TSAA-SF Annual Conference 2018 - Speaker Biographies

Gatis Roze:

“Achieving Stock Market Mastery With 15 Essential Probability Enhancers”

About Gatis:

Gatis Roze is a veteran full-time stock market investor who has traded his own account since 1989 unburdened by the distraction of clients. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA). Gatis is also the author of "Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery" (Wiley, 2016).  After several successful entrepreneurial ventures, the last a high-tech Silicon Valley company which was taken public on the NASDAQ, he retired in his early 40s to focus on investing in the financial markets. With consistent success as a stock market trader, he began teaching investments at the post-college level in 2000 and continues to do so today.  His blog, The Traders Journal, has been published weekly on StockCharts.com since 2014 and has achieved a global following.

Grayson Roze:

“Stalking Smarter: Finding Better Trades With A Top Down Relative Strength Strategy"

About Grayson:

Grayson Roze is the author of "Trading for Dummies" (Wiley, 2017) and "Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery" (Wiley, 2016). He currently serves as the Business Manager for StockCharts.com. At a young age, Grayson began pursuing his interest in the financial markets by attending investment classes and starting to trade under the guidance of his father. At the age of 18, he began investing his own account and has since become an accomplished trader in his own right. He speaks regularly at investment conferences, seminars and other events throughout the country, including to organizations such as the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and the CMT Association. Grayson holds a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, where he studied Economics and Psychology

Ralph Acampora, CMT:

"Using Fusion Analysis to Succeed in Today’s Markets"

About Ralph:

Ralph Acampora is a pioneer in the development of market analytics and has a global reputation as a market historian and a technical analyst, providing unique insights on market timing and related investment strategy issues. Ralph Acampora was previously the New York Institute of Finance’s Director of Technical Analysis Studies. Ralph Acampora has taught at the institute for 37 years. Before joining NYIF, he was Director of Technical Research at Knight Equity Markets.

Prior to this, he worked for 15 years at Prudential Equity Groups as its Director of Technical Analysis. Ralph Acampora is one of Wall Street’s most respected technical analysts and has been consistently ranked by Institutional Investor for more than ten years. He is regularly consulted for his market opinion by the major business news networks as well as national financial publications. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), a designation he helped create and which is now recognized by the National Association of Securities Dealers as the equivalent of a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Roman Bogomazov:

"Hank Pruden - The 21st-Century Technician"

About Roman:

Roman Bogomazov is a trader and educator specializing in the Wyckoff Method of trading and investing, which he has taught for the last five years as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University. He is also the founder and President of Wyckoff Analytics, LLC, an enterprise providing online Wyckoff Method education to traders throughout the world (www.wyckoffanalytics.com). Roman has developed a comprehensive educational curriculum covering basic to advanced Wyckoff concepts and techniques, as well as visual pattern recognition and real-time drills to enhance traders’ skills and confidence. In the last three years alone, he has conducted over 600 classes and presentations, and has taught collaboratively with many Wyckoff experts and traders. Using WyckoffAnalytics.com as a thriving trading community platform, he has come to be known as a teaching authority on the Wyckoff Method by traders around the globe. A dedicated and passionate Wyckoffian, Roman has used the Wyckoff Method exclusively for his own trading for the last 20 years. He has also served as a Board Member of the International Federation of Technical Analysts and as Past President of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco.

David Keller:

"The Three Time Frames of Technical Analysis"

About David:

David Keller, CMT is President of Sierra Alpha Research LLC, a boutique investment research firm focused on managing risk through market awareness. He is a Past President of the Chartered Market Technicians Association and most recently served as a Subject Matter Expert for Behavioral Finance.