James F. Dalton

James F. Dalton (General Partner at Jim Dalton Trading https://jimdaltontrading.com) has made trading and studying the markets his life’s work for over 40 years. He is the author of two seminal books on Market Profile Trading, Mind over Markets: Power Trading with Market Generated Information Updated Edition (2013) and Markets in Profile: Profiting from the Auction Process (2007).

Jim has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade as well as a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Senior Executive Vice President of the CBOE during its formative years. He is a discretionary trader and long-time proponent of employing the Market Profile® to facilitate trading.

He has been a sought-after speaker and educator throughout his career. In 2010, he decided to formally channel his insights into creating a curriculum for Market Profile Trading. That curriculum became his signature, sought-after intensive programs, which are designed to reach traders at all levels of mastery and help them take control of their own trading success.

About Jim Dalton Trading

Jim Dalton Trading is the authority in advanced trading mentoring and education. Our unique, immersive trading courses catapult our traders to a new level of learning and help them gain a competitive edge by honing their instinct for what drives ever-changing markets and competitors. And we turn that instinct into practical, daily understanding they can really use!

Market expert and author Jim Dalton has spent over four decades observing, labeling and incorporating market observations into daily trading decisions. His adaptive, hands-on coaching style has been developed thoughtfully to assist traders in learning and applying the observations he has developed over time. Yet, it is continually refreshed and applicable to current market conditions.

Our signature eCourses and intensive trading courses offer a unique mentoring environment that is unparalleled in both its depth and breadth. We show traders how to cut through the noise, not with magical theories but with a potent combo of good old-fashioned observation and practical application to help them convert observations into probability-based trading decisions free of bad habits and trading biases.

In short: We put our traders in the driver’s seat!