CONFERENCE SPEAKER PROFILES

Grant Abbott is a leading author in the SMSF and also Family Wealth Protection fields. He is a partner at Abbott & Mourly Lawyers, Director of LightYear Group and Chair of the Succession, Asset Protection and Estate Planning Advisers Association. He has presented ATAA at previous conferences as well as on 3,000 other occasions.

John Bollinger, CFA, CMT, is the founder and president of Bollinger Capital Management, and is internationally known as the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book, “Bollinger on Bollinger Bands” has been translated into twelve languages and his website www.BollingerBands.com is the hub for everything related to Bollinger Bands. www.BollingerBands.us provides charts, signals, screening, and tools to analyse the market and make trading decisions based on Bollinger Bands. John is the recipient of the TSAA-SF Lifetime Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technical Analysis, the MTA (now the CMT) Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Technical Analysis, and the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gary Burton is an IFTA Certified Financial Technician (CFTe), is currently a member the Australian Professional Technical Analysts Association. (APTA). Past ATAA National Vice president 2012 and past President of the Sydney chapter. Was an original contributor to the Marcus Today stock market letter. Has been a technical analyst and stockbroker with Alpine Asset Management, a private client advisor with Macquarie Bank Sydney and RBS Morgans, a senior client advisor with Wilson HTM Sydney, and was technical analyst for 7 years with Thompson Reuters and FP Markets as well as a Fat Prophets Australian equities contributor. Gary currently a director of The Australian School of Technical Analysis. ASTA, is a weekly contributor to First Prudential markets ..Black and White report. He manages several private investor accounts alongside his own private trading in Australian equities and US futures market in the S&P500 and Silver Futures.

Peter Castle (Rev. Yin Cong Taishin Shodo) has been trading for 29 years including full time trading for 24 years. He is the author of: “Trading Mindfully using Winning Probability” (2016) which focused on the systematic approach to trading and “The Zen Trader” (2022) which focuses on  the psychology of trading - particularly from a Zen perspective. After 30 years of studying Buddhism throughout Asia and Australia, including a two-year residential in a monastery, Peter was ordained as a Zen priest in the Rinzai tradition.  Peter is convinced that Zen has helped him enormously with his trading and personal life and uses it as a complement to his trading teaching.

Alan Clement is a quantitative trading strategy designer and independent trader with 30 years experience in the financial industry. Following a professional career in both asset management and investment banking, he progressed to managing his own independent trading business. His main focus is on the design and development of quantitative trading strategies that trade multiple markets. He is an international speaker on trading and evidence-based market analysis, and provides development services, consultancy, and training in quantitative methods to both private and institutional traders and investors. Alan is an IFTA Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) and a former National Director of the Australian Technical Analysts Association. You can find details of his strategies at smartsystematictrading.com and his consultancy services at helixtrader.com. He tweets as @helixtrader

Carley Garner is an experienced futures and options broker with DeCarley Trading, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her commodity market analysis is often referenced on Jim Cramer's Mad Money on CNBC, and she is a regular guest on Bloomberg Television's Options Insight segment with Abigail Doolittle. She is also an award-winning commodity futures and options trading book author, having authored Trading Commodity Options with Creativity, Higher Probability Commodity Trading, A Trader's First Book on Commodities, and others.

Mark Gleeson is a psychologist primarily interested in enhancing personal performance. Mark has worked with elite athletes and teams, musicians, executives, corporate groups and more recently traders. After studying Safety in the Market in the mid 1990’s, Mark commenced regular trading in 2015 and has previously facilitated four presentations on Psychology and performance enhancement in Trading.

Daryl Guppy has provided trading and investment analysis of financial markets for more than 27 years. He trades his own capital. He has a well-established public record of successful trade calls for trading local and global equity, commodity, and FX markets. Daryl has nine popular books published by John Wiley. Globally many traders use the technical indicators developed by Daryl to trade equities and other markets. He is a regular contributor for financial magazines and media in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia, and the US. As well as being a regular host anchor on CNBC Asia.

Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and works as a performance coach for professionals in financial markets. He has written several books on trading psychology and is the author of the TraderFeed blog. Brett has traded the U.S. equity market since the late 1970s, with a focus on integrating quantitative and discretionary analyses.

Mathew Verdouw As the founder and CEO of Market Analyst (1996) and Optuma (2019), Mathew has been working in the field of Technical Analysis for over 27 years. His inquisitive nature, engineering background, and passion for helping people led Mathew to build one of the world's leading Technical Analysis applications with sales to tens of thousands of clients all over the world. His clients range from Private Traders through to Analysts and Portfolio Managers. Since 2019, Mathew, and the team at Optuma, has been building a new quant-based engine designed to help Technical Analysts embed quant into their daily process. Mathew also teaches the CMT curriculum to hundreds of candidates each year and has presented at numerous STA, IFTA, ATAA, & CMT events around the world.

Mike Smith had over two decades of experience trading financial markets across all instruments, and involvement in the training and coaching of traders since 2007. He has experience as a university senior lecturer in the UK and Australia and a Post grad Dip in Education contributing to a passion for finding new and innovative ways to help clients learn trading and taking what they do now to the next level. As well as trading system development and trading measurement, Mike has a special interest in the behavioural aspects of trading and exploring the inaction between the trader and the market. Mike has been an educational consultant for GO Markets for over 5 years and is Head of Client Education and Trading. Additionally, he is CEO of TraderIQ and a member of the ATAA.

Michael Milmeister is currently the founder and commercial director of crypto brokerage firm Stormrake Pty Ltd. Michael has had 20+ years of experience in financial markets from Equities, Commodities, Derivatives to Crypto & FX markets. Michael has worked at Commonwealth Bank, Goldman Sachs and Vocus Group in roles from Retail Banking to Head of Energy Markets. Educated at Monash University Michael holds degrees in Commerce and Economics specialising in Finance as well as Post Graduate education in Financial Markets.

Alan Oliver has been a private educator and trader, beginning his career in 1989. He has worked major Australian banks. Alan has authored “Trading with the Gods”Most a book on his favourite subject of Fibonacci and the Golden Harmonic ratio. He has been invited by Australian and overseas traders to speak on the subject. Alan devotes his time to trading his own account with the same tools and techniques he teaches clients. He also shares his knowledge and experiences with students on a weekly basis, providing support and assistance for those traders who want to learn and understand the concepts of Fibonacci and Gann. His teaching and education skills are particularly aimed at making the quantum leap from amateur to professional as easy as possible. Drawing on experiences from his own trading background.

Rudi Filapek-Vandyck has been in journalism for more than three decades, of which the past twenty-eight years in finance. After publishing his own journals and magazines (in print) he successfully built up an electronic financial news service in the Netherlands between 1995-2000. Since arriving in Australia, he has been involved with setting up various publications and services. As founder/editor of FNArena, he has developed unique features and tools that today assist investors who conduct their own market research. Rudi is the author of two books. "Change, investing in a low growth world" and "Who is afraid of the Big Bad Bear?". Rudi used to appear regularly on Sky Business, and later on Your Money. He is now a regular guest and stock market commentator on AusbizTV, Livewire Markets, and Switzer TV. He has presented and showcased his analyses to investors of the Australian Investors Association (AIA), the Australian Technical Analysts Association (ATAA), the Australian Shareholders Association (ASA), and others. His market observations and analyses are regularly picked up and re-published by other media such as The Australian, First Links, and others.