Linda Bradford Raschke is President of LBRGroup, Inc., a registered CTA and money management firm and president of LBR Asset Management, a CPO. She began her professional trading career in 1981 as a market maker in equity options.  In addition to running LBRGroup's CTA program, she is the principal trader for the Granat Fund.  

Ms. Raschke was recognized in Jack Schwager's critically acclaimed book, The New Market Wizards, and is known for her own top selling book, Street Smarts - High Probability Short-Term Trading Strategies.  She has been featured in dozens of financial publications, radio and financial television programs, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Market Technician's Association and is currently Vice President of  the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts. 

Ms. Raschke has presented her research and lectured on trading for the Managed Futures Association, American Association of Professioanl Technical Analysists, Bloomberg, Market Technician's Association, International Federation of Technical Analysis, Canadian Society of Technical Analysts, TAG, Omega World,  International Online Trading Expo, AIQ, Futures Conference, Carlin Equities and has lectured in over 16 different countries for Dow Jones/Telerate. 

Christopher Terry is living proof that you can make a million and lose a million in other businesses besides trading.  After trying to corner the construction market as a high-rise contractor in New York City, Chris decided it would be easier to corner the sugar market when Ken Roberts said it was going up.  (True Story).  Several years later, Chris thought it might be best to attend Linda's annual trading workshop.  When Chris was still coming to the workshops three years later, Linda was convinced that his interest in the markets was for real.  Or maybe it was from being inundated on a daily basis by charts that Chris kept emailing at 4 AM. He now has his Ph.D. in charting!  Chris has the best natural talent for trading and calling the markets we've seen. Must be the Street Smarts he picked up in Manhattan (or was it studying charts till 4 o'clock in the morning for 6 years?!).

Prior to committing his fulltime efforts to LBRGroup,  Chris and a partner successfully traded a $20 million dollar equities account  for a large broker-dealer. Chris is a popular speaker for conferences  such as TradeStation World,  Traders Library Annual Forum, International Online Traders Expo, Intershow,  The Association for Technical Analysis, Generic Trading offices, The  Cornerstone Investors Group, Money-Expo.com and the  Stock Futures & Options Magazine Conference. Prior to his trading  career, Chris gave motivational speeches throughout the US, South America and Eastern Europe on attitude, goal setting and understanding and applying the principals of  success. Chris co-moderates the LBR Trading Rooms and specializes in Stocks and the indexes.  He recently relocated from New York City to West Palm Beach so his dogs would no longer have to suffer through the cold winters.  

Steve Striegel - Steve has been a full-time professional trader since 1982.  He started out trading stocks via charting by hand, and later became one of the very first TradeStation users. For the past 10 years, he has traded primarily in the electronic futures markets:  index futures, currencies, bonds, gold and crude, the DAX and the Bunds.  Steve helps moderate the LBR Futures Live room, while continuing to trade his own proprietary account. He works from his office in California where he can indulge in his hobby of surfing on the weekends.  Since Steve has surfed all over the world, he thumbs his nose at the waves in Florida where LBR Group's primary office is. He is a member of the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts, and continues to work on his theories that tides and surf conditions are far more useful for predicting market behavior then astrology. 

Nigel Bahadur (SuperG) - Nigel Bahadur leads LBRGroup's automated research and development program.  Mr. Bahadur has been instrumental in developing LBRGroup's automated trading strategies. He also heads up all new research projects.  LBRGroup endeavors to stay ahead of the technology curve when it comes to electronic execution platforms, communications, networked systems and software applications and Mr. Badahur oversees the integrity of these areasl. Prior to joining LBRGroup, Mr. Bahadur was the Senior Vice President of Research and Development for EXE Technologies.  As one of the founders of the company, he spent 10 years helping the company grow from 5 employees to 600 employees in 13 countries worldwide, culminating in an IPO in 2000.   He was instrumental in developing cutting edge programs and technologies that solved complex global enterprise wide problems for fortune 1000 companies. Today, Mr. Bahadur brings that technological expertise to bear in order to further assist LBR group in developing and executing strategies in the financial arena.

Phantom - What can we say?  PHANTOM is back!!!!  Phantom was last seen in Cabo San Lucas with laptop and satellite card attached to the hip.  Rumor has it that Phantom returned to the states just to help moderate the Future Live Room. An afficianado of the Taylor Trading Technique, Phantom is equally proficient in calling out Buy Anti patterns on 1600 tick emini charts. noting points of confirmation/non confirmation, or calling trades in Crude.   

Alavi-Alavi joins us from Southern California.  He is professional trader who specializes in the Russell, Dax and the Currencies.  He is known in the LBR Chatroom as Alavi-Russell Czar.  He is an aggressive trader and keeps all of our aggressive traders happy by calling aggressive trades in the LBR Chat.