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Speaker Biographies

Andrew Maguire Metals Trader (Appearing live via Satellite)	Andrew Maguire is a specialist metals trader with 40 years experience trading, 17 of them trading precious metals. Currently in the news as a central player in the ongoing effort by the CFTC to prevent manipulation in the Silver and Gold markets Andy has a unique insight into the footprints being laid down by certain large players. Andy works alongside Paul Coghlan in Coghlan Capital, providing expertise in relation to both metals trading and analysis.
Paul Coghlan Managing Member, Coghlan Capital	Paul Coghlan has an extensive business background both in Europe and the US, culminating in the taking of one company from startup through IPO and the formation and sale of two others. Since then, he has moved into full time trading and through the disciplined application of some well proven methods, has become a respected analyst. With the launch of Coghlan Capital, Paul now provides daily analysis in the currencies, equities and, in conjunction with his colleague Andrew Maguire, precious metals markets.
Tom Williams Veteran Syndicate Trader Inventor of VSA (Appearing live via Satellite)	Tom Williams, was a very successful US Syndicate Trader. His professional experience was based around the teachings and methodology of Richard D Wyckoff. He studied Wyckoff at the Golden Gate University in San Francisco in the 1950's. In 2008 he was awarded a special achievement award by the same University at their annual Wyckoff event. Tom further developed Wyckoff's methodologies to develop his own more potent methodology - Volume Spread Analysis - regularly referred to as "Wyckoff on Steroids!" Tom Williams has been energetically applying his unique methodologies for the last 30 years to the Stocks, FOREX and Futures markets He retired from professional trading to take up a number of commercial ventures. However, Tom's real ambition was to help traders operate in a more informed way, and this idea formed the basis of his software development company he set up 14 years ago. Tom has spent many years refining the signals in for the product that now forms the TradeGuider range of Software Systems. Tom is the inventor of Volume Spread Analysis and the Chairman of TradeGuider Systems.
Gail Mercer Trader Director TradersHelpDesk.com	Gail Mercer is a trader, director, and instructor for www.tradershelpdesk.com, and is known as an "indicator expert" Ms. Mercer hosts a free live trading room where she teaches forex and index traders how to approach the markets. She currently trades futures, forex, indexes, and stocks.
Gavin Holmes Professional Trader VSA Expert	Over the last several years Gavin has become a successful professional trader under the tutelage of Tom Williams, retired syndicate trader and Chairman of TradeGuider. Gavin travels the world teaching traders and investors how to read a chart correctly by understanding the interrelationship between the volume, price and range/spread of a price bar to determine the activity of "Smart Money", and then trade in harmony with the professionals. He is a regular speaker for Chicago Mercantile Exchange events both online and live on stage, and is one of the few traders who trades their live account showing VSA set ups, trading them as they appear. His most recent event was trading live using a real cash account during the Traders Challenge at the International Traders Expo in New York, where he successfully traded a Test in a Rising Market - a very high probability Wyckoff VSA trade set-up. Holmes' mission is to educate traders and investors to become experts at the lost art of chart reading and to understand the importance of volume, the hidden secret of the markets. Gavin Holmes is from Southampton in the United Kingdom and lives in Chicago with his family.
Dr Gary Dayton Professional Trader Wyckoffian Expert	Dr. Gary is trained as a clinical and sport/human performance psychologist. He is also an active trader in the S&P e-minis and stocks. As a trader, trading psychologist, and educator, he helps traders overcome poor trading behavior and develop a sound, consistent trading performance. Dr. Gary works with traders to clarify their strengths and limitations and create a process to engage the market more safely and consistently with guidelines and rules specific to the individual trader's characteristics and situation.
David Weis Market Analyst Wyckoffian Expert	David Weis is a market analyst with over thirty-eight years' experience. Mr. Weis served as the director of Technical Research for ContiCommodities, Inc during the mid-1980's. Although most of his work has been tied to the futures markets, he worked for several years in a fixed-income group where he assisted cash bond traders with timing recommendations. Mr. Weis has conducted seminars and workshops on technical trading throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. He is the recognized authority on the trading methods of Richard Wyckoff. He is the former editor of the Elliott Wave Commodity Letter published by Robert Prechter and former editor/publisher of Technical Forces, a monthly market letter centered around price/volume analysis. In addition, he has written numerous articles on technical analysis and is the author of Trading With the Elliott Wave Principle: A Practical Guide and a co-author of Charting the Stock Market: The Wyckoff Method. For the past four years Weis has tutored traders around the world on the way he uses the Wyckoff trading method. He is an active trader and has developed unique short-term trading techniques.
Gary Fullett Professional Trader Wyckoffian Expert	Gary Fullett is a registered commodity broker and Branch Manager of LTG Trading (www.ltg-trading.com) where he teaches Wyckoff principles in their online chat room. He has been using Wyckoff principles in his trading since 1982. He was also a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the S&P 500 pit. His diversified experiences provide him with a unique insight into the market.