Join us at The Chicago Trade Experience

Ben Lichtenstein will explain everything you could ever want and need to know about the aspects of the squawk box and its relation to the markets. He will describe in depth how he "sees" the pits, his "top 10", the order flow of the pits, how to use the squawk, and how to gain an edge.

Denise Shull, M.A. began trading upstairs at the CBOE in 1994 before running two trading desks in New York City. A former member of the CME, she has recently dedicated her trading time to learn options while she finishes her never ending book project on market, risk and trading psychology. Her professional trading experience, along with her graduate level studies in the neuroscience of unconsciously motivated behaviors and impulses, gives Denise a unique perspective and excellent insight to the emotional conditions and patterns that traders face. Denise knows the realities of trading, truly understands the obstacles, and will present the most efficient means to identify and correct them. Her topics will include:

• A two part workshop on Psychological Capital – what it is and how to use it as an enduring edge in all types of markets.
• Practical ways to but the popular topics of behavioral finance and Neuroeconomics to work for you.
• New ways to think about the trading decision process and to handle the battle between emotions and plans
• Research from neuroscience on how the brain perceives price movement and therefore why it is so hard to stick to a trading plan…and the totally new ways to use psychology as an edge in the markets.

Tom Alexander specializes in the application of auction market principles in analyzing and trading markets. This includes interpreting the traditional “Market Profile” graph, as well as using auction market principles across all timeframes to increase one’s trading edge.

Tom Sosnoff oversees the strategy and deployment of initiatives for the Active Trader segment of TD Ameritrade and is particularly dedicated to systems development and trading innovations. He is the co-founder of thinkorswim Group Inc. which TD Ameritrade acquired in June 2009. He also serves as a member of the Company's senior operating committee (SOC), which shapes the strategic focus of the organization.

Sosnoff founded thinkorswim in 1999. Leveraging over 20 years of experience as an index market maker on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and as one of the original traders in the S&P 100 index pit, he sought to educate retail investors in options trading and to build a brokerage-based software platform that specialized in options. His efforts ultimately changed the way these instruments traded by pioneering single-click trading functionally for complex spreads and integrating investor education for advanced options strategies.

Under Sosnoff's leadership, thinkorswim evolved into the industry leader in retail options trading, and a pioneer in investor education services for options, futures, and forex trading. In 2009, thinkorswim was rated #1 overall broker "best for frequent traders" and "best for options traders" in Barron's annual ranking of online brokers, the third time in the last four years that it received such a distinction.

Sosnoff continues to advance understanding of the active trading marketplace by speaking often at industry conferences and traveling extensively to teach traders new strategies. He received his B.A. degree in political science from the State University of New York at Albany.

More speakers to be announced this week. Plus we will be hosting guest speakers from the CME Group. Finally, on Thursday evening there will be a special dinner and a “wrap party” on Friday evening.

The seminar will begin Thursday, June 17th and conclude Friday June 18th. The cost is $1,095.

Refund policy:
If you cancel by June 1st there is a 20% cancellation fee. If you cancel after, there are no refunds. However, you will be given a seat at the next Chicago Trade Experience Seminar, in the future.