Meet Our Lab Trainers
Cameron
For 10+ years, Cameron has been trading and investing in the financial market. After actively trading within the market for years, he had the opportunity to share his story and path with new investors. His extensive knowledge of stock options has become his vehicle of choice for building wealth.
He has worked as an educator and trainer for Investools, EduTrades, Tigrent Learning and Traders Edge Network. While he works with traders of all types, he particularly enjoys helping new traders begin their journey to become independent investors.
Derek
Derek has been a trainer for Interactive Trader from the very beginning. His expertise in the options market and experience with education development made him an essential part of building and creating the systems used by the company today.
Derek’s background in Education and Science/Technology has served him well as he’s worked with product and process development to bring user friendly and effective products to the trading industry.
Eddie
Eddie’s first taste for finance started out at the young age of 15 when he started delivering airline tickets to his father’s clients in the Wall Street area.
During his career, he has held roles such as options trader, specialist, lead market maker and director of structured products.
Today, Eddie travels the country as a presenter on options trading and sound financial advice. When not traveling, Eddie lives in Jersey Shore with his wife Monica and two children.
Edmund
Ed has been active in the options markets for more than 2 decades. His interest in options began when he studied finance in college. At that time, options were a very new instrument among listed financial products.
In addition to working as an options market maker on the PHLX, he later acted as portfolio manager on the buy side, and as an options execution specialist and strategist on the sell side.
Continuing his financial education has been key to his profitable career. He received a CFA charter in 2008. The CFA stands for Chartered Financial Analyst. This is an elite designation held by fewer than 150,000 people worldwide.
His passion for financial education and enthusiasm for options trading are merged in the goal of providing individual investors with actionable insights into the options markets.
Elliot
Elliot is a Wall Street and LaSalle Street veteran with 34 years experience in the stock and options markets.
Early in his career, he had roles as a firm options strategist, proprietary trader and institutional options broker.
While at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, he trained public and institutional traders. Elliot’s practical, hands-on experience and enthusiasm for options trading create a dynamic and productive classroom experience.
John
John’s trading career started over 10 years ago. At that time, John was a fairly good looking college athlete. In the off season, John took care of swimming pools. There was one customer who really impressed John. With a beautiful home (obviously with a pool), the customer seemed to be home all the time, spent lots of time with his kids, and appeared in all other aspects to live the life John most desired. One day John asked the man, “What do you do for a living?” The man replied, “I trade options from home.” John was hooked. John became an option trader.
Since then, John has worked for a variety of brokerages in many capacities around options trading and trading in general. John finished his education, got an advanced degree, and continues to trade and teach about options. John has traded extensively, and he has worked with clients and students extensively.
John’s main interest and specialty is volatility and volatility trading. John believes the only way to profit long term from options trading is to buy volatility less than realized volatility and sell volatility more than realized volatility. Sad as some (his spouse) might believe, however, this is John’s primary passion. John spends most of his free time reading academic papers about options and volatility, modeling volatility with his below-average programming skills, trading volatility, and dreaming of different ways to trade volatility.
John also loves to spend time with his wife and three daughters in their hometown of Boise, Idaho—America’s most livable city.
Steve
Steve has exceptional knowledge of options pricing, spreading and the effects of changes in volatility, skew, interest rates and stock movement.
He also does work as a consultant and educator in the world of options trading as an independent contractor.
In 2006, he started consulting and teaching people about trading stock options and shares his passion for helping people gain financial freedom.
Wayne
Wayne served as an options theory and technical analysis instructor for many of the trading firms that he’s been associated with in addition to his work as a partner with Options University where he also spent a good deal of time writing educational articles, teaching online classes, developing course materials and software tools while regularly providing economic and market forecasts.
Rarely at rest, he has spent time as a professional financial advisor, market commentator, newsletter writer and author for several years.
He’s held a series 7 & 66 when serving as an investment advisor, and is formally completing his CMT requirements at which time he’ll receive the Chartered Market Technician designation. To date, Wayne has helped to educate many traders on the professional level and thousands of individual self-directed investors.