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Join Senior Market Specialist Russell Shor live 5 days a week to enhance your skills and learn about major economic events around the world. Understand how these could impact and boost your strategy, as well as help you advance your trading.
Join Russell Shor, a FXCM Senior Market Specialist, as he discusses market sentiment and highlights for the DAX and Euro Stoxx open. Topical information will be analysed and key levels of support and resistance will be identified to aid you in your trading.
Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants, a group focusing on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading and computational finance. He is author of the following books:
Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2nd edition, 2018),
Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives (Wiley, 2017),
Derivatives Analytics with Python (Wiley, 2015) and
Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2014).
Yves lectures on computational finance at the CQF Program and on algorithmic trading at the EPAT Program. He is also the director of the first online training program leading to a University Certificate in Python for Algorithmic Trading.
Yves has written the financial analytics library DX Analytics and organizes meetups, conferences and boot camps about Python for quantitative finance in Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He has given keynote speeches at technology conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.
For over three decades, Clifford Bennett has been a leader in the forecasting of dynamic global financial markets. Having worked as an analyst for some of the largest investment banks worldwide, he has been a regular finance and economic reporter at the highest level for media outlets including The Financial Times, CNBC and The Bloomberg Network. Clifford was invited to address the APEC Summit in Russia on global currency issues and present a forecast on future Chinese trade patterns at the Caxin Summit in Beijing. On personal request, he has also forecasted for some of the world's most influential government and business figures. Now, Clifford Bennett offers his highly sought after services for both industry professionals and proactive personal traders.
Joseph David graduated from the Swinburne University of Technology where he studied Accounting and Economic Forecasting. With a strong background in forex trading, Joseph's approach is to break down complex trading concepts and charting analysis into precise, comprehensible terms. He has developed multiple trading strategies by incorporating strategy optimization and backtesting into his own trading. He hosts webinars on Understanding Chart Patterns, Trading Low Volatility, and Advanced Platform Features and Strategies on the Trading Station platform.
Joseph David graduated from the Swinburne University of Technology where he studied Accounting and Economic Forecasting. With a strong background in forex trading, Joseph's approach is to break down complex trading concepts and charting analysis into precise, comprehensible terms. He has developed multiple trading strategies by incorporating strategy optimization and backtesting into his own trading. He hosts webinars on Understanding Chart Patterns, Trading Low Volatility, and Advanced Platform Features and Strategies on the Trading Station platform.
Joseph David graduated from the Swinburne University of Technology where he studied Accounting and Economic Forecasting. With a strong background in forex trading, Joseph's approach is to break down complex trading concepts and charting analysis into precise, comprehensible terms. He has developed multiple trading strategies by incorporating strategy optimization and backtesting into his own trading. He hosts webinars on Understanding Chart Patterns, Trading Low Volatility, and Advanced Platform Features and Strategies on the Trading Station platform.
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Russell Shor
Senior Market Specialist
Russell Shor joined FXCM in October 2017 as a Senior Market Specialist. He is a certified FMVA® and has an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of South Africa. Russell is a full member of the Society of Technical Analysts in the United Kingdom. With over 20 years of financial markets experience, his analysis is of a high standard and quality.
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