Contributors
Jake Bernstein is an internationally recognized futures analyst, trader and author. He has written more than 35 books and research studies on futures trading, stock trading, trader psychology and economic forecasting.
Mr. Bernstein is publisher of the MBH Weekly Futures Trading Letter which has been in continuous publication since 1972. He began trading futures and stocks in 1968. His 2chimps.com web site provides daily and weekly stock forecasts, recommendations and analyses.
Jake has appeared frequently on radio and television throughout the United States and Canada. He has been a guest on numerous business radio and television shows including Wall Street Week, CNBC, JagFN.TV and WebTV.com. Mr. Bernstein has lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. His forecasts and opinions are quoted frequently in the financial press and on numerous web sites
Mr. Bernstein is a consultant to investors, traders, industry, financial institutions, short-term traders, brokerage firms and commercial firms. His market advisory services are subscribed to by floor traders, professional traders, money managers, both new and experienced traders and hedgers, the world over.
Jake has pioneered numerous technical, cyclical and seasonal methodologies in the futures markets including:
- Key-Date Seasonal Analysis
- The Daily Sentiment Index
- The MA Channel Method
- Market Patterns
- Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Trading Methods
- The Critical Time of Day and the 30-Minute Breakout Methods
- MOM/MA (Momentum Moving Average), and many others
Mr. Lan H. Turner is the president and CEO of Gecko Software, Inc., creator of Track ‘n Trade Pro charting and trading software for the futures, forex and stock markets, found on the web at www.TracknTrade.com. He’s the owner of www.Chartbook.com, and editor in chief of PitNews Magazine www.PitNews.com. He is also an author, trainer, public speaker, columnist, and publisher of numerous educational videos, books, and multimedia CD-ROMs that teach traders how to successfully navigate the financial markets.
Matt Zimberg
President
Optimus Trading Group
www.optimusfutures.com
Matt Zimberg is the President of Optimus Trading Group (OTG). He has been in trading for 12 years, and today he oversees the operations of OTG which include systems trading, managed futures, discount futures trading and algorithmic trading. He likes to share with traders his view on discipline and trading.
Norman Hallett has been a trader/CTA/teacher for 26 years and is currently the Founder and CEO of Subconscious Training Corporation (STC). STC develops state-of-the-art mental training softwares for various business and personal development, including their very popular TradingMind Software, used by professional traders to stay disciplined and focused in their trading. Click here for more information on TradingMind Software.
Rick Thachuk
Rick Thachuk is the President of World Link Futures, Inc. which owns the WLF Futures, Options and Forex Education Network, a collection of educational web sites for the beginning futures, options and Forex trader first established in 1996. Formerly a financial market Economist at the central Bank of Canada and Economist and Derivatives Market Strategist of the New York Board of Trade, the oldest futures and options exchange in New York, Mr. Thachuk is also a commodity trader with over 15 years experience.
He has authored and been quoted in articles that have appeared in various industry publications including Futures magazine, Futures & Options World Magazine, Treasury Management and the Financial Post.
Bob Kozak
Bob Kozak is the Senior Currency Futures Analyst at Alaron Trading. He has been involved in the financial markets since 1978, when he was recruited as portfolio strategist for a major Wall Street firm. With a degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, he was drawn towards technical analysis. He moved into the retail sector as a Certified Financial Planner, assisting clients in structuring an investment portfolio suitable for their particular needs, emphasizing income and risk management. A unique opportunity to mentor under a former Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade enticed Bob into the commodities arena. Bob eventually managed the office of his mentor, before the firm was purchased and relocated to Chicago. Bob follows most futures markets using primarily Technical Analysis, and takes advantage of the strong correlation between the U.S. Dollar Index and those futures purchased in Dollars. You can request a FREE 30 day trial subscription of PROBABLE DAILY & WEEKLY TRADING RANGES by contacting Bob via e-mail at bkozak@alaron.com
Mircea Dologa
Dr. Mircea Dologa began his investment and trading career in the pharmaceutical and real estate industries in 1987. Once he passed the Series 7 and Series 3 exams, he realized the scarcity of the true ‘know how’ practical tools in financial literature and seminars. After reading hundreds of trading books and attending numerous seminars, the same question kept popping up: Where is the meat? Most of the time, besides the classics… it wasn’t there!
As a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) with the National Futures Association of U.S.A., he founded a new teaching concept, mainly based on practical aspects of trading, for both newcomers and experienced traders.
He is an international contributor to trading magazines in the USA (‘Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities’, ‘Futures’); the United Kingdom (‘The Technical Analyst’); Germany (‘Traders’ − English- and German-language editions); Australia (‘Your Trading Edge’) and Asia (‘The Trader’s Journal’).
Dr Mircea Dologa has written three books, over 1200 pages and 1100 charts, in his quest to teach the art of trading from the beginner’s level to the highest nowadays standards. The author’s main thought during the three years of planning, conceiving and writing these books was how to optimally reveal the practical aspects of trading.
Dr Mircea Dologa attended New York University and Cooper Union School of Engineering and Science in New York and graduated from the latter with a B.S. in Theoretical Physics. He obtained his Doctorate in Medicine from the School of Medicine in Paris. He also took MBA courses in finance and business management at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and at the French School of Business and Finance (HEC Paris France). After holding the positions of Medical Director and later of General Manager, in 1992 he decided to focus exclusively on his investments and since then he has devoted his activity to financial markets. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Paris, France.
Email: mircdologa@yahoo.com
Founder of www.pitchforktrader.com
Bob Hunt
Bob Hunt is the creator of the Pattern Trapper On-Line Trading Course and the Advanced Short Term Trading Strategies One-On-One Mentoring Program and editor of the Pattern Trapper Futures Trading Newsletter.
“Ever since the service began in 1999 the personal aspect that I’ve enjoyed most about working with other traders is that it forces me to develop a deeper understanding of why I trade the way that I do. Before I can explain the process to anyone else I must have a very clear understanding of it in my own mind. Working with other traders forces one to confront their own beliefs about trading, and in the process, makes them a better trader.
My overriding objective has always been to make these trading techniques as easily understood as possible. If you should ever have any questions about the newsletter, the on-line course or the methods used, please don’t hesitate to contact me.” E-Mail: RHunt@PatternTrapper.com
Adam Hewison
Adam Hewison is the President of INO.com, Inc.
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, and formed The Rich Financial Group, Inc., a Commodity Trading Advisory (CTA) firm with offices in Maryland.
Joe Ross
Joe Ross: trader, author and trading educator. His over 50 years of experience includes position trading of shares and futures. He day trades stock indices, currencies, and forex. Joe trades futures spreads and options on futures, and he has written 12 books about it all. Joe is the discoverer of The Law of Charts™, and is famous for the Ross Hook™ and the Traders Trick Entry™. He is the primary author and Editor-in-Chief of the company’s newsletters:, Chart Scan™, Spread Scan™, the Traders Money Club™ and Traders Notebook™. He is also the host of the free Wednesday Live Chat, the free Wednesday European Chat, and the moderator of his popular trading forum.
His web sites: www.tradingeducators.com, www.tradersmoneyclub.com, and www.spread-trading.com.
Carley Garner
Carley Garner: Senior Market Analyst and Broker, Stocks and Commodities Magazine Columnist and Author
Carley Garner is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, from which she earned dual bachelor’s degrees in both Finance and Accounting.
Carley jumped into the options and futures industry with both feet in early 2004 and has become one of the most recognized names in the business.
Throughout her fast paced career, Carley has been featured in the likes of Stocks and Commodities, Futures, Active Trader, Option Trader, Your Trading Edge, and Pitnews Magazine. Carley is often interviewed by news services such as Reuters and Dow Jones Newswire, and has been quoted by the Investor’s Business Daily and the Wall Street Journal. She has also been known to participate in Radio interviews.
Carley has recently completed a book titled “Commodity Options” which is being published by FT Press, a division of Prentice Hall. The book will be available in January of 2009. Her e-newsletters The Stock Index Report and the Bond Bulletin are widely distributed and have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education, for details visit www.DeCarleyTrading.com.
Brian McAboy
Brian McAboy is a business consultant and trading enthusiast as well as a retired Quality Engineer with broad experience. He approaches trader coaching with focus on understanding, simplification, functionality and brevity. His background in Engineering and business allows him to bring fresh new perspectives to trading that are easy to implement and fully utilize.
Brian is the author of “The Subtle Trap of Trading: Why So Many Smart People Don’t Make Money Trading, and How to Get On the Right Track in Two Hours Or Less”, which has been featured on the Chicago Board of Trade. He has created several additional resources to help individual traders realize their potential as traders in the shortest time possible.
Brian is also the creator of InsideOutTrading.com, where you can find all these resources.
Paul Quillen
Paul Quillen is a 1968 VMI Electrical Engineering graduate, a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a Microsoft Partner, a Certified eSignal Educational Partner, a TradeStation Solution Provider, a keynote speaker at trading seminars, author of trading articles and manuals, a Vietnam Veteran, a Member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIA), a second-degree karate brown belt, an Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator N4LCD, a Certified BBQ Judge for the Kansas City Barbecue Society, has been investing and trading since 1991, day trading since 1993, and has been teaching his trading techniques, including Simplified Elliott Wave TM since 1994 through www.DayTradingCourse.com.
John Gilliam
John Gilliam is a professional day trader, trading educator, investor, business consultant, and entrepreneur. His lifelong interest has been in providing business and management consulting to others interested in starting and operating their own businesses. He has over 15 years experience in various investment vehicles including Real Estate, Stocks, Options, Forex and Futures. He joined forces with Tsunami Trading Educators, Inc. to design totally unique trading software specifically aimed at helping self-directed traders build and manage their own portfolios and trading businesses using technically driven trading techniques.
Being tired of the subjectivity of other trading methods and gurus and wanting to create a 100% mechanical “robotic approach” to the markets that takes into account all a trader would need to know to consistently make good money in these markets, he helped create TsuBot -Your Trading Assistant. TsuBot reads what moves all markets in any time frame, Price Volume and Momentum and then upon the occurrence of a proprietary entry trigger, she will signal a high percentage trade opportunity with an audio, visual, and e-mail alert. She will automatically suggest the appropriate profit targets and stops for the trade and call out the profits as they are able to be taken from the market.
John moderates the Tsunami-Trade.com day trading educational chatroom and provides one-on-one personal trading education, training, and guidance for active traders both online and in person.
You can read more of John’s philosophy of trading at www.Tsunami-Trade.com. He has also posted an extensive LIVE trading video and Webinar library at these links:
www.revver.com/u/tsunamitrading
www.youtube.com/tsunamitrading
http://www.moneyshow.com/directory/company.asp?acctid=12502
Mike Reed
Mike Reed of TradeStalker.com is a 25+ year veteran trader. When he got his start in the early 80’s, Mike was plotting prices on paper tape as the internet had not yet been “born” as we know it today. Years of experience have really given him a feel for the Market action. His support and resistance numbers have been published on the internet since 1996. He has a wide, international readership that includes day traders, floor traders, locals and hedge fund managers. His extensive experience and knowledge of the E-mini futures is respected and sought after from traders all over the world.
Since 1996 Mike has been authoring the “RBI Trader’s Updates”, a nightly market newsletter. In 2006, Mike authored his e-book, “Read the Greed-Take the Money: Trading Weapons I’ve Kept Secret for 20 Years”. In 2007 Mike released his comprehensive trading course, “Read the Greed-LIVE!” Mike’s holds a week long “RBI Trading Camp” 3-4 times per year via Hotcomm. Mike can be heard twice a week on CFRN radio.
Bernard “Bernie” Mitchell
Bernard “Bernie” Mitchell was not always a market guru, nor did he expect to be one. The calling came in 1974 when Bernie found himself paying more attention to the stock market than his 20 year job on Madison Avenue. Committing himself to a new direction he began trading gold futures. Ironically, between 1974 and 1979 all he could do was turn gold into lead. Not exactly the kind of market wizardry he was hoping for. As all good gurus, Bernie immersed himself in market knowledge, learning from the other gurus of the day, Williams, Wilder, Bernstein, but it was really in his own laboratory the discovery was to be made.
In 1981 Bernie developed the POKE system for the commodities markets. He modified the same system for day trading in 1994 focusing on the S&P 500 Futures and then for individual stocks in 1996. In 2001, he created Fibonacci Cluster Software, a totally unique way of decoding Support and Resistance levels. Fibonacci Clusters can help any trading system be a better trading system. Today, Bernie has emerged as a leader in market technologies, being published in Stock, Futures & Options Magazine Investor Flash and Chartpoint Magazine. Since 1997 Bernie has published Fibonacci Impulse Strategies Commentary, a market letter that goes out about 20 times a month. Bernie has successfully trained over 800 traders on the “POKE” system, which has now become the Fibonacci Impulse Strategies.
Chuck Kowalski
Chuck Kowalski has been involved in the futures industry for nearly 15 years. His roles in the industry include commodity broker, analyst and a private trader. He is currently the lead market analyst for FuturesBuzz.com, where he provides futures market updates and trading strategies. Chuck has two degrees in Finance and Economics from Florida State University. He is an active trader and continues his education in researching the futures markets and developing trading systems and strategies.
Teresa Appleton
Teresa Appleton is the founder of TradeWithLogic.com, a website for trading stocks, options and futures. The site provides education, nightly commentary and a live chat room for commentary and calls throughout the day. Individuals of all levels can trade in a focused environment in the live chat room, the site also offers private coaching.
Phil Flynn
Phil Flynn is Energy Analyst and General Market Analyst with PFGBEST (www.pfgbest.com). Phil is one of the world’s leading energy market analysts, providing individual investors, professional traders and institutions with up-to-the-minute investment and risk management insight into global petroleum, gasoline and energy markets. Phil’s market commentary, fundamental and technical analysis, and long-term forecasts are sought by industry executives, traders and global media.
Because he has been available to media around the clock, even during some of the most turbulent market periods in history, and because he has built a solid reputation for accuracy in his market analysis and forecasts, through thousands of interviews and broadcast appearances for more than a decade, Phil Flynn has become a headline-making name even as he continues to provide expert advice and customer care to his proprietary trading account clients.
Media highlights include: CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS with Katie Couric, NBC’s “Today Show” and “Nightly News with Tom Brokaw”, FOX’s “O’Reilly Factor”, PBS’s “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and “Nightly Business Report”, MSNBC’s “The News with Brian Williams”, Wall Street Journal Report, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, The Toronto Globe & Mail, Houston Chronicle, Futures Magazine, National Public Radio’s Marketplace, a chat with the President of the United States, and many more venues.
You can read Phil’s daily market analysis and blogs at www.pfgbest.com.
PFGBEST is among the largest non-clearing U.S. Futures Commission Merchants, with customers, affiliates and brokerage offices in more than 80 countries. The company is a leader in sustainable investing through diversified products including managed funds, futures, forex, options, full-service and discount brokerage, trader education, market research, and direct online futures trading through its BESTDirect™ platform, and numerous other platforms and applications.
Phil’s commitment to and experience in futures trading is documented in two books, The Mind of a Trader (Financial Times/Pitman,1997), and Trading Online (publisher, date), both by Alpesh B. Patel. Phil is a lifelong resident of Illinois. He attended Daley College in Chicago before beginning his career on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Darrell Jobman
Darrell Jobman has been writing about financial markets for more than 35 years, covering all aspects of the trading industry. A decorated Vietnam War veteran, he was a newspaper farm editor and editor of several agricultural publications before becoming an editor of Futures Magazine for more than 15 years. He has written and/or edited more than a dozen books on trading including The Handbook for Technical Analysis. His passion is helping others succeed by learning the “dos and don’ts” of trading and through TraderPlanet.com he has really been able to satisfy his passion.
Jim Wyckoff
Jim Wyckoff has spent nearly 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with what is now the Dow Jones Newswires service for many years, including stints as a reporter on the rough-and-tumble commodity futures trading floors in Chicago and New York. As a journalist, he has covered every futures market traded in the U.S., at one time or another. By studying chart patterns and other technical indicators, Jim realized the playing field could be leveled between the “professional insiders” in the markets, and traders/analysts like himself.
Tim Hannagan
Tim Hannagan, Alaron Futures and Options Senior Grain Analyst, has been helping futures and options traders wade through the murky waters of the grain markets with his concise “Grain” research report that appears every trading day at www.alaron.com. Mr. Hannagan served as Vice President and Senior Market Analyst at Harvey Commodities for ten years before joining Alaron. During this period he refined his trading methodology and developed a centralized focus toward assisting the retail trader. Mr. Hannagan spent over four years developing the technical reversal system he uses to enter and exit all trades. His understanding of the domestic and global grain markets has earned him national recognition. Mr. Hannagan’s market opinions have appeared in such news print publications as the Investor’s Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Bloomberg Newswire, and Futures Magazine. He has also appeared on business in Chicago (WCIU, Ch. 26) and Los Angeles (KWHY, Ch. 22).
Paul Skarp
Paul entered the commodity futures industry in 1996 as a runner on the COMEX and has gained experience in all aspects of the business since his introduction. After having worked in the capacity of an options point clerk Mr. Skarp went on to spent many years working with other market professionals to develop proprietary trading models, algorithms and techniques for almost every type of trader, individual and commercials alike. In addition to online webinars / seminars, he also holds several live seminars at various locations throughout the year. Currently he publishes two newsletters, Contagious Greed and The Naked Greek. Mr. Skarp is a principle of ATG Marketplex, a commodity futures and forex broker.
Andrew Abraham
Andrew has been in the financial arena since 1990. He is a commodity trading ddvisor and co manager of a Commodity Pool. Since 1993 Andrew has been a proponent of quantitative mechanical trading programs. Andrew’s major concern is not only total return on investment but rather the amount of risk that one would have to tolerate in order to achieve returns He focuses on developing quant models that encompass strict risk adherence and correlation. He has been a speaker at conferences as well as an author of numerous articles. Andrew has spent years researching ideas that have the potential to outperform indices as well as maintain fewer draw downs.
Dr. Ned Gandevani
Dr. Gandevani is a professional trader and developer of the Winning Edge Systems, formed based on Chaos Theory (http:www/WinningEdgeSystem.net) . He earned his MBA and PhD in finance and has trained and coached many professional traders. For the first time in the financial industry, he has introduced a quantitative method for matching traders and fund managers with their best trading and asset management styles using my Trading Personality Profile.
He’s published many articles and the following books:
1. How To Become A Successful Trader; The Trading Personality Profile: Your Key To Maximizing Your Profit With Any System
2. Trading System As A Determining Factor in Trading Performance
3. New Upcoming book: New Paradigm Investor; Become A Successful Investor with A Winning-Edge System
Dr. Gandevani teaches graduate level and MBA courses at Keller Graduate School of Management in Long Island City and Manhattan Centers. He blogs on market and economic outlook at http://www.WinningEdgeSystem.blogspot.com
Howard Getson
Howard is a Quant using automated trading systems and technical analysis even though he enjoys thinking about the economy, the markets and the world.
He loves playing with innovative new gadgets, software and technology to figure out what works and what comes next.
Howard Getson is the CEO of Capitalogix, which builds automated trading systems and portfolio construction tools for hedge funds.
He was CEO of a software company, IntellAgent Control, from 1991 -2000 (an Inc 500 winner).
He served on the Local and Global Board for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO, YEO, WEO).
Received an undergraduate degree in psychology and philosophy from Duke University in 1984, and received a Juris Doctorate law degree and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University in 1987.
Paul Brittain
Paul Brittain began his professional trading career as an option specialist in 1983 trading options on precious metals, and was on the front lines as options made their initial debut on the US Exchanges in the mid 1980’s. He honed his unique trading approach by working alongside many professional Wall Street traders on the NY exchanges.
In addition to working hand-in-hand with customers, he has been managing brokerage firms and training brokers since early on in his career. Considered an expert in the field of commodity options, Paul has either been quoted in or contributed content to just about every major industry publication, both on paper and in the electronic media, as well as working alongside many of today’s most respected analysts in the industry on various trading panels and seminars.
Realizing that a better trader made a better customer, he started publishing informative newsletters in the early 1990’s in an effort to better communicate as well as educate his clients. Over the years he started and still publishes the following trading recommendation newsletters: The Beast, The BMD and the Optionologist. In 2004 he started the online trading school, which is recognized and attended by students around the world.
Paul is currently managing WhiteHall Investment Management in Las Vegas.
Sara Nunnally
As co-editor of the investment advisory service Taipan Insider, Sara Nunnally brings an exciting approach to the world of international investing. Traveling to such countries as Vietnam, Morocco, Brazil, and Spain, Sara investigates the secret world of emerging markets to turn the focus on investment opportunities and potential profits.
Jack Crooks
Jack Crooks is the founder and president of Black Swan Capital, a foreign exchange and currency market advisory firm. A seasoned financial advisor with nearly 20 years of investment experience, he uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches to determine the fundamental driving force(s) behind the movement of the currency, capital, and commodities markets. Mr. Crooks is the co-editor of the Black Swan Capital Currency Strategist and the free daily e-letter, Currency Currents. He also founded Ross International Asset Management, a discretionary money management firm specializing in global stock, bond, and currency asset management for retail clients. Previously, Mr. Crooks was general manager of Plexus Trading, where he specialized in currency futures and commodities trading. During his successful career, he served as chief currency and futures strategist of M2 Futures Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in Chicago, as well as vice president of Global Strategic Research for an international investment boutique, where he was responsible for providing daily advice and global strategy analysis. Mr. Crooks has written extensively on the subject of global currencies and international economics and has been published in Asian Times, Futures magazine, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswire, and across many financial Web sites. He has also appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and FOX Business News. Mr. Crooks holds a Bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida State University and an MBA from the University of North Texas.
Joseph James
Joseph James is a professional trader and the creator of the SchoolofTrade.com. Joseph spends his time trading the global futures markets and working with his growing community of lifetime members to help them achieve their own personal success as professional traders using the simple and effective ‘ James Wave Trading System™. Beginning in college, Joseph has been a student of the markets and a mentor to his members for almost 8 years, and still considers his method of trading to always be evolving. It wasn’t until a friend asked Joseph to teach him to trade that he began the process of writing the materials that would soon end up as the foundation of the James Wave Trading System™.
Joseph’s expertise is trading the E-Mini ES, YM, 6E (CME), CL (NYMEX) and the DAX (EUREX). He focuses on short-term trades, often considered ‘scalping’, which aims to make profits quickly, avoid risk, and capitalizes on small fluctuations in price that happens throughout the day.
You can reach Joseph directly by e-mail: Sales@SchoolOfTrade.com / 480.503.8298
Neil Charnock
Neil Charnock is a leading Australian gold mining commentator who is also Editor of GoldOz which is a gold focused web site. Neil been published widely over the past 36 months on many of the worlds leading gold web sites such as Kitco, Gold-Eagle, GATA, 321 Gold and many more web sites (40+ to date).
Neil is well recognized amongst his peers – eg. Armstrong Article. Neil is also in newspaper print (WA Newspaper Group Diggers and Dealers) and a book on investment in junior mining stocks amongst thirteen of his fellow finance professionals, called – Junior Mining Investor By Kevin Corcoran (Amazon).
Larry Levin
Larry Levin is the Founder & President of Secrets of Traders™ a commodity educational firm dedicated to helping traders succeed in the futures markets.
Levin trades the S&P 500 at the Chicago Board of Trade, now known as The CME Group; the world’s largest and most diverse financial exchange. Larry has been trading his own account or company’s proprietary accounts since 1993, trading an average of 2500-3000 E-mini S&P contracts a day.
Larry Levin has been in and around the S&P 500 futures pit at the CME for almost 20 years, where he started as a runner for Lind-Waldock. He quickly moved up through the ranks from runner to phone clerk to desk manager of the S&P desk.
Levin began trading his own account in 1994.
In 1998 he formed Trading Advantage, a publishing company enabling him to distribute his self-authored trading course, The Secrets of Floor Traders. In 2000 he sold the rights to the course Secrets of Floor Traders to Secrets of Traders, LLC to market the products on his behalf. This transaction has allowed him to trade full-time for a living while continuing to distribute his message.
Levin recently developed his newest trading course; The Secrets of an Electronic Futures Trader. This Program is designed to give the electronic futures trader the competitive edge needed to succeed in the markets today.
He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, The Business News Network and other major media outlets, providing his expertise and insight on the current market.
Larry Levin’s lifelong vision is to teach people how to trade the right way.
Frank LaMantia (PitGuru)
Soon to be Dr. LaMantia, Frank is not only one of the most educated traders on Wall Street, but also maintains an industry resume of substance and depth. Frank has worked extensively on an Institutional preferred stock syndicate desk, as a government bond specialist, and as a financial advisor all the while achieving multiple licenses in the finance field. With an extensive and impressive client list (including Citibank, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AG Edwards, Mesirow, UBS, and numerous Hedge Funds), Mr. LaMantia brings his one-of-a-kind background to his current occupation of full time trader.
Daniel Cronin (PitGuru)
Daniel Cronin has spent years on the floor of the Nymex and is part of one of the largest energy floor brokerages in the business. His extensive experience stems from not only his Pit background but also through intense studying and implementation of complex technical analysis and market trading techniques via the mentorship of the now retired Ralph Acampora. Mr. Cronin brings subscribers a rare combination of book smarts and real world trading experience in one of the most volatile market sectors in the futures industry.
Jurgens H. Bauer (PitGuru)
Jurgens owns and operates his own order execution firm on the ICE trading floor. He has been a member since 1987. His firm, Jurgens Bauer and Associates, specializes in executing option orders for a wide array of customers and a variety of industry participants, including individual speculators, funds and members of the trade. While Jurgens has been an active member of the trading community he has also spent time since 2000 working at raising awareness of environmental commodities, educating industry professionals on emissions trading, brokering transactions between private counter parties and developing SO2 and NOx contracts for the NYMEX.
Matthew Pierce (PitGuru)
Mr. Pierce is a unique acquisition for Futures Press Inc. in that he has an unmatched level of real hands-on experience within the industry in addition to his floor trading expertise and top notch education at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. Matthew has literally cultivated the perfect professional career as a grain expert by working with the industry’s most recognizable companies such as Cargill, LaSalle Group, Conagra, Walsh Trading Inc. and many more. In addition to trading on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, Mr. Pierce writes what many in the business believe to be the best kept secret industry trading reports available anywhere.
Matt Zeman (A to Zeman)
Matt Zeman started his career in the world of futures and options as a runner and then an arbitrage clerk on the floor of one of the largest exchanges in the world – the Chicago Board of Trade. Since then, Matt has added trading experience and now holds his Series 3, 7, and 66 licenses. Today, Matt is the co-developer and Chief Market Strategist for Time Means Money. He is also a Principal and Partner in LaSalle Futures Group. In addition to his regular weekly newsletter – A to Zeman – Matt is regularly quoted in top industry news sources like Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, and Reuters television programs.
Kevin Davey
Kevin J. Davey is an award winning private futures, forex and commodities trader. He has been trading for over 18 years. In each of the years 2005-2007, Kevin achieved over 100% returns in a real time, real money, year long trading contest, finishing in first or second place each of those years. Prior to trading full time starting in 2008, Kevin was a quality assurance and engineering executive for an aerospace company. In addition to trading, Kevin also writes, consults and mentors other traders. Kevin graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS engineering degree from the University of Michigan, and received an MBA degree from Case Western Reserve University. Kevin maintains a website, where you can find useful information on trading. Also, visit his site and learn how you can follow Kevin’s trades as they happen.
Rick Ackerman
Barron’s once labeled him an “intrepid trader” in a headline that alluded to his key role in solving a notorious pill-tampering case. He received a $200,000 reward when a conviction resulted, and the story was retold on TV’s FBI: The Untold Story. But to the gang at CNBC, he’s been a pariah for the last ten years – a shoot-from-the-hip kinda guy whose irreverent style got him banned from the show after an interview on Squawk Box was alleged to have gone awry.
His professional background includes 12 years as a market maker on the floor of the Pacific Coast Exchange, three as an investigator with renowned San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset, seven as a reporter and newspaper editor, three as a columnist for the Sunday San Francisco Examiner, and two decades as a contributor to publications ranging from Barron’s to The Antiquarian Bookman to Fleet Street Letter and Utne Reader. His detailed strategies for stocks, options, and indexes have appeared since the early 1990s in Black Box Forecasts, a newsletter he founded that originally was geared to professional option traders.
Scott Hoffman
Scott graduated from the University of Chicago in 1986 with a degree in Economics. After graduation, Scott worked on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange then moved upstairs, serving as the personal broker to a former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. There, he worked as a broker and margin manager, starting up the firm’s full service brokerage division.
Today, Scott serves as an educator and mentor for new traders, and as a trading partner and ally for experienced traders. The breadth and depth of Scott’s knowledge make him the “go to guy” for both retail and institutional traders.
Scott also publishes two futures advisories, Swing Trader’s Insight and Trade or Fade. He also writes the futures trading blog at www.futuresinsightblog.com. Scott has written articles for a number of futures publications and has done numerous futures trading seminars, including seminars for both the CBOT and CME.
Scott’s clients find his knowledge and experience to be unparalleled. Scott is accepting new clients at this time.
Scott lives in suburban Chicago with his wife and three children. In his free time he enjoys coaching his children’s sports and various other athletic activities.
Shane Wisdom
Shane Wisdom has over 14 years of commodity trading experience and is the President of Wisdom Trading Systems and Wisdom Financial, Inc., an established independent introducing brokerage firm in Newport Beach, California.
Shane Wisdom has been a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and has been registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since October 1994.
Bob Yundt
Bob Yundt has been a trader and investor in equities, futures and options for over 12 years and has held senior executive positions at Verizon Wireless, Lockheed Martin, and GTE. He is currently leading international marketing efforts for a system trading firm and writes the futures trading blog. He is also Managing Director of his trading firm.
Armed with an extensive background in technology and software, Bob has developed systematic managed futures investment programs that he uses himself. He plans to launch a CTA fund and an investment management company based on the success of his programs.
Bob earned an MS degree in business and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts.
