ROSS CAMERON

Cameron grew up in Vermont and studied at Middlebury College, graduating with a degree in economics. He worked in real estate and struggled financially for years before turning seriously to day trading.

His early trading career was marked by consistent losses — he blew up multiple accounts before developing a repeatable strategy. He has been transparent about this, documenting his failures as part of his educational mission.

The turning point came when he narrowed his focus to a specific setup: momentum stocks opening gap up on high volume with a catalyst, traded during the first hour of the market. He drilled this setup relentlessly, tracked every trade, and over time built consistent profitability.

In 2012 he founded Warrior Trading, initially as a blog and then as a live trading room and educational community. He documented his account growth publicly — from $583 in January 2017 to over $1 million by year's end — which became one of the most-watched trading journeys on the internet.

Warrior Trading is his primary business — a trading education platform offering courses, a live trading chatroom, a stock screener, and simulated trading tools. It has grown into one of the largest day trading education communities online, with hundreds of thousands of students and a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers.

He also trades his own capital daily and streams his trades live.

The business model is education-first: he makes money teaching trading, not managing other people''s money. He has been transparent that the education business is profitable in a way that supplements his trading income.

He updates his verified brokerage statements publicly.

Cameron''s strategy is narrow and specific: he trades momentum stocks in the first 60–90 minutes of the market open. He looks for stocks with a strong catalyst — an earnings beat, a drug approval, a major contract announcement — that are gapping up significantly in pre-market.

He wants high relative volume, a clean chart structure, and a float small enough that a surge of buying interest can move the price significantly. His entries are aggressive: he buys breakouts and adds to winners.

His exits are quick: he takes profits in partial lots and stops out if the stock reverses.

His documented 2017 run — turning $583.15 into $1,000,000+ in a single calendar year — is the defining achievement. Each trade was captured on screen, each daily P&L was published, and the brokerage statements were verified.

The year became one of the most documented individual trading performances in the internet era. He repeated million-dollar-plus years in subsequent years, compiling a verified multi-year track record.

The transparency is the differentiator — there are many people who claim extraordinary trading results; Cameron''s are auditable.

Cameron has talked openly about periods of significant drawdown — losing weeks and losing months that tested his conviction in the strategy. His worst stretches have come in low-volatility markets where momentum setups dry up and his specific style produces fewer valid entries.

He has also discussed the psychological toll of live-streaming losses in front of a community watching — the added pressure of public accountability cutting both ways.

Cameron believes that most retail traders fail because they trade too many setups, in too many market conditions, without defined rules. His philosophy is the opposite: master one setup, in one market condition, with absolute rule-following.

He is skeptical of complex systems and favors simplicity with rigorous execution. He has said that the edge in day trading is not finding the best strategy — it is having the discipline to follow any strategy consistently enough to let its statistical edge play out.

Cameron lives in Vermont with his family. He has spoken about the flexibility trading gives him relative to a traditional job — being present for his children''s school events, working from home, setting his own schedule.

He is one of the more genuinely family-oriented voices in the trading education space and does not frame wealth accumulation as the end goal.

Middlebury College, BA in Economics. He has described college as useful for thinking analytically but not particularly relevant to trading.

His real education came from tracking his own trades obsessively for years, reading every available book on momentum and tape reading, and the painful process of losing money until patterns became clear.