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John started Simpler because he wanted to create a community of traders who educate others simply because they care about other people’s success. His setups, market knowledge, and guidance to continually improve yourself as a trader are invaluable. John is the trading expert everyone turns to when the markets go awry (as they often do), and many of our traders have taken ideas and strategies from him and morphed them into their own strategies. He’s truly one of the best, with a level of passion that draws people in, which has transformed him into the famous trader he is today.

With a passion for gambling, he’s the absolute “zen master” when it comes to being a trader. Almost always level-headed, Henry provides the cool, calm, and collected side of trading - a side most traders have struggled with for years. That makes him invaluable as the Lead Content Provider and a fantastic options trading mentor. With his daily tips and tricks, he helps traders see the analytical approach to trading and why you should or shouldn’t logically jump ship. Fast forward to today, Henry can be found diving into the Live Trading Chatroom at the opening bell as the Vice President of Simpler Trading. During his sessions, he focuses heavily on scanning for new setups, managing open trades, and walking traders through new trades. He knows how to break down hard-to-understand macro topics to a finite, easy-to-digest micro-level.

Raghee’s exposure to the markets began in a rather unconventional way. She began charting her mutual fund progress on engineering graph paper at the age of 15. Once she noticed her money was growing while she was sleeping… she never looked back. That was over 35 years ago. Raghee’s trading style was created by a system-inspired approach and a sequential process for building her trades. She’s most well-known for her specific tools (like her GRaB Candles and 34 EMA Wave). Identifying a dominant market trend is the first step as a trend trader. She uses three exponential moving averages and color-coded candles to visually identify the sentiment, momentum, and trend. Her strategies and indicators allow any trader to approach the market more objectively, removing unsupported bias and emotions that can cloud judgment. Raghee utilizes fundamentals, technicals, and price action to deploy an objective, systematized strategy. Trading futures, currencies, options, and equities across any time frame is Raghee’s area of expertise. If you’re looking for a foot in the door in any of these areas of trading, she’s the best there is.

Bruce is the Senior Director of Options and Income Trading and a devoted mentor here at Simpler. He’s traded professionally for 34 years, including managing Wall Street's $150 million in institutional funds. We’re lucky to have him trading in several of our memberships. In addition to the Simpler Central Chatroom, he has his own service called Bruce’s Income Accumulation System (BIAS), where he focuses on safely generating options income using his favorite strategies. He’s a meticulous planner and organizer. From a macro perspective, he’s especially top-notch in his attention to the market, especially in the volatile environment.

Danielle Shay is a trader, investor, market analyst, and expert commentator. She is VP of Options at Simpler Trading, where she runs trades and analysis in the trading room, teaches classes and webinars, and writes regularly at www.fivestartrader.com. You can also find Danielle regularly in the media, as she is an expert guest on CNBC, Fox News, TraderTV Live, Stockcharts, and more. As a swing trader, her primary focus is identifying momentum, including relative strength and weakness. She also frequently analyzes and trades earnings. Danielle’s trading setups cover equity options, stocks, indexes, and ETFs. Using her step-by-step, top-down approach, it’s her goal as a former teacher to help traders go from zero to trading — just like she once did. She has the keen ability to relay trading information in small tangible bits where even the ‘best’ of traders will find her insights useful and easy to understand. Her motto is, “If I can do it, you can do it!” Follow her on Twitter & Youtube for more education @traderDanielle.

One would consider Kody a “Jack of all trades.” While in high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a rifleman. After leaving the USMC, Kody went to school to become a Paramedic. Kody then decided to combine both professions and started working for the United States government in various “High Threat” locations as a tactical medic. While Kody was overseas, he wanted to find a way to make his money, make him money. He started with day trading, but with laggy and slow internet, he learned that day trading would be impossible to pursue overseas. That's when he turned to swing trading. What drew Kody to swing trading options was the ability to manage risk based on position size and the low capital requirement to make substantial gains. After mastering swing trading, he sought to become a Prop Trader for a firm to leverage his capital further. Since Kody’s main goal in trading was to be able to produce a weekly income for a source of living, short-term trading has always had his attention. Kody seeks to actively pay himself weekly while managing risk.

Allison is an integral part of the Simpler Trading family where she continues to share her over a decade's worth of options trading experience and knowledge within our community. She has experienced and seen other traders go through the common ups and downs of trading. For those who have trouble with position sizing, risk tolerance, chart reading, or options trading, Allison’s Recycling Risk sessions are a “must-watch.” She aims to help traders minimize the downs so their ups can outshine in their accounts. Allison can easily explain complex trading strategies and chart patterns for traders. Her unique view of how to look at capital Risk, the chart, and the option chain can give any trader a new perspective on investing.

Sam specializes in options, equities, and macro trading using short-term signals. He started trading in 2007. He began his career by trading index futures and equities intraday, and later branched out to options which are now his trading vehicle. Sam’s strategy is top-down – the tide first, boats second. A typical path Sam will take before entering a position is understanding the setup on the index (such as S&P or Nasdaq first), then the sector (such as technology, second), and the stock third. This gives him an edge in trading as it shows the money flow from the broad market to stocks. Once he has found a setup, he looks for an entry using multiple timeframe analyses to ensure that the signals are aligned on the weekly, daily, and intraday charts. The strongest setups have clean alignment from the intraday to the weekly.

Taylor got an early introduction to trading from his father Jim. At age 17, he introduced Taylor to videos of John Carter, who quickly became a role model and someone Taylor would ultimately model his game after. Not being attracted to the status quo, Taylor decided to finish school online while he devoted all his free time to trading. Since then, Taylor has focused daily on improving his trading skills. He has succeeded in mastering a single setup, the squeeze, and is a strong proponent that one can make a career out of trading nothing but this setup alone. Taylor seeks to teach and educate others on how to make a legitimate career path out of trading. This path allows for freedom, gratification, and success based on their own hard work.

Over 20 years ago, TG Watkins was a 12-year-old with his dad in the audience of a two-day stock trading seminar learning how to trade. Fast forward a few years, TG graduated with his engineering degree and set off to earn his Series 6 and 63 licenses. He then started his career at New York Life, a national insurance and finance company. After a few years of gaining the real-life experience he was looking for, TG decided to get back into stock trading full-time. TG was running his own trading education service known as MoxieTrader.com for a few years and then bumped into John Carter at the Traders Expo in Las Vegas. This is where his relationship with Simpler Trading began; now, he is one of the talented traders on the team.

David is Simpler Trading’s “Mad Scientist.” He is the creator of the popular Voodoo Lines® and Ready, Aim, Fire! indicators. A trained theoretical mathematician who later took his MBA first in his class, he now trades full-time in addition to helping Simpler Trading clients achieve their own success. Many might consider David’s academic achievements and his experience as a strategic management consultant, building companies and taking them public, to be some of the most respected as ideal preparation for success in financial markets. However, he is passionate about stressing that the key to trading success is understanding and managing one’s own emotions. David’s consulting clients prize his ability to provide customized insights into unique business situations.

Chris Brecher grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. After receiving a gift of $50 worth of stocks that appreciated $500, Chris discovered his passion for the stock market. Upon finishing his degree in Paleontology and Marketing, Chris worked in a stock market boiler room (think “The Wolf on Wall Street”). In watching his fellow brokers lose every time by taking shots in options, Chris wanted to find out who was making money on the other side. He found the answer at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. After many years on the floor, he realized that electronic trading was making more money than floor trading, so he made the switch. Since 2003, Chris has opened his own trading educational site and worked as a content provider for Simpler Trading. When it comes to trading, he’ll trade just about everything but Forex. And when it comes to tools, he consistently uses the MACD oscillators to see momentum changes and extremes. He uses different variations of moving averages in different timeframes. In addition to moving averages, he also uses the ATR Trailing Stop to help with direction. His main motto is that preparation is key and that you can’t have an ego – don’t suffer from “fat cat syndrome.” Chris is a great mentor for those who are interested in stocks, day trading, and more.

Neil is our intraday futures, currencies, and commodities trading expert and statistician. He has a wealth of knowledge about the markets. His combination of market profiling, Japanese candlesticks, and statistical data he pulls from personal studies he conducts on the /ES will improve your knowledge of the markets immensely. He is methodical and conservative in his entries and has excellent risk-to-reward ratios on his trades. Neil’s strategies are strengthened by statistical modeling and backtests.

Jonathan Mckeever, also known as "Tr3ndy Jon," is an accomplished trader and retired Air Force veteran who ventured into the captivating world of trading after assuming a Director position at a major company. His unyielding curiosity and commitment to unraveling the complexities of trading inspired him to delve into various educational services. Having honed his skills in identifying supply and demand, Jon was hired as the Director of Supply and Demand Trading at Simpler Trading. In this role, he leads initiatives to provide traders with unparalleled insights into the market and enable them to reach new heights in their trading journey.

Mary Ellen is the Senior Managing Director of Equities here at Simpler. Her career began right out of college at the ripe age of 21 as an assistant on the Fixed Income trading desk at Goldman Sachs. Next, she took a position at Equitable Life, a highly regarded large insurance firm on Wall Street. She was promoted to portfolio manager with 8 accounts worth over $2 Billion based on her success. Mary Ellen soon discovered BIG money institutions had access to high-level intelligence that individuals did not have. Mary Ellen left New York City for Los Angeles to take a position with the famed William O’Neil + Co, the founder of Investor’s Business Daily. There, Mary Ellen analyzed hundreds of data points on thousands of stocks to determine which were poised to outperform. After 20 years as the “advisor to the advisors” for top portfolio hedge and mutual fund managers, Mary Ellen now delivers her latest insights and analysis inside the MEM Edge Report.

Eric Purdy spent the better part of his adult life turning dead dinosaurs into loud noise as a fighter pilot in the US Navy. Commander Purdy’s twenty-year career included tours as a flight instructor, teaching university physics and ethics at the US Naval Academy, and multiple combat deployments in the F/A-18 Hornet. As a retail trader, he cut his teeth during the dot.com bubble era and ultimately found his niche in the fusion of options trading and creating unique technical indicators. In 2009, he created the ThinkScripter.com website as the go-to source for ThinkorSwim coders and traders.