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Course Instructors and Partners
Sean Downey is a leading authority on Technical Analysis and has been trading since 1976 in a wide variety of products including soft commodities, metals, bonds, stocks and FX. He presents seminars, lectures and mentoring programmes on all aspects of trading and analysis, including system building and algorithmic solutions in the automated arena across the world on both a one to one and group basis, to all the worlds’ major financial institutions and at conferences. Sean is much in demand and has also been writing daily commentaries on over 40 markets for the past 7 years, and last year published his book "Trading Time, New methods in Technical Analysis'. Among current projects he is overseeing a small pension fund (40 million under management) and advising a Belgian oil company on trading strategies via options.
Steve Ward
Steve Ward is a leading trader performance and psychology coach with over 15 years of teaching, training and coaching experience. He provides specialist 1-1 coaching, training and consulting services for traders, including working on recruitment/selection/assessment, trader training and development, and performance enhancement programmes for major trading institutions, banks and trading exchanges across the globe, as well as for the retail trading community. His work utilises techniques and strategies from sports and performance psychology, cognitive behavioural and performance coaching, and behavioural finance, to help traders to develop the success skills and winning mindset required to achieve their trading goals.
Matthew Silvester has been involved in financial markets in a variety of trading roles with major institutions for 20 years and is currently head of STA training where he is responsible for the recruitment selection training and development of traders. He has experience in every type of financial and commodity traded instrument and has developed successful trading strategies that have been utilised in these fields.
Nick McDonald is an experienced and successful independent fulltime trader and a trainer, coach and mentor in foreign exchange & indices trading strategies. Through his training and coaching Nick aims to cut through the nonsense and teach people real trading strategies in a practical environment, omitting irrelevant information that is not conducive to trading successfully. Nick was the featured trader in Traders Magazine in November 2008 and is a regular author for the magazine. Nick has also worked with many major brokers and their clients worldwide, passing on his trading knowledge & skills.
Stephen Gallo is currently the head of market analysis at London-based foreign exchange provider Schneider FX. His work is concentrated in providing fundamental analysis and forecasting of major currencies to over 1,000 clients worldwide that trade more than £2.0 billion per year with the firm. Stephen has over 4 years of experience in providing fundamental analysis of the global financial markets and economic developments amongst G7 and emerging market economies. In addition to his work in foreign exchange, he has also spent a substantial amount of time at other City-based firms providing analysis and commentary of the global financial and commodity futures markets. Stephen is a weekly commentator and guest on CNBC and Bloomberg Television where he delivers opinion and analysis of developments in foreign exchange and the G7 monetary policy outlook, and he is regularly quoted in financial publications such as City A.M. He holds a BSc in Finance & Economics and an MSc in Investment Management from the Cass Business School.
The Schneider Group
Schneider Group is an industry leading global trading facilitation company serving professional traders and corporate clients across the world through an emphasis on its core values of inclusivity, responsiveness and client partnership development, its mission is to become the preeminent financial service provider for the professional trader.
The Schneider Group was founded in 1998 to facilitate electronic market screen based trading of Futures, Options, Equities and CFD’s. An important focus of Schneider’s growth has always been the provision of the highest level of professional trading services to its clients by establishing successful partnerships, a focus on continued research and development and the training and support of new and experienced traders.
Schneider flagship trading arcade in the heart of the city and affiliated offices across the world offer an exciting, state of the art and profitable trading environment, which with our competitive advantage allows traders to fulfill their potential.