Your Trading Defenders
Dennis Dick, CFA
Trading Member Bright Trading LLC
Dennis joined Bright Trading as a proprietary trader in 1999, and has been a full-time trader with them ever since. He has extensive experience in a number of trading strategies, including pair trading, crutch trading, momentum, contrarian, and technical trading. He has specialized in a number of arbitrage strategies over the years. These have included risk arbitrage, ECN arbitrage, share-class arbitrage, and inter-market arbitrage. He has developed his own algorithmic trading software, which has led to his discovery of many abuses taking place in the new “algorithmic” trading world. He has launched “Trading Defenders”, to educate the general public of the importance of day-trading and to defend the smaller traders and investors against abusive strategies that have created a de facto two tiered market structure.
Education:
Dennis graduated from the University of Windsor in 1999, with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, specializing in Finance, with a minor in Economics. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2002, from the CFA Institute. He also holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses.
“I’m a firm believer in research and development. If a trader gets comfortable trading a certain strategy, and doesn’t put the time into developing new strategies, that trader will eventually become obsolete. It is paramount that we evolve with the markets. What works today, will not work tomorrow.”
Follow Dennis on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tripledtrader
Matthew Boswell
Trading Member Bright Trading LLC
Matthew ventured into the fast pace world of day trading when he joined Bright Trading in 1999. During this time, he has implemented a variety of trading strategies. These include filter trading, pair trading, momentum trading, technical trading, and various forms of arbitrage.
He joined Trading Defenders to combat abusive trading strategies that have negatively impacted our markets in the past year. His hope is that Trading Defenders will act as a portal for other traders and investors, to educate themselves on the market structure, and help everyone realize the true risks these abusive practices impose on the marketplace.
Education:
Matthew obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from York University in 1999. He also holds his Series 7 license.
Joel Elconin
Bridgeriver Private Wealth Management Group, LLC
Joel’s introduction to trading was in the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. During his time at the CME, he was involved in Index Arbitrage as well as trading foreign currency futures and options. From 1994-1999 he was a proprietary trader for Olde Discount Corporation. Following his tenure at Olde Discount, he founded the Detroit office of Bright Trading, LLC. His responsibilities included trader recruitment, orientation and education as well as the day to day management of the office. He held this position until 2003. Since 2003, Joel has been active in the Detroit real estate market as an investor and broker. At this time, he is a Vice-President at Bridgeriver Private Wealth Management Group, LLC. In addition, he has researched and developed proprietary indicators and trading systems for the equities and futures markets.
He is eager to assist Dennis and Matt in their defense against abusive trading practices, and to level the playing field for all market participants.
Education:
Joel obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1985.
He is a graduate of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Continuing Education Program.
He also holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses and is a licensed real estate broker.
Follow Joel on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Spus
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