Jamie Saettele is an active trader, Senior Technical Strategist at DailyFX in New York, and author of Sentiment in the Forex Market (Wiley Trading). His technical strategy focuses on sentiment indicators, Elliott Wave, and seasonality. Published daily at DailyFX.com, he is a contributor to Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities® magazine, SFO® magazine, Futures® magazine and Investopedia.com®. A graduate of Bucknell University, he holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the Market Technician Association.

John Kicklighter is a senior currency strategist and head of DailyFX in New York City where he specializes in combining fundamental and technical analysis with money management. He authors regular articles for DailyFX.com ranging from basic fundamental forecasts for the G10 economies and commodities, to complex topics such as the risk sentiment across financial markets and the carry trade specifically. Actively trading since he was a teenager, his experience ranges from spot currency, financial futures, commodities, stocks and options on all these instruments for his personal accounts. He holds a Finance and Investment degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City.

Steve Nison (President - Candlecharts.com) is uniquely qualified to help you fully exploit the opportunities candlestick charts present to today's FX markets. As a renowned author and speaker, he has the distinction of introducing candlestick charts to the Western world. Regarded as one of the most foremost technical analysts in the world, Mr. Nison's client list includes some of the world's most important financial firms and market makers. He has presented his trading strategies in 20 countries to retail and institutional traders on how to quickly and correctly use candlesticks. He has also lectured at numerous universities and was guest speaker at the World Bank and the Federal Reserve.

Rob is the author of several books on currency trading, including Adventures of a Currency Trader (Wiley, 2007), as well as the popular eBook Strategy: 10. For ten years he has written and spoken about the struggles of real people striving to be successful in trading the most volatile market in the world.

Jeremy Wagner is the head of DailyFX Education. He started off trading equities in 1998 and eventually moved into trading currencies. His current trading experience covers equities, options, and forex. His approach to trading is to use mostly technical analysis with fundamentals factoring in on a longer term macro scale. His main focus is using technical tools to create strategies that are semi-automated. He joined FXCM in 2007 and works in the Plano, Texas, office.

David Rodriguez is a Quantitative Strategist for DailyFX, specializing in statistical studies in currency trading markets and algorithmic trading systems for the Managed Accounts Programs offered by parent company, FXCM. He holds a degree in Economics from Williams College with heavy emphasis on quantitative methods and began trading financial markets during the tech boom and bust of 1999-2001. Since then, David's primary focus has shifted from equities to currency markets, however he continues to trade futures and future options on a broad range of option classes as well as currencies.

Matthew Russell has traded for a hedge fund and independently for the past ten years, specializing in equities, equity options and forex. A graduate of NYU's Stern School of Business majoring in Finance and Business Management, he was introduced to the financial markets by his father, a successful commodities trader of over 30 years.

David Song studied macroeconomic policies under a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis while attending the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College where he received his degree in Finance and Investments. Aside from learning popular investment strategies, David took a great interest in modern macroeconomic theories which are widely practiced. During his studies, he acquired a strong understanding of technical analysis from a former president of the Market Technicians Association, and incorporates both technicals and fundamentals in his analysis.

Michael Boutros is a Currency Analyst specializing in the forex (FX) market. Michael has had years of experience on FX trade desks and has published currency market research for many websites such as Nasdaq.com and has been cited by leading publications such as Thompson Reuters. He holds degrees in Economics and Philosophy from Rutgers University. With the start of his career rooted on the trade desk, Michael’s research caters to intra-day traders looking for insightful FX and inter-market analysis.

Khaled Mustafa is a CFA Level 3 candidate that graduated summa cum lade in Finance from The University of North Texas. His interests in the financial markets started at the age of 18, first in the equity market and later transitioning into forex trading. Khaled has many years of forex trading experience specializing in both MetaTrader 4 and Mirror Trader. He is a manager at FXCM's Plano Office, working directly with clients and those looking to begin their own careers trading the forex market.

Nick Cooke is a manager at FXCM's New York City headquarters. He has a vast trading background across not only the forex market, but other financial markets. Trading since a young age, Nick landed his first trading job where he traded equities and ETF's on a large trading desk in NY. After gaining this experience he switched to currencies and joined FXCM. Nick has extensive knowledge of FXCM’s products and their key features which can be attributed to his own trading experience and understanding of the markets.

Ilya Spivak is a Currency Strategist for DailyFX, where he applies a top-down, global macro approach to longer-term investing in the G10 currencies. Ilya has headlined seminars on FX trading around the world and his research is regularly cited in leading publications including the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, CNN Money and Reuters. He holds degrees in Economics and International Relations from the University of California.

Christopher Vecchio is a junior currency analyst for DailyFX.com. He holds a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Government & Law and Economics from Lafayette College. During his undergraduate program, he gained a strong understanding of fundamental analysis of the foreign exchange markets by examining the interrelationship between geopolitical events, macroeconomic trends, and finance. Christopher also incorporates technical analysis into his research in order paint the most complete picture of what is occurring across various asset classes in the short-term and medium-term.

Josh Peng is the Product Manager at NinjaTrader, LLC. NinjaTrader is a state-of-the-art trading platform for forex, futures, and equities. His background focuses on systems development and automated trading. His experience holds a strong understanding of trading dynamics through careful examination and analysis of various markets. Peng is a graduate of the University of California Davis with a degree in Managerial Economics.

Michael Conlon, senior Forex Mentor at FXEDU LLC, has been a proprietary trader for the last 10 years, having started his trading career in equities and options and then moving to futures and forex. As a proprietary trader, Michael has worked at some of the top professional trading firms on Wall St. His trading career started at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette (DLJ) on an equities order desk and then moved to an on-line brokerage firm that is now part of TD Ameritrade. His trading was based primarily on technical studies which led to his focus on forex and the development of his trading systems that are now employed at Blitzcap Partners, where he is also the founder and Managing Partner.

Richard Krivo was in public education for 10 years and has worked in business and finance for over 20 years. Over the last 9 years he has been an independent trader specializing in the FX market. His interest in economics and the financial markets came from his father who was an accountant and actively traded equities. Richard's trading style is mid to long term using multiple time frame analysis and the Donchian Channels as his preferred analytical tools. A native of Ohio, Richard has resided in Texas for 7 years.