About

Kurt Schemers founder, creator, and host of Traders Nation™ has achieved phenomenal success since launching in 2001 with Tom Allinder as co-host. Schemers, a seasoned and professional interviewer who has visited with nationally-recognized guests like country-icon Willie Nelson, billionaire Steve Forbes, Ken Fisher, Larry Winget, Former Treasury Under Secretary John B. Taylor, Congressman Mickey Edwards, and Former Iraqi Minister of Defense and Finance Ali A. Allawi.

Schemers excels at developing a friendly rapport with his guests with his own brand of interview style that so unique and quick witted, it leaves many guests with a memorable experience and wanting to come back again.

Book authors, economists, and financial editors frequent the program, in part, because of Schemers strong reputation for delivering some of the best interview content available today.

Schemers has over 14 years experience in the US financial markets, has completed thousands of interviews, and is an avid and insightful purveyor of current events.

Early life and family

Schemers is the youngest of 7 brothers and sisters was born in Detroit, Michigan. In 1971, at the age of 6, his family moved to Arizona. He married his wife MaryBeth in 1985 and has two sons.

Media

Schemers is credited for taking small cap stocks into the mainstream media starting in 2001 with the creation of Traders Nation™. He leveraged internet websites dedicated to small cap traders by bringing them on as affiliates for Traders Nation™ thereby capturing and then maintaining the largest market share on the internet, terrestrial radio, and television for small cap broadcasting to this day.

Schemers helped pioneer the CEO interview for the small cap public space. While he didn’t “invent” the CEO interview, it was his trademark presence with Traders Nation™ and market dominance that created a multimillion dollar a year industry making the CEO interview a very popular forum for company’s to tell their story.

Schemers started his terrestrial on-air career in Phoenix, Arizona on 1190 AM, a NBC affiliate station. Schemers systematically expanded his move onto the national arena with his syndicated radio show into other states from California, Oregon, New York, and Florida wtih many states in between.

Schemers can still be found on Traders Nation™ which is syndicated on cable television nationally with over 40 station affiliates that now carry the show courtesy of AMGTV syndication group.

Additionally, Traders Nation™ is the only financial talk show pre-loaded in Apple’s iTunes software, and has been found in Real Media’s European player, Microcap Trade commercial software, and LePlayer’s video on demand platform.

Book and column writing, media appearances, and broadcast media development are Schemers professional interests. Schemers has been on the cover of Pennycents Magazine twice and has been written up within various books and trade publications.

Film: “Pineapple Express” (2008), Columbia Pictures; Himself

Innovations

Schemers was instrumental in the development of two broadcast media programs and trading tools. One of them was ProXstream, an online trading platform for the professional trader. ProXstream, a trading tool and media player became a highly sought-after application which became a “Popular Download” at Download.com owned by CNET, a CBS Interactive Inc. company. The other was a “Dual Broadcast Media Player”.
ProXtream Product Description:

  • Traders Corner: the “Traders Corner” main window is rich with features. Traders can access alerts, news, quotes, SEC filings, charts, level II, and a variety of interviews that are fresh right from the Traders Nation studio.
  • Auto Launch and Play: the auto launch and play features allow you to easily create scheduled events for your favorite online audio programs. ProXstream will launch the player and then play the Internet stream for you automatically. This feature also allows the end-user to launch the player before a show starts.
  • Message Thread Window: traders get the latest market buzz with ProXstream.
  • Online Broker Trading: ProXstream allows you to set up access to your online broker. Now traders can input multiple online brokerage accounts and with a simple push of a button you’ll be instantly connected through ProXstream to your broker.
  • Browse and Play: You can stream virtually any audio program on the Web by simply typing in the URL.

Dual Broadcast Media Player:

  • Additionally, Schemers branded Traders Nation™ by developing and launching smallcaps first “Dual Broadcast Media Player” in November of 2006. The DBMP “was built from the ground up, supporting Adobe Flash, Windows Media, and Schemers own proprietary streaming engine technology”. The player became the most versatile and user friendly media player in the smallcap broadcast market.