Rob Friesen

During the turbulent year of 2022, the PreMarket Prep crew has brought on a wide variety of guests to help investors navigate the sometimes treacherous investing environment. Not all of their investment ideas have come to fruition — but then, whose investment ideas have been right 100%...

Benzinga's PreMarket Prep airs every morning from 8-9 a.m. ET. During that fast-paced, highly informative hour, traders and investors tune in to get the major news of the day, the catalysts behind those moves and the corresponding price action for the upcoming session. On any given day,...

Rob Friesen, president and COO of Bright Trading, discussed market seasonality and the recent run in the markets on Benzinga's "At The Close" YouTube show last week. Bright Trading offers capital, education and professional tools to members looking to start or continue a...

Premarket and after-hours trading are a mystery for many individual traders. With help from Rob Friesen, Dennis Dick and Dan Steinberg of Bright Trading, this three-part series attempts to tackle some of the questions surrounding extended hours investing. The first part examined added risk and...

Proprietary trading firms enable their traders to be successful by providing capital, tools and education. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Rob Friesen, president of proprietary trading firm Bright Trading, revealed advantages of prop trading versus retail trading. Regulation Two...

One of the hardest parts of trading is building a strategy that will succeed in multiple market conditions. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Rob Friesen, president of proprietary trading firm Bright Trading, revealed how hedged swing trades have been widely successful for traders he...

No matter how successful, every trader had to start somewhere. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Rob Friesen, president of proprietary trading firm Bright Trading, explained a few principles for getting started. 1. Humble Beginnings “Traders have to start small,”...

Big banks may be running from it as they attempt to streamline their operations, but there is still a lot of money to be made in proprietary trading. Rob Friesen, President and COO of Bright Trading, LLC, recently sat down with Benzinga to discuss how one of his company's members overcame a bad...