Meet our experts

Hand-picked market analysts, trading veterans, and educators to bring you the best the trading and investing world has to offer. 

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John Seville

John has spent the last 11 years mastering the art of technical analysis as a method of finding trading opportunities in the North American equity markets.  Acorn Wealth Corporation opened in 2007 to become one of the few places where students could go to learn such powerful techniques directly from their mentors.

Michael Nauss

Michael has been scalping and trading the market for over 12 years. During that time, he drank the Trade-Ideas koolaid and became an avid user and content creator. When not buried in backtests and trying to find that next best algo for Holly the A.I., he is helping customers with their setup and Automatic trading system, Brokerage Plus.

Mark Helweg

After leaving the exchange to focus on engineering school, Mark pioneered early quantitative trading models for a local Hedge Fund. Over the past 20 years he has served as Head of Research and Senior Strategy Developer for several award winning hedge funds. He has also authored “Dynamic Trading Indicators” that was recognized among the Best Investment Books of 2002 by Barron’s magazine. 

Mark has been a frequent contributor for CNN Money Pre-Market and also speaks internationally on technical analysis in the stock, futures, and FOREX markets.

Jeff Tompkins

Jeff Tompkins is with Altos Trading and he has been trading stocks, options and futures for about 20 years. Over these years he has developed an arsenal of highly tested trading strategies, which have remained effective regardless of market conditions. You’re about to see why he is one of our most requested speakers.

Steven Primo

Steven Primo is with ProTraderStrategies and has been  trading the markets for over 37 years. Steve has also been featured in Stocks and Commodities magazine and is a frequent contributor to many sites such as Tradingmarkets, FXstreet, Forex Pros and Traders Expo. His strategies are now traded across the globe in over 50 countries on 6 continents.

Troy Noonan

Troy has been with NetPicks since 2006 and has more than 17 years of extensive trading experience in forex, futures and stocks. He has hosted a successful live trade room for 13 years and created some of Netpicks most successful trading strategies, used by thousands of traders in over 110 countries. He is passionate about his work, which includes teaching others the art (and science) of trading.

Jeff Gibby

Jeffrey Gibby has been working for MetaStock for over sixteen years. He is currently in charge of new business development and works to create new MetaStock distributors and partners worldwide.

Mr. Gibby works with training companies to help people learn the power of MetaStock. He has spoken to traders from around the world and has trained people on how to use the software and trade various markets. Among his areas of responsibilities are the management of new products and services for MetaStock and creating strategic partnerships.

Todd “Bubba” Horwitz

Todd  Horwitz –known as Bubba – has been trading for 36 years and is one of the original market makers in the SPX Trading Pit. He’s a regular contributor on Fox, CNBC, BNN, Kitco, and Bloomberg. Not only is he a seasoned pro but he’s also an advocate for financial literacy and created a program for high school students to help them learn how to trade the markets.’

Erin Swenlin

Erin is an active member of the CMT association and holds a Master’s Degree in Information Resource Management, as well as, a bachelor degree in Mathematics. Erin launched the popular DecisionPoint daily blog in 2009, and also serves as a consulting technical analyst and blog contributor at Stock Charts.

Steven Brooks

Steven Brooks is not your typical trader. He does not have a math or finance background and has never been to business school. Rather, Steven is a former professional baseball player who got into the markets because he needed to supplement his income on top of his $1,200 a month salary as a ball player.

Melissa Armo

Melissa Armo is the Founder and Owner of an international educational company where she teaches how to successfully trade the stock market. The method she created is unique to The Stock Swoosh, LLC and is based on one strategy called Golden Gaps which pinpoints institutional money in the stock market.

Serge Berger

Serge Berger has been an active trader since 1998. During his career he’s been a financial analyst, dealt in fixed income instruments at JP Morgan, and was a proprietary trader in equities, equity options and futures.  Having had exposure to a range of different asset classes allowed him to identify which asset classes and strategies best fit his goal of achieving consistent profits.