What Jonathan Rose Learned Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder with Chicago’s Elite
Within three months of learning how to trade using Jonathan Rose’s approach, newbie trader Mycha was booking gains of 710% and 2,850%.
Mycha isn’t alone. He’s one of a wave of first-time traders who have doubled their accounts in less than a year.
So, who is Jonathan exactly, and what’s this trading approach?
He’s the latest addition to our InvestorPlace family – and a veteran trader who spent decades on the floors of Chicago’s biggest exchanges. What he discovered there became the foundation for the trading system he uses today — one that spots where the “smart money” is moving before the rest of Wall Street sees it.
In today’s Digest, we’re giving Jonathan the reins to share that story — and to show how everyday investors like Mycha are using his approach to trade with a professional’s edge – and with portfolio-changing results.
But today’s essay is just the start. For a deeper dive, mark your calendar for this Monday, November 10 at 1 p.m. Eastern, when Jonathan is holding his Profit Surge Event.
Joined by Louis Navellier, Eric Fry, and Luke Lango, Jonathan will detail how his trading system plays off the same trends as our other experts – yet has the potential to amplify returns despite shorter hold periods.
Just click here to reserve your free spot today.
I’ll let Jonathan take it from here.
Have a good evening,
Jeff Remsburg
The smell hit me first: sweat, paper, and burnt coffee.
Then came the sound.
A wall of voices shouting bids and offers. Phones ringing. Bells clanging. Paper tickets spinning through the air like confetti at a riot.
The whole floor pulsed like a living organism – loud, frantic, and intoxicating.
My first day on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is seared into my memory. It’s the largest futures exchange in the world – where billions of dollars change hands every day, and fortunes are made and lost in seconds.
I had just graduated from the University of Miami. But I wasn’t chasing an office job with a cubicle and a steady paycheck.
I wanted to be the master of my own destiny. I wanted to be a trader. So in the summer of 1997, I walked into the pit for the first time – the fabled floor of the CME
I was just 22 years old. But I was trading shoulder-to-shoulder with guys who’d been doing this longer than I’d been alive.
My stomach was a knot. My tie was a little too tight. But I knew I was exactly where I wanted to be.
It’s where I learned to ignore what most people pay attention to – and focus instead on a hidden market most folks don’t even know exists.
It’s helped members of my community of apprentice traders double their account in less than 12 months.
And in one of my trading advisories, it’s helped me close 49 winning trades with an average gain of 267% and score wins as high as 2,785% in just 26 days.
Today, I’ll show you the simple shift that made it possible – and show you how to join me for the next big trade I’m tracking.
The Hardest Year of My Life
My first year in the pit was the hardest year of my life.
If you’ve seen the Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places, you’ve seen the noise and the hand signals – what I lived every single day.
Floor traders in different-colored jackets in the CME trading pit shouting out orders
I was trading futures on tech-dominated Nasdaq – contracts that let you bet on where the market’s headed without ever owning the stocks.
This was near the height of the dot-com boom. I watched guys make more in a week than most people make in a lifetime.
Meantime, I was that rookie making all the wrong moves – no big wins, just mounting frustration.
As I later learned, it wasn’t bad luck. It was a symptom of a losing approach.
The Secret Hidden in Plain Sight
Things only started to click when I stopped pretending I knew everything and started listening.
I bought rounds of coffee and doughnuts just to steal a few minutes with the veteran traders.
And one day, I spotted something that changed my life.
A mismatch – a tiny price gap between what was happening in the pit and what was flashing on the new electronic trading screens that had just been installed.
It was a crack in the system. And I realized I could exploit it without predicting anything. No need to guess interest rates, jobs data, or the Fed’s next move – just react to what was in front of me.
Suddenly, I was making $5,000, $10,000, even $15,000 a day. By the end of the year, I’d turned my $315,000 account into more than $1.2 million.
That’s when I learned a truth I’ve never forgotten.
Success doesn’t come from guessing the next move – it comes from reacting to what’s already happening, faster and sharper than everyone else.
It’s what launched a career most traders can only dream of.
From Trading Floor to C-Suite
When I was 33, one of Chicago’s top trading firms headhunted me to become Director of Trading. My job was to manage risk for the firm, with dozens of traders under my supervision.
I made small fortunes during the toughest markets in history – including $2.3 million in 2007 and $4 million in 2008, while the S&P 500 was getting cut in half.
Then, after training for and finishing an Ironman Triathlon, I rented a seat on the floor of the world’s largest options exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and became a market maker.
I wasn’t chasing the next home run trade. I was keeping the market liquid, buying and selling stocks to profit from the tiny spread between bid and ask.
But it wasn’t until 2015 that I found my true passion – showing regular investors how to trade like the pros.
Passing the Torch
I launched my Masters in Trading business teach the systems and mindset I learned over two decades in the trenches.
I built a community where apprentice traders strip away the noise and focus on what works: strategy, structure, and execution.
Hundreds have gone through my program – some went on to trade full-time, others launched their own firms.
But what drives me most is that a-ha moment when someone realizes, “I can actually do this.”
One of my favorite stories is from a member named Mycha.He’d never traded before joining my program. But he came in with an open mind and a notebook full of questions.
Within three months, he was booking gains of 710% and 2,850% on trades he never would’ve taken before.
Or take another community member, Brian, a father who faced more than $700,000 in unexpected medical bills. He committed $200,000 to my strategy and doubled it in under a year.
I’ve had other members who started new to trading and doubled six-figure accounts in less than a year.
And since I started using this trading style at InvestorPlace in May 2024, we’ve closed 49 winning trades with an average gain of 267%. And the average holdtime was just 36 days.
How do I do it?
By applying the same lesson I learned on those noisy trading floors. Instead of trying to guess where the market is headed, I react to what the pros are already doing.
I look for when deep-pocketed traders place big bets in the options market – often before the underlying stock moves.
Think of it as reading the hidden footprints of Wall Street’s smartest traders.
When I see a surge of unusual Wall Street activity, I make sure it’s the real deal based on the instincts I honed on the floor – and take a small, risk-controlled position.
Then I aim to cash out fast, usually within a few days to a few weeks.
It’s how I recommended winning trades like:
- C3.ai Inc. (AI), which we closed for a 462% gain
- Lithium producer Albemarle Corp. (ALB), which we closed out for a 959% gain
- Rare-earth miner MP Materials Corp. (MP), which we closed out for 1,234% profits
Again, I’m not predicting the future. I’m simply following the real money in real time.
Now, I want to show you how to do it, too.
On Monday, November 10, at 1 p.m. ET, I’m hosting my Profit Surge Event – where I’ll reveal the setup I’m calling the “Trade of the Decade” (reserve your seat now here).
It’s the same kind of pattern I used to target those 10-bagger wins on MP and ALB.
If you’ve ever wanted to trade with the confidence of a floor veteran – without the chaos, the caffeine, or the knot in your stomach – this is your moment.
Remember, the creative trader wins.
Jonathan Rose
Founder, Masters in Trading
P.S. Louis Navellier, Luke Lango, and Eric Fry will be joining Jonathan for The Profit Surge Event on Monday, November 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern. Together, they’ll show you how his trading system can supercharge some of their biggest recommendations — turning steady double- or triple-digit winners into even bigger, faster gains. You won’t want to miss this one. Click here to reserve your spot.
