Featured SpeakerChief Operating Officer, Alpha Futures
Ben Chaffee
Biography
Ben is a former biotech engineer that found a passion for trading and it changed his life. Leaving university in 2020 with more than $130,000 in student debt, he knew he needed to find a way to scale his income. This is when he turned to trading, and eventually prop firms in 2022.Since then, Ben has done over $400,000 in prop firm virtual and real live market payouts and is now debt free. He did more than $60,000 of these virtual payouts with Alpha Capital Group; this is how he originally caught the team’s eye.
The team noticed he also traded futures at the same time. Ben was brought in full time by the team in early 2024 to build Alpha Futures and a product that addressed the shortcomings of the industry in his experience as a analyst and customer. He is passionate to supply other retail analysts with even better opportunities than he was provided to dig himself out of debt.
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Sessions By Ben Chaffee
My Journey into Prop Trading and the Strategies I Developed Around Them
What does it take to make the leap into prop trading, and what happens after you get there? Ben Chaffee shares his candid journey into proprietary trading: why he made the move, the benefits he found, and the lessons learned along the way. Then he pulls back the curtain on the strategies he built with his quant team, how they were developed, and the strategies reshaped his approach to the markets.