Contributors
Oliver Haill, consultant editor
Oliver Haill is consultant editor of BullBearings and a freelance business journalist. Oliver was head of research at a London Stock Market-listed financial publisher, where he worked for seven years. He has written for magazines including Investment Adviser, The Marketer, Growth Company Investor and Business XL, as well as websites including SmallBusiness.co.uk and FTadviser.co.uk.
Alan Rich, contributor
Alan Rich is a former city trader who mentors and helps new and aspiring traders. His trainees have gone on to run their own trading companies and trade full time. He won the 2010 IX trading show competition and regularly comments on the forex and general markets in the press. His mentoring programmes, courses and daily blog can be viewed at his web site www.alanrichtrading.com.
Andrew Speakman, contributor
Andrew Speakman is a market analyst at Hantec Markets, specialising in online forex trading.
Brenda Kelly, contributor
Brenda is the senior market strategist at CMC Markets, based in London. With over 10 years of investment banking experience behind her, Brenda's skillset makes her perfect to guide clients via the CMC Markets' UK education unit, but also to cover the markets via market analysis and trading strategies. With a passion for FX, Brenda focuses on money markets, fixed interest products and global and local economics. She is a regular financial commentator in the UK and Ireland, and has appeared on NewsTalk Business, Reuters, CNBC, RTE, SKY News and TV3 in Ireland. Brenda has recently created the '5-Minute Forex Analysis' series of videos, which can be viewed on the CMC Markets YouTube channel. Follow Brenda on Twitter@brenda_kelly.
Chelsea Reid, contributor
Chelsea Reid is editor of YourTradingEdge UK, a magazine for traders and active investors in spread betting, CFDs, stocks, options, futures, forex and commodities. To subscribe or read more go to: www.YourTradingEdge.co.uk
Dave Limburg, contributor
Dave Limburg runs The Everyday Trader trading education website. He is a full-time trader and winner of CMC markets $100,000 trading competition.
David Thomas, contributor
David Thomas is a hobby trader and financial blogger at TradingSimply.com. The blog provides lively and informative content about the UK stock market without the use of financial jargon, helping inexperienced traders better understand the risks of spread betting and observe how a real trader uses technical and fundamental analysis. To receive a free spread betting guide visit TradingSimply.com.
Elizabeth Goldman, contributor
Elizabeth Goldman is a freelance finance writer and part-time amateur Forex trader. She contributes to several top finance blogs and trading communities across the web.
Graham Spooner, contributor
Graham joined The Share Centre in 2001 as an FSA-approved investment adviser after a career that began in 1977 as a trainee dealer on the Stock Exchange trading floor and took him via Chase Manhattan Bank, Svenska Bank, Midland Bank and City of London Investment Management. He now advises on a wide range of investment services including UK equities and investment trusts and his comments on the markets and share tips are frequently sought by The Financial Times, The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
iTradePod, contributor
Hear the pit, see our screens, trade the value: we're a boutique proprietary trading firm achieving financial independence for our clients. As well as offering 1-on-1 Personal Mentoring and Courses & Webinars, iTradePod offers Trading Room + emini Squawk where you can listen to the energetic sound of traders on the CME S&P 500 pit floor as the action unfolds while our head trader calls LIVE! trades. For more, go to itradepod.com.
John Kingham, contributor
John runs the UK Value Investor website, which aims to help investors learn how to automate and improve their investment process, and avoid some of the big mistakes that many investors make. He's interested in showing the exact steps that anybody can take to build a risk-appropriate portfolio of value stocks using repeatable, systematic and yet relatively simple strategies. The site has a free weekly email which gathers together all the latest updates from the last seven days and adds in additional thoughts, ideas, tutorials and plenty to help you on your investment journey. For more, go to ukvalueinvestor.com.
Matt Shaw, contributor
After quitting the rat race a decade ago, Matt Shaw took up trading financial fixed-odds betting and has not looked back. He now divides his time between trading and teaching others how to trade via his fixed odds betting course - with mentorship and private training - at www.fixedoddssuccess.com
Michael Hewson, contributor
Michael is the senior market analyst at CMC Markets, based in London. He has over 20 years' worth of experience of trading the markets, and specialises in technical analysis. Respected for his candid and direct opinions on what is actually going on in markets, Michael is a regular face on both financial TV and mainstream TV, appearing on CNN, CNBC, BBC TV, Fox Business, Bloomberg and several outlets in Asia. Michael's weekly market update videos are a popular feature on the CMC Markets YouTube channel, and his daily 'FX market update' posted on the CMC Markets blog keeps readers informed on the latest developments in the markets. Follow Michael on Twitter@michaelhewson.
Michael van Dulken, contributor
Michael van Dulken is head of research at Accendo Markets. He has worked in the City for almost a decade, starting with US investment bank Jefferies in the healthcare equity research team and then covering Italian small & mid-caps before a 2007 move to Société Générale saw him join the highly respected hedge fund & cross asset research team. For the last two years, Michael has worked on Accendo's research offering developing its product for execution-only clients, focusing on the key areas of information provision and market observations, education and trade ideas. In November 2011 @Accendo_Mike was voted among CityAM's top five to follow on Twitter and he is regularly quoted in the press. For more about Accendo go to accendomarkets.com
Neonomic, contributor
Neonomic is all about helping you to become a better stock market investor. It's about providing you with tools, ideas, insights and analysis you need to make better investment decisions. The site aims to help you; inspire you to learn about investing, to complete your own analysis and to build confidence to make your own investment selections. For more, go to neonomic.com.
Nick Raynor, contributor
Nick Raynor is investment adviser at The Share Centre, one of the UK's leading retail stockbrokers, currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. It provides a secure home for over 270,000 investors' accounts and is proud to be regularly recognised by industry awards.
Nicolas Shamtanis, contributor
Nicolas Shamtanis is dealing room manager at easy-forex.com, a pioneer in developing forex as a consumer product. The company provides a platform for trading in currencies and commodities via the web, desktop or mobile platforms with personalized FX training programs and dealing room experts at hand.
Piers Curran, contributor
Former city trader Piers Curran is an established expert in trading and investment and co-founder with Will de Lucy of Amplify Trading. With over ten years of successful trading experience they developed cutting edge systems, strategies and techniques to trade financial products in volatile markets. Piers is head trader and managing director at Amplify Trading, as well as being founder of the firm he also mentors trainee traders and is regularly on CNBC and BBC as a respected voice in financial markets.
Vince Stanzione, contributor
Spread betting veteran Vince Stanzione has been trading for over 26 years and has produced a course "Making Money from Financial Spread Trading" which is a 200 page workbook, two and a half hours of DVDs and a member's only website. He stresses that before you try financial spread betting it's well worth getting some good advice and training - and to find out more go to fintrader.net
Will de Lucy, contributor
Will De Lucy is a trader, mentor and co-founder of Amplify Trading, which uses proprietory systems, strategies and techniques to trade financial products. Will also features regularly on CNBC and BBC as a respected voice in financial markets and professional education, offering advice and opinion on investment and stock markets.
Zoe Fiddes, contributor
Zoe is branch manager at easy-forex.com in London and has a number of years' forex trading experience, working as a forex dealer at CMC Markets and beginning her career with World First. At easy-forex, Zoe is responsible for providing UK clients with market information, market education, training sessions and seminars. Zoe holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from the University of Bath, UK.
