Press Release
ONLINE TRADING ACADEMY HOSTS ALL -STAR TRADER EVENT IN WASHINGTON DC
Trading Experts Come Together to Share Best Practices with Trading Students
Washington DC, October 1, 2009 – Online Trading Academy is hosting a one-of-a-kind All-Star Trader Event for traders in the
Washington D.C./Baltimore area on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The event is scheduled from 8am to 5pm at the Crowne Plaza Silver
Spring Hotel, located at 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The tuition for this special event is free.
The All-Star Trader Event brings Online Trading Academy’s top trading professionals into one room to share their trading
insights and their secrets to successful trading. Topics that will be covered are risk management, technical analysis, using forex
to supplement profits, how to become a “Market-Driven Trader” and much more. Get a chance to interact with top trading
professionals and get your questions answered. The All-Star ensemble includes Online Trading Academy instructors Brandon Wendell,
Sam Seiden, John O’Donnell and a few surprise guest speakers.
Brandon Wendell CMT, an Online Trading Academy graduate, has travelled around the world spreading his wealth of knowledge to the
trading community at EXPOs and trading events, as a guest on CNBC Asia’s Cash Flow, at special seminars for CNBC staff on technical
analysis of the financial markets, in published traders magazines, and more. As a former stock broker, brokerage trader and hedge
fund trader, Wendell brings a variety of market views and insight into his trading classes and speaking engagements.
Sam Seiden, Director of Online Education, brings over 15 years of experience of equities, forex, options and futures trading
which began when he was on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has served as the Director of Technical Research for
two trading firms and regularly contributes articles to industry publications. Seiden has educated hundreds of traders and
investors in seminars and conferences.
John O'Donnell is the Chief Knowledge Officer for Online Trading Academy and has been a major driver of the company’s global
growth over the past 12 years. Mr. O'Donnell was a finalist for two years in a row for the Inc. magazine "Entrepreneur of the Year"
award and has been a guest speaker on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN and Fox Business. Mr. O’Donnell’s thoughts on historic boom/bust
business cycles and the burst of the credit bubble in the "Globalization 3.0 Era" have been featured in The Wall Street Journal and
Investors Business Daily.
Eyal Shahar, President and Founder of Online Trading Academy, said “I think it is wonderful that we are able to offer an event
in the Washington D.C. Area that brings so many traders together into one arena and share our insights with them. We are excited
that we are able to offer this event to those striving to achieve their trading goals.”
Call 877-682-8723 to register for this event or visit www.tradingacademy.com for
more information about Online Trading Academy.
About Online Trading Academy
Irvine, California-based Online Trading Academy is a financial education academy focused on educating students in
the art of trading since June 1997. With over 8,000 graduates, Online Trading Academy offers professional
instruction from credible Wall Street professionals, as well as a wide array of beneficial home study materials to
supplement classroom study. Online Trading Academy offers instruction across a spectrum of trading styles and
instruments, from Short Term Trading, Swing Trading, Position Trading, and Investment Theory for Stocks, Options,
Futures (Eminis & Commodities) and Currencies. Current Online Trading Academy locations include New York, Los Angeles,
Irvine, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, San Jose, UK,
Toronto, Singapore, Asia and Dubai. For more information about Online Trading Academy visit
www.tradingacademy.com.