2022 Speakers
Ricky Analog
Ricky has been trading for 9 years. He has spoken at T4AC19 and T4AC21 as well as the Project Impact Covid Virtual Conference. Ricky is a moderator at TrueTrader.net where they trade everything from small caps to the mega caps. But many of you may know him best from his small cap research and his youtube series “How to DDig.” He truly enjoys networking and helping budding traders develop into their best selves.
Andrew Aziz
Andrew Aziz is a Canadian trader, investor, and official Forbes Council member. He has ranked as one of the top 100 best-selling authors in “Business and Finance” for 5 consecutive years from 2016 to 2022. Aziz’s book on finance has been published in 10 different languages which are English, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Russian, Vietnamese, and Japanese.
In 2016, Andrew Aziz founded the Bear Bull Traders, an online community of independent traders that offers learning track for traders. The program guides members through every step of the trading process and strategy development. The trading courses are based on the strategies discussed in Andrew’s best-selling books.
Mike Bellafiore
Mike Bellafiore is the Co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City, and SMB Training, its trader education division. He is the author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade and The PlayBook. He also authored a chapter for The StockTwits Edge, in which he discussed a favorite trading setup. Mr. Bellafiore writes regularly for SMB Training blog, where he shares ideas on how to improve trading performance. SMB’s trading techniques were noted in The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist, written by Dr. Steenbarger. As an international lecturer, Mr. Bellafiore has built trader trading programs globally for hedge funds, prop trading desks, and retail traders and personally coaches select elite traders outside his firm.
Caroline Bernadi
Caroline Bernadi is the head of philanthropy and results-based funding at Village Enterprise. She joined the organization in 2005 as a volunteer on the Impact Evaluation team. She served as the foundation director in 2008 and became senior director of institutional giving and chief development officer before assuming the role of head of philanthropy and results-based funding in 2022. Over the past 15 years, Caroline successfully increased institutional revenues by a factor of twenty to almost $3.5M in 2020. She has played a critical role in the design and launch of the Village Enterprise Development Impact Bond (DIB), the very first in poverty alleviation in Africa, leading investment fundraising, structuring, and contracting, as well as managing the relationship with stakeholders. Prior to Village Enterprise, Caroline worked in operations and finance for L’Oréal and Cartier in France and was co-founder of Maatiam (formerly Freepledge), a social venture. She holds an MS in Industrial Management from Ecole des Mines in France.
Myra Biblowit
Myra Biblowit is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the nation’s highest rated breast cancer organization, with a mission focused exclusively on funding the world’s most promising research.
Myra took the helm as BCRF President in 2001. Today, BCRF is the largest private funder of breast cancer research in the world, and the highest rated breast cancer organization in the U.S. During Myra’s tenure, BCRF funding has enabled the most important breakthroughs in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, metastasis and survivorship. Myra has been widely recognized for leading one the most impactful, financially efficient, transparent nonprofits in the United States.
Prior to joining BCRF, Myra was Vice Dean for External Affairs at NYU Medical Center where she headed the Development, Alumni Relations and Public Relations departments. Previously she led the capital campaign as Senior Vice President of the American Museum of Natural History. Earlier, Myra served as Executive Vice President of the Central Park Conservancy.
Myra is a member of the Board of Directors of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, the Housewares Charity Foundation and the Historic House Trust of New York City. She is a member of the New York Women’s Forum and serves on the Advisory Board of Project Hope for Ovarian Cancer Research & Education. A recipient of the Women in Development New York’s Achievement Award, Myra also received New York SmartCEO Magazine’s 2013 Brava! Award, the Leadership in Health Award from the Kelly Cares Foundation and the Alumni Humanitarian Award from Thayer Academy. Myra holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
Michael Boyd
Performance speaks for itself. With more than eleven thousand followers on Seeking Alpha, Michael Boyd has built a reputation as someone that brings something new to the table with every new research note. He has been ranked in the top 1% and top 100 of bloggers by TipRanks for several years now. There is no need to provide cherry-picked examples of a few winners among losers. Simply put, my hit rate is better than nearly anyone. Plus, investors get the avoids and stay away picks which ensure investors don’t take the wrong step.
Michael has been writing on Seeking Alpha since 2014 and has turned this – along with investing personally and running Industrial Insights, into a full-time job. He has skin in the game alongside you. Unlike other fly by night authors, he worked at a registered investment advisor advising high net worth clients and at Credit Suisse, one of the largest investment banks in the world. He has seen what goes into the best research, what doesn’t work, and what it takes to succeed.
Lance Breitstein
Lance spent over a decade at Trillium where he was one of the best intraday traders on Wall Street. Lance managed Trillium’s Chicago office, trained dozens of traders, and was the firm’s Top Trader in 2020 and 2021 with back-to-back 8-figure PNL years. In 2022, Lance stepped down so he could share his knowledge with the trading community. Lance is Trading Advisor to SMB Capital in addition to running his non-profit, The Impact Competition. The Impact Competition challenges students to solve issues for local non-profits and then gives them the seed money to implement their ideas. His dream goal is to promote The Impact Competition to the trading world while live on CNBC.
Alex Bustos
Raised in League City, Texas, Alex Bustos is the founder of “B The Trader” and an experienced day trader.
BTheTrader is a show on YouTube with up to 500k views per month with content dedicated to changing the trading community for the better.
When Alex is not trading, he is traveling around the world, meeting with traders, sharing knowledge and building community.
Connor Callaway
Hey, my name’s Connor Callaway. I’m 22 years old and originally from Canada. I’ve been trading stocks since I was 17, originally starting with OTC stocks during the 2017 weed run in my high school economics class. After pursuing this journey for 4 years I transitioned from OTC to fully trading Mid/large cap stocks. I’ve found my best edge to be focusing on names with good volatility and keeping things simple, I can assume that’s due to coming from the years of trading only pink sheets. I’ve kept myself focused on a lower amount of names regarding mid/large caps. I find it easy to give and take confidence away from my trading to help me push the gas pedal when the time is there, and also to drive in the slow lane when it’s time to be safer. I attest 90% of my trading success to the psychological studies & lessons I’ve learned during this journey. I’ve loved meeting traders from every demographic over the last few years, and have learned from each one regardless of the level they’re at.
Chris Camillo
A pioneer in contextual data analysis, Chris is featured in Jack Schwager’s “Unknown Market Wizards” as one of the world’s top performing self-directed investors. In 2006 he applied a social data arbitrage trading strategy to invest $20k in the stock market, and produced $30 million in trading profits over the following 14-year period reflecting 68% annualized portfolio returns. In 2011, he wrote the book Laughing at Wall Street: How I beat the Pros at investing, published by St. Martin Press, in which he revealed some of his strategies and insights. In 2015 Chris launched TickerTags, a social listening platform that provides institutional investors the ability to monitor the conversation around keywords pertinent to publicly traded securities and other investable assets on platforms like Twitter. Known for predicting the Brexit result in 2016, TickerTags was sold to Jefferies Financial Group. Chris is a regular public speaker on the predictive effectiveness of contextual data analysis and its role in investment research.
Beyond investing in the public markets, Chris has made a career of bringing new business concepts to market as an operational executive and one of the most active early stage investors in Texas. Exits where Chris played a strategic management role include e-Rewards Research (Dynata), eCarList (DealerTrack/Cox Automotive), Order My Gear (Susquehanna Growth), TickerTags (Jefferies), and Fixd Repair (Angies List).
Certified at the Expert Level in Consumer Research by the Marketing Research Association (MRA)
Tom Canfield
Tom began trading stocks because it gave him the freedom to be at home with his wife and four kids. Trading is an expression of love for his family and has allowed him to be actively involved in his kids’ lives.
Tom is a big hockey fan and was a hockey coach for 15 years. He ran the hockey program at his kids’ high school for over 7 years which gave him priceless memories. Coaching, teaching, and encouraging is very much in his blood.
Tom’s wife, Mrs. Canny (A.K.A. Weezie), has been foundational to his success and she wears many hats. She is his best friend, my therapist, my anger management guru, and the most patient and loving woman alive. There will be a special place in heaven for her – because he can be quite a handful ?
Tom has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
He worked on Wall Street for 2 years, then started a chain of restaurants for a few years, then decided he wanted to be free and enjoy his family. He began actively trading stocks in 1997 as he wound down the restaurant business and was full-time by 1999. Now he feels free to enjoy life on his terms.
Kim Ann Curtin
Kim Ann Curtin, the founder of The Wall Street Coach, works with traders, investors, and their teams to help them perform their best in the markets. Having worked on Wall Street for over two decades, Kim and her team of coaches combine Wall Street business acumen with emotional intelligence to help clients transform their careers and their lives.
While interviewing top investors like Bill Ackman, Jim Rogers, John Bogle and other Wall Street Legends, Kim discovered they share a set of five unique characteristics that helped create success in their lives and investments. In her
book, Transforming Wall Street, she outlines The Five Practices that are key to their success and how you can follow “the masters of the universe” in their footsteps.
Over the past 15 years, Kim and her team have coached top traders and investors from Anchorage Capital, Bank of America, BC Partners, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, EisnerAmper, FINRA, Fortress, GIC, King Street Capital, Morgan Stanley, Social Leverage, StocksToTrade, and TrueTrader to name a few. Her work has been profiled in CNN.Money, Fortune Magazine, Smart Money, TheStreet.com, Associated Press, among others.
Joe Fahmy
Joseph Fahmy is an Investment Advisory Representative at Zor Capital, LLC, a New York based investment firm. Joe has over 22 years of trading experience during which he developed his investment strategy. His extensive knowledge of technical analysis, market forecasting and risk management has landed him appearances on CNBC, Wall Street Week, Fox Business, ABC News, CNN Money and he is a regular contributor to Yahoo Finance.
Joe completed his undergraduate work at Tufts University, receiving a B.A. in Economics and Religion in 1995. Outside of trading, Joe enjoys playing the drums, travel and sports.
Dan Fleyshman
Dan Fleyshman is the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history. After licensing his apparel for $9.5 million dollars at the age of 19, he went on to scale the energy drink products into 55,000 retail stores.
Over the years Fleyshman launched 1 of the top 5 online poker sites globally, has thrown 37 “Elevator Night” events,
co-founded the “100 Million Mastermind Experience”, spoken at over 200 business events, angel invested in 36 companies and his agency “Elevator Studio” has spent over $60 million dollars with social media influencers for fashion brands, film studios, mobile apps & consumer products.
Dan’s main passion is his Model Citizen Fund charity which creates backpacks for the homeless filled with 150 emergency supply items inside.
Joseph Gasperoni
JTrader started trading in 1999 Italian Stocks and covered warrants. Influence from a relative had initially sparked his interest in trading. From there on he decided to commit his free time to studying. His first official year of trading was tough as it was a mix of wins and losses. But he stood devoted to trying to figure out a profitable way to trade. Eventually after many errors and hours of studying the market he was able to create a system for scalping and day trading.
The first broker JTrader used was Twice Sim of Milano (Piazza degli Affari, 5, 20123 Milano, Italy) with director Dr. Michele Pertile.
He was his mentor for the first 5 years of trading. From 2000 to 2005 he was able to trade full time. This was also around the same time that he founded the JLines (his proprietary indicators that still exist today in his strategies). With much success, his schedule became full of invites to trading conferences and being the host at expos of trading in Italy.
He continued to trade full time stocks and expanded to futures and forex until 2011. After many years of studying and trading he felt accomplished but with the accomplishment came also weariness. Due to this he decided it was time to take a break from day trading and distracted himself with investing in real estate and long-term positions.
In 2016 JTrader went back to trade full time but wanted a change in atmosphere so he began to trade U.S. Stocks and equities. He took particular interest in small caps and found much success. Whilst being in another community where he shared his insights, he received so much good feedback he decided to start his own trading community.
SmallCapRoom started off with very few members, but slowly began grow under the guidance of JTrader. His mentoring techniques began to be the main attraction to the community. He wanted his community to be unique, to not only be a trading community but a trading family.
Phil Goedeker
Phil started trading stocks in college while obtaining an Accounting degree. He began by studying chart patterns while looking at thousands of charts on different time frames. After 13 plus years of full time trading, Phil has developed a keen ability to profit from stock movements by watching mostly price and volume as his two main indicators.
Phil concentrates on selling short almost exclusively with varying levels of hold times from only minutes to several weeks.
He resides in Missouri with his wife and two children.
Jay Hamilton
Jay Hamilton is a swing trader, focused on microcap strategies centered around dilution, capital structure and institutional positions. After experiencing many dramatic drops and spikes in penny stocks with little correlation to the fundamentals of underlying businesses, he set out to learn about SEC filings, and the relationship between charts, offerings, and derivatives. In 2020, he wrote an ebook – “Parsing Penny Stocks: The Basics and the BS” – and more recently he’s been supplementing it with posts on his similarly titled blog, “Parsing Penny Stocks.” His writing aims to shine a light on toxic dilution, common misconceptions about supply and demand with respect to short interest, and incompatibility between insider interests and those of the common shareholder.
Mariana Hincapie
Hi my name is Mari, I was first introduced to day trading at 18 years old through my dad who is a long term investor and business owner, I thought it was very boyish at the beginning and I didn’t find a passion for it right away but overtime motivation and discipline from my Mom helped me continue the journey. After attending a trading conference in 2019 I met Jack who is my boyfriend of 3 years and helped me along my journey finding my patterns & sizing up. I started consistently making money in early 2020 and just rode the hot market turning my $10k into $1.5M by April 2021. After some up and downs in this recent bear market I have been sizing back down and focusing on singles and have had a choppy year and a half adding on another $200k or so to my profits. I love OTCs and have also learned to scalp Tesla and trade small cap Gappers.
Shay Huang
Prior to day trading full-time for a living, Shay worked in the labor-intensive film and VFX industry. While the compensation wasn’t bad, the hours were long and draining on both the mind and body. After several years of blood, sweat and equity, Shay began looking for a way out… that’s when she discovered day trading.
Just like most beginner traders, Shay encountered many failures and a lot of days where she felt like giving up. Once, Shay bashed her computer and cried in tears when she lost over $20,000 following chat room alerts from various “trading gurus.”
After more than a year of struggling and drowning in deep red, Shay finally learned that trading isn’t about finding the “perfect” system. It’s about understanding psychology, trading price action (not patterns), and following a structured risk management system. It was only after Shay started prioritizing risk over reward, and paired regiment with a set of high probability trading strategies, that she finally found real consistency in her day trading profits.
After eight years of grinding in the markets, Shay now trades full-time from home, and spends her free time doing the things she loves. You can catch her snowboarding in the winter, and hiking and kayaking in the summer.
Shay now educates over 900K engaged subscribers and owns her own trading community with over 1000+ members. She is known for her fun and realistic approach in her day trading educational videos on YouTube. She loves to share her real-life adventures as much as her pro tips for traders of all levels. You can follow her exciting journeys to the New York Stock Exchange and broker office tours, as well as her inspirational life stories.
Jack Kellogg
Hey my name is Jack Kellogg, I’m 23 years old and I’ve been day trading for 6 years now. I live in New Hampshire and I focus mainly on OTC penny stocks. Took me 20 months to become profitable and then I turned my 30 thousand into 8 million in just about 3 years. My main focus in trading is when there’s a ton of dollar volume in OTC and I’m very open to going short or long, focusing on hot sectors, swing trading penny stocks for a couple months and day trading supernovas, I will also include NASDAQ when there is multi day movers (In case you are interested: The meme stock sector). I hold myself accountable for hitting it hard when it’s there and staying in tune with the market. I’ve networked with a lot of traders along the way and that has been an instrumental aspect in my trading career, learning from their trading styles and seeing what they do right and wrong, I’m actually here with my girlfriend who I met through trading and that shows how trading has impacted my life in every aspect.
Brian Lee
Brian Lee is a former professional esports competitor who transitioned into full-time trading. As a gamer, he lead North America’s premier Dota 2 team to compete at “”The International””, a tournament that can best be described as the Super Bowl of esports with millions of dollars on the line. After competing for nearly a decade, Brian officially retired and decided to pick up trading as his long-term focus around 2016. During his initial years he underwent a series of challenges including blowing up his entire account before eventually finding success in the markets. Ever since, Brian has been a champion of risk management and trading psychology. He is most well known for sharing his experiences and insights through his blog, social media and YouTube channel. For more information and a directory of links, find him on Twitter @BrianLeeTrades.
Jill Malandrino
Jill Malandrino, Global Markets Reporter, is the host of TradeTalks and regularly reports from the Nasdaq MarketSite, Nasdaq PHLX Trading Floor and industry conferences. Prior to joining Nasdaq, Jill was the Product Development Manager for The Street’s OptionsProfits where she reported from the Nasdaq, NYSE, Chicago Board of Trade, CBOE and NYMEX trading floors. She was formerly on the institutional equity trading desks of Prudential Equity Group and H.C. Wainwright. Her 15 years of experience on Wall Street, give her the insight to facilitate meaningful conversations with industry leaders.
Scott Manzo
Scott was a stockbroker for 8 years before he became a full-time day trader. He has been trading his own money for the past 20 years. His focus is on mean version trading. After trading through many types of markets and cycles, he has learned the importance of patience and discipline. Scott’s presentation at traders4acause will be on consistency, reducing stress and improving profitability.
Nate Michaud
Nate originally founded the Investors Underground community in 2008 with the goal of creating the top trading service on the web. This service, fueled by Nate’s 10+ years experience trading equities (both Nasdaq and OTC), has become a “must follow” in the trading community. Nate is well known for his unique ability to read points of inflection & exhaustion in momo stocks, making him a “go-to” guy in the world of day trading.
J Mintzmyer
J Mintzmyer (@mintzmyer) is a renowned maritime shipping analyst who directs the Value Investor’s Edge (“VIE”) research platform on Seeking Alpha. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is regularly quoted in trade journals, and hosts a popular podcast featuring shipping industry executives. J also hosts regular “Virtual Investor Forums,” which are a must-attend for anyone interested in the shipping and infrastructure industries. As Head of Research at Value Investor’s Edge, his trades and model portfolios have outperformed the shipping sector average for 6 consecutive years and have beaten the Russell 2000 for 5 of the past 6 years. J has earned a BS in Economics from the Air Force Academy, an MA in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, and is a PhD Candidate at Harvard University, where he researches global trade flows and security policy.
Rafael Murdakhaiev
Raf started trading stocks while in college. He has been trading for 11 years – 3 years on his own and the past 8 years at a prop firm. He’s mostly a long bias trader but does also short. Hold times vary depending on my trade thesis.
Anand Sanghvi
Anand Sanghvi, aka “Sang Lucci”, is the founder and head trader at Sanglucci.com. Anand has professionally traded equities and options since 2006, utilizing tape reading as his primary means of market analysis. In 2010, he launched Sanglucci.com to combat what he saw as rampant misinformation in market coverage, and as a platform to teach his unorthodox methods. He has become widely known for his commitment to transparency, often publicly posting PnL’s of his toughest losses and psychological battles for educational purposes. In 2015, he led Sanglucci.com’s partnership with WallStJesus.com, bringing together over 30 years in trading experience to create the first communal trading environment for flow traders. He has been featured in Bloomberg, Vice, Forbes, Zero Hedge, and the 2013 documentary, The Wall Street Code.
Zach Schellhaas
Zach Schellhaas was appointed as Executive Director of Traders4ACause in February 2019. Prior to his role as Executive Director, he served as a Vice President in 2018. He is also a member of the Board of Directors since 2014, chairman of the conference committee, and a volunteer for the organization’s charity committee.
Mr. Schellhaas runs his own consulting firm, and previously served as a trader and account manager for S-Lab Trading from March 2012 to January 2018. Prior to working for S-Lab, he worked as a director of operations for a medical diagnostic testing facility. He’s had a diverse career; from interactive marketing and advertising to wholesale distribution.
Mr. Schellhaas earned a degree in marketing and social psychology at Lehigh University, where he served as both general manager of the campus radio station and director of a student activities committee.
Brian Shannon
Brian Shannon is the founder of alphatrends.net, an on-line swing trading analysis and education community, founded in 2010. Brian is a full-time trader, educator, and author of the highly regarded book “Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes.” His expertise has been achieved over a 30-year period of trading and market analysis, as he has navigated the difficult path that relatively few traders are able to follow to success. Having worked for Lehman Brothers, and other major investment firms over his career, Brian gained valuable insight into market dynamics and the human factors that drive them.
The Alphatrends community has helped to train and mentor thousands of traders worldwide since 2005. The knowledge that Brian has accumulated in his 25+ years of day-to-day experience in trading the markets is something he enjoys sharing. Brian has a passion for helping others.