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John Bollinger is the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, Inc., an investment management company that provides technically driven money management services and develops proprietary research for institutions and individuals. Mr. Bollinger is best known for inventing Bollinger Bands, which have been widely accepted and integrated into most of the analytical software currently in use. His book, Bollinger on Bollinger Bands (McGraw-Hill, 2001), has been translated into seven languages. His two-volume DVD set, Bollinger on Bollinger Bands--The Seminar features over nine hours of presentations. He has also developed several financial Web sites: www.EquityTrader.com, www.FundsTrader.com, www.BollingerBands.com, www.BollingerOnBollingerBands.com, www.GroupPower.com, www.MarketTechnician.com and www.PatternPower.com. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and a former board member of the Market Technicians Association. Mr. Bollinger is the recipient of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco Lifetime Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technical Analysis and the 2005 Market Technicians Association Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Technical Analysis.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Technical Analysis
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Stephen A. Boyko has more than forty years of financial experience in a broad range of industries. He taught managerial finance at American University and formulated securities regulatory policy for the National Association of Securities Dealers. As an international consultant, he provided a practitioner's perspective for the privatization of the former Soviet Union in the areas of corporate governance and regulatory development of the Ukrainian Capital Market. He now serves as chairman and CEO of N2K Ecosystems Inc., an entrepreneurial business development company.
Books:
We’re All Screwed: How Toxic Regulation Will Crush the Free Market System
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Al Brinkman is director, equity derivatives marketing for the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Brinkman spent 20 years as a member of the PHLX on both the options and equity trading floors. He is a staff instructor for the OIC, and conducts numerous seminars and workshops for index, equity and currency options to industry and investor groups for the exchange throughout the year.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Charles Carlson, CFA, is CEO of Horizon Publishing, a publisher of investment newsletters, and Horizon Investment Services, a money management firm. He is also contributing editor of Dow Theory Forecasts and editor of DRIP Investor newsletters. Carlson is the author of eight books, including the best-selling Buying Stocks without a Broker, No-Load Stocks, and Eight Steps to Seven Figures. He holds a BS in journalism from Northwestern University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is a chartered financial analyst.
Books:
Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow’s Original Editorials and Their Relevance Today
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John F. Carter is president of Trade the Markets, Inc., a financial markets information company he founded in 1999. Trading actively since high school, Mr. Carter has more than 17 years experience trading stocks, options and futures, and has been trading full time for the past eight years. In addition to working with managed funds, his daily market strategies and picks are auto-traded for clients at a number of brokers.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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James Chen is the chief technical analyst for FX Solutions. He is also a chartered market technician and a registered commodity trading advisor. Chen writes daily currency analysis, conducts forex trading seminars and has authored numerous articles on currency trading and technical analysis for major financial publication. He is the author of Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading (Wiley, 2009).
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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James “Jamie” B. Cornehlsen is the portfolio manager at Dunn Warren Investment Advisors, LLC and subadvisor to the CIFG All Weather and Strategic Opportunities mutual funds. Jamie worked for research and investment companies including the Gartner Group, Schwab Soundview, Bear Stearns, and Corboy and Jerde. Jamie founded Dunn Warren Investment Advisors, LLC in 2001. He received his MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and his Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Colorado. He studied econometrics at the University of York in England. Jamie also is a Chartered Financial Analyst and past president of the CFA Society of Colorado.
Books:
Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends
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Brian Dolan is the Chief Currency Strategist at FOREX.com/GAIN Capital and an 18 year veteran of the currency markets. Brian provides fundamental and technical analysis to FOREX.com clients and is a frequent commentator on currency market developments for financial media such as Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters and Dow Jones. Brian recently authored Currency Trading for Dummies, an advanced introduction to trading in the currency markets in the well known book series.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Charles Dow, 1851-1902, was a prominent American journalist. Known for his refusal to bow to bribes or advertisers, he developed principles for understanding and analyzing the U.S. capital market and investor behavior. This later became known as Dow Theory. As a young man, he was a newspaper reporter and covered business, investing, real estate, and finance. He moved to New York City, where he and colleague Edward Jones earned a reputation for honesty and integrity. They later co-founded Dow Jones & Company, a financial news bureau, and began publishing Customers’ Afternoon Letter. It became The Wall Street Journal in 1889. Dow Through the Journal, Dow created the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other indices.
Books:
Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow’s Original Editorials and Their Relevance Today
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Gennady Favel emigrated from the Soviet Union with his family when he was 8 years old. He went to school in Brooklyn and graduated from Baruch College with a degree in investment management. After working for several Wall Street firms, he joined a growing quantitative hedge fund as a black box trader, where he is now head of equity trading. In the past few years, he has helped create several high frequency trading strategies that generate returns multiple times greater than any market index. His experience at the company has given him unique insight and knowledge about the inner workings of stock markets and trading processes.
Books:
The Stock Market Philosopher: Insights of a Soviet-Born, New York-Bred Hedge Fund Trader
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Scott, MBA, CRPC, PMP, is a Financial Consultant and does fee based financial planning, investment strategy and project management for businesses and families. He is able to formulate unique, custom solutions to complex problems by drawing on a vast array of industry experience, financial products and investment strategies.
He has more than 25 years of banking, insurance, brokerage, real estate and consulting experience working with corporate clients companies across the United States. Corporate Clients- Ameriprise Financial, Wells Fargo, US Bank, RBC Dain Rauscher, Delta/ Northwest Airlines, Agribank, Medtronic, Qwest (US West) and Express Scripts.
Licensing
• Series 7, 6, 63
• Life and Health
• Property and Casualty
• Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor- CRPC
• Project Management Professional- PMP
Education
• MBA, Finance and Investments- Carlson School of Management-1983
• BS, Business Administration- Bemidji State University- 1978
• Majors- Management and Finance
• Minors- Economics and Mathematics
He has also owned/managed investment real estate for over 25 years and networks extensively with developers, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, 1031 exchange firms, property managers, real estate IRA custodians and REO/foreclosure experts.
He also taught a class entitled “Live it Up, but Don’t Outlive Your Income” for Kaplan Prosource, a leading continuing education firm and conducts educational seminars on rental real estate investment, tax lien certificates, long term care, identity theft, structured settlement and covered call options trading.
Scott is active in local government and served as an at large, Plymouth, Minnesota city council member from 1999 – 2003. He advocates for transportation initiatives and affordable housing causes.
He is also an active member of the Project Management, Carlson School alumni and Bemidji State University alumni associations.
Books:
Live it Up! But Don’t Outlive Your Income
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Jason A. Jankovsky is an experienced derivatives specialist. Trading extensively in leveraged transactions since 1987, he is self-taught and self-educated. He has authored several trading systems, trained other successful traders and written numerous articles on global cash forex. He is the author of Trading Rules That Work: The 28 Essential Lessons Every Trader Must Master (Wiley, 2007).
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Futures Magazine, Darrell has been writing about financial markets for more than 35 years and has become an acknowledged authority on derivative markets, technical analysis and various trading techniques.
Raised on a farm near the tiny southeastern Nebraska town of Virginia, Jobman graduated from Wartburg College in Iowa in 1963. He began his journalistic career as a sportswriter for the Waterloo (Iowa) Courier for several years before going into the Army. He served with the 82nd Airborne Division and as an infantry platoon leader with the Manchus in the 25th Infantry Division, including nine months in Vietnam in 1967-68, earning the Silver Star and Bronze Star.
After military service, Jobman returned to the Courier, where he became farm editor in early 1969. He was introduced to futures markets when he wrote a column about how speculators were ruining farm prices and was “corrected” by Merrill Oster. That led to writing assignments for Oster and then a full-time position in 1972, where Jobman participated in the founding of Professional Farmers of America and associated newsletters.
When Oster purchased Commodities Magazine in 1976, Jobman was named editor and later became editor-in-chief of Futures Magazine when the name was changed in 1983 during one of the biggest growth periods for new markets and new trading instruments in futures history. He was an editor at Futures until 1993, when he left to become an independent writer/consultant.
Since 1993, he has written, collaborated, edited or otherwise participated in the publication of about a dozen books on trading, including The Handbook on Technical Analysis. He has also written or edited articles for several publications and brokerage firms as well as trading courses and educational materials for Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. He also served as editorial director of CME Magazine. Darrell currently serves as Senior Analyst and Editor for www.TraderPlanet.com.
Jobman and his wife, Lynda, live in Wisconsin, and spend a lot of time visiting with a daughter and three grandchildren also in Wisconsin, and a son and granddaughter in Florida.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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David P. Kendall, Ph.D., currently works as a consultant to startup derivative exchanges in Chicago. He has been involved in product development at a number of exchanges and back-office firms.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Jeffrey Kennedy is the Senior Commodities Analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI), the world’s largest market forecasting firm, and has more than 15 years of experience as an analyst and trader. He is the editor of Futures Junctures, EWI's premier commodity forecasting service, and author of Trader's Classroom Collection, a 128-page eBook which presents practical Elliott wave trading tips and techniques.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Technical Analysis
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Kathy Lien is and an internationally published author and the director of currency research at FX360.com and GFT Forex in New York. The second edition of her book, Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market, (Wiley Trading) was released in December 2008. She and Boris Schlossberg also wrote Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game (Wiley, 2009). Lien’s websites include KathyLien.com and BKTraderFX.com.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Jim Martens is the senior currency analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI—ElliottWave.com). He worked as an analyst with floor brokers before joining EWI in 1993, where he covered commodities and oversaw currency analysis before moving in 2001 to Nexus Capital Ltd., a Soros-affiliated hedge fund. Back with EWI since 2005, he now provides full coverage of dollar rates and major cross rates in EWI’s International Currency Outlook.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Lou Mendelsohn is President and Chief Executive Officer of Market Technologies, a privately held, Inc. 500, trading software company. In the 1970s Lou began trading equities and stock options, followed by commodities which he traded as both a day and position trader. In 1979, he formed Market Technologies to develop technical analysis trading software for the commodity futures markets. In 1983 he introduced the first commercial strategy back-testing software for personal computers. Recognizing the emerging trend toward globalization of the world's financial markets, in 1986 Lou again broke new ground in technical analysis when he released the first commercial intermarket analysis software for PCs. Since then, Lou’s research has continued to focus on intermarket analysis and market forecasting, with his main focus on the creation and refinement of his firm's flagship product, VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software. His full biography can be found at http://www.tradertech.com/lbm_biography.asp
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Mark Pankin, who has a PhD in mathematics, is the founder and owner of MDP Associates LLC, and has been the secretary and a member of the board of directors of NAAIM. Before becoming a registered investment advisor in 1994, he taught math at the university level and worked as an operations research analyst. In 2000, his Rydex sector fund-trading program ranked in Select Advisors’ top five for the year.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Online Trading
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Using the principles he teaches, Petrossi started his career by converting a $10,000 investment into more than $1 million in less than three years. He is the founder of the Wealth Research Institute and author of The Best Ways to Build Wealth and How Ordinary People Become Millionaires. He believes the purpose of investing is to have the profits from investments fully support one’s lifestyle and retirement.
Petrossi’s experience includes service as a Certified Financial Planner, Registered Investment Advisor, money manager, estate and tax planning consultant, and publishing the Wealth Research Institute Reports. He also serves on the boards of directors for public and private companies. He is a top rated financial speaker on Fox Business Radio and at global investment conferences. He has shared his proven and time-tested investment principles on the accumulation and preservation of wealth with investors from 80 countries.
In addition, Petrossi is a sought-after speaker at global investment conferences and spends his time traveling the world from his homes in Nevada’s Lake Tahoe Region and Shenzhen, China.
Books:
The Richest Man in China: Harnessing the 8 Pillars of Wealth
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Ruth Barrons Roosevelt, a futures trader and psychological trading coach, helps traders from around the world achieve trading excellence. She 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 coauthored Living In Step (McGraw Hill, 1976), and produced “Power Trading for Power Profits,” an audio course for self-mastery in trading.
Barron’s, Business Week, The Independent of London, the Toronto Star, New York Magazine, and numerous other publications have profiled her for her work with traders. In addition, Ruth has appeared on network television programs, including CNN Nightly News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Late Night Show with David Letterman. She also has been featured on international television, such as Japan Public Television, Nippon Television, Hungarian Public Television, and Finland Television Channel 3.
Other Ruth Barrons Roosevelt from Traders Press®
Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game
12 Habitudes for Highly Successful Traders
Overcoming 7 Deadly Sins of Trading
Keeping a Cool Head in a Hot Market
Books:
Mind Power: Thought Techniques for High-Powered Trading
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Peter Rosenstreich is ACM’s Chief Market Analyst. An outstanding financial strategist, Peter Rosenstreich has contributes to several recognized media publications, such as Reuters, Bloomberg, SFO, Barron’s, Financial Times, CNBC and Bloomberg TV A reference in the Forex field, he is the author of “Forex Revolution: an insider’s Guide to the Real World of Foreign Exchange Trading” published by “Financial Times Prentice Hall”. He holds an MBA from City University of New York.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Richard Russell began publishing Dow Theory Letters in 1958. It is now the oldest service continuously written by one person in the industry. In 1960, Russell was the first to recommend gold stocks. He called the top of the 1949 through 1966 bull market. Almost to the day, he called the bottom of the great 1972-74 bear market and the beginning of the great bull market that started in December 1974. Russell has written articles and been quoted in such publications as Barron’s, Time, Newsweek, Money Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and others. Russell flew as a combat bombardier on B-25 Mitchell Bombers with the 12th Air Force during World War II. He was educated at Rutgers and received his BA at NYU.
Books:
Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow’s Original Editorials and Their Relevance Today
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Jamie Saettele is senior currency strategist at Forex Capital Markets LLC and author of Sentiment in Forex Market: Indicators and Strategies to Profit from Crowd Behavior and Market Extremes (Wiley Trading, 2008). Saettele is an active currency trader employing a discretionary approach to the FX market. His technical strategy is published daily at DailyFX.com.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Michael Sankowski, CFA, CAIA, is a trader and consultant who has traded for hedge funds, proprietary trading groups and his own account for the last 10 years. During his time with a startup futures exchange, he designed new FX futures contracts, and he has a patent pendingon futures contract design. He is currently developing OTC contracts for new markets and designing a technology infrastructure solutions for high-speed algorithmic traders.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Boris Schlossberg serves as director of currency research at GFT and is one of the most frequently quoted currency analysts in the world, providing commentary for CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters and Dow Jones. He and Kathy Lien wrote Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game (Wiley, 2009). Schlossberg also is the author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market: Classic Techniques for Profiting from Market Swings and Trader Sentiment (Wiley Trading, 2006). He runs an educational website for traders called www.eminisetup.com.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Steven R. Selengut, MBA, RIA, has been in the financial services industry for more than 40 years. He started investing while employed in a life insurer’s pension investment department. At 25, he gained responsibility for a modest trust portfolio and began his trading career using the working capital model he describes in this book. His 12-year adventure in financial services produced an appreciation for the Wall Street environment, which helped him fine tune his unique investment strategy. The program’s success propelled him into early retirement at age 33 and a new career as a private investment portfolio manager. He has built a loyal following of dedicated clients, many of whom have been with him since the beginning.
Books:
The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want You to Read! (Revised Edition)
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Paul Shread, CMT, and member of the Market Technicians Association, with more than a decade of experience studying trading systems and writing about financial markets. He founded two financial Web sites that he sold to Jupitermedia Corp. in 2000. Since then, he has written daily columns on technical analysis, financial markets, and technology for Jupitermedia. He began his career in journalism. He was a reporter for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor and The Baltimore Sun and editor of a weekly news publication.
Books:
Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow’s Original Editorials and Their Relevance Today
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Denise K. Shull, MA, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and a full-time trader since 1994, combines her trading experience and her study of neuropsychology to teach traders once and for all how to consistently execute against their plan. She founded Trader Psyches Inc. to offer workshops, discussion groups, and individual coaching focused on understanding and managing the relationship between intellect, emotions, and trading actions. Shull holds a master's degree from The University of Chicago, where she studied how neuroscience supports the theories of the unconscious. She continues her studies at The Mid-Manhattan Institute, where she focuses on techniques to resolve emotional conflicts in trading. Shull can be reached at denise@traderpsyches.com. She can also be reached through the website www.traderpsyches.com
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Psychology of Trading
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David Silverman traded futures and securities for 26 years at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). He also served on the board of directors of the CME for eight years. In late 2007, he became chief operating officer for Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc., the world’s first financial exchange with a focus on intellectual property.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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World renowned trading coach and President of the Van Tharp Trading Institute, Dr Tharp is most widely recognized for his work in trading psychology, systems development and position sizing. He is the author of numerous books and home study programs including the best-selling Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and his highly regarded classic Peak Performance Home Study Course, which is suitable for all levels of traders and investors. You can learn more about Van Tharp at www.iitm.com.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Psychology of Trading
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Adrienne Toghraie, a Trader’s Coach, is an internationally recognized authority in the field of human development for the financial community. Her 8 books on the psychology of trading including, The Winning Edge1-4 and Traders' Secrets, co-authored with Murray Ruggiero, have been highly praised by financial magazines. Adrienne's public seminars and private coaching have achieved a wide level of recognition and popularity, as well as her television appearances and keynote addresses at major industry conferences.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Psychology of Trading
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Mike Tosaw is known for his ability to cover questions that range from the simple to the most complex. Mike is the man behind many online tutorials and live Webinars. His audiences around the country include online traders, members of investment clubs, and independent representatives seeking education about online stock and options trading.
His first hand experience as a retail investor and investment advisor makes him a resource for all investors. Mike is a Missouri Southern University graduate and a NASD Series 3, 4, 7 and 63 Registered Representative.
Mike has been in the industry for 7 years. He is registered in all 50 states and has spoken to thousands of investors in 3 different countries. He formerly worked for optionsXpress as their Director of Education. He is proud to bring his experience to Know Your Options customers.
Biography from KnowYourOptionsInc.com
Books:
Go Long: New Options Strategies for Buy & Hold Investors
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Joseph Trevisani has 18 years of experience in forex trading and management and is a senior partner and chief market analyst at FX Solutions. Prior to joining the online trading industry. Trevisani worked at Credit Suisse for 12 years in New York and Singapore as an interbank currency trader and trading desk manager. Upon returning from Asia, he managed the Asian trading desk and was a proprietary trader for The Bank of Bermuda in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Forex Trading
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Anthony Trongone earned his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1987. He is a Certified Financial Planner (1990), a Commodity Trading Advisor (1998), and has taught graduate Master of Business Administration courses in quantitative analysis, forecasting strategies, and investment for capital appreciation to more than 2,000 students in several Asian cities.
Many years of experience as a graduate psychology professor provided the foundation for Dr. Trongone’s unique trading philosophy. His articles provide strategies for active traders, showing them how they can achieve success by developing emotional discipline, trading with the percentages, and monitoring the performance of their systems.
Dr. Trongone is one of the 25 Master Educators for Interactive Data Corporation (www.esignal.com), and has written more than 50 articles in trading publications, including 13 feature articles for Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. His e-MBA textbook, Quantitative Methods for Finance and Investing, (Cengage Learning, 2008) is in its second printing.
In addition, Dr. Trongone has experience trading in the pits of the New York Board of Trade and regularly provides workshops and live webinars. In 2007, the Zhongguancun Haidian District, Beijing, China, Financial Innovation and Chamber of Commerce presented him with a recognition award for his contributions in finance and investing.
In 2010, Dr Trongone became an IAAFM Academician Fellow for his body of work in Taiwan pertaining to economic development, international business, and wealth management.
He enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, and hiking the trails of Sussex County.
Books:
Trading in the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes: Balancing Probabilities for Successful Investing
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Robert James Waller grew up in Rockford, Iowa, a Midwestern town of 900 people, where his mother was a housewife and his father operated a small produce business. He was educated at the University of Northern Iowa and Indiana University, where he received his
doctorate. He taught management, economics, and decision theory at UNI from 1968 to 1991, except for one year (1975-76) spent on leave at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. From 1979 to 1985, he served as dean of UNI’s College of Business. He has lectured and published widely in the fields of problem-solving and decision-making and has worked as a consultant to business corporations and government institutions throughout the United States and around the world. He was an all-conference basketball player in college, worked for more than 20 years as a musician (guitar, flute, singer/songwriter) playing nightclubs and concerts, and is a serious photographer.
Among his non-academic publications is the bestselling novel, The Bridges of Madison County, with over 12 million copies in print in more than 40 languages, which also was a major film and has been presented as a theatrical production in several countries, including a long-running production in Japan, a recent successful run in Paris, and forthcoming productions in other countries. He also has published six other novels, has five additional books on various topics, and has completed a photography-poetry book. His novel Puerto Vallarta Squeeze was made into a motion picture starring Harvey Keitel and Scott Glenn and is available on DVD. His most recent novels are High Plains Tango and The Long Night of Winchell Dear. Taken together, his books have sold approximately 17 million copies.
Robert lives on a small farm in the Texas Hill Country and—as the spirit moves him—pursues his various interests in economics, mathematics, writing, photography, music, and fly fishing for trout in locations throughout the United States. He is married to Linda Bow, and his daughter, Rachael, is a professional photographer.
Books:
The Summer Nights Never End ... Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run
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Mark D. Wolfinger has been in the options business since 1977, when he began his career as a floor trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Over the next 23 years, he worked primarily as a market maker, but also held a variety of positions in the industry, including risk manager, off-floor trader and coach for new traders. Wolfinger is still an active options trader who finds it more fun and less stressful to trade from his home computer than to trade in person on the exchange floor. After leaving the CBOE he began educating investors on how to use options profitably and safely. He gives trading seminars as well as provides individual mentoring via telephone or email. Over the past seven years, he has published three books and written more than 20 articles. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Wolfinger currently lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his life partner, Penny. He holds a BS from Brooklyn College and a PhD in chemistry from Northwestern University. Prior to his trading career, Wolfinger was a research chemist for Monsanto Company. His website is mdwoptions.com and he welcomes comments at rookies@mdwoptions.com.
Books:
The Rookie’s Guide to Options: The Beginner’s Handbook of Trading Equity Options
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Woodie has been an independent trader for a considerable number of years, many of which have been spent developing the CCI patterns and the use of momentum in trading. He currently spends his time mentoring traders, teaching the CCI method and running chat rooms for traders. He has conducted numerous seminars and has spoken at the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and at many trading conferences across the U.S. and in Europe. Woodie’s work has been featured in SFO magazine, Active Trader and on a number of radio programs. Woodie has been a longtime supporter of Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. To date, Woodie’s CCI Club has contributed more than $120,000 to Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Books:
Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI
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John Yackley, president and manager of funds at Be Free Investments, a registered commodity trading advisor, began managing money for investors in 1995. He has two unique investment strategies that focus on and trade stock index and interest rate futures and options.
Books:
SFO Personal Investor Series: Online Trading
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