Guy Adami was an executive director at CIBC World Markets in their U.S. Equities division where he was the sector head in charge of the Industrial/Basic Material group. In this role, he has been a frequent contributor to many of the daytime shows on CNBC including guest hosting "Squawk Box." He is currently a contributor on "Fast Money."

Prior to his current position, Adami worked for Goldman Sachs where he held several positions. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 as the head gold trader and one of the many proprietary traders within the Fixed Income Currency and Commodity division. In the spring of 2000, Adami joined the U.S. Equities division of Goldman Sachs where he was put in charge of their Industrial/Basic Material group.

Adami began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1986 and was quickly promoted to vice president and head gold trader at the firm where he cemented trading relationships with famed financiers Sir James Goldsmith and Kerry Packer. Adami also held similar positions at AIG International Inc.

Guy welcomes your comments at adami@minyanville.com.

Guy Bennett, President of Q1 Publishing writes the financial column, "The Prosperity Dispatch." He's also the author of the best-selling book, Guy's Guide to the Flipside, and has twice been named British Columbia's best weekly newspaper columnist for his work in The Westender.

He has written movies, run newspapers, rebranded companies and promoted products internationally. Mr. Bennett has written about finance and securities for a variety of national publications. With a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University, he's followed stories in the mining, energy, agriculture, gaming and tech sectors.

Guy welcomes your comments and/or feedback at editor@minyanville.com.

Minyanville staffer Cory Bortnicker graduated in 2003 from Boston University. After a 3 year stint playing in a country band, a cross country trek on Amtrak trains, and performing stand-up comedy in New York City, he began writing a humor blog. Eventually landing in the ‘Ville, Bortnicker writes on the ever-expanding frontier between business and entertainment.

When not dreaming of Hoofy and Boo, Bortnicker plays piano in the New York City based Backyard Birds.

James Brumley is the Director of Research for options trading site BigTrends.com, and stock-trading spinoff site BigStockTrends.com. You’ll find his commentary and opinion on both web sites, as well as in other financial media.

James’ career began as an investment specialist with discount broker Charles Schwab. He joined the BigTrends team as an analyst in 2002, and was named head of trading research in 2006.

Philosophically, James feels discipline and consistency – and a willingness to sometimes be in the minority – are the keys to investment success for any time frame. He also believes the fine line between diversity and dilution is too often crossed, watering down much of an investor’s potential for real gains. His trading strategies often reflect his systematic approach. More than anything though, James’ passion is helping investors make or preserve money through his writing.

Mr. Brumley has dual degrees in finance and marketing from Transylvania University.

Andreas Calianos is the president of Behavioral Capital Management LLC (www.Behavioral-Capital.com). His focus is managing assets based on principles of behavioral finance including the interaction of long-term macro trends with short-term price movement.

Andreas has 20 years of trading experience in stocks, futures and options. He has also served as a portfolio consultant in the areas of economics, risk management and real estate investment to some of the world’s largest investors, including GE Capital, Citigroup and the CommonFund.

Andreas graduated Boston College with a degree in Computer Sciences and Biology in 1985. He lectures in the graduate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CRE).

Andreas lives in Northampton, Mass with his wife and two sons.

Vinny Catalano, CFA is President and Global Investment Strategist with Blue Marble Research and author of Sectors and Styles: A New Approach to Outperforming the Market.

Vinny is a past president of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He appears regularly on TV including CNBC’s "Morning Call" and “Kudlow & Company”, Canada’s leading business network Business News Network (BNN), New Delhi TV, forbes.com’s MoneyMasters, as well as on various business radio programs. Vinny is frequently quoted in professional publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Barron's, the Globe and Mail, and Business Week, among others.

Additionally, Vinny produces and conducts numerous events including the highly popular "Market Forecast Series" with various local CFA Societies.

Jeff Cooper is the writer of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report.

After graduating from New York University, Jeff Cooper moved to Los Angeles where he and a partner started Dogtown Skates. Jeff began his trading career at Drexel Burnham in 1981 in Beverly Hills.

After a few years there, he left to work for his father's private hedge fund. In 1986, Jeff went out on his own choosing to trade exclusively for himself. After establishing a successful career as a private trader, he went on to write two best selling books: Hit and Run Trading, The Short-Term Trader's Bible, and Hit and Run Trading 2, Capturing Explosive Short-Term Moves In Stocks as well as a course, Jeff Cooper On Dominating The Day Trading Market. Buy them here.

In addition to his books, Jeff has also released a DVD, Intra-Day Trading Strategies: Proven Steps to Trading Profits and a DVD course, Unlocking the Profits of the New Swing Chart Method (with David Reif) which presents the first unified market theory and a practical explanation of the Gann Square of Nine Calculator, one of the most powerful tools for forecasting time and price.

After co-founding a financial markets internet site in 1999, Jeff moved on to write a column and a trading service at TheStreet.com until 2006.

Today, Jeff consults and trades for himself from his home in Malibu, California where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Jeff welcomes comments and feedback at cooper@minyanville.com.

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Glenn Curtis started his career in the 1990s as an equity analyst at Cantone Research - a regional broker/dealer in New Jersey. There he covered companies in entertainment and gaming.

At Prudential Securities he was responsible for building out the financial content of that company's website. Curtis has also worked as a financial writer at a series of both web and print publications, including TheStreet.com/RealMoney.com, Worldlyinvestor.com, IndividualInvestor.com, Registered Rep Magazine, and Advanced Trading Magazine.

In addition, he has also provided market related commentary and research for some of America's largest hedge funds. Curtis has held his series 6, 7, 24, and 63 securities licenses.

Satyajit Das has worked in the area of financial derivatives and risk management for over 30 years. He has worked on the sell side (including Citigroup and Merrill Lynch), buy side (TNT) and as an independent consultant.

He is the author of a number of key reference works on derivatives and risk management. His works include Swaps/ Financial Derivatives Library – Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons) (a 4 volume 4,200 page reference work for practitioners on derivatives) and Credit Derivatives, CDOs and Structured Credit Products –Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons). He is the author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT-Prentice Hall), an insider's account of derivatives trading and the financial products business filled with black humour and satire. The book has been described by the Financial Times, London as " fascinating reading … explaining not only the high-minded theory behind the business and its various products but the sometimes sordid reality of the industry". He is also the author (with Jade Novakovic) of In Search of the Pangolin: The Accidental Eco-Tourist (2006, New Holland), a unique travel narrative offering passionate and often poignant insights into the natural world and the culture of eco-travel.

Rod David developed analytical techniques that are designed to efficiently identify targets and turning points for any liquid stock or market in any time frame. He primarily applies his technique to analyzing S&Ps. The methodologies are also applied to other high-profile futures markets to generate an opinion and to identify specific actionable parameters.

Rod publishes his setups intraday on a blog at IfThenSignals.com, where he also hosts a live "charting room" webinar to graphically depict his patterns and targets in real-time.

Previously Rod was a Contributing Editor for optionMONSTER where he produced the Index Trader blog, providing intraday timing signals and targets in S&Ps and other futures markets. Prior to that, Rod founded AvidTrader.com in 1995, one of the original technical analysis web sites. Through AvidTrader, Rod launched the web's first free-access traders chatroom in 1996 where technical analysis newcomers and experts from around the world mingle throughout each trading day.

In addition to Minyanville, Rod's analysis has been published or quoted in CBS MarketWatch, CNBC, The New York Times, Trader Daily, Futures Magazine, and Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, among others. Rod graduated Summa Cum Laude from Park University and resides in the Kansas City area.

Dave Dispennette has over 20 years experience navigating the stock market. He has spent the past seven years managing his own portfolio, as well as the portfolios of friends and family. Prior to striking on his own, he was the Head Equity Strategist, Registered Options Principal and Partner of Concord Equities' West Hampton, N.Y. office.

Earlier in his career, he developed his proprietary system designed to identify stocks and options poised for explosive moves while he managed high net worth and corporate accounts for a couple of Long Island investment firms. In 2005, he created The Stock Playbook, a daily investment newsletter that provides daily market analysis and high quality stock research to help individual investors, stock brokers, traders and other investment professionals navigate the stock market. In 2008 he released the interactive version of the newsletter in which subscribers can listen to what’s really going on in Dave’s mind.

The Stock Playbook uses its proprietary system that combines CANSLIM techniques, technical and fundamental analysis, along with timing indicators to present clear and concise instructions for each trade. He is currently in the process of starting his own hedge fund, which will follow the Playbook's methodology and invest primarily in equities, both long and short, and use an array of option strategies to boost returns.

Dave enjoys teaching others how to invest and guiding their investment decisions. Accordingly, he’s created The Stock Playbook to include both educational advice and real-time stock picks.

www.erlangerresearch.com

 

www.fleckensteincapital.com

Matt Ford is an associate professor of management in the College of Business at Northern Kentucky University.

Since the venture’s early days, Ford has been helping to develop Minyanville’s presence in the university community, which has led to his unofficial title of ‘Dean of University of Minyanville.’ Part of this effort has involved research into the relationship between web-based learning technologies and development of financial market awareness among college students.

Ford has been recognized for both outstanding teaching and scholarship, including six college-level teaching awards and two conference best paper awards. His research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Quality Management Journal, Business Horizons, Journal of Education for Business, and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.

Ford holds a BS in applied science from Miami University and a PhD in operations management from the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the Omega Rho International Honor Society.

Prior to his academic career, Ford spent 12 years in operations and corporate management at Consolidated Papers, Inc., now part of NewPage Corporation.

He is a member of the Academy of Management, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Quality, Financial Education Association, and American Financial Association.

Neale S. Godfrey is an acknowledged expert on family and children's finances. She has been in the financial field for over 30 years. She began her career as one of the first female executives at The Chase Manhattan Bank. She then became the President of The First Women's Bank and founder of The First Children's Bank. That started the conversation about children and money in the United States.

Neale formed Children's Financial Network, Inc to promote the mission of education for children and their parents. She has authored 16 books dealing with money, life skills and values.

Neale's first adult book, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children became #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Her latest book, released in March 2007, is Life, Inc. The Ultimate Career Guide for Young People.


In addition to her books, Neale has developed The One and Only Common Sense/Cents Series, the first money curriculum for Grades 1 to 8 along with a CD-ROM, MONEY TOWN, for children from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Neale is a dedicated and serious advocate for women. Her books and programs aim to empower women to take charge of their financial lives. She has two books for women, Making Change and Mom, Inc.: Taking Your Work Skills Home. She frequently speaks on the subject to groups focusing on assistance to women as well as supporting the education of their children. Presently, she is on the board of directors of UNIFEM (United Nations Agency for International Women's Rights) and has held successful fundraisers for them.

Neale has been a speaker for Merrill Lynch, Paine Webber, AIG, AG Edwards, Fleet and New York Life. She has served as national spokesperson for Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Fidelity Bank, Quaker Oats, UPS, AIG, Procter & Gamble and Nuveen. She is a financial literacy advocate for the American Bankers Association.

Neale appears often on radio and television on such shows as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Today Show, CNBC, NBC, CNN and CNN-fin.

She has been awarded "Woman of the Year," "Banker of the Year," and "Child Advocate of the Year." She has served on a White House Task Force and a Governor's Task Force as well as the board of directors of The New York Board of Trade, UNICEF, University of Charleston, and YPO (Young President's Organization). Presently, in addition to her work with UNIFEM, she is on the board of directors of the Morris County New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Advisory Board of Girls, Inc.

www.sentimentrader.com

Todd Gordon is a currency strategist and trader at FOREX.com, a division of GAIN Capital Group.

In addition to trading, Todd applies his expertise in technical analysis to produce the widely-read "Strategy of the Day" research report for clients of FOREX.com and GAIN Capital. Todd is also a frequent contributor to publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities and Active Trader, and spoken internationally on technical analysis in the forex market.

Prior to joining GAIN in 2004, Todd was a Director with Connors Capital, LLC, a hedge fund in Los Angeles. Todd began his professional career trading equities for Aspen Trading, LLC.

“One advances not by outrageous leaps and bounds, but rather through courageous choices authored in quiet moments.” --Geoffrey Helt

After receiving his MBA from the University of Texas, Geoffrey was a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting Group and a founding member of their change management practice. Post Deloitte, he co-founded Blinq, an innovation studio that developed learning programs and e-business strategies for companies such as 3M,Lucent and Pfizer.

Over the last decade, Geoffrey has advised leaders of several Fortune 500 firms – including Starbucks, The Ritz-Carlton and Whole Foods Market – on transforming their store designs, product portfolios and company cultures. He has been a leading speaker and instructor in the areas of business design, customer-centered innovation and leadership development, giving workshops and talks throughout the US as well as in Helsinki, Nice and Toronto.

From 1999-2004, Geoffrey served as a Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business and as a Fellow in the Center for Customer Insight. He developed and taught MBA and Executive Education courses on Customer Insight and Innovation; he received teaching awards for his MBA coursework on numerous occasions.

Through these teachings and transformation efforts, Geoffrey uncovered his life’s work – elevating the practice of leadership. In 2007, Geoffrey founded The Moose Wilson Project. The “Project” is a Leadership Institute located in Bend, Oregon; it’s mission is to advance how leaders see, think and move through the world. He has created an integrated curriculum, The Modern Craft of Leadership, that brings together advanced concepts from architecture, science and psychology. The curriculum provides leaders with the tools and the thinking that enable them to dramatically elevate their level of performance. He also writes on the future of leadership; his writing can be found at www.thedailybrief.com.

John Hoover of Partners in Human Resources International (www.WeMakeTalentWork.com) is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling business author of How to Work for an Idiot: Survive and Thrive without Killing Your Boss (Career press/Barnes & Noble Publishers 2006). In addition to providing executive therapy (he’s an executive coach, but why mince words?) Dr. John’s consulting focuses on organizational behavior and strategic communications that build and sustain strong internal and external relationships between individuals and teams.

Dr. Hoover's organization development dissertation at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California asked and answered the question: Can Television Shape Corporate Culture? Before that, he had already been a line producer for the Marketing/Entertainment Division at Disneyland and the general manager of audio and video publishing for McGraw-Hill. In the midst of all that, Dr. John spent six years as a Marriage and Family Therapy intern in California where much of his caseload involved court-ordered counseling for street gang members in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, as well as other felons—preparing him for coaching challenges among the naughtiest corporate types.

Since 2004, Dr. John has appeared on FOX’s Your World with Neil Cavuto (twice), Fox & Friends, TODAY with Campbell Brown, The Dennis Miller Show, ABC Now, MSNBC Live with Lester Holt, Bloomberg Television & Radio Network, CNNfn with Valerie Morris, and more than a dozen local television interviews including WABC New York City (Sweeps Week feature) Albany, Pittsburg, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Portland, Oregon, and Miami, Florida. He has also been heard on National Public Radio and more than 100 other radio interviews in the United States, Australia, Canada, and England.

In print, Dr. Hoover has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, AOL Business, Forbes.com, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the Orlando Sentinel, in Boardroom Reports, and dozens of publications including foreign print interviews in England, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, South Africa, and Brazil. Dr. John’s is the author or co-author of more than a dozen business books, which have been translated into more than 15 languages including Bahasa Indonesia, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish.

Dr. Hoover is proud to be a Minyanville professor as well as an adjunct faculty member of the Fielding Graduate University and the American Management Association.

Jill Jacinto is an assistant editor at Minyanville. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in journalism and history. While at UMass, Jill was a member of Delta Zeta as well as resident weather girl for UMass TV. She also studied abroad in Florence, Italy where she focused on art history, Italian wine, and Italian foods, .

She was born and raised in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island and now resides in NYC.

Jill enjoys traveling around the world and hopes to visit every country on the map. She works closely with the Taglit Birthright Israel Organization. Also, Jill works closely with the Ruby Peck Foundation for Children's Education.

Born and raised in California, Andrew graduated from UC San Diego in 2001 with a degree in Economics and Political Science. Jobless and happy the ensuing summer, on a Monday he decided to move to New York and that Friday flew out to find work and a place to live. He hit the pavement to look for jobs and ended up in the bowels of a Manhattan restaurant through the winter, manning the phones in the takeout department and running the occasional delivery order. His knowledge of vulgar Mexican slang increased dramatically during this time.

Andrew began his career in 2002 at a small mortgage finance firm, Wembley Asset Management, which Bear Stearns eventually purchased to help build their residential mortgage business. Unsatisfied and ready for a change after a couple years, Andrew spent the next nine months touring the country and the Baja California Peninsula, tallying over 40,000 miles behind the wheel and overstaying his welcome on the couches of many generous friends and relatives.

Coaxed out of retirement by a colleague from Wembley, Andrew headed back to New York in 2004 to work at The Winter Group, another specialty mortgage finance firm. There, Andrew built and ran a $500 million warehouse financing platform and witnessed the last gasp of the mortgage bubble.

In 2007, Andrew again left the world of mortgages to travel and spent six months in upstate New York, fishing, gardening, relaxing, and generally enjoying being outside. As his interest in trading grew, Andrew stumbled upon Minyanville and joined the editorial team to spread the gospel of the 'Ville.

Earlier this year, Andrew and two other partners formed a specialty real estate firm, Cirios Real Estate. Cirios provides property valuation consulting to hedge funds and investment companies picking through the carnage of the distressed mortgage market. The company offers the same in depth analysis to Main Street, helping homeowners and prospective buyers navigate the minefield that is the current real estate market.