Online Finance Academy – Marco-fundamentals Of Financial Markets

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Online Finance Academy – Marco-fundamentals Of Financial Markets

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Online Finance Academy – Marco-fundamentals Of Financial Markets

Online Finance Academy is a global team of the best and most experienced traders and trainers in the world. We offer an elite level of training to corporate and retail clients, followed by recruiting and mentoring.

Each of our trader teachers have had successful trading careers. Each of them has about a quarter of a century of experience in the exchange and electronic markets. They traded all major financial products in every trading style for banks, private trading firms and independently. Their expertise also extends to risk management and compliance, brokerage, algorithm development, and trading psychology. In other words, they are a deep well of market wisdom. And know exactly what you need to succeed as a trader.

First of all, it is a team of experienced instructors, whose teaching talent matches only their generosity as mentors.

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HOW THE ACADEMY GATHERED TOGETHER …

We’ve seen too many aspiring traders ditching their hard-earned money into get-rich-quick schemes. And basic courses that taught little to nothing. On some level, this has affected all of us. The point is, trading is a tricky business; most new traders will fail. People who are attracted to conspicuous wealth and simple formulas for success are the least likely to succeed. However, if you demonstrate true commitment, we are ready to teach you everything we know ourselves.

MARK SHLEYS

Mark Schleiss is like a walking history book at the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, with over 40 years of experience in trading, teaching and management. Having been a CBOT member for over 29 years, he has successfully traded 9 trading pits as an independent trader. And worked as a floor broker on behalf of institutional clients. He served as director of CBOT for 3 years, second vice chairman for 1 year and served on more than 20 exchange committees including the executive committee. Mark was one of the first to use spread trading in the derivatives market. And one of the first to use computers to trade on the stock exchange. He spent 10 years as a senior manager at Goldenberg, Hehmeyer and successor, where he set up a successful New York proprietary trading group office. His responsibilities included strategic planning, trader selection, initial and ongoing training / mentoring. He has developed a global training program for aspiring traders, psychologically based interview procedures, risk management and oversight procedures for offices in London, New York and Chicago. He has personally mentored over 200 traders and 10 trade managers. Mark’s role at the Online Finance Academy is to be a lead instructor, mentor, and curriculum developer. Mark brings to OFA a wealth of experience trading all major derivatives, as well as an excellent understanding of the psychological side of trading. His teaching focuses on spread trading, and especially in the treasury markets. Based in Chicago, Mark also oversees our trader matching committee and helps traders develop their careers at partner trading firms. Also

SEAN DOWNEY

Sean Downey is a veteran of the markets and an internationally recognized name in the world of technical analysis. He was a 2014 Technical Analysis Book winner, mapping your journey of discovery as a follow-up to the groundbreaking new technical analysis techniques published in 2006. And he began his career in 1979 at the age of 16 with Rudolf Wolff Commodity brokers. He first specialized in software and grain, then moved to the oil market and eventually became the head of foreign exchange hedging and market making. And he has managed various private funds and traded all asset classes, including equities, on a hedge, treasury, speculative and equity basis. Sean has been writing various technical analysis commentaries for the professional and retail market since 1991. He continues to advise, mentor and coach his corporate client base through his long relationship with CQG. At CQG, he had a unique opportunity to learn, create and test all the technical stuff. His website www.trading-time.com provides more insight into his methods. As an expert in traditional technical analysis, he offers a unique understanding of how these indicators can be applied. He has created a set of his own technical tools available on various software platforms. Sean’s role at OFA is to be an instructor and mentor in technical analysis. And the development of technical trading tools and automated trading strategies.

LARRY BULLETIN

Larry Gazette has been active in trading and mentoring traders in the financial markets for 32 years. Early in his career, Larry increased his presence in the options market from 2 to more than twenty traders on 8 global exchanges in an era of open protest in the financial markets. At the start of the electronic exchange revolution in the mid-1990s, Larry completely reimagined his business model to address the challenges. And opportunities for instant price discovery in the era of modern markets. He realized early on that successful trading firms would evolve into organizations much closer to IT firms. This recognition set Larry on a 20-year journey of broad trading systems design, development. And implementation of systems with multiple asset classes. As a lifelong independent trader, Larry shares a deep appreciation for all entrepreneurial stuff. He was one of the founders of MarketSound Corp, a trading solutions software company, during the heyday of the internet boom. Since 2014 he has been a resource consultant for Guidepoint in the financial services industry. Larry also served as a senior trader / trading system architect for Rumson Capital, a $ 600 million convertible bond hedge fund, in the mid-2000s. And Larry is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina and continues to develop. And implement his trading system and portfolio as a financial advisor to his growing client book. Larry teaches the Personal Portfolio Management course. Also

NAM NGUYEN, DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.

Nam Nguyen’s career in quantitative analysis began as a graduate student at Laval University in the mid-1990s, where he applied his mathematical and computational skills to solving problems in chemistry and physics. After completing his postgraduate studies, he worked for 5 years as a researcher in the field of natural sciences, where he specialized in high performance computing and data analysis. We have been developing quantitative trading and hedging systems since the 1990s, first for ourselves and then for investment clubs. Nam has developed a variety of strategies and trading models for institutional clients. Including derivatives pricing models, option pricing models for hedging. And valuation of commodity portfolios, inverse volatility variance strategies, and statistical arbitrage strategies. His research interests include volatility and correlation, and in particular how correlations break down in stretched environments. He has published many scientific papers in the areas of management, optimization theory, hedging, pricing models and numerical modeling techniques. In 2007, he began advising large financial institutions, including PWC and Ernst & Young Financial Advisory, where he specialized in quantitative analysis and risk management. Since 2009, he has served on the Board of the Toronto Branch of the International Association of Professional Risk Managers. Where his mandate includes training and advocating for sound risk management practices in financial institutions. We have been mentored and brought up quite a few junior and quantitative analysis. He regularly organizes case competitions and conferences in the financial, banking and insurance sectors. Our role at OFA is as a consultant and trainer in the design of trading / hedging systems and risk management. Also

HELEN TASKER

Helen Tasker has 20 years of experience in the financial markets. At the age of 17, she decided to leave college when she was given the opportunity to work for a small private firm on the LIFF floor. In 2 years she has gone from being a runner to being the only broker working with external clients, appointed market makers and internal traders. Known for her accuracy and efficiency, Helen turned to the short-term interest rate group. And soon became a successful owner trader and market maker for both LIFFE and CME. After the birth of her children, Helen led the graduate program at a Canary Wharf-based trading firm, teaching, mentoring and managing risk for both new and existing traders. She later worked in the derivatives sales department at a large Scandinavian bank. Helen traded futures and options on both intraday and long-term timeframes. She has traded straight, spread and curve trades on most asset classes and exchanges. Her main interests are in the fields of trading psychology, behavioral finance and technical analysis. Based in London, Helen is a consultant, mentor and educator in risk management and trading psychology at OFA. She is a true role model for women seeking a career in the financial markets. Also

BRIAN WALSH

Brian began his career at the CBOT in 1997. Shortly thereafter, he left the hall to trade 30-year bonds and bonds on Eurex as a private trader for Goldenberg, Hehmeyer, one of the largest FCMs in Chicago. After moving to London in 2002, he became an independent trader until 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he worked at Kingstree trading as a market analyst and a proprietary trader specializing in global macro trading. At Kingstree, he also taught an introduction to trading for beginner traders. He has been involved in the markets during some of the biggest macroeconomic events of the past 20 years, including 9/11, the 2008 crisis and the 2012 European crisis, where many market, trade and economic lessons have been learned. He is an avid researcher and always tries to solve the puzzle of markets and the macroeconomic picture. Since 2012, Brian has been an independent macro trader and consultant for individuals and companies seeking an understanding of the global macro and geopolitical landscape. He currently resides in San Francisco. Also

ADAM YAGELLOVICH

Adam Jagellowicz began trading stocks and options in 1982 at the age of 13. In his 20s, he continued to trade his own accounts, pursuing both business and academic interests. He made the leap to professional trading in 2000, where he began trading precious metals futures. In 2002, he joined Refco Trading Services in Montreal as a proprietary trader, where his trading style and focus was scalping US 30-year bonds and Eurostoxx index futures. After the closure of Refco in 2005, he briefly worked with MF Global as a futures. And forex broker until his desire for a career change led him back to one of his first passions in life, teaching and academics. In 2011, seeing that there were few firms teaching anything other than basic trading knowledge, he realized that the world needed a trading school that offered an elite level of training. He started teaching on an individual basis and then co-founded the Institute of Trade and Finance (IOTAF) in Montreal in 2014. He wrote the school’s extensive teaching materials, taught technical analysis, mentored students, and directed day-to-day operations. In the fall of 2016, he left IOTAF to assemble a stellar roster of exceptional traders from around the world to be known as the Online Finance Academy (OFA). Adam’s takes on a manager / business development role at the online Finance Academy and continues to educate students through OFA’s trader mentoring platform known as News Against the Noise. Also