Tom Williams, is a retired US Syndicate Trader. His professional experience gained a great impetus several years ago when reading what Richard D Wyckoff had to say on the subject of volume reading in the early thirties.
Tom further developed Wyckoffs methodologies to develop his own more potent methodology - Volume Spread Analysis - regularly referred to as "Wyckoff on Steroids!"
Tom Williams has been energetically applying his unique methodologies for the last 30 years to the Stocks, FOREX and Futures markets.

He retired from professional trading to take up a number of commercial ventures. However, Toms real ambition was to help traders operate in a more informed way, and this idea formed the basis of his software development company he set up 14 years ago. Tom has spent many years refining the signals in the TradeGuider range of Software Systems.
Tom is the inventor of Volume Spread Analysis and the Chairman of TradeGuider Systems

Tom Williams
Veteran Syndicate Trader
TradeGuider Chairman
Inventor of VSA

Gavin has helped thousands of traders in over 36 countries learn how to track the "Smart Money" and avoid the tricks that the "Smart Money" play.

Gavin was taught to trade by veteran syndicate trader, Tom Williams, now 78, and was fortunate enough never to have picked up the bad habits that many retail traders suffer from.
Gavin is now based in Chicago in the US and regularly hosts seminars and events sharing his experience and knowledge developed through talking to hundreds of retail traders each month, most who are finding the markets a challenging environment.

Gavin Holmes
CEO
TradeGuider Systems

Dr. Gary Dayton is the president of Peak Psychological Services, a consulting firm that specializes in developing peak performance in traders. Dr. Gary is a licensed psychologist and holds a doctorate in psychology from Rutgers University with specialization in clinical and sport psychologies. He is also an active trader in the CME futures markets, applying VSA and Wyckoff methodologies.
Through workshops, groups, and individual coaching, Dr. Gary helps traders overcome the psychological pitfalls unique to trading.

He applies state-of-the-science knowledge in behavioral finance, mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, and sport psychologies to help individuals systematically develop as traders, enhancing emotional control and trading performance, with the ultimate goal of instilling in the trader the ability to become their own peak performance coach.

Dr Gary Dayton
Professional Trader
Psychologist

David Weis is a market analyst with over thirty-eight years' experience. Mr. Weis served as the director of Technical Research for ContiCommodities, Inc during the mid-1980's. Although most of his work has been tied to the futures markets, he worked for several years in a fixed-income group where he assisted cash bond traders with timing recommendations.

Mr. Weis has conducted seminars and workshops on technical trading throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. He is the recognized authority on the trading methods of Richard Wyckoff. He is the former editor of the Elliott Wave Commodity Letter published by Robert Prechter and former editor/publisher of Technical Forces, a monthly market letter centered around price/volume analysis. In addition, he has written numerous articles on technical analysis and is the author of Trading With the Elliott Wave Principle: A Practical Guide and a co-author of Charting the Stock Market: The Wyckoff Method.

For the past four years Weis has tutored traders around the world on the way he uses the Wyckoff trading method. He is an active trader and has developed unique short-term trading techniques.

David Weis
Market Analyst
Wyckoffian Expert

Philip was fascinated by the stock market at an early age and began investing in his early teens, encouraged by his father.

He began work as an accountant but became disillusioned by all the regulations and red tape. In 1984 he became more involved with investments following his father's retirement and started managing portfolios.

Initially his investment management was based upon fundamental analysis using his accountancy skills. However, with the advent of personal computers, he began to study technical analysis and Elliott Wave Theory in particular. He always felt there was something more, and in October 1989 a friend called and suggested he try a new piece of software called Genie Chartist (which developed into Tradeguider). With the help of Tom Williams and attending seminars he began to understand how the markets really functioned. Philip has gained a thorough understanding of the Wyckoff VSA Principles and regularly features in Educational events offering bar by bar analysis using these principles to uncover the meal messages contained in the charts.

His aim now is to share that knowledge with new users and help them to reach the level of understanding that he has achieved.

Philip Friston
VSA Trader and Professional Fund Manager

Lauren Snedeker came to the firm in July 2011. Originally from Boston, Lauren is an alumni of Boston College and spent the last three years teaching High School History. Prior to that, she was a mortgage broker at CTX Mortgage for many years before the market collapsed in 2007. Her love of learning and desire to teach others fostered an interest in transitioning that passion back into the financial services market and ultimately here at TradeGuider, where she hopes to educate future traders on the VSA methodology.

Her ABC of VSA Educational sessiopns aimed at people new to both trading and \ or VSA has earned here a folllowing of over 1000 traders.

Lauren Snedeker
VSA Educator