of focus (trading challenges) assists you in your focus, helps you be a better trader, and for those that need – it may also help you with building a small account. You can use the same methods involved here Swing Trading as well as Day Trading.

So lets get started and I will explain below how to take advantage of our documentation of my journey to your benefit.

The Two Week Trading Challenge is Complete

So yesterday, Friday, was the last day of my two week trading challenge. The goal was to double a small account and I didn’t – I accomplished a 34% increase on the trade account balance. Is started with 20,000.00 and ended up with 26,772.00.

Here’s the tweet:

Likely it now for two week 20k double small account trading challenge +6772.00. No double but 30%+ is okay ROI #tradingchallenge

Likely it now for two week 20k double small account trading challenge +6772.00. No double but 30%+ is okay ROI #tradingchallenge

— Melonopoly (@curtmelonopoly) May 12, 2017

We video recorded the challenge daily in the room and have posted the daily trading room videos to our You Tube channel.

My New Trading Challenge

The new challenge will start Monday. The challenge is to meet the same return (34%) every two weeks and compound that amount every two weeks (compound trading) for six months. And after six months, if I succeed, that small trading account will have one million dollars in it. We will as always, trade live and record the process in the trading room and post it to You Tube.

If I fail then hopefully I come close. Either way, it is a great way to stay sharp and focused on winning. Turn off the noise and trade what is important.

I should be able to do it because in past trading challenges I usually did much better than this most recent one.

I failed. My goal was a two week double up. BUT 34% I did hit IF done every two weeks is 1M 1,000,000.00 in 6 mos. That's my new challenge. pic.twitter.com/2fzD5nzRl0

— Melonopoly (@curtmelonopoly) May 13, 2017

How my Trading Challenges Can Help You Learn How To Trade Stocks and Build a Small Account

We are documenting the process in various ways. It takes loads of time to document this process, but we’re slowly getting things up on You Tube and our blog is full of daily reports and analysis of trades etc.

And it seems to be helping! Getting a lot of feedback from people – really, really nice to see – it feels great!

"Best week in trading journey". 👊🎯 Now that my busy day is over, I re-read this in my study time. Importance of that statement is humbling. https://t.co/VqS0jobmUe

— Melonopoly (@curtmelonopoly) May 13, 2017

Below is a quick guide of how to access this documentation for your personal trade study;

Pre Market Trade Set Up Review. Every morning at 9 AM in the trading room I review with trading room members the set ups on momentum stocks for the morning. When we have time we post this specific half hour session to our You Tube channel. If we don’t have time to take that snippet there is always on our You Tube channel the complete raw trading room footage posted.

How does the premarket prep help you learn to trade? You need to know what you are looking for if you are going to trade momentum stocks. It is critical to success.

Market Open – Momentum Stocks. When the market opens (as with premarket) we endeavor to snip that and post it separate to You Tube. Same as above however, if we don’t it is still on the raw trading room video that is posted daily.

How does watching the market open momentum trade videos help you learn to trade? Often when I’m in a trade I explain what indicators I am looking at and why. Momentum stocks are more predictable than most realize, but you do need to know how to trade them properly or you will blow up your account.

Trading Room Raw Video Coverage. As I mentioned above, we record the whole session. When you review the raw video there are a few things to know. The video is turned on in premarket, which can be an hour or so before open. The time you see at the bottom right of screen is my local time. The more recent videos are done will have that time in mountain time so you have to add 2 hours for New York time. This is important because if you are looking for premarket comments, market open trades, mid day reviews or you want to correspond the time that may be noted on the transcript (more on transcripts below) with the raw video coverage you need to add two hours to the time you see on the screen that you see in the video. The transcript times noted are Eastern, the video time in bottom right corner (at least for now) is Mountain time. So that’s important when trying to correlate the transcript to the video.

Mid Day Chart Set Up Review. This is one of the most important parts of the day in our trading room to review if you are wanting to get swing trading ideas, learn how to trade stocks and the indicators / disciplines therein and for many other reasons. We do a mid day chart review everyday from 12 noon – 1 PM. You will find that if you review the last two weeks (during the trading challenge) that those videos are full of stock set-ups and trading knowledge. I am one step at a time taking the traders through the steps of trading with various indicators and trading disciplines. Here again, if we don’t post the one hour snippet you can still access it by reviewing the raw footage for the day (most days there are two videos of raw trading room footage by the way).

The last two weeks we dealt with what I would call chapter one of how to use indicators for trading (daytrading and swingtrading) and how to find the proper chart set-ups. So every day at lunch we’ve been reviewing chart picks, chart set-ups, and I have been training on charting indicators and how to trade through the set-ups.

Our members can even ask for specific charts to be brought up on the trading room board and I will review their charts, give them my take on the set-up and my take on when I would enter or exit the trade on daytrading and swing trading time-frames. Our members can even send me their trading plans and as I have time I review them and send back any comments.

Also, we just started what I would call Chapter Two of trading chart set-ups in the room on Friday, we are now getting in to more Fibonacci work, risk reward, and how to trade out of bottom set-ups with moving averages and fib extensions.

Premarket Trading Plan Newsletters. Our pre market newsletters explain what I am looking at in the market for the day. They include various tickers on watch and why. Live trading room newsletters and live trading room access, alerts, and newsletters option.

Post Market Trading Results Report. The post market reports are one of the best learning tools we have for traders. The complete transcript from the trading room for the day is in the report, the various trade set ups for day and swing trading are discussed, my trades for the day are reviews, the trading room raw footage is embedded and there are various other things a trader can use. You can take the trades in the transcripts and see what was discussed in the room (chat) and also review the trade on video feed to see what I had to say about the set up and more. As we get time we are also snipping individual trades and putting them up on You Tube.

There are also many other ways you can access our documentation to learn, I do regular one on one trade coaching, we hold trading academy sessions, we have a swing trading platform and many other ways for a learning trader to dive in and get at it – view this link.

I’ve Heard It All Over the Years from The Naysayers – Transparency is Key & Challenges with Building a Small Account

I’ll just say it quick, we endeavor to be the most transparent traders on Wall Street. Why? Because it deals with the trolls and naysayers fast. If every call, every trade, everything we do is documented on video and in various blog posts etc then that deals with the naysayer. Now, there are very real and considerable challenges to building a small account – especially as you scale.

You will find if you attend our trading room that there are not a bunch of wild west cowboys blowing their brains out. We win, we all win a high percentage of the time. And for those that don’t believe that the majority of our members win most of the time – review the daily transcripts and tell me I’m wrong. Why do we win? Because we respect the disciplines of a process in trading. We don’t gamble.

The bottom line is I take a small amount (in this case a 20k piece) and start a small account and go about building that.

Now, specific to building a small account as it relates to trading… there are challenges. There are things (risk) such as blowing your account up. Or, for example, as you scale there is the issue of sizing in and chipping out large entries and how exactly that is done and what type of instruments you can or should be trading at various levels in the build of your account. Some of things are dealt with here on our website also (see the last section of that page about the compound trading discipline).

Nonetheless, ALL OF THOSE concerns will be dealt with as I build my small account (this post would turn in to a book if I explained each here). How will these concerns be dealt with as I build my small account? I will be of course training and working with our members in the trading room all day long on the various disciplines therein. How does this help you if you are not in the room? In two ways; one; if you are not a member you can access the information I pointed out above and two; if you are a member we will be compiling slowly polished video series that will deal with each trading set-up and discipline / challenge you will encounter in building a small account.

How to Get Involved

Swing Trading – If you have a day job and you’re a swing trader we have services for you – visit the website. You can get swing trading newsletters with set-ups regularly and you can view trading room videos in your personal down time at home when you are not at work. This trading challenge and the disciplines therein apply to swing trading also (as I mentioned above). You can even on your day off come in to the trading room on occasion over the lunch hour chart review and ask me to review charts you are considering. Or, you can send me your charts.

Day Trading – If you are a daytrader you can get in to our trading room and trade along with us. You can even take that up a notch and join the challenge with me. Send me a note and tell me you’re ready to do that and I’ll work with ya and you’ll be part of that team. You may shoot for 1% every two weeks or even 34% like myself, or whatever, it doesn’t matter.

Casual Observers – Our post market trading results reports are published to our blog daily and they are not locked. You can review those and the publicly available videos anytime on You Tube.

What’s My Plan Going Forward?

My plan going forward is to have a trading room with winners. That’s it. I don’t care how big the trading room is – we do very well with our algorithmic model charting services and the trading room subscribers could never match that or even come close as it relates to my financial benefit. So I’m not doing this for that. I’m doing this because its a passion. I love trading and I love seeing new traders get out of the muck and mire the industry noise has them in. It’s brutal – very, very brutal and I’d like to be a part of the solution.

"Learning to trade for profit (a predictable process) is largely about deprogramming the noise that works against us."#freedomtraders

— Melonopoly (@curtmelonopoly) May 13, 2017

In January I want to hold a Freedom Traders summit where we can all meet, somewhere on a beach and finally meet face to face. Have a few days to unwind, celebrate in our success, take in some leisure events and maybe have some guest speakers. Basically I would like to award us with a job well done.

Let me know if any of this appeals to you and lets get you involved.

My challenge starts Monday and I hope to have you along for the flight!

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

Zig Ziglar#attitude #billionaire pic.twitter.com/ZmHimzwRxj

— BILLIONAIRE MAGAZINE ® (@BillionMagazine) April 27, 2017

Enjoy your day off!

Also, I’ll do my best to get the “How to Write a Trading Plan” out sooner than later.

Click here for the link to sign on to any of our services. https://compoundtrading.com/shop/

Message me anytime with your story or questions. And if you follow me on Twitter and I don’t follow back so you can DM then send us an email to [email protected] with your Twitter handle.

I have had a number of people message me to get involved in our launch – with moderating, coding and at various other levels! I will be writing back to those inquiries soon – as soon as we’re done initial set-up of services, which should be within two weeks.

Cheers!

Curtis

Part 1 : My Personal Stock Trading Story. How I Blew up Two Accounts and then Learned How to Trade.

Part 2: Trading Checklist (Rules) I Follow Before Triggering a Stock Trade.

Part 3: Now I’m Inspired. A Struggling Trader That Inspired Change.

Part 4: We Want (Need) You! Apply to Nearest Recruiting Station.

Part 5: Learn How to Trade Stocks (Build a Small Account) Following my Journey.

Part 6 a: Trading Set-ups. How-To Develop a Systematic – Predictable Process.

Article Topics; Trading Challenge, Compound Trading, Freedom, Trading, Trader, Learn, How to, Trade, Stocks, Build Small Account.

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