We recently produced a Day in the Life feature following our Miami prop trading team. This is a team that made ~50m in trading profits in 2025. Here are 9 heavy-hitting trading lessons from this SMB top trading team:
1. Great traders LOVE to trade. Notice how they are always talking about trading. They talk trading on the way to the gym. They talk trading on the way to breakfast. They talk trading all day long.
2. Get fit to trade your best. Nano shares how getting fit clears his mind and improves his trading performance. How you do anything is how you do everything. Nano doesnβt just go to the gym and bang around on the machines. He hired the best trainers for lifting and boxing to get him as fit as possible. The first action Tony Robbins took coaching Paul Tudor Jones was to get him in the best shape of his life. Get fit first to trade at your best and improve your trading psychology.
3. Celebrate a great month of trading. What will you buy yourself after a great trading month? I remember before Nano had huge trading success, he talked of making enough to buy a Porsche. It gave him a goal to reach and inspiration to do the work that led to his success. The car reminds him of his earned success. It makes him happy. It fuels him to keep striving. The point is NOT that he can flex and flash an expensive car. The point is that it is important to set aspirational goals and celebrate your earned success in a way that makes you happy.
4. Anticipate big trades. The team talks in depth about the potential for a big breakout trade. They line up ways to express the trade and when to take it. Game planning is done by top traders. They anticipate potential big trades, making it easier to strike in real-time when they arrive.
5. The PNL value of team trading. The traders on the team acknowledge they would not be where they are today without their team. They express gratitude to their teammates and for the contributions they made to their PnL.
They also offered that team trading helps traders:
a) Learn from senior traders
b) Hold them accountable
c) Improve trading edge
d) Combine strengths of traders to improve edge and performance
e) Execute better trade decisions through collaboration.
6. Enforce Absolute Transparency and Zero-Mute Accountability
To build elite execution, you need an environment with zero friction and complete transparency [12:49].
The No-Mute Rule: On their trading calls, mics stay open all day long so breaking news or order flow changes are communicated instantaneously [14:42].
Constructive Feedback: When someone steps outside their PlayNook or takes a sub-optimal entry, the team calls it out immediately [12:56]. Unfiltered feedback prevents bad trading from compounding [13:00].
7. Invest in Your Infrastructure
Professional trading requires professional-grade tools [18:55]. To eliminate latency issues, the Miami team invested high five figures to run a dedicated business fiber line straight into their trading house, complete with multiple cellular backup systems [18:30].
Eliminate Execution Friction: High-frequency setups require total network reliability [17:40]. Protecting your trading edge means eliminating any technical single point of failure before it costs you capital [18:44].
8. Save Maximum Capital for A+ Conviction Setups
The biggest trades don't happen by accident; they happen when preparation meets massive conviction [22:08].
Scaling Up: Pushing heavy size is reserved for setups you have seen hundreds of times where the statistical edge is crystal clear [22:13].
Team Synergy in Action: On their best single tradeβwhich netted roughly $3.5 millionβit required the entire team's collective brainpower to spot the catalyst, structure the entry, manage the risk, and hold for the full move [00:00].
9. Trading is a social sport. βI like to live life with people,β Nano.
I Spent a Day With the Worldβs Best Young Traders https://t.co/Q8lOKgsghC via @YouTube
Matthew Smith has spent the last 18 months modeling every well, pipeline, storage facility, and power plant in the American natural gas system.
His conclusion is that the US is heading toward a natural gas shortage with no precedent, beginning in 2028.
By 2030, he believes we could exhaust our working natural gas storage entirely.
The fuel everyone in AI is counting on, and that everyone assumes is abundant, is not there.
And because gas sets the price of electricity in most of the country, he argues Americans will pay for the shortage in their power bills.
Matthew has worked in energy markets for over 20 years and is the CIO of Chronometer Partners.
This is his second time on the show, and he's one of my favorite people to talk to about energy.
We discuss:
- Why the bottleneck is moving from power to fuel
- Why we can't just shut off exports
- 2028 as the inflection point
- Large-scale nuclear v. SMRs
- Who wins, who loses, and what can still be done
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:30 What Drives the Deficit
11:00 Why Supply Canβt Catch Up
20:35 The 2030 Gas Crisis
25:05 Winners and Losers
29:00 Nuclear and Solar
33:30 Consumers Pay the Bill
37:20 AIβs Next Shortage
45:25 Solutions and Global Stakes
51:15 The Coming Gas Knife Fight
Math genius Edward Thorp's 4% rule for retirement: put your money mostly in equities, spend 4% of capital per year, and it should last from your 60s to the end of your life.