Currently we await many more speakers to confirm their attendance at the show so please check back every couple of days for the latest additions.
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.
John O'Donnell III, Online Trading Academy
John O'Donnell is the chief knowledge officer for Online Trading Academy (OTA), delivering a combination of educational and corporate experience that has been instrumental in making Online Trading Academy , the premier franchisor direct market access trading schools in the world with 21 learning centers in 5 countries and plan to grow to 100 centers by end of this decade. He also serves as a principal and/or consultant to five public companies and his expertise is an essential ingredient in OTA's fast global growth and industry peer award-winning recognition. Mr. O'Donnell was a finalist two years in a row for the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award by Inc. magazine in Orange County, CA. His recent articles, interviews, and speaking engagements have focused on issues such as historic boom/bust business cycles and the potential coming burst of the credit bubble in the "Globalization 3.0 Era" as well as impacting many newsletter subscribers and the global audience of active trader communities. Mr. O'Donnell has been featured in and been a keynote speaker at many global finance portals and expos including FNN, CNN, CNBC, CNNfn, FXstreet.com,Trade2Win, Online Traders Expo, London IX Expos, Brazil Active Traders Expos, World's First Virtual Online Traders Expo, Canadian Financial Forums, MoneyShow.com, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, IBD, and ADVfn. He began his career in 1968 as a public school teacher and then moved to public corporations working as an investment banker…OTA Trading education center is now open in UK.
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Joe Cusick, Vice President of Education, optionsXpress
Joe Cusick is the Vice President of Education for optionsXpress. Attendees of Joe's seminars around the country note his straightforward approach, his humor, and his ability to cover a wide range of questions from the most common to the most obscure. Joe's experience as a CBOE market maker and a portfolio manager coupled with his first-hand knowledge of online trading make him a resource for all investors.
Joe is a Marquette University graduate and is a NASD Series 4, 7 and 63 Registered Representative.
Des Grech, Head of Sales, GFT
Des Grech joined the GFT in 2006 as UK Head of Sales and was one of the key members of the management team employed to set up the Company's Canary Wharf operation. Grech has over 19 years' of sales experience and has traded privately for the past 10 years. Prior to joining GFT, he was Head of Sales at IQ in London, and prior to this Infomatics Group. Both companies are leaders in information technology education. His mixture of IT training and trading expertise means he is ideal to be responsible for educational seminars for GFT.
Jim Brumley, Director of Trading Research, BigTrends.com
James E. Brumley is BigTrends.com Director of Trading Research. James writes the Weekly Market Outlook, the MidWeek Update, and many Daily TrendWatches. He also manages In The Money Options, Aggressive Stock Trader, and the NetLetter.
Prior to joining the BigTrends team, James was an Investment Specialist with discount broker Charles Schwab. During his time there, James crafted portfolios for Schwab's retail clients, specializing in allocation optimization. This fundamental-based background has also proven to be an interesting enhancement to BigTrends' technical analysis strategies. He joined the BigTrend's staff in 2002 as a Research Analyst.
His basic trading philosophy is 'bigger picture'. He feels daily noise and volatility tends to shake most traders up, so he prefers a combination of daily and weekly chart and signals for his subscription services. He also employs sector and industry biases, acknowledging Bill O'Neil's work in the area. On a marketwide basis, James feels detailed analysis of breadth and depth data can indicate the market's major moves before they happen.
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 OTA, he has developed his own Forex trading and broadened his Equities trading knowledge, and enjoys sharing the highs and lows of a trader.
Andy Hartwill, Research Director, Objective Capital
Andy has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. After a successful career as an engineer, specialising in space and communications technologies, he spent several years in venture capital. He moved to the quoted sector and has since held positions on both sides of the "fence" including Head of Equities for Capital House (fund management), UK and European Strategist for Paribas and then Societe Generale. Before joining Objective Capital he was Global Strategeist for SG Hambros advising on the construction of investment portfolios. Andy is a regular guest on Bloomberg and CNBC.
Bo Yoder, 5MinuteInvestor
Bo Yoder is an internationally known writer, speaker, and professional trader. Yoder is a frequent contributor to trading publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Trader's and Active Trader magazine. Yoder writes for RealMoney.com and is the author of Mastering Futures Trading (2004, McGraw Hill)
In addition to his writing, Yoder is a featured speaker at trading expos in the US and abroad, and has worked with hundreds of individuals and market professionals as an edge and risk management consultant.
Kevin Mezzone, Online Trading Academy
Kevin has been trading full time for four years. Having had no experience previously, he knows exactly what it takes to become a profitable trader. He specialises in intraday futures and forex trading and swing positions in stocks. He has spent time developing his own modifications to indicators for consistent trading. He now balances his trading with teaching at OTA and working on his medium term plan to become a recognised, successful options trader.
Steve Marginson, Forextradingtv.com
My name is Steve and I'm 52 years old. Many people would regard me as successful. I'm fortunate to have my financial freedom and to be living my dream. I will never have to work again if I choose not to. My intention is to teach/coach you to do the same if you want it. - And to get financial freedom you really have to want it. You can do this with Forex Trading.
I'd like to make a deal with you. I'll coach/mentor you to financial freedom and a more fulfilling life and in return you agree to follow my rules and work hard.
Is that a deal? - Good!
I have been trading forex for just over 3 years. In that time I immersed myself completely in the topic. One thing I learned early after losing money was to get a mentor.- A good mentor. I was fortunate to find a professional trader who traded on Wall Street. I am now consistently successful with my trading.
I've had my failures and successes and learned from both.
I once lost everything and even though the experience taught me a lot I would not recommend it to anyone! However, on this journey I did find the real solutions to financial freedom, happiness and well being. I call these solutions The Wealth Codes. I'd like to share one of these with you which I call The Forex Codes.
Mike Tosaw, Director of Education, optionXpress
Mike Tosaw is the Director of Education for optionsXpress and is known for his ability to cover questions that range from the simple to the most complex. Mike is the man behind many of our online tutorials and live Webinars. His audiences around the country include online traders, members of investment clubs, and independent representatives seeking education about online stock and options trading.
His first hand experience as a retail investor and investment advisor makes him a resource for all investors. Mike is a Missouri Southern University graduate and a NASD Series 3, 4, 7 and 63 Registered Representative.
Clive Lambert, FuturesTechs
Clive is the founder, and continues to be the main contributor, for FuturesTechs (www.futurestechs.co.uk/trial/). He has been in the City for 22 years, has been the Futures markets for 18 years as a broker and Trader, and has been writing Technical Analysis for 8 years.
He is an active Board Memeber of the UK Society of Technical Analysis. he has spoken at several of the Society's monthly meetings and has also been enlisted as a regular lecturer on the Society's annual Diploma Course, covering a wide range of subjects over the years.
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.
