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Job Titles:

• Retired Senior Trading Manager
• Senior Trading Manager

Howard Johnson is a retired Senior Trading Manager for a small closed fund. During his years as a professional trader, he developed proprietary trade order systems, trade risk calculators, and trading plan calculators, which he generously shares with our students. Howard has toured the US and Canada as a popular speaker and educator. His expertise is trade management, risk management, and a proprietary order entry and exit process that he developed during his professional trading career, which is similar to the order systems used by Dark Pools. Howard worked directly with a NYSE Market Maker as he developed the proprietary order types, stop losses, and trailing profit stops taught in TechniTrader Courses. His brilliant concepts so impressed the Market Maker that some incorporated those concepts to the business. His diverse background includes CEO of three companies, software developer, production engineering, video production, audio engineering, and electronics engineering. He was an avid professional day and option trader before retirement. He started investing while in college. Howard's passion for teaching and his careful attention to details makes him a favorite among our students.

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• Chartered Market Technician CEO Head Instructor

Martha Stokes CMT is a retired professional Buy-Side Analyst. She is a member of the CMT Association, and earned the Chartered Market Technician designation with her thesis "Cycle Evolution Theory." She is a prolific author, having created over 40 stock, option, and financial market courses. She started her first business at the age of 9, has sat on both sides of the Venture Capital table, worked on an IPO, and has taught at several community colleges. She is a highly sought-after speaker who fills the room to over capacity with her dynamic teaching style that engages the audience. She has created new analyses including: Relational Analysis™, Market Condition Analysis using Quantitative Theories, and Spatial Pattern Recognition. Martha's focus for long-term investments is emerging displacement technologies that will have a significant impact on society, the economy and the stock market. Proactive Advisor Magazine Articles by Martha Stokes CMT Martha Stokes was awarded her CMT after dedicating five years of extensive research and analysis in writing her doctorial equivalent thesis: "Cycle Evolution Theory: How to Identify Evolutionary Abnormal Cycle Patterns Using Technical Analysis." Martha's thesis consists of 92 charts with 100 written pages on cycle evolution theory. This was a landmark thesis that totally changed the way cycle theorists and technical analysts understood and approached cycle theory analysis. Her concepts continue to revolutionize our understanding of cycles and their function in the economy and the stock market.