Educators
Mark Peneski is a self-directed trader with over nine years of active trading experience and over 10,000 equity, futures and option trades to his credit and relies primarily on candlestick chart, market internals and pattern recognition in making his trading decisions. He has in-depth market knowledge and trading experience as an educator and moderator for a recognized trading-educational firm. Prior to joining Affinity’s elite
manufacturing, marketing and distribution and has been recognized in many trade and national publications including Entrepreneur Magazine and Distribution Channels. Mark gra duated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Ayad comes to Affinity Trading Group with over 10 years of experience in the financial markets. After graduating from Bloomsburg University of PA in 1997 with Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, he spent the first 7 years of his career as a financial consultant with a regional brokerage firm. He carved out a niche among his colleagues by specializing in trading equities alongside options strategies that helped clients minimize risk while still being able to capture significant returns. In 2005 he sold his book of business to a partner within the firm and moved on to a career outside of the financial industry. Four years later and after 2 rounds of corporate downsizing, he found himself disillusioned by the corporate grind and decided to follow his passion back to Wall Street where this time around he decided to begin trading full time. He now plays a pivotal role in the Affinity Online Trading Room by assisting lead moderator Robert Shapiro in calling specific trades and the overall market. His primary specialty in day trading is low risk/high reward setups and prefers only to trade the morning session. Ayad has been featured in Active Trader Magazine and is also involved in several trading organizations. He currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with his wife Caroline and enjoys spending his free time with family and friends, working out, reading, and gardening.
Ben studied Mathematics & Computer Science (B.Sc) at Kings College London. He then qualified as a Certified Microsoft Professional. After Ben’s education, he worked in the motor trade and became Sales Director of a new franchise dealership. He started day trading full time over two years ago and also runs his own computer sales and repair business. Ben joined the Affinity Trading Institute in May 2009 and became an instructor and coach for the Scalping division in January 2010. He specializes in high volume scalp trading where he looks for very small moves with large volume positions. Ben is responsible for a large portion of Affinity’s scalp trading volume, teaches the Affinity Scalp Trading Lab and is the lead Coach for Affinity’s Scalp Traders where he shows them how to Professionally and profitably trade Affinity’s Capital. Ben also assembles specialized trading computers for Affinity’s traders as well as providing technical support on those systems.