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The Trading Thunderdome is a self-paced, intensive 6-week program (with lifetime access) designed for experienced traders ready to scale. Created by a former Marine-turned-pro trader, this course teaches you how to build, test, and manage your own trading systems — backed by 24 years of real-world experience.

What You’ll Learn:
-System development and backtesting
-Mindset and goal planning
-Risk management and tracking
-Financial and trading business planning
-Long-term scaling strategies

The simple, scalable system that changed everything.

The Curvy System is a professional-grade trading strategy designed to deliver consistent, stress-free results across any market — stocks, futures, crypto, forex, and more. Built from decades of real trading experience, it removes emotion, guesswork, and noise from your process.

The Crypto Momentum System is a battle-tested trading framework built to capture explosive trends in volatile markets—without needing leverage, constant screen time, or sketchy offshore exchanges. It finds what’s moving, keeps you in while it runs, and gets you out before the music stops. No signals, no guesswork—just a clear, repeatable process. Developed by a 10+ year crypto trader who’s lived through multiple bull markets, this system has already 17x’d a live Coinbase account since October 2023. Includes TradingView templates, setup videos, momentum filters, private Slack group, and regular market updates. Built for serious traders who want big upside without the cult-like nonsense.

The Swing Beast Momentum Strategy is a proven, rule-based trading system that identifies high-probability setups in stocks, options, crypto, forex, and futures. It teaches you when to enter and exit trades, capitalize on momentum psychology, and manage position sizing for maximum returns. With lifetime updates, it equips you to grow your account confidently while avoiding low-probability gambles and news-driven decisions.

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Brandon Beylo

Value Investor

Brandon has been a professional investor focusing on value for over 13 years, spending his time in small to micro-cap companies, spin-offs, SPACs, and deep value liquidation situations. Over time, he’s developed a deeper understanding for what deep-value investing actually means, and refined his philosophy to include any business trading at a wild discount to what he thinks its worth in 3-5 years.

Brandon has a tenacious passion for investing, broad-based learning, and business. He previously worked for several leading investment firms before joining the team at Macro Ops. He lives by the famous Munger mantra of trying to get a little smarter each day.

AK

Investing & Personal Finance

AK is the founder of Macro Ops and the host of Fallible.

He started out in corporate economics for a Fortune 50 company before moving to a long/short equity investment firm.

With Macro Ops focused primarily on institutional clients, AK moved to servicing new investors just starting their journey. He takes the professional research and education produced at Macro Ops and breaks it down for beginners. The goal is to help clients find the best solution for their investing needs through effective education.

Tyler Kling

Volatility & Options Trader

Former trade desk manager at $100+ million family office where he oversaw multiple traders and helped develop cutting edge quantitative strategies in the derivatives market.

He worked as a consultant to the family office’s in-house fund of funds in the areas of portfolio manager evaluation and capital allocation.

Certified in Quantitative Finance from the Fitch Learning Center in London, England where he studied under famous quants such as Paul Wilmott.

Alex Barrow

Macro Trader

Founder and head macro trader at Macro Ops. Alex joined the US Marine Corps on his 18th birthday just one month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He subsequently spent a decade in the military. Serving in various capacities from scout sniper to interrogator and counterintelligence specialist. Following his military service, he worked as a contract intelligence professional for a number of US agencies (from the DIA to FBI) with a focus on counterintelligence and terrorist financing. He also spent time consulting for a tech company that specialized in building analytic software for finance and intelligence analysis.

After leaving the field of intelligence he went to work at a global macro hedge fund. He’s been professionally involved in markets since 2005, has consulted with a number of the leading names in the hedge fund space, and now manages his own family office while running Macro Ops. He’s published over 300 white papers on complex financial and macroeconomic topics, writes regularly about investment/market trends, and frequently speaks at conferences on trading and investing.

Macro Ops is a market research firm geared toward professional and experienced retail traders and investors. Macro Ops’ research has been featured in Forbes, Marketwatch, Business Insider, and Real Vision as well as a number of other leading publications.

You can find out more about Alex on his LinkedIn account here and also find him on Twitter where he frequently shares his market research.