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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.

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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.

Lindsey Bell joined TheStreet in October 2011. She has several years of experience in providing financial analysis, most recently working as an equity research analyst at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank covering retailers. Prior to that she worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Jefferies & Company. She has made appearances on PBS' Nightly Business Report and ABC News.

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.

Matthew Bradbard has more than a decade of experience in the Commodities industry, managing his own IB for over five years and his own CTA for 15 months. RCM is expanding into the South Florida market and appointed Bradbard to run its Miami Branch. His current position includes attracting futures/options clearing and execution business as well as working with managed products in both commodities and forex.

Joshua Brown is a New York City-based investment advisor for high net worth individuals, charitable foundations, retirement plans and corporations.

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 Collins is the Founding Partner of Portfolio Guru (www.theportfolioguru.com.) Collins preaches the gospel of income investing via his newsletter, The Portfolio Guru Post, and uses income investing principles to manage money for individuals on a fee-only, separately-managed account basis. 

Doug Couden is Baker Avenue's Director of Equities and serves on the Investment Policy Committee. Couden is responsible for leading the firm's research and equity investment process. He has over 18 year of experience working in the capital markets, primarily in asset management. Prior to joining Baker Avenue, he worked as the Director of Equities at Newfleet Asset Management LLC and Seneca Capital Management LLC in San Francisco.

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.

John Dorfman is the founder and chairman of Thunderstorm Capital, a money-management firm in Boston. His writings on value investing have appeared over the years in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and more than a dozen newspapers. He is the author of Family Investment Guide and The Stock Market Directory, among other books.

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.

EOXLive, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings LP (OTCGH). Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings is headquartered in Houston and New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Jersey City, London and Louisville. It is a leading independent interdealer broker in over the counter commodities and the largest liquidity provider to CME ClearPort and ICE Clear U.S. Through its subsidiaries the company holds a dominant market share in the U.S. and Canadian natural gas markets, the U.S. power markets, crude oil and crude oil options, crude oil products and crude oil product options, agricultural and soft commodities, as well as structured weather and emission derivatives. The company serves more than 250 institutional clients, including 45 members of the Fortune 500, and transacts at over 150 different commodity delivery points. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to http://bit.ly/OTCYouTube.

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.

Carley Garner is an experienced futures and options broker and co-owner of DeCarley Trading in Las Vegas, Nevada, a division of Zaner. She is also the author of "Currency Trading in the FOREX and Futures Markets", "A Trader's First Book on Commodities" and "Commodity Options" published by FT Press, a division of Prentice Hall. Her e-newsletters, The DeCarley Perspective and the Financial Futures Report, have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education at www.DeCarleyTrading.com.

Michael A. Gayed, CFA, is chief investment strategist and co-portfolio manager at Pension Partners, LLC., an investment advisor which manages a mutual fund and separate accounts according to its ATAC (Accelerated Time and Capital) strategies focused on inflation rotation.

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.

Toni Hansen is president and co-founder of Trading From Main Street. With more than 15 years of trading experience, Toni has become a leader in trading education, working in conjunction with some of the world's top financial exchanges, such as the International Securities Exchange and CME Group.

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.

Jim Jubak has been writing about the financial markets since 1984. He's been picking stocks online since 1997  and he's run a mutual fund since 2010.

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 Market Strategist for Optionshop.com. 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.

Meena Krishnamsetty is editor and co-founder of Insider Monkey, a finance website that provides free insider trading and hedge-fund stock-holdings data. Her articles draw upon the research and analytics of co-founder Dr. Ian Dogan, Insider Monkey's research director, who holds a Ph.D. in financial economics with a specialization in insider trading. Dogan has provided consulting services to institutional investors and hedge funds, and managed a $200+ million fund using a strategy he developed tracking insider transactions.

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.

Mark Leibovit is the developer of the Leibovit Volume Reversal (aka the Volume Reversal) and the publisher and chief market strategist for the Volume Reversal Newsletters: VRTrader.com and VRGoldletter.com.

Kathy Lien, serves as Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management.  Having graduated New York University's Stern School of Business at the age of 18, Ms. Kathy Lien has more than 13 years of experience in the financial markets with a specific focus on G20 currencies. Her career started at JPMorgan Chase where she worked on the interbank FX trading desk making markets in foreign exchange and later in the cross markets proprietary trading group where she traded FX spot, options, interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities, and futures. In 2003, Kathy joined FXCM and started DailyFX.com, a leading online foreign exchange research portal. As Chief Strategist, she managed a team of analysts dedicated to providing research and commentary on the foreign exchange market. In 2008, Kathy joined Global Futures & Forex Ltd as Director of Currency Research where she provided research and analysis to clients and managed a global foreign exchange analysis team.  Since 2007 she has run a FX Signal Service known as BKForex.com and in 2012 she launched BK Asset Management.  As an expert on G20 currencies, Kathy is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, Associated Press, AAP, UK Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and other leading news publications. She also appears regularly on CNBC – US, Asia and Europe and on Sky Business. Kathy is an internationally published author of the best selling book Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market as well as The Little Book of Currency Trading and Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Beat Wall Street at its Own Game – all published through Wiley. Kathy's extensive experience in developing trading strategies using cross markets analysis and her edge in predicting economic surprises serve as key components of BK's analytical techniques.

Stephanie Link leads all investment, research, and contributor recruitment activities at TheStreet. As Chief Investment Officer, she oversees premium content including Real Money, Real Money Pro, Options Profits as well as premium newsletters including Breakout Stocks and Stocks Under $10. As co-portfolio manager of Action Alerts Plus, she is responsible for the daily management of the fund including macro strategy, portfolio construction, and stock selection. She also writes daily alerts and weekly summary reports for subscribers. 

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.

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's charts can help you make money in any market -- because success in technical analysis is independent of market conditions. It's about using charts to find opportunities as stocks move up or down. In other words, you don't need stocks to climb in order for you to succeed. Helene has more than 20 years of experience in technical analysis -- and, in Top Stocks she puts that experience to work for you. Using her rigorous, forward-looking stock-screening methodology, she assesses at least 200 stocks a day and emails you only the ones that make the final cut as her "top picks." Whether you are a sophisticated trader, or a novice wondering what technical analysis is all about, you can take advantage of Helene's time-proven approach and her action-oriented analysis of technical indicators pertaining to market trends and market sentiments. Try it now. Get a 14-Day Free Trial.

Tim Melvin is a writer from Windermere, Fla. 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.

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.

Brian Nelson is the President of Equity Research and ETF Analysis at Valuentum Securities. Before founding Valuentum in early 2011, Nelson worked as a director at Morningstar, where he was responsible for training and methodology development within the firm's equity and credit research department. Prior to that position, he served as a senior industrials securities analyst, covering aerospace, airlines, construction and environmental services companies. Before joining Morningstar in February 2006, Mr. Nelson worked for a small capitalization fund covering a variety of sectors for an aggressive growth investment management firm in Chicago.

Brian Nichols is the author of "Taking Charge With Value Investing: How to Choose the Best Investments According to Price, Performance, & Valuation to Build a Winning Portfolio." Nichols began writing his column for TheStreet in 2013 after three years of writing on Seeking Alpha. He attended college at Austin Peay State University and studied psychology. After college Nichols worked for the Department of Corrections as a counselor. During that time, he experienced a great deal of success in the market.

Mike Norman is currency trader and economist who is a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He writes a blog at www.mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com.

My name is David Peltier. I manage a much-followed portfolio of Stocks Under $10 -- the unique investment service that alerts you to what I believe are deeply undervalued stocks with explosive growth potential. I've made it my life's work to help investors like you build lasting wealth by investing in only the very best small-company stocks. These little-known companies, which are overlooked by much of Wall Street, are the ones whose shares could break out and double or even triple your money!

Rocco Pendola is TheStreet's Director of Social Media. Pendola's daily contributions to TheStreet frequently appear on CNBC and at various top online properties, such as Forbes. Prior to graduating from San Francisco State with a degree in urban studies, Pendola spent 12 years working at various talk radio stations in markets such as Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Dallas. He lives in Santa Monica, Calif.

Ed Ponsi is the managing director of Barchetta Capital Management, an NFA-registered commodity trading advisory. In addition to managing client funds, Ponsi advises a variety of hedge funds and institutional traders. He also provides a variety of trading education services through edponsi.com

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).

Before joining TheStreet in November 2005, Daniel was an associate copy editor for CXO Media, where he honed his skills on three magazines for C-suite executives: CIO, CSO and CMO.

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.

Graham Shove joined TheStreet in 2011 as a research associate analyzing stocks for Action Alerts PLUS. He works with Jim Cramer and Stephanie Link researching equities for the charitable trust portfolio.

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.

Ajit Singh writes frequently on the financial markets from a multi-asset class perspective.

Matthew B. Smith graduated from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina after studying Finance and Accounting. Smith's expertise is in the commodities markets, where he has done consulting work for various sized companies focused on resources ranging from uranium to rare earth elements. He has identified numerous bull markets over the years in the commodity space, including in oil, uranium, potash and rare earths. Finding these opportunities before the rest of market does has become his niche.

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 an investment advisor at Portfolio LLC. She is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Previously, she edited the "Low Priced Leaders" newsletter at TFNN.com and hosted Tiger Financial News Network's "Small Cap Roundup" radio show. She has been a stock-market columnist and video host at MoneyShow.com and currently writes for Morningstar Advisor magazine. From 2001 until 2010 she was a seminar instructor and market writer with Investor's Business Daily. She received her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Toni Turner, president of TrendStar Group, is an accomplished technical analyst as well as an educator and speaker in the financial arena. She is the author of the bestselling books: A Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online, 2^nd Ed., A Beginner's Guide to Short-term Trading, 2^nd Ed., Short-Term Trading in the New Stock Market,  and Invest to Win: Earn & Keep Profits in Bull and Bear Markets with the GainsMaster Approach, co-authored with Gordon Scott. Her books have been translated into five languages and used as textbooks in college personal finance classes.

Christopher Versace writes the "PowerTrend Profits" newsletter and "ETF PowerTrader" trading service, which both use a thematic investing perspective that ties in economics, demographics, psychographics, technology and more. He's also the host of PowerTalk, a weekly podcast that features conversations with public and private management teams, as well as other thought leaders, for the benefit of both individual and institutional investors.

Robert Weinstein is a full-time equity and options strategist with more than 20 years of experience. Weinstein maintains a sharp focus on risk mitigation and constant study of behavior finance. He believes making money in the markets is actually quite easy. The real skill needed is to understand when to walk away from non-performing positions that cause traders and investors to give back their gains.

Stacey Widlitz is the president of SW Retail Advisors, a consulting firm with offices in London and New York. She advises institutional investors as well as retailers with a need for International expertise in the consumer sector. Stacey is also a CNBC Contributor.

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.