Mr. Richard Weissman, GARP ERP has over 35 years’ experience as a derivatives trader and risk manager.  Richard is the author of two Wiley Trading books, Mechanical Trading Systems: Pairing Trader Psychology With Technical Analysis (2004) as well as Trade Like a Casino: Find Your Edge, Manage Risk, and Win Like the House (2011), which was a finalist for the 2012 Technical Analyst Book of the Year Award.  He is one of the world’s foremost authorities and thought leaders in the fields of derivatives, risk management, technical analysis, energy, and agriculture.

 As President of Weissman Consulting and Training, Mr. Weissman provides state-of-the-art training and consulting solutions for traders, risk managers and their support staff.  For more than 30 years, Mr. Weissman has been providing state-of-the-art training and consultation services for traders, risk managers and their support staff at commodity trading firms (including most major energy and agricultural businesses), investment banks and hedge funds. 

Richard has also given a variety of presentations at leading industry-wide conferences all over the world in topics including: