Gavin Holmes

Over the last several years Gavin Holmes has become a successful professional trader under the tutelage of Tom Williams, retired syndicate trader and Chairman of TradeGuider.

Holmes’ mission is to educate traders and investors to become experts at the lost art of chart reading and to understand the importance of volume, the hidden secret of the markets. Gavin travels the world teaching traders and investors how to read charts correctly by understanding the interrelationship between the volume, price, and range/spread of a price bar to determine the activity of ‘Smart Money’, and then trade in harmony with the professionals. He is a regular speaker for Chicago Mercantile Exchange events both online and live on stage, and is one of the few traders who trades their live account showing VSA set ups, trading them as they appear.

In 2002 was when Gavin Holmes had the good fortune of meeting Tom Williams, a former syndicate trader who traded with one of the largest stock trading funds in America during the late 1950’s and early 1960’S. Tom began teaching Gavin that the markets were being manipulated on a daily basis by the ‘Smart Money’.  Tom developed the methodology called Volume Spread Analysis and computerized his system with amazing results. Gavin became Tom’s protégé and over the last 9 years Gavin has become recognized as a worldwide expert in the Volume Spread Analysis methodology and market manipulation.

Just this year, Gavin self-published his own book series called, “Trading in the Shadow of the Smart Money” and “Trading in the Shadow of the Smart Money Volume 2: Sequential VSA Chart Patterns Explained”. In “Trading in the Shadow of the Smart Money” Gavin discusses why market manipulation can actually be a good thing for traders and investors who can read the chart correctly based on universal laws. All markets work because three universal laws govern them: the law of supply and demand, the law of cause and effect, and the law of effort versus result.

To make money in life there is a fourth and very important law, the law of attraction, and for the first time in any book on trading that we are aware of, Gavin unlocks the key to success in trading and investing in the markets:
BELIEF in your human ability to make money and in your system to read charts.

Gavin has been featured as a headline speaker at numerous seminars and webinars around the world. He has provided educational courses for the CME Group in Chicago and has been featured at the New York and Las Vegas traders expo’s Traders Challenge.

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Mark Barton

Mark Barton is a London-based anchor on Bloomberg Television. He is the co-host of “Countdown”, the agenda-setting morning program shaping the European business day for viewers.

Barton is the longest serving presenter on Bloomberg Television in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He started his career as an intern at Bloomberg News in March 1995 and within six months became one of the first five journalists to join Bloomberg Television’s new European team in London. Since then, Barton has witnessed – and been an integral part of – the transformation of Bloomberg Television into the influential global business news network it is today.

As an anchor and reporter, Barton has covered and analyzed the biggest global economic, financial and geopolitical events of the past two decades. These include the Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s, the technology boom and bust, 9/11, four U.K. general elections, as well as the 2008 global financial crisis and its after effects.

Barton has conducted interviews with countless world leaders, finance ministers, central bankers and chief executives including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Boeing CEO James McNerney, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, US Treasury Secretary John Snow, Iceland President Olafur R. Grimsson, Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Shimon Peres and former South African President FW De Klerk.

Barton graduated with a bachelor’s degree in History from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dimo Dimov

Over 14 years trading experience in the FX market – first as FX dealer and later International Markets Broker. During the years he has traded both for his own account and for Karoll. As an external trader he had managed the funds of a Swiss hedge fund.

Al Brooks

Al Brooks received his MD degree from the University of Chicago and changed careers from eye surgery to day trading 26 years ago, specializing in price action. 

He is a technical analysis contributor to Futures magazine and provides live market commentary and end-of-day chart analysis at BrooksPriceAction.com.

His book, Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar, was a best seller for Wiley in 2009, and in 2012, Wiley published his comprehensive, 540,000 word, three volume set:

Price Action Trading TRENDS

Price Action Trading TRADING RANGES

Price Action Trading REVERSALS

As a physician, he published 30 scientific papers and built one of the first Medicare approved eye surgery centers in California. He taught at Emery University, UCLA, and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

Al thinks that he looks at price action differently from most traders because he believes that there is significance to every tick that takes place during the day and none of what happens is noise. There is an incredible amount of information embedded in charts of every time frame and he thinks that each of the 200 or so major firms are very familiar with many pieces of the puzzle, but much of the puzzle is actually invisible to all of them. No one has to see all of the pieces to consistently make money, but the more that a trader sees, the more opportunities he has to make a profit.

Nikolay Stoykov

Portfolio Manager

Nikolay Stoykov holds Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Master’s Degree in Finance from the University of Rochester, New York. He began his career at the American Stock Exchange and the New York Chamber of Commerce, where he worked for the Susquehanna, as a dealer on the derivatives market from 1998 to 2002. In 2002 he co-founded Tykhe Capital LLC, where trading convertible bonds. In 2006 joins Vermillion Asset Management to manage the investment portfolio on materials. In 2013 Mr. Stoykov joined Alaric to develop investment strategies based on derivatives.

Iliyan Dimitrov

Iliyan Dimitrov is a senior specialist in the Corporate Development Department of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE). He works for the Exchange since 2006 and is responsible for the strategic planning and business development of new products and services. Prior 2006 he worked for five years for the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) where he performed financial analysis and evaluations of prospectuses for public offerings and tender offers.
Iliyan Dimitrov has a master’s degree in finance from the Academy of Economics “D.A.TSENOV”, Svishtov. As a scholar of the Finance and Capital Market Risk Management Program administered by the Georgetown University he took several courses on investment analysis and portfolio management. In 2012, as a participant in the City of London’s Sharing Best Business Practices Program, he worked for three months in the Globeclear Department of J.P. Morgan Bank, London. Since 2003 г. he is often invited as member of the Examination Board for the examinations for brokers and investment advisers organized by the FSC.

Apostol Apostolov

Apostol Apostolov is a graduate of the Technical University of Plovdiv “Computer Engineer” and the University of National and World Economy – “Banking”. From 1996 to 1998 he was CEO of the “Central Depository” AD, and from November 1998 to September 2001 he held the position of executive director of “Bulgarian Stock Exchange – Sofia”. From 2001 to 2003 he was Executive Director of the Privatization Agency. From 2001 to 2009 Mr. Apostolov was Chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission. Lecturer at the Higher School of Insurance and Finance in “Capital Markets”. Apostol Apostolov is currently member of the Supervisory Board of the “Texim Bank” and “INVESTOR.BG” AD, Chairman of the Board of the Central Depository and Member of the Supervisory Board of CEZ AD.

Bisser Manolov

Bisser Manolov has over 25 years of experience with the finance markets. Starting as trader at monetary and financial markets he also engages in precious metal trading, stock trading, derivates and FOREX trading for Bulbank. Between 1989 and 2002 he is specializing in portfolios management. In the years from 2002 to 2011 Bisser Manolov held the position of Chairman of Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund. Bisser Manolov is one of the founders of Bulgarian Dealers Association. He is a freelance finance expert at present.

Zahari Rangelov

Zahari Rangelov gets to know the capital markets in 2005. Since 2007, аs he opened his first real account, he has been professionally involved as a trader and a mentor on the international financial markets.
When analyzing the markets Zahari Rangelov relies on a technical and fundamental approach, preferably midterm trading strategies and stable risk management. When creating and developing his trading strategies he mostly counts on diversification and traders’ mood psychology; this includes not only investments and speculation with different financial instruments, but expert advisors and signal providers, as well.
Currently he works in the sales department of the Bulgarian branch of the British broker ActivTrades; he is also experienced as a speaker in trading seminars and webinars on diverse topics.

Lyubomir Lekov

Lyubomir Lekov is a founder and member of the Supervisory Board of Investor.BG.
Co-founder and board member of “Lekovi” Foundation – aiming to discover, promote and support talented people who seek realization in the web.
Previously Lekov had been head of the “Capital Markets” in TB “Unionbank” (1997-2001) and
Portfolio manager (1994-1996) and Executive Director (1996-1997) of Bulgarian Investment Company (a division of the international investment company Interpharos, Luxembourg).
Lekov holds Master’s Degree in Computer Science by Technical University – Sofia. He is licensed “Stock Broker” by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lekov is graduated “Securities Broker” by University of Delaware Bulgaria, Sofia and “Financial Analysts’ (2000) at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) – Sofia.

Petko Valkov

Since 2006 Peter Valkov is Managing Director of Concord Asset Management, managing 11 mutual funds and individual portfolios of investors. More than 10 years of experience in capital markets, incl. as an analyst, broker, portfolio manager. Participated in the foundation and organization of investment intermediaries, management companies, special purpose investment vehicles. Petar Valkov is a manager in public offerings of stocks and bonds and author of numerous publications on capital markets.
Member of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Association of the Asset Management Companies.
PhD in Economics, graduated “International Economic Relations” by UNWE.