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The following list are the great traders that you can learn from at a fraction of the cost of attending expensive seminars:
Blake Hayward
Blake Hayward is managing
partner of both Connors, Basset and Associates and Oceanview Financial Research. Proficient in the development of financial market trading systems,
Blake and Larry Connors have created a number of technical indicators currently used by traders. Blake graduated from UCLA with a degree in business
economics.
Adam Hewison
Before starting INO in March 1995, Hewison was a foreign exchange trader and advisor. He was one of the first
currency traders when the International Monetary Market (IMM) of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange pioneered financial futures in the 1970s, and in
the 1980s he introduced a very popular daily fax advisory service, FXPro. He is also the author of two highly-acclaimed guides to the foreign
exchange markets: "International Monetary Report" and "Right on the Money, the Definitive Guide to Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates". In addition
to an IMM membership, Hewison held seats on the CME's Index and Options Market (IOM), and was a charter member of the New York Futures Exchange (NYFE)
and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE). Also during his trading career, he managed the currency and risk
exposure of a large multinational corporation, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
John Hill
John has been trading futures for over forty years,
and is now recognized as an authority on trading system performance, and for telling the unvarnished truth regarding systems. He also established
Hill Financial Group, a successful trading advisory firm and written two best-selling books on technical analysis.
Mitchell Holland
Mitchell
Holand is a professional trader and futures educator in San Diego, Calif. He recently wrote The Master Trader, a critically acclaimed book, and is
the editor of the Master Trader newsletter and hotline.
James Hyerczyk
JAMES A. HYERCZYK (Palos Park, Illinois) is President of JAH Research
and Trading. He is also chief technician for a large futures research and publishing company.
Reinhart Jaenisch
Reinhart (Ron) Jaenisch was a
student of Dr. Alan Hall Andrews. Dr. Andrews himself described the course manual that Ron developed as “an inspiring digest of the course methods.”
Over the past ten years, Ron has contributed several articles on the Andrews and Babson methods to international publications. He has developed
computer software that tests and trades with the Andrews indicators, and has given seminars in Europe to traders of stocks and currencies for major
European banks. Ron holds a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s degree in psychology. He was trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
by Dr. Richard Bandler, the original developer. Ron lives in San Diego where he runs Reinhart Corporate Services, a very successful consulting
business for corporations. He offers a home-study course and an advanced video course on his techniques. Ron says, “Using these tools is similar to
playing golf. You need to be able to recognize the type of terrain that you are in and use the right tool.”
Ryan Jones
Ryan Jones started
trading options when he was 16 years old. By the time he was 22, he already had traded nearly every possible market. Today he specializes in money
management and he has developed a money management formula endorsed by legendary trader Larry Williams. He is a well-known author, speaker and
originator of his own highly successful money management seminar.
Bill Kaiser
Bill Kaiser is the managing director of ZAP Futures, a company
providing a high speed online order entry system that fills on a screen in as little as five seconds.
Ed Kasanjian
Ed Kasanjian is president
and founder of Kasanjian research, the developer of Nature’s Pulse software. Ed first dealt with developing missile-tracking systems for a defense
contractor. Bored with corporate politics and lured to the vast riches in the stock market, Ed set about absorbing everything he could about
techniques of analyzing and forecasting the financial markets. Ultimately, he developed his own winning approach, and in the 1980s became a
successful money manager, controlling $25 million in client funds. Since then, Ed has continued on the developmental path and released some of his
ideas to traders and managers throughout the world via his software. He continues to work on refining his trading techniques and making improvements
in his software. The technologies used and discussed in the workshop are well proven and are employed in the successful management of his hedge
fund.
Cynthia Kase
Cynthia Kase is president of Kase and Co., Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A master's level chemical engineer with more
than 22 years of trading experiance, she is known for developing fesh, original approaches that put a whole ne twist on technical analysis. Her
innovative methods combining classical technical analysis with an engineer's perspective has been compared to the contributions made by master
technicians including Gann and Elliott.
Perry Kaufman
Perry J. Kaufman is a market strategist known for his knowledge and experience in
computer-based trading systems applied to world futures and financial markets. His publication, The New Commodity Trading Systems and Methods (John
Wiley & Sons, 1987), has become the technician’s required reference. In 1984, he published the comprehensive Handbook of Futures Markets (Wiley). An
earlier book of research papers, Technical Analysis in Commodities (Wiley, 1980), has been translated into Japanese. Perry founded the Journal of
Futures Markets (Columbia University and John Wiley & Sons), a vehicle for gathering academic research on market analysis. He is series editor of
Wiley’s Trader’s Advantage, and his latest book, Smarter Trading, was released by McGraw-Hill in 1995. Perry specializes in the application of
technical and fundamental (statistical) analysis to the development of trading and risk management programs for both commercial and private
investors. Much of this work is based on price theories and techniques he has researched and developed since 1971. He combines the ability to
integrate computer technology and strategic allocation with traditional investment approaches in order to achieve realistic objectives. Perry is
particularly interested in closing the gap between theoretical and actual results, concentrating on the world’s stock index, foreign exchange,
interest rates, and energy markets. Perry is director of research for Kaufman, Diamond, and Yeong, a consulting firm serving the financial industry
in the United States and Singapore. In addition to providing risk management, education, and training, the firm publishes Kaufman on Market
Analysis, a periodic report on the applications and development of trading strategies. In Singapore, the company provides market-related educational
services and is developing trading strategies using new technologies (such as neural nets and artificial intelligence) under a grant from the
Singapore government.
Raymond Kelly
Ray Kelly makes his living as a trader but has taken time off to form Trader's Oasis, a place where
traders can go to relax, watch the markets and attend seminars. He has been involved in the securities business for more than 30 years and was one
of the founding members of the Chicago Board Options Exchange
Donna Kline
Donna Kline makes regular appearances on Bloomberg television
programs. Donna is a market commentator and expert on commodities. She is a registered CTA.
Sheldon Knight
Sheldon Knight is president of
K-Data Inc., a Sunnyvale, California financial data processing company. With more than three decades of experience in computerized analysis of
stocks and futures, he has spent years refining his methods to come up with some of the hottest strategies today for choosing trades.
Bob Koppel
Bob Koppel is president of Innergame Partners, a brokerage and trader execution services division of LFG, LLC, a Chicago-based futures commission
merchant, clearing all major world exchanges. He is the author of The Intuitive Trader (Wiley, 1996) and co-author with Howard Abell of The
Innergame of Trading (Irwin, 1993) and The Outer Game of Trading (Irwin, 1994).
Cairie Lane
George Lane
George Lane has an extensive
academic background. He attended Drake University, Washington and Lee University, Northwestern University, The Academy, The Citadel, William and
Mary, and the New School. After the Lane family sold its business in 1953, George accepted a job with E.F. Hutton. The company sent George to New
York for broker training, where he spent time with Joe Granville, then E.F. Hutton’s technical analyst. Next, George joined Investment Educators (a
school teaching the technical side of stocks and commodities) as an analyst. George spearheaded a research group and originated a number of
indicators, popularized under such names as %K, %D, and the Stochastic Process (Lane’s Stochastics). Having withstood the test of time, these
indicators rank among the most popular in use today. He also developed the technique called Serial Differencing. Since 1957, George has educated
investors, producers, brokers, and market analysts in basic technical analysis and advanced methods such as Elliott Wave, Andrews Pitchfork, and
Gann. George teaches technical analysis at his school in Watseka, Illinois. Students include individuals and professional traders who wish to
improve their analytical skills.
Charles Le Beau
For more than twenty years Chuck Le Beau was employed by E. F. Hutton where he served as
Vice President, Regional Futures Director. He is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and a noted developer of trading systems. His book on
futures trading, Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, is considered a modern classic. His new video, A New Look At Exit Strategies, reveals the
secret to gaining bigger profits in your trading...stocks, futures or options.
Richard Lees
Richard Lees is president of Richard Lees Capital
Management, a registered investment advisory in Los Angeles’ Studio City area, where his clients include members of the entertainment industry and
other high net-worth individuals. He edits and publishes 21 Forward, a monthly investment newsletter and journal that offers uniquely detailed and
unusual discussion of markets. The newsletter also gives specific recommendations for implementation of his proprietary pH-Indicators to profit from
those markets. Richard was educated at Stanford, the University of Michigan, and Yale, and he has written about financial analysis for industry
publications such as Barron’s, always exhibiting his trademark style of sharp wit and truly contrarian commentary. With a degree in psychology and a
career as a professional writer, trading—or turning perception into money—came naturally to him. An active trader since 1982, Richard was one of the
first to use sophisticated trading analysis software. His methods have shown consistency and sometimes startling accuracy in the stocks, options,
and the forward markets.
Mark Leibovit
Mark Leibovit is a veteran market analyst for a variety of media, having served as one of the ten
“elves” on Louis Rukeyser’s television program, “Wall Street Week.” Mark provides daily radio commentary for the Business News Network and regularly
appears as Paul Kangas’ Market Monitor guest on PBS television’s “The Nightly Business Report.” He has also appeared on CNN and CNBC and is widely
quoted in the financial press, including Worth magazine, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Chicago
Tribune. In 1973, Mark developed the Volume Reversal theory for application as a stock market trading and timing tool. In 1976, Mark joined the
Midwest Options Exchange and, later that same year, the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He began consulting with other traders who were interested
in adopting his unique approach. Mark also served as director of research at the Chicago brokerage firm Freehling and Company and as technical
research director at Rodman and Renshaw before moving to Sedona, Arizona in 1988. Mark’s successes have earned him national recognition and industry
respect. Timer Digest magazine recognized Mark as one of the top ten market timers for the final quarter of 1997, the number one gold timer in 1996,
and the top market timer for the first half of 1989. Mark predicted the 1987 crash as well as several other major market events, including the
recent drop in Intel prices. Mark has been reporting and publishing his proprietary VR (Volume ReversalTM) analysis since 1979, first via the Volume
Reversal Survey newsletter and most recently in the VRS Forecaster, the VRS 900 telephone hotline, and via e-mail on his website at vrsurvey.com.
Cornelius Luca
Trading pioneer William D. Gann's approach, developed in the first part of the century, is proving to be profitable far beyond
traders' expectations. Drawing from the analysis of Charles Dow, Gann focused his own analysis on new directions that dealt with intraday trading
signals and trend analysis. Pivot points off the Cardinal Square provide the best-known intraday signals. Gann analyzed trends with help from angles
based on his own percentage retracements. Gann is equally known for a retracement method he used based on the squaring of price and time. Gann tools
are greatly facilitated by the use of candlestick charts, which make unique trend reversal and continuation formations much easier to identify than
regular bar charts. In addition, candlesticks provide a rich assortment of tools for dealing with consolidation and can help traders traverse
congestion areas in a profitable manner.
Dean Lundell
The author, through his twenty plus years on Wall Street has done it all. As a Vice
President with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, as a Principal with a regional investment bank and as the head of his own trading firm Commodity
Trading Advisor, Mr. Lundell, has developed a technical expertise that is rare in the nineties. More importantly, he has developed that market savvy
"sixth sense"; that intuitive sense that cannot be taught in business school, only learned from years of full time professional experience. Mr.
Lundell understands the global nature and inherent conflict within markets. He understands the nature of market participants and can guide you to
take advantage of their strengths and weaknesses. The last twenty years in the world's markets have been tumultuous to say the very least. Mr.
Lundell has not just read about them; he has lived, survived and prospered in them.
Dan Manternach
Dan Manternach bring years of ag commodity
analysis and forecasting experience to this intensive workshop. Dan is former editor of the Pro Farmer newsletter.
Joel Marver
Joel Marver is
a managing analyst at the Technical Data division of Thomson Financial Services in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been with the firm since 1987 and
involved in the financial markets since 1980. Joel attended Indiana University, earning a B.A. in psychology, an M.B.A., and a law degree. Joel was
attracted to the Market Profile concept because of its intuitive logic. He began actively studying this non-traditional method of analysis in 1986
and has maintained an avid interest in the field ever since. Joel lived in London for three years in the early ‘90s, and lectured throughout Europe
to clients and at seminars. Since his return to the U.S., Joel has remained active in presenting Market Profile-based methods to clients and at
seminars and has integrated those approaches with more familiar oscillator and chart pattern techniques.
Hal Masover
Hal Masover, the author
of Value Investing in Commodity Futures has built a company around commodity futures as a conservative intermediate to long term investment vehicle.
Hal Masover has been licensed as a commodity broker since 1987. Over the past years he has learned a lot about what works and what doesn't work in
commodity trading and investing.
Brad Matheny
Brad Matheny is the co-founder of International Pacific Trading Co. in San Clemente, Calif. He
is also the co-author of the book, Trading Applications of Japanese Candlestick Charts and co-developer of the software program, The Candlestick
Forecaster, using artificial intelligence and computerized pattern recognition. Brad also is a systems analyst, programmer and network specialist.
Michael Mazur
Before Michael Mazur began trading in the futures industry in 1994, he spent ten years as an international cargo trader in the
energy market. He traded for Mobil Oil, Mitsubishi, Salomon, and Vitol SA, and he managed trading personnel and a trading portfolio that reached
from the Arabian Gulf through India to the Pacific Rim. His group sales ranged from $500 million to $1 billion annually. Michael lives in Pacific
Grove, California, where he operates M.J. Mazur, Inc., a registered commodity trading advisor. Michael manages futures accounts, publishes M Trade,
a daily trading sheet, and provides consulting services to institutions and independent investors.
Richard McCall
Richard McCall is the
president of ZenlMind International, Inc. and founder and director of the Bushinkai Zen Dojo in Little Rock, Arkansas. An occupational psychologist
and master martial artist, Richard has written two books: ZEN and the Art of Financial Risk-Taking, and Way of The Warrior-Trader: The Financial
Risk-Taker’s’ Guide to Samurai Courage, Confidence and Discipline. Richard’s work has been featured in leading financial publications such as Stocks
& Commodities, Futures, Worth, Fortune, Inc., and The Wall Street Journal.
Sherman McClellan
Tom McClellan
Tom McClellan's research
into market movements is almost entirely technical in nature, and has resulted in consistent top 10 rankings for intermediate stock market and gold
timing according to Timer Digest. Tom is the editor of both The McClellan Market Report and its companion Daily Fax Edition. He is a graduate of
West Point where he studied aerospace engineering, and served as an Army helicopter pilot for 11 years. He began his own study of market technical
analysis while in the service. Tom is the son of Sherman and Marian McClellan, who in 1969 originally developed the McClellan Oscillator and
Summation Index. These two indicators are now widely followed by market technicians. Although Tom did not start off in the markets, he discovered
ways to expand the use of his parents' indicators to forecast future market turning points. With his father, Tom has expanded the uses for the type
of calculations used in the McClellan Oscillator. Their work also involves standard cycle analysis, and evaluations of the leading indications
provided for one market by what has happened in another. Tom works to continue the research into measuring the acceleration taking place in market
breadth.
Robert McCullough
Bob McCullough writes the frequently quoted newsletter Investotalk and is president of Liberty Research
Corporation, which produces and distributes Investograph Plus, a technical analysis and charting program. He has spoken at many meetings of
computer-oriented investors, and recently published his book, A New Look at Technical Analysis. Bob graduated from the University of Texas with a
degree in chemical engineering. He soon became interested in computers, and joined IBM to develop real-time process control and laboratory
automation computer systems. He became interested in applying some of the pattern recognition techniques used in computerized laboratory analysis to
the stock market when he read Hurst’s The Profit Magic of Stock Market Analysis. Bob combined his experience in trading, programming, and
engineering in the development of Investograph Plus. In this work, he has developed several unique indicators and mechanical trading systems.
Lawrence G. McMillan
Lawrence G. McMillan, president of McMillan Analysis Corporation, is the author of Options As a Strategic Investment (3rd
Ed., 1993), the best-selling work on stock and index options strategies, with sales of over 140,000 copies. His most recent book, McMillan On
Options, was published in 1997. Lawrence began his financial career at Thomson McKinnon, first as the retail option strategist (1976-1980), then
trading the firm’s proprietary account. From 1982 to 1989, Lawrence ran McKinnon’s Equity Arbitrage Department. From 1989 to 1990, Lawrence ran the
Proprietary Options Trading Department at Prudential-Bache Securities before founding the McMillan Analysis Corporation. Lawrence holds a B.S.
degree in mathematics from Purdue University (1968) and an M.S. in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Colorado (1972).
Ron Michaelsen
Ron Michaelsen has been involved in the futures industry for more than 15 years. A former editor of Pro Farmer ag advisory
service. Ron has also hosted hundreds of trading-related conferences and seminars worlwide. You'll enjoy Ron's warm and friendly manner, plus his
extensive knowledge of the futures and options markets and how to trade them for a profit.
Brian J. Millard
Brian J. Millard earned a Ph.D.
in chemistry and was a senior lecturer at London University for fifteen years before beginning to use his scientific training to analyze the stock
market. He left the university setting in 1981 to establish his own investment publishing business, writing books and authoring investment software.
He is the author of five books: Stocks and Shares Simplified, Traded Options Simplified, Profitable Charting Techniques, Winning on the Stock
Market, and Channel Analysis. The latest editions of the latter two books have been widely acclaimed for breaking new ground in the development of
prediction tools for the market. John Wiley and Sons has taken over the publishing and distribution of his books, leaving Brian free to concentrate
on investment research and software development. Brian is one of the few independent investment researchers in the United Kingdom. His work has
advanced the concept of channel analysis, first developed by J.M. Hurst, into the realms of probability and chaos theory. Probability and chaos
theory have recently appeared in software as the program Sigma-pTM. This software predicts turning points in long term trends up to six months into
the future. Interest in Brian’s work has increased dramatically over the past several years. Traders throughout the United Kingdom and Europe are
discovering his low risk, high profit methods through the use of popular channel formulating and drawing software now available. Professional
traders throughout the European Common Market have requested that he share his insights and expertise via seminars and personal appearances.
Dennis Minogue
Dennis Minogue is president of the Minogue Investment Company, one of the 1990's most successful stock index futures trading,
advising and money management firms. His company's proprietary trading account finished with the #1 ranking in the 1995 World Cup of Futures
Trading, and its money management CTA portfolios and stock index futures hotline have been featured for their performance excellence in several
national publications
Brendan Moynihan
Brendan Moynihan, a foreign exchange trader at First American National Bank (now AmSouth) in
Nashville, Tennessee. During his ten-year career in the investment business, he has been a bond market and currency market analyst, a commodity
trader and a cash government bond trader. He has also been a hedging and trading consultant for banks and brokerage firms.
John Murphy
John
Murphy, CNBC-TV’s technical analyst for many years, wrote the book many technicians consider the core of their technical analysis library, Technical
Analysis of the Futures Markets (Prentice Hall, 1986). Along with his daily broadcasts discussing the financial markets, John also heads his own
consulting firm—JJM Technical Advisors, Inc. John founded JJM Technical Advisors in 1981 after serving for a number of years as director of
commodity technical analysis and senior managed account trading advisor with Merrill Lynch. He is a past director and director emeritus of the MTA.
John wrote Intermarket Technical Analysis (Wiley & Sons, 1991) and The Visual Investor (Wiley & Sons, 1996). John received the very first award
given for Contribution to Global Technical Analysis, presented at the International Federation of Technical Analysts’ fifth World Conference in 1992
Jon Najarian
When Jon Najarian earned a tryout with the Chicago Bears he thought he had the job of his dreams. Then a guy named Mike
Singletary took his position, made all-pro 9 times, and helped the Monsters of the Midway crush the Patriots in Super Bowl XX. And what about Jon?
After he left football his agent pulled a few strings and got him a job as a runner at one of the local exchanges. Little did Jon know that within a
few short years he would become one of the most recognized and respected traders in the world! Mike Singletary's football career is ancient history.
But Jon's career as a trader is going strong. Believe it or not, he now makes far more money as a trader on and off the floor of the Chicago Board
Options Exchange than he ever did as a football player! As president of Mercury Trading Inc. in Chicago, Jon often makes hundreds of trades in a
single day. Sometimes he wins and sometimes he loses. But his overall goal is to lock in steady profits by following a few simple strategies he
learned during his first years on the floor.
Angelo Namrevo
Angelo Namrevo is an active trader and author of the S.I.M.P.L.E. system:
Confessions of a Closet Commodity Trader. He and his wife/trading partner Katie reside in Washington.
Katie Namrevo
Katie Namrevo is an
active trader and author of the S.I.M.P.L.E. system: Confessions of a Closet Commodity Trader. She and her husband/trading partner Angelo reside in
Washington.
Glenn Neely
Glenn Neely is president and founder (1983) of the Elliott Wave Institute, a market research and advisory firm in
Laguna Beach, California. The Institute develops innovative technical analysis approaches for market research and delivers economic and social
forecasting to its customers. The seeds of Glenn’s research stem from the efforts of R.N. Elliott in the 1930s, which produced his famous Wave
principle—a theory which attempts to quantify each stage of an economic/market cycle into specific price patterns. Glenn, author of the highly
acclaimed book Mastering Elliott Wave, edits all of the Elliott Wave Institute’s various NeoWaveTM advisory services. He has appeared on CNN and
numerous financial talk shows around the United States, and has spoken before the Foundation or the Study of Cycles and throughout Asia on many
occasions. He has conducted seminars on NeoWaveTM (his advanced form of Elliott Wave) at the Ritz-Carlton Aspen, has written articles for Cycles
magazine, and has addressed the prestigious Market Technicians Association in New York City. He has appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles
Times and is regularly interviewed on the nationally syndicated “Bill Bresnan Show” radio show in New York City.
Victor Niederhoffer
Victor
Niederhoffer has been active in the markets since the late 1970s. Currently managing over $75 million in customer funds, he has been ranked among
the top performing CTAs over the last three years. A client investment of $100,000 with him in 1982 would have grown to over $6,000,000 at the end
of 1996. Before launching his trading career, Victor was an assistant professor of finance at the University of California at Berkeley.
Tim Ord
Tim Ord received his B.S. in education, specializing in mathematics, from the University of Nebraska. He began his trading career as a broker in
1977 and became vice president and senior registered options principal for E.J. Pottock, Inc. in 1980. Tim has traded OEX index options since their
inception in the early 1980s. In 1988, he entered the option division of the United States Trading Championship competition using his own account
and placed fourth nationally. He serves as a contributing editor to Stocks and Commodities magazine, where he presented a new technical trading tool
using the N.Y.S.E. tick index. Data Broadcasting Corporation, a stocks and commodities quote vendor, features his “Market Options Weekly,” as does
Marketline, a premium service for quote vendors. Tim publishes The Ord Oracle, an advisory service that makes specific OEX options recommendations
via hotline updates and a fax service.
Jim Paul
Video presenter Jim Paul is First Vice President in charge of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
& Co. International Energy Unit in New York City. During his twenty-five year career in the futures industry, he has been a retail broker, floor
trader and research director, and has served on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Board of Governors and the Executive Committee. Jim has seen it all
and will share with you his experience.
Joanna Poppink
Joanna Poppink received her B.A. from UCLA in 1977 and an M.A. from Antioch University
in 1978. She did post-graduate work at the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco, and studied the dynamics of unconscious processes in group relations
through the A.K. Rice Institute, GREX Institute, Mt. Holyoke, and UCLA. She has also done extensive work in the field of guided imagery through Mind
Extension University and has made a concerted study of mental and physical exercises that can clarify the mind/body connection. She is licensed in
California as M.F.C.C. (Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling) and maintains a private clinical practice in Los Angeles. Teaching and speaking
professionally since 1977, Joanna uses knowledge and techniques acquired in twenty years of training and experience as a psychotherapist to develop
a system of mental and physical exercises designed to clarify the inner perceptual system, reduce emotional influence on decision-making, and free
logical processes to function precisely within acknowledged boundaries. Through her expertise in the mind/body connection, unconscious processes,
strategic thinking, and adult development, she teaches traders how to use this system of exercises to enhance the commitment, willingness, and
discipline necessary for successful trading.
Steven Poser
Steven Poser is President and Founder of Poser Global Market Strategies Inc., and
institutional and retail advisory services firm registered as a CTA with the CDTC which also offers training in technical analysis techniques for
trading and analysis professionals. Prior to forming Poser Global Market Strategies Inc., Steven spent nearly eleven years as sole U.S. technical
analyst at Deutsche Band Securities in New York City, sitting, at various times, on the U.S. Government Bond Primary Dealer Desk, the International
Bond Desk, and the Currency Desk. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was a computer analyst for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and the Western Electric
Company, where he helped create the Y2K consulting industry with his Y2K non-compliant coding techniques. He holds a post-graduate certificate in
finance, an MBA with a concentration in economics and a BA in mathematics and computer science. Steven has become a widely acclaimed technical
analyst achieving recognition for his prescient calls on the U.S. bond, currency, and stock markets. He has appeared on CNBC, is a regular guest on
Reuters Financial Television and articles have appeared in publications such as Forbes, Barrons, Futures, and The International Financing Review. He
took the highest honors in the Knight Ridder Financial's trading game competition in 1996 and finished third in 1998 although he competed for only
six months of the year.
Martin Pring
Martin Pring was described in Barron’s as “a technicians technician.” He is one of the most respected
names in the field of forecasting financial markets. Through his company, The International Institute for Economic Research, he publishes The
Intermarket Review, a monthly publication covering global financial markets, with special emphasis on the U.S. and international markets, precious
metals, and currencies. The Intermarket Review is unique in that it integrates Martin’s long-term technical approach, his KST system, and six-stage
business cycle analysis in one publication. Martin is probably best known as author of the book, Technical Analysis Explained, “widely regarded as a
standard work for this generation of chartists” (Forbes).
Hank Pruden
Hank Pruden is a professor in the School of Business at Golden Gate
University in San Francisco, where he has been teaching for twenty years. He is also the executive director of the Institute of Technical Market
Analysis (ITMA). At Golden Gate, he developed the first accredited courses in technical market analysis in 1976. Since then, the curriculum has
expanded to include advanced topics in technical analysis and trading. In his courses, Hank emphasizes the psychology of trading as well as the use
of technical analysis methods, and he has published extensively in both areas. Hank is more than a theoretician. He has actively traded his own
account for the past twenty years. His personal involvement in the market ensures that what he teaches is practical for the trader and not just
abstract academic theory. Hank has coached institutional traders in the field of technical analysis for many years. He is presently on the board of
directors of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco and was formerly president of that association. Hank also sits on the
board of directors of the Market Technicians Association (MTA). The MTA is the world’s leading association for the dissemination of technical
analysis information. The MTA’s sister organization, the IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts), certifies analysts worldwide. Hank
edits The Market Technicians Association Journal, the premier publication of technical analysts. From 1982 until 1993, he was a member of the board
of trustees of Golden Gate University.
George Pruitt
George Pruitt is one of the energetic forces behind Futures Truth, Inc, a company
dedicated to evaluating how systems perform after they have been released to the public.
Patrick Raffalovich
Patrick Raffalovich began his
trading career at the age of fifteen, successfully building his personal account and paying for his college education by trading options with money
initially earned from part-time jobs. He graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee with a major in economics and a minor in finance.
Upon receiving his college degree, Pat was hired by E.F. Hutton as an account executive. In this capacity, he conducted numerous seminars for
traders and investors. The advent of the personal computer and advanced analytic trading software prompted Pat to hone his programming skills and
apply them to trading software in an effort to further quantify and test his personal market theories. Pat has spent most of the last ten years
trading, researching, and integrating his trading techniques. He thoroughly tests his systems with rigorous mathematical and statistical analysis.
Pat specializes in the short-term trading of financial instruments, indices, and fixed income interest rate-sensitive instruments. He continues
developing his own pattern recognition algorithms based upon his research of market behavior. At the same time, he assists industry professional and
private clients in the development of their own custom market analysis tools.
Keith Raphael
Keith Raphael, president of Crosscurrents
Investment Advisory, served as principal of the Taylor-Raphael Group (the commodities trading firm of the New York Commodity Exchange) from
1978-1986. He managed the European Currency Desk for Bank Brussels Lambert in New York from 1987-1990 and served as vice president and chief
technical market analyst for Chase Manhattan from 1990-1993. In 1993, the Euromoney Survey of the 400 top corporations, investment banks, and funds
in the U.S. and Europe named Keith as the Number One Technical Market Analyst and Charting Service. In 1992 and 1993, the Greenwich Associates
survey of 350 North American corporations, investment banks, and funds awarded Keith the same distinction.
Linda Raschke
Linda Raschke has
been a full-time professional trader for over 20 years. She began her trading career on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange and later moved to the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Linda was written up in Jack Schwager's book, "The New Market Wizards" and in "Women of the Street" by Sue Herera. In
1995, she co-authored the best selling book "Street Smarts - High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies." Linda continues to trade every day.
Glen Ring
Glen is one of the nation's most respected market technicians. He has been involved in the futures markets for more than 25 years
as a producer, hedger and trader. Author of the popular View on Futures newsletter, he provides information, education, research and support for
traders and producers.
Barbara Rockefeller
Barbara Rockefeller is an economist and technician specializing in foreign exchange, stock indices
and the occasional stock. She writes a daily column, "Technically Speaking," at www.worldlyinvestor.com and another column for
www.japan-investor.com. In addition, she publishes a morning currency briefing for institutional investors and an afternoon futures trading report.
Her company, Rockefeller Asset Management, is a registered CTA. Barbara is the author of How to Invest Internationally, published in Japan in
Japanese in 1999 and the author of 24/7-Trading Around the Clock, Around the World, due from Wiley in October 2000. Before becoming an independent
in 1990, Barbara Rockefeller worked at Citibank and was the originator in 1980 of Cititrend, the first FX technical analysis service by a major
financial institution-"back when we were still crackpots," she says. Later she was a risk manager in the international corporate finance division
and taught "The Fundamentals of Foreign Exchange" for the bank in 40 countries. She has a BA from Reed College and an MA from Columbia University.
Ruth Barons Roosevelt
Ruth Barrons Roosevelt, a futures trader and a psychological trading coach, helps traders from around the world achieve
trading excellence. Ruth has served as a vice president of Prudential Securities and Thomson McKinnon. She headed the International Moneyline
trading desk at Rudolf Wolf (New York, 1981-1986). Before that, she was a stock and futures broker at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where she broke
records by opening 250 accounts in one month. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, she is a member of the New York and California
Bar Associations. Ruth frequently contributes articles on the psychology of successful trading to major financial publications. She co-authored
Living In Step (McGraw Hill, 1976), and has also produced an audio course for self-mastery in trading, “Power Trading for Power Profits.” Ruth has
appeared on numerous television networks (CBS, NBC, CNBC, CNN) and programs including “CNN Nightly News,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,”
and “The David Letterman Late Night Show,” as well as international television (Japan Public Television, Nippon Television, Hungarian Public
Television, Finland Television Channel 3). She has been profiled for her work with traders in Barron’s, Business Week, the Independent of London,
the Toronto Star, New York magazine, and numerous other publications.
Murray A. Ruggiero, Jr.
Murray A. Ruggiero, Jr. is president of
Ruggiero Associates, a consulting firm specializing in developing market timing applications using state-of-the-art technologies. A contributing
editor for Futures Magazine's Technology and Trading and a frequent guest on CNBC, Murray is considered one of the leading experts in intermarket
analysis.
Richard Saidenberg
Richard Saidenberg is a CTA and an independent futures trader. After receiving a B.A. degree in economics from
the University of Michigan, Rick worked on the floor of the American Stock Exchange as a specialist clerk and later an arbitrage clerk. Later, in
the Major Market Index options pit, Rick was exposed to mechanical systems trading. He has traded his own account, using his own tools and
mechanical systems, for fifteen years. To speed up his research and development effort, Rick became an accomplished programmer of trading systems.
As a logical extension of his talent, Rick provides custom programming of indicators and trading systems to users of TradeStationTM and SuperCharts.
In 1995, Rick joined SoundView Advisors, a CTA in White Plains, New York. He is currently head trader for SoundView’s managed account program, which
specializes in S&P day-trading and currency futures position trading. SoundView received the Managed Accounts Report award for “The Advisor with the
Highest Return” in 1996. Rick traded stocks initially, but soon switched to trading stock index options, then indices and futures. Among the notable
and widely traded systems Rick has created and programmed are R-Breaker and R-Levels, two totally objective systems for day-trading index futures
contracts. Both R-Breaker and R-Levels have consistently appeared in Futures Truth’s top ten lists of performance for trading systems available to
the public. In the May/June 1996 issue of Futures Truth, R-Breaker ranked as the number one system since its release date.
Russell Sands
Russell J. Sands is an independent trader and commodity trading advisor and publisher of the monthly Turtle Talk newsletter and nightly hotline
service. He has been involved in the futures markets since 1980 and was one of the students trained by Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt who
achieved fame as the "Turtles."
Mark Schimmel
Mark A. Schimmel is a senior market analyst with Elliott Wave International (EWI), the world’s
premiere Elliott Wave organization. He provides real-time commentary on dozens of global equity, bond, currency, and commodity markets for
professional and private investors around the world. Mark teaches EWI’s comprehensive tutorial on the Elliott Wave Principle and conducts seminars
and workshops to retail and institutional investors worldwide. He has served as the editor of The Elliott Wave Theorist Short Term Update, an
adjunct service offered to subscribers of Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist newsletter. Mark also provides EWI subscribers with live telephone
market opinions on all world markets and presents daily and intraday commentary on worldwide markets for EWI’s institutional Outlook services.
Fred Schutzman
Fred Schutzman is the vice president of Growth Management Capital Corp. (GMCC), a New York-based futures/money management firm. He
also serves as chief technical market analyst for Copia Trading Company, Ltd., a firm providing floor brokerage services on the Coffee, Sugar and
Cocoa Exchange. After earning his B.B.A. (summa cum laude, valedictorian) from the College of Insurance in New York City in 1986, Fred began his
trading career working under John Murphy, CMT. Fred spent the next four years working as a technical market analyst and designing trading systems.
During this period, he assisted Dr. Alexander Elder in producing daily and weekly newsletters (covering both futures and stocks) and helped him
design a new advisory service. In June 1991, Fred formed his own CTA firm to provide technical market analysis to two New York floor traders.
Success in that venture led Fred and those two traders to form BFF Trading Group, Inc., an upstairs trading/money management operation. Fred served
as president and chief executive officer of BFF from January 1992 until September 1994. From October 1995 to January 1997, Fred served as the chief
technical market analyst and trading systems developer for Emcor Eurocurrency Management Corp., a currency money management firm. During this
period, he designed and implemented eight profitable computerized treading systems and successfully programmed objective methods to identify chart
highs and lows, trending versus trading range environments, and an improved method to measure volatility and divergence. Fred is a Chartered Market
Technician (CMT). He is a member of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) and is currently serving on their board of directors. Fred is a faculty
member of the NYIF, regularly lectures on technical analysis at financial conferences around the world, and is a periodic guest on the CNBC
television station’s “Tech Talk” show. He has been published in Futures and Stocks and Commodities magazines and profiled in Financial Trader
magazine.
Jack Schwager
Jack D. Schwager is the CEO of Wizard Trading, a commodity trading advisory firm that has been managing client funds
since 1990. He is the author of The Complete Guide to the Futures Markets, Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards, Fundamental Analysis, and
Technical Analysis.
Mark Seleznov
Mark A. Seleznov is a General Securities Principal and Managing Partner of Trend Trader, LLC, a NASD, SIPC
broker/dealer firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona. A professional trader for over 25 years, Mark was a Market Maker on the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange, a Retail Registered Representative, and futures trader. Mark is an author and recognized expert in equity Day Trading. His popular radio
show, Let's Talk Trading airs Saturdays at noon on KFNN 1510 AM in the Phoenix area. He conducts seminars in Equity Day Trading and offers his firm
traders training and support. Mark writes articles for market publications and Internet sites that focus on trading.
Ron Shelton
Ron Shelton
is an economist specializing in developing financial applications of game theory. He currently is managing director in the national accounts
department of commercial lines with Travelers Indemnity Company. He is also author of Gaming the Market, the first book on using game theory to
analyze financial markets and make trading decisions.
Barbara Star
Barbara Star, Ph.D., part-time trader, author, and university professor,
provides one-on-one technical analysis training for both beginning and experienced traders. She also helps traders find the indicators best suited
to their trading style, and will develop custom indicators when necessary. Barbara became interested in the financial markets about fifteen years
ago. Tired of hand charting, she bought her first charting software soon after the 1987 crash, and has been fascinated by technical analysis and
technical indicators ever since. Barbara’s articles and software reviews have appeared in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine
since 1991. She wrote the three-volume EZ Indicator Series for Metastock users, and co-authored the trading manual Oscillator/Cycle Combinations
Metastock Supplement with Walter Bressert in 1992. She is active in the Market Analysts of Southern California, a group formed by John Bollinger and
his colleagues and open to anyone interested in technical analysis. She has served as both a board member and vice-president of the organization.
She also leads a technical analysis user group.
Peter Steidlmayer
Peter Steidlmayer’s lifelong interest in the markets began during his
undergraduate days at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1960. He joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1963 and
has been an independent trader ever since. Peter served on the board of directors of the CBOT from 1981 to 1983. While a director, he was
responsible for initiating his own revolutionary concepts in data arrangement and trading information—Market ProfileÆ and the Liquidity Data Bank©.
He is author of four books: Markets and Market Logic, Steidlmayer on Markets, New Market Discoveries, and 141 West Jackson, A Journey Through
Trading Discoveries. He is presently working on his fifth book, The Essence of Trading. Each of these books establishes a rational working framework
for organizing the underlying structure and movement of the market(s).
David Stendahl
David Stendahl is a professional trader, registered
investment advisor and Vice President of TradeSignals. David co-founded RINA Systems in 1995, a firm specializing in performance analysis software
for traders and investors. He specializes in S&P futures, OEX options and S&P Index funds.
Manning Stoller
Manning Stoller, an active trader
since 1968, has been consistently involved in new financial markets and the techniques necessary to trade them. An original advisor to the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission advisory committee, Manning helped formulate many of the rules in effect today. An original member of CompuTrac (since
1979), he served as the first beta test site for the Teletrac graphic technical analysis software. A past vice president of two of the largest U.S.
brokerage houses, Manning traded as a CTA and CPO in the 1980s until he became a senior market segment manager for Telerate. Manning developed the
market research and basic plans for the Dow Jones Commodity Service. Over the years, Manning has lectured in twenty-six countries to thousands of
market participants. His pragmatic market perceptions, extensive background in all phases of the trading business, and presentation style have
consistently earned him high marks with his audiences. Manning developed his own, very popular indicator, STARC BandsTM. Often called upon to act as
ombudsman at TAG conferences, Manning has a range of experience and knowledge which has enlightened many of those who know him. He has recently
launched his own business, Bedford Futures, Inc., in Massachusetts.
Joseph B. Stowell
Joseph B. Stowell, sole proprietor of Money Management
Services, a financial and trading consulting business, has spent over thirty years trading his own account. Joseph created the Bond Investor
Newsletter, a publication primarily devoted to teaching successful short-term trading methods for the bond futures contract. The development of his
technical trading methods for the bond market (applicable to other markets as well) follows the precept of “keeping it simple,” a point which Joseph
emphasizes in his book, Tips for Traders and Investors, Trading U.S. Bonds and Stocks. Joseph also has over twenty years of experience teaching in
the public schools of New York. This combination of trading and teaching experience gives Joseph the unique ability to explain difficult concepts in
clear and easily understood presentations. As a trader, Joseph often shares his trading methods through individual tutoring and seminars. Joseph has
participated in TAG conferences in Southeast Asia, Europe, India, and the Middle East, as well as cities in Canada and throughout the United States.
Using the bond market as his primary trading vehicle, he has developed seven new trading approaches. These techniques are useful across a variety of
markets such as metals, currencies, stock index, individual stocks, the energy sector, and agricultural products.
Averill Strasser
Averill
Strasser is a systems engineer, an attorney, and an educator. Through hard work and persistence, he acquired the knowledge, tools and capital
necessary to trade commodities as a business. He left his successful litigation practice in order to manage his own trading portfolio.
Joe
Tapias
Joe Tapias is president of Trade Center Inc. in Laguna Beach, California. With more than 11 years of trading experience under his belt,
Joe personally has tested hundreds of trading methodologies and has helped develop systems with several top CTAs. An Omega Research Solution
Provider since 1992, he currently monitors over 50 long-time trading systems.
Stewart Taylor
Stewart Taylor began his trading career sixteen
years ago by trading basic patterns and breakout strategies. These simple strategies evolved into complex day-trading strategies utilizing Elliott
Wave and intraday cycles. Stewart’s trading style has come full circle, and he is now a leading proponent of the “simple is simply better” approach.
Stewart developed his analytic abilities as an institutional broker serving the fixed income community with Brittenum & Associates, Refco, Vining
Sparks Securities, Shearson Lehman, American Express, and Prudential Securities. In 1992, Stewart formed Taylor Consulting, Inc., and began
publishing his market letter, The Taylor Fixed-Income Outlook. The newsletter has been published for profit since October 1992, and subscribers
include many primary dealers, international trading desks, hedge funds, money managers, bank holding companies, and mortgage bankers. Stewart, sole
owner/officer of Taylor Consulting, Inc., is a Commodities Trading Advisor holding numerous professional licenses. He has given presentations to the
Mortgage Bankers Association of America on subjects ranging from inter-market technical analysis to practical applications of options as a pipeline
hedging vehicle. His observations are extensively quoted in the financial press, and he makes frequent media appearances.
Sam Tennis
Samuel
K. Tennis worked as a private consultant writing multi-user office and financial applications before Bill Cruz, president of Omega Research, Inc.,
hired him shortly after Omega’s incorporation. Sam was Omega’s senior programmer for about six years, actively participating in the creation of
EasyLanguageTM, the development and production of SystemWriter Plus, and the development phases of Bridge-Telerate TradeStationTM. As the company
expanded and the technical support burden grew, Sam advanced to senior software technician and was charged with training the staff of the product
support department. During his last four years with Omega, he simultaneously coordinated both the client training and custom programming
departments. This role involved both private and seminar-based field training of Omega clients. Do to this unique employment history, Sam is
recognized as the world’s leading authority on Bridge-Telerate TradeStationTM’s EasyLanguageTM programming. Today, Sam is co-owner of VISTA Research
and Trading, Inc., a Florida corporation. VISTA develops proprietary and custom programs for its clients, translating their unique, individual
desires into code, principally for use on Omega products such as Bridge-Telerate TradeStationTM. VISTA’s clients include some of the more important
trading entities in the institutional field. VISTA publishes a comprehensive newsletter about twelve times a year that contains information on new
and existing technical analysis programs, news about Omega Research, and hints and code solutions or workarounds to programming problems.
Ted
Tesser
Ted Tesser is a CPA who has been trading the markets successfully for the last thirteen years. A member of the New York State Society of
Public Accountants, Ted is also a respected author. His books include The Serious Investors' Tax Survival Guide, The Trader's Survival Guide and $5
a Day to Financial Freedom.
Van K. Tharp
Van K. Tharp has coached traders and investors since 1982, and is also the founder of Van K. Tharp
Associates and the International Institute of Trading Mastery, Inc. As a coach, he has helped traders in everything from system development to
success-related issues and overcoming self-sabotage. He also has a program to develop and certify professional money managers and his graduates
presently manage some of the top funds in the world. Van received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in
1975. A certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Master Time Line Therapist, Modeler of NLP, Assistant Trainer of NLP,
and Master Certified Hypno-Therapist, Van is an expert in using NLP to model trading situations. Using these skills, Van has developed a test to
help traders and investors understand their strengths and weaknesses. Over the last fifteen years, he has collected profiles on over 5,000 traders
and investors, including many of the top traders and investors in the world, in an effort to determine what the behavior characteristics and
personal qualities most successful traders and investors have in common. Van has written a five-volume home-study course teaching the results of
this research. In addition to this work, Van has developed a twelve-cassette course on systems development. He also serves as consultant to the
developers of money management software. Van has also developed five different seminar programs to help traders. He designs special seminars for
various banks and industry leaders and has presented these seminars throughout Asia and Europe. He has also given workshops for floor traders at the
CBOT, the CBOE, and the CME. Van Tharp was the only trading coach featured in Jack Schwager’s book, Market Wizards: Interviews with Great Traders.
He has published numerous articles in various industry publications. His most recent book is titled The Holy Grail: How to Make a Fortune in the
Markets.
Phil Tiger
Phil Tiger, a vice president and financial consultant at Smith Barney has been publishing a newsletter, Tiger on Spreads,
semi-monthly since 1981. He has appeared at numerous seminars and conferences for traders and has custom designed and executed hedge and speculative
trding programs incoroporating spreads.
John Tirone
John Tirone received a B.S. degree in finance form Seton Hall University and an M.B.A.
from Columbia University. Currently employed as senior technical analyst for the Chase Manhattan Bank, John has been actively trading for thirty
years. Prior to joining Chase Manhattan, he served as a CTA for Commodities Corporation. At the same time, he was steadily and successfully trading
for his own account. John is a superb technician who has spoken at a number of the early TAG conferences. John trades using classical charting and
trend following techniques. The trading tactics he has developed from this classical foundation have been so successful that his charting service
earned top ranking in both the Euromoney and Corporate Finance magazine surveys for three consecutive years.
Arthur H. Ullrich
Arthur H.
Ullrich is a private futures trader with more than eight years of experience, including five years day trading the S&P. Known widely as the “Trading
Tutor,” Arthur offers an S&P day trading instruction service worldwide via the Internet and a manual, Day Trading the S&P 500 by Arthur Ullrich.
Arthur always enjoys passing his wisdom on to students. As a professional SCUBA diver in the 1970s, Arthur’s ability to present information clearly
and thoroughly was recognized by World Book Encyclopedia, which printed several of his articles on skin diving and SCUBA. Arthur’s trading methods
involve using common oscillators to understand price movement for short-term trading. His methods have been applauded as refreshing and
straightforward by both beginning and experienced traders from nine countries.
Gary Wagner
Gary Wagner is the co-founder of International
Pacific Trading Co. in San Clemente, Calif. He is also the co-author of the book, Trading Applications of Japanese Candlestick Charts and
co-developer of the software program, The Candlestick Forecaster, using artificial intelligence and computerized pattern recognition. Gary is a
registered commodity broker and a CTA with more than 10 years of trading experience.
Ben Warwick
Ben Warwick is president of Hegemony
Advisors, a futures money management firm. He is also sole advisor for the Event Trading Fund, L.P. (assets under management of $2 million plus). In
addition, Ben trades his own account as well as large individual accounts. Ben received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of
Florida and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina. His thesis in graduate school examined the non-random characteristics of the futures
market. Ben’s trading career began in 1990 when he accepted a position at Bacon Investment Corporation, a large CTA firm. He joined
Interstate/Johnson Lane, a regional brokerage firm, in 1993. Ben’s work has been featured in many trading publications, including Stocks and
Commodities magazine, the Market Technicians Journal, and Managed Account Reports. His first book, Event Trading, represents the culmination of six
years of research examining the response of markets to releases of fundamental information. His newest book, The Handbook of Managed Futures and
Overlay Programs to Manage Risk, was released in 1996.
Russell Wasendorf, Sr.
Russell Wasendorf has been involved in the futures markets
since he took over the reins in the late 1970s of the Commodity Education Institute, which trained hundreds of futures brokers and traders. He
currently manages his own introducing brokerage firm, Wasendorf & Son Company.
Don Wellenreiter
Don Wellenreiter was a CTA with over 10 years
experience in both the stock and futures markets. He specializes in S&P Index futures trading and helps his clients hedge their stock trading in the
S&P (Mini also) 500 Index and Dow futures markets
Bill Williams
Bill Williams is president of Profitunity Trading Group in Texas City, Texas.
He has more than 35 years of active trading and teaching experience, and he actively trades both stocks and commodities. He is the author of the
book, Trading Chaos and Trading the Stock Market Using the Science of Chaos, Fractal and No-Linear Dynamics.
Larry Williams
Larry Williams is
one the most legendary traders of all time. One of his most notable achievements involved parlaying a $10,000 account into $1.1 million in the
Robbins World Cup Trading Championship – a feat no other trader has come close to matching. He is the author of a number of best-selling trading
books, renowned speaker and the author of a top advisory newsletter
Sid Woolfolk
Sid Woolfolk was first introduced to options while growing
up on a ranch in southwestern Kansas. He currently is president of C&S Marketing Division, Inc., a commodities brokerage firm with offices in
Evergreen, Colorado and Enid, Oklahoma. Sid writes a daily commentary on the agricultural markets which is available on various data services for
hedgers and speculators, and his comments also can be heard daily on the Super Traders Hotline. He has been recognized by top magazines and industry
leaders for his innovative trading techniques, and he has appeared at several option seminars and training courses throughout the United States. His
first Options Boot Camp is one of the top-selling courses of all time.
Mei Ping Yang
Mei Ping Yang was raised in Singapore, Malaysia, and the
U.S. She received her B.S. degree in finance from Indiana University, and her master’s degree from the American Graduate School of International
Management in Glendale, Arizona. Trading was a natural progression for her, combining her international and financial backgrounds. Her first
inclination to trade technically occurred when a technical chart accurately predicted a rally in the strength of the yen vs. the deutsche mark,
completely at odds with the fundamental prediction of the then president of the Bundesbank. Mei Ping actually began using technical analysis to
trade in 1986 while working for a Norwegian bank in Singapore trading the Interbank currency markets. In 1992 she was transferred by Bankers Trust
Company to New York City, where she managed the currency risk exposure of $2 billion worth of private client assets. In 1995, she accepted a
position on the proprietary desk of a large New York City investment bank, primarily trading currencies.
Matthew Zito
Matthew Zito is an
entrepreneur, individual investor and trader. In 1999, he successfully purchased over 35 IPO's at the initial offering price online for an internal
rate of return of 715.01%. Matthew is co-founder of IPOguys.com, an information based portal dedicated to educating, and informing individual
investors about online IPO's. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Home Office Computing Magazine and is the co-author
of the newly published book "Trade IPO's Online." |
