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Mike Conlon, ForexNews.com

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Michael Conlon has been a proprietary trader for the last 10 years, having started his trading career in equities and options and then moving to futures and forex. His trading career started at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette (DLJ) on an equities order desk and then moved to an on-line brokerage firm that is now part of TD Ameritrade.

As a proprietary trader, Michael has worked at some of the top professional trading firms on Wall St., with his last stop being at RBC Carlin before branching out on his own in September of 2005. His trading was based primarily on technical studies.

Since that time, Michael had become fascinated with the development of automated trading systems that could take advantage of his trading acumen and apply it to numerous markets around the globe and in different time zones. Thus began his pursuit of global macro trading with a focus on forex which led to the development of his trading systems that are employed at Blitzcap Partners, where he is the founder and Managing Partner.

Michael is also employed at FXEDU, an on-line forex education company where he mentors forex traders on a 1-on-1 basis, and has worked there since April of 2009. In addition, Michael writes the popular “Forex Trading Blog” (www.forextradingblog.com) and produces the popular “Forex In Four” daily video series.

Andrei Knight

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Andrei Knight is a highly sought-after speaker and coach for professional traders and individual investors alike. He has made frequent appearances at events such as the World Money Show, Traders Expo, the Energy Forum, IX Investor, ShowFX World, and was the keynote speaker at last year's International Traders' Conference.

At a very young age Andrei was already playing in professional chess tournaments, and went on to further hone his strategic skills through years spent studying Japanese martial arts. From both worlds, he brings with him a unique perspective to the financial markets.

In addition to his role as Chief Market Strategist for fxKnight.com and a series of private funds, he is also a regular contributor to FXstreet, DailyFX, ForexFactory's FNN, BabyPips, ForexPros, and the International Business Times, where he also sits on the advisory board. He is the author of "Trading Forex for a Living", a certified NLP Practitioner, and a Certified Professional Life Coach.

Ilian Yotov

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Ilian Yotov is the creator of The Quarters Theory, FX Strategist and internationally published author of "The Quarters Theory: The Revolutionary New Foreign Currencies Trading Method". Ilian is one of the leading Forex educators in the world and has trained thousands of Forex traders from over 50 countries around the globe. He is the founder of AllThingsForex.com and TraderTape.com and the host of the popular All Things Forex broadcast. His daily FX market analysis and columns are published on popular financial websites worldwide and he is a regular guest speaker at events for the Traders Expo, the International Securities Exchange (ISE), PFGBest, MBTrading, Traders Television and Trading Views Network. Currency traders continue to benefit from Ilian's extensive Forex trading experience, market knowledge and The Quarters Theory method as a meaningful, substantial way to improve their own methods of trading, and to experience better and much more consistent trading results. Ilian Yotov's book "The Quarters Theory: The Revolutionary New Foreign Currencies Trading Method" was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Nick Nasad

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Nick Nasad, economist and Chief Market Analyst at FXTimes, monitors the developments in the forex market using incoming economic data and fundamental analysis. For 5 years, he was head currency analyst at CMS Forex, helping to provide news and analysis to clients. He was crucial in the development of educational content as well as resources such as daily videos and live coverage events. In 2010, Nick helped create FXTimes.com and now runs and manages the site where he provides daily analysis and videos helping to describe the details and implications of the latest economic releases. He focuses on the macroeconomic picture and helps to explain the key news and events dominating currency markets at the time.

Every Monday, he provides a “Look-Ahead” live-coverage session to prepare the audience for the coming week’s fundamental releases. On Friday, he is is joined by Fan Yang, Chief Technical Strategist and FXTimes.com partner, for a weekly “Fundamental News and Technical Analysis Wrap-up” session to discuss what unfolded. In these live events, the audience asks questions and shares their outlooks on the forex market as well.

At FXTimes, we welcome questions and comments and would like to share our knowledge. We try to foster a community setting where you can interact with our analysts. So, please, don't hesitate to leave your comments, thoughts and questions on any of our stories or come to our live events. We look forward to hearing from you.

Fan Yang

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I am a Chartered Market Technician, but my first encounter with the markets started back in the internet bubble when I thought I was picking great stocks because of great fundamental analysis. While fundamental analysis is an essential part of assessing the market, even the most professional research could be irrelevant without proper experiencein the markets. When the bubble burst, I realized that the market is always changing so we must always keep up, but the changes are also anchored to the past so we must understand its history as well.

That is why, above all categories, I am a student of the markets, and will always be one.

To me, the market is a bronco and everyone wants to stay on it. If you are correct in anticipating the beast's movements, howdy cowboy, you are a winner. The market is not always violent as a bronco would be in the ring, but it has twists and turns likewise. You can learn all the physics in the world, but without riding the animal you do not have any idea how to anticipate moves and how to adjust to moves you did not anticipate.

My view of fundamental analysis is that it provides a groundwork. You can for example learn about the breed of a bronco its past and recent history and. However, exactly how to ride this bias requires some technical analysis. My view of technical analysis is that it is a very precise plan of anticipation-action-reaction. For example if your experience is that after 2 strong lunges, the bronco tends to shake sideways, you should know how to react. In financianl markets, if you see a head and shoulder then a pullback, you know how to react. This is oversimplifying things, but you get my drift.

At FXTimes.com, i provide articles, daily videos and conduct live-events to help traders understand the technical side of the forex market. We look at probable scenarios in the market and how they unfold, but also learn about clues that tell us they will not develop. We learn about the characteristics of different currencies and commodities under different fundamental environments. Here, we ride the market together.

Paul Golofaro

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Paul Golofaro has experience trading the fx spot market for the past 7 years and traded equties and options prior to FX.. With a strict focus on technical analysis and low risk setups, Paul focuses soley on the EUR/USD pair. As a former currency trading instructor, Paul has interacted with thousands of traders from around the world and brings his experience from working at one of the largest retail fx brokers to Forexnews.com.

FXTimes

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At FXTimes.com we strive to provide our viewers and followers with market research in a dynamic and informative way, as well as try and help our viewers to better understand the forex market. In addition to daily articles on technical and fundamental analysis, FXTimes has a strong focus on multimedia and live events. We feature videos, live charts, an interactive economic calendar, as live events and webinars – ranging from strategy sessions to the educational “Power Course”.

From helping the new trader understand what fundamental news event is currently driving the forex market to giving a more advanced trader daily trading set-ups, FXTimes has something for every Forex trader.

Rajoo C

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Rajoo CEO of Precise Trader was already an established business owner even before he came into this industry. Since graduation, he has managed 3 successful businesses (restaurant, jeweler, foreign exchange) before moving fulltime into the financial markets.

His experience is from years of research and 16 years of live trading experience. Rajoo is a well read trader, with a personal library of about 650-700 books. He has developed his own strategy which has been fine tune over the years.

With the company tagline in mind "Inspire – Educate – Speculate", Rajoo inspires individuals with no knowledge of the industry to become inspiring traders. Precise Trader conducts workshop and has educated hundreds of traders and have molded them to be speculatively successful in their new career.

He publishes on a daily basis Precise Forecast report. It is a report derived from a proprietary system comprising of various technical analysis tools combined with years of successful trading experience with a proven formula and track record.

In addition to the workshops and reports, Rajoo via Precise Trader has designed interesting interactive webinar sessions which cover topics on technical analysis. These webinar aims to demonstrate how different techniques can be adapted and combined to achieve greater accuracy in confirming market outlook.

One additional feature, Rajoo has on the website is the Precise Signals. This is where he gives live trade signals daily @ www.precisetrader.com.

Author Risk Warning:

Day trading in Foreign Exchange or Forex is risky. Losses can be significant if proper precaution is not taken. You must assess the risk of any trade with your broker and make your own independent decisions regarding any information mentioned before initiating any trades. Any action taken as a result of the information provided is entirely at the users own risk.

forexnews

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Forexnews.com is an interactive forex portal that provides the best forex news stories and analysis from around the globe offering many different perspectives and ideas in real-time. Our mission is to connect forex enthusiasts with timely information in order to make sound trading decisions and stay one step ahead of the market. Get the news you want, when you want it!

Dean Peters-Wright

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Dean Peters-Wright received his MBA in 2003, and went on to study trading in Chicago and London. In his role as Senior Analyst for fxKnight.com he provides long-term economic views, projecting key price levels as well as commenting on the fundamental factors behind them, and authors blogs concerning psychology and personal development.

Raghee Horner

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Raghee Horner, Chief Currency Analyst for Interbank FX, provides
her personal daily trading ideas and insights through
DailyForexTradingEdge.com and RagheeHorner.com. An experienced trader
with over twenty years in the markets, Raghee is the creator of the
34EMA Wave and GRaB candles and has taught her brand of technical
analysis and charting strategies to students all over the world. She
is an international author and has taught currencies, futures, and
equities trading for over a decade

Adam Rosen

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Adam Rosen has worked on Wall Street for over 12 years in a number of capacities including trading equities, fixed income products, equity, and Forex-options, as well as asset management. Recently Adam spent over 3 years at FXCM, serving as the Chief Power Course instructor, administering educational programs to over 10,000 alumni. In addition, Adam has traveled around the country instructing thousands of investors and traders of all skill levels, from beginner to the advanced. Adam's success can be attributed to a never-ending thirst for market knowledge combined with experience and discipline, which has allowed him to translate theory into practice. As the co-founder of 4Xlounge Adam provides comprehensive analysis of various financial markets including forex, equities, and commodities. This analysis is used in conjunction with automated and discretionary trading signals based on the fundamental and technical market condition.

Sunil Mangwani

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Sunil is a Physics graduate with a Diploma in Financial Management. He has been trading the forex market since the last 10 years and devises simple trading strategies based on his vast knowledge and in-depth study in the field of technical analysis.

• He has worked as content provider and article writer with different websites & has developed video modules on specialized topics.
• Has contributed technical articles to reputed international magazines such as “Traders” “The Trading-Journal” etc.

In his years of trading and experience of teaching technical analysis, he realized that applying technical analysis is not enough to be a successful trader. One can be successful in this exciting, fulfilling and yet demanding business, if and only if, one has a definite plan on how to approach the market.

Sunil specializes in trading with the advanced Fibonacci based techniques like Harmonic patterns, Divergence, Wolfe waves etc. He now conducts special coaching for developing specific trade plans & individual ‘Mentorship’ programs & holds live workshops around the globe. His vast repertoire of services from his websites www.fibforex123.com & www.fxtribe.com include a Live Trading room, special webinars on educational topics & advanced trading strategies.

fxcm

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FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) is a global online provider of foreign exchange (forex) trading and related services to retail and institutional customers world-wide.

At the heart of FXCM's client offering is No Dealing Desk forex trading. Clients benefit from FXCM’s large network of forex liquidity providers enabling FXCM to offer competitive spreads on major currency pairs. Clients have the advantage of mobile trading, one-click order execution and trading from real-time charts. FXCM's U.K. subsidiary, Forex Capital Markets Limited, also offers CFD products with no re-quote trading and allows clients to trade oil, gold, silver and stock indices along with forex on one platform. In addition, FXCM offers educational courses on forex trading and provides free news and market research through DailyFX.com.

Sean Hyman

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Sean Hyman – Editor of Currency Cross Trader and Investment Director of World Currency Watch

A 20-year veteran in the markets, Sean Hyman has done it all – stock broker, manager and Forex trader. Over the past two decades, Sean has helped countless investors grow their portfolios throughout any type of market – from the worst of the recession to the height of the tech boom.

Sean’s trading background stretches over many assets: stocks, options, mutual funds, ETFs and currencies. But 10 years ago, he made the life-changing switch to foreign currencies. Now a highly-respected Forex expert and speaker, Sean prefers the enormous profit potential and convenience of the Forex market to any other financial instrument.

Currently, Sean is the Investment Director of World Currency Watch where he contributes to The Sovereign Society’s daily e-letter The Sovereign Investor and acts as the Investment Director for the monthly newsletter Currency Capitalist.
Sean also serves as editor of Currency Cross Trader, a high-end advisory service where he reveals his most closely-guarded currency trades to his band of loyal subscribers, using the often-overlooked “currency cross” pairs.

To learn more, you can visit Sean’s blog at http://wcw.worldcurrencywatch.com.

Evaldo Albuquerque

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Evaldo Albuquerque, Editor of Exotic FX Alert

As a key player on the World Currency Watch team, Evaldo serves as a head researcher and emerging market analyst for the Currency Capitalist monthly newsletter.

An MBA, he formerly served in the wealth management solutions department in a leading Brazilian Bank.

Today, he specializes in finding those same wealth solutions for our currency readers. A native Brazilian himself, Evaldo has always had a taste for emerging markets. He now spends his days uncovering currency opportunities in emerging markets around the globe as lead editor for our high-end exotic Forex trading service Exotic FX Alert.

Exotic FX Alert provides insight and analysis to help subscriber’s navigate the waters of the world of emerging market currencies of countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Thailand, Mexico and South Africa, just to name a few.

To learn more, visit Evaldo’s blog at http://evaldo.worldcurrencywatch.com.

FXEDU

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FXEDU, the premier website for forex trading education. The place to Learn, Practice and Trade Forex. We believe that to be a successful trader, you have to be an educated trader.

FXEDU was founded in 2008 when it spun off from FXCM. Its the goal is to become a leading provider of the best Forex trading platforms and affordable online Forex education.

Over 50,000 students – from novice to experienced traders - have enrolled in the courses to either learn what moves this market or how to improve their trading results.

Our courses are accessible online and are taught by seasoned traders who will personally answer all of your questions 24 hours a day.

We also offer a 1-on-1 mentor program for people who are serious about trading. This complimentary service will provide you with the opportunity to trade along side a professional trader and get timely and practical feedback on your trades.

So if you are serious about trading Forex, you have come to the right place! Let us help you learn how to trade forex, choose the right trading platform and develop a sound trading plan.

Raul Lopez

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Raúl López is a full time trader whose strategy is based on price action, all the information he needs to trade from the market itself and using an advanced application of support and resistance levels. He also trains and helps traders around the world to trade better and reach their goals as traders. Raul is the head trader and coach at Straightforex.com. He majored in economics, concentrating in behavioral economics and financial derivatives. Raul has more than 10 years of experience trading in the Forex market.

StraightForex is a company dedicated to provide high quality trading for traders. For more information about Raúl and StraightForex please visit http://www.straightforex.com

Doug Craigmile

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Doug Craigmile, Founder & CEO, FaholoFX

Doug Craigmile is a professional trader from the heartland of the USA, Kalona, Iowa. He's been trading the currency market since 2004 after working in sales and management for 12 years.

Doug is a technical trader with an emphasis on support and resistance levels and using momentum on intraday trades. While Doug believes that trading is a teachable skill, he does not buy into the theory that a “Holy Grail” of trading exists. There is no one size fits all package or method. There are skills and observations that can be taught and transferred from one trader to another, however, each individual needs to gain his own understanding and feel for the markets and currencies traded. You will find that Doug stresses, in his teaching and writing, a foundation of completely understanding support and resistance and how it effects price action.

At FaholoFX.com, Doug is joined by David Potts a professional trader out of the United Kingdom as well as former pit trader Todd Gibson. Both of whom contribute their knowledge and personal expertise at deciphering the global economy and trading profitably. You'll find a combination of market commentary, trading education and other pertinent information as it relates to trading in the foreign exchange market at the website.

Todd Gibson

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Todd Gibson has spent the better part of a decade pit trading options at the CBOT/CBOE dealing in soybeans, wheat, and equities. He left the pit in 2003, to join Trader Joe’s.

Todd will be sharing his experience and thoughts of the markets. He says, “What I learned from my experience is to manage your own finances. Trust no one with your money.” You’ll find that Todd has a real passion for the capital markets.

David Potts

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David Potts has been trading foreign exchange and hard commodities for the last six years.

Back in 2004 he was elected as a UK Conservative politician and became the youngest representative in the Country at the age of 21. David continues to represent the same district where he has been re elected three times.

Incredibly successful in the money markets, David recognises how daunting it can be for those new to the industry. He provides the key European link to Faholo FX and works very closely with CEO, Doug Craigmile.

Chris Vermeulen

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Chris Vermeulen is Founder of the popular trading site www.TheGoldAndOilGuy.com. There he shares his highly successful, low-risk trading method. Since 2002 Chris has been a leader in teaching others to skilfully trade in gold, oil, and silver in both bull and bear markets. Subscribers to his service depend on Chris' uniquely consistent investment opportunities that carry exceptionally low risk and high return.

Andrew Spanton

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Andrew trading career began in 1993. Starting as a trading assistant to an old school senior trader of a wall street equity day trading house, Andrew soon graduated and became a full time equity day trader, working for some of Wall Streets biggest day trading houses.. Always intrigued by the currency markets and Geo-political events, soon after 2001, Andrew made the switch to Forex and has been focused on those markets for the majority of his trading.

In 2003, Andrew founded Global FX Remote Group, LLC with the vision of being one of the only proprietary day trading houses focused solely on FX. After managing as many as 40 traders in the NYC office for 3 years, Global shifted focus to an online mentorship program using an online Live chat room to mentor and coach his traders. Since 2007 Andrew has been recording a daily market commentary/recap through one of his websites www.globalmarketsradio.com in addition to his premium online service for mentoring traders to learn and trade Forex.You can also follow Andrew's twitts at www.twitter.com/voiceofforex. Andrew has been on CNBC, CNBC World, NPR,Trader Monthly Magazine and lectured at numerous trade shows and events.

MarketBulls

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MarketBulls.net offers free daily market news and trading strategies for active investors. Stocks, commodities and forex are covered using both fundamental data and technical chart analysis as a basis in generating trade ideas. Our analysts have more than a decade of trading experience and have an active interest in providing new traders with the information they need to develop successful trading strategies. Our analysis is never based on automated trade signals as we believe that this is never a replacement for real-time research. Market Bulls is an invaluable addition to your trading news sources and tactical strategies in all of the major asset classes.

JW Jones

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David Banister

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Peter Turville-Ince

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Peter has completed a Diploma of Business at UTS and a Diploma of Financial Markets at AFMA. He is also currently completing his Bachelor of Business degree, majoring in Finance at UTS.

Peter commenced part time work in the Financial Markets while at University, initially working in the back office for a small retail broker. He then began full-time employment with ICAP as a trainee broker gaining experience in all areas of the business through their graduate rotation program, with his last position during the rotation being on the FX Options desk. Shortly after joining the FX Options team at ICAP he transferred with the team to Tradition where he was responsible for options pricing in Australia.

Peter's next role was at TP Capital where he was given the opportunity to trade for a high net worth investor. This involved setting up the trading operations from scratch, including all administrative, banking and compliance requirements as well as the implementation of trading platforms and services. Day to day trading duties included analysing the various markets, identification of trends and ultimately implementing a successful trading strategy. He also spent some time researching and implementing a successful trading model to take advantage of short term market volatility. Peter has a very keen interest in the commodity markets and has built a successful track record in identifying trends in this space. He has a very thorough understanding of both the technical and fundamental side of these markets and has built a solid reputation over the years.

Keagan York

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Head of FX Strategy

ASJ Forex

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ASJ Financial Services Ltd (A.S.J.) is an international foreign exchange and precious metals broker with offices in the UK and China. Since the company’s establishment in 2001, ASJ has been serving the needs of individual investors, hedge funds, and enterprise investors. They offer online trading through the MT4 MetaTrader software along with professional analyses of the currency markets through their international offices in Beijing and England

Tom Cleveland

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Tom Cleveland has had an extensive career in the international payments industry with over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until 1999, retiring with the title of Group EVP and Treasurer. While at Visa, Mr. Cleveland was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system, building the necessary financial and settlement infrastructure to support that growth, designing and deploying global risk management processes, and securing necessary regulatory approvals for existing operating standards. The Visa forex system cleared and settled over $5 billion a day in 22 currencies at that time. He has also built and operated a private payments network connecting twenty countries, specializing in B2B, C2B and C2C cross-border payments. Mr. Cleveland earned an engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and did graduate work in Finance at Georgia State University.

Compass Global Markets

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Compass Global Markets was formed in Sydney Australia by a group of financial market specialists who wanted to create a business model that would change the face of investing in the foreign exchange and commodity markets. The vision was to found a customer-centric company where our clients' success is intrinsically linked to that of our own. The ethos of pursuing profit at all costs - the formula for many financial institutions today - means conflicts of interest often arise, often to the eventual detriment of the client. This is where we are different. Our business model is simple - it has been developed so that we will only succeed if you succeed. Your best interests will always be aligned with our best interests in the spirit of a true partnership.

The Directors of this new brokerage offer a wealth of experience across the global markets and institutional banking space. We are from an institutional markets background covering positions including Spot FX Trader, FX Options Broker, Corporate FX Sales and Money Market Sales to name a few. Our experience in the financial markets, combined with our business acumen is what differentiates us from the competition. We pride ourselves on being accommodating for traders/individuals/corporates of all experience levels with our ultimate aim being to help you reach your goals with realistic advice and support.