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Fari Hamzei is frequently quoted by Benzinga, StocksNJocks, CNBC, Bloomberg, FoxBusiness and RealMoney. His book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today’s Top Traders, published by John Wiley & Sons in October 2006, immediately become a bestseller on Amazon trading books space. Three times, Fari has been the featured advisor on Timer Digest monthly newsletter when each time he was ranked FIRST in the Nation for the previous 12 months among 150 market timers. More recently, in August 2015, he was ranked SECOND in the country, then moved to FIRST place in October 2015. In December, he briefly was ranked SECOND and since first week of January 2016, he has been ranked ONE in the Nation till present.

From 2006 to 2011, once or twice per year, Fari has taught his Proprietary Sentiment Indicators at The Options Institute of CBOE.

Fari is a graduate of Princeton University with a BSE degree in financial engineering, and studied financial derivatives with Options Theory luminaries such Jack Shelton, Ed Thorp, Robert Geske, Richard Roll & Robert Whaley (inventor of original VIX) at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. He was manager of the Operations Analysis Dept and then was promoted to the director of Strategic Planning at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Aircraft Group after being recruited only 5 years earlier from college. He also served for eleven years on the Board of Directors of Electronic Clearing House (ECHO), now an Intuit company (INTU).
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Mark "SPO" Esposito aka The Admiral, has traded as a sole proprietor and as a partner in the Designated Primary Market Maker (DPM) structure at the CBOE for 27 years. During the late 80’s “SPO” was regarded as one of the most active and largest traders on the CBOE Floor. Experiences like trading the crash of 1987 and the tech bubble burst of 2000 proved invaluable in understanding option volatility. Extending those experiences in mentoring of many individuals helped develop many successful traders during his tenure. While serving in the CBOE committee structure he was integral in the CBOE transition from open outcry to hybrid (open outcry + remote market making). He was then recruited by OneChicago as its Managing Director of Business Development. After 12 years at OneChicago, in mid-December 2015, he joined HA to run our HFT Options Trading, and in 2024, he rejoined HA to run our ES Futures Chatroom. Today, strategy and trading analysis are part of his many active roles. Read Mark's Recent Posts

Peter Cook is an active futures, commodities, and stocks trader with a BS Degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Materials Science Engineering. He spent 15 years working as a process control engineer for a large Fortune 500 aerospace company and has extensive experience modeling and optimizing stochastic processes, statistics and six sigma / lean manufacturing. Peter uses this experience every day trading anything with a chart. Peter has traded full time with Hamzei Analytics and collaborated with Fari for the last four years and moderates our coveted NQ Futures Chatroom. Read Peter's Recent Posts

Steve Shobin, the former Vice Chairman & Chief Investment Strategist for AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, is a veteran of more than four decades on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Inc. and a First Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Shobin was a senior member of the research divisions at both firms. During his tenure, he developed unique methodologies for projecting the long term trends of stocks and industry groups, incorporating various techniques for controlling risk. Mr. Shobin has advised some of the world's largest mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutional investment managers on stock selection and portfolio structuring. Steve has been a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team in 1997, 1998, 1999, and received a #1 ranking in the year 2000 just as he was leaving Lehman to join AmeriCap Advisers.

Jason Goepfert is President of sentimenTrader.com. He has been trading stocks, stock and index options, index futures, currencies and commodities for over 15 years. He holds several securities licenses and has most recently managed the operations of a $3B hedge fund and top-10 online brokerage (Gomez rankings). Jason founded sentimenTrader in 1998, and began a web presence in 2001. Currently, the site has subscribers in all 50 states and 40+ foreign countries. In 2004, Jason was awarded the prestigious Charles H. Dow Award for Excellence in Technical Analysis by Market Technicians Association.
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Jeffrey Spotts, CMT, a contributor to Master Traders, is a hedge fund manager for Prophecy Funds. He has more than 16 years of experience providing portfolio management to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth clients. He began his career in 1989 at Merrill Lynch Private Advisory. He was responsible for over $500 million of client assets under management. In May 2001, he launched Prophecy Asset Management, a technically managed hedge fund catering to institutions, pensions and family offices. He also teaches a behavioral finance segment of a graduate studies course for several colleges.
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Fil Zucchi is the founder and manager of Zebra Investment Advisors LLC, a Virginia registered investment advisor, and Zebra Fund, LLC, a long/short hedge fund. Before founding the Zebra companies, Fil managed individual long/short accounts. Prior to that, he was a bankruptcy and commercial litigation attorney in a Washington, D.C. law firm. Fil was a contributor to theStreet.com Street Insights. Fil is also currently involved in his family’s commercial real estate development and management operations.
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David Miller, a contributor to Master Traders, is the CEO and co-founder of Biotech Stock Research, LLC, publisher of Biotech Monthly. Launched in October 2001, Biotech Monthly combines a monthly newsletter format with alerts on breaking news on more than two dozen development-stage biotechnology companies under coverage. His firm is one of the few independent research firms in that it accepts no money from the companies it covers, does no outside consulting in the biotech space, runs no mutual or hedge fund, and is 100 percent subscription-supported. In addition, David was CEO of a successful technology company and a university professor.
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Frank Barbera, CMT, a contributor to Master Traders, is a co-manager of the Caruso Fund, a $35 million hedge fund that seeks to make gains trading precious metals, stocks, and currencies. He began his career in the early 1980s working with John Bollinger, Bill Griffith, and Susan Herrera at Financial News Network in Los Angeles. After FNN, Frank spent 10 years as an on-air market analyst for KWHY-TV in Los Angeles. His first money management position was at the Kavanaugh Fund in Santa Monica, a hedge fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. His technical work in gold and gold stocks is considered among the best in the industry.
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Tim Ord, a contributor to Master Traders, is the president, editor and publisher of The Ord Oracle, established in 1990, which is an electronic advisory newsletter that recommends S&P, NASDAQ, and gold stocks trades. He is frequently listed in the top 10 market timers in the country. Timer Digest ranked Tim No. 5 in gains for the S&P and No. 2 for gold timer in 2004. He has more than 25 years of trading experience and placed fourth nationally in the option division in the United States Trading Championship in 1988.
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