Speaker: Steve
Why did you choose TradeDay over other funded trading challenges?
Steve: So why did I choose Trade Day? Well, as you can tell, I'm one of the older traders out here. I have a regular job and a career that I enjoy a lot. I work as a paramedic and I've been one for about 40 years. I now work in an emergency room at our local hospital. It's a very rewarding work but not monetarily rewarding. So I started to look to supplement my income. I'd been drawn to the financial market since my dad bought me my first shares of Mattel stock when I was 12 years old. Like many in the industry, I started trying to trade penny stocks around the gamestop craze. I had a little bit of a success, not very much and I learned quickly that if you didn't have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, you weren't going to get very far. I started hearing about prop firms a few years ago and that led me to the Forex industry. I bought a couple of challenges from some pretty well known Forex prop firms and just as I started to find some success there, I created a pretty good strategy, the whole industry went collapse and basically collapsed. I knew about the futures market. But I'd always kind of shied away from it because I, of my job in the, er, I'm more of a swing trader. My strategy calls for me to hold positions sometimes up for weeks. But I had gained a lot of experience in Forex. and since the Forex industry wasn't an option anymore, I felt that if I could maybe tweak my strategy a little bit, I could find success in futures on a by trading intraday. So I started looking at futures prop firms. I found TradeDay. What drew me to it originally and what caused me to choose it right up front was the 14 day free challenge. Not being able to put any money upfront was great. My wife considers trading gambling. So it was an easy way for me to, to, you know, fine tune my strategy uh without spending a lot of money.
How has TradeDay helped you in your journey to becoming funded with them?
Steve: How is TradeDay helped me in my journey? Well, once I signed up for that 14 day challenge, I really couldn't believe what I was seeing. They had a very robust educational area, a Squawk service Squawk service. One of the founders, Steve gets on the phone call, with traders every morning. I really couldn't believe what I was seeing coming from the Forex market. I always knew that the Forex market prop firms were actively working against their traders trying to simply collect fees, but it was clear and immediately obvious that TradeDay was there to help me get better.
As a funded Tradeday trader, could you describe your experience with the TradeDay team?
Steve: How's my interactions with the TradeDay team TradeDay team? I have a great story to tell. I had a small technical issue during my challenge and I emailed support and to my surprise right away within minutes, I got an email back from Miss Rosemarie, the support supervisor. It was literally minutes. I emailed my situation back. She escalated, and to my surprise, I got an email from one of the founders, Steve Miley actually emailed me back on my issue. We got it resolved. Then I got a follow up the next day from James Thorpe, the other founder to make sure everything was good. It is so clear that they care about every single trader, and they want to see us succeed and I will be with them forever. I hope to keep my funded account for a long time and I just have to thank TradeDay. I am super excited to move forward. Thank you guys.
