The Traveling Trader · running since 2017
Stocks, options, futures.
One room, and 9 years of receipts.
Daily market livestreams, swing trades on stocks and options, long-term investing ideas and a recorded education library that members rate above the trades themselves. $129 a month, or $1,299 a year.
Before anything else. Trading stocks, options and futures carries a real risk of loss, and published data on retail derivatives accounts has repeatedly shown most of them lose money. An option can expire completely worthless, and futures are leveraged so a small adverse move costs more than you expect. Following someone else's trade does not transfer their position sizing, their account size or their experience to you. Risk only what you could lose in full.
Why the founding date matters
Nine years is the whole argument.
Most trading groups do not last three years. The operator burns out, the market turns, or members stop renewing and the room goes quiet. The graveyard is enormous and nobody keeps a list of it.
This one has run since 2017 with a daily livestream, and describes itself as one of the first and largest trading groups online. That is not proof the calls are profitable — nothing here is — but it is evidence that enough people kept paying, repeatedly, over nine separate years and through two very different markets.
The honest limit: longevity measures durability, not returns. A group can be useful, well-run and long-lived while its members still lose money on the trades. Those are separate questions and this page tries not to blur them.
What members write about, and don't
Read enough of the reviews and a pattern shows up: almost all of them praise the education, the patience and the community. Very few claim profits, and the ones that do are careful about it — one describes himself as "slowly becoming consistently profitable", which is the language of somebody being honest rather than selling.
Straight from the room
What members warn you about — in five-star reviews
The most useful things written about this group are the caveats its own happy customers volunteered. Nobody was complaining. They were describing who this does not suit, and it is worth more than any pitch.
A five-star reviewer says outright that it suits advanced traders better, because the room uses a lot of trading lingo and newer members can end up not following what is being discussed. She still rates it five stars — she is describing a fit problem, not a quality problem.
Another five-star member puts it bluntly: do your research, do the work, ask specific questions and you will get answers. He warns that people looking to be spoon-fed will not enjoy it, and that the founder does not soften things.
One member admits he was frustrated early on, watching the morning livestream end without an options trade being entered. He now rates that restraint as the best part of the service. If you are paying to see action every session, you will be annoyed before you are convinced.
Described by members as upfront with no filler, and they note some people read it as rude. If you want encouragement alongside instruction, factor that in before subscribing.
Summarised in our words from reviews published on the Whop listing. Every one of these came from a member who rated it five stars.
Inside
What the subscription includes
- Daily market livestreams
- Live trading and investing community
- Real-time discussion in the Discord
- Stocks and options swing trades
- Long-term investing ideas
- Futures coverage alongside stocks and options
- Recorded instructional video library
- Fundamentals plus real-world application
- Guidance singled out by members on futures
- Premium Discord access
- Other experienced traders active in the chat
- A group running since 2017
The two plans
$129 monthly, or $1,299 a year
The annual saves $249 and works out at $108.25 a month. Our advice is still to start monthly — and we would earn considerably more telling you the opposite.
$1,548 over twelve months
The right first purchase. Members say the first month is a wall of jargon — find out whether that is you before committing a year.
$108.25/month equivalent · saves $249
Clearly the better arithmetic — but take it on the renewal, once you know the style suits you, rather than on a guess.
What buyers say
4.9 out of 5, across 443 ratings
The full distribution, not just the average. 7 ratings out of 443 sit below four stars — a normal, believable shape for a service this old rather than a suspiciously clean one.
The most detailed review on the listing. Three months in, says he recouped his yearly subscription fee within the first month. Singles out discipline and patience — admits he used to get frustrated watching the morning stream when no options trade was taken, and now values how deliberate the waiting is. Calls the instructional videos thorough, and says he learned the hard way by ignoring the futures guidance.
Rates the community and the stock picks, but warns plainly that it suits advanced traders better because of how much trading jargon gets used, which can leave newer members lost at first. Describes an upfront, no-nonsense attitude some may read as rude.
Great technical content, and says the other pros in the Discord are strong too. Adds a blunt warning of his own: do your research, do the work, ask specific questions — this is not a place for people who want to be carried.
Detailed lessons on options and futures that filter what is actually needed out of the noise online. Credits a focus on fundamentals and real-world application, and says he is slowly becoming consistently profitable by recognising good setups.
Followed the founder on YouTube for years before joining. Praises the free public content, including plays made and donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital, and rates the premium education, practical advice and trade ideas as solid.
Short and direct: says the founder knows his subject and rates him among the best.
Two honest caveats
Sort these out before you pay
No published win rate
There is no trade count, no win rate and no tracked equity curve on the listing. Everything rests on member testimony — of which there is a lot, spanning years, but testimony is not an audit and should not be read as one.
Mastermind is a different product
Members mention Mastermind videos and lifetime memberships. That appears to be a separate, higher tier and is not part of the $129 plan this page links to. Do not assume it is included.
Independent and unofficial. This is not The Traveling Trader's site and we do not represent the group. This page is written by an affiliate: the Whop link earns us a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you.
Nine years, four markets, one livestream a day.
$129 a month on Whop, or $1,299 for the year.
Most retail derivatives accounts lose money. Nothing here is financial advice.