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Roger Arnold is the chief economist for ALM Advisors, a Pasadena, Calif.-based money management firm specializing in income-generating portfolios. Concurrent with his other business responsibilities, Arnold was a radio talk show host for 15 years. He focuses on behavioral economics and chaos theory, better known as the "butterfly effect." He explains the relationships between political, economic and social systems, and how they are all reflected in the financial markets -- stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and real estate.

Bryan Ashenberg is a research analyst at TheStreet.com, where he writes TheStreet.com Breakout Stocks. Bryan Ashenberg has 12 years of investment experience. Previous to joining TheStreet.com, Bryan was an Associate Director at UBS Global Asset Management, where he was responsible for providing generalist research coverage for the U.S. Small and Small/Mid Cap Growth Equity Portfolios. Prior to working at UBS, he held technology analyst responsibilities at Columbus Circle investors and he had served as a generalist at Stechler & Company. Bryan graduated summa cum laude with a BS in finance from Yeshiva University. Bryan is a CFA Charterholder.

Gene Balas has 20 years experience in investment management and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He most recently was director of investments at Genworth Financial Asset Management. In this role, he performed forecasts on macroeconomic conditions and determined the influences of thematic drivers to develop the appropriate investment strategy. Prior to GFAM, Balas was director of investment management and guidance at Merrill Lynch, where he advised pension funds, endowments and foundations as to appropriate investment strategy. Balas received a bachelor's degree in business administration in finance from the University of Houston and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School.

Carolyn Boroden is a Commodity Trading Advisor and technical analyst who has been involved in the trading industry for over 25 years. Her background includes working on the major trading floors including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the CBOT, NYFE and COMEX, where she eventually shifted over to focusing on technical analysis of the markets.

Bob Byrne is a full-time private daytrader with 10 years' experience. His trading relies on technical analysis and focuses primarily on the energy sector. Bob is also a writer for and the host of a daily trading chat room on Finance Banter. His contributions to this or any other site are not to be construed as recommendations to buy or sell stock.

Mark Casa is founder and chief investment officer of Casa Asset Management in Greenwich, Conn. The firm manages multi-asset portfolios for high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors. Prior to founding Casa Asset, he was partner and chief investment officer of PRS International, a multi-billion-dollar investment-management firm in Miami.

Timothy Collins has worked as a financial adviser since 1999, focusing on portfolio customization, with a concentration on correlation arbitrage and risk-managed growth. He started TangleTrade Management, LLC in 2009. TangleTrade is an RIA firm dedicated to formulating customized risk-managed investment strategies for individuals and small businesses. TangleTrade Management now manages the TangleTrade Fund, a correlation arbitrage hedge fund utilizing the trademarked InterETF strategy.

Jim Cramer runs the charitable trust portfolio, Action Alerts PLUS, and writes daily market commentary for TheStreet's RealMoney premium service. He also participates in video segments on TheStreet TV and serves as host of CNBC's "Mad Money" television program. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He worked as a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from sports to homicide before moving to New York to help start American Lawyer magazine. After a three-year stint, Cramer entered Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1984. Instead of practicing law, however, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he worked in sales and trading. In 1987, he left Goldman to start his own hedge fund. While he worked at his fund, Cramer helped start Smart Money for Dow Jones and then, in 1996, he founded TheStreet. In 2000, Cramer retired from active money management to embrace media full time, including radio and television.

James "Rev Shark" DePorre is the author of Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy With No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market. He is founder and CEO of Shark Asset Management, an investment management firm, and he also operates sharkinvesting.com, an interactive online community that serves and educates active investors.

Dan Dicker has been a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange with more than 25 years of oil trading experience. He is a licensed commodities trade adviser.

Gary Dvorchak is a managing member of Channel Island Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund that manages large cap growth and growth-and-income funds. Dvorchak holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Iowa.

Alan Farley is a private trader and publisher of Hard Right Edge, a comprehensive resource for trader education, technical analysis, and short-term trading techniques. Farley is also the author of The Daily Swing Trade, a premium product from TheStreet.com that outlines his charts and analysis. Farley has also been featured in Barron's, SmartMoney, Tech Week, Active Trader, MoneyCentral, Technical Investor, Bridge Trader and Online Investor.

Dan Fitzpatrick is the publisher of The Stock Market Mentor, an advisory newsletter and educational forum dedicated to teaching effective risk management and trading methodologies to aspiring traders and investors. He is a former hedge fund manager and a member of the Market Technicians Association, and he now trades from his home in San Diego, Calif. While Fitzpatrick holds various securities licenses, he does not give recommendations to buy or sell stocks.

Charles Gabriel has 30 years' experience in political forecasting for institutional investors. He left Capitol Hill after serving as a Reagan-era House staffer to join the former Drexel Burnham Lambert, and later starred as Washington research head at Prudential Equity Group. He co-founded Capital Alpha Partners in late 2007.

Sham Gad is the managing partner of Gad Capital Management, a value-focused investment firm based in Athens, Ga. Gad has written extensively for The Motley Fool and was a securities analyst for UAS Asset Management, a small value investment fund in New York City, in 2007. From 2002-2005, Gad managed assets for the Gad Investment Group.

Michael A. Gayed, CFA, is chief investment strategist at Pension Partners, LLC, an investment management firm that uses quantitative strategies to buy and rotate across various ETFs to generate absolute returns. He previously served as a portfolio manager for a large international investment group, trading long/short investment ideas.

Avi Gilburt is a widely followed Elliott Wave technical analyst and author of ElliottWaveTrader.net, a live trading room featuring his intraday market analysis (including Emini S&P 500, metals, oil, U.S. dollar and VXX), an interactive member-analyst forum, and a detailed library of Elliott Wave education.

Tom Graff is a fixed income strategist for Brown Advisory, an independent investment advisory firm in Baltimore, Md. Graff is also the manager of the Brown Advisory Tactical Bond Fund (BATBX), a long/short fixed income fund.

Alex Gurvich is co-founder and managing partner of The Rockledge Group. He has 14 years of institutional private-equity investment experience and is an adjunct professor of finance at Pace University. He earned a master's degree in financial engineering from New York University Polytechnic Institute and an MBA in finance and strategy from INSEAD.

Jonathan Heller, CFA, is president of KEJ Financial Advisors, his fee-only financial planning company. Jon spent 17 years at Bloomberg Financial Markets in various roles, from 1989 until 2005.

Eric Jackson is founder and Managing Member of Ironfire Capital and the general partner and investment manager of Ironfire Capital US Fund LP and Ironfire Capital International Fund, Ltd. In January 2007, Jackson started the world's first Internet-based campaign to increase shareholder value at Yahoo!, leading to a change in CEOs in 2007. He also spoke out in favor of Yahoo!'s accepting Microsoft's buyout offer in 2008. Global Proxy Watch named Jackson as one of its 10 "Stars" who positively influenced international corporate governance and shareowner value in 2007.

Bret Jensen was chief investment strategist from 2008-2011 for Simplified Asset Management (S.A.M.), a small long/short hedge fund based in Miami. The fund was in top 5% of long/short hedge funds for total return in its first full year (2009) as ranked by Hedgeco fund database (more than 450 funds in category). Jensen has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including more than a decade of managerial experience at American Express.

Michael Johnston, CFA, is the co-founder and senior analyst at ETF Database, an online investment resource for ETF investors. Johnston oversees ETF Database's free ETF Newsletter, one of the most popular sources for news and commentary focusing exclusively on the exchange-traded fund industry. He also maintains and develops content for ETFdb Pro, a line of analyst reports and model portfolios designed to help investors utilize ETFs to meet their investment goals.

Doug Kass is the president of Seabreeze Partners Management Inc.

David Katz is the president and chief investment officer of Matrix Asset Advisors, which he co-founded in 1986. Prior to co-founding Matrix, he worked at Management Asset Corp. in the research and portfolio management areas. At Matrix, Katz chairs the Investment Policy Committee.

Alan Knuckman is currently the trading adviser and editor for two weekly options trading services in equities and commodities. He brings over 20 years of trading experience that began in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade as a runner and progressed to a Treasury Bond speculator for himself.

Bob Lang has been a private trader in equity and option markets for several years and manages separate accounts via Aztec Capital LLC. He has managed a $300 million pension and 401(k) plan for a Southern California cooperative.

Stephanie Link is the director of research & vice president of strategy for TheStreet, and portfolio manager of Jim Cramer's charitable trust portfolio, Action Alerts PLUS. In this capacity, she develops a macro outlook, selects stocks and writes daily analysis. She also provides a weekly summary report of the strategy, positions and ranking of each stock in the fund.

L.A. Little, author, professional trader and money manager, writes daily on www.tatoday.com, a free educational site for traders and investors. He has been featured in numerous publications and is the author of Trade Like the Little Guy. His new book, Trend Qualification and Trading, details the principles and techniques he writes about on TheStreet. Little’s background includes degrees in philosophy, computer science, computer information systems and telecommunications. With a trading philosophy centered on capital protection first and the accumulation of consistent gains over time, Little espouses a simple technical approach to trading the markets that is a throwback to the days of past. With a focus on swing points and trend qualification, he provides a breath of fresh air to an otherwise crowded room of derivative indicators with an emphasis on technical minutiae.

James Lucier is a managing director at Capital Alpha Partners, which he co-founded in 2007 after nine years in Washington Research at Prudential Equity Group. Lucier provides macro-level political forecasting and commentary as well as deep-in-the-weeds analysis of the "heavy iron" issues: corporate tax, electric power, oil & gas, refining, environmental policy, industrials and infrastructure. All of his work is integrated with a view of where financial markets are going.

Jill Malandrino is the editor and curator for TheStreet's Options Profits. In addition to managing the product and content for the site, she reports from the floor of the CME with MrTopStep, co-hosts the "Morning Call" video with T3Live for the flagship site and the "All-in-One" video for Options TV. Her work is featured regularly on Yahoo! Finance, Fidelity, Nasdaq, CBOE and various financial blogs.

Hughes and Maragioglio co-founded Epiphany Equity Research, which has developed and utilizes proprietary tools to identify and track liquidity changes in the market indices and sectors. Hughes advises numerous asset managers, hedge funds and institutions managing in excess of $30 billion. Maragioglio is a member of the market technicians association (MTA) as well as The American Association of Professional Technical Analysts (AAPTA) and holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation. Maragioglio has also served on the board of directors of the AAPTA.

Jon D. Markman is an investment adviser, money management consultant and bestselling author in Seattle. Readers are invited to try a free, two-week trial to his daily Strategic Advantage newsletter on growth stocks, ETFs and income investing. Markman also publishes Trader's Advantage on swing-trading high-beta stocks and options; Gemini 252 on S&P 500 Emini and Treasury bond futures timing; and Gemini SGX on gold, silver and Russell 2000 emini futures timing.

Phil McDonnell has professionally traded options for decades. He has developed extensive proprietary software for options analysis and probability calculations. He was founder and software developer for Dollar/Soft, which sold options analysis software. Since then he has devoted himself to full-time options trading.

Helene Meisler writes a daily technical analysis column and TheStreet Top Stocks. For more information, click here. Meisler spent more than a decade on the sell side as a market technician covering institutional accounts at various investment banks in New York City, including Cowen & Co. and Goldman Sachs. In addition she worked at Cargill in Minneapolis where she managed equity money for three years. She received her bachelor's degree in business from Pace University.

Tim Melvin is a writer from Stevensville, Maryland. In addition to writing about the markets, he manages accounts for family and friends. He has written serveral articles and collaborated on several investment books. Prior to striking out on his own he spent 20 years a stockbroker, the last 15 as a Vice President of Investments with a regional firm in the Mid Atlantic area. He specializes in deep value investing as well as special situations and activist stocks, and is the author of the Junior Chamber Course on Value Investing, as well as numerous articles in various publications on the subject of value investing, the stock market and the world around us.

Jonathan Moreland is the founder of InsiderInsights.com, which produces a weekly newsletter and offers professional screening and alerting tools to analyze a proprietary, real-time insider data feed. He is also the principal of Insider Asset Management, a registered investment advisor in New York. Mr. Moreland has been analyzing insider data professionally for two decades and has been a contributor to TheStreet.com since 2001. A fundamental analyst with an MBA in finance, Mr. Moreland long ago identified insider data as an excellent first screen to determine where to focus his research efforts. He is quoted frequently in the media for his insider analysis and stock recommendations stemming from it. He is also author of Profit From Legal Insider Trading.

Robert Moreno is a former member of the New York Cotton Exchange and the New York Board of Trade. He has traded for his own account for over 25 years. An experienced market technician and student of the art since the days of paper charts and manual computation, he authored a daily technical analysis information sheet popular with brokers and traders in the "pits." Currently, he is a General Partner at Wyckoff Investment Partners, LLC, which provides technical and fundamental research and analysis to traders and investors.

Gary Morrow is president of Yosemite Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He manages individual accounts through Charles Schwab and runs a long/short hedge fund. Prior to forming Yosemite, Morrow spent 12 years on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading foreign currency and interest rate futures. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Ripon College.

David Peltier joined TheStreet as a research associate in August 2001, and writes TheStreet Stocks Under $10. Before that, Peltier was an analyst for Individual Investor magazine and the publication's Web site. His market interests include small-caps, technology and retail stocks. He has appeared on NPR, NBR and WNYW-TV.

Ed Ponsi is the managing director of Barchetta Capital Management, an NFA-registered commodity trading advisory, and is also the president of FXEducator. An experienced professional trader, Ponsi has advised a variety of hedge funds and institutional traders.

Paul Price has worked for Merrill Lynch, A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities and Ferris Baker Watts during his Wall Street years. He was among the most successful retail brokers and equity option traders at each of those firms.

Scott Redler is the Chief Strategic Officer of T3 Live, an online education platform that provides traders of all experience levels with market analysis, real-time access to strategies, and extensive training from trading professionals. Redler has been trading equities for more than 10 years.

John P. Reese is founder and CEO of Validea.com, an investment research firm, and Validea Capital Management, an asset management firm serving affluent investors and companies. He is also co-author of two investing books, including The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies (Wiley).

Dr. Harry Schiller is a Registered Investment Advisor with the California Dept. of Corporations. He has been owner and editor of the Short Term Consensus Hotline since 1988. For more information, see www.harryschiller.com. Schiller received his B.A from Stanford. He then got his master's Degree at Harvard and later completed his doctorate in Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He estimates that in the course of a year, he records or emails about 3,000 stock market reports.

Henry Schwartz is the president of Trade Alert, a provider of real-time options analysis tools to leading Wall Street firms. His systems analyze hundreds of thousands of transactions per second to help professionals identify and interpret market activity in real time, supporting informed trading decisions and intelligent idea generation.

Mark Sebastian is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Option Pit Mentoring and Consulting, a Chicago-based option education firm. Sebastian has been published nationally on Yahoo! Finance, quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Bloomberg and is an All-Star Contributor for the Options Profits team. Mark is also the managing editor for Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal, an all-digital, all-options magazine. Mark has appeared on CNBC's "Fast Money" and spoken for the CBOE, the ISE, CME, VOLX and is a co-host on the popular "Option Block" podcast and is the "Volatility Reporter" for the Volatility Views podcast. Mark has a bachelor's degree from Villanova University.

An experienced commentator in the financial markets, Ken Shreve got his start with Investor's Business Daily in 1995, where he worked under the tutelage of one of the great growth investors, IBD Chairman and Founder William J. O'Neil. Over the years, Ken has taught several high-level workshops with William O'Neil & Co. Portfolio Managers. In recent years, his daily market wrap video was one of the most-visited areas of Investors.com. Ken continues to provide market commentary on national radio and has appeared numerous times on CNBC.

Brian Sozzi is an independent research analyst and chief business development officer for Nothing But Gold Productions. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing online financial content for an institutional and retail investor base, as well as corporate partners, in addition to co-authoring with former CNBC/CNN anchor Nicole Lapin the first book in the series titled "Decoding the Wall Street Journal."

Kate Stalter is a freelance market writer for Real Money. From 2001 until 2010, she was a writer at Investor's Business Daily and hosted the "Market Wrap" video at Investors.com. She wrote and edited IBD columns including "The Real Most Active," "Stocks In The News" and "Investor's Corner." Stalter co-hosted webcasts with TD Ameritrade and regularly presented at IBD investing seminars nationwide. She received her MBA in finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Christopher Versace writes "The Thematic Investor" newsletter, which uses a thematic perspective for investing. Previously, Versace was the portfolio manager of Agile Capital Management, which combined a hedged investment mandate and a thematic investing framework.

Glenn Williams has more than 30 years of experience in power and fuels, including design, engineering, construction, startup and operations of large-scale power projects. He has had direct involvement with coal plants, natural gas facilities, and approximately half of the nation's nuclear power facilities and designs energy strategies for regulated and unregulated energy organizations.

Jared Woodard is the principal of Condor Options, a research and trading firm in New York. With over a decade of experience trading options, futures, and equities, he has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Financial Times Alphaville.

Kelley Wright is chief investment officer and portfolio manager at IQ Trends Private Client Asset Management, as well as the managing editor of the Investment Quality Trends newsletter. He entered the financial services industry in 1984, first as a registered representative and later as a registered principal for both a major wire house and private investment boutique.