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As traders, we know how important psychology is to success. As Stephen Dubner will show you, psychology is vital in ALL businesses! His lectures are as entertaining as they are illuminating. Using humor and first-rate storytelling to discuss the sort of topics that are on every business person's mind these days: the ways to create behavior change, the incentives that work and don't work, and the value of asking unpopular questions.
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Lawrence (Larry) McMillan is the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the best selling work on stock and index options strategies. Recognized as an options trading industry expert, traders and investors have relied on his insights over the years. As a well known and respected member of the options trading community, we're proud to have him join us on the main stage at OASIS 2009!
Mr. McMillan will cover his experiences in the nearly 30 years he's been trading and what that's taught him about dealing with the current markets. You won't want to miss this groundbreaking main stage event!
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Get ready to for the first ever Optionetics Improv! Join us in challenging Greg and Chip to some fun trading-based improv! Imagine the fun we can have using improve ideas that are centered around trading terms (or anything else we can come up with!) Imagine the fun Greg and Chip will have with terms such as "Butterfly," "Spread," or even something simple as "Strangle"!
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Today's markets create incredible opportunities for traders who know how to spot trading trends, patterns and the greeks- and move quickly based on their analysis. The market is moving faster than ever and isn't looking to slow down any time soon! George is taking speed to the main stage and will teach you how experienced traders make decisions and move quickly to capture profits.
George will show you new trend following systems and techniques which may enable you to take bigger profits out of the markets on a consistent basis and potentially limit your risk and achieve higher returns using options strategies.
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Want every trade to be 5 days or less?
Join Tom Gentile for a main stage presentation that will teach you how to trade options during expiration week. Tom will show you one of his favorite systems to trade using short term options. By combining one of his favorite systems, with short term index options, you can put yourself into trades that last a week or less, with great profit potential. From ProfitSource to Platinum, Tom will show you how to spot this trading pattern, and what options to trade the pattern on.
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Join Christina and Steve as they impart vital knowledge on finding calendars, and then come back for more and learn how to adjust calendars. This 2 part calendar session will walk you step by step through the 3 stage process of Identifying an Opportunity, Finding a Low Risk Trade, and Managing the Trade. The first 1.5 hour session will cover the first two of these steps, while the second 2 hour session will cover the third.
Here's what you will learn:
- Identify an Opportunity
- Clarification of what the calendar strategy is
- How to trade a calendar both sideways and directionally
- What to look for on a stock chart that makes for a good calendar candidate
- How to run a scan in ProfitSource for sideways stock patterns
- How to run Platinum scans for calendars using various filters
Find Low Risk Trades
- How to decide between a put calendar and call calendar
- Which expiration months to use
- How to spot a good calendar risk graph and discard a bad one
- The effect of implied volatility on a calendar
- Understanding why earnings and dividends are important
- How to compare a directional calendar with a plain option or vertical spread
- How to compare a sideways calendar with a butterfly or condor
- How to use Platinum's Risk Graph Overlay feature to find the highest-probability trade
Then join Christina and Steve for Part 2 of the Calendars Series Adjusting the Calendar!
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Ron and Rob will present a deeper dive into the complexity behind the Elliott Wave Theory. In the first session you will learn additional filters that you can use to improve your analysis and trade finding ability. In the second session, you will learn how to adjust trades and watch for exit signals using Elliott Wave theory, combined with options strategies. You will also learn additional trading systems that combine Elliott Wave with other technical Indicators such as ADX and EMA. Finally, Rob and Ron will show you how they trade different strategies including the Butterfly and Calendar Spreads using Elliott Wave Analysis to find the set ups. These sessions will help you get the most out of your ProfitSource and Platinum subscriptions, regardless of whether you have a favorite strategy, or if you like to trade all strategies.
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Want to trade direction, either bullish or bearish? Volatility concerns? Are options expensive or are they cheap? What should I do? Should I spread them off? If IV is not low, it's high. Options are expensive so I should use a spread instead of buying just the option. Debit spread or credit spread, that is the question. If I use the credit spread, do I get paid to trade? What are the advantages or disadvantages of the debit spread or credit spread? Is there even a difference?
Find out when Joe Contes (Optionetics Instructor) and Devon Pearsall (Profit Strategies Instructor) square off during the session "Battle of the Spreads."
You'll learn what a spread is and the best ways (and under what conditions) to use them. These two instructors have differing opinions and you will totally enjoy watching them battle it out over the debit spread (Bull Call and Bear Put) versus the "credit" spread (Bull Put and Bear Call) as they are referred to in your course materials. Don't miss this one, it's going to be quite the show!
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Ever felt cheated and robbed by the market? Come learn how to identify the type of market we are in, find trades that others missed, deploy the optimal strategies, and set up entry, exit, and adjustments in each of the markets via detailed case studies. This is NOT your usual 2 day class on steroids. You will be shocked to learn what it takes to trade profitably.
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As a trader, it's easy to make mistakes when you're learning or if you're testing a new system or strategy. Money management, education and a good mentor or coach is what prevents any mistake from being your last.
This session will share some common mistakes traders make, and how to avoid them. It's better to learn from someone experienced, rather than to make the same mistakes that can be easily avoided if you know what to watch for!
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Want to trade direction, either bullish or bearish? Volatility concerns? Are options expensive or are they cheap? What should I do? Should I spread them off? If IV is not low, it's high. Options are expensive so I should use a spread instead of buying just the option. Debit spread or credit spread, that is the question. If I use the credit spread, do I get paid to trade? What are the advantages or disadvantages of the debit spread or credit spread? Is there even a difference?
Find out when Joe Contes (Optionetics Instructor) and Devon Pearsall (Profit Strategies Instructor) square off during the session "Battle of the Spreads."
You'll learn what a spread is and the best ways (and under what conditions) to use them. These two instructors have differing opinions and you will totally enjoy watching them battle it out over the debit spread (Bull Call and Bear Put) versus the "credit" spread (Bull Put and Bear Call) as they are referred to in your course materials. Don't miss this one, it's going to be quite the show!
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Maybe you have a full time job, a business or family obligations. Maybe there are just too many things robbing you of the time you need to dedicate to becoming a full time trader.
This very popular topic will teach the strategies you can use to effectively maximize your trading and
Minimize your time to achieve your trading goals.
Learn how PROFITS are GREATER than wages, trade dollars for dollars instead of hours for dollars.
Learn about the "Garbage trade" that allows you to profit from extreme market movement with little
risk, REGARDLESS OF MARKET direction!!
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Join Greg and Alex as they give you a butterfly lesson with a floor trader's angle! These butterfly sessions will teach you:
1. How to find butterflies using Platinum and/or ProfitSource.
2. New search criteria in Platinum that is finding great candidates.
3. The hazards (or advantages) of legging in (which is it? Come to this session to find out!)
4. How many contracts does it take to make a butterfly worth doing.
You'll also get a very relevant lesson in market history!
Come to the double session to learn how to find and enter this multi-legged trade, and then how to adjust them as the markets change to maximize your profit potential!
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How to make time your friend, rather than your enemy. We all know that the only thing certain in life is that time passes. In this session you will learn how to put this time on your side, rather than hurting you. Find out how "the bane of option traders" can be used to your advantage.
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You have all heard the unprecedented success that can be had with the Collar Strategy, and if you didn't initially see the benefit of a collar before, this year has certainly had to change your mind. One of our students was long Bear Stearns stock with a collar around it and made money as the stock went to $0. Now learn this strategy from the masters! You'll learn the delicate nuances of this trade such as:
- What stocks to trade
- When to collar vs. when a married put would be better
- When to roll the trade
- In what months to trade the option
- What strike prices are best for your stock
In short, all that is still a mystery to you will be explained in TWO sessions that you will not want to miss. The first session will cover finding collar canditates and how to enter. The second session will cover adjusting, managing and exiting collars.
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How to use the time value in your options to multiply your profits. Most traders wrongly feel that they have to be ITM to make money on options. This is definitely not the case. Students attending this session will no longer be held captive by these "guidelines" and "I heards" and learn to have trades that can multiply your money by MORE than the movement of the stock alone.
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At OASIS 2008, Jimmy taught a very popular session on "Best Trades of 2008." The results from that breakout session were amazingly on target.
Jimmy will be back at OASIS 2009, talking about what the remainder of the year may hold. Don't miss this session!
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Back by popular demand! "Adjust This! Part 3" will be the third session in Joe's OASIS series on trade adjustments. He will build on the topics revealed at the last two OASIS events with some new and creative ideas applicable to the wild volatility in the markets.
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If you haven't seen Ross teach the Gartley Pattern, you're missing out on a key tool that can be used to profit in the FX market. Come to this extended breakout session to start finding better FX trades immediately!
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If you are looking for and edge that most traders ignore, this session is not to be missed. The vast majority of traders focus solely on technical and/or fundamental data in order to find trades. In this fast-paced session, veteran trader and author Jay Kaeppel will lay out a variety of strategies for using reliable seasonal trends in the financial markets to help zero in on high probability trades. Jays experience in analyzing seasonal trends culminated in his latest book, Seasonal Stock Market Trends. In this session, Jay will use some material from this book and from other works to build a strategy that involves using seasonal trends to find a good trading candidate, then incorporates a trend-following approach to increase the odds of success. The final piece of the strategy is a unique trade selection method that focuses on finding the right trade to take maximum advantage of the expected move.
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Join Christina and Steve for part 2 of the Calendar series as they teach the options of managing and adjusting the Calendar Trade.
You'll learn:
- How to plan your exit rules in advance
- Understanding exercise and assignment
- Assignment on short call
- Assignment on short put
- Understanding the effect of theta and gamma
- How to minimize your loss if it goes against you
How to adjust:
- When to sell for profit
- When to roll
- When to sell some and roll some
- How and when to morph your calendar
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Join Steve and Christina as they impart vital knowledge on finding calendars, and then come back for more and learn how to adjust calendars. This 2 part calendar session will walk you step by step through the 3 stage process of Identifying an Opportunity, Finding a Low Risk Trade, and Managing the Trade. The first 1.5 hour session will cover the first two of these steps, while the second 2 hour session will cover the third.
Here's what you will learn:
- Identify an Opportunity
- Clarification of what the calendar strategy is
- How to trade a calendar both sideways and directionally
- What to look for on a stock chart that makes for a good calendar candidate
- How to run a scan in ProfitSource for sideways stock patterns
- How to run Platinum scans for calendars using various filters
Find Low Risk Trades
- How to decide between a put calendar and call calendar
- Which expiration months to use
- How to spot a good calendar risk graph and discard a bad one
- The effect of implied volatility on a calendar
- Understanding why earnings and dividends are important
- How to compare a directional calendar with a plain option or vertical spread
- How to compare a sideways calendar with a butterfly or condor
- How to use Platinum's Risk Graph Overlay feature to find the highest-probability trade
Then join Steve and Christina for Part 2 of the Calendars Series Adjusting the Calendar!
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Learn how to manage condors like a master! Any time you have multi-legged strategies, the door opens for adjusting them to lock in profit on a whole new level! This session will focus on how to manage various types of condors. Using case studies, Mitch and Nick will cover trade plans, order types, adjustments, and exit strategies for this powerful strategy.
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Rob and Ron will present a deeper dive into the complexity behind the Elliott Wave Theory. In the first session you will learn additional filters that you can use to improve your analysis and trade finding ability. In the second session, you will learn how to adjust trades and watch for exit signals using Elliott Wave theory, combined with options strategies. You will also learn additional trading systems that combine Elliott Wave with other technical Indicators such as ADX and EMA. Finally, Rob and Ron will show you how they trade different strategies including the Butterfly and Calendar Spreads using Elliott Wave Analysis to find the set ups. These sessions will help you get the most out of your ProfitSource and Platinum subscriptions, regardless of whether you have a favorite strategy, or if you like to trade all strategies.
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This session will review the many variations of the condor strategy. Join Nick and Mitch as they teach the ins and outs of the condor strategy in their unique, interactive teaching style. You'll learn how to use tools and get some great guidelines that will show you a variety of ways to identify condor opportunities in today's (and tomorrow's) markets.
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Learn how to manage condors like a master! Any time you have multi-legged strategies, the door opens for adjusting them to lock in profit on a whole new level! This session will focus on how to manage various types of condors. Using case studies, Mitch and Nick will cover trade plans, order types, adjustments, and exit strategies for this powerful strategy.
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Join Alex and Greg as they give you a butterfly lesson with a floor trader's angle! These butterfly sessions will teach you:
1. How to find butterflies using Platinum and/or ProfitSource.
2. New search criteria in Platinum that is finding great candidates.
3. The hazards (or advantages) of legging in (which is it? Come to this session to find out!)
4. How many contracts does it take to make a butterfly worth doing.
You'll also get a very relevant lesson in market history!
Come to the double session to learn how to find and enter this multi-legged trade, and then how to adjust them as the markets change to maximize your profit potential!
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This session will review the many variations of the condor strategy. Join Mitch and Nick as they teach the ins and outs of the condor strategy in their unique, interactive teaching style. You'll learn how to use tools and get some great guidelines that will show you a variety of ways to identify condor opportunities in today's (and tomorrow's) markets.
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Join Steve and Christina for part 2 of the Calendar series as they teach the options of managing and adjusting the Calendar Trade.
You'll learn:
- How to plan your exit rules in advance
- Understanding exercise and assignment
- Assignment on short call
- Assignment on short put
- Understanding the effect of theta and gamma
- How to minimize your loss if it goes against you
How to adjust:
- When to sell for profit
- When to roll
- When to sell some and roll some
- How and when to morph your calendar
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Ross Beck
Instructor
FXTE
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Ross has actively traded the capital markets for over a decade, and specializes in technical analysis with a focus on pattern recognition and Fibonacci ratio analysis. Prior to joining FXTE, Ross worked with some of the largest derivatives brokerages in Canada and the U.S. He has worked with FXTE since its inception, and students quickly recognize his passion for the Forex market and everything it has to offer.
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John Broussard
Platinum Developer
Optionetics
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John spent many years inventing, designing and programming algorithms for flight control and missile guidance systems. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from UL and an MS in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington U. Building a stock and option trading and analysis system in software has been his hobby since the PC was invented. Working with Chris McLean, Platinum's early version was put on the internet in the 90s. John has been working full time improving and adding capabilities to Platinum since 2001 and also answers Platinum questions on the Optionetics message boards.
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Colin Carr
Instructor
Profit Strategies Group
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Raised in England, Colin came to the United States and received his MBA with an emphasis on finance. After spending 15 years in corporate America, he ended up in manufacturing and owned three businesses. He has been trading for eight years and has spent the last three years as a full-time trader. Along with his passion for trading comes an equaled desire for empowering others to become successful in the markets.
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Ron Chandler
Instructor
Optionetics
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Ron Chandler began as an Optionetics student in 2002 and started trading full time in the summer of 2004. In 2006 he started teaching Intermediate Seminars. Ron is still the Managing Partner of a small manufacturing consulting firm and manages a trading account for the firm as part of his responsibilities.
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Joe Contes
Instructor
Optionetics
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Joe Contes is a professional options trader with many years of trading experience beginning in the late 80's. As a student of Optionetics since 2001 and an instructor for nearly five years, he brings a wealth of knowledge to his students at the 2-Day Optionetics Seminars, Interactive Computer Trading (ICT) and Master's ICT classes.
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Stephen Dubner
Special Guest
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Stephen Dubner is a journalist and co-author of the best selling book "Freakonomics- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything." Stephen Dubner's lectures are as entertaining as they are illuminating. He uses humor and storytelling to discuss the sort of topics that are on every business person's mind.
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Eloy Fenocchi
Instructor
Optionetics
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Eloy became interested in the commodity future markets in the early 90's and soon became acquainted with George and the importance of risk management in trading. His trading has endured the test of time as he has traded through many different market environments and has adopted specialized strategies to trade them efficiently. Eloy is recognized among Optionetics students for the George made famous "Tarzan loves Jane", and more resently for the exotic butterfly spreads which has become his pivotal trading style. Soon after closing his Mechanical contracting business in Texas and becoming a full-time trader he became a top instructor with Optionetics, sharing his experiences and helping students reach their trading goals. Teaching mostly in the advanced settings with George and other top instructors, and his light-hearted Texas style of communicating has made for some very memorable learning experiences for students.
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George Fontanills
Founder
Optionetics
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George Fontanills received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Using his academic analytical skills, George conducted his own comprehensive investigation to determine what differentiated the winners from the losers. George eventually developed a methodology to control risk for every trade, a practice now commonly known as "Optionetics." His delta neutral trading breakthroughs have led to numerous guest appearances on radio and television shows all over the country and has been the subject of a number of articles in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Research Magazine, CBS MarketWatch, and TheStreet.com. Specializing in delta neutral trading using
stocks, options on indices, and options on stocks, George Fontanills has instructed thousands of traders internationally. Today, George concentrates his time on his own equity options investing- as well as finding and recruiting the finest professional traders in the nation. He is instilling in them the same warm-hearted respect for students and a penchant for giving that has made the Optionetics system so successful and popular today.
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Nick Gazzolo
Instructor
Optionetics
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Nick began trading options in 1998. After taking all of the Optionetics' courses repeatedly, he joined the first Elite Traders program and then become an instructor in 2004. Nick has an advanced degree in psychology and chooses to apply it to himself and other people in the markets. His passions are trading, teaching, and traveling. Nick feels fortunate to share these passions with others. When he's not trading or teaching, he loves to read, watch movies, and sail. Favorite strategies are dynamic collars, butterflies and credit spreads. Nick teaches in the ICT, MICT, Elite program, and On-line classes.
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Mitch Genser
Senior Instructor
Optionetics
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Mitch Genser, one of our senior instructors and program innovators, has been trading full time for more than 12 years, following a career as a children's attorney, a director of an educational non-profit, and an elementary school teacher. Mitch has been teaching with Optionetics for almost 8 years now, and has trained students at a variety of levels, including the 2 Day Seminar, ICT's, ITT's, MICT's, the Elite Program, and Advanced Courses with George and Tom. Mitch's primary focus as a trader is in the equities markets, where, on a regular basis, he trades an assortment of low risk, primarily non-directional options strategies. Mitch also trades quite a numbe of instruments in both the futures and currencies markets, where more of his directional trading strategies are routinely implemented.
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Tom Gentile
Founder
Senior Vice President, Optionetics
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Tom is Senior Vice-President and Chief Market Strategist for Optionetics and Founder of Profit Strategies, as well as a full-time trader. Tom started his trading career on Wall Street at the American Stock Exchange, and eventually turned to trading off the floor. He has played key roles in the development of Optionetics as well as Profit Strategies.
Tom appears every other week on Your World with Neal Cavuto and makes regular appearances on CNBC Europe, Bloomberg, Squawk Box and Reuters. His works can be found in monthly magazines such as Stocks and Commodities, and he co-authored The Stock Market Course and The Volatility Course with George Fontanills. He currently resides in Atlanta and hosts the weekly Profit Strategies Radio, a financial talk show on Saturdays in Los Angeles. Tom feels that his success has a lot to do with teaching people around the world how to use alternative strategies in the market. It allows him to constantly focus on what he loves to do -- trade.
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Gustavo Guzman
Instructor
Optionetics
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While in college studying vocal pedagogy, Gustavo started his trading career in the late 1980's working for a brokerage house that specialized in precious metals and foreign currencies. Led by a desire to achieve financial independence and freedom, he began attending many different seminars and workshops on options and investments. By the early '90s he eventually decided to leave the industry to pursue a career as a part time trader and full time vocal therapist/coach. He became part of the Optionetics family in 1996 as a student, where he quickly became noticed for his success as a trader. His story was featured in one of the early Optionetics infomercials shown nationally.
His effective trading style allowed him the time and flexibility to pursue a career in the highly competitive and often very unstable entertainment industry. He is an author of two books on the health and care of the voice, and has worked with many recognized performers in the business. His deep love of people and desire to help them, has influenced him to become an instructor for Optionetics.
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Jay Kaeppel
Instructor
Optionetics
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Jay Kaeppel, a Trading Strategist with Optionetics, Inc., is the co-editor of Optionetics ETF Investor newsletter and writes a weekly column, Kaeppel's Corner for www.optionetics.com. An independent trader, Jay has been active in the financial markets for over two decades. He was the Head Trader at a CTA for 8 years and a trading system and trading software developer for 15 years. As an author, Jay has published four books on trading, The Four Biggest Mistakes in Option Trading, The Four Biggest Mistakes in Futures Trading, The Option Trader's Guide to Probability, Volatility and Timing and Seasonal Stock Market Trends: The Definitive Guide to Seasonal Stock Market Trading (Wiley, January 2009).
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Mike Lawch
Senior Instructor
Optionetics
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Mike has been a full-time trader of futures, options on futures, stocks, and equity options since 1995, when he left his VP and CFO position at Criterion Investment Management. Mike brings you a wealth of knowledge and information not easily gained on your own. He continues to share his experience and in-depth understanding of the world of options investing as an instructor for Optionetics seminars worldwide. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, with a BS in Industrial Engineering and Management Science. He received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, with majors in accounting, finance and quantitative methods. Mike is a non-practicing CPA in both Illinois and Texas. His career includes a variety of financial positions including Operational Auditor for the Far East Division of Exxon Corporation, Assistant Controller and Treasurer for Aminoil USA, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Criterion Investment Management.
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Greg Loehr
Instructor
Optionetics
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Greg is a former CBOE market maker with over a decade of experience in stock option trading and risk management. He has been trading full-time since leaving the trading floor in 2002. Loehr is also an attorney-at-law and serves as an expert witness and consultant to parties involved in securities arbitrations.
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Aaron Lynch
Chief Strategist
Safety In the Market
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Aaron is a head tutor with extensive experience in trading software and education across a number of markets including shares, options and futures. Aaron began working closely with the Safety in the Market software and education courses in 2000, after thoroughly reviewing the course material developed by David Bowden. He has presented at all major Safety in the Market events across Australia and New Zealand, including the National Traders conferences, Trading with Safety seminars, Trading Tactics workshops, Software Smarts workshops and a number of other respected investment education events in Australia.
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Sukan Makmuri
Instructor
Optionetics
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In the early 1990s, Sukan built derivative trading systems for leading financial institutions and started trading options professionally. His specialty is dealing with stock options and real estate investments that have low risk and high profitability. Audiences enjoy his captivating and insightful tutorials, which are based on real-world case studies.
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Larry McMillan
Special Guest
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Lawrence G. McMillan is the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the best-selling work on stock and index options strategies. He currently authors a unique daily advisory service - Daily Volume Alerts - and also edits and publishes "The Option Strategist", a derivative products newsletter covering equity, index, and futures options. In these capacities, he is the President of McMillan Analysis Corporation, which he founded in 1991. He has spoken on option strategies at many seminars and colloquiums in the United States, Canada, and Europe. In addition, he trades his own account actively, and he manages option-oriented accounts for certain individuals.
Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. McMillan was a proprietary trader at two major brokerage firms- Thomson McKinnon Securities and Prudential-Bache.
He initially worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Whippany, NJ, from 1972 to 1976. Mr. McMillan holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from Purdue University (1968) and an M.S. in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Colorado (1972).
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Alex Mendoza
Instructor
Optionetics
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After graduating from Duke University, Alex worked as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for two years before becoming a market maker at CBOE for the Susquehanna International Group. While on the floor, Alex made markets and managed positions in over 50 equity options classes. After collecting profits (and stories) for five years, he set off to trade on his own. Fortunately for all of us in the community who want to know how the system works, he also shares his expertise in seminars for Optionetics students around the country. His style of trading concentrates on the mathematics, probabilities and game theory inherent in the marketplace.
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Steve Novak
Instructor
Optionetics
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Steven Novak has been trading stocks and options since 1999, with 2002 marking his first year as a full-time trader. His initial foray into trading was typical--he lost a lot of money very quickly. But the same passion for reading and learning that had propelled him while studying literature in college proved useful in his trading education. He noticed that nearly every great trader he met or read about started out by paying hefty tuition in trading losses. He also noticed that some people quit and never came back after that happened, while others used their mistakes as a learning opportunity to teach them how to trade better next time, and it was to this camp that he determined to become a member.
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Christina Nugent
Instructor
Optionetics
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Christina has been trading options for over 16 years. An honors graduate of the University of New Orleans with
a BS in Finance with a Minor in Real Estate, she was the recipient of an internship in the international trust department
of a large banking institution that began her career and love for trading. Besides actively trading, she became
part of Home Depot’s success story in roles as Help Desk Manager and Senior IS Director. Her trading style
focuses on simple, successful strategies and she has incorporated this into a teaching style that has made her a
favored Optionetics speaker.
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Steve Nurre
Instructor
FXTE
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Steve spent the first 5 years of his professional career as an options trader for one of America's largest brokerage firms. During this time, Steve traded and advised on options strategies for some of the largest retail and institutional Traders in the Country.
Because of Steve's expertise with options trading and active trading strategies, he was recruited to become an instructor where he taught with such renowned financial institutions as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Options Exchange. Steve has instructed classes across the country on subjects ranging from Risk Management and Technical Analysis, to Futures and Currency Trading and is considered an expert in a broad array of subjects concerning Trading in the Financial Markets.
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Devon Pearsall
Senior Instructor
Profit Strategies Group
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Devon began his stock market career in 1994 after attending college courses in finance. He has been living in Portland, Oregon managing one of the largest Direct Access trading branches in the country, and overseeing a restructuring of their educational system for both clients and house traders. Devon realized that they keys to success in the market revolve around risk, trading and money management and advises traders to set and follow guidelines in their trading plan.
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Greg Proops and Chip Esten
Comedians
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Most commonly known for their improvisations on the hit show "Whose Line is it Anyway" Greg Proops and Chip Esten are sure to have you doubling-over in your seat.
You may have also seen Greg Proops on shows such as "For the Love of Greg", "Comedy Central Presents: Greg Proops" or his own webshow "The Greg Proops Experiment."
You may have seen Chip "Charles" Esten on episodes of TV hit shows like "The Office", "Big Love", "ER" or "The New Adventures of Old Christine."
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Rob Roy
Instructor
Optionetics
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Rob has extensive experience in teaching courses on securities licensing and tax advantaged financial planning. Rob is an educator who has attended more seminars on investing than anyone we know. That's why we were especially proud when he decided to join our Optionetics team.
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Clare White
Writer
Optionetics
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Clare writes technical analysis, money management and options content for Optionetics. Prior to this she worked at Charles Schwab in the Capital Markets & Retail Divisions, both with a focus on options trading. Clare has 10 years experience trading equities & options and holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics along with the MTA Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.
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Jimmy Young
Instructor
FXTE
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Jimmy provides the insider's point of view of currency trading that can only come from 20+ years of hands-on currency trading experience within top Banks. Through FXTE Jimmy teaches his proprietary trading systems and the tools needed to succeed in FX trading. His unique insight is unavailable from any other FX teaching program.
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Peter Zomaya
Instructor
Optionetics
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An instructor for Optionetics, Peter Zomaya is not only a professional trader, but has also distinguished himself as a patient and effective teacher of options trading strategies. After receiving his degree from Mannin University in Dublin and serving as a US Marine, Peter rose to the level of VP in the semiconductor industry. Peter learned to trade from one of the highest volume traders on the CBOE and in 1997, after 12 years in the semiconductor industry, Peter redirected his analytic skills and began trading as a professional. In early 2000, he began teaching options strategies to self directed investors. Since then, Peter has taught thousands of individual investors how to properly utilize options and manage risk in any market, while also showing them the advantages they had over floor traders.
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