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FestivalProgram1st Annual T3 Live’s Finance Festival6-8 November 2015, Miami, FL

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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, someone’s 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 you’re 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 you’re not in the loop you’re 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 weekend’s 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, that’s the best investment on the board.

Todd HarrisonExecutive Producer, The Finance Festival@todd_harrison

Welcome to the First AnnualT3 Live Finance Festival!


Welcome to the First AnnualT3 Live Finance Festival!

I’d like to personally welcome each of you to the inaugural T3 Live Finance Festival. It’s 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, “They’re great at what they do and even better at who they are.” I’d 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. It’s 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 LazarusCEO, T3 Live@LazT3Live


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TradeStationT3 Trading Group, LLCElectronic Transaction Clearing (ETC)TD AmeritradeE*TRADELightspeed TradingTodd Harrison ProductionsClearpool GroupThe HammerStone GroupZEGA Financial

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

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At this very special event, you’ll connect directly with thought leaders from the world of trading and investing. Our goal is to help you become a better, more-connected investor in 2016 and beyond.

We’ll 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 thought-leaders in finance. We’ll 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.

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 Children’s Education and The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

For more information, visit: t3live.com/festival

About T3 Live’s Finance Festival


GuesT brAceLeTsPlease 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 securiTyPlease do not leave your belongings or conference materials unattended in session rooms.

meALsSeveral meal options are available for guests, T3 Live’s Finance Festival will be offering the following:

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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)

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7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast Courtesy of Clearpool12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch Courtesy Of TD Ameritrade6:00 - 7:00 PM: E*TRADE Happy Hour7:00 - 9:00 PM: Hearty Feast Courtesy of TradeStation

sundAy, november 8Th

7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast Courtesy of T3 Trading12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch Courtesy of LightSpeed to Conclude the Event

General Information, Services, & Amenities

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH 2015 At A glance6:00 - 9:00 PM VIP DINNER: Open bar, buffet dinner and live music with speakers and sponsors

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH 2015 At A glance7:00 - 8:00 AM BREAKFAST COuRTESy OF CLEARPOOL @ PALM TERRACE

8:00 - 8:10 AM Welcome: Todd Harrison @ CRySTAL BALLROOM

8:15 – 9:00 AM “�01�: bull vs. bear debate” @ crysTAL bALLroommoderator: 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

pAneL: “The Future of online investing” @ crysTAL bALLroom 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

9:10 - 10:00 AM

10:10 – 10:50 AM “The state of Wealth management” @ crysTAL bALLroomJosh Brown, Wealth Manager and CNBC host

11:00 - 12:00 PM 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

12:00 - 2:00 PM LuNCH COuRTESy OF TD AMERITRADE @ PALM TERRACE

Choose one session each hour:

2:00 - 2:45 PM how to Trade intermediate Trends and ignore the noise @ ALexAnder 1Scott Redler and Greg Capra, T3 Live

pAneL: Artificial intelligence and social media @ ALexAnder � moderator: Heidi Moore, Business Editor, Mashable panelists: • James Crane-Baker, Co-Founder, PsychSignal• David Aferiat, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of TradeIdeas

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 �01� @ ALexAnder � Fil Zucchi, Founder of Zebra Capital Management, LLC.

A discussion With david rosenberg @ kentia i & iiDavid Rosenberg, Chief Market Strategist, Gluskin Sheff

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�01� outlook @ kentia i & iimoderator: 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 CNBC’s Fast Money panelists: • Dave green, director of T3 Live’s active trading lab and lead moderator of “the green room”• Rob Smith, director of T3 Live’s “in the black” mentoring program• Paul Lange, senior vp of education and user experience, T3 Live’s pristine trading institute• Doug Robertson, director of T3 Live’s options intensive training program

how to Trade intermediate Trends and ignore the noise @ ALexAnder �Brandon Perry, Founder, Perry Investment Management

interest rates and emerging markets outlook @ kentia i & iimoderator: John Mauldin, President of Millennium Wave Investmentspanelists: • Daniel Ades, Founding Partner, Kawa Capital Management• Neil Azous, Founder, RareView Macro


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH 2015 At A glance7:00 - 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 bALLroomBarry Ritholtz, Wealth Manager and Bloomberg Radio Host

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!

9:00 – 10:00 AM pAneL: “A TAcTicAL ApproAch To �01�” @ crysTAL bALLroommoderator: Dan Nathan, Founder RiskReversal.com and Panelist at CNBC’s 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

10:10 – 10:50 AM A conversation with david kotok @ crysTAL bALLroom• Michael Santoli, Senior Markets Commentator at CNBC• David R. Kotok, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Cumberland Advisors

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM pAneL: “A Look AheAd To �01�” @ crysTAL bALLroommoderator: 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

12:00 - 2:00 PM LuNCH COuRTESy OF LIGHTSPEED @ PALM TERRACE


Notable Speakers & AttendeesTodd hArrison is the founder of Minyanville Media, Inc., President of The Ruby Peck Foundation for Children’s 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 Stone’s 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 Minyanville’s World in Review, the first and only animated business news show. He’s 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, Barron’s, Dow Jones MarketWatch, New york Magazine, and Canada’s 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-net-worth 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, Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal.


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 Barron’s 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 Barron’s “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 magazine’s 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 bachelor’s 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 Frontline—one of the most widely read investment newsletters in the world.

John’s company, Mauldin Economics, publishes a growing number of investing resources, including both free and paid publications aimed at helping investors do better in today’s 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. Kotok’s articles and financial market commentary have appeared in The New york Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, 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.


dAvid rosenberG is the Company’s Chief Economist & Strategist with a focus on providing a top-down perspective to the Firm’s 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 Magazine’s “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 Sheff’s economic and financial market insights.

JeFF sAuT is Raymond James’ chief investment strategist and a managing director of the firm’s 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 firm’s affiliate, Exeter Capital Management. Jeff was also director of research for the regional brokerage firm Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc., where he developed the firm’s 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, Barron’s, The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, u.S. News and World Report, Fortune and SmartMoney, as well as on websites including thestreet.com and msnbc.com.


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 co-managed 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 Marty’s bestselling book Pit Bull: Lesson’s From Wall Street’s 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 yPO’s 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 other’s 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 Organization’s (yPO) Personal Investment Network. Charlie is on the national board of Junior Achievement, the world’s 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 world’s 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 O’Connor. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in the early 1990’s. 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 Fed’s 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 children’s schools, she serves on the Board of Management of the Park Cities yMCA.


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 world’s 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 PIMCO’s High yield Fund (PHDAX) which was ranked number 1 in the Lipper Mutual Fund Survey. Member of PIMCO’s 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 Stanley’s Global High yield department, where he placed second as the high yield analyst for the energy sector in Institutional Investor Magazine’s 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 CNN’s Pinnacle; and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a member of the young Presidents Organization (yPO). Mr. Wasserman’s son will be studying at Princeton university next year and will be a member of Princeton’s tennis team.


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 HBK’s 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 Management’s 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 Journal’s Quite Contrary column (August 3, 2004; Page C3), and was the subject of several Barron’s interviews (December 8, 2008 and October 26, 2010). Ritholtz was honored to be the dedicatee of Stock Trader’s Almanac‘s 40th Anniversary edition in 2007 and the yahoo Tech Ticker’s 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.


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*TRADE’s 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 Barron’s, Investor’s 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 firm’s digitization vertical. Prior to Booz, Kunal helped drive IBM’s 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 Media’s Marketplace. She previously worked as lead writer for The Wall Street Journal’s 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 Investor’s 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 MTA’s Journal of Technical Analysis, the Ethics and Standards Committee, and is the recipient of the MTA’s 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 Benzinga’s 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 Kawa’s investment products, currently managing close to $600 million in assets. Daniel is the principal portfolio manager of the Kawa’s 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 Manager’s 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 firm’s 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 Canada’s 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 [email protected]

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GreG cAprA is President and CEO of Pristine Trading, the nation’s 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’ Secrets”1. 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 big-data 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.


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 firm’s 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 couldn’t 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 CNBC’s 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.


douG roberTson is T3 Live’s Options Specials and runs the service T3 Live’s “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.

Rob’s 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 Live’s

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 world’s 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 forward-

looking 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 firm’s 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 ZEGA’s investment strategies. ZEGA’s 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 CNBC’s 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.


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! It’s 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 world’s 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 Singapore’s Esplanade have also hosted extended runs of MIND GAMES.

He has been featured on the The O’Reilly 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 London’s 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 he’s 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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dJ ZAGA, inspired by local DJ’s 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 1200’s, that’s right vinyl! using today’s 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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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 we’re 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. That’s 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 Crane-Baker, David Aferiat, Greg Capra, Jamie Lissette, Doug Robertson, Rob Smith, Greg Capra, Paul Lange and David Green.We would like to acknowledge Valeria

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 you’ll 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 wouldn’t be here today.With kind regards,

Todd HarrisonR.PD.P

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