head of market risk management for First Union Corporation in Charlotte, NC. He held similar positions at First Chicago Corporation and First Options Corporation. He received a BS in Economics and a MBA in Finance, from New York University. He now practices in the greater Chicago area.

Open Door Investment Advisors, Inc. 630-969-2628

409 North Washington Street 630-969-2629 fax

Westmont, IL 60559 designalotta@earthlink.VLex. e-mail

Lee Ang (Chapter 5) is a fund manager and general partner of the Plasma Fund L. P. and the Aggressor Global Fund, specializing in macroeconomic investing. Plasma Fund L. E is a U.S. domestic hedge fund. Plasmas approach includes strict money and risk management principles, tight stop loss, rapid executions of high reward/risk trades, optimal application of leverage and market neutrality, low portfolio risk, and effective drawdown management. Mr. Ang develops back-tested trading systems for use in the fixed-income, equity, and foreign exchange markets. He has written articles for Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. He was graduated with top honors from New York University in 1991 with a BS in Economics and Accounting. He received an MBA in Finance in 1993 from NYUs Stern Graduate School of Business.

Plasma Fund, L. E 212-604-4610

200 E. 82 Street, Suite 4F New York City, NY 10028

Gary S. Antonacci (Chapter 13) is a professional trader, analyst, and portfolio manager. He also serves as an asset allocation and risk management consultant to brokerage firms, financial advisors, and institutional investors. Mr. Antonacci is the author of Optimal Commodity Investing, which describes his application of modern portfolio theory concepts to managed futures trading. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

2517 Clinton Avenue 510-232-7007

Richmond, CA 94804 Aniruddha7@aol.com e-mail

Michael de la Maza (Chapter 8) is the President of Redfire Capital Management Group, a money management firm. He has published over a dozen academic papers on optimization, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and commodities trading. De la Maza borrows ideas from the field of artificial intelligence to create fully automated trading strategies for bond, currency, and equity markets. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.

Redfire Capital Management Group 617-441-3258

950 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 209 617-876-7236 fax

Cambridge, MA 02139-3174 RedfireGrp@aolcom e-mail

Redfire Capital Management Group is a money management firm that offers consulting and advisory services; its clients include Goldman Sachs, Swiss Bank, and Furman Selz. Their consulting service gives large organizations, including the U.S. government, access to Redfires proprietary artificial intelligence techniques.

Joe DiNapoli (Chapter 1) is a registered , and President of Coast Investment Software, Inc. A veteran trader for over 25 years, he conducts a limited number of private tutorials each year and makes his trading approach available to others via software and trading course materials. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of national and international technical publications. Joe DiNapoli was a contributing author to High Performance Futures Trading: Power Lessons from the Masters, (selected as 1990 book of the year by Super Traders Almanac), and is the author of Fibonacci Money Management and Trend Analysis in Home Trading Course, which has been lauded by professional and novice traders alike. His most recent book, Trading with DiNapoli Levels, promises to be his most important work to date. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Economics, from the University of Massachusetts, in 1967.

Coast Investment Software, Inc., 941-346-3801

6907 Midnight Pass 941-346-3901 fax

Sarasota, FL 34242 coast@fibtrader.com e-mail

www.fibtrader. m Web site

Coast Investment develops and deploys "high accuracy" trading methods, using a combination of leading and lagging indicators in unique and innovative ways. These techniques have been presented to international clients for over 10 years.

Keith C. Drake (Chapter 17) is Director of Business Solutions at AbTech Corporation. He is responsible for identifying cost-effective solutions to clients data mining challenges. He has 15 years experience applying advanced computing technologies to intelligent decision aiding systems. He managed and led $4 million in advanced research for academia, government, and industry. Prior to joining AbTech, Drake served as an Air Force officer at Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he was instrumental in developing several pilot decision aiding systems including DARPAs Pilots Associate pilot aiding system. He received the BS in Electrical Engineering (EE) with distinction in 1983, the MS in EE in 1985, and the PhD in EE in 1993, all from the University of Virginia.

AbTech Corporation 888-822-8324

15 75 State Farm Boulevard 804-977-9615 fax

Charlottesville, VA 22911 sales@abtech.com office e-mail

kcdrake@abtech.com personal e-mail

www.abtech.com Web site

AbTech Corporation provides its financial data mining customers with the worlds best predictive modeling tools and services. Over the past 10 years, AbTech has become a recognized leader in advanced modeling technologies, pioneering Statistical Networks, and many other data mining methods. AbTechs products have been applied in finance, marketing, business, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, aerospace, and health care.

Timothy W. Hayes (Chapter 11) is a chartered market technician (CMT) and the Senior Equity Strategist of Ned Davis Research, Inc., an institutional research firm. In May 1996, Tim won the Charles H. Dow Award for groundbreaking research in technical analysis. After joining NDR in 1986, he became editor of NDRs flagship publication, Stock Market Strategy. Hayes also produces the firms on-line Stock Selection Focus and coordinates asset allocation. His research articles have appeared in the MTA Journal, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, and other publications. His market commentary has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Barrons and Investors Daily, and he has made numerous appearances on CNBC. He received a BA from Kenyon College.

Ned Davis Research 941 -484-6107

600 Bird Bay Drive West 941-484-6221 fax

Venice,FL 34292 sales@ndr.com business e-mail

www.ndr.com Web site

Ned Davis Research, Inc. (NDR), is an institutional investment research and advisory firm founded in 1980. NDR provides timely, broad-based market investment research information to institutional money managers. NDRs primary objective is to provide the very best, most reliable and accurate investment advisory support possible through research, publications, and charts. The focus of NDR research is timing the financial markets.

Cynthia A. Kase (Chapter 12) is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and Chartered Market Technician. A veteran energy trader, she is president of Kase and Company, launched in 1992. Kase now actively advises about 50 major corporations. She has also developed comprehensive risk management programs for over two dozen firms across the energy industry. With a documented record of better than 94 percent accuracy as a forecaster, she is known by many as the top trading and hedging adviser practicing in the field. Her book, Trading with the Odds, has been hailed as the first new approach in 40 years. Kase has written for many publications. The Market Technicians Association recently presented her with the prestigious Best of the Best Award for momentum. She holds a BS from Lowell Tech (1973) and ME from Northeastern University (1977), both in Chemical Engineering.

Kase and Company, Inc. 505-237-1600

1000 Eubank Boulevard, NE, Suite 505-237-1659 fax

Albuquerque, NM 87112 kase@kaseco.com e-mail

www.kaseco.com Web site