Meet The Market Guys
Why should I listen to anything you have to tell me?
It’s a fair question and one that we would expect you to ask of anyone who offers their advice. Over the years, we have had the privilege of working with hundreds of thousands of investors and traders all around the world. The Market Guys have been talking to traders in London, teaching beginner options to students in Taipei and helping investors protect their portfolios in Stockholm. Through all of these experiences, we have observed certain strategies and characteristics that are common to successful traders. We have also observed certain other strategies and characteristics that are common to unsuccessful traders.
We have joined you on the front lines of trading and investing. We did not just read about stocks and options and use that information to build a supposedly better mousetrap. Rather, we have bought and paid for our education through real trades. We know what it feels like to go home with a trade that could ruin your family finances. We have watched helplessly as the market shut down for want of buyers when we desperately needed to sell. We counselled traders who were placing their last dollar on a high risk speculative trade in the hope that they could possibly escape their failings in the market. Along the way, we realized that we were uniquely positioned to actually help people protect their assets while building wealth. We have a passion to teach and truly make a difference in peoples’ lives. If we could help one person preserve a retirement account through a simple risk management strategy, our work has been worthwhile.
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Rick Swope has presented many seminars across the United States and around the world for some of the world’s top financial firms. Specializing in the areas of technical analysis and risk management, his topics have continually stayed in demand. His passion for teaching is obvious and his energy is contagious. His teaching experience includes corporate training, seminar speaking and six years as an adjunct lecturer in probability and statistics for engineers.
Rick was the managing partner of a trading firm in Cincinnati for several years, providing technical analysis, trading strategy and software training to the firm’s traders. Rick worked with many of the pioneers of ‘day trading’ : the so-called SOES Bandits, who paved the way for millions of retail traders around the world today. Rick created the first active trading field sales team for the Charles Schwab company. Many members of that team are now training and consulting leaders in other firms around the United States. Rick is the co-host of The Market Guys’ on-demand radio show which is consistently rated among the top on-demand business programmes in the world. He is the co-host of Wealth and Wisdom , a weekly financial show on WXEL PBS television in south Florida. He has been a speaker in many locations, the London IX Show, the Toronto Financial Forum , the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong and the Chicago Board of Options Exchange(CBOE). His education through his doctoral studies was in areas of engineering, mathematics, operations research and statistics and he has been a registered securities principal.
AJ Monte began his trading career on the floor of the New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX) in August 1982. Shortly after that , he started his own trading firm and spent over 10 years trading gold, silver and copper , along with coffee, sugar, cocoa and orange
juice. He served for two years as the chairman of the Options Floor Trading Committee for COMEX and is considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities in option trading.
Just before leaving the trading floor to trade as a Nasdaq Market Maker, he helped with the production of the Hollywood hit film Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. Over 20 years later, this movie is still being enjoyed by millions around the world. Even though it was written as a comedy film, it is one of the best educational works about life on the trading floor.
Several years later, AJ pioneered the Trading Analytics Group for Charles Schwab & Co., which is a collection of team professionals who educate both clients and high profile brokers in the areas of technical and fundamental analysis. As a member of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) , he is also a Chartered Market Technician.
AJ now co-hosts a prime time financial television show called Wealth and Wisdom, which airs on PBS through station WXEL in West Palm Beach and is heard through on-demand radio as one of the The Market Guys. AJ is still going strong on the seminar circuit, speaking as a master trainer for Anthony Robbins Wealth Mastery and master trainer for the Chicago Board Options Exchange(CBOE) along with guest appearances at money shows and trading expos around the world.