CERTIFIED TRADERTAINMENT™
Spend the day with our experts as they trade live and discuss what’s happening in the markets. Expect breaking news, tips, community stats, shout-outs to our best performing traders, and special guests. Let’s prepare for the trading day together and crush the markets! We’re live Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–1:00 PM CT.
Leaderboard 📈
Cheer on fellow traders featured in our Topstep Leaderboard Updates and Shout Outs. Show us great trading, and you may hear your name called out by our Coaches! We’ll break down their trades and reveal the strategies that are taking traders to the top.
Fire Drill 🔥
TopstepTV viewers get all the best perks and are first to know about new features and cool stuff going on at Topstep, including giveaways! From time to time, you can expect a Fire Drill—where we give away Resets, Trading Combines and more—exclusively to our audience.
TopQuiz 📝
Get the chance to win a free month in the Trading Combine, Resets, gift cards to our Gear Shop, and more during TopQuiz. Take a 15 minute break, have some fun with us, and get the chance to win some great prizes. There will be winners every day!
DAILY LIVE SCHEDULE
Join in on the action and get your questions answered live! Our Coaches monitor the YouTube Live Chat during the broadcast so they can take your questions and you can be part of the conversation.
OPENING CALL
8:00 – 8:25 AM CT
HOSTS: Hoag & Eddie
Start your day with Coach John Hoagland and experts. They’ll discuss important levels, overnight activity, help you learn how to prepare, provide tips on what you should be looking for, and share all of the news that’s moving the markets.
FAST MARKETS
8:30 – 11:00 AM CT
HOSTS: MP, Hoag, and Eddie
Join our Founder, Michael Patak, and guests as they trade live, discuss set-ups, and strategize on what’s happening in the markets. Get into the minds of professional traders and ask questions live.Tune in and crush the markets with us!
POWER PLAYERS
11:00 – 11:45 AM CT
HOSTS: Special Guests
Meet the best of the best in the Futures industry & Topstep Community. During Power Players, we’ll feature experienced traders who will share their journey, answer your questions, and provide tips and lessons you can walk away with.
TOPQUIZ
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM CT
HOSTS: Jack & Topstep Guest
Tune in each day as we host a live, interactive Top (POP) Quiz. Compete with other traders to reach the podium and win Trading Combine accounts, Resets, gift cards to our Gear Shop, and more! Let’s take a 15 minute break and have some fun!
GROUP COACHING
12:00 – 1:00 PM CT
HOST: Performance Coaches
Group Coaching is live every Monday–Thursday from 12–1 PM CT! Our Coaches are here to answer your questions and support you throughout the week. Have a burning question? Send it to groupcoaching@topstep.com.
Get an email every Monday morning with actionable trading levels for five of our most popular trading products directly from Topstep Senior Performance Coach John Hoagland, plus in-depth analyses and reflection from our Coaches.
Meet your TopstepTV Crew
Need a trading buddy? Join our crew! Our Coaches have been trading together for over a decade, and now they’re taking their daily office banter live, so you can be part of the action and discuss the markets and your trading strategy along with us.
Michael Patak
Founder & CEO
Michael started in the live markets at 18 by losing three $30K accounts. After losing, he found the importance of developing his skills in a simulated environment and became a professional prop trader. He then traded his own capital on the top step (yes, that’s where “Topstep” came from) in the CBOT Dow Jones Futures trading pit. Michael has helped thousands of traders learn the safe way to trade while growing the first and #1 prop firm in the industry.
Eddie horn
Senior Performance Coach
Eddie started his career at the CME in 1985 as a runner for Thomson McKinnon Futures. From there, he gained experience in Currencies, working in the pits. Eddie’s advice and direction has given thousands of traders a more straightforward path to better habits, stronger skills, and long-term success, in his 13+ years at Topstep. Watch his Funded Trader interviews and nearly 80 podcasts on YouTube with some of the top names in the industry.
John HoaglanD
Senior Performance Coach
John has 35+ years of futures trading experience. He traded on the CME floor for 20 years before moving to the screens in 2009. As a member of the Founding Team, he’s developed thousands of traders at Topstep and is passionate about improving individual performance. Check out his educational content and Youtube. You can also catch him in Group Coaching and on TopstepTV’s daily trading broadcast, entertaining traders, seeking context, and finding opportunity.
Andre McHugh
Performance Coach
Andre has been a professional, full-time trader since 2006 and was a clerk on The CBOT floor before then. He trades primarily equity, currency, and fixed-income futures, and has been with Topstep since its founding. Catch him on TopstepTV pretty much everyday!
Dan Hodgman
Funding Coach
Dan has traded for 15+ years between Chicago prop firms, as well as his personal accounts, while simultaneously serving in the US Marine Corps. As you might guess, he’s big on discipline, and it shows in his coaching philosophy. His focus is on helping traders find Crude Oil opportunities by keeping his approach simple and risk averse.
Deeyana Angelo
Performance Coach
Deeyana is a professional futures trader who brings a rich 15 years of trading experience to the table. As the main instructor for the Market Stalkers courses, she is renowned for her data-driven methodology that seamlessly combines professional trading concepts. Her evolved approach to outperforming the market intraday has continued to captivate traders.
Mick Ieronimo
Risk Manager
Mick has 20+ years of futures trading experience. After getting his start on the CME floor in Grains, he made the transition to full time discretionary trading on the screen. He also operated as a market maker for a proprietary trading firm, as well as execution for a hedge fund prior to joining Topstep in 2015 as Risk Manager.
BRETT GOODWIN
Jr. Risk Manager
Brett started professionally trading commodity futures full time in 2008. His primary focus is NYMEX energy futures, where he’s held a membership for 10 years. Brett joined Topstep late last year as a Jr. Risk Manager to watch traders risk levels and provide support and coaching.
EXCLUSIVE: FEATURED GUESTS
Jack Pelzer
Executive Producer
Jack traded for 7 years in the Treasury spreads group at two large Chicago prop firms. He left the industry to pursue his true love, internet content. Holding degrees in economics and business, Jack loves to look at the larger picture in the markets, evaluate trends, and hopefully present them in a somewhat entertaining manner.
ROBERT COONEY
Performance Coach
Robert has been trading & investing since 2002. He began day trading full-time in 2017 with stocks and crypto, switching to futures in 2018. His focus is on intraday, short-term trades on NQ, ES, RTY, and YM. He uses the “Occam’s Razor” approach meaning, “the simplest explanation is usually the best”.
FEATURED GUEST:
Jared Tendler
Trading psychologist & Author
Jared Tendler, MS, LMHC, is a leading expert in how your mental game impacts performance…
WHAT IS TOPSTEP?
Topstep is the industry’s 1st Futures Prop Firm, founded in 2012. We are passionately committed to helping traders. Our goal is to provide a safe environment so that traders can professionalize their passion and safely engage and profit in the financial markets. Show us that you are a disciplined and consistently profitable trader, by passing our simulated trading evaluation called the Trading Combine®, and you can earn funding and start paying yourself.
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