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Joel’s introduction to trading was in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index Futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), after receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan. During his time at the CME, he was involved in Index Arbitrage as well as trading foreign currency futures and options. From 1994-1999, he was a proprietary trader for Olde Discount Corporation. Following his tenure at Olde Discount, he founded the Detroit office of Bright Trading, LLC. His responsibilities included trader recruitment, orientation and education as well as the day-to-day management of the office until 2003. Since leaving Bright, Joel has been trading independently using TradeStation. He has also continued to research and develop proprietary indicators and trading systems for the equities and futures markets.

In 2013, Joel and Dennis joined forces with Benzinga to start PreMarket Prep, bringing unparalleled coverage of financial markets for novice and veteran investors alike, all over the world. Their unique coverage of events leading up to the pandemic and throughout the entire crisis helped propel Benzinga to being a primary player in financial media.

Now, Joel brings his 40+ years of market experience to the Stock Trader Network (STN). Through STN, he will bring his simplified approach to technical analysis and will assist traders and investors in optimizing their exit and entry points in any market environment.

Dennis Dick, CFA is a proprietary trader and market structure analyst at Triple D Trading Inc. He has 25 years of proprietary trading experience specializing in pair trading, crutch trading, momentum, contrarian, technical, and algorithmic trading. His insights into equity market structure are frequently cited in a number of financial publications including Benzinga, Reuters, WSJ, and the Globe and Mail. Dennis is the co-host of Premarket Prep, and a former member of the Capital Markets Policy Council at the CFA Institute. He holds his Business Degree from the University of Windsor with a concentration in Finance and Economics.

Josh is a budding entrepreneur, already having 9+ years of experience building, managing and marketing various companies. He serves as the CEO and Partner of a marketing agency, Achieve IT. Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he earned his B.Comm at the University of Calgary. Josh has been involved in trading securities on a retail basis since 2017, and continues to develop his trading strategies, from pairs and baskets, to simple technicals-based trading on an intraday and swing-basis. He now helps run the back end and technical side of STN, and covers the basics of trading for those beginning their trading careers.

Brent Slava has been tracking the stock market for about 20 years, with a focus on trading psychology and how news affects stocks. He studied finance at Western Michigan University, where Brent spent hours of free time digging around the beta version of Google Finance, trying to uncover specific reasons for price action. He graduated from Western Michigan and went on to begin a career in financial journalism.

Brent met Joel at Benzinga’s Southfield, Michigan headquarters in 2012. When Joel and Dennis began recording a primitive version of what would eventually become PreMarket Prep, Brent was eager to help on the production and news side of things. Working closely with Joel and Dennis, Brent began soaking up the guys’ vast amount of trading knowledge – especially the ins and outs of technical analysis. Brent was head of Benzinga’s newsroom for about 10 years and continued to work with Joel and Dennis over this time.

Brent will be helping the Stock Trader’s Network by producing and guiding educational and engaging on-air and written content. He’ll be spending time in the chatroom sharing thought-provoking perspectives, facilitating meaningful conversations and posting relevant breaking news. He’ll also be helping the team define and monitor the business’s vision and goals.

Chris Brecher is a veteran day trader with more than 37 years of experience trading options, stocks, and futures, and the founder of BrecherTrading.com and TradingNest.tv, where he hosts “Trading Nest” on Stock Trader Network. He began his career as a floor trader on the CBOE in the early 1980s, famously turning $200 into $23,000 and buying a seat on the exchange, where he traded from 1985 to 1993. He then joined a New York electronic trading firm, ranking among the top five of 800 traders across nine years, before moving to independent trading in 2003. Brecher combines technical analysis, intermarket correlations, and market psychology, and is passionate about training traders through live sessions, real-time alerts, and educational content.

Prad Akkiraju, known on air as “Trader Prad,” is a proprietary equities day trader at Real Trading and an active prediction-markets trader who hosts “The Trading Edge” on Stock Trader Network. He specializes in building AI-powered trading tools – sector-rotation dashboards, options-flow analyzers, and SEC-filing research platforms – designed to give active traders an edge. Previously he hosted trading content at TraderTV Live. On The Trading Edge, Prad blends real-time technical analysis with his technology-driven approach to help traders sharpen their entries, exits, and risk management across stocks and options.

CC Lagator is a co-founder of Options AI (OptionsAI.com), a broker-dealer built to give retail investors simple, visual access to the same options strategies used by institutions, and hosts “Options Unchained” on Stock Trader Network. A former options market maker and a long-time trading educator based in Boulder, Colorado, Lagator co-founded the firm with the goal of making options spreads straightforward and approachable. Through Learn Options AI and the “Options AI Orbit,” Lagator delivers daily, jargon-free options education and trading insight, and has been featured in CNBC and Business Insider coverage of retail options trading.

Geoff Bysshe is the co-founder and President of MarketGauge.com, which he launched in 1997 and where he led development of the firm’s core trading technology. A trader for over 30 years, he began with an apprenticeship under Keith Schneider before earning his own seat as a floor trader on the New York commodities exchanges, where he was a FINEX member trading the U.S. Dollar Index and cotton options. He later managed quantitative equity strategies as a hedge fund manager at Millennium Partners. Today he oversees MarketGauge’s products, education, and operations, and mentors its traders. He holds an economics degree from Colby College.

Jeff York is a full-time trader and Pivot Point Technician with 28 years of market experience, and the founder of PivotalPivots, where he hosts “Pivotal Pivots” on Stock Trader Network. He learned pivot-point methodology from a former Goldman Sachs pit trader in 2002 and has since expanded and adapted it for a market where algorithmic trading drives roughly three-quarters of intraday volume. Through his service, York shows subscribers where to add or reduce risk and identifies market-timing opportunities across U.S. index futures, major ETFs, energy, gold, bonds, the VIX, U.S.-listed stocks, and forex. He also teaches his methodology to portfolio managers, advisors, and independent traders via webinars and live workshops. He is based in Huntington Beach, California.

Mitch Hoch, known across trading media as “Money Mitch,” hosts The Money Mitch Swing Show on Stock Trader Network. He brings more than seven years of market experience and is pursuing his Chartered Market Technician (CMT) accreditation. He built his name at Benzinga, where he launched the daily “Money Mitch Watchlist” podcast and hosted live market shows, and he serves as an analyst and live-trading-room host at the prop firm Trade The Pool, where he trades a funded account. A swing trader at heart, he focuses on sector rotation, seasonality, macro catalysts, and retail “story” stocks, scanning pre-market for high-momentum small caps with favorable risk-reward setups. His guiding principle: “Know thyself.”

Bluford “Blu” Putnam has served as Managing Director and Chief Economist of CME Group since 2011, leading global economic analysis and monitoring price patterns, volatility, and correlations across futures and options markets. He brings more than 35 years in financial services, with concentrations in central banking, investment research, and portfolio management. His career includes economist roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Kleinwort Benson, plus senior posts as Chief Investment Officer for Equities and Asset Allocation at Bankers Trust and President of CDC Investment Management. Putnam holds a Ph.D. in economics from Tulane University and has authored five books on international finance.

Tom “The Chief” Haugh is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of PTI Securities & Futures LP, a Chicago money-management and brokerage firm best known for its Protected Index Program. He traded on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange for roughly two decades – spending 17 years in the S&P 100 pit – and served on the CBOE board of directors from 1993 to 1998. At PTI he is the primary money manager directly responsible for the firm’s managed accounts. Haugh earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s in finance from the University of Chicago. A frequent media commentator, he hosts the long-running “Stocks & Jocks” radio and podcast program.

Michael Hewson holds more than 20 years’ worth of experience of trading the markets, and specialises in technical analysis. His background is in foreign exchange trading. Before joining CMC Markets, he spent over twelve years working with market data, delivering education and support functions to diverse audiences – from experienced traders and private investors, to corporate and retail clients.

Tim Quast is an Investor-Relations veteran and founder and President of Modern IR. Launched in 2005, ModernIR is a financial technology company that uses Big Data analytics to translate complex market data into trading and investment behaviors for public companies. ModernIR pioneered behavioral data-analytics for IR market intelligence and invented Market Structure Analytics™ for issuers and is now the largest provider of quantitative equity analytics to US-listed public companies. ModernIR also launched Market Structure EDGE in 2019, quantitative analytics for buyside portfolio-shaping.

Scott Brown, CMT is the founder of Brown Technical Insights, a technical-analysis publication delivering weekly market insights to financial advisors, money managers, and sophisticated investors. He has spent his entire career working both as a financial advisor and on behalf of advisors, and prior to launching the firm he served as Technical Market Strategist at LPL Financial. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an economics minor from Auburn University and earned his Chartered Market Technician designation in 2019. A recognized market voice, he has appeared on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and television worldwide, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Barron’s.

Anne-Marie Baiynd is a trader, author and financial analyst best known for her book, “The Trading Book Course: A Practical Guide to Profiting with Technical Analysis.” Baiynd has a background as a neuroscience researcher.

Greg Weldon is the founder and CEO of Weldon Financial and author of “Gold Trading Boot Camp,” in which he forecast the global credit crisis and its implications for gold. With four decades of market experience dating to 1984, he began on the COMEX gold and silver trading floor before moving into institutional brokerage at Lehman and Prudential, then proprietary trading at Moore Capital and money management at Commodities Corporation, where he ranked among its top risk-adjusted managers. Through Weldon Financial he publishes the global-macro research service WeldonLIVE, covering equities, fixed income, currencies, metals, energy, and agriculture. Known for fusing fundamentals, technicals, and inter-market analysis, he is a frequent CNBC and Bloomberg commentator.

Kenny Glick started his professional life as a stand-up comic, but was lured into a ‘Boiler Room’ operation by an admiring fan that thought his personable nature would be a good fit for “selling slime.” His career began a few years before the dot-com bubble, but he actually had more success during the crash. More than anything, though, he strives to bring comic relief to trading.

Michele Schneider provides in-depth trader training as the market analyst, writer and host of Mish’s Market Minute. She manages 2 recommendation services, MMMPremium and MMMAdvantage and is a partner in Marketgauge Asset Management LLC. A former Member of Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa, NYMEX, and FINEX in NYC, as well as Market Analyst for Continental Grain and Floor Analyst for Conti-Commodities, Mish began as a Floor Broker and then became an Independent Trader trading exclusively for her own account. Noted for her Technical Analysis, Mish has advised some of the most successful traders in the world.

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Todd Gordon is the Co-Founder and Director of Investments at Inside Edge Capital Management, an active wealth-management firm he established in 2018, and the founder of TradingAnalysis.com, which he launched in 2011. With more than two decades in the markets, he began his career trading equities in San Diego before moving to Wall Street, where he worked as a senior technical analyst and hedge-fund trader at Forex.com/Gain Capital. A CNBC contributor since 2010, Gordon is one of the network’s go-to technical analysts, appearing regularly on Fast Money, Power Lunch, Squawk Box, and Squawk on the Street. He blends technical and macro analysis to guide client portfolios, trading his own capital alongside them.

Danny Kirsch, CFA, is Head of Options at Piper Sandler, where he leads the firm’s options strategy and trading desk and advises institutional clients on positioning, hedging, and volatility. He joined Piper Sandler in 2022, having previously served as Co-Head of Options at Cornerstone Macro from 2015 to 2022 and as a sales trader at Macro Risk Advisors from 2009 to 2015; he began his career at Merrill Lynch. A widely cited markets voice, Kirsch is a frequent guest on financial broadcasts and podcasts, offering commentary on options flow, market volatility, and risk management. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

David Russell is Global Head of Market Strategy at TradeStation, where he tracks global headlines, sector leadership, and relative strength to surface tradable trends for active traders. He brings more than two decades of experience as a financial journalist and analyst spanning equities, emerging markets, fixed income, and derivatives. Before TradeStation, Russell was a Senior Manager at E*TRADE and worked as Reporter and Deputy Editor at optionMONSTER, a producer at CNBC, a reporter at Bloomberg News, and a senior credit-market reporter at Informa Global Markets. He holds a BA in cultural anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and served as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps.

Henry Coffey, Jr., CFA, is a Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wedbush Securities, where he covers financial services and specialty finance. His research focuses on housing and mortgage finance, mortgage servicing, and consumer lending – including branch-based installment lenders, small-dollar lending, and online and marketplace lenders – with active coverage of names such as FirstCash Holdings, Rocket Companies, and the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. With more than two decades in equity research, he previously served as a Managing Director at Sterne, Agee & Leach and held positions at Ferris, Baker Watts. Coffey earned an MBA from Tulane University and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1991.

As Director of Research, Jeremy Schwartz is responsible for the WisdomTree Equity Index construction process and oversees research across the WisdomTree equity family. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Jeremy was Professor Jeremy Siegel’s Head Research Assistant and helped with the research and writing of Stocks for the Long Run and The Future for Investors. He is also the co-author of the Financial Analysts Journal paper “What Happened to the Original Stocks in the S&P 500?” and the Wall Street Journal article “The Great American Bond Bubble.” Jeremy is a graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Jonathan Corpina manages trading and sales on the Meridian NYSE trading desk. An NYSE member since 2001, Corpina is an elected Executive Floor Governor, President of the Organization of Independent Floor Brokers, and is a board member of the Floor Members Emergency Fund. Jonathan is currently an active member of the NYSE Stock Allocation, NYSE Broker Handheld, Broker Technology and Floor Facilities Committees.

Pete Carmasino is the Chief Market Strategist at Chaikin Analytics, where he brings more than 25 years of financial-services experience to the firm’s research and portfolio products. Before joining Chaikin, he owned and operated his own registered investment advisory firm, managing client portfolios with proprietary methodologies, and spent much of his career as a portfolio manager for high-net-worth families, individuals, and institutions. He previously held portfolio-construction roles at Newbridge Global and served as Managing Director of Institutional Sales at Moody’s Analytics. Today he applies his technical-trading expertise to the Power Gauge, building blended stock-and-ETF portfolios on a quarterly rebalancing schedule. He holds a degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Silberman College of Business.

Shana Orczyk Sissel, CAIA, known across the industry as “The Queen of Alternatives,” is the Founder and CEO of Banríon Capital Management, which she launched in 2022 to give independent financial advisors an open-architecture platform for alternative investments. With more than 25 years of experience, she began her career as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley and went on to hold senior roles at Orion Advisor Solutions, Fidelity Investments, and Mercer. At Banríon she helps advisors with platform development, portfolio construction, and alternatives due diligence. A sought-after commentator, she appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, and the Schwab Network, and is an outspoken advocate and mentor for women in finance.

Stephanie Link is Chief Investment Strategist, Head of Investment Solutions, and Equity Portfolio Manager at Hightower Advisors, a national wealth-management firm serving individuals, foundations, and family offices. With 35 years of experience managing money, she is a frequent CNBC contributor, appearing on Halftime Report, Squawk Box, Closing Bell, and Closing Bell Overtime. Before Hightower, she was Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Equities Research at Nuveen, where she co-managed the CREF Stock Variable Annuity Portfolio with $200 billion in assets and ran a $3.7 billion US Core portfolio. She has been featured among Crain’s Notable Women on Wall Street and named one of Investment News’s Women to Watch.

Angie Setzer is co-founder and partner at Consus Ag Consulting, with more than 18 years in the cash-grain industry. She built her career learning the grain business from both the commercial elevator and farmer sides, working to bridge the two by teaching farmers to manage their grain the way an elevator would. She left the elevator business to launch Consus in 2021, where she helps farmers take their bushels “from concept to cash” through individualized marketing plans. A well-known market analyst recognized as @GoddessOfGrain, she has appeared on Bloomberg Television, BBC News, Fox Business, and Market to Market, and is a repeat featured guest on Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots.”

Bob Lang is the founder and chief options analyst of Explosive Options, a swing-trading and options service he launched in 2011 to share real-time trade ideas drawn from his own portfolio and private clients. A private trader in equity and option markets for over a decade, he also manages separate accounts through Aztec Capital, LLC. Widely regarded as one of the country’s top technical analysts, Lang is a longtime contributor to TheStreet Pro and a trusted technician on Jim Cramer’s “Off the Charts” segment on Mad Money. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and the Schwab Network, and is credited with coining the now-ubiquitous “FANG” acronym for the leading mega-cap technology stocks.

Ms. Dawson joined Fieldpoint Private Securities, LLC in 2020, following eight years with Bank of America, the last six of which were spent in New York City, where she was a Senior Equity Analyst covering the industrial sector for the Investment Solutions Group Chief Investment Office, and presenting and publishing widely for the firm. As Chief Market Strategist, Ms. Dawson helps lead development of the firm’s macroeconomic views, investment themes and asset allocation strategies, while also working directly with the firm’s Advisors and clients. Ms. Dawson is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) and a former board member of the CFA Society® of Orlando. A Florida native, she earned her bachelor’s degree and MBA at Rollins College in Orlando.

Craig W. Johnson, CFA, CMT is a managing director and senior technical research analyst and directs Piper Sandler technical research group. Johnson joined Piper Sandler in 1995 as an analyst in the firm’s private client research department. He offers frequent technical commentary on the broader market and individual stocks. Johnson earned his B.S. degree with an emphasis in finance and marketing and his M.B.A. from Drake University. Johnson holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Market Technician designations and is an active member of the Twin Cities Society of Securities Analysts and co-chapter chair of the Minnesota Chapter Market Technician Association. He is also the President of the Market Technicians Association and leads its Board of Directors.

Eric Krull has been a full-time trader since 1999 and has managed a hedge fund in the Chicago area since 2013. Prior to that, he was a business management consultant, financial analyst, and project engineer. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentration in Investments. Eric develops TradeStation® programs to analyze markets, stocks, and trading strategies. His mentors include William O’Neil, Jim Roppel, Dan Zanger, Mark Minervini, and the other study team members.

Frank Cappelleri is the Founder and President of CappThesis, LLC. He is a CNBC Contributor and holds both the CFA and CMT designations.

George Kailas is the CEO and founder of Prospero.ai, a platform built to give everyday investors access to hedge-fund-grade AI research and trading signals. He began investing as a teenager, teaching himself accounting in high school, landing a hedge fund internship at 17, and spending nights reading 10-Ks and pricing options by hand. After a career in hedge funds and investment analysis, he founded Instadat, building AI-as-a-service for financial firms for eight years – work that convinced him institutions profit from signals buried in messy data that rarely reaches retail investors. Through Prospero.ai he aims to democratize that institutional-grade insight. Kailas has been named to Fast Company’s Impact Council.

Jeffrey A. Hirsch is a 35-year Wall Street veteran and CEO of Hirsch Holdings, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, and publisher of Almanac Investor. He joined the firm in 1990 as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of founder Yale Hirsch, working alongside him for over two decades before taking over as editor-in-chief in 2001. Hirsch is a recognized authority on market cycles, seasonality, and historical trading patterns, and is the author of “The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles” and “Super Boom: Why the Dow Will Hit 38,820.” He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, translating decades of market history into actionable insight for traders.

Joseph Saluzzi is partner, co-founder and co-head of equity trading of Themis Trading LLC, a leading independent agency brokerage firm that trades equities for institutional money managers and hedge funds. He is also the co-author of “Broken Markets — How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence.”

Luke Lloyd, CRPC, is a Wealth Advisor and Investment Strategist at Strategic Wealth Partners, based in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Founder and CEO of Lloyd Financial Group. A nationally recognized voice on capitalism, free markets, and the intersection of finance and politics, he is a frequent guest on Fox Business, Fox News, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance, where he offers commentary on macro trends, currency moves, and global positioning. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Forbes, Barron’s, Kiplinger, and NBC News. Lloyd is known for blending portfolio strategy with a contrarian, markets-driven perspective, helping clients and viewers navigate shifting economic conditions with practical, conviction-led guidance.

Michael Pachter is a Managing Director of Equity Research at Wedbush Securities, where he has covered the Entertainment Software, Entertainment Retail, Social Internet, E-Commerce, and Movies & Entertainment sectors for more than 20 years. One of Wall Street’s most-quoted voices on the video game industry, he covers names such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, GameStop, Roku, and Netflix. Before Wedbush, he spent 15-plus years in financial and management roles, including Director of Strategic Planning at Atlantic Richfield. He has been repeatedly recognized as StarMine’s “Top Earnings Estimator” and a Wall Street Journal “Best on the Street” analyst. Pachter holds an MBA from UCLA, a JD from Pepperdine, and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida.

Ryan currently leads Strategy and Emerging Brands for Lamour Group’s portfolio of global brands while advising several startups focused on Mobile and AdTech. Prior to joining Lamour,Ryan was in charge of the core department store strategy at Lord & Taylor / Hudson’s Bay Company and was a senior leader at Accenture, driving growth and profit improvement across multiple clients, including Virgin Media, FedEx and Best Buy.

Thomas J. Hayes is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Member of Great Hill Capital, LLC, a New York City-based long/short equity manager overseeing over $1 billion in regulatory AUM through separately managed accounts. His investment approach is modeled on Warren Buffett’s early partnership structure, emphasizing high-conviction, concentrated positions. Before launching Great Hill, Hayes worked with Cornwall Capital (featured in “The Big Short”) and was a Managing Director at Bedford Oak Advisors. He is the creator of Hedge Fund Tips, publishing the weekly “Hedge Fund Tips with Tom Hayes” VideoCast and podcast, ranked the #1 hedge fund podcast by Feedspot. He is a frequent guest on Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance.