THE ONLINE FINANCE ACADEMY TEAM

Every one of our trader-teachers have had successful trading careers, each with about a quarter century of experience on pit-traded and electronic markets. They have traded every major financial product in every style of trading for banks, proprietary trading firms and independently. Their range of experience extends into risk management and compliance, brokerage, algorithm development and trading psychology. In other words, they are a deep well of market wisdom and know exactly you need to succeed as a trader. Above all, they are a team of passionate instructors whose talent for teaching is only matched by their generosity as mentors.

GET TO KNOW US!

 Learn the methods and principles of successful trading in this short podcast with one of the founders of  OFA  
Mark is as a lead instructor, mentor and corporate trainer focusing on spread trading.

Mark Shlaes

Mark Shlaes is a like a walking history book at the Chicago Board of Trade, with over 40 years of trading teaching and management experience. As a member of the CBOT for over 29 years, he has successfully traded in 9 trading pits as an independent trader and worked as a floor broker on behalf of institutional clients. He served as CBOT Director for 3 years, as Second Vice-Chairman for 1 year, and served on 20+ exchange committees, including the Executive Committee.

​Mark was one of the very first people to use spread trading in the derivatives market and one of the first to use computers for trading on the exchange floor. He spent 10 years as senior manager with Goldenberg, Hehmeyer and successor companies where he established a successful New York proprietary trading group office. His duties included strategic planning, trader recruitment, initial and ongoing training/mentoring, He developed global curriculum for new traders, psychologically-based interview processes, risk procedures, and oversight for offices in London, New York and Chicago. He has personally mentored over 200 traders and 10 trading managers.

Mark brings to OFA a tremendous wealth of experience, having traded all major derivative products as well as having a great understanding of the psychological component of trading. His teaching focus is on spread trading, and specifically the Treasury markets. Based in Chicago, Mark also oversees our trader recruitment committee and assists traders in developing their careers with partner trading firms.
Shaun is an instructor and mentor in technical analysis and the development of technical trading tools and automated trading strategies. He teaches the Systemic Trading course.

Shaun Downey

 Shaun Downey is a veteran of the markets and a globally recognized name in the world of Technical Analysis. He was winner of the Technical Analysis book of the year 2014. Mapping Your Voyage of Discovery, which was a follow-up to the ground-breaking New Methods in Technical Analysis, published in 2006. He began his career in 1979 at age 16 with Rudolf Wolff Commodity brokers. Initially. he specialized in softs and grains. then moved into the oil market and eventually became head of FX hedging and market making. He has run various private funds and traded all asset classes including stocks on a hedging, treasury, speculative and fund basis.

Shaun has been writing a variety of technical analysis commentaries for the professional and retail market since 1991. He continues to advise, mentor and coach for his corporate client base through his long association with CQG. At CQG he had the unique opportunity to learn, create and test all things technical. His website www.trading-time.com provides more insight into his methods.

While being an expert in traditional Technical Analysis he offers unique insight into how these indicators can be applied. He has created a suite of his own Technical Tools that are available on a variety of software platforms. Shaun is based in london, UK. 
Adam teaches the Master in Trading Course and  develops trading algorithms. 

Adam Jagiellowicz

Adam Jagiellowicz began trading stocks and options in 1982 at the age of 13. In his 20s, he continued to trade his own accounts while pursuing both entrepreneurial and academic interests. He made the leap to trading professionally in 2000 where he began swing trading precious metals futures. In 2002, he joined Refco Trading Services in Montreal as a proprietary trader where he focused on US Treasury and Euro index futures. Following Refco's closure in 2005, he worked with MF Global as a futures and forex broker until a desire for a career change lead him back to one of his first passions in life, teaching and academics.

In 2013, seeing that there were few firms that taught anything but the most basic trading knowledge, Adam sought to create a school which provided something more substantial, and with a focus on derivatives. He co-founded a Montreal based trading school where he wrote the school's training materials, taught technical analysis, mentored students, and managed daily operations.

​In the autumn of 2016, he set out to start a new and better school which would provide a more personalized and elite level of training for both institutional and private clients. He recruited a highly successful and experienced group of traders from around the world in order to provide students access to a broad range of financial markets training. The product of this initiative became Online Finance Academy. 
​Nam is as a consultant, and instructor in trading / hedging system design and risk management for corporate clients.

Nam Nguyen

Nam Nguyen's career in quantitative analysis began in graduate school at Laval University in the mid-1990s, where he applied his mathematical and computational skills to solve problems in chemistry and physics. After graduate school, Nam worked for 5 years as a researcher in life science, where he specialized in high performance computing and data analysis.

Nam has been developing quantitative trading and hedging systems since the 1990s, first for himself, then for investment clubs. Nam has developed a variety of strategies and trading models for institutional clients, including: derivatives pricing models, options pricing models for hedging and valuing commodity portfolios, reverse dispersion volatility strategies, and statistical arbitrage strategies. His research interests include volatility and correlation, and specifically, how correlations break down in stretched environments. He has published many academic papers in the areas of control, optimization theory, hedging, pricing models, and numerical simulation techniques.

In 2007, Nam began consulting for major financial institutions, including PWC and Ernst & Young Financial Advisory, where he specialized in quantitative analysis and risk management. Since 2009, he has sat on the Board of the Toronto chapter of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association. Nam has mentored and trained many junior quantitative analysts. He regularly organizes case competitions and conferences in the finance, banking and insurance sector.

​KEY POINTS THAT DISTINGUISH US

- Customized trader training for institutional and retail clients
- Learning focuses on real-time trading practice, not just theory
- Private classes and post course mentoring
- Exclusive access to our successful proprietary trading systems

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