{"id":40333,"date":"2015-03-25T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=40333"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:20:48","slug":"former-sandwich-shop-owner-becomes-professional-options-trader-watch-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/former-sandwich-shop-owner-becomes-professional-options-trader-watch-his-story","title":{"rendered":"Former Sandwich Shop Owner Becomes Professional Options Trader&#8230; Watch His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to tell stories like this one&#8230; After all, we are a trading firm first.<\/p>\n<p>We are committed to helping traders succeed&#8230; if they are willing to put in the work.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Derek&#8217;s story. He signed up with us years ago. He learned our strategies and now our firm has funded him to trade at a bigger size.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a story you can regularly run accross in the trader education world. This is a recording of a presentation that Derek gave in which he talks about one of the strategies he developed.<\/p>\n<p>No hype here&#8230; just a pro trader telling his story and showing his strategy&#8230; And it&#8217;s here for you to watch completely free.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this, we literally have HUNDREDS of hours of videos just like this in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/options-tribe\">Options Tribe Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-disclosures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Important Disclosures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to tell stories like this one&#8230; After all, we are a trading firm first. 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