The Traveling Trader: your questions answered

Premium Discord access, daily market livestreams, stocks and options swing trades, long-term investing ideas, futures coverage, and the recorded education library. The group's own summary is stocks, options, futures and elite education in one place.

Two billing options: $129 a month, or $1,299 a year — a stated 16% saving that works out at $108.25 a month and keeps $249 in your pocket over twelve months.

The listing states it was established in 2017, describing itself as one of the first and largest trading groups online. That makes it around 9 years old.

This is the strongest thing on the page and it is worth understanding why. Trading groups have a brutal failure rate — most disappear within two or three years, either because the operator stops or because members stop renewing. Surviving nine years with an active daily livestream is not proof that the calls are profitable, but it is evidence that enough people kept paying for long enough, repeatedly. Very few competitors can show anything comparable.

Not really, and the clearest warnings come from members who gave it five stars. One says plainly that it suits advanced traders better because of how much jargon is used, and that newer members can end up not following the discussion. Another warns that you are expected to do your own research and ask specific questions rather than be carried.

None of that is a criticism of the teaching, which reviewers rate highly. It is a fit warning. If you have never traded, expect a steep first month and consider learning the vocabulary elsewhere before paying for a room that assumes you already have it.

A trader who goes by Z, also known as zthetrader on YouTube and X. In his own description he started the group to build a comprehensive trading education platform covering stocks, options and futures, and to create a community where traders learn together.

Members describe him as blunt, patient with entries, and unwilling to force a trade just because the stream is live. One long-time follower also credits his free public content, including plays he makes and donates to St. Jude Children's Hospital — that is a member's account rather than something we have verified.

The arithmetic favours the annual clearly: $1,299 against $1,548 for twelve monthly payments, so you keep $249 and pay the equivalent of $108.25 a month.

But that only holds if you already know the style suits you, and this is a room where members themselves say the first month is a wall of jargon. Take the monthly first. If you are still there in month three, switch and take the $249 saving on the renewal. Discounts should reward a decision you have tested, not one you are guessing at.

Reviewers refer to Mastermind videos and to lifetime memberships, and the founder's own description mentions Mastermind Access offering lifetime learning and live sessions. It appears to be a separate, higher tier rather than part of this subscription.

We are not going to guess at its price or its contents, and this page does not link to it. If it is what you want, find it on the listing and read its own terms — do not assume the $129 plan includes it.

No, and it is a fair thing to note. There is no published win rate, no trade count and no tracked equity curve on the listing. Everything rests on member testimony.

In fairness, the testimony is unusually deep — hundreds of ratings, several from people writing a year or two after joining, and detailed enough to describe specific behaviours rather than just enthusing. That is a different kind of evidence from an audited record, and it is worth something. It is not the same thing.

The listing carries its own FAQ entries on refunds and on cancelling a membership, and those terms are set by the group rather than by Whop. Read them on the listing before you pay rather than after — that is true here and everywhere.

No. thetravelingtrader.net is an independent, unofficial review site written by an affiliate. We do not work for the group, we have never spoken to Z, and nobody there has any say in what appears here. The official listing is on Whop, and our links to it are affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

Watch the daily livestream and write down two things: how often a trade is actually taken, and how much of the discussion you understood without looking anything up. The first tells you whether the pace suits you. The second tells you honestly whether you are ready for the room, and it is the question the members keep raising.

Do not fund anything for four weeks. If both answers are good at the end of the month, take the annual plan and the $249 saving then.