3Gurus Interactive Options & Futures Conference Goes Global, Features 9 Experts over 2 Days

April 18, 2011 - PRLog -- The expertise of 9 leading financial derivatives options and futures traders will be made available across the globe in this spring's "Three Gurus" investors conference.  On April 26th and 27th, the conference will again showcase The Three Gurus Larry McMillan, founder of The Option Strategist; Price Headley, founder of Big Trends; and Fari Hamzei, founder of Hamzei Analytics.  Also to  appear are Jon "DrJ" Najarian, co-founder of Mercury Trading & optionMONSTER and a regular on CNBC's Fast Money; CBOE Options Institute instructors Jim Bittman and Russell Rhoads, Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Mentoring, Carolyn Boroden of Fibonacci Queen, and Greg Jensen of OptionsANIMAL.

"The Three Gurus started back in 2007 with a very simple idea: what happens if you team up three very popular options mentors into a forum for excellence in options education?  Four events later, through the toughest markets in '08, '09, and '10, we are proud to offer another unique & compelling 2-day session to guide investors and traders through these tumultuous times." says Hamzei Analytics founder Fari Hamzei, author of Master Traders.

With the support of major exchanges, online brokerages, and media partners, this event will be broadcasted live on the internet with live question and answer sessions for attendees to directly interact with the speakers.  Recordings will also be available for on-demand replays for 3 months.  

The conference will include:

•   April 26-27
•   8:45am CT - 6:30pm CT, both days
•   Ten 75-min sessions with exclusive Q&A with presenters
•   5 sessions per day
•   A Panel Session with The Three Gurus, moderated by CBOE Options Institute Instructor Jim Bittman
•   Accessible from any computer with internet connection
•   Recordings for On-Demand Replay for 3 months

Combined entrance fees for a full-day seminar with these speakers would amount to thousands of dollars. The Three Gurus event, however, is priced at $99 for those who sign up by April 20th. The price will rise to $149 thereafter. (For details, see the signup at http://www.TheThreeGurus.com ).

Sessions and topics include:
•   Carolyn Boroden: Advanced Fibonacci Time and Price Analysis to identify market turning points   
•   Fari Hamzei: Using pure volatility vibrations for price projections
•   Greg Jensen: Versatile Collar Trade   
•   Dan Sheridan: Consistent monthly income from trading options   
•   Jim Bittman: Managing Option Trades with Complex Spreads
•   Jon (DrJ) Najarian: Best Way to Trade the Ag Surge
•   Larry McMillan: Using Options As A Forecasting Tool, with an emphasis on what's working now.   
•   Price Headley: Better Managing Your Trades (& Yourself)
•   Russell Rhoads: Interpreting Volatility before Earnings

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ABOUT THE THREE GURUS
Lawrence McMillan , professional trader, is the founder and president of McMillan Analysis Corporation.  Mr. McMillan speaks on option strategies at many seminars and colloquia in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a proprietary trader at two major brokerage firms--primarily Thomson McKinnon Securities, where he ran the equity arbitrage department for nine years.  Mr. McMillan is perhaps best known as the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the bestselling work on stock and index options strategies, which has sold over 200,000 copies.

Price Headley is the founder of BigTrends.com, which provides investors with specific real-time stock and options strategies and investment education to profit from significant market trends.Price has appeared on CNBC, Fox News, CNNfn, Bloomberg Television and a variety of print and online financial news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, and Bloomberg Personal. He speaks regularly to investment audiences nationwide.  Price is a graduate of Duke University and a member of the Market Technicians Association. He is also a chartered financial analyst (CFA) charterholder and a chartered market technican (CMT) charterholder.

Fari Hamzei is frequently quoted by CNBC, Bloomberg and RealMoney. His book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today’s Top Traders, published by John Wiley & Sons in October 2006, has already become a bestseller on Amazon trading books space. As of February 21, 2011, Fari was ranked 1st in the Nation by Timer Digest among approximately 150 market timers in the last 12 months.  Fari is a graduate of Princeton University with a BSE degree in financial engineering, and was a director of strategic planning at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Aircraft Group and served for eleven years on the Board of Directors of Electronic Clearing House (ECHO), now an Intuit company (INTU).

Jon 'DRJ' Najarian is co-founder of optionMONSTER® and co-lead analyst for the InsideOptions™ and Covered Call Investor trade idea alert systems. He spent the first 29 years of his trading career trading in and around the pits of the Chicago exchanges. Jon is a frequent contributor to CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and other prominent financial media organizations. Mr. Najarian also co-developed the patented trading algorithm the Heat Seeker®, used to detect unusual trading activity.

Jim Bittman teaches courses for public and institutional investors, and he has presented several custom courses throughout the U.S., Europe, South America and Southeast Asia. In 1980 Mr. Bittman began his trading career as an equity options market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From 1983 to 1993, he was a Commodity Options Member of the Chicago Board of Trade where he traded options on financial futures and agricultural futures.  In addition to his responsibilities at The Options Institute, Mr. Bittman is also a member of the faculty of The Illinois Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the masters level Financial Markets and Trading Program.

Russell Rhoads, CFA is an instructor with The Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He joined the Institute in 2008 after a career as an investment analyst and trader with a variety of firms including Highland Capital Management in Memphis, Caldwell & Orkin Investment Counsel, TradeLink Securities and Millenium Management.  In addition to his duties for the CBOE, he instructs a graduate level options course at the University of Illinois - Chicago and acts as an instructor for the Options Industry Council.

Dan Sheridan is a 22-year veteran CBOE market maker who worked with the highly successful specialist firm Mercury Trading headed up by Jon and Pete Najarian. While at Mercury Trading, Dan was responsible for training most of the traders including Pete Najarian, one of the current hosts of CNBC's Fast Money. Since leaving the pit in 2004, Dan has been teaching individual traders on the techniques and methods he used every day to consistently profit in the options markets.

Carolyn Boroden is a commodity trading advisor and technical analyst specializing in Fibonacci analysis. Her unique form of price and time analysis is quickly proving to be one of the most promising trading techniques using Fibonacci available today.  She has been involved in the trading industry since 1978. Ms. Boroden's background includes working on the major trading floors including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, NYFE, and COMEX.

Greg Jensen is the founder and Chief Trainer of Options Animal, an options investor, speaker, and author.  He is a Registered Investment Advisor and is actively managing private investment accounts, and earned his degree in Business Management, with emphasis in Finance, from Utah State University. He has written for a long list of investment publications and has worked with Jon "Dr. J" Najarian (CNBC Contributor), Forbes Inc, tradeMONSTER, optionMONSTER OptionsXpress Active Trader Magazine, Reuters, Wiley Trading, and other like publications and similar companies.

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