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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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Michael Carr has been trading for more than twenty years and is a chartered market technician. He began researching relative strength trading more than a decade ago. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel, he became a full-time relative strength investor. He is the editor of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) monthly newsletter, Technically Speaking, and associate editor of MTA’s scholarly publication, Journal of Technical Analysis. Carr also serves on the MTA Educational Foundation board of directors. His writing has appeared in SFO magazine, Futures, TRADERS, and Working Money.
Books:
Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing
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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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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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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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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. Selegut, 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.
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SFO Personal Investor Series: Psychology of Trading
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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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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.
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SFO Personal Investor Series: Online Trading
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