The Day Trading Show

Austin Silver

Welcome to The Day Trading Show, hosted by entrepreneur, and co-owner of ASFX, Austin Silver. In this podcast you'll find trading content specifically designed to help you make better trading decisions going forward. Most of these episodes have videos that go with them - linked in the individual show notes. Please subscribe and leave a review. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

  1. 21h ago

    $3K → $600K: The Options Trade That Got Away

    Can futures traders actually make money trading options? Tanner Owings (The Strong Trader) sits down with Austin Silver, Evan Dyer and Randy Bains in New York City to break down the jump from futures to options — and why options prop firms make it low-risk to learn. Options Prop - https://www.asfx.biz/vanquish - code ASFX We cover why fixed risk makes options easier to manage than futures, why you should start with QQQ and SPY if you already trade NQ and ES, how to find stocks in play using volume and post-earnings catalysts, and why implied volatility can make or break your trade. Tanner also tells the story of the $3K NDX 0DTE trade that would have turned into $600K — and why he cut it 20 minutes early. 🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side. Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx 🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — Free Trial and 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts 🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first 🧠 Sponsor: TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz Plus: gamma hype vs. keeping it simple, paralysis by analysis, hiring a trading psychologist 7 years in, and what walking onto the NYSE floor meant to the crew. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Highlights 1:23 - Intro: Tanner, Evan & Randy in NYC 3:43 - Fixed risk: why options can be safer than futures 8:24 - NQ = QQQ, ES = SPY: the easiest transition 13:44 - Volume: the #1 way to find stocks in play 15:47 - The $3K trade that could've been $600K 19:16 - Is options trading just gambling? 22:21 - Implied volatility explained (GME vs Home Depot) 25:34 - Is gamma overhyped? 28:23 - Selling premium & theta decay 36:53 - Why most traders fail: time in the game 42:43 - Walking into the New York Stock Exchange

  2. Sep 26

    3 Traders, $500k In Real Payouts: Here's Their Strategy...

    There's over $500,000 in real payouts at this table, all made this year, and three completely different strategies behind it. This episode proves there isn't one right way to make money trading. 🎯 Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side. Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx I sat down with Chris, Nick, and Zach, three profitable traders who all run mentorships, and asked them to push back on each other. We get into VWAP Wave, reading market conditions, order flow scalping on NQ, why ORB still doesn't work, and what separates amateurs from professionals. They also break down the rules that made them money, and they explain why every trader should be planning a move from prop firms to personal capital before the prop space changes. This is the less flashy side of trading. No Ferraris, no Chrome Hearts. Just real trading from people doing it with real capital. 🔄 TradeSyncer — 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts 🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first 🧠 TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz 🎟️ ASFX Futures Bootcamp 2027 – Tampa, May 13-14 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/bootcamp 1:30 Meet the guests: $500K+ in real payouts 6:01 VWAP Wave and reading market conditions 10:28 Why profitable traders still coach 13:33 Can anyone make a living trading? 19:28 Best rules: 40-minute time stop and "don't fade strength" 23:09 Why daily profit expectations are a death sentence 31:57 "ORB is trash": old-school education vs today 34:37 Prop firms vs personal capital: taxes, rules, and freedom 41:07 The future of prop firms: should you be preparing?

  3. Sep 19

    Prop Firm Secrets - Inside Zarb's Best Month Ever!

    In this episode, Austin Silver sits down with Zarb (Zach), a profitable prop trader who just took home $45K in payouts in a single month. We dive deep into how he structured accounts across Top One Futures & Futures Elite, why lower contract sizing led to bigger profits, the difference between New York & Asia session trading strategies, managing multiple accounts without burning out, and the mental game of trading when you don't need the money.  🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side.  Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx  🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts  🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first  🧠 Sponsor: TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz  Zarb shares his journey from struggling trader to consistent six-figure annual payouts, the mistakes he made early on, and exactly how he's positioning himself for even bigger months ahead.  Topics Covered: ✅ How he structured accounts across Top One Futures & Futures Elite ✅ Why lower contract sizing led to bigger profits ✅ The difference between New York & Asia session trading strategies ✅ Managing multiple accounts without burning out ✅ The mental game: trading when you don't need the money ✅ Why prop firms are a net positive for retail traders ✅ What's next: scaling to 6-figures with copy trading ✅ Live account transitions & account selection edge ✅ The truth about rushing payouts vs. playing the long game 0:00 Intro - Zarb's $45K August Payout Month 1:20 Welcome Back - Best Month Ever Follow-Up 6:00 July Zero Payouts, August Massive Month 11:20 New Prop Firms - Top One Futures & Futures Elite 15:17 The Secret - "Disgustingly Low" Spend on $45K Payout 17:00 Mindset Shift - Stop Rushing, Size Down, Widen Stops 23:50 Biggest Regrets - What He'd Do Differently as New Trader 27:07 Hot Take - Are Prop Firms Net Positive or Negative? 32:00 Zarb's Liquidity Lab - Building His Own Trading Community 40:40 Scaling Strategy - Copy Trading 10-30 Accounts Simultaneously 48:00 Going Live - Top One Futures Live Account & Next Goals

  4. Sep 12

    500K Subscriber Bodybuilder Left Everything to Trade Futures

    Former 500K-sub bodybuilder turned futures trader Lucas Pinheiro shares how he transitioned from personal training to making $45K in monthly payouts. Learn his high-win-rate prop trading strategy, why he switched to Tokyo sessions, how he manages multiple accounts simultaneously, and the mindset shift required to succeed—plus why trading without external income sources leads to failure. Connect with Lucas -  @LPTradesFt  🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side. Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx 🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — Free Trial & 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts 🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first 🧠 Sponsor: TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz 0:00 Opening Mindset - Winning vs. Execution 1:19 Podcast Intro & Lucas's Journey 3:00 Moving to Miami at 19 - The Brazilian Dream 5:00 Law School Drop & Sports Career Path 8:00 First Bodybuilding Competition Win 9:00 Building a 500K+ Subscriber Channel 11:00 Transition from Bodybuilding to Trading 12:00 Bitcoin Discovery (2019) & Crypto Interest 14:00 First Forex Trade Loss & Learning Curve 19:00 The $13K Loss - Emotional Breakthrough 22:00 Retiring from Bodybuilding (2021) 23:00 Real Estate Arbitrage in Brazil 25:00 Selling 4 Properties & Moving Back to Brazil 27:00 Why Switch to Futures Trading? 29:00 Starting the Trading YouTube Channel 31:00 Live Streaming Trades - The Missing Angle 34:00 Growing to 42K Subscribers in 4 Months 37:00 Why Traders Fail - The Psychology 38:00 Bodybuilder Mindset vs. Trading Mindset 40:00 Need Money Before Trading (Risk Management) 44:00 Marriage & Support System During Losses 45:00 Prop Firm Payouts & Account Strategy 47:00 Risk-to-Reward: Personal vs. Prop Accounts 50:00 Copy Trading Strategy Across Multiple Accounts 52:00 Tokyo Session vs. New York Session Switch 54:00 $45K Payout Month & Best Results 56:00 Weekly Payout Strategy & Risk Bucketing 59:00 Handling Max Loss Days with High Win Rate 1:01:00 Current Opportunity in Prop Trading 1:02:00 Outro & Connecting with Lucas

  5. Aug 29

    James Lost $50,000 in One Day: His Trading Recovery Story

    James Bruce shares his raw recovery story: a catastrophic $50K loss in one day due to a trade copier error on New Year's Eve 2021, followed by a brutal seven-month drawdown that nearly broke him. The key lesson: don't make trading your identity. After making $150K in 2020, he hit rock bottom but stayed locked in because he'd proven it was possible before. Learn why sizing down matters, how to rebuild after massive losses, the importance of having income outside trading, and why showing losses publicly (not just wins) is critical for the trading community. From near-bankruptcy to $70K+ in payouts, this is the unfiltered truth about trader recovery. 🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side. Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx 🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts 🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first 🧠 Sponsor: TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz 1:23 - James Bruce intro: $70K payouts this year 4:12 - How James found Austin (mid-2019) 5:00 - Borrowed money from dad for Austin's course 10:04 - 2020 success: Made $150K with father-in-law's capital 10:20 - 2021 seven-month drawdown begins 12:00 - Biggest lesson: Don't make trading your identity 13:00 - The $50K loss story (trade copier error on New Year's Eve) 16:00 - Character building & resilience from massive losses 18:00 - Tweet: Why trading shouldn't be your only income source 36:00 - Why showing losses publicly is critical for community 38:00 - Birthday week: Down $32K, recovered $50K next week 42:00 - Why win rate matters more than R-multiple

  6. Aug 22

    How Big Money ACTUALLY Moves The Market | Scott Pulcini

    Scott Pulcini breaks down why CVD divergences are unreliable and reveals what's actually driving the market: options flow, gamma levels, and price-change algos. After 9 years of trading stop-runs and icebergs as his main edge, he's shifted focus to zero-DTE options hedging by dealers—which moves 90% of intraday action most days. The key insight: stop/iceberg events validate where the market will react, but options flow (gamma, pace of tape, relative volume) tells you when and how. He demonstrates real trades including why his 3-minute VWAP trade worked and how price-change reversions can be scalped or held based on confluence. Sponsor: Prop Firm Match. Compare 40+ firms side-by-side. Code MATCH → https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx Try Bookmap and Save - https://www.asfx.biz/bookmap Connect with Scott - https://www.scottpulcinitrader.com/ 0:00 — Headline risk destroying setups; options flow now dominates 3:00 — Stop runs & icebergs → options gamma edge shift (9 years vs new game) 8:03 — Real-time options flow example: dealers hedging move market, visible in charts 13:14 — Why CVD divergences fail: it only shows aggressor, not intention 16:48 — Six stop/iceberg setups; GEX levels are magnets dealers must hedge at 20:15 — Zero-DTE gamma "sexy gexi" entries vs reversion trades off GEX bounces 23:54 — Randy's YM trade: bought VWAP at 9:57 ET, out in 3 mins (entry anatomy) 27:35 — Euro options flow drives hero, not futures → source of moves 31:45 — Market pulse price change algo: reversion-to-mean every 5 min when quiet 35:48 — Relative volume key: use Sierra Charts (30-day lookback), not Thinkorswim (60-period only) 39:30 — Real NQ trade setup: VWAP + GEX2 + price change + pace of tape = "reversion dream" 42:50 — How to manage: scalp around position or trail half using price-change exits 46:20 — Risk half an ATR on price-change scalps; protect against big money runs 49:01 — Scott's chart tabs problem: too much data layered, needs Bookmap UI fix

  7. Aug 15

    From $50K to $270K: How Nick Stewart Scaled His Live Account

    Nick Stewart is BACK!! In today's podcast, he reveals how he scaled from a $50K live account to $270K+ in withdrawals this year by ditching prop firms and sizing up to 10x on high-probability setups. 🎟️ ASFX Futures Bootcamp 2027 – Tampa, May 13-14 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/bootcamp He breaks down the copy trading strategy that lets traders manage multiple funded accounts simultaneously, shares the psychology of handling big losses (he took a $21K hit in one day), and explains why futures payouts beat CFDs for consistency. Plus: Trade Set journal launch, UK bootcamp announcement, and NYC event details for the community. Connect with Nick: https://www.youtube.com/@TimeToEatTrading 🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side.  Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx  🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts  🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 7-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first  0:26 — Family update: 4 kids, life's good 2:13 — Nick confirmed as Bootcamp 2027 speaker (first teaching gig) 4:54 — Futures payouts easier than CFDs (no drawdown seesaw trap) 8:22 — Evals - instant funded for new traders (cheap learning phase) 13:14 — Copy trading setup: 3 of 5 accounts locked after daily P&L 17:13 — New trader mindset: don't take wins or losses personal 20:45 — Playbook building: collect 20+ samples, find your edge 24:15 — High win rate trap: 70% WR = 30 unavoidable losses per 100 trades 28:07 — Live account leap: $50K -- $130K -- withdraw, repeat ($270K total YTD) 33:28 — Left prop firms for freedom; trading 5–10K size now 35:48 — Gold 90–95% of trades, selective NQ entries, avoiding chop 39:30 — TradeSet journal launched: analytics + mindset + behavior scoring 45:28 — Bootcamp talk prep: technical focus, show wins + losses + strategy

  8. Aug 8

    The Truth About Copy Trading: Blame Yourself, Not The Strategy

    The boys are back for the first Home Team episode since the London Prop Firm Expo and the May Bootcamp. Austin, Randy, Evan, and Bruce dig into Bootcamp 2026 recap stories, why copy trading is the real scale in prop trading (and why people blame it for their own losses), the VTC indicator/double break strategy trends, prop firm drama, and wrap with NFL/NBA/MLB predictions for the fall. 🎯 Sponsor: Prop Firm Match — Compare 40+ prop firms side-by-side.  Code MATCH 🔗 https://www.propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=asfx  🔄 Sponsor: TradeSyncer — 30% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/ts  🎥 Trade Live With Me — Free 30-day trial 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/first  🧠 Sponsor: TradeZella — 20% off w/ code ASFX 🔗 https://www.asfx.biz/tz  00:00 – Cold open: "documentation of the end of ASFX" + copy trading blame game 01:12 – Intro back from London Expo & May Bootcamp 02:00 – Bootcamp 2027 tickets on sale, Randy's stage evolution story 04:16 – The dinner bill roast — "how cheap some influencers really are" 09:41 – Prop firm drama, copy trading as the real scale, TradeSyncer discount code 12:08 – Copy trading psychology: "your trading capital's got to match your mental capital" 19:59 – TradeSyncer sponsor read + ASFX stream free trial offer 20:57 – VTC indicator, double break win rate, systematic vs. discretionary trading 39:38 – "Rich" giveaway winner story — blew 3 accounts, now stacking payouts 1:00:58 – NFL/NBA/MLB predictions wrap + Penn State college football game idea

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Welcome to The Day Trading Show, hosted by entrepreneur, and co-owner of ASFX, Austin Silver. In this podcast you'll find trading content specifically designed to help you make better trading decisions going forward. Most of these episodes have videos that go with them - linked in the individual show notes. Please subscribe and leave a review. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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  • Creator
    Austin Silver
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    310
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Austin Silver
  • Show Website
    The Day Trading Show

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