The people behind
the process.
Crypto Renegades started in 2020 as a Facebook Messenger chat between two traders comparing notes. Niko Mercuris and Chad Wittfeldt turned what they learned across multiple market cycles into a structured decision process, and a community of members who use it with their own capital.
From a Facebook Messenger chat to a 6,000+ member community
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The chat
Two traders swapping ideas
It started in 2020 as a Facebook Messenger chat between Niko and Chad, comparing positions and the reasoning behind them.
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The demand
Hundreds asked what they were doing
People kept asking how they sized positions and when they got out. Answering the same questions one person at a time stopped working.
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The structure
A decision process, taught live
The answers became a sequence: thesis, loss boundary, position size, total exposure, trade plan, journal, review. Members learn it in order and bring their own decisions to live sessions.
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Today
6,000+ in our community. 2,000+ through the Mastermind.
Combined monthly trading volume across the group passes $200 million. Every member makes their own decisions with their own capital. We never manage it for them.
Two operators. One process.
Co-Founder · Mastermind lead
Niko Mercuris
Niko has operated in business and financial markets for more than 25 years. He built a 150-employee call center to $12M a year, put $30K into formal training at Online Trading Academy under hedge fund traders, and moved from stocks and options into crypto futures when leverage reached decentralized platforms. The 2008 crash cost him $4 million and reshaped how he thinks about risk, capital preservation and surviving a cycle. He has built multiple multimillion-dollar businesses, invested in real estate, and is an Amazon best-selling author with three published books, including Millionaire Mindset Mastery.
- years in business and markets
- 25+
- years in business and markets
- a year, at his 150-person call center
- $12M
- a year, at his 150-person call center
- the crash that rebuilt his risk rules
- 2008
- the crash that rebuilt his risk rules
Co-Founder · Strategy
Chad Wittfeldt
Chad bought Bitcoin when it traded for around $100, before it had been in a single newspaper. He lost his first $20,000 trading with no process, which is where his obsession with risk management started. He got serious in 2017, added leverage and contracts in 2018, and ran an Ethereum GPU mining operation from mid-2019 until he sold every rig in late 2021. He watched BitConnect and USI Tech play out in real time, which is why so much of his teaching covers verification, risk and personal responsibility. Both founders talk through their process on the record. [See Niko and Chad's podcast appearances](/featured/).
- went full time on crypto
- 2017
- went full time on crypto
- added leverage and contracts
- 2018
- added leverage and contracts
- started mining Ethereum
- 2019
- started mining Ethereum
What we hold ourselves to
Six commitments that shape how we teach, how we talk about results, and who we accept.
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Our names, faces and business address are public. Research us, read our reviews and check our history before you trust us.
Risk before reward
Every position starts with the loss we are willing to take. We set it before entry so the market never decides it for us.
Personal responsibility
We teach a process and review your reasoning. You make your own decisions with your own capital, and you own the results.
No dumb questions
Ask it like it is the first time anyone has asked. New members learn fastest when nobody is embarrassed to ask.
No income promises
We do not promise overnight results, fixed win rates or returns. Anyone who does is selling something other than education.
Open positions, open reasoning
Instructors share their positions, entries and risk inside the community so members can study the reasoning, including the losses.
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Crypto Renegades, 40946 US Highway 19 North, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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