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Nick McDonald is one of the UK's leading independent traders. A specialist in the Index and Currency markets, he possesses a unique approach to technical trading. An advocate of leading market indicators, he compiles layer upon layer of multiple reasons for entry which form the basis of his high-probability set-ups and trading strategies.
Nick left his 9-5 job within 3 months of discovering technical analysis and is now an independent full time trader as well as a mentor on trading strategies. In addition to being a highly talented trader, Nick is also a well respected trading mentor and founded "Trade With Precision" (www.tradewithprecision.com) to teach aspiring traders his unique approach to trading with technical analysis.
Nick cuts through the 'nonsense' associated with traditional technical analysis and teaches people real trading strategies, omitting irrelevant information that is not conducive to trading successfully. He is also the founder of the Trading Symposium, one of the most successful trading conference organisers in the UK. Throughout his career, Nick has passed on his knowledge to clients of the largest names in the financial world including the CME Group, TradeStation, ETX Capital, PFG Best, IG Index, CMC Markets, Traders Magazine plus many others.
Trading for a living is hard enough as it is, but to have people watching over your shoulder can only add to the pressure of performing. But since August 2008 Tom Hougaard has been running a live trading room, posting all his trades, and making his track record a publicly accessible feature on his site www.whichwaytoday.com
Tom Hougaard used to be a regular feature on the financial business TV channels, where he offered his market analysis and forecasts. In January 2009 he was made redundant from his City job and immediately started WhichWayToday on a full time basis with his trading partner Dr David Paul from South Africa.
He says of the live trading room: “I ran TraderTom.com for many years offering day-to-day analysis, but I always felt that there was something missing. My readers could not see what I saw during the day. Trading requires you to be fluid. WhichWayToday addresses the balance by showing how we achieve our results, on a second-by-second basis, essentially offering people the chance to see and do exactly what we are seeing and doing”.
David Norman has been involved in trading and financial markets technology for over 20 years. He has traded and overseen corporate trading operations in a variety of stock and derivatives markets, provides consultancy, seminar and coursework in the field of market technology to exchanges, global trading houses and investment banks, and has taught graduate classes in market technology for three years in Chicago. He is the author of four books on trading and market technology, Trading at the Speed of Light (Paradym, 2001), Professional Electronic Trading (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) Trader DNA (Paradym, 2006) and The Virtual Trader (Paradym 2007). Formerly the Director of Market Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT he now works in London as a financial markets consultant for Office for Market Technology, Ltd.
Stephen Gallo is currently the head of market analysis at London-based foreign exchange provider Schneider FX. His work is concentrated in providing fundamental analysis and forecasting of major currencies to over 1,000 clients worldwide that trade more than £2.0 billion per year with the firm. Stephen has over 4 years of experience in providing fundamental analysis of the global financial markets and economic developments amongst G7 and emerging market economies. In addition to his work in foreign exchange, he has also spent a substantial amount of time at other City-based firms providing analysis and commentary of the global financial and commodity futures markets. Stephen is a weekly commentator and guest on CNBC and Bloomberg Television where he delivers opinion and analysis of developments in foreign exchange and the G7 monetary policy outlook, and he is regularly quoted in financial publications such as the Financial Times and City A.M. He holds a BSc in Finance & Economics and an MSc in Investment Management from the Cass Business School.
Steve Ward is the Trade With Precision resident trader performance coach and director of High Performance Trading plus he trades FX. He provides specialised trader performance and psychology coaching and training programmes for traders in the retail, proprietary and institutional sectors and provides consultancy to trading and financial institutions across the globe working in the areas of trader recruitment, selection, assessment, training and development. He is also the in-house performance coach at Schneider Trading Associates, co-manages a large team of over 40 professional traders in London, was a consultant to the BBC TV programme Million Dollar Traders and is a regular trainer at the London Stock Exchange.
Steve has a history of working with elite level performers including athletes and sports teams at world championship and Olympic level. His work utilises techniques and strategies from sports and performance psychology, cognitive behavioural and performance coaching, and behavioural finance, to help traders to develop the success skills and winning mindset required to achieve their trading goals.
His book 'High Performance Trading - 50 Practical Strategies To Enhance Your Trading Performance' (Harriman House Publishing) is due for release on 30th November 2009.
