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Rebel Traders™ takes you inside the world of two underground master traders who take an entertaining, unique, and often contrarian look at the markets and business. Cutting through the noise of Wall Street shenanigans and hijinks and the clutter and confusion of mainstream news, they are here to help you navigate the trading minefield so you can finally take control of your financial future. Together, Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton are on a mission to give you the unfair advantage of a Rebel Trader™ by sharing little-known trading and investment strategies for identifying low-risk, high-return opportunities regardless of market conditions.

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Donahoe and Newton turn trading psychology, testing and review into practical habits for building a more disciplined process.

Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton make trading discipline concrete through a loose, often comic conversation about what happens before, during and after a position.

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A motorcycle crash becomes a trading lesson, if you prefer your risk talk with racetrack stories and swearing.

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  • the patience to redo a backtest when a new observation changes what you thought you saw
  • a calmer way to face consecutive losing days without reaching for a revenge trade
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RT281 - Risky Business and U-Boats

A blunt reminder that leverage is not skill and capital preservation comes first.

Rebel Traders keeps risk management at the center, with Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton returning again and again to the habits that can trip up newer traders: chasing winners, reaching for leverage, and treating margin too lightly.

RT277 - Volatility Ripples

As volatility compresses into shorter windows, the old 30-day read starts to look less complete.

Volatility Ripples follows Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton as they move away from the familiar 30-day VIX and toward shorter-term reads, including the nine-day and one-day measures, to ask whether near-term activity is better captured by faster gauges than by the older 30-day…

RT282 - Mastering Starbucks Trading: Small Trades, Big Wins

A loose trading chat that keeps coming back to one simple rule: stay small, stay calm, and trust the process.

Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton keep this one loose and good-natured, but the point lands clearly. After the jokes and the nod to Phil's 20-year milestone, the talk settles into something more useful: trade small, keep your head clear, and do not give the market more room than it…

RT276 - New Visions

A sharp reset on why quiet markets still call for caution.

Rebel Traders returns in a new format for episode 276, and Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton keep circling a plain warning: the VIX has fallen, the S&P still lacks a clear direction, and the dollar has softened.

RT283 - Balance and Overload

Price gets the final say when the market starts to talk too loudly.

Balance and overload settles into a practical lesson in trading discipline: stay aware of the market without letting noise steer judgment. Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton keep returning to live conditions, money flow, and the case for trusting price over opinion, which gives the…

RT286 - Balancing Risk and Reward: The Art of Portfolio Diversification

A practical case for diversification that stays focused on trade-offs, return speed, and fit.

Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton frame diversification as a practical allocation question, not a slogan. They keep the discussion anchored in first principles: what an investor already knows, how hands-on they want to be, and how quickly they want capital to work.

RT284 - Trading Technology Evolution: From Ticker Tapes to AI

A blunt look at trading tech that keeps circling back to fit, process, and practical limits.

Rebel Traders uses trading technology as a way into the larger question of how traders work now. Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton move from hardware nostalgia to the present day reality: an idea can be tested, adjusted, and shipped fast.

RT274 - The Bear Year

A blunt trading chat that keeps dragging the conversation back to data.

This market chat starts with a deliberately clumsy Shatner-style riff, then settles into the hosts' familiar mix of jokes, skepticism, and trading talk.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    RT274 - The Bear Year

    Wall Street gets a bear-song cold open.

    ·52m·4 clips
  2. 2

    RT287 - The Trader's Journal: Essential Habits for Long-term Success

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton focus on journaling as a trading tool, not a “Dear Diary” exercise, and Sean says it took him years to adopt it.

    ·49m·3 clips
  3. 3

    RT282 - Mastering Starbucks Trading: Small Trades, Big Wins

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton return after a brief sabbatical and spend the first stretch laughing through the sort of banter only a long-running duo can pull off.

    ·32m·5 clips
  4. 4

    RT281 - Risky Business and U-Boats

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton keep the focus on risk, not hype.

    ·41m·7 clips
  5. 5

    RT275 - You Only Fear the Dark…

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton open with weary banter and a sideways market.

    ·53m·2 clips
  6. 6

    RT283 - Balance and Overload

    Balancing awareness and overload sets the hook.

    ·33m·5 clips
  7. 7

    RT280 - Less Brains, More Gains...

    Hidden gem

    Rebel Traders episode on discipline as foundation of long-term trading success.

    ·56m·1 clip
  8. 8

    RT286 - Balancing Risk and Reward: The Art of Portfolio Diversification

    Hidden gem

    Sean and Phil spend the episode arguing that diversification is not a slogan, it is a set of choices.

    ·44m·2 clips
  9. 9

    RT276 - New Visions

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton return after a long break with a new format and a looser, rougher reset.

    ·28m·1 clip
  10. 10

    RT284 - Trading Technology Evolution: From Ticker Tapes to AI

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton talk through how trading technology has shifted, from older market mechanics to the faster tools traders rely on now.

    ·42m·2 clips
  11. 11

    RT288 - Beyond Solo Trading

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton open by arguing that trading should not be a solo sport.

    ·50m·3 clips
  12. 12

    RT285 - The Trader's Emotional Playbook: From Stress to Success

    Hidden gem

    Sean and Phil open by bringing a bit of psychology into trading and quickly turn the conversation toward stress, workload, and the price of trying to do everything alone.

    ·45m·3 clips
  13. 13

    RT278 - 12 Rebel Trader Rules

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton use RT278, “12 Rebel Trader Rules,” to frame trading as a business built on rules, not a hobby built on impulse.

    ·1h 16m·5 clips
  14. 14

    RT279 - Books, Bubbles, Market Forces and Historical Patterns

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton use Snap, Blue Apron, and the South Sea Bubble to show how market manias rise and collapse, with Snap falling from peaks around $80–$90 to about $17 and then near $12 after earnings.

    ·49m·3 clips
  15. 15

    RT277 - Volatility Ripples

    Hidden gem

    Sean Donahoe and Phil Newton discuss current market conditions in a new show format.

    ·41m·1 clip
  16. 16

    Rebel Traders™ 075 : Cool Hand Luke...

    Nov 23, 2018·47m
  17. 17

    Rebel Traders™ 074 : A Bird in the Hand is Worth 2 In The Portfolio

    Nov 15, 2018·47m
  18. 18

    Rebel Traders™ 073 : Always Be Prepared to Change Your Mind...

    Nov 8, 2018·1h
  19. 19

    Rebel Traders™ 072 : Twannnnggggg....

    Oct 31, 2018·1h 4m
  20. 20

    Rebel Traders™ 071 : Politics and Trading

    Oct 24, 2018·54m
  21. 21

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    Oct 17, 2018·1h 3m
  22. 22

    Rebel Traders™ 069 : Options Trading 101

    Oct 10, 2018·1h 6m
  23. 23

    Rebel Traders™ 068 : Stocks We Love to Hate...

    Oct 5, 2018·1h 1m
  24. 24

    Rebel Traders™ 067 : Stress Free Trading

    Sep 27, 2018·42m
  25. 25

    Rebel Traders™ 066 : What If...

    Sep 20, 2018·1h
  26. 26

    Rebel Traders™ 065 : Burning the Candles

    Sep 13, 2018·50m
  27. 27

    Rebel Traders™ 064 : What Makes a GREAT Trader?

    Sep 6, 2018·1h
  28. 28

    Rebel Traders™ 063 : Do This, Don't Do That...

    Aug 30, 2018·44m
  29. 29

    Rebel Traders™ 062 : The Tao of Rebel Trading

    Aug 24, 2018·49m
  30. 30

    Rebel Traders™ 061 : Dirty Tricks and Filthy Secrets

    Aug 19, 2018·1h 23m
  31. 31

    Rebel Traders™ 060 : Trading Thunderdome

    Aug 12, 2018·1h 26m
  32. 32

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 60 - Earnings Turnaround, Apples 1TN & Economic Shifts

    Aug 8, 2018·27m
  33. 33

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    Aug 5, 2018·1h 14m
  34. 34

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 59 - GDP, Consumer Spending, Tech Sell-Off & Govt. Shutdowns

    Aug 1, 2018·42m
  35. 35

    Rebel Traders™ 058 : Trader Mythbusting

    Jul 29, 2018·1h 32m
  36. 36

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 58 - Market Updates, Earnings Reports, China’s Easing Off & Japanese Monetary Policy

    Jul 25, 2018·27m
  37. 37

    Rebel Traders™ 057 : 10 of the Greatest Trades of all Time…

    Jul 22, 2018·1h 37m
  38. 38

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 57 - Chinese GDP Reports, Tariff Updates & Fed Policy Speculations

    Jul 18, 2018·27m
  39. 39

    Rebel Traders™ 056 : The Most Common Mistakes Traders Make

    Jul 15, 2018·1h 31m
  40. 40

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 56 - Labor Stats, More Trade Wars, Brexit Chaos and a Big Dose of Lithium

    Jul 11, 2018·34m
  41. 41

    Rebel Traders™ 055 : Wrangling Your Portfolio

    Jul 8, 2018·1h 13m
  42. 42

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 55 - Oil, Canada Trade, North Korea & Basel III

    Jul 3, 2018·30m
  43. 43

    Rebel Traders™ 054 : Trade Wars - Winners & Losers

    Jul 1, 2018·1h 33m
  44. 44

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 54 - China Investments, Korean Funds & Oil Rally’s

    Jun 27, 2018·24m
  45. 45

    Rebel Traders™ 053 : Leveling Up

    Jun 24, 2018·1h 9m
  46. 46

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 53 - China Trade, Oil, OPEC & MiFID Side Effects

    Jun 20, 2018·34m
  47. 47

    Rebel Traders™ 052 : One Year On...

    Jun 17, 2018·1h 8m
  48. 48

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 52 - FOMC, Mergers & North Korea Summit

    Jun 14, 2018·33m
  49. 49

    Rebel Traders™ 051 : Bang That Drum Hard

    Jun 10, 2018·1h 31m
  50. 50

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 51 - Tech Rallies, Copper, Pesos & Vanilla

    Jun 6, 2018·18m
  51. 51

    Rebel Traders™ 050 : Unicorn Hunting

    Jun 3, 2018·1h 42m
  52. 52

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 50 - The Italian Job, China Woes, North Korea Negotiations & Cotton

    May 30, 2018·26m
  53. 53

    Rebel Traders™ 049 : Future Proofing Your Portfolio

    May 27, 2018·1h 35m
  54. 54

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 49 - North Korea Summits, China Tariffs & Auto Steel Investigations

    May 24, 2018·33m
  55. 55

    Rebel Traders™ 048 : The Trading Samurai vs The Trading Ninja

    May 20, 2018·1h 27m
  56. 56

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 48 - North Korea, Bond Yields & Sports Betting

    May 16, 2018·29m
  57. 57

    Rebel Traders™ 047 : Carpe Jugulum

    May 13, 2018·1h 31m
  58. 58

    Happening Now Report 47 - China Ore Futures, Iran Deal Breakdown and North Korea

    May 10, 2018·31m
  59. 59

    Rebel Traders™ 046 : Get a Bigger Basket

    May 6, 2018·1h 21m
  60. 60

    Happening Now Report 46 - Dollar Rally's, Trade, Metals Shortfall and The AI Arms Race

    May 2, 2018·24m
  61. 61

    RT045 : The Elephant in the Room

    Apr 29, 2018·1h 7m
  62. 62

    Happening Now Report 45 - Oil, Treasuries, Volatility and End of Day Volume

    Apr 25, 2018·21m
  63. 63

    RT044 : The Coriolis Effect

    Apr 22, 2018·1h 14m
  64. 64

    Happening Now Report 44 - China, Earnings & a Whole Lot of Coca Beans

    Apr 19, 2018·22m
  65. 65

    RT043 : Trimming the Hedge

    Apr 15, 2018·1h 24m
  66. 66

    Happening Now 43 - Missile Threats, Xi’s Speech, NYSE Aquisisitons, Russian Sanctions

    Apr 11, 2018·22m
  67. 67

    RT042 : A State of Trading Zen

    Apr 8, 2018·1h 4m
  68. 68

    Happening Now 42 - Tariff Hype, Debt Transparency & Big Assed Pipelines

    Apr 4, 2018·20m
  69. 69

    RT041 : Fools and Fools that Follow

    Apr 1, 2018·58m
  70. 70

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 41 - Secret Meetings, OPEC & Chinese Oil Futures

    Mar 29, 2018·20m
  71. 71

    RT040 : 3 Ways to Fix Your Trades...

    Mar 25, 2018·1h 3m
  72. 72

    CTF #4 - Market Mayhem Post Tarrifs

    Mar 23, 2018·32m
  73. 73

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 40 - FOMC, BUDGET CRISIS 2.0 & TARRIFS

    Mar 22, 2018·12m
  74. 74

    RT039 : The Wizard of Trading...

    Mar 18, 2018·1h
  75. 75

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 39 - VIX, FOMC & WHITE HOUSE TURMOIL

    Mar 14, 2018·20m
  76. 76

    RT038 : Popular Delusions of a Technical Trader...

    Mar 11, 2018·1h 19m
  77. 77

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 38 - Tariffs, Gary Cohn & Banks

    Mar 7, 2018·16m
  78. 78

    RT037 : Get the ETF Outta Here...

    Mar 4, 2018·1h 3m
  79. 79

    CTF #3 - Tarrifs, Trade Wars and Jitters

    Mar 2, 2018·24m
  80. 80

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 37 - Jay Powell’s Debut and Buffetisims

    Feb 28, 2018·13m
  81. 81

    RT036 : Check Your Biases at the Door...

    Feb 25, 2018·1h 20m
  82. 82

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 36 - Speculators, Shale and the Quest for Technicals

    Feb 22, 2018·21m
  83. 83

    RT035 : Two Traders Walk into a Bar

    Feb 18, 2018·54m
  84. 84

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 35 - Volatility, CPI, Craft Breweries & US Oil

    Feb 14, 2018·16m
  85. 85

    RT034 : Viva Las Vegas...

    Feb 11, 2018·1h 16m
  86. 86

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 34 - Flash Crash, Interest Rates & Trade Deficits

    Feb 7, 2018·24m
  87. 87

    RT033 : There is No Spoon...

    Feb 4, 2018·1h 15m
  88. 88

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 33 - Volatility, SOTU and AI Killing Banks

    Jan 31, 2018·23m
  89. 89

    RT032 : Lost in Translation

    Jan 28, 2018·1h 18m
  90. 90

    [BONUS] Happening Now Report 32 - Davos, TPP, Tarrifs & Government Tantrums

    Jan 25, 2018·32m
  91. 91

    RT031 : The Four Horseman of the Trading Apocalypse

    Jan 21, 2018·1h 31m
  92. 92

    trading,investing,stocks,market,options,business,economy,finance,rebel,trader,sean,donahoe,phil,newton

    Jan 18, 2018·27m
  93. 93

    RT030 : Miracles Not Included

    Jan 14, 2018·1h 35m
  94. 94

    [BONUS] Futures Report 29 - MIDFID II, FOMC, Oil & Natural Gas

    Jan 10, 2018·17m
  95. 95

    [BONUS] Futures Report 30 - Oil, Gold, MIDFID & Earthquakes

    Jan 10, 2018·29m
  96. 96

    RT029 : When Is a Signal not a Signal

    Jan 7, 2018·1h 7m
  97. 97

    RT028 : 2017 Rebel Trader Review & Look Forward

    Dec 31, 2017·1h 31m
  98. 98

    [BONUS] Futures Report 27 - Satellites, Bitcoin CME Futures And Tax Reform

    Dec 29, 2017·20m
  99. 99

    RT027 : Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies - Special Edition

    Dec 24, 2017·1h 28m
  100. 100

    [BONUS] Rebel Traders - Chewing the Fat 2 - Bitcoin Bounce and Crypto Corrections

    Dec 22, 2017·29m
  101. 101

    [BONUS] Futures Report 27 - Satellites, Bitcoin CME Futures And Tax Reform

    Dec 21, 2017·24m
  102. 102

    RT026 : Express Yourself

    Dec 17, 2017·1h 8m
  103. 103

    [BONUS] Futures Report 26 - Bitcoin CBOE Futures Aftermath & OPEC Oil Cuts

    Dec 13, 2017·8m
  104. 104

    RT025 - Proactive or Reactive Trading...

    Dec 10, 2017·58m
  105. 105

    [BONUS] Futures Report 25 - Lithium, Cobalt, Taxes and BitCoin Futures

    Dec 6, 2017·15m
  106. 106

    RT024 - ET Phone Home

    Dec 3, 2017·1h 20m
  107. 107

    When the Trend is Not Your Friend What Do You Do?

    Nov 29, 2017·9m
  108. 108

    RT023 : One Rule to Trade Them All

    Nov 26, 2017·1h 9m
  109. 109

    RT022: Roll Over Beethoven

    Nov 19, 2017·1h 13m
  110. 110

    RT021 : Efficient Idiots

    Nov 12, 2017·1h 23m
  111. 111

    RT020: Bearing the FANGS (Halloween Special)

    Nov 5, 2017·1h 25m
  112. 112

    RT019 : Science Vs Voodoo

    Oct 29, 2017·1h 28m
  113. 113

    RT018 : What's up doc?

    Oct 22, 2017·1h 11m
  114. 114

    RT017 : Kelly's Heros

    Oct 15, 2017·1h 16m
  115. 115

    RT016 : Going Bear With No Shorts...

    Oct 8, 2017·1h 14m
  116. 116

    RT015 - Defending Against a Kick in the... Bulls

    Oct 1, 2017·1h 58m
  117. 117

    RT014 : It's a Banana

    Sep 24, 2017·1h 33m
  118. 118

    Rebel Traders™ 013 : A Bridge Too Far...

    Sep 17, 2017·1h 16m
  119. 119

    RT012 : Two Bulls Walk into a Bar…

    Sep 8, 2017·1h 21m
  120. 120

    RT007 : Licence to Rebel Trade...

    Sep 7, 2017·1h 43m
  121. 121

    RT008 : Feeling Trendy & Bear Bunker Busting

    Sep 7, 2017·1h 16m
  122. 122

    RT009 : Mind that Gap

    Sep 7, 2017·1h
  123. 123

    RT010 : Back to the Futures...

    Sep 7, 2017·1h 5m
  124. 124

    RT011 : Coincidence Analysis? Yup, It's a thing...

    Sep 7, 2017·57m
  125. 125

    RT006 : Top Rank OR Take It To The Bank? and Trading Roulette...

    Sep 7, 2017·1h 33m
  126. 126

    RT005 : Stop Trying to Win and Focus on Not Losing and Bitcoin's Banana Split...

    Sep 4, 2017·1h 9m
  127. 127

    RT004 : Trader Traps, Market Slaps & Grabbing a Bull by the Horns

    Aug 9, 2017·1h 39m
  128. 128

    RT003 : The Rise of the Machines & Snipers Vs Shotguns...

    Aug 6, 2017·1h 41m
  129. 129

    RT002 : Crypto-Junkies in Rehab

    Aug 5, 2017·1h 24m
  130. 130

    RT001 : Killing Unicorns With 800LB Gorilla's

    Jul 27, 2017·1h 25m