TradersEXPO presents
The First Cryptocurrency Event Created
Exclusively for Active Traders
November 14, 2018
LAS VEGAS
Bally's/Paris Resorts
Crypto Intelligence is an exclusive, action-based, learning experience presented by some of the most talented developers, company founders, traders, and influencers in the cryptocurrency and blockchain community. Join us as we bring together a diverse group, representing the brightest minds in crypto. They will teach you the best strategies for trading digital assets. Plus, you will learn about the best exchanges and wallets to use, so you can protect your money in the market.
Whether you’re just getting started or already a pro, you’ll gain unparalleled insights from a roster of experts at the very epicenter of the crypto universe—providing you with everything you need to navigate and trade the digital asset space successfully.
Get a front row seat to hear and meet the top minds in crypto as they address specific tactics and strategies to help you learn how to trade like a pro.
Everyone you’re looking to meet will be in attendance; get ready to spark bold conversations and make connections that will last long beyond Vegas.
Take the first step now towards becoming a more consistently profitable crypto trader and learn what it takes to profit in one of the world’s hottest and most controversial asset classes.
Crypto Intelligence attracts the cream of the crop of crypto and blockchain experts who will share their insights and strategies on panels, keynotes, and in fireside-chat sessions spread across one informative, action-packed day. Learn everything from the latest rules, regulations, and tax principles driving the markets to tools for technical analysis and reading charts.
Charlie Shrem
Crypto.IQ
Charlie Shrem is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, formerly serving as vice chairman. In 2017, he joined Jaxx as its director of business and community development. He is the star of the Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin and has advised numerous companies on the ICO process. He is the founding partner of Crypto.IQ, a strategic investment, advisory, and educational firm with a focus on digital assets.
Jon Najarian
Investitute.com
Jon "Dr. J" Najarian was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport--trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Mr. Najarian became member of the CBOE, NYSE, CME, and CBOT and worked as a floor trader for some 25 years. Today, he is a professional investor, money manager, lecturer, as well as co-founder of Rebellion Partners, a private investment company. In 1990 he founded Mercury Trading, a market-making firm at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which he sold in 2004 to Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge funds. He developed the HeatSeeker technology, a patented trading application using algorithms to identify unusual activity in stock, options, and futures markets. In 2005, he co-founded, together with his brother Pete, optionMONSTER, an options news and education firm, and tradeMONSTER, a leading online brokerage firm, that for years has been rated "Best for Options Traders" by Barron's and was the first online broker to deploy streaming, desktop-like trading in a web browser. In 2014 private equity firm General Atlantic Partners bought a majority stake in the company, and two years later, it was sold to E*Trade for $750 million. Mr. Najarian is a founding member of Investitute.com, a financial education & subscription services company, as well as best-selling authors of both How We Trade Options and The 22 Rules of Investing.
Ryan Wilday
ElliottWaveTrader.Net
Ryan Wilday has over 17 years' experience trading equities, futures, and options. He began trading cryptocurrencies in 2013, and today, he melds his deep knowledge of the cryptocurrency market with Elliott wave theory. In August 2017, Mr. Wilday launched his Cryptocurrency Trading service on ElliottWaveTrader.net.
Richard Smith
TradeSmith
Dr. Richard Smith is the inventor of TradeStops, an algorithmically-based system that helps investors outperform billionaire investors with less risk. In December 2017, Dr. Smith introduced CryptoTradeSmith, a breakthrough system for capturing explosive profits from highly volatile crypto assets like Bitcoin.
Dong Zhao
DGROUP
Zhao Dong is the founder of MoJi Weather, a weather forecast app with approximately 270 million monthly active users at present. He is a prominent Chinese early adopter of Bitcoin both as speculator and miner in the community. Mr. Dong was one of the largest Chinese miners in 2014, he was also one of the largest Bitcoin OTC traders in China. Having been engaging in OTC trading for 5 years, with annual trading volume over 1 million BTC at present. Mr. Dong lost 9,000 BTC, approximately 8 million USD, in a single day due to the Mt.Gox incident in 2014, and eventually lost 15 million USD in total. Nevertheless, all debts were paid off within 3 years, which brought his unshakable reputation in the cryptocurrency industry. He once raised 4,000 BTC within 20 minutes from institutional investors. Mr. Dong is one of the influential shareholders of Bitfinex.
Elliott Bernstein
2Chimps.net
Elliott Bernstein has over 20 years of market experience, with a strong focus on emerging sectors, China, and APAC region equities, and technical trading methods. With two books and dozens of articles on related topics, he specializes in clear and easy-to-read analyses of timely market questions. Mr. Bernstein is a technology enthusiast and also acts as the webmaster and community manager for 2Chimps.net. He has traveled and lived abroad extensively, and with nearly a decade spent between Beijing and Shanghai, he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Sam Shames
Simpler Trading
Sam Shames started trading what he saw, energy stocks/ETFs, and crude. He began trading index futures and equities in 2006 as markets were reaching a crescendo. After seeing the effects that central banks and financial derivatives had on the market, he became determined to understand the nature of market behavior and the psychological and technical levels that drive price. Learning how to make money in any market was the most important lesson from this time. As an aggressive swing trader, Mr. Shames works to understand the markets through technical analysis and recognize the psychology and correlations of each chart. His experience has lead him to join the Simpler Trading team and share profitable trading ideas with the Simpler Trading members.
David Namdar
Galaxy Digital Trading
David Namdar is a co-head of Galaxy Digital Trading. He has a decade of international business and financial market experience and has been involved with a wide range of businesses from startup to large corporations. Mr. Namdar has investment expertise in private and public equities, derivatives, and foreign currencies and in using fundamental and quantitative analysis to invest on a global basis. In addition, he has significant expertise in digital currency investments, blockchain technology, and the emerging decentralized economy. Mr. Namdar is a founder of SolidX Partners, a startup aimed at institutionalizing digital assets as an alternative asset class
John Netto
The Global Macro Edge
John Netto is a cross-asset-class trader and author of The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk. He is also the creator of the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System, and the Protean Strategy, for which he was named by Collective2.com as Strategy Developer of the Month. Mr. Netto is an expert in developing, executing, and managing proprietary algorithmic and discretionary trading strategies across a range of time horizons, asset classes, and market regimes. He has conducted numerous live trading webinars where viewers watch his P&L, positions, and orders in real time for total transparency of his methods. Mr. Netto is also the author of One Shot - One Kill Trading.
Daniel Gramza
Gramza Capital Management, Inc.
Daniel Gramza is the president of Gramza Capital Management, Inc., and DMG Advisors, LLC. He is a trader, consultant to domestic and international clients, and an advisor to hedge funds, and is involved in the development of ETF/ETC securities. Mr. Gramza is also a co-inventor of two issued patents for new security products. He has published works in Australia, Europe, Japan, Singapore, and the US; and is completing Trading in the Eye of the Storm and The Handbook of Japanese Candle Trading Strategies. Mr. Gramza has appeared on CNN's Moneyline program, Reuters TV, Bloomberg TV, ROB TV in Canada, TVN 24 Poland, Intereconomial TV Spain, WCIU-TV in Chicago, as a market analyst for the CME Group, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune, SFO Magazine, Futures Magazine, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, Traders Edge Magazine, Traders' Journal, and other numerous media outlets around the world. He develops and presents worldwide public and private courses on essential mental techniques for traders, Japanese candle analysis, market profile, technical analysis, options and options trading strategies, stock and futures industry fundamentals and operations, and Series 3 exam preparation. Mr. Gramza has set up and ran proprietary stock trading operations on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, an off-floor proprietary futures trading group, and has given expert witness testimony in US federal court. He has presented courses to traders from over 37 exchanges, 450 institutions, 4 regulators, and 35 countries. Mr. Gramza provides free daily commentary on 21 markets and six sectors at dangramza.com, and his commentary is viewed in over 150 countries. He is an adjunct instructor for the CME Group, Eurex, SGX Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies, Universitde Geneve, the Chicago Stock Exchange, DePaul University, and a former adjunct faculty member of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Master program in financial markets and trading. Mr. Gramza is a former member of the Chicago Rice and Cotton Exchange. He has passed the Series 3, 7, and 63 exams and earned a BS in engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA in international finance from DePaul University graduating with honors.
Robert Savage
CCTrack Solutions
Bob Savage co-founded and runs Track Research, which publishes daily global macro analysis and weekly crypto market analysis. He also founded and runs Savage Markets consultancy providing bespoke trading advisory, marketing and research for those in FX and Crypto. Mr. Savage also runs CCTrack Solutions an FX Overlay Advisor with $4bn. Previously, Mr. Savage was the COO at FX Concepts and he served as Managing Director of FX Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Savage worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities.
Steve Capone
Voyager
Steve Capone brings nearly 20 years of experience in emerging technology and strategic marketing. He began his career working at leading digital agencies, specializing in emerging media and mobile technology. Mr. Capone early work included leadership roles at innovation firms Razorfish (acquired by Microsoft) and Amobee (acquired by Singtel), serving as a strategic resource to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He grew his experience with large global brands by joining the management team at Nokia and later, Microsoft. After departing Microsoft in 2015, he became deeply involved in financial technology and most specifically, blockchain. Mr.Capone now serves as the chief marketing officer for Voyager, a new crypto asset technology business that is building innovative solutions for retail and institutional investors. At Voyager, he oversees the brand vision, community, as well as many of the organization's strategic partnerships. Mr. Capone is also an active investor in startups, crypto assets and an advisor to numerous companies in the blockchain and financial technology categories including Nvstr, Spitball, and Blockmatics.
Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get up-close-and-personal with Charlie Shrem and a world-class roster of experts in crypto and blockchain. Buy your ticket today before they sell out and be at Crypto Intelligence in Las Vegas to start on your path to cryptocurrency mastery.
The Crypto Intelligence agenda showcases the bold voices covering what truly matters in crypto through a series of unrivaled topics. The full agenda is currently being finalized, please check back for updates soon. If you would like to be notified when the agenda is live, please register here.
Welcome Remarks
Charlie Shrem, Partner, Crypto.IQ
What Is Cryptocurrency and Why Should You Care?
Charlie Shrem, Partner, Crypto.IQ
30-Thousand Foot View of the Crypto Market from an Institutional Insider
Jon Najarian, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Investitute.com
Riding the Strongest Cryptos off the Bottom of the Market
Richard Smith, Founder & CEO, TradeSmith
Emotional vs. Rational Markets: How to Prepare to Trade Cryptocurrency
John Netto, Author, The Global Macro Edge
Deconstructing the Crypto Market
Sam Shames, Director, Cryptocurrency Trading, Simpler Trading
Cryptocurrency Trading with Elliott Wave
Ryan Wilday, Analyst, Cryptocurrency Trading Service, ElliottWaveTrader.Net
Sponsor Presentations
Panel Presenters:
Steve Capone , Chief Marketing Officer, Voyager;
Charlie Shrem , Partner, Crypto.IQ;
Applying Techmical Analysis to Trading Cryptocurrency
Elliott Bernstein, Market Analyst, 2Chimps.net
Crypto Trading Challenges, Abuses, and New Applications
Daniel Gramza, President, Gramza Capital Management, Inc.
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