Philip Hayton
For nearly forty years Philip Hayton was one of the BBC'c leading correspondents and newscasters. He reported on more than 20 wars, disasters, elections, royal tours, etc.
For ten years he was a hopusehold-name in Britain presenting the BBC's One, Six and Nine O'Clock News. More recently he was the chief anchorman on BBC World - the international news channel broadcast to 200 million homes worldwide.
For the past few years, he has concentrated on his investments. He is a fundamental investor who focuses on small companies and has averaged more than 40% a year during the current bull market. He says the thrills and spills of the market never fail to challenge, reward, and all too often humiliate him!
David Jones, IG Index
David has worked in financial markets for more than a decade and qualified as a technical analyst back in 1995. Over recent years he has been involved in creating and running a wide range of educational programmes for private and institutional investors. The training David provides ranges from the basics of financial markets through to more advanced short- and medium-term trading strategies.
Kevin Burton, Ezeetrader
Kevin originally came from the financial services industry advising Financial Advisers on fund management for his client's pensions and investments. After a few years of trading part time he left the security of his career to become a full time trader.
The culture shock of moving from a very busy and highly interactive job to that of a lonesome trader was something that he hadn't prepared for and he needed more variety than the mundane existence of a trader. Therefore, in 2002 he jointly launched a stock market newsletter that is now known as EzeeTrader News. This allowed him to share his experience with readers and bring back some variety to his working life. As well as the newsletter, he now posts his thoughts on the general stock markets in a twice a week free video commentary service and trades in a private trading room with a small number of other traders that he has coached.
Rodney Hobson, Author of Shares Made Simple and Small Companies Big Profits
Rodney Hobson is an experienced financial journalist who has held senior editorial positions with publications in the UK and Asia, most recently Editor of the financial news website Hemscott.
Among posts he has held are News Editor for the Business section of The Times, Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor, Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Head of News at Citywire and Editor of Shares magazine.
He has also contributed to the Daily Mail, the Independent and Business Franchise Magazine and commented on investment on BBC TV and Radio and CNBC. His book Shares Made Simple was published on November 10th, 2007.
He is registered as a Representative with the Financial Services Authority.
Rodney is married with one daughter.
Tom Hougaard, City Index
Tom Hougaard, trader and Chief Market Strategist of City Index Markets, will serve an 1800 second appetiser into the fascinating world of day and swing trading using geometry. His trades are placed with surgical precision and his strategies are leaving nothing to chance. His no-nonsense approach to trading has won him applause amongst traders and private investors as well as the numerous TV channels where he comments on the financial markets. Tom even posts his trades on his website www.tradertom.com free to everyone. In the seminar Tom will invite you to a FREE trading seminar in his office on selected dates. Whatever products you trade (stocks, currencies, indices and commodities) and whatever time frame you trade, you will start to view the markets in a completely different light, with clarity and confidence. This seminar is not a sales pitch to come on an expensive seminar or buy outrageously priced training manuals. This is a genuine offer for a brief look into the world of an active trader.
Steven Mayne, Montague Pitman Stockbrokers Ltd
Steven Mayne is the Head of Research and Derivatives at Montague Pitman. Steven's main focus is blue-chip trading strategies where he works closely with investment guru Alpesh Patel. His understanding of trading is well respected and he regularly appears on CNBC giving market analysis. Steven is also an expert contributor to Investor's Chronicle. With a coherent and seasoned public speaking style it is no surprise that Steven's recent trading seminars have proven to be very popular. Delegates as a result have had more confidence in learning how to profit from rising and falling markets using a variety of different investment instruments over varying time frames.
Steve Beaumont, Online Trading Academy UK
Having worked in education since 1993, and qualifying at the University of Herfordshire in 1995, Steve has taught a variety of audiences. In both Further Education and Secondary Schools, his passion to help others succeed and improve has always been at the forefront of all that he does. Having been trained by Online Trading Academy, he has developed his own Forex trading and broadened his Equities trading knowledge, and enjoys sharing the highs and lows of a trader. He has taught banks in Tunisia, and worked in the USA. As a Forex day trader Steve has very tight stops and works on precision entries, looking to take ½% risk in any trade, this coupled with his own Measured Move Strategy which has exceptional accuracy in locating profit targets, produces maximum gain. He loves teaching in the live at market environment at Online Trading Academy, demonstrating the strategies actually in action.
Rakesh Shah, Ten Point Trading
Rakesh Shah is the founder of www.TenPointTrading.com specialising in trading strategies and has been an active trader since 1995. His work is often seen as a freelance trader in the Investors Chronicle Magazine and he regularly speaks at investment seminars. He was commissioned by the London Stock Exchange to write "A Guide to Level 2 Market Data" which published over 100,000 copies; a free copy can be downloaded from www.tenpointtrading.com/level2data. His research and ideas are published on the London Stock Exchange website in the Interchange Investor Centre. His background in Investment Banking gives him a unique insight into some of the most profitable trading strategies that are used by professionals, hedge funds and institutional investors worldwide which he regularly shares with private clients and companies in investment seminars.
He started his career in Corporate Finance in 1993 working on the sale of 'Parcel Force' and later moving on in 1996 to work at different trading desks in Investment Banks. At BZW the Investment Banking arm of Barclays Bank, which was the worlds biggest player in the Sterling currency markets at the time, he cut his teeth working on the leveraged trading desk. In 1998 he established a Margin Trading Desk at ABN AMRO Bank London for the leveraged trading of currencies, FX futures and options. Moving to Wall Street, New York in 2001 working with Credit Agricole Indosuez, CARR Futures he has gained a unique insight in to the most profitable trading strategies in today's markets. Finally working at Deutsche Bank in London as a Director he left to trade independently in 2004 and now has a philosophy of "less theory more practice!" and is a regular speaker at events.
Greg Smith, Managing Director of Fat Prophets UK
Greg is the Managing Director of Fat Prophets United Kingdom, with responsibilities that include leading the research team.
Greg qualified as a chartered accountant, and he comes to Fat Prophets with a broad experience of financial markets, having consulted with a number of companies in the banking and finance sector in the UK over a seven year period. Furthermore he has been an active private investor in the stock market for fifteen years, where he first began to apply fundamental analysis.
During his career, Greg was employed as an auditor by KPMG in New Zealand, and before joining Fat Prophets, he worked at Mellon Global Investments in London. Whilst at Mellon Greg managed and implemented a number of strategic initiatives within the investment management business.
Sam Evans, Online Trading Academy
After leaving University in 1999, Sam thrust himself into the media world, working as an executive producer and part-time presenter for London’s Capital FM. Roles in the record and film industry followed, where Sam conducted many promotional interviews and honed his presentation skills for nearly 7 years. With a strong desire to work for himself, Sam left the media industry behind and spent an intense 18 months studying to become a professional Life Coach, embarked on various property investments and gave in to his childhood fascination with the money markets by training to become a trader with OTA. Since his graduation, he is now a full-time trader, specialising in Stock Index Futures, Grains Commodities and Forex. With a passion for the markets, Sam now teaches and presents for OTA, welcoming and helping others into the rewarding world of trading.
Kym Watson, Ezeetrader
Kym Watson is a partner in Ezeetrader, the cutting edge on-line trading and wealth education company. Prior to setting up Ezeetrader he held a number of senior management posts with blue chip companies in the UK. Having traded shares since the early 1980's, he caught the bug having taken advantage of the dot com bull market in the 1990's and became a full time trader in 2001.
The move from a highly interactive job to a full time trader was something of a culture shock. Whilst he had his trading partner to talk to, the lack of interaction and variety that was involved in sitting watching monitors all day, meant that he needed something else to retain his sanity. Hence, in 2002 together with his trading partner, Kevin Burton, he launched a stock market newsletter that is now known as the Ezeetrader News. Along with Kevin he also posts his thoughts on a free video service. Following the immense success of Ezeetrader's equity private trading room, he is currently setting up a new service for forex traders which will mirror this offering, giving unparalleled care and support to their clients.
Michael Hewson, Chief Market Analyst, Digital Look
Michael has 20 years of market experience, both as a trader and as a technical analyst. He began his city career working in a busy FX settlements department at an American Bank before joining a large Australian bank in 1989, initially as a currency trader, but he also traded deposits and forwards. In 1995 Michael qualified as a technical analyst and joined a top technical analysis service provider to the world’s blue-chip financial institutions and gave educational seminars to traders at these institutions. He has also given lectures on Technical Analysis at Business Schools around the country including the London Business School to financial post graduates as well as MSc and MBA students. Michael holds a CFTe from the International Federation of Technical Analysts. In 2006 he joined Digital Look where he now occupies the position of Chief Market Analyst.
Mike Baghdady
Mike Baghdady is a 25 year veteran of the financial markets. He is a graduate of the American University at Cairo in Egypt. He is a Market Technician Association member and has held NASD licenses series 3, 7, 55 and 63.Mike began his career as a physical grains trader in a commodity trading house. In 1989 he moved to New York and can proudly boast as being one of the fortunate few to apprentice at the hands of Mr. Alan R. Shaw CMT, widely considered the father of modern Technical Analysis at Solomon Smith Barney. Since then he worked as a Commodities broker, Stock broker, Futures analyst, Options trader, and as an instructor for both Foreign Currency Exchange and Equities Markets.
Andrei Pehar, fxKnight.com
His client list includes prestigious names such as UBS, Tower Asset Management (named by Bloomberg as top asset manager), Clifford Associates (investment counselors since 1915, officially acknowledged as the oldest in the United States), and several other high profile firms specializing in investment and wealth management for musical artists, sports celebrities, and other ultra high net worth individuals and trusts. Andrei is a regular contributor to FXStreet.com, and is currently working on a book which will, for the first time, introduce retail traders to institutional trading strategies and techniques.
Malcolm Pryor
Malcolm Pryor is an active spread bettor, a trading coach, and the author of the best selling book "The Financial Spread Betting Handbook" published in 2007 by Harriman House. He is currently working on two new books for spread bettors scheduled for publication in 2009.
He comments regularly on spread betting issues and on the markets at www.spreadbettingcentral.co.uk. He also runs whole day limited attendance seminars on spread betting (details at www.sparkdales.co.uk).
He is a member of the Society of Technical Analysts in the UK and has been designated a Certified Financial Technician by the International Federation of Technical Analysts.
He is an expert at several games, including bridge where he has held the rank of Grandmaster or higher for over a decade.
