Jury Automated Trading Championship 2008

Renat Fatkhullin, MetaQuotes Software Corp.
Renat Fatkhullin
MetaQuotes Software Corp.
Professional developer with over 15-year experience. The founder of the MetaQuotes Software Corp., Renat is the company's CEO at present. Under his guidance, the company has developed and released 4 online trading platforms: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader, MetaQuotes, FX Charts. MetaQuotes Software Corp. is now established worldwide as provider of state-of-the-art solutions. The company leads in its market.

Stanislav Starikov, MetaQuotes Software Corp.
Stanislav Starikov
MetaQuotes Software Corp.

In 1985, Stanislav graduated from Moscow Institute of Management (Russia) majoring in Economical Cybernetics. For over 15 years he worked as a programmer at a military-space enterprise and in several scientific research institutes. Joined MetaQuotes in 2002. Actively participated in development of MetaTrader 3 and the language MQL2. Leading programer of the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal and MetaQuotes Language 4.

FXCM REPRESENTATIVE
Darren Merwitz
FXCM

Darren Merwitz is Vice President of the System Trading department, which oversees the strategy automation and Managed Account Programs at FXCM. He co-founded the department and helped develop the software and infrastructure upon which it currently runs. He is heavily involved in the internal system design and implementation for the automated systems as well as consults with clients on product implementation using the various available FXCM APIs. The System Trading Department at FXCM consists of 8 highly trained specialists.

Andy Andersen
Andy Andersen
Interbank FX

Andy Anderson is Client Services Supervisor. He has lived in 22 different countries and speaks of a variety of languages which he has used in hard currency trading as well as multi-million dollar hedging of export and import contracts. A licensed Series 3 Futures broker, Andy focuses primarily on technical aspects but also works to incorporate a variety of fundamental aspects into his trading. He has studied and/or taken part in education on Foreign Currency in 10 different countries with renowned Forex veterans Bill Williams, Larry Williams, Ed Ponsi, John Person, Steve Nison, Rob Booker and Peter Bain, among others.

Jeffrey Baskin, FXDD
Jeffrey Baskin

FXDD

Jeffrey Baskin is the director of client education for FXDD, a leading online forex broker. His role at FXDD includes the development of educational Webinars, phone conferences with head traders to discuss strategy implementation, and seminars across the country for in-depth forex training. Mr. Baskin has spent his entire professional career in the markets, including over five years of private retail trading for the spot forex market. This also includes his consulting experience with numerous boutique investing firms to help develop and test trading strategies in the forex market. Mr. Baskin is renowned for his specialization in the workings of MetaTrader 4 and trading using technical analysis. He holds a BA in business management from Indiana University.
Thomas Bopp, TRADERS'
Thomas Bopp
TRADERS'
Thomas Bopp has a degree as a technical analyst. He started his career as a contributing writer for the German "Ebert's Terminmarktmagazin", the forerunner of the TRADERS' magazine. Since ten years he is both chief-editor and chief-analyst for Der Zyklus-Analyst, a financial newsletter which predicts highs/lows weeks ahead by using cycleanalysis. He further published a technical analysis-course for the website of the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which is now updated using MetaTrader as a main source for charts. Thomas also launched the website www.fx-training.de, the only German site for currency trading and MetaTrader. The idea is, to show new entrants the power and usefulness of this programme. Recently Thomas developed an own indicator and an Expert Advisor, which uses this indicator for trading.