THANKS

TO OUR SPONSORS

Festival
Program
1st Annual T3 Lives Finance Festival
6-8 November 2015, Miami, FL

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Table of contents
Welcome

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Thank you

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About T3 Lives Finance Festival

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General Information

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Agenda

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Notable Speakers & Attendees

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Weekend Talent

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Production Acknowledgements Page 28

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Welcome to the First Annual

T3 Live Finance Festival!
Once upon a time, before high-frequency trading and computer algorithms
dominated Wall Street, finance was a relationship-based business. While it was
always cut-throat, someones name and word were the foundation of a collectively
beneficial meritocracy. Friendships were rooted in trust and integrity, for the most
part, was assumed.
Somewhere along the way, looking others in the eye when you shook their hand
gave way to LinkedIn connections, Facebook friends and Twitter followers. We used
words like sharing to describe the economy and social when discussing media
and the distinction between relationships, contacts and community instantly
blurred.
Despite being plugged-in 24/7, we have never been more alone. The next time
youre walking down the street or sitting at a stoplight, take a look around you; most
people will have their noses buried in a smartphone. Information travels the world
in real-time, albeit in bite-size chunks, and if youre not in the loop youre out of
touch; the what has replaced the why?
The Finance Festival is a throwback to simpler times; when thought-leaders
gathered to engage and inform rather than pitch and sell. While its true economic
incentive motivates most people, this weekends notable attendees are here for the
right reasons and that makes this event different.
So enjoy the smart market commentary as we prepare for another year and invest
some of your human capital into the equation. If we do this right, with a healthy
dose of financial insight and festive fun, what you learn and who you meet will
provide insights and memories that will last a lifetime.
And at the end of the day, thats the best investment on the board.
Todd Harrison
Executive Producer, The Finance Festival
@todd_harrison

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Welcome to the First Annual

T3 Live Finance Festival!
Id like to personally welcome each of you to the inaugural
T3 Live Finance Festival. Its an exciting time for T3 Live as we
continue to grow and adapt, remaining open to new ideas
and client-focused at our core.
The world as I see it has changed. We text, email and operate
our professional lives in virtual landscapes that keep us
connected yet disconnected. This is the root of the Finance
Festival. A gathering where we can meet and bring inspired
people together. A gathering to engage, discuss and connect.
A root that I am excited to watch grow.
Over the course of this weekend you really only have one
thing to accomplish have fun. We have put together an
incredible mix of work, study and play. Thanks to the efforts
of my staff and my very dear friend Todd Harrison and our
extremely generous sponsors, we have an incredible lineup of
thought leaders from far and wide. To borrow a saying from
Todd, Theyre great at what they do and even better at who
they are.
Id like to thank each of you for attending and bringing your
own expertise to this festival. As the weekend moves on, I ask
that you stay engaged, shake hands, rub elbows, tell stories
and connect on a level that sometimes seems forgotten. Its
with those experiences that I hope will be the genesis of the
Finance Festival for many years to come.
My personal respect and thanks goes out to all of you.
Evan Lazarus
CEO, T3 Live
@LazT3Live

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Thank you
Thank you to all the following sponsors
and supporters who helped make the
first annual T3 Lives Finance Festival
2015 a success!

T3 Lives Finance Festival 2015

Festival Sponsor & supporters

TradeStation
T3 Trading Group, LLC
Electronic Transaction Clearing (ETC)
TD Ameritrade
E*TRADE
Lightspeed Trading
Todd Harrison Productions
Clearpool Group
The HammerStone Group
ZEGA Financial

About T3 Lives Finance Festival

We are here to help you make better
financial choices, have some fun and
help others as we do.
10% of all ticket proceeds will benefit
The Ruby Peck Foundation for
Childrens Education and The Crohns &
Colitis Foundation of America.
For more information, visit:
t3live.com/festival

At this very special event, youll connect

directly with thought leaders from the
world of trading and investing. Our goal
is to help you become a better, moreconnected investor in 2016 and beyond.
Well kick things off with an optional
VIP dinner Friday evening. Saturday will
start with a catered breakfast followed
by interactive presentations with
some of the most respected thoughtleaders in finance. Well look at financial
markets through an array of lenses
designed to empower investors to make
better and more informed decisions.
After a buffet lunch, breakout sessions
will be geared toward more active
market participants with smaller groups
and greater focus. Or you can opt to
enjoy the coco-walk, or the pool. Maybe
get a massage.
An outdoor Festival and hearty feast will
follow with live entertainment and a
open bar as dancers, drummers, guests
and speakers gather under the stars
for an evening that will pulse with an
energy befitting Miami.
The content and coffee will flow
freely on Sunday as the presentations
continue and we collectively glean
insights, perspectives and guidance
from some of the best and brightest
minds in the business, before
concluding with lunch and allowing for
travel.

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General Information, Services, & Amenities

Guest Bracelets
Please wear your corresponding bracelets at all times during the conference, as it
is required for entry to all activities. Bracelets are issued to the individual registered
and may not be used by others.
Safety and Security
Please do not leave your belongings or conference materials unattended in session
rooms.
Meals
Several meal options are available for guests, T3 Lives Finance Festival will be
offering the following:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH
6:00 - 9:00 PM: VIP Dinner, Open bar, buffet dinner and live music with speakers
and sponsors (Conference Ticket and VIP Dinner Ticket Holders Only)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH
7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast Courtesy of Clearpool
12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch Courtesy Of TD Ameritrade
6:00 - 7:00 PM: E*TRADE Happy Hour
7:00 - 9:00 PM: Hearty Feast Courtesy of TradeStation
Sunday, November 8TH
7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast Courtesy of T3 Trading
12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch Courtesy of LightSpeed to Conclude the Event

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Finance Festival
In Detail

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH 2015 At A glance

6:00 - 9:00 PM

VIP Dinner: Open bar, buffet dinner and live music with speakers and sponsors

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH 2015 At A glance

7:00 - 8:00 AM

BREAKFAST Courtesy of Clearpool @ Palm Terrace

8:00 - 8:10 AM

Welcome: Todd Harrison @ Crystal Ballroom

8:15 9:00 AM

2016: Bull vs. Bear Debate @ Crystal Ballroom

9:10 - 10:00 AM

PANEL: The Future of Online Investing @ Crystal Ballroom

10:10 10:50 AM

The State of Wealth Management @ Crystal Ballroom

11:00 - 12:00 PM

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Moderator: Heidi Moore, Business Editor, Mashable

Join us for a lively debate between Jeff Saut, CIO Raymond James and John Mauldin,
President of Millennium Wave Investments

Moderator: Michael Santoli, Senior Markets Commentator at CNBC

Panelists:
Nicole Sherrod, Managing Director of Trading at TD Ameritrade
Kunal Vaed, SVP of Digital Transformation and Active Trading Platforms at E*TRADE

Josh Brown, Wealth Manager and CNBC host

Discussion: Is the FED Wise or Wayward? @ Crystal Ballroom

Moderator: Danielle DiMartino Booth, Former Adviser to the Federal Reserve

Panelists:
Mark Dow, former policy economist at the U.S Treasury and the IMF
John Succo, Professor, Indiana University
David Zervos, Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies & Company

LUNCH COURTESY OF TD AMERITRADE @ Palm Terrace

Choose one session each hour:

2:00 - 2:45 PM

*Subject to change

How to Trade Intermediate Trends and Ignore the Noise @ Alexander 1

Scott Redler and Greg Capra, T3 Live

PANEL: Artificial Intelligence and Social Media @ Alexander 2

Moderator: Heidi Moore, Business Editor, Mashable

Panelists:
James Crane-Baker, Co-Founder, PsychSignal
David Aferiat, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of TradeIdeas

YPO, TIGER21 and

Sponsors Only

A Discussion With David Rosenberg @ Kentia I & II

David Rosenberg, Chief Market Strategist, Gluskin Sheff

3:00 - 3:45 PM

Market Internals: Seeing Inside the Stock Market @ Alexander 1

Stanley Dash, CMT, VP, Applied Technical Analysis at TradeStation

How Corporate Credit will Shape Stocks in 2016 @ Alexander 2

Fil Zucchi, Founder of Zebra Capital Management, LLC.

YPO, TIGER21 and

Sponsors Only

2016 Outlook @ Kentia I & II

Moderator: Charlie Garcia, CEO of ALPFA and Chairman, South Florida TIGER 21
Panelists:
Jeff Saut, Chief Market Strategist, Raymond James
David Zervos, Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies & Company
David Kotok, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Cumberland Advisors
Thomas Kraemer, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alloy Investments

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH 2015 (Continued)

4:00 - 4:45 PM

T3 Live Panel: A Look Ahead @ Alexander 1

Moderator: Dan Nathan, Founder RiskReversal.com and Panelist at CNBCs Fast Money
Panelists:
Dave green, director of T3 Lives active trading lab and lead moderator of the green room
Rob Smith, director of T3 Lives in the black mentoring program
Paul Lange, senior vp of education and user experience, T3 Lives pristine trading institute
Doug Robertson, director of T3 Lives options intensive training program

How to Trade Intermediate Trends and Ignore the Noise @ Alexander 2

Brandon Perry, Founder, Perry Investment Management

YPO, TIGER21 and

Sponsors Only

Interest Rates and Emerging Markets Outlook @ Kentia I & II

6:00 - 7:00 PM

E*TRADE HAPPY HOUR

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Hearty Feast Courtesy Of TradeStation

9:00 PM - 12:00 AM

FESTIVAL WITH LIVE MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT & SURPRISES!

Featuring JOHA the Electric Violinist, SIDEPROJECT DJ and Drummer and
The Mentalist Mark Salem!

Moderator: John Mauldin, President of Millennium Wave Investments

Panelists:
Daniel Ades, Founding Partner, Kawa Capital Management
Neil Azous, Founder, RareView Macro

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH 2015 At A glance

7:00 - 8:00 AM

BREAKFAST COURTESY OF T3 TRADING @ Palm Terrace

8:00 - 8:05 AM

Welcome: Todd Harrison @ Crystal Ballroom

8:10 8:50 AM

Risk: What You Should be Afraid of @ Crystal Ballroom

9:00 10:00 AM

10:10 10:50 AM

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Barry Ritholtz, Wealth Manager and Bloomberg Radio Host

PANEL: A Tactical Approach to 2016 @ Crystal Ballroom

Moderator: Dan Nathan, Founder RiskReversal.com and Panelist at CNBCs Fast Money
Panelists:
Scott Redler, Chief Equity Strategist for T3 Live and T3 Trading Group
JC Parets, Market Technician and Founder of Eagle Bay Capital
Stanley Dash, CMT, VP, Applied Technical Analysis, TradeStation
Michael Gayed, Chief Investment Strategist, Pension Partners, LLC

A Conversation with David Kotok @ Crystal Ballroom

Michael Santoli, Senior Markets Commentator at CNBC

David R. Kotok, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Cumberland Advisors

PANEL: A Look Ahead to 2016 @ Crystal Ballroom

Moderator: Charlie Garcia, CEO of ALPFA and Chairman, South Florida TIGER 21
Panelists:
Ivan Zinn, Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Atalaya Capital Management
Steve Wasserman, Managing Principal of Seaport Investment
David Zervos, Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies & Company
David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist, Gluskin Sheff

LUNCH COURTESY OF LIGHTSPEED @ Palm Terrace

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Notable Speakers & Attendees

Todd Harrison is the founder of Minyanville Media, Inc., President
of The Ruby Peck Foundation for Childrens Education and Executive
Producer of The Finance Festival. After recently selling a division of his
media business, he is weighing strategic alternatives for the remaining
assets and exploring his next professional chapter.
Todd has 25 years of experience on Wall Street. He spent seven years
on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley as Vice
President, was Managing Director of Derivatives at The Galleon Group, and was President of the
$400 million hedge fund Cramer Berkowitz.
He has lectured at institutions including Harvard University, Syracuse University, New York
University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been active in
the research of financial market learning tendencies among college students as a contributing
author to Threat, Intimidation, and Student Financial Market Knowledge: An Empirical Study,
published in the Journal of Education for Business.
Todd was featured in the 20th anniversary documentary of Oliver Stones movie Wall Street,
as well as the 2013 documentary, Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve. In 2008, he
received an Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his role
as Executive Producer of Minyanvilles World in Review, the first and only animated business
news show. Hes made appearances on CNBC, FOX Business, CNN and Bloomberg TV and
been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Worth, Fortune,
Barrons, Dow Jones MarketWatch, New York Magazine, and Canadas National Post. His first
book, The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business, It Pays to Be an Animal; In Life it Pays to Be
Yourself, was published by FT Press in 2011.
Todd is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), where he served on the Board
of Directors from 2011-2014. He currently sits on The Nassau County Police Department
Foundation Advisory Board. He lives with his wife Jamie and their three children, two cats and
rescue pup in Port Washington, New York.

Joshua Morgan Brown, is CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management,

where his clients range from individuals and corporations to
retirement plans and charitable foundations. Brown is the author
of Backstage Wall Street, editor and author of financial blog The
Reformed Broker and a regular contributor to CNBC and numerous
other media outlets such as Forbes, Fortune, InvestmentNews
and The Wall Street Journal. In March 2012, he joined the advisory
board of BrightScope, a financial information company dedicated
to transparency in investment and finance. Previously, Brown was a
wealth manager with Fusion Analytics, a firm overseeing $400 million in assets for high-networth individuals, retirement plans and charitable foundations.
Brown was educated at the University of Maryland, attaining his Series 7 license in 1997 while
still in school. A resident of Long Island, N.Y., he can be followed on Twitter @ReformedBroker,
ranked the No. 1 financial Twitter follow by Time, Barrons and The Wall Street Journal.
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Michael Santoli is a Senior Markets Commentator at CNBC, writes

analysis and commentary on the stock market, corporate news and
the economy. He also appears on The Daily Ticker on Yahoo! Finance,
where he offers insights on the most important business stories of
the day. He has covered the Wall Street beat for over 20 years, and is
well known for his years as a columnist and feature writer for Barrons
magazine, and his frequent guest appearances on cable and broadcast
news programs. He is an on-air contributor to CNBC as part of its
partnership with Yahoo Finance. Before joining Yahoo! Finance, Santoli
wrote Barrons Streetwise, a column that analyzed financial markets, illuminated market
trends and identified investment opportunities. Previously, he wrote The Trader column, which
covered the stock market and investment trends. As the magazines mutual funds editor, he
wrote the Fund of Information column, edited the quarterly mutual-fund pullout sections and
wrote cover stories for the magazine. As a staff writer, he wrote Commodities Corner and later,
the Striking Price column covering the securities industry.
Mr. Santoli joined Dow Jones & Company in 1993 as a reporter for the Dow Jones News Service,
covering the securities industry. Before joining Dow Jones, he worked in New York as a reporter/
editor for Investment Dealers Digest. Mr. Santoli has received two Dow Jones Newswires
Awards for distinguished real-time journalism. In 1995, he was a member of a team honored for
a series of stories on the demise of D. Blech & Co., and in 1996, he and a colleague received an
award for their coverage of the securities industry. Born in Manhasset, N.Y., Mr. Santoli received
a bachelors degree in history from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

John Mauldin is the Chairman of Mauldin Economics, an economics

publishing firm; President of Millennium Wave Advisors, LLC which
is an investment advisory firm registered with multiple states; and
also is also President and a registered principal of Millennium Wave
Securities, LLC, a FINRA and SIPC registered broker dealer. John
currently lives in Dallas and is the proud father of seven children, five of
whom are adopted. Each week, well over a million readers turn to John
Mauldin to better understand Wall Street, global markets, and the
drivers of the world economy. And for good reason. John is a renowned
financial expert, a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneering online commentator, and
the publisher of one of the first publications to provide investors with free, unbiased information
and guidance Thoughts from the Frontlineone of the most widely read investment
newsletters in the world.
Johns company, Mauldin Economics, publishes a growing number of investing resources,
including both free and paid publications aimed at helping investors do better in
todays challenging economy. For more information on these publications go to www.
mauldineconomics.com.
In addition to publishing, John is cosponsor and host of the Strategic Investment Conference
an annual event for accredited investors that draws a faculty of some of the most respected
investment and economic luminaries in the world. He is a frequent speaker at conferences
around the world and consults with a number of private firms. He is also a sought-after
contributor to numerous financial publications, as well as a regular guest on TV and radio. His
books have appeared on the New York Times best-seller list four times.

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David R. Kotok cofounded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has

been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. He holds a B.S. in
economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
an M.S. in organizational dynamics from The School of Arts and
Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and a masters in philosophy
from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kotoks articles and financial
market commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, Barrons, and other publications. He is a frequent
contributor to Bloomberg TV and radio, Fox Business, and other media.
Mr. Kotok has served as Program Chairman of the Global Interdependence Center (GIC) (www.
interdependence.org), whose mission is to encourage the expansion of global dialogue and free
trade in order to improve cooperation and understanding among nation states, with the goal of
reducing international conflicts and improving worldwide living standards. Mr. Kotok chaired
its Central Banking Series and organized a five-continent dialogue held in Philadelphia, Paris,
Zambia (Livingstone), Hanoi, Singapore, Prague, Cape Town, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Rome, Milan,
Tallinn, and Santiago, Chile. He has received the Global Citizen Award from GIC for his efforts.
Mr. Kotok is a member of the National Business Economics Issues Council (NBEIC), the National
Association for Business Economics (NABE) and served on the Research Advisory Board of BCA
Research. Mr. Kotok has served as a Commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA)
and on the Treasury Transition Teams for New Jersey Governors Kean and Whitman. He has
also served as a board member of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and as
Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. He has authored
or co-authored four books, including the best-selling Second edition of From Bear to Bull with
ETFs, now available at Amazon and the newest book Adventures in Muniland.

Mark Dow runs Dow Global Advisors. He has nearly 20 years of

experience as a policy maker, investor, and trader, much of which
focused on global macro and emerging markets. He specializes in
monetary policy and sovereign debt sustainability. He is also the
author of the Behavioral Macro blog. Dow has been a senior portfolio
manager at Pharo Management LLC, a global macro hedge fund
specializing in currencies and global fixed income, a portfolio manager
at MFS Investment Management, and a senior sovereign analyst at
Putnam Investments. He began his career in Washington, where he
worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and at the US Department of the
Treasury. He specialized in debt sustainability analyses and was involved in many sovereign
debt restructurings.
He did his graduate work at the Fletcher School (ABD Ph.D.) and got his undergraduate degree
from UC Berkeley (B.A.). He speaks five languages and resides in Laguna Beach.

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David Rosenberg is the Companys Chief Economist & Strategist

with a focus on providing a top-down perspective to the Firms
investment process and Asset Mix Committee. Mr. Rosenberg received
both a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degree in Economics from
the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Gluskin Sheff in the spring of
2009, Mr. Rosenberg was Chief North American Economist at Merrill
Lynch in New York for seven years, during which he was consistently
ranked in the Institutional Investor All-Star analyst rankings. Prior
thereto, he was Chief Economist and Strategist for Merrill Lynch
Canada, based out of Toronto. Mr. Rosenberg was the only economist recognized for his
accurate economic projections in Fortune Magazines Best and Worst of Wall Street 2011, and
was ranked most accurate forecaster for 2011 by MSNBC. More recently, he has been ranked one
of the five most influential Canadians in investing by Financial Post Magazine and one of the 12
smartest people on Wall Street by Business Insider. David is also the author of Breakfast with
Dave, a daily distillation of his and Gluskin Sheffs economic and financial market insights.

Jeff Saut is Raymond James chief investment strategist and a

managing director of the firms Equity Research department, provides
timely and insightful market commentary to Raymond James financial
advisors, their clients and institutional clients through daily strategy
calls, weekly written commentary, as well as local and national media
appearances. A disciple of the markets for more than 30 years, Jeff
possesses a breadth of experience in the field few can match. He was
managing director of research at Roney & Co. when it became part
of Raymond James in 1999. Prior to that, he was managing director
of equity capital markets for Sterne, Agee & Leach. His responsibilities there included equity
research, investment banking, institutional sales and syndicate.
After graduating from St. Andrews in early 1971, Jeff began his career on a trading desk in New
York, becoming a trading desk manager in 1972. In 1973, he joined E.F. Hutton & Company,
where he began following equities and providing research commentary.
He subsequently worked as a securities analyst for Wheat First Securities, and then Branch
Cabell & Co., where he was director of research and acted as portfolio manager for the firms
affiliate, Exeter Capital Management. Jeff was also director of research for the regional
brokerage firm Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc., where he developed the firms research and institutional
sales efforts.
Jeff is well known for his insightful and colorful stock market commentary when appearing on
various programs on PBS, NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, USA Network and Fox News, as well as
various local radio and television networks.
He is often quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barrons,
The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune and SmartMoney, as
well as on websites including thestreet.com and msnbc.com.

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Charles (Charlie) Garcia founded Sterling Financial, a privately

held financial services firm which he grew from three people to 60
offices in seven countries and $2 billion in assets prior to selling it in
2005.
Prior to that he co-managed the Thrift Value Fund which was a long
only hedge fund investing in undervalued bank and thrift companies
with a 37% compounded annual return during the years he comanaged the fund (1994-1997). During this time, he also teamed up
with legendary trader Marty Schwartz who was featured in the classic Market Wizards to form
Leatherneck Partners LLC. He later helped edit Martys bestselling book Pit Bull: Lessons
From Wall Streets Champion Day Trader (Harper Business, 1999). In January 2014, applying
the lessons he learned as a value investor and trader, he competed in a yearlong investment
competition sponsored by YPOs Personal Investing Network. Each person started with $1
million of play money and could buy stocks, shorts stocks and buy and sell options with all
contestants being able to view each others portfolio real time. In January 2015 he won the
competition by turning $1 million into $120 million. His absolute return was higher than the
combined assets of all of the other 70 contestants, and the achievement was profiled by CNN
Money (Feb. 2015).
He leads the South Florida TIGER 21 Chapter and serves as the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean
Regional Chair for the Young President Organizations (YPO) Personal Investment Network.
Charlie is on the national board of Junior Achievement, the worlds largest organization
dedicated to educating students on entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Known as someone who thrives on building authentic relationships, Charlie was profiled by the
Huffington Post as being one of the Top 20 most connected individuals in the world on LinkedIn
which he leverages for the benefits of others.
Charlie has worked for four Presidents, both Democrat and Republican. From 2006-2011,
Charlie was appointed by both President Bush and President Obama, as the Chairman of
the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, to oversee all operations at the Air Force
Academy. From 2001-2005, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed him as one of seven
members to the State Board of Education, overseeing all public education in Florida with an
annual budget of $15 billion.
He has a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy; an M.P.A. from the University of Oklahoma; and
a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was the first person in his class to publish and article in
Columbia Law Review and it was cited as a must read in three legal categories by the National
Law Journal.
He lives in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife Cristina and their four children. Away from work, he
is an avid soccer player and surfer, and he competitively races an 850 horsepower Dodge Viper.

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David Zervos is Chief Market Strategist of Jefferies LLC and Chief

Investment Officer of the Global Macro Division of Jefferies Investment
Advisers. David is best known across the financial services industry for
his timely, insightful macroeconomic commentary and viewpoints. In
his role as Chief Market Strategist he exchanges ideas with the worlds
leading money managers, hedge funds, pension funds and sovereign
wealth funds. He appears regularly in financial media and is a frequent
speaker at key industry conferences and events.
David joined Jefferies in 2010 after spending 2009 as a visiting advisor in the Division of
Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.
Prior to visiting the Federal Reserve, he held a variety of research, sales and trading positions in
the private sector, most recently managing global macro portfolios for Brevan Howard and UBS
OConnor. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in the early 1990s.
He received a B.Sc. from Washington University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Rochester.

Danielle DiMartino Booth Danielle DiMartino Booth is chief

market strategist at the Liscio Report and a former adviser at the Dallas
Federal Reserve. Called The Dallas Feds Resident Soothsayer by D
Magazine, Danielle DiMartino Booth is sought after for her depth of
knowledge on the economy and financial markets. She is a well-known
speaker who can tailor her message to a myriad of audiences, once
spending a week crossing the ocean to present to groups as diverse
as the Portfolio Management Institute in Newport Beach, the Global
Interdependence Center in London and the Four States Forestry
Association in Texarkana. Danielle spent nine years as a Senior Financial Analyst with the
Federal Reserve of Dallas and served as an Advisor on monetary policy to Dallas Federal Reserve
President Richard W. Fisher until his retirement in March 2015.
She researches, writes and speaks on the financial markets, focusing recently on the
ramifications of credit issuance and how it has driven equity and real estate market valuations.
Sounding an early warning about the housing bubble in the 2000s, Danielle makes bold
predictions based on meticulous research and her unique perspective honed from years in
central banking and on Wall Street.
Danielle began her career in New York at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where
she worked in the fixed income, public equity and private equity markets. Danielle earned her
BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an
MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in
Journalism from Columbia University.
Danielle resides in University Park, Texas, with her husband John and their four children. In
addition to many volunteer hours spent at her childrens schools, she serves on the Board of
Management of the Park Cities YMCA.

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John Succo graduated from Indiana University in 1984 with a

graduate degree in finance concentrating in option pricing theory. He
worked at Morgan Stanley from 1984 to 1992 as a principal and head
of index and structured product trading where he managed derivative
risk and helped develop dispersion methodology in trading.
In 1992 he became Managing Director in charge of global equity
derivative trading at Paine Webber Inc. In 1996 he joined Lehman
Brothers and ran derivative trading until 1998. In 1998 he joined
Alpha Investments where he was the head of risk management and served as a director on the
Investment Management Committee.
In 2001 he co-founded Vicis Capital, a volatility hedge fund trading options and convertible
bonds. By 2008, Vicis had become one of the worlds largest hedge funds and produced positive
returns every year, including 2008.
In 2009 Vicis liquidated the fund as it experienced massive redemptions due to investors
overwhelming need for cash. In 2012 he became an adjunct professor for Indiana University
where he teaches a practical course in asset and derivative markets.
John is currently forming a fund based on trading volatility.

Steven M. Wasserman, J.D., has over 20 years of experience as an

advisor to corporations in mergers and acquisitions and financings,
as a portfolio manager in investment management, and as a private
equity principal in operating businesses. He is Managing Principal at
Seaport Alterative Fund and Seaport Invest Management (RIA). His
Partners are Ben Trosky former Managing Director PIMCO, Founder
and Portfolio Manager of PIMCOs High Yield Fund (PHDAX) which
was ranked number 1 in the Lipper Mutual Fund Survey. Member of
PIMCOs Investment Committee, Head of PIMCO Credit Research, Chief
Credit Specialist for PIMCO Total Return portfolio. Charles Wyman former the Head of Global
Credit Research for PIMCO. Senior Credit Research Analyst in Morgan Stanleys Global High
Yield department, where he placed second as the high yield analyst for the energy sector in
Institutional Investor Magazines Annual All-American Fixed Income Research Team.
Previously, Mr. Wasserman worked as Senior Managing Director, Investment Committee
member, and Co-Founder of the Global Capital Markets Group at Rodman & Co. Mr. Wasserman
also served as the Co-Chairman and President at Alpha Security Group Corp. since August 2005..
He was the Managing Partner of AMT Ventures LLC since April 2002 and AMT Capital Partners
LLC since June 1998. From June 1997 to July 2002, Mr. Wasserman was the Managing Partner at
Cardinal Fund. He has acted as a Financial Advisor to Beatrice, Inc., Comdisco, Inc., Star Maritime
Acquisition Corp., Energy Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., and Seanergy Maritime Corp. Mr.
Wasserman has also previously acted as a Financial Advisor in a series of leveraged buy-outs
including the Fulcrum Group in their $1.6 billion bid to purchase the semiconductor division of
Motorola and to Kescent Acquisition Corp. in its $2 billion bid to purchase Veba Electronics. He
was formerly Merrill Lynch/Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year; featured on CNNs Pinnacle;
and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
Mr. Wassermans son will be studying at Princeton University next year and will be a member of
Princetons tennis team.

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Ivan Q. Zinn is Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer of Atalaya

Capital Management LP. Mr. Zinn founded Atalaya to capitalize on
his experience in sourcing and investing in credit opportunities. Mr.
Zinn was previously responsible for HBKs strategy to originate and
invest in corporate and real estate loans and other special situation
investments. Prior to HBK, Mr. Zinn established Highbridge/Zwirn
Capital Managements European investment effort and concentrated
on media and telecom special situation investments in the U.S. Mr.
Zinn was also a private equity investment professional at Leonard
Green & Partners, L.P. and began his career as an investment banking analyst in the Los Angeles
office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Zinn received a BA, magna cum laude, in Physics and
Economics from Claremont McKenna College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was
an NCAA All-American tennis player.

Barry L. Ritholtz is the founder and chief investment officer of

Ritholtz Wealth Management. Launched in 2013, RWM is a financial
planning and asset management firm, with over $175 million in assets.
The firm offers a variety of services to the investing public, including
LiftOff a low cost online-only investment site. In addition to running a
wealth management and financial planning firm, Ritholtz is a frequent
commentator on many financial topics. He was named one of the 15
Most Important Economic Journalists in the United States, and has
been called one of The 25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media.
He writes a daily column for Bloomberg View and a twice monthly column on Personal Finance
and Investing for The Washington Post; He was also the author of the popular Apprenticed
Investor columns at TheStreet.com.
One of the few strategists who saw the coming housing implosion and derivative mess far
in advance, Ritholtz issued warnings about the market collapse and recession in time for
his clients and readers to seek safe harbor. Dow Jones Market Talk noted that many market
observers predict tops and bottoms, but few successfully get their timing right. Jeremy
Grantham and Barry Ritholtz sit in the latter category. His observations are unique in that they
are the result of both quantitative data AND behavioral economics, most likely a function of his
unusual career path in finance.
Mr. Ritholtz is a frequent commentator on economics and financial markets, and has appeared
as a regular guest in most major media outlets.* He has been profiled in the Wall Street
Journals Quite Contrary column (August 3, 2004; Page C3), and was the subject of several
Barrons interviews (December 8, 2008 and October 26, 2010). Ritholtz was honored to be the
dedicatee of Stock Traders Almanacs 40th Anniversary edition in 2007 and the Yahoo Tech
Tickers Guest of the Year in 2009.
Beginning in the Summer of 2014, Ritholtz began hosting a new series on Bloomberg Radio,
called Masters in Business. An hour long deep dive into he people who drive markets and
business, the radio/podcast (now on iTunes) quickly became very popular; several of the
episodes became the most downloaded podcasts in Bloomberg history. He is on the Board of
Advisors of Riskalyze, which creates quantitative measurements of client risk tolerances.
When not bemoaning the New York Knicks all-too-frequent offensive lapses, Mr. Ritholtz is a
vintage sports car enthusiast. He and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, live on the North
Shore of Long Island, New York with monsters Max and Jackson.

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Scott Redler has been trading equities for more than 15 years and
has received widespread recognition from the financial community for
his insightful, pragmatic approach. He began his career as a broker and
venture capitalist where he was able to facilitate relationships that led
him into trading. Beginning his trading career at Broadway Trading in
1999, Scott moved on with Marc Sperling to Sperling Enterprises, LLC
after establishing himself as one of the best young traders in the firm.
As a manager at Sperling Enterprises, he maintained his status as a top
trader at the firm while working closely with all traders in the firm to
dramatically increase performance. He has also traveled around training and educating market
participants. Scott has raced in more than 50 triathlons and two IronMan events, exhibiting a
work ethic that also defines his trading and balanced approach.
His vast knowledge and meticulous attention to detail has led to regular appearances on CNBC,
Fox Business, Bloomberg and Benzinga. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and
Investing Business Daily in numerous occasions. He is the co-author of The Modern Trader.
Scott is currently the Chief Strategic Officer of T3 Live and T3 Trading Group, LLC.

Kunal Vaed is SVP of Digital Channels and is responsible for customer

experiences across digital channels. He oversees E*TRADEs online,
mobile and advanced trading channels, as well as user experience,
creative design and requirements functions. Previously, Kunal was SVP,
Digital Transformation and Active Trading Platforms, and led the digital
transformation program and strategy at E*TRADE.
Kunal is a leading voice on digitization as featured in Barrons, Investors
Business Daily, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Prior to
E*TRADE, Kunal was a Principal at Booz & Company in its financial services practice, where he
built the firms digitization vertical. Prior to Booz, Kunal helped drive IBMs next-generation
semiconductor development business. In this role, Kunal received 23 US patents including a
patent in the top 10% of all IBM patents. Kunal received his MBA from NYU Stern School of
Business and his MS in Engineering from Ohio State University.

Heidi Moore is a Business Editor at Mashable. She directs a team

of reporters and editors in creating richly reported, smart and
entertaining stories about media, startups, advertising, careers and
Social Good that show that business is really a reflection of life and
what we value in it.
Heidi was previously a finance and economics editor at the Guardian,
New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent at Marketplace
Radio, and a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal She loves
yoga, rooftops and taking photographs of everything. Heidi most recently served as The
Guardian US finance and economics editor. Prior to The Guardian, Heidi served as New York
bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for American Public Medias Marketplace. She
previously worked as lead writer for The Wall Street Journals Deal Journal column, from 2007 to
2009.

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Stanley Dash holds the position of CMT, VP, Applied Technical

Analysis at TradeStation, where he heads the TradeStation Labs
initiative. He and his group support active and institutional traders
with analytical tools and education designed to help them be more
effective traders.
Mr. Dash began his career on Wall Street with E. F. Hutton & Co. in 1975.
His experience includes institutional and retail trading, management,
and compliance. Mr. Dash was also an active floor trader at one of
the leading U.S. futures and options exchanges. His relationship with TradeStation began as a
consulting arrangement in 1997 and turned into a full-time position in 2003.
In the fields of training and public speaking, Mr. Dash has had long affiliations with such
noteworthy organizations as the New York Institute of Finance and the Institute for Financial
Markets. He has written and lectured on topics including stocks, futures, options and technical
analysis.
Mr. Dash is a frequent resource for the press and has been quoted by Investors Business Daily,
USA Today, TheStreet.com, Reuters, and the BBC, and has appeared on FoxNews.com Live and
Fox News Radio Network.
Mr. Dash is currently registered as an associated person (futures) and general securities
principal. Mr. Dash is also a member of the Market Technicians Association and a Chartered
Market Technician. He also serves on the editorial board of the MTAs Journal of Technical
Analysis, the Ethics and Standards Committee, and is the recipient of the MTAs 2015
Recognition Award.

Nicole Sherrod is Managing Director of Trading at TD Ameritrade,

responsible for the growth of the transactional trading business at TD
Ameritrade. She oversees product development for the thinkorswim,
Trade Architect, and TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader platforms.
With more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry,
Sherrod is a leading advocate for young investors and women, and is
frequently called upon to be the expert voice for retail sentiment and
technology trends in top business news outlets. She is also a regular
contributor to Yahoo! Finance.
Previously, Sherrod was with the thinkorswim Group, which was acquired by TD Ameritrade in
2008. She has also served as director of active trading at E*TRADE Financial and vice president
of sales and marketing at Wall Street Access. She holds the 7, 63, 24, 9, 10, and 3 securities
licenses.
Sherrod was recently named one of Benzingas top 20 financial pundits on Twitter. For the
latest market observations and information follow her on Facebook or on Twitter,
@TDANSherrod.

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Daniel Ades is a principal, main shareholder and founder of Kawa

Capital Management. Since inception of the firm he has had the
primary responsibility for origination, fund raising, and oversight of
Kawas investment products, currently managing close to $600 million
in assets. Daniel is the principal portfolio manager of the Kawas
flagship vehicle, a Global Macro Hedge Fund with over $300 million
in assets with a focus on asset backed securities, esoteric credit in
general and turnaround situations in fixed income. In addition to his
role with the Kawa Fund, Daniel was also responsible for launching several special purpose
vehicles, including a long-biased fixed income fund in 2009 , several real estate SPVs and more
recently Private Equity investments. Currently, Daniel also serves on the advisory group to the
Investment Managers joint ventures, including BridgeInvest (commercial mortgages) and Adler
Kawa Real Estate Advisors (Private-equity Real Estate). Daniel received a Bachelor of Arts in
Economics and International Relations, cum laude from Tufts University in 2001 and a Master
of Arts in Law and Diplomacy with focus in International Business Relations and Economic
Development from The Fletcher School in 2003.

David M. Aferiat, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of TradeIdeas

brings more than 15 years of experience in trading, consulting, software,
utilities, capital markets, and consumer product industries. Working with
senior officers and key decision makers in the boardroom, finance, HR,
marketing and trading functions, he has advised both public and privately
held companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $14 billion.
Work at Trade-Ideas taps experience in business development, customer
acquisition and retention, corporate strategy as well as energy trading and
marketing. David holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and
French from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Business Administration degree from
the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. In seven years Trade Ideas has grown
to over 50,000 accounts in 19 different countries. Hedge funds, Asset Managers, Institutions, Online
Brokers, and direct access traders use the software as a premier idea generation, risk management,
and decision support tool.

Thomas Kraemer is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alloy

Investments. Tom has been actively involved in the equities markets
since the early 1990s, working in technology equity research at
Bernstein, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch for eight years. At his
last position at Merrill, he led a team covering server and enterprise
hardware as a Managing Director. Greenwich Associates and
Institutional Investor ranked him every year he covered stocks. In
2000, Fortune magazine chose him as one of the fifteen best analysts
working on Wall Street. Tom was one of the first analysts to downgrade
the technology sector in late 2000. Tom also has operating experience. Beginning in 2006, he
planned, financed, and led the turnaround of a failing $350 million heavy construction and
mining business. The team shuttered five divisions, replaced the entire top management team,
saved over 400 jobs, and repaid a significant debt load. Tom graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He completed a Ph.D. in
Management at the Wharton School where he concentrated on entrepreneurship and strategy.
His dissertation, entitled Successful Rapid Growth: Why Some Firms Succeed and Others Fail,
focuses on how a firms management of intangible assets determines its growth prospects.

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MICHAEL A. GAYED, CFA. As winner of the 2014 Charles H. Dow Award

and 3rd Place Winner of the 2014 Wagner Award, Michael helps
to structure portfolios to best take advantage of various strategies
designed to maximize the amount of time and capital spent in
potentially outperforming investments. Prior to this Chief Investment
Strategist role, Michael served as a Portfolio Manager for a large
international investment group, trading long/short investment ideas in
an effort to capture excess returns. From 2004 to 2008, Michael was a
Portfolio Strategist at AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, a registered investment
advisory firm which managed equity portfolios for large institutional clients. As a member of
the investment committee, Michael performed detailed analysis on various stocks and worked
closely with the principals of the firm to structure client portfolios. In 2007, he launched his own
long/short hedge fund, using various trading strategies focused on taking advantage of stock
market anomalies.
Michael is an active contributor to popular financial websites, including SeekingAlpha.com,
MarketWatch.com, and Minyanville.com. He has been interviewed on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox
Business, as well as the Wall Street Journal live for his unique approach to interpreting market
movements. His analysis has also been featured by Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom and Doom
Report. He is the author of the Lead-Lag Report, a weekly summary of various intermarket
trends, and the Week in Review which is a free e-newsletter sent out every Sunday.
Michael earned his B.S. from New York University, and is a CFA Charterholder.
Follow him on Twitter: @pensionpartners

J.C. Parets is the Founder & President of Eagle Bay Capital, LLC. He is
a 10 year veteran and Market Technician who actively manages money
incorporating Technical Analysis and Behavioral Finance into his
practice. By the age of 30, JC successfully started his own hedge fund
incorporating a strategy that is focused on using Technical Analysis on
various asset classes around the globe. His website Allstarcharts.com
launched in 2011 and is read daily and viewed from over 150 countries.
In 2012 JC spoke at Harvard University and in 2013 Duke University
about how to incorporate technical analysis and behavioral finance
in every day market analysis. In 2013 Business Insider chose JC as one of the Top Finance
People to Follow on Twitter @allstarcharts. In more traditional media, JC has been featured
on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Traders Magazine, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Yahoo Finance
and Canadas Business News Network. He graduated from Fairfield University Dolan School
of Business with a degree in Finance where he also played Division I baseball. JC grew up in
Miami, FL and now lives in New York City where he runs Eagle Bay Capital from its Park Avenue
location.
Parets recently launched a research arm named Eagle Bay Solutions where market participants
around the world pay for access to his research. He is currently working on several new projects
and more information will be available shortly. He can be reached at jc@eaglebaycapital.com

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Greg Capra is President and CEO of Pristine Trading, the nations

leading online educational service for active, self-directed traders and
investors since 1994. www.pristine.com. He has been a day and swing
trader and won the Moneyshow Live Trading Challenge six times in
a row. Before founding Pristine in 1994, Mr. Capra ran a successful
business for 15 years. Wanting to invest that money wisely, he educated
himself by reading what little material there was available about the
markets. This began in the late 1980s.
What Mr. Capra taught himself in those early years was mostly by trial and error trading. As you
would imagine there were many errors/losses. Those early years of developing a method to use
technical analysis today is known as the Pristine Method.

James Crane-Baker, Trader Sentiment Data Expert and Co-Founder

of PsychSignal. James Crane-Baker is a serial startup veteran based in
Miami Beach, Florida. Beginning his career on Wall St. in 1995 as one
of the first 5 employees of Broadway Trading (BT), he was a pioneer in
direct access electronic trading, which revolutionized stock trading
execution access to the inside spread. He was instrumental in helping
the firm grow from a handful of traders working on folding tables in
a cramped office to having thousands of traders scattered across the
country in nearly a dozen offices. He was featured and interviewed as
a member of The New Trading Elite in the New York Times Bestseller Electronic Day Traders
Secrets1. In the interview he says that the secret to day trading is anticipating where the crowd
will be going next, and knowing how to position ones self ahead of the curve to yield the best
results which became the genesis behind PsychSignal many years later.
After ten years on Wall Street, James moved to Rio de Janeiro Brasil to learn Portuguese and
taught himself how to hack website code. With an independent Brasilian web development
team they built out a classified ad network called Classificados.com (originally RedeParede)
which they sold four years later to The Chena Group in Summer 2011.
James initial thoughts for the PsychSignal project began in 2010 as a way to recreate the
Squawk- Box he used at Broadway Trading, but listening to social media instead of the trading
floor. After selling RedeParede, he put together a team of advisors, mentors and software bigdata engineers to explore the concept. By October 2011, the original API was able to predict the
Gallup US Mood Index a full day in advance with 85+% accuracy. The work on that project has
continued to gain momentum since that milestone and is attracting investment and interest
from Quant Funds, Hedge Funds and trading desks worldwide. Crane-Baker holds Bachelor
degrees in finance and history from Tulane University, graduated from The Kent School in CT,
and studied at the London School of Economics. James also completed the prestigious NOLS
Patagonia semester expedition. He is sole listed inventor and holder of US Patent # 8,311,883.

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EVAN LAZARUS has been in the equity trading business for 16 years.
Eleven years ago, he took a managing director position at Sperling
Enterprises, LLC. At Sperling Enterprises, Mr. Lazarus, along with Mr.
Redler, managed the firms traders and developed its highly successful
training program. His core competency lies in understanding the
difficult psychological aspect of trading, and his ability to mentor other
traders. Mr. Lazarus became a partner in Sperling Enterprises in 2006.
In 2007, he helped facilitate the merger between Nexis Capital and
Sperling Enterprises creating the T3 entities known today as T3 Live,
LLC and T3 Trading Group, LLC. Evan Lazarus career and methodologies are chronicled in The
Modern Trader: Wall Street Traders Reveal Their Formula for Success
Mr. Lazarus currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of T3 Live, LLC and as a managing
partner of T3 Companies, LLC.

JAMIE LISSETTE is an Independent Trader and Founder of

Hammerstone Markets, a leading News and Analysis company for
Traders and Investment Professionals. For 12 years Hammerstone
Markets has been an important tool for over 150 firms and 600 traders
as they navigate the financial markets on a daily basis. Hammerstone is
based in Westport CT.

Brandon Perry, CFA, CFP, ChFC is president of Perry Investment

Management, LLC. Brandon Graduated from the University of Texas
at Austin, and simply couldnt bring himself to leave Austin. His
experience ranges from hedge fund management, to long only
deep value portfolio management. In addition to managing money,
Brandon teaches Financial Planning at his Alma Mater, UT Austin, and
is an avid fisherman and family man.

Dan Nathan, is the Co-Founder and Editor of RiskReversal, a

service dedicated to helping equity traders/investors understand the
alternative ways they can express their views in the equity markets
and Panelist on CNBCs Fast Money. Dan is also the co-founder of
and contributor to The Ticker District, a website and social network
dedicated to daily trading commentary covering markets across
multiple asset classes and geographies.
Dan has spent the better part of the last 18 years as a proprietary equity
& options trader at hedge funds (SAC, Exis & Cheyne Capital) and within the equity derivatives
group of Merrill Lynch. Since 2009, Dan has served as a broker to investment banks for large
equity option block trades while also offering trade structure and fundamental trade ideas
to investment managers. Dan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, originally from
Syracuse he now lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

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DOUG ROBERTSON is T3 Lives Options Specials and runs the service

T3 Lives Options Strategist as well as our coaching programs. Doug
began his career in the trading industry in 1999. He partnered with
a venture capitalist and a small group from the technology industry,
including himself as the tech guy and self-professed math geek.
Each of them thought stock arbitrage would be an easy way to make
money. With an enormous amount of hard work and a little bit of luck,
amazingly enough, it happened.
From the beginning, Doug had the opportunity to participate in the development and running
of a wide variety of trading strategies. As a quantitative analyst, trader and strategy developer,
he was able to explore stocks, options, futures and FOREX in markets around the world.
When he started in 1999, the focus was on high-speed arbitrage between the equities markets.
Over time, the arbitrage opportunities dwindled. Their original company was sold to an outside
firm and his team went over to the new company to work on a wide range of trading strategies
and systems. His trading focus expanded to high-speed automated strategies.
By 2007, their group was doing $500 million in trades a day in U.S. equities alone with a
significant portion of the trading in major ETFs, such as the SPYs. Once again, the company and
technology that they developed was bought out and Doug was faced with an exciting offer. He
had taken the position of Director of European Trading at the Chicago Proprietary Trading firm
that had bought them out.
He worked on LaSalle Street in Chicago, right in the hub of the options and commodities
trading industry. It was an amazing opportunity to not only explore trading strategies around
the world, but to see the inner workings of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and
CME. Collaborating on the floor of the CBOE, Doug was able to refine several trading strategies
specific to the options markets. In 2009, Doug relocated to South Florida where he started a
money management business. Currently, he manages options trading accounts for clients,
develops analytical models and teaches options trading.

Robert F. Smith comes to T3 as a true veteran of the Financial

markets. After beginning his career at the age of 16 as a pit clerk on the
Chicago Board Options Exchange, he then began full time in 1989 as
a 16 year member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. During his tenure
there, he performed duties ranging from Independent Trader, both
a listed and OTC Specialist, as well as providing Technical Analytical
Research to several firms on the trading floor.
Robs belief is that the best way to gain insight about market direction
is to review the charts of the stocks in the entire S&P 500 each night, which he has done
consistently for over 20 years. Most recently, Rob has combined this belief by using pattern
recognition and time frame continuity with an Inside Bar Timing Strategy that continues to gain
popularity in the T3 Live community.

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David Green is an Intraday Trading Expert and Lead educator of T3 Lives

Trading Lab. David began his career on the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange in 1985 and developed his skill over the next 15 years within
the highest attainable position as Specialist/Broker for Goldman Sachs.
He oversaw trading in some of the largest listed companies at the NYSE,
including IBM, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Best Buy. Upon retiring
in 1999, David is now training, teaching and successfully mentoring traders
and investors with his Informative and proven methods. His active trading
lessons have been featured in both the Wall Street Journal and Business Insider.

Neil Azous is the Founder and Managing Member of Rareview Macro, an

advisory firm to some of the worlds most influential investors and the publisher
of the daily newsletter Sight Beyond Sight. Neil has close on two decades
of experience across the financial markets, and is recognized as a thought
leader in global macro investing. Prior to founding Rareview Macro, Neil was a
Managing Director at Navigate Advisors where he specialized in constructing
portfolios and advising on risk. His daily commentary was highly regarded by
the institutional investing community and his success in delivering a forwardlooking viewpoint on global markets helped lay the foundation for Sight
Beyond Sight to be built. On Wall Street, his career included roles at UBS Investment Bank and Donaldson
Lufkin & Jenrette, where his responsibilities comprised of trading derivatives, hedging solutions, asset
allocation and fundamental securities analysis. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in Fixed Income,
after completing both the firms Analyst and Associate training programs, widely acknowledged as the
pre-eminent and most coveted learning ground for undergraduate and graduate students. Neil completed
graduate level coursework for a MS in Real Estate at New York University and received his BA in Business
Administration from the University of Washington, where he is a member of the University of Washington
Bothell Board of Advisors and was the recipient of the Bothell Business School 2013 Distinguished
Undergraduate Alumnus Award. He is active in various charity and community organizations.

FIL ZUCCHI, Founder of Zebra Capital Management, LLC., and an attorney

by training, practiced bankruptcy law for approximately 10 years before
shifting to trading equity and options full-time. Fil has been investing
and trading his own and family accounts for more than 15 years as well as
actively participating in our office commercial and residential real estate
activities. His equity trading centers around the short, intermediate and long
term tone of the corporate credit and derivatives markets.

Jay Pestrichelli is Co-founder of ZEGA Financial. Jay has been an

investment manager at ZEGA since its inception and is actively involved in
all of ZEGAs investment strategies. ZEGAs founding principles grew out
of the book Jay co-authored entitled Buy and Hedge, the Five Iron Rules
for Investing Over the Long Term. Jay has over 20 years of experience in
business management, with 12 years in the online brokerage field with TD
Ameritrade and Datek Online. As the manager of the Active Trading business
at TD Ameritrade, Jay helped drive it to become #1 in trade volume among
U.S. brokers. Jay has been a regular contributor on CNBCs Fast Money, has provided video interviews
for CNN, and is quoted regularly in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Smart Money. Jay
resides in West Palm Beach, Florida with his wife and son.

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Weekend Talent
Side Project DJ and Drummer is a dynamic & high-energy act that
merges the modern sound of a live DJ with the time-honored rhythm
of the Drums. Each Side Project performance is unique, because there
is no set playlist! Instead they play to your crowd and give them the
songs they want to hear! Its like having a band with an Endless Song
list. Not only is Side Project incredible to listen to, but also visually
stimulating with their state of the art LED Drum Set, in which the
lights dance to the music. They have played hundreds of high-profile
events, making them one of the most experienced DJ and Drummer
duo available. If you are looking for an original way to entertain your guests that will leave them
talking, even after the party has ended, then Side Project is what you have been waiting for.

Marc Salem Marc Salem has been a student of the human mind
for over 30 years. As an academic he holds advanced degrees from
the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and has been
on faculty of several major universities for close to two decades. He
is considered one of the worlds foremost authorities on non-verbal
communication. How the mind creates reality and meaning has been
his major focus. As a researcher Professor Salem has traveled the globe
exploring the mind and its potential. He was a director of research at
Sesame Street studying the development and nature of the mental
process. As an entertainer Marc has performed around the world, astounding and entertaining
millions. His show MIND GAMES concluded two extended runs on BROADWAY to both critical
and popular acclaim. The Sydney Opera House, the Edinburgh Festival and Singapores
Esplanade have also hosted extended runs of MIND GAMES.
He has been featured on the The OReilly Factor, Montel, Maury, CNN, and has been a frequent
guest on Regis. He has had two network television specials, with more to come. Marc has also
completed 3 sell-out seasons in London. He is a regular guest on Court TV, and was also recently
profiled on an astounding 60 Minutes by Mike Wallace. Hailed by critics and audiences around
the world from Broadway, to Londons West End, to Singapore, to the Sydney opera house.

Adam David, raised in Miami, Florida where he first started playing

guitar at age 8 and began singing and writing original lyrics and music
at 12 years of age. His accomplishments at Broward College were
vocal performance with Classical/Jazz Emphasis and later studied at
Miami Dade College in Music Performance/Guitar Performance with
Jazz Emphasis. Adam David is now an incredible talent that performs
Vocals and Guitar as a solo act to a 5-Piece Band. He can sing with an
immense amount of soul, his blues, rock and RnB roots have given
birth to a passion inside of him that explodes whenever he opens his
mouth to sing. His percussive guitar virtuosity will have you groove-struck from the first chord
he strums. Whether hes playing covers from his repertoire spanning across over five decades or
his original music straight from the heart, Adam David is a unique artist whose talent will have
you on your feet for a standing ovation by the end of the first song he plays.

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Weekend Talent
DJ Zaga, inspired by local DJs it became his passion, practicing
non-stop which has not changed today, he still practices his skills
daily. He brings young freshness to the DJ World, yet has an old soul
with innovative talent that presents his skills old school style on the
Wheels of Steel using his Technics 1200s, thats right vinyl! Using
todays latest technology combined with what use to be the industry
standard, he creates a non-stop seamless musical experience with
every performance.

JOHA the Electric Violinist was eight years old when she began
studying violin and singing at the Palace of Fine Arts in Manizalez,
Colombia. Her parents, who saw this little girl, use her hairbrush as
a microphone and the living room of their house as a dance floor,
decided to support her and enroll her in music classes. She continued
her studies in The Fine Arts (University of Caldas) and then took classes
with the Russian teacher, Pompilio Barreto and the Cuban teacher,
Fabio Santana, who was concert master of the Symphony of Madrid
and professor of the National University, with whom she found support
in the interpretation of the violin. Joha continued her career launching a musical album titled
JOHA LLEGO she became a hit on Latin HTV and VH1, she was also selected to open for
Alejandro Sanz, Serrat and Sabina of Spain, Juan Gabriel from Mexico and the famous group of
international chords, The Bond Girls as well as a guest of honor to enter the red carpet of the
Billboard Music Awards.
Joha has performed at several international tours, festivals and corporate events around the
world and continues her violin shows with World Music. She mixes several genres such as
Belly Dance, Tango, Flamenco, Samba and Dance. Now this incredible Artist is permanently
established in the United States, where she trusts to deliver all her dreams and goals to her
American Audiences as well as her international fans.

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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank those who
made The Finance Festival possible and
that begins with our terrific sponsors:
TradeStation, T3 Trading Group, ETC,
TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Lightspeed,
Clearpool Group, ZEGA Financial and
The Hammerstone Group. This event
would not have been possible without
their support and were grateful for their
partnership.
We would like to thank Evan Lazarus
and his team at T3 Live for underwriting
this experience. As the longstanding
leader in online financial training and
education, they are truly committed to
empowering investors to make better
and more informed financial decisions.
Thats easy to say and harder to do;
this summit is a testament to their
commitment to that mission.
The human capital and financial
intelligence that is foundational to the
success of this event has been nothing
short of spectacular; and it should be
noted that no speakers were paid to
attend A special thanks to Jeff Saut,
David Kotok, David Zervos, David
Rosenberg, John Mauldin, Mark Dow,
Josh Brown, Barry Ritholtz, Scott Redler,
Michael Santoli, Charlie Garcia, Danielle
DiMartino Booth, John Succo, Thomas
Kraemer, Daniel Ades, Nicole Sherrod,
Heidi Moore, Steve Wasserman, Neil
Azous, Michael Gayed, Stanley Dash, Ivan
Zinn, Kunal Vaed, Dan Nathan, Brandon
Perry, Fil Zucchi, JC Parets, James CraneBaker, David Aferiat, Greg Capra, Jamie
Lissette, Doug Robertson, Rob Smith,
Greg Capra, Paul Lange and David Green.
We would like to acknowledge Valeria
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Suarez and her team at COTC, the

mentalist Moshe Botwinick, the DJ and
drummers of SIDEPROJECT, JOHA the
electric violinist, and the Saturday night
greeters, dancers and contortionists,
as well as Axel and his staff at The
Mayfair Hotel & Spa, the management
at Sonesta Coconut Grove, Brigitte
Hall at STR-Miami, videographer Mike
Benjamin and photographer Ben
Franke.
Finally, a lot of elbow grease went
into producing this event and that
required dedicated efforts behind the
scenes. Sincere gratitude is owed to
Freddy Hernandez, Carol Irwin, Michael
Comeau, Derek Maltz and Vanessa
Ohayon.
We sincerely hope this event is the
first of many and that youll help us
make that happen. We wanted to
do something different, something
special, to help investors navigate an
increasingly tricky financial marketplace
and have some fun along the way; we
hope the insights and friendships last a
lifetime.
In that regard, we must also thank
you for taking the leap of faith on
our inaugural effort for without your
support, we wouldnt be here today.
With kind regards,

Todd Harrison
R.P
D.P