Michael Schwartz
Day Trader at Topstep
Rockford, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Schwartz is a disciplined day trader and minimalist based in Rockford, Illinois, with 12 years of diverse work experience blending high-pressure trading performance, hands-on logistics, and customer-facing roles. Currently funded by Topstep, he specializes in momentum scalping on MNQ with rapid sub-2-minute trade cycles, demonstrated consistency (73% win rate) and strong risk control that turned into substantial short-term profits. Alongside trading he builds and maintains free, open-source cross-platform apps—over 100 projects—reflecting a pragmatic engineer’s mindset and a drive to create useful tools without commercial pressure. His background in fast-paced operations at UPS and FedEx, plus a flawless Lyft driver rating, underscores reliability, situational awareness, and operational discipline. He brings a unique combination of athletic focus, financial intuition, and practical engineering curiosity to any performance-driven environment.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, Electricity, Drafting, General Studies, Electricity, Drafting at Harlem High SchoolGED, General Studies, GED, General Studies at Regional Office of Education
English, Spanish, American Sign Language, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
phonegap10
phonegap-build10
website-development10
fill10
web-application10
gif-animation10
rgba10
apng10
panzoom10
jsbin10
flip10
svg10
makecode10
markdown10
javascript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
michaelsboost/DataURL-Grabber
Mar 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
michaelsboost/Eye-Workout
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:53 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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