We are professional traders dedicated to improving the trading community through sharing our trading setups in a live trading room, publishing newsletters, and building a wide variety of trading models for both our own use, as well as for our members. In 2011, we began sharing our professional strategies along with our support and resistance levels to the retail trading community. Since Ant Trading has always incorporated the successful model of "by the more I teach the more I learn" process, we decided to open a live trading room to share our methods with the trading community at large.

For information about the live trading room, click here or our support and resistance levels, click here.

Since the liquidity is large enough in the E-Mini S&P 500 futures (ES) to not affect our "Divergence" strategy, we decided to begin by sharing the strategy in this market for both the live trading room and private portions of the forum. We compare elements of different markets and look for a "Divergence", much like comparing car prices at different dealerships. We also share our "Stop Hunter" strategy in additional markets such as Crude Oil (CL), Gold (GC), Euro (6E), and the Russell (TF). The trading strategies we share are intraday, counter-trend, short-term, and risk less to make more. Our strategies get their edge from a consistently better win to loss ratio combined with a favorable reward to risk relationship.

Every day we open our live trading room where we share our trading plan, trade setups (including targets and stops), and show our entries and exits as we trade live. In the room, you will find each trade setup marked on your screen through an easy to follow indicator, along with comments as to what our thoughts are concerning the trade, and market action around the setup. Additionally, there are news updates, economic releases, if any for the day, and a breakdown of broad market activity. In conjunction with the daily live trading room we also email our trading results with an example trade, showing how the market respected (or didn't) respect our anticipated set ups during the session. All are both welcome to, and encouraged to make use of the information by way of comparing our plan and subsequent actions to your plan as an ongoing educational tool.

Prior to opening the live trading room, we had multiple requests for clarification about our strategies, specific trades, directional biases, etc. beyond what we could share and many requested ongoing mentorship. We created a private members area where a limited amount of traders could follow us in a live trading room, which allows us to continue to trade and at the same time, share our strategies. We decided on a monthly subscription for access to filter out those who are not serious and attract those who are serious about live, interactive trading.

If the idea of participating in detailed discussions with professional traders about psychology, trade management, risk models, applying probability to trading plans, and identifying an edge appeals to you, see this page to join. Be sure to sign up for our email list.

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."

- Sandra Day O'Connor

Who is Ant Trading, Inc.?

Anthony Drager

• Full-Time Professional Trader since 1999
• Electronic Screen Trader since 2000
• Floor Trader Dow Futures (1999 - 2000)
• Broker Assistant Euro Dollar Complex CBOT
• Licensed Trader Designation on Eurex

Anthony Drager is the founder of Ant Trading, Inc. He began his journey in trading early, spending high school and college summers as a runner at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in the summer of 1999 and began trading Dow futures. Anthony was offered a position at a Chicago proprietary firm in 2000 and traded overseas markets through Eurex. Anthony left that firm to trade independently in 2006, and in the early part of 2007, he founded Ant Trading, Inc. He began hosting educational webinars online and private mentorships from his suburban Chicago office. Anthony was encouraged to automate his strategies and create a trade sharing room over the summer of 2011. From the Eurostoxx, DAX, 30 Year Bond, Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, and currency futures to our primary market the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures (ES), Anthony has over a decade and a half of professional trading and education to help keep all levels of experience..."in the market".

Anthony (Tony) Perkins

• President of a Multi-Million Dollar Financial Organization - Oaktree (1998 - 2008)
• MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business
• Full-Time Professional Trader since 2008
• Part-Time Trader since 2002

Tony Perkins is the co-founder of Ant Trading, Inc. Tony has always had a passion for finance and this has been reflected in career choices from his early beginnings as a bank manager for a large financial institution, to starting and running his own successful, multi-million dollar financial company for over ten years; and now as a full-time trader. Tony earned his Bachelor of Arts in Finance in 1997 and then went on to earn a MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the prestigious UCLA Anderson School of Business in 2001. He also earned a PHD-Program of High Distinction with INVESTools in 2005. Tony made the transition from full-time company owner and part-time trader to full-time trader in 2008. He has read practically every trading book available (a partial list of these books is found on our resources page) joined many trading rooms and bought many indicators in pursuit of the "holy grail". In 2009, Tony joined a trading room hosted by Anthony and liked what he saw. Having similar philosophies on trading and work ethic, they joined forces together on this website. Tony brings a wealth of business, financial, and trading knowledge to Ant Trading, Inc.

Since meeting in 2009, Anthony and Tony have spent thousands of hours sharing trading philosophies in pursuit of perfecting their trading methods and are excited to share their combined efforts and knowledge with the trading community.