Mark Sebastian

Option Mentoring

Mark Sebastian is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Option Pit Mentoring and Consulting, a Chicago-based option education firm.

Danny Riley

MrTopStep Founder & CEO

Started in 1978 as a runner in the grain room, moved into the bonds in 1981 and then moved to the S&P’s in 1985 handling some of the top accounts in the business. Took his own knowledge of the trading floor and was taught by one of the best known S&P traders. Working phones and following order flow is his expertise.

Brian Shepard

MrTopStep

I have 27 years of trading floor experience. As an IOM member since 1991, I have dealt with institutional customers throughout my career. Paramount to a successful trader is surrounding oneself with knowledge and insight that only experience trains you for.

Mike Vacchi

Princetontrader.com

After trading in the markets part time for several years I gradually gave up my law practice to become a full-time futures trader. Through both Mr. Topstep and Princetontrader.com I focus primarily on trading the e-Mini using pivot points, volatility levels and Fibonacci retracements to predict price movement. Volatility levels are areas in which buying or selling is likely to become exhausted. Allowing for a reversal of prior direction or conversely a breakout above those levels to bring in new buyers or sellers to a market. The use of the volatility levels and pivot points can be equally applied in index trading energy markets, metals and grains. These levels have been used with great success in the Mr. Topstep IM and we are proud to bring them to everyone has a part of our new service.

Alexander Hamilton

MrTopStep.com

Alexander H. Hamilton has been managing a global portfolio for over 30 years. He runs his family office, Mountain Value, out of the Swiss Alps.  In a more and more interconnected world, Alex tries brings attention the main political and economic trends that influence the financial markets.

Henry Marchell

Stanton Analytics

Studied Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology specialized in Fluid Dynamics. At the time the new science of Chaos and Complexity was introduced, which was our start with the fascination of the markets.

Roger Volz

BGC Chart Chatter

Roger Volz is Chief Technical Strategist for BGC Equities & Derivatives group. In this role, Roger uses almost 30 years of experience in global markets across all asset classes to identify trends and technical dynamics. He delivers widely trusted and timely market commentary, which encompasses definitive risk and reward parameters, covering various time horizons. Clients use Roger’s insight as a key ingredient for determining their market viewpoint and risk tolerances. Roger expresses market dynamics on both macro and micro levels – from single name equities to agricultural commodities – and everything in between. He identifies price targets, trends, reversals, patterns, seasonals and cycles.

Bob Lang

ExplosiveOptions.net

Bob Lang has been a private trader in equity and option markets for several years and manages separate accounts via Aztec Capital LLC. He has managed a $300 million pension and 401(k) plan for a Southern California cooperative. In early 2000, Lang started a hedge fund for private and institutional clients.  This fund, Aztec Partners, was a top-performing fund that year relative to its peer group. In 2002, Lang worked with floor traders in the active bond-trading group of Countrywide Capital Markets. In May 2011, Lang launched an options trading newsletter called Explosive Options.

Rich Canlione

The NKO Group

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Hank Camp

ProgramTrading.com

For the past 25 years, Hank has been President and CEO of HL Camp & Company, one of the world’s leading authorities on stock market index arbitrage and computer assisted buy and sell programs, commonly known as program trading. His analysis and trading recommendations are published daily in the firm’s Program Trading Research Report, which is utilized extensively by industry professionals.

Carley Garner

Commodities Magazine Columnist and Author

Carley is the author of “A Trader’s First Book on Commodities” and “Commodity Options” published by FT Press, a division of Prentice Hall. She has also contributed to the FT Press Delivers line of digital products, “Insights for the Agile Investor”. Her e-newsletters, The DeCarley Perspective, The Stock Index Report and the Bond Bulletin, have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education, for details visit www.DeCarleyTrading.com.

Wayne Whaley

Witter & Lester

Wayne Whaley, CTA, received a Masters Degree in Operations Research in 1981 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his first exposure to the mathematical modeling of probabilistic models. His education also focused on Optimization Theory, Time Series Analysis, Simulation Techniques, and Game Theory. Wayne had little idea at the time where his applied mathematics background would eventually lead him, but even as a student, he had particular fondness for his Engineering Economics classes.

George Cavaligos

Mr. Top Step

George Cavaligos is a Futures broker with Mf Global in Chicago. He is a 30 year veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade pits with many of those years running Eurodollar futures and options desks for many of the bigger brokers. Trained as a Biologist and High School teacher he brings a scientists viewpoint to the markets and enjoys teaching others about the markets. He looks at the markets with a strong background in technical analysis.

MrTopStep

MrTopStep IMPro

Looking for insight on market flow and color from the floor, consider MrTopStep's Instant Message Professional Service.  Just a single membership level will allow access to both the direct market flow and the ability to interact with the MrTopStep contributors and other professional traders.  

Stephen S. "EUBIE" Eubanks

MrTopStep Founder/Principal/Director/Institutional Sales & Trading / MrTopStep, LLC.

Founder/Principal/Eubiquity Capital, LLC. Equity based trading with analytics of bonds and bottoms-up bend within equities; Boston, MA. www.eubiquitycapital.com

Dan Passarelli

Market Taker Mentoring, founder and options educator

Author and options educator Dan Passarelli is the founder of Market Taker Mentoring LLC.  Dan has more than 18 years' experience in the options industry and has worked as both a floor trader and an options instructor. Dan began his option trading career as a market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), trading equity options. He has also traded agricultural options and futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). In 2005, Dan began teaching others what he learned from his years in the trading pits. He worked with the Options Institute at CBOE and the Options Industry Council (OIC). Through these organizations, Dan educated thousands of options traders about options fundamentals and the trading techniques and market strategies of successful option traders. Dan is the author of two popular options books: Trading Option Greeks, and The Market Taker's Edge. Dan has also written numerous articles for financial publications. He has been a featured speaker on radio and television and has presented numerous podcasts and webcasts on options trading.

Elliot Wave International

Elliott Wave International (EWI) is the world’s largest market forecasting firm. EWI’s 20-plus analysts provide around-the-clock forecasts of every major market in the world via the internet and proprietary web systems like Reuters and Bloomberg. EWI’s educational services include conferences, workshops, webinars, DVDs, streaming videos, special reports, books and one of the internet’s richest free content programs, Club EWI.

David Wienke

S&P, Nasdaq, Russell 2000 Newsletter

Triquetra Resources, Ltd - Providing technical analysis to major clients in a wide range of asset classes. Morning macro technical report and intraday actionable alerts and ideas. Technical work includes equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, energy. Utilize vast global network to keep clients abreast of changing market conditions and technical landscape.