Mike is a 33 year veteran of the global financial markets and one of the World leaders in the sphere of ‘Price Behaviour’.
Mike has gone from being an Apprentice in New York at a Major Investment Bank, to being crowned World Live Trading Champion in 2009...between which he has been a physical grain trader running one of the Middle East’s largest soft commodity operations. He was awarded the title of ‘Trader of the Year’ in 1987 by the American Chamber of Commerce magazine ‘AmCham’ and traded in Stocks, Commodities, Futures and Forex.
Mike has coached and advised several major Hedge Funds and multi-National corporations. As a head trader at the NYBOT, Mike was responsible for not only calling out the trades to his team, but also in training many of the floor traders in making the transition to trading off the screens and using charts...and it is with this knowledge that Mike was able to create one of the first pure ‘rule based’ trading Software Systems... and Training Traders became a natural development.
Ben has over 10 years experience as a trader in some of the Industry’s most volatile markets. Ben’s trading career started at Enron where he became responsible for managing the Spot European Nat-Gas trading desk which fast became the chief market maker in the sector.
After Enron’s demise Ben assumed the same role at the Trading arm of the energy company EDF and was part of a team that managed a large physical and spec energy position throughout the UK and European market.
On leaving the energy sector, Ben started out on his own path and created a fund trading in Futures and Options on the U.S. Indices, which in turn began to diversify into the trading of Forexand Commodities. In the latter stages Ben became familiar with ‘Price Behaviour’ and applied this to his trading approach...the result of which led to his alliance with Mike Baghdady and Training Traders.
Mike is a professional trader specialising in the Forex market and has had the benefit of being taught by Mike Baghdady from the inception of his trading career.
This background has given him the skills to fill the key role in coaching the day trading courses and workshops. Mike also shares his expertise in the Live Trading sessions where he assists the members in selecting Low Risk –High Probability Trades, monitoring their execution, analysing the price action and ultimately leading by example.
Mike is a proponent of the power of ‘Price Behaviour’ and his confidence in this discipline shows as he takes live trades during the Free Workshops and Online sessions...proving a successful ambassador and graduate of this education.