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Martin Slaney has been involved in the online industry for more than a decade. In 1995, Slaney helped establish the Australian office of a leading U.K. spread betting company. He went on to co-found another spread betting company, and served as the senior dealer in the company’s London office. Slaney also played a leading role in designing the industry’s first interactive online trading platform, serving as the company’s head of internet trading.

In 2003, Slaney was appointed as the managing director of the first real-time betting exchange for financial markets. With the broad and detailed knowledge Slaney has acquired of financial derivatives and trading platforms, he has helped build upon GFT’s reputation for innovation and technical excellence with GFT Global Markets’ spread betting services. Slaney is often quoted for his market insight by top financial and business media outlets.

Slaney was educated at Sheffield University and holds a dual honours bachelors degree in Japanese and business studies, and has a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the University of Central England, Birmingham.

Slaney is often quoted by Australian media outlets in articles about global markets and CFDs, including The Age, AFR and Nine MSN.

After graduating New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business in 1999, Kathy Lien honed her knowledge of cross-markets and foreign exchange trading as an associate at J.P. Morgan Chase. In the interbank market, her ability to create solid fundamental and technical analysis from the myriad of information on the market helped her as she traded forex and options. Her experience eventually led her to be chief strategist at Daily FX where she worked until she joined GFT in 2008.

With her knowledge of forex, as well as her experience trading other products, such as interest rate derivates, bonds, equities, and futures, Lien has built a reputation as an international currency analyst. She is frequently quoted on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business and Reuters. Lien has also written for publications like Active Trader, Future, and SFO magazine. She is the author of the newly updated Day Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves, and the co-author of Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game with Boris Schlossberg.

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Boris Schlossberg began his Wall Street trading career more than 20 years ago at Drexel Burhnam Lambert. There, he traded nearly every type of financial product on the market in the U.S., from equities and options to stock index futures and foreign exchange. His innate ability to analyze market information and use it to trade has helped him become an industry-recognized, “go to” trading professional.

These days, whenever the markets move, many organizations turn to Schlossberg for his take on the situation. He is a weekly contributor to CNBC's Squawk Box and a regular commentator for Bloomberg radio and television. His daily currency research is widely quoted by Reuters, Dow Jones and Agence France Presse newswires and appears in numerous newspapers worldwide. Schlossberg has written for publications like SFO magazine, Active Trader and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. He is also the author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market and the co-author of Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game with Kathy Lien. He joined GFT in 2008.

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