DREW DAY

President and Co-Founder

Drew Day is the founder and president of Base Camp Trading, an international speaker and 16-year hedge fund veteran that has been involved with various hedge funds that have raised and managed over $6.5 billion in assets. He has been involved with systematic trading and portfolio management for more than 16 years. He focused on trading the global futures markets, following a systematic, low leveraged and highly diversified trading regiment. As a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), he traded 40 individual futures markets across eight different sectors.  Drew has been a featured speaker at Bloomberg Markets in London and New York and is featured as a leading industry expert in the book “A Visual Guide to Hedge Funds” published by Bloomberg Wiley.  He is also involved in proprietary trading and owns his own proprietary trading firm that focuses on quantitative, behavioral and machine learning trading systems.

BRIAN STRONG

Vice President and Head of Development

Brian Strong is the VP and Head of Development at Base Camp Trading.  Brian has a diverse 20+ year career in software engineering with projects ranging from mobile gaming to hedge fund software. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Biological Sciences.  Brian is also heavily involved in proprietary trading, developing and coding quantitative, behavioral and machine learning trading systems.

DAVE AQUINO

Pro Trader and Portfolio Manager

Dave Aquino is a professional trader with over 20+ years of real-world experience as a trader and portfolio manager. He started his career at Merrill Lynch and eventually moved on to manage over $650 million in assets, specializing in options income strategies, for Vanguard Asset Management. He is also a graduate of Vanderbilt University.  Dave is a partner at Base Camp Trading and specializes in helping clients understand how to trade options for income. Dave is also heavily involved with proprietary trading.

THOMAS WOOD

Pro Trader and Hedge Fund Manager

Thomas Wood is a professional trader with over 12+ years of experience trading the markets, both personally and professionally as a hedge fund manager. He started his career at a wealth management firm, created a hedge fund at the age of 26 and eventually settled as a head trader at MicroQuant. Thomas is a partner at Base Camp Trading and specializes in helping traders simplify the markets by understanding is world-renowned price action trading strategies. Thomas also develops quantitative, behavioral, and machine learning based trading systems

JOHN OSBORN

Trading Analyst and Instructor

John Osborn wears a lot of hats at Base Camp Trading. He is a trading analyst and instructor that you will find in the trading rooms from time to time. Additionally, John develops trading indicators, strategies and documentation to help BCT members and clients find trading opportunities in alignment with our trading strategies. John is a software engineer and trader with over 20 years of trading experience, including a background in designing human machine interfaces for submarine systems for the Department of Defense, and managing projects and project management positions at a large pharmaceutical company. John has also been a collegiate computer science instructor.

MINH LE

Support

Minh Le is the Head of Client Support for all of your support and technical needs.  Minh has a passion for helping our clients with any issues that arise.  With a background in technical programming, Minh can assist you with not only your questions about products and services, but also assist you with setting up our various indicators.  Minh studied programming at Wake Technical Community College.

JEFF JOOSTEMA

Member Relations

Jeff Joostema is a member of Base Camp Trading that is 100% focused on helping new members understand the various features and trading strategies taught by Base Camp Trading. Jeff played football and wrestled for the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business.  Prior to Base Camp Trading, Jeff built a very successful career as an entrepreneur. Jeff has been a member of Base Camp Trading for a very long time, and trades both futures and options.

What is forex?

Quite simply, it’s the global market that allows one to trade two currencies against each other.

If you think one currency will be stronger versus the other, and you end up correct, then you can make a profit.

If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you usually had to find a currency exchange booth at the airport, and then exchange the money you have in your wallet into the currency of the country you are visiting.

Foreign Exchange
You go up to the counter and notice a screen displaying different exchange rates for different currencies.

An exchange rate is the relative price of two currencies from two different countries.

You find “Japanese yen” and think to yourself, “WOW! My one dollar is worth 100 yen?! And I have ten dollars! I’m going to be rich!!!”
When you do this, you’ve essentially participated in the forex market!

You’ve exchanged one currency for another.

Or in forex trading terms, assuming you’re an American visiting Japan, you’ve sold dollars and bought yen.

Currency Exchange

Before you fly back home, you stop by the currency exchange booth to exchange the yen that you miraculously have left over (Tokyo is expensive!) and notice the exchange rates have changed.

It’s these changes in the exchange rates that allow you to make money in the foreign exchange market.