The founder

Nicholas Anderson

I spent a decade running risk for institutions — Ernst & Young, PNC, Energy Harbor — building the same frameworks Wall Street desks use to protect billion-dollar books.

On the side, I traded my own account: $147K on options in one year, $80K/month across 20 funded futures accounts.

Here’s what nobody told me when I started: 96% of futures traders fail because they were never taught how a real risk desk thinks. Retail YouTubers teach setups. Wall Street teaches survival. That gap kills accounts.

I built First Rule Trading to close it.

— Nicholas Anderson