About
I’m a businessman who has owned several small companies. My business background taught me to focus on the bottom line, so my study of the financial markets was for one purpose only: to make profits.
I started my study of the markets under the direction of my late father, Patrick F. Burns, who accumulated 70 years of trading experience in his lifetime.
In addition, I hired three professional traders to mentor me personally, and even went to Chicago to work with a former floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
All of this research and study resulted in insights which eventually led to the development of my own Top Dog Trading methodology.
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An outline of my trading contributions:
- Author of “Trend Trading For Dummies” (Wiley Publishing).
- Featured as a case study in the book “Using Candlestick Charting: How To Earn High Rates of Return Safely.”
- Featured as a case study in the book “Investing in Derivatives.”
- Received Readers Choice Awards for “Trading Courses” and “Technical Analysis Web Sites” by Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine for many years.
- Author of Top Dog Trading 5 Energy Methodology Plug-in for MetaStock.
- Developed a 5 Day Course for WorldWideTraders.
- Founded Top Dog Trading, to help students shorten their learning curves in becoming traders.
- Headlining speaker at DayTradersUSA.
- Headlining speaker for the Market Analysts of Southern California.
- Headlining speaker for the Canadian Society of Technical Analysis.
- Given seminars around the country at many Wealth Expos and Traders Expos.
- The former lead moderator of FuturesTalk chat room guiding listeners through the open and close of each trading day.
- Published many articles for various outlets including eSignal Central.
- Conducted live webinar co-sponsored by the CME Group.
- Doctorate in Hypnotherapy and is a certified NLP practitioner, and therefore able to help people with the psychology of trading.
- Live webinar presenter for the Eurex Exchange.
Written/quoted in articles for:
- eSignal
- CBS NewsChannel 10
- ABC KATV
- FOX 14
- NBC KHQ
Conducted training for/with:
- CME Group
- Eurex Exchange
- MetaStock
- NinjaTrader
- Tradestation
- RealTraders
- TSTSquakRadio
- CyberTrading University
- Trading Clubs around the country
- Day Trading University
- Hit and Run Candlesticks
- Trading Wins
- Trading Science
- Winvesting
- Traders Accounting
- TradeSpoon
- Trading Pub
- Value Charts
- Price Headley
- Day Trading University
- Hubert Senters
- James Ramelli
- Barchart.com
- Many, many others.
Interviewed on:
- Robin Dayne “Elite Masters of Trading” Radio Show.
- Otrader.com.
- 24 Traders.
- TRDR.tv.
- The Timing Research Show