About

Max is a new/developing equity trader at SMB Capital.

At age seven, Max became passionate about the stock market. At that early age, he began teaching himself how to trade stocks and ETFs. By age 14, he had advanced his repertoire to include options trading. Specialties include using technical analyses to trade 3x Leveraged ETFs and options, mainly in financials, technology, gold, and volatility, with a focus on short-term trades and is mainly a swing trader.

Max graduated from the University of Michigan, the Ross School of Business in May 2019. He was a member of the University’s premier business club, Michigan Interactive Investments (MII).  He was the instructor for Investopedia Academy’s Binary Options Trading Course. Previously, he was an intern at TrueEx summer 2016, an intern at Option Millionaires 2014-2016, and was the host of the Option Millionaires Diamond+ Trading service.

Max has shared his strategies and trades via Twitter and his blog. Max appeared on CNBC Fast Money with Ms. Melissa Lee May 16, 2016 and March 6, 2014, and on Bloomberg Television, on Pimm Fox’s show Taking Stock, December 6, 2013. The New York Times interviewed Max for an article about the Twitter stock, December 30, 2013. He was featured in the Scarsdale Inquirer. He had been invited to join NYSSA as the first high school student member.

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