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TopstepTrader Blends Sports with Education to Recruit and Develop Top Futures Trading Talent

Chicago (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

TopstepTrader, a scouting agency that recruits and develops futures trading talent, unveils their sports-based business model: The Combine. A play on the NFL?s terminology, The Combine is a two or four week program that provides anyone the opportunity to become a live trader by mimicking the actual trader experience with its real-time trading simulator.

?There are many parallels between athletes and traders, so it made sense to start a program that recruits and develops trading talent the same ways professional athletes are scouted and developed,? said Michael Patak, President and CEO of TopstepTrader. ?Just like the NFL, we use our Combine to find and develop talent, with the ultimate goal of making them profitable.?

The Combine

People who enroll in the TopstepTrader Combine are ?recruits? with a set of objectives for the program. Recruits also have access to specialized coaches and scouts who track and evaluate each individual recruit?s performance against the following criteria:

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