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Mastering The Trade
LIVE SWING TRADING ROOM
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Mastering the Trade with John Carter: Follow Live Options & Swing Setups Centered Around Trading the Squeeze
Discover the approach to technical setups, risk-first position sizing, probability-based entries, and Squeeze setups behind Mastering the Trade, John Carter’s bestselling book that has transformed traders’ approach to the markets.
See those principles in action inside the Mastering the Trade Room. Join John Carter and the Simpler Trading team for real-time trade alerts, live market analysis, and insights into the strategies and setups they’re watching as market conditions evolve.
If you’re looking for the best options trading room to learn how to read the markets, find potential opportunities, manage risk, and adapt across different markets and timeframes, this is for you.
Membership Benefits
Get access to live trading insights, educational resources, trade alerts, and ongoing market analysis designed to help you make more informed trading decisions.
Live Trading Room & Real-Time Trade Alerts
Follow the markets alongside John Carter and the Simpler Trading team through live chart sessions, market commentary, and real-time trade alerts.
Interact with our traders and other members with discussions around stocks, ETFs, index products, and futures, with an emphasis on identifying setups, understanding risk, and applying a repeatable trading process.
Daily Trading Videos
Stay informed with daily videos covering the market’s latest developments and the team’s trading outlook.
Review open positions, discuss closed trades, and get context on the setups and market conditions that may matter for the next trading session.
Trading Education & Learning Center
Build your knowledge with educational resources covering options trading, futures, stocks, technical analysis, charting, and trading psychology.
Whether you’re learning the mechanics of options spreads or sharpening your ability to identify setups, get resources to understand the concepts behind the trades and build your market knowledge over time.
Weekly Trading Watchlist
Start the week with a curated watchlist of stocks, ETFs, and other market instruments the trading team is monitoring.
Posted by the end of the day each Monday, the watchlist includes selected tickers and a rundown of why they’re on the team’s radar.
Premium Weeknight Newsletter
Prepare for the next trading session with premium videos from traders in the Mastering the Trade Room.
Each weeknight, get a closer look at recent market activity, trade reviews, developing opportunities, and the team’s outlook for the days ahead.
Simpler Showcase
Every trader brings a different perspective to the markets.
Explore the techniques, indicators, and trading approaches that members of the Simpler Trading team use in their own analysis. Discover how different mentors evaluate market structure, identify potential entries, manage risk, and adapt their strategies to changing conditions.
Monthly Trader Call
Connect with the trading team during monthly video calls focused on market insights, current trading ideas, and upcoming opportunities.
Hear directly from experienced mentors, gain additional perspective on market conditions, and learn more about the strategies and setups they’re following.
Trade From Anywhere With the Simpler Trading App
Stay connected to the Mastering the Trade Room wherever your day takes you.
Access your live trading community, follow available trade alerts, and keep up with market discussions through the Simpler Trading mobile app for Apple and Android devices.
Real Trades. Real Results. In Real-Time
Trade Smarter Alongside John Carter and the Simpler Trading Team
Why Trade Alone?
Reading about a strategy is one thing. Seeing it in action is another. Follow experienced traders as they share real setups, trade with their own money, and explain their strategies in real-time.
Struggling to Keep Up With the Markets?
Markets move quickly. Stay connected to trading opportunities with real-time trade alerts and live chart analysis, even when you’re on the go.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Learn from experienced trading mentors who explain their setups, strategies, and market analysis step by step.
What We Trade
Explore options trading setups across major indexes, ETFs, and individual stocks, with strategies explained live by John Carter and the team.
Instant Access. $7 for 30 days, then $247/month. Cancel anytime.
Inside the Mastering the Trade Room
See real-time chart analysis, trade alerts, and strategies explained live by the Simpler Trading team.
Membership Options
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- 1-month Membership Access ($247)
- Live Trading & Alerts
- Daily Videos
- Weekly Watchlist
- Monthly Trader Call
- Premium Newsletter (SIMPLER INSIGHTS)
- Simpler Showcase
- Big-Picture Market Outlook Updates with John Carter
- John Carter’s Large Account Trades
- Quarterly Membership Access ($647)
- Live Trading & Alerts
- Daily Videos
- Weekly Watchlist
- Monthly Trader Call
- Premium Newsletter (SIMPLER INSIGHTS)
- Simpler Showcase
- Big-Picture Market Outlook Updates with John Carter
- John Carter’s Large Account Trades
- Annual Membership Access ($2,470)
- Live Trading & Alerts
- Daily Videos
- Weekly Watchlist
- Monthly Trader Call
- Premium Newsletter (SIMPLER INSIGHTS)
- Simpler Showcase
- Big-Picture Market Outlook Updates with John Carter
- John Carter’s Large Account Trades
Your Mastering The Trade Room Trading Team
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John Carter
Founder of Simpler Trading®
More ▼John started Simpler because he wanted to create a community of traders who educate others simply because they care about other people’s success. His setups, market knowledge, and guidance to continually improve yourself as a trader are invaluable. John is the trading expert everyone turns to when the markets go awry (as they often do), and many of our traders have taken ideas and strategies from him and morphed them into their own strategies. He’s truly one of the best, with a level of passion that draws people in, which has transformed him into the famous trader he is today.
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Henry Gambell
Senior Managing Director of Options Trading
More ▼With a passion for gambling, he’s the absolute “zen master” when it comes to being a trader. Almost always level-headed, Henry provides the cool, calm, and collected side of trading - a side most traders have struggled with for years. That makes him invaluable as the Lead Content Provider and a fantastic options trading mentor. With his daily tips and tricks, he helps traders see the analytical approach to trading and why you should or shouldn’t logically jump ship.
Fast forward to today, Henry can be found diving into the Live Trading Chatroom at the opening bell as the Vice President of Simpler Trading. During his sessions, he focuses heavily on scanning for new setups, managing open trades, and walking traders through new trades. He knows how to break down hard-to-understand macro topics to a finite, easy-to-digest micro-level.
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Danielle Shay
VP of Options
More ▼Danielle Shay is a trader, investor, market analyst, and expert commentator. She is VP of Options at Simpler Trading, where she runs trades and analysis in the trading room, teaches classes and webinars, and writes regularly at www.fivestartrader.com. You can also find Danielle regularly in the media, as she is an expert guest on CNBC, Fox News, TraderTV Live, Stockcharts, and more.
As a swing trader, her primary focus is identifying momentum, including relative strength and weakness. She also frequently analyzes and trades earnings. Danielle’s trading setups cover equity options, stocks, indexes, and ETFs.
Using her step-by-step, top-down approach, it’s her goal as a former teacher to help traders go from zero to trading — just like she once did. She has the keen ability to relay trading information in small tangible bits where even the ‘best’ of traders will find her insights useful and easy to understand. Her motto is, “If I can do it, you can do it!” Follow her on Twitter & Youtube for more education @traderDanielle.
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Sam Shames
VP of Options
More ▼Sam specializes in options, equities, and macro trading using short-term signals. He started trading in 2007. He began his career by trading index futures and equities intraday, and later branched out to options which are now his trading vehicle. Sam’s strategy is top-down – the tide first, boats second. A typical path Sam will take before entering a position is understanding the setup on the index (such as S&P or Nasdaq first), then the sector (such as technology, second), and the stock third. This gives him an edge in trading as it shows the money flow from the broad market to stocks. Once he has found a setup, he looks for an entry using multiple timeframe analyses to ensure that the signals are aligned on the weekly, daily, and intraday charts. The strongest setups have clean alignment from the intraday to the weekly.
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Bruce Marshall
Senior Director of Options and Income Trading
More ▼Bruce is the Senior Director of Options and Income Trading and a devoted mentor here at Simpler. He’s traded professionally for 34 years, including managing Wall Street's $150 million in institutional funds. We’re lucky to have him trading in several of our memberships. In addition to the Mastering the Trade Room, he has his own service called Bruce’s Income Accumulation System (BIAS), where he focuses on safely generating options income using his favorite strategies. He’s a meticulous planner and organizer. From a macro perspective, he’s especially top-notch in his attention to the market, especially in the volatile environment.
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Taylor Horton
VP of Directional Options Strategies
More ▼Taylor got an early introduction to trading from his father Jim. At age 17, he introduced Taylor to videos of John Carter, who quickly became a role model and someone Taylor would ultimately model his game after. Not being attracted to the status quo, Taylor decided to finish school online while he devoted all his free time to trading. Since then, Taylor has focused daily on improving his trading skills. He has succeeded in mastering a single setup, the squeeze, and is a strong proponent that one can make a career out of trading nothing but this setup alone. Taylor seeks to teach and educate others on how to make a legitimate career path out of trading. This path allows for freedom, gratification, and success based on their own hard work.
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Allison Ostrander
Director of Risk Tolerance
More ▼Allison is an integral part of the Simpler Trading family where she continues to share her over a decade's worth of options trading experience and knowledge within our community. She has experienced and seen other traders go through the common ups and downs of trading. For those who have trouble with position sizing, risk tolerance, chart reading, or options trading, Allison’s Recycling Risk sessions are a “must-watch.”
She aims to help traders minimize the downs so their ups can outshine in their accounts. Allison can easily explain complex trading strategies and chart patterns for traders. Her unique view of how to look at capital Risk, the chart, and the option chain can give any trader a new perspective on investing.
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David Starr
VP of Quantitative Analysis
More ▼David is Simpler Trading’s “Mad Scientist.” He is the creator of the popular Voodoo Lines® and Ready, Aim, Fire! indicators. A trained theoretical mathematician who later took his MBA first in his class, he now trades full-time in addition to helping Simpler Trading clients achieve their own success. Many might consider David’s academic achievements and his experience as a strategic management consultant, building companies and taking them public, to be some of the most respected as ideal preparation for success in financial markets. However, he is passionate about stressing that the key to trading success is understanding and managing one’s own emotions. David’s consulting clients prize his ability to provide customized insights into unique business situations.
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Neil Yeager
VP of Futures Trading
More ▼Neil is our intraday futures, currencies, and commodities trading expert and statistician. He has a wealth of knowledge about the markets. His combination of market profiling, Japanese candlesticks, and statistical data he pulls from personal studies he conducts on the /ES will improve your knowledge of the markets immensely. He is methodical and conservative in his entries and has excellent risk-to-reward ratios on his trades. Neil’s strategies are strengthened by statistical modeling and backtests.
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Lorna "Bot" St. George
Director of Automated Trading Strategies
More ▼Lorna came to trading out of pure necessity. For most of her working life, she was a programmer who traveled the world programming and teaching others for various companies. The more she traveled, the more she realized that she could be more efficient if she understood the forex markets. Lorna’s goal was to take advantage of the price fluctuations between her dollars and the currencies of the countries she regularly visited. That is when she found Raghee Horner. When she discovered she was part of Simpler Trading, Lorna was all in. She joined Simpler as a customer and eventually joined the team. She loves teaching and trading (and programming!), and her goal is to pay forward what she learned from everyone at Simpler and help others on their own trading journey.
A Look at a Typical Week in the MTT Room
All times Central Time (CT)
| Time (CT) | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| 8:20–9:30 AM | Taylor Horton | Henry Gambell | Henry Gambell | Henry Gambell | Allison Ostrander |
| 9:30–10:30 AM | TG Watkins | Sam Shames | Sam Shames | Sam Shames | Sam Shames |
| 10:30–11:30 AM | Lorna St. George | David Starr | TG Watkins | Lorna St. George | Melissa Beegle |
| 1–2 PM | Danielle Shay | Heather Vanek | Bruce Marshall | Heather Vanek | Bruce Marshall |
| 2–3 PM | Henry Gambell | Danielle Shay | John Carter | John Carter | Danielle Shay |
Sample schedule for illustrative purposes only. Trading sessions, times, and participating traders may vary based on market conditions and availability.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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All of our live sessions are recorded for you to review at your convenience. If you would like to just follow the alerts, you can do so and can download our mobile app to get alerts on the go.
You can consider doing the trial option for 30 days and upgrade later. Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Instant Access. $7 for 30 days, then $247/month. Cancel anytime.