Michael has decades of experience as a professional trader, hedge fund manager and incubator of emerging traders. Michael has built a number of trading analytic platforms with three successful exits and has served as the CEO of a regulated CFD broker and as a director of a public company in his late 20’s. Michael has also co-founded a high-frequency market-making business and acted as its risk manager before selling the business to a large digital asset company. Michael is an out the-box thinker with a wide area of interests, spanning: economics, finance, technical & fundamental analysis, quantitative & behavioural finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency, philosophy, psychology, religion, & technology. Michael has a Ph.D. In Economics with a focus on behavioural finance.