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Global speaker and author with best-selling books ranging from The Great Boom Ahead in 1993 to the Roaring 2000s in 1998. Harvard MBA graduated as Baker Scholar and rare member of the Century Club.

“Our economy is far more predictable than most assume, but massive Fed and government intervention since the 2008 Great Recession is threatening the very “Golden Goose” of Free Market Capitalism.”

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Andrew Keene is a master of trading, and became a muli-millonnaire from trading order flow in the options marlet

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Rob Roy is a 25+ year veteran of the financial markets and Chief Trading Strategist at Elliott Wave Options (ewotrader.com). Following a 13-year career as a PGA Golf Professional, Rob entered finance in the mid-1990s, forming an independent financial advisory firm. He has been trading since the early 1990s across stocks, bonds, options, futures, currencies and commodities, and was introduced to Elliott Wave analysis in 2000, which became the cornerstone of his approach. A seasoned educator and global speaker for over two decades, Rob combines real-world trading experience with a unique ability to explain complex market concepts in ways even novice traders can grasp. Since 2009 he has supplemented his teaching with live Trade Alerts.

Talk Title: What to Do in a Market at All-Time Highs

• *Stocks are at all-time highs, but can they go higher?
• However, we may have to suffer a correction of first 10%-20% first
• Big Technology will be hardest hit sector during the next correction so maybe you should take some money off the table now
• The trigger would be a super spike in oil to $200 a barrel causing inflation to explode
• Bank stocks could be the high quality play right here
• Rate cuts will eventually occur, if not this year then next year, and tank the US dollar when they do
• Until then, avoid all fixed income plays like the plague
• Bonds are suffering from the $5 trillion overhang in new government borrowing and a $39 trillion National Debt
• Rising interest rates will keep all housing plays dead for another year
• Gold isn’t dead, it’s resting. The run to $10,000 an ounce is ahead of us
• The commodity super cycle is still on as the AI build out accelerates

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John Thomas is the founder of Mad Hedge Fund Trader (madhedgefundtrader.com) and one of the most widely followed independent research services in the world, with daily trade alerts reaching tens of thousands of subscribers across stocks, options, futures, currencies, and commodities. A UCLA graduate in biochemistry and mathematics (1974), John spent seven years in Asia as a correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, interviewing world leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Ferdinand Marcos, Yasser Arafat, and Ronald Reagan. He later served as a Director at Swiss Bank Corp, where he ran the Japanese equity derivatives book, and went on to found one of the first dedicated international hedge funds, which he sold in 1999. Post-finance, he pioneered oil and gas operations in Texas and Colorado before returning full-time to markets and research. Outside the office, John has climbed Everest to 20,000 feet, flown a MIG-25 to 90,000 feet, and holds black belts in multiple martial arts. He is the host and curator of the Mad Hedge Traders and Investors Summit — the largest free online trading and investing conference in the world, held quarterly since 2010.

Talk Title: Tom Sosnoff wants to give you $1 million.

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Tom Sosnoff (born March 6, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, options trader and media personality widely known as the ‘godfather of options trading’ for his role in democratizing complex financial instruments for retail investors. A former floor trader on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), he co-founded the online brokerage thinkorswim in 1999 and sold it to TD Ameritrade for approximately $606 million in 2009. He then co-founded the trading network and brokerage tastytrade (later tastylive), which was acquired by IG Group for roughly $1 billion in 2021. After leaving tastylive in September 2025, Sosnoff launched Lossdog, an AI-driven platform and daily live show designed to help professionals understand their market value.

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Matt Hensley has been a full-time trader since 2014 and is the Founder and Head of Trading Education at Tiresias Trading (protraderdesk.com), based in Valparaiso, Indiana. With a degree in management and a background in teaching and coaching, Matt has worked with hundreds of traders in small group settings and hosted a live market wrap show across multiple trading platforms. His trading style emphasizes proper position sizing, defined risk, and swinging for consistent base hits rather than home runs — using options for swing trades and stocks for day trading.

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John Thomas is the founder of Mad Hedge Fund Trader (madhedgefundtrader.com) and one of the most widely followed independent research services in the world, with daily trade alerts reaching tens of thousands of subscribers across stocks, options, futures, currencies, and commodities. A UCLA graduate in biochemistry and mathematics (1974), John spent seven years in Asia as a correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, interviewing world leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Ferdinand Marcos, Yasser Arafat, and Ronald Reagan. He later served as a Director at Swiss Bank Corp, where he ran the Japanese equity derivatives book, and went on to found one of the first dedicated international hedge funds, which he sold in 1999. Post-finance, he pioneered oil and gas operations in Texas and Colorado before returning full-time to markets and research. Outside the office, John has climbed Everest to 20,000 feet, flown a MIG-25 to 90,000 feet, and holds black belts in multiple martial arts. He is the host and curator of the Mad Hedge Traders and Investors Summit — the largest free online trading and investing conference in the world, held quarterly since 2010.

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Marina ‘The Trader Chick’, specializes in helping people to Day Trade with confidence and ease. She simplifies the process by completely breaking down the art of identifying high probability trade setups. Even if you are just getting started, you could learn to day trade profitably and read the markets like a pro. You will be amazed at how simple it can be!

Talk Title: Covered Call Writing

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Dr. Ellman is President of The Blue Collar Investor Corp. and author of 9 best-selling books on covered call writing and selling puts. His 4th book, Stock Investing for Students, is now required reading at several colleges. Alan has been trading stock options since 1995 and The Blue Collar Investor Corp. was started in January 2007. He has also produced several video courses, published hundreds of articles and produced hundreds of videos on this subject. Alan has been a frequent guest on financial forums such as the Options Industry Council’s Wide World of Options, StockCharts TV and The Money Answers Radio program. He is also a national speaker for The Money Show, a contributor for the Options Industry Council and the American Association of Individual Investors as well as an educational contributor to Nasdaq.com. He was also named best teacher of covered calls on Snapchat GPT. Alan is on the Board of Directors for Education for Quasar Markets and has completed the Series 65-Investment Advisor Rep requirements. He has also served as an expert witness and consultant in a multi-million-dollar options trial.

Talk Title: Pattern Day Trading

The history of the rule (why Finra created it), my role in getting Finra to remove the rule and the importance of the elimination of the rule to most retail traders.

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Scott Sheridan is a business executive and options trading entrepreneur with over 36 years of experience in the financial sector. He began his career as a Chicago Board Options Exchange market maker for nearly 20 years before co-founding thinkorswim alongside Tom Sosnoff in 1988 — the brokerage that revolutionized retail options trading and was eventually sold to TD Ameritrade. In 2011 Sosnoff and Sheridan co-founded tastytrade, the financial media network and brokerage later acquired by IG Group. Sheridan served as CEO of tastytrade for over a decade. He is currently co-founder of Lossdog, an AI-driven platform designed to help professionals better understand their compensation and market value. Scott holds a degree from Miami University (class of 1985).

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Steven Primo has been actively involved in trading the markets for over 40 years. His career began in 1977 as a Floor Reporter on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, where he eventually rose to become a Stock Exchange Specialist for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette — responsible for making markets in over 50 stocks for 9 years, trading through the Crash of 1987 and the Bull Market that followed. Primo left the exchange floor in 1994 to focus on managing money and teaching his own unique approach to the markets. He is the founder of Specialist Trading (specialisttrading.com), has been featured in Stocks & Commodities magazine, and has taught students from beginner to advanced levels in over 115 countries.

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Matt is a seasoned trader who not only loves trading – but also loves building tools that give other traders an edge in the market. As of June 2026, he has built “TradeTheGrade” a platform that uses Ai to suggest which analyst actions are likely good trade catalysts, and the 0DTE Terminal which uses Ai and backtesting to suggest specific trade ideas on 0DTE SPY and SPX options.

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The only AI-powered terminal that surfaces statistically-backtested 0DTE setups on SPY & SPX with live option chains, built-in risk management, and one-click paper-to-live execution — so you stop guessing and start trading with an edge.

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Anka Metcalf is a professional trader, investor and market analyst with 25+ years of trading experience. She is the Founder and CEO of TradeOutLoud.com, an international trading education and service company. She is an expert trader and investor with a precise approach to daily income-style and wealth-generation trading, delivering results in any market environment.

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Most traders lose money for one reason: they’re trading too much, at the wrong time, with no structure. Professional traders don’t sit in front of screens all day. They come in with a plan, extract opportunity in a very specific window, and they’re done. Anka will demonstrate how professional traders approach the market completely differently from retail traders. No stress, no emotions.

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Simon Klein is a professional trader and trading coach with over 15 years of experience. He began his career in 2005 as an Equity Trader at Generic Trading of Philadelphia after passing the FINRA Series 7 exam. Simon learned to read the markets without indicators and developed a trading methodology around supply and demand analysis that he still uses today. He is the founder of TradeSmart (tradesmart4x.com), where he provides education, training, coaching, and a live trading room covering forex, stocks, and futures — welcoming traders from complete beginners to experienced professionals.

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Larry Gaines is the Founder and CEO of Power Cycle Trading (powercycletrading.com), with over three decades of professional trading experience. During his corporate career, he served as Executive Vice President of one of the largest volume oil trading groups in the world, managing and trading billions of dollars in oil, foreign exchange, futures, and options. He began in the 1980s trading tanker cargoes of foreign crude oil in Houston and Singapore, later consulting with hedge funds and setting up an OTC crude oil options brokerage desk for the world’s largest privately owned oil brokerage. He founded PowerCycleTrading.com in 2010 and has since taught over 1,000,000 traders his disciplined, directional options trading process based on price cycle analysis.

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Martha Stokes, CMT is the CEO and co-founder of TechniTrader. She is a retired professional Buy-Side Analyst who has been working to educate traders and investors at all levels since 1998. She has managed a successful fund and trading floor, owned and sold several businesses, and taught at several community colleges.
Martha is a long-time charter holder and member of the CMT Association. She earned this SEC-recognized designation with her thesis called “Cycle Evolution Theory,” and has more recently submitted her work on “Relational Technical Analysis” to the CMT Association. These concepts are the bedrock of TechniTrader’s trading education, which you will start learning about today.

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E. Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley is the founder of Top Gun Options LLC (topgunoptions.com) and a decorated former United States Navy fighter pilot who graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOP GUN) and flew 44 combat missions over Iraq. After his military career, he served as Managing Director of Strategy at PEAK6 Investments, L.P., one of the world’s largest volatility arbitrage options trading firms. While on active duty he taught himself to trade options, and has been successfully trading for over 20 years. He now manages four model portfolios and teaches retail traders of all experience levels how to trade equity options. Whiz is also an internationally recognized speaker and published author on business leadership, execution, and risk management, having addressed Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, GE, and Cisco.

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Price Headley is the founder of BigTrends.com, which he launched on November 15, 1999, and was inducted into the Traders’ Hall of Fame in 2007. A Duke University graduate and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Price has been trading for over 30 years and is a member of the Market Technicians Association. He appears regularly on CNBC, Fox News and Bloomberg Television, and his commentary has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, and USA Today. BigTrends.com provides investors with real-time stock and options strategies, investment education, trade alert newsletters, an on-demand boot camp, and a weekly live trading room to help traders profit from significant market trends.

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Richard Friesen is the creator of the Mind Muscles™ training process, an innovative approach that transforms trading psychology from the inside out. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, and is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute in San Francisco, as well as a Master’s-certified NLP practitioner. Rich founded, built, and sold Trade Management LLC, one of the most consistently profitable options and equity trading firms on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, and has also traded grains on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and equity futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He works with financial professionals, independent traders, and business leaders who want to expand their mental game to achieve more consistent results. He is a popular speaker on the psychology of money, market behavior, and personal transformation.

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Melissa Armo is the Founder of The Stock Swoosh, LLC (founded December 2012) and creator of the Golden Gaps trading system, which pinpoints institutional money flow at the open of the stock market. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Gettysburg College (B.A. Philosophy, 1994), Melissa spent 17 years as a highly successful mortgage broker before pivoting to full-time trading in 2008. She is the executive producer and host of her own television show, ‘Make A Million With Melissa,’ and has appeared as a stock market expert on Fox News, Fox Business Network, Bloomberg, RT America, Cheddar TV, CBS News, NewsMax, News Nation, and Real America’s Voice. Melissa teaches her straightforward, one-strategy system to traders internationally through The Stock Swoosh platform.

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Peter Schultz is the Founder and CEO of Wealth Builder Publishing (wealthbuilderpublishing.com) and Chief Strategist of The Winning Secret, and has been showing self-directed investors how to trade successfully since 1996. A nationally recognized speaker on options trading, he became an instructor in 1997 delivering live seminars in cities across the United States, and launched his own company in 1999. Peter is the author of ‘Passage to Freedom,’ ‘The Winning Secret,’ and ‘The Greatest Options Strategies on Earth.’ He and his wife Laura live in Ashland, Oregon, and his personal mission — shared with every member of his community — is to help people reach a place where their passive income exceeds their expenses.

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Tony Barassi is a former institutional trader and algorithm developer, now specializing in futures with a particular focus on commodity markets and gold. He spent six years as a trader at Stifel Financial Corp., where he specialized in precision execution across futures, options, and derivatives, building deep expertise in multi-asset risk management and commodity strategy. Tony is the creator of the L-2 Indicator, a breakout/breakdown system built around rule-based entries and clear risk control. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management (3.7 GPA), he now applies his institutional trading experience to helping everyday traders approach the gold market with confidence, clarity, and disciplined strategy.

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Jeff Tompkins is an award-winning hedge fund manager. He also serves as the Chief Investment Strategist at Altos Trading, LLC where helps aspiring traders achieve financial freedom through consistent and profitable trading strategies. Jeff has been successfully trading since 1999 and over the years has developed an arsenal of highly tested trading strategies, which have remained effective regardless of market conditions. The main objective of the organization is to teach these disciplined strategies to those who are striving to achieve consistency and success in the markets.

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John Thomas is the founder of Mad Hedge Fund Trader (madhedgefundtrader.com) and one of the most widely followed independent research services in the world, with daily trade alerts reaching tens of thousands of subscribers across stocks, options, futures, currencies, and commodities. A UCLA graduate in biochemistry and mathematics (1974), John spent seven years in Asia as a correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, interviewing world leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Ferdinand Marcos, Yasser Arafat, and Ronald Reagan. He later served as a Director at Swiss Bank Corp, where he ran the Japanese equity derivatives book, and went on to found one of the first dedicated international hedge funds, which he sold in 1999. Post-finance, he pioneered oil and gas operations in Texas and Colorado before returning full-time to markets and research. Outside the office, John has climbed Everest to 20,000 feet, flown a MIG-25 to 90,000 feet, and holds black belts in multiple martial arts. He is the host and curator of the Mad Hedge Traders and Investors Summit — the largest free online trading and investing conference in the world, held quarterly since 2010.

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In 1997, Mr. Gebhard co-founded Altavest, a registered Introducing Brokerage firm. Altavest developed the ThetaTrader software, which uses a proprietary algorithm to create option spreads and manage risk and reward automatically. ThetaTrader also utilizes a unique spread strategy that Altavest named the dragonfly. Altavest clients also benefit from interactive Trade Alerts wherein clients simply touch “Accept” or “Reject.”

Mr. Gebhard has held Series 6 and 63 securities licenses and a CA insurance license. He currently maintains a Series 3 Commodity Futures license and a Series 65 license for Registered Investment Advisors.

When away from his desk, he enjoys skiing with his family, vintage automobiles, and mountain biking. He also volunteers as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for La Sierra University’s Zapara School of Business and is part of the investment advisory team for his church’s General Conference.

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Buff Dormeier, CMT is an American author and technical analyst recognized for his pioneering work in volume analysis and capital flow strategies, notably through a methodology known as the Volume Factor. Dormeier currently serves as Chief Technical Analyst at Kingsview Investment Management and as Index Specialist for Monarch Funds ETFs. In his role, he develops customized portfolio strategies for affluent and institutional clients, integrating comprehensive wealth management with advanced portfolio analytics. He is also the creator and current Index Specialist of the Monarch Volume Factor ETFs.