About Us
We want to share our trade secrets with you by teaching trading skills live online, including the specific patterns and setups we use. We demonstrate where we buy, where we sell and how we manage risk in our trades. As dedicated professional traders, we specialize in trading short-term patterns in the SP 500 Index and many other markets, Bonds, Notes, Euro, Gold and more. We offer educational products such as webinar presentations, e-books (coming soon) and live trading seminars.
Our website provides educational support for traders. Archived transcripts and charts are available so you may review and study the setups. Access to archived transcripts and charts are available in the member section only. To further educate and help you reach your goals, we offer coaching and tutoring programs that range from individual sessions to packages up to a year in length. Click here for more information.
To get you started, we offer a free 20-minute phone consultation to answer any questions you may have about our site. To schedule your appointment, please visit our Contact Us page.
Who Are We
Leslie Jouflas
Leslie began trading in 1996 and left a 17-year airline career in 2000 to pursue trading on a full-time basis. She’s studied many trading methodologies, including Elliott Wave, options strategies, momentum trading, classical technical analysis, and Fibonacci ratios and patterns. After trading stocks and options on stocks, Leslie now trades futures and commodities with an emphasis on the S&P 500 market. She’s managed private accounts as well as trading her own private account. Leslie is a member of the Northwest Hedge Fund Society and has co-authored two books: Essentials of Trading: It’s Not WHAT You Think, It’s HOW You Think (Traders Press, 2006) and Trade What You See – How to Profit from Pattern Recognition (Wiley & Sons, 2007). She’s also written many articles for publications such as Trader’s Journal, Active Trader and Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Leslie can be reached from our Contact Us page.
Kevin Riordan
Kevin began his career in the futures industry as a runner on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1984. As a market technician, he’s tested and applied many trading techniques before honing his skills with a combination of pattern recognition and Fibonacci analysis that provide the backbone for his market analysis. Today, Kevin is both a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and a broker with MF Global. Working out of his office in the Chicago Board of Trade building, he provides advanced Fibonacci analysis to his clients across a wide array of markets and also in various time frames. With more than 25 years of futures trading experience, Kevin has worked with thousands of traders. His experience has enabled him to study the reasons why some people make money, and others lose it. As a broker, Kevin has witnessed and experienced which strategies are likely to prove successful and which are destined to fail.
Kelly Hill, CAIA
After trading commodities, equities and options on equities part time for many years, Kelly now trades the SP 500 Index and Euro futures on a full-time basis. His forte is technical analysis, employing price chart patterns and a blend of indicators. Kelly is proficient in price patterns, stochastic process, probability theory, trading psychology/behavioral finance, trend filters, Fibonacci, and market structure. Kelly has a double degree from the University of Washington in finance and international studies and completed the Stanford University Financial Management Program-Executive Education. He has his National Association of Securities Dealers Series 3 (NASD) certification and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, CAIA. Kelly is a member of the Northwest Hedge Fund Society, and is on the leadership team as one of the founders of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Market Technician’s Association (MTA). He trades managed accounts as well as his private account.
Elly Hereth
Elly has a background in the retail industry and owned video rental stores in California and Oregon. She began trading in 2000, starting in stocks and options, and has studied Western Technical Analysis, Fibonacci ratios with specific pattern recognition and Japanese Candlestick Theory. She’s recently used specific pattern recognition with Fibonacci ratios, trading primarily intraday time frames as a day trader in the SP 500 Emini market. Elly joined us in 2007; she tutors new students in pattern recognition and provides after-market classes for members on a bimonthly basis.