Laurence Connors, CEO

Mr. Connors is Managing Director of Connors Research LLC, a private research firm that specializes in quantitative analysis for trading. He has over 27 years experience working in the financial markets industry. He started his career in 1982 at Merrill Lynch and later moved on to become a Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette. In 1994 he founded what is now The Connors Group, a financial markets information company, and in 2004 he founded Connors Research LLC.

Mr. Connors has authored a number of top-selling books on market strategies and volatility trading, including How Markets Really Work, and Street Smarts (with Linda Raschke). Street Smarts was selected by Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine as one of "the classics" for trading books written in the past century. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Russian, and Japanese. Connors’ latest book, Short Term Trading Strategies That Work, was released in November 2008.

Mr. Connors' opinions and insights have been featured or quoted in most major financial media sources including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Bloomberg TV & Radio, Dow Jones Newswire, Yahoo! Finance, E-Trade Financial Daily, Futures Magazine, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, and others. His research was featured in Bloomberg Magazine in 2008 and he has been a speaker at a number of major investment conferences over the past decade.