Jeff Greenblatt, Director of Lucas Wave International, has been a private trader for the past nine years. He is the author of the new best-selling book, Breakthrough Strategies for Predicting Any Market: Charting Elliott Wave, Lucas, Fibonacci and Time for Profit (Marketplace Books). Jeff is also the editor of The Fibonacci Forecaster, a market timing letter with a circulation of traders and money managers in 17 countries that covers stocks, bonds, precious metals, currencies, and the crude oil market.

Jeff's technical expertise covers Elliott Wave theory, Fibonacci studies, and candlesticks. He has enhanced these methodologies to include the Lucas Series, which is closely related to the Fibonacci sequence. Jeff has developed and tested a timing methodology that can be adapted to many disciplines of technical analysis, which will allow traders and money managers much greater precision with their trading and investment decisions.

Jeff has a Bachelors degree in business from Cal State Northridge and an MBA with a specialization in finance and total quality for service industries from the University of Phoenix. He spent many years in small business, and after completing his graduate studies, he moved on to his true passion-financial markets.

Jeff is a regular contributor to Futuresmag.com and Futures magazine. He has also published articles in Your Trading Edge magazine from Australia and The Trader's Journal from Singapore. He speaks at various trading events like the Traders' Expo and Traders' Forum and has appeared on KFNN 1510 Financial News Radio in Phoenix, Arizona, where he lives with his wife Jeannie and son Josh.

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Toni Turner is a trader/investor with sixteen years of experience in the financial markets. She is the best-selling author of A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online , A Beginner's Guide to Short Term Trading and Short-Term Trading in the New Stock Market . Her books have been translated into Vietnamese, Japanese, and Chinese. Toni is a popular educator and speaks at trading forums and financial conferences across the United States.

Toni has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC. She has been interviewed on dozens of radio programs and has been featured in periodicals such as Fortune magazine, Stocks and Commodities, SFO, MarketWatch.com, Fidelity Active Trader, and Bloomberg Personal Finance. Toni is the President of TrendStar Group, Inc. and also serves as a consultant to Townsend Analytics, Ltd., developers and creators of the RealTick© trading platform.

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Toni Hansen (http://www.tonihansen.com) is a full time trader who has spent the past decade emerged in the market. A popular speaker and columnist, Toni spends much of her free time sharing her knowledge with others.

Now one of the most respected technical analysts and traders in the industry with a high reputation for accuracy in both bull and bear markets, she began her trading career as an equity swing trader and has since expanded into many other sectors of the market. Her style of trading and market analysis transcends both time as well as market vehicles, making it attractive to investors and traders of stocks, futures, options, ETFs, and even the FOREX market.

This adaptable nature allows her to be active even in the slowest periods in the overall market and successful during both bull and bearish market moves.

Toni is a frequent speaker at the trade shows and trading expos and has spoken on behalf of Townsend Analytics, as well as the Chicago Board of Trade as an active trader of their Mini-Dow futures contract. Toni is a popular columnist on The Hard Right Edge and is a repeat contributor to Stocks, Futures, and Options Magazine, known most widely as SFO, and has recently co-authored their newest book, Online Trading.

Throughout the boom and bust of the last decade, Toni has been consistently trading and educating new traders. Her students include a diverse spectrum of market participants, from professional money managers, market analysts, brokers and traders to retirees and stay at home parents, as well as those simply wishing to hone their market skills. Over the years she has spent most of her trading days online sharing her skills and insights with others.

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HALL OF FAME WINNER

Richard W Arms, Jr., is a financial consultant to institutional investors and a private portfolio manager based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a noted expert in the field of technical and market analysis, the 1995 winner of the prestigious Market Technicians Outstanding Contribution Award, and the author of several best selling books and articles on his ground breaking theories in volume analysis and market forecasting. This key technical tool for understanding market price movement is listed daily in the Wall Street Journal and is flashed once a minute on CNBC.

Richard’s revolutionary theories have changed the way investors perceive the market. His expertise in the field of technical analysis has had significant impact; evidence of this fact is that his Equivolume charting system is part of the most popular stock and futures software, and his Arms Index—also known as the Short-Term Trading Index or TRIN—has become one of the most important technical tools on Wall Street. His best selling books include The Arms Index (TRIN), Profits in Volume, and Trading Without Fear, all of which are available at TradersLibrary.com. With his succinct analytical skills and unique approach, Richard Arms makes sophisticated investment strategies accessible to everyday, individual investors.

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Bill Kraft practiced law for more than 30 years before embarking on a second career as a trader. As he became proficient at trading, Bill began helping others to trade, which eventually led him to create a seminar company, Cutloss, Inc., and to write about trading. Bill is Editor of three online newsletters: Under $10 Trader, Option Trader, and Trend Trader, which are published by MarketFN.com, and a weekly newsletter alert, which is sent to about 75,000 people. He is also the author of the current best-selling book, Trade Your Way to Wealth: Earn Big Profits with No-Risk, Low-Risk, and Measured-Risk Strategies.

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John Person is a 28-year veteran of the futures and options trading industry. He started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in 1979 and worked his way throughout the industry as a independent trader, broker, analyst and branch manager for one of Chicago's largest discount / full service firms under the direct supervision of a former Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is the former owner and President of First National Futures Group, Inc. and is continuing his work as a registered commodity trading advisor.

John has shared his wealth of knowledge in the field of technical analysis and system development with thousands of traders, including members of the largest exchanges. He is the author of three nationally and internationally popular trading books: The Complete Guide to Technical Analysis for the Futures Markets, Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers + CD-ROM: Setups for Stock, and Forex, and Futures Markets, Forex Conquered: High Probability Systems and Strategies for Active Traders as well as two trading courses and a DVD seminar series.

He is widely quoted by CBS Market Watch, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, and appears regularly on CNBC as well. He is a sought after speaker for many professional organizations such as the Market Technicians Association (MTA), the International Federation of Technical Analyst Society (IFTA), and delivers keynote speeches and seminars at some of the country’s top national investment expos. He is also the editor of the weekly Bottom Line newsletter, which covers stock, futures, and currency trades.

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Guy Cohen is the creator of Flag-Trader, OptionEasy and Illuminati-Trader.

Guy is also the author of Options Made Easy, The Bible of Options Strategies and Volatility Made Easy (2009), and has extensive experience of the options and stock markets. Specializing in trading applications Guy has developed comprehensive trading and training models, all expressly designed for maximum user-friendliness. An entertaining speaker, Guy has an MBA (Finance) from City University Cass Business School, London.

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Oliver L. Velez, best selling author, trader, advisor, and entrepreneur, is one of the most sought after speakers and teachers on the
subject of trading financial markets for a living. His seminars and speaking events have been attended by more than 60,000 traders
all over the world, and his runaway best selling books, Strategies for Profiting on Every Trade and Tools and Tactics of the Master Day Trader, are considered must-read classics for anyone interested in trading markets for a living. Dow Jones dubbed him “the messiah of day trading” and financial programs on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox News frequently seek out his expertise.

Oliver L. Velez is internationally known for founding and growing
Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc. (a firm he started out of his New
York City basement apartment) into one of the country’s premier educational institutions for investors and self-directed, retail traders. After serving as Pristine’s Chairman and CEO for 12 years, Mr. Velez decided to turn his full attention to the professional trading arena. His new training program called Trade for Life™, which includes a 2-day seminar and 5-day Live Trading Session with Mr. Velez himself, is designed to train traders to go beyond retail to trade the markets professionally.

Today, Mr. Velez runs Velez Capital Management, LLC (“VCM”).
one of the country’s fastest growing private equity trading firms.

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Chuck Hughes has the unique distinction of being one of the few people who can carry on the nerve-racking business of trading stocks while trying to steer a plane through the clouds! Chuck began his career as a full-time commercial pilot and was attracted to the world of stock trading during his long breaks of 15 to 17 days each month. Chuck began trading in 1984 and in 1985; he finished 10th in the United States Trading Championship, and 3rd in the ‘86 competition with a huge 260% return! Chuck also won various other titles in 1994, 1995, 1999, and 2003. 

To share some of the secrets that helped him get the huge returns on the stock market, Chuck started the Guaranteed Real Income Program (G.R.I.P.). G.R.I.P is a diversified financial advisory service that generates trading recommendations for stocks, options, and mutual funds. To get guaranteed returns, the company uses fundamental, technical and seasonal analysis to generate its trading recommendations. Chuck has also developed many technical and seasonal trading programs including a pattern-recognition system, a high-probability seasonal-pattern trading system, and many other trading strategies.

When he is not trading stocks, Chuck finds time to maintain a 4.0 leagues tennis rating and even participates in running events. Chuck has also written many books and home study courses like the Guaranteed Real Income Program, Fail Safe, and The Ultimate Investing Course. 

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Andy Chambers was a successful small business owner who discovered a passion for trading in the 1980s. After selling his business, he moved to Florida and became a technical analyst for CTS Financial Publishing. CTS was also known as Commodity Trend Service. Andy worked at CTS from 1992 until 2001. In 1996, Andy was promoted to editor of Futures Options Weekly. Two years later, he became CTS Editor In Chief, overseeing the Futures, Futures Options, and Stock Options publications and advisory services. During his tenure at CTS, Andy also wrote, recorded, and published the Daily Trend Watch, a daily futures advisory, the Daily Trend Watch Classroom, an educational futures service, and the MR2 Alert, a combination advisory and tutorial specifically related to futures options.

In 2001, Andy left CTS. Since then, he has been working as an independent trader and analyst for private individuals and corporations. Working on his own, outside the corporate structure, has allowed Andy's trading and analysis to evolve to a much higher level. Andy has a keen eye for charts and trading patterns. He employs very specific methods to take advantage of patterns and trends, and his strong options background allows him to employ strategies that offer maximum reward with minimum risk.

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Russell Sands has been trading commodities, stocks, futures, financial indices and currencies since 1983. He trades with his own account for a living, and has run hedge funds and advised clients.

Sands is also a Registered Commodity Trading Adviser (CTA) and an approved National Futures Association (NFA) associate member with students in thirteen countries around the world. He has been featured in various media such as Stocks & Commodities and The Wall Street Journal.

Sands’ background in the lucrative trading world is not what you would call conventional. Until 1983, Sands was a professional card player. It wasn’t until he responded to an ad in the New York Times that read “Traders Wanted,” that Sands’ life was changed forever.

By responding to this ad, Sands became part of an elite group known as the Turtle Traders—14 ordinary people who were taught a remarkable and easy trading system face-to-face by Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt - two of the world's finest traders. As a group, The Turtles earned over $175 million in just 5 years, making them legends in the trading community.

Because of an obscure clause in his original agreement, Russell Sands is the only original Turtle now free to teach the legendary Turtle Trading System to any serious person looking for a legitimate, profitable trading system, and he has been doing so since 1992. Many of his students have gone on to become highly successful professional traders, CTAs, money managers and teachers.

Join the world's most experienced teacher of the Turtle Trading Method, trader & author Russell Sands, at our 2008 Trading Forum.

Information taken from russellsandsoriginalturtle.com.

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John Carter's father was a Morgan Stanley stock broker. Carter was introduced to options trading and stock trading when he was a sophomore in high school and has been day trading full time since that day.

Carter's college major was international finance and he studied at the University of Cambridge, England. John Carter graduated from the University of Texas in Austin. He graduated with degrees in History and Economics.

Carter was never that intrigued by the brokerage side of the trading world. Instead, he liked to try and test various online trading strategies though college and well into his corporate jobs. He became quite adept at making money and keeping money in his day trading account. The road was not always easy and Carter learned his lesson the hard way like many day traders out there.

Carter eventually found a trading system he was satisfied with and pursued full-time professional trading in 1996. Eventually he grew tired of day trading by himself in his office and chatting with his Arrowana (a large fish). He proceeded to launch TradeTheMarkets.com to post his day trading ideas and trades.

Today, Carter is a Commodity Trading Advisor with Razor Trading, and manages a futures and a Forex trading fund. Recently, McGraw Hill commissioned him to write a book entitled Mastering the Trade, which was released in January, 2006. The book quickly became a bestseller and Carter was also featured on ABC Money with his new online trading book, Mastering the Trade.

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Todd Gordon is a technical currency strategist and fund trader with GAIN Capital Group, a leading provider of foreign exchange services, including direct access trading and asset management. A Chartered Market Technician Level I (CMT), Todd produces GAIN's widely-read Strategy of the Day, a detailed currency analysis that provides actionable trade signals on a daily basis. This report also features Fibonacci relationships and Elliot Wave principles, along with conventional techniques.

Gordon is also a frequent contributor to publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities and Active Trader Magazine, and teaches various seminars on using technical analysis in the Forex market.

Prior to joining GAIN in 2004, Mr. Gordon was a director with Connors Capital, LLC, a hedge fund in Los Angeles. He began his professional career trading equities with Aspen Trading, LLC.

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Charles Kirkpatrick is president of Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., which advises leading investing institutions on equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and the economy.  He has appeared on CNBC and Wall $treet Week and in other media, and has been quoted in Barrons, Money, and BusinessWeek, among others.  The only two-time winner of the Market Technicians Association’s (MTA) prestigious Charles H. Dow Award and recently the recipient of the MTA’s highest honor, the Annual Award for “outstanding contributions to the field of technical analysis,” he is co-author of Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, now the required text for the MTA’s technical analyst certification program.  His most recent book, Beat the Market, a study on selecting stocks using relative values, was published in September 2008.  The past editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis, lecturer at many universities on technical analysis, he holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an AB from Harvard.

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