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She also serves as a developer and trading mentor in several of MarketGauges trading services. To these roles, she brings her background in trading and her experience as a professional educator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith more than 30 years of commodity trading experience, she is a former member of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, NYMEX, and FINEX in New York City. While on the trading floor she also served as a market analyst for two of the largest commodity trading firms at the time, Conti-Commodities and Prudential Bache. She also has been an independent trader for her own account. She coauthored MarketGauges Complete Swing Trading System and served as a trader\/partner in Halcyon Trading LP, a hedge fund. She is currently a partner in MarketGauge Asset Management Company, LLC, and a partner in Wizard IP, a software development company working to develop trading technologies. 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