Speakers
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Fausto Pugliese
Founder/President
Fausto Pugliese is the founder of Cyber Trading University and a day trading pioneer with more than 30 years of market experience. An early adopter of Direct Access Trading technology, Fausto has trained traders around the world in the skills and discipline of active trading. He is a 12-time World Traders Challenge champion, author of How To Beat Market Makers At Their Own Game, and has been featured on Nasdaq TradeTalks, Fox News, and CNBC.
Tom Sosnoff
Founder/CEO
Tom Sosnoff is a trailblazer in the online brokerage industry, driving innovation and financial education for investors of all levels. He offers up his expertise in the options markets as co-host of tastylive LIVE!, airing daily on the tastylive network. A former floor trader, Tom became one of Chicago’s most well-known serial entrepreneurs in fintech when he built a breakthrough options-trading platform, thinkorswim, later sold to TD-Ameritrade for $750 million. Leveraging over 20 years of experience as a Market Maker for the Chicago Board Options Exchange and one of the original OEX traders in the S&P 100 Index pit, Tom pursued his vision to educate retail investors in options trading and build a superior trading platform and a brokerage firm that specialized in options. With that vision in mind, tastylive was founded in 2011. Six years later, tastytrade launched with Scott Sheridan at the helm as CEO.
Chris Vermeulen
Founder/CIO
Chris Vermeulen is a visionary investor and the pioneering force behind the industry-breaking method known as “Asset Revesting.” In his latest book, “Asset Revesting – How to Exclusively Hold Assets Rising in Value, Profit During Bear Markets, and Continue Building Wealth in Retirement,” Chris unveils this revolutionary approach to investing. Chris’s financial journey began at the young age of 16 in 1997. Harnessing his innate talent for trading and risk management, he earned enough to fund his final year of college, where he obtained a business diploma in operations management. By his 20s, Chris had transitioned into a full-time entrepreneur and trader, achieving financial freedom. During his journey, and after blowing up a trading account, Chris decided to really focus on making trading his business. He took two courses to help him reach this goal: Trading Strategy Mastery and Trading Is Your Business.
Andrew Keene
President and CEO
Andrew Keene is president and CEO of AlphaShark Trading, which he originally founded as KeeneOnTheMarket.com in 2011. Previously, he worked as a proprietary trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Mr. Keene began his career in the prestigious Botta Capital 'clerk-to-trade' program, and would eventually co-found KATL Group. He currently actively trades futures, equity options currency pairs, and commodities. He is a regular guest market commentator on such networks as Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and Fox Business.
Marina Villatoro
Founder & CEO
Marina ‘The Trader Chick’ Villatoro, International speaker on stages such as the MoneyShow, NinjaTrader and TraderExpo, plus mentor and teacher to over 700 students, she has been trading and teaching the financial markets for YEARS. Marina specializes in helping people to Day Trade with confidence and ease. She simplifies the process by completely breaking down the art of identifying high probability trade setups. Even if you are just getting started, you could learn to day trade profitably and read the markets like a pro.
Dan Gibby
Chief Options Strategist
Dan Gibby possess more than 20 years' experience in equity and options trading, with expertise in technical analysis, using options to hedge and speculate, and portfolio/asset management. He gave up his lucrative law practice to enter the incredible world of self-directed trading which offers unlimited financial gain and freedom to disciplined traders. Mr. Gibby specializes in trading options to enhance or replace equity trading with superior risk adjusted returns. With an extensive knowledge of US market microstructure, high-volume intra-day trading, finance, and general business concepts, he also previously acted as Head of Corporate Proprietary Trading for a global principal trading firm of equities and futures where he managed the firm's corporate trading account.
Fausto Pugliese
Founder/President
Fausto Pugliese is the founder of Cyber Trading University and a day trading pioneer with more than 30 years of market experience. An early adopter of Direct Access Trading technology, Fausto has trained traders around the world in the skills and discipline of active trading. He is a 12-time World Traders Challenge champion, author of How To Beat Market Makers At Their Own Game, and has been featured on Nasdaq TradeTalks, Fox News, and CNBC.
Price Headley
Founder/CEO
Price Headley is the founder, president, and chief analyst for Headley Investment Analysis and BigTrends.com, an online advisory service that provides specific stock and options strategies, as well as investment education and analysis of significant market trends. He has appeared on CNBC, FOX News, CNNfn, and Bloomberg, and in a variety of national financial media, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, and USA Today. Mr. Headley is also the author of the #1 Amazon business and investing bestseller, Big Trends in Trading: Strategies to Master Market Moves. He is a graduate of Duke University, a member of the Market Technicians Association, and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) charterholder.
Greg Capra
Founder/CEO
Greg Capra was founder and president/CEO of Pristine Trading for over 22 years and is known as a pioneer of the online trading and investing industry. In the late 1980s, he immersed himself into learning what moved the markets and why. His approach to the markets is based on technical analysis, rather than a fundamental based one. However, he uses what he calls a "Techno-Fundamental" one that combines Market Internals, Inter-market Analysis, and Technical Analysis. Mr. Capra has taught and consulted for money managers, institutional traders, specialists, and market makers. He has won numerous real-money, real-time trading challenges using his Pristine Method of investing and trading that he created in the mid-1990s. McGraw Hill Publishing and Wiley Publishing each commissioned him to author several books and DVDs on the subject of technical trading and investing.
Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley
Founder & CEO
E. Matthew “Whiz” Buckley, a former decorated Navy fighter pilot, is a passionate advocate for veteran mental health. As CEO of TOPGUN Options and Strike Fighter Financial, he leverages his military and corporate expertise to promote psychedelic-assisted therapies. He chairs the No Fallen Heroes Foundation, supporting veterans’ mental health recovery. Buckley is also an accomplished author and hosts the MAX Afterburner podcast, which discusses topics such as psychedelics, veteran issues, and more.
Melissa Armo
Founder & CEO
Melissa Armo of The Stock Swoosh is seen regularly on Fox News, Fox Business Network, RT America, Cheddar TV, & CBS News. She is an expert stock market analyst & the Founder and Owner of an international educational company, The Stock Swoosh, where she teaches people how to successfully trade the stock market. Her trading methodology is based on one strategy called Golden Gaps which pinpoints institutional money in the stock market.