Profile of Michael Conlon

Author: Michael Conlon
Michael Conlon has been a proprietary trader for the last 10 years, having started his trading career in equities and options and then moving to futures and forex. His trading career started at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette (DLJ) on an equities order desk and then moved to an on-line brokerage firm that is now part of TD Ameritrade. As a proprietary trader, Michael has worked at some of the top professional trading firms on Wall St., with his last stop being at RBC Carlin before branching out on his own in September of 2005. His trading was based primarily on technical studies. Since that time, Michael had become fascinated with the development of automated trading systems that could take advantage of his trading acumen and apply it to numerous markets around the globe and in different time zones. Thus began his pursuit of global macro trading with a focus on forex which led to the development of his trading systems that are employed at Blitzcap Partners, where he is the founder and Managing Partner. Michael is also employed at FXEDU, an on-line forex education company where he mentors forex traders on a 1-on-1 basis, and has worked there since April of 2009. In addition, Michael writes the popular “Forex Trading Blog” (www.forextradingblog.com) and produces the popular “Forex In Four” daily video series.