Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University, where he trains mental health professionals in short-term therapies.

Brett also works as a performance coach for traders and portfolio managers at hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other money management firms. He writes the TraderFeed blog and has authored four books on trading psychology and a standard reference work in brief therapies.

When not working as a psychologist, Brett enjoys the company of his wife, five children, six grandchildren, and three rescue cats. He is currently writing a book on psychology and spirituality.

JC Parets is the founder of AllStarCharts.com and is one of the most widely followed Technical Analysts in the world. All Star Charts is a research platform for both professional and retail investors covering US and International stocks, interest rates, commodities and forex markets. In 2008, JC earned his Chartered Market Technician designation (CMT).

His work has been featured regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, ABC, CNN, Wall Street Journal and many other financial media outlets around the world. You will often see JC as a speaker at some of the top investing conferences and has also been invited to speak at Harvard, Duke, NYU, University of Chicago and Hong Kong Baptist University among other institutions about Technical Analysis and Behavioral Finance. JC specializes in finding the most opportunistic risk vs reward propositions while at the same time bringing a top/down approach to the marketplace whose wide spectrum is rivaled by few.

Brian Shannon is the CEO and founder of Alphatrends.net, a highly regarded trading advice and education service. Alphatrends is successful due to Brian’s depth of market and trading experience and his natural teaching abilities.

Brian has been a broker and trader for 27 years for firms such and Lehman Brothers and Dain Bosworth. He also ran Landmark Securities trading office in Denver and was the lead traders and Director of Research at MarketWise Securities.

Shannon Published his acclaimed book Technical Analysis Using Multiple Time Frames in 2008 to educate beginning and intermediate day traders on the tools and techniques that have made him “one of the best indie traders in the business”. In the book The Stocktwits Edge, Howard Lindzon wrote “it is not by accident that about one-third of the traders featured in this book point to Brian as a mentor who has had the biggest impact on their careers.”

The Tale of the Tape 2017

Trade Ideas LLC’s Actionable Intelligence Enters 3rd Year Outperforming Benchmarks

Simulated portfolio returns 56% beating S&P’s performance of 22%
The net return of the Trade Ideas’ simulated portfolio for the 2017 calendar year was 56% after commissions. These results were achieved by the company’s A.I. powered, Investment Discovery Engine, ‘Holly.’ The portfolio’s gross return before commissions and fees measured 85%. These results compare to the S&P 500, measured by the $SPY index, which earned a 21.7% return over the same period…

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