Dr. Peterson is a managing partner of MarketPsych and an experienced investor and trader. At MarketPsych he specializes in the implementation of both investor training programs and market-beating investment strategies. Previously he developed neural network-based market forecasting software and traded stocks, futures, and options for Intelligent Investments Partners.

Dr.Peterson has a Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Arts from the University of Texas, all with honors. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry. Dr. Peterson has performed behavioral finance and neuroeconomics research at Stanford University. He has developed financial psychology profiling tools, published in academic journals, and has given presentations to scholars at Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance. His book Inside the Investor's Brain (Wiley, 2007) was called "outstanding" by Barron's.

Dr.Peterson has thirteen years experience in market modeling, investment strategy development, and trading, and he has privately evaluated and trained investors and traders for the past six years. Current projects include the operation of a behavioral finance hedge fund.

His research website: Richard L. Peterson, M.D.

Dr. Murtha is a managing director, consultant, and frequent speaker about investor psychology and behavioral finance. He has consulted for the New York-based consulting firm RHR International Company where he performed corporate and executive evaluations and coaching. His clients there included investment banks, financial services companies, and day trading firms where he has coached portfolio managers in reaching peak performance.

Dr. Murtha received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the State University of New York. His dissertation explored the effect of cognitive errors on gambling behavior. He holds a professorship at New York University and previously lectured at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State.

Currently, Dr. Murtha is focusing on helping brokers cope with the fallout from recent market volatility - ranging from "analysis paralysis" to panic selling - and to build behaviors that will bring their performance and client relationships into "the optimized zone." He has appeared numerous times on CNBC.

Richard Friesen is director of trader training for MarketPsych. He is the developer of the innovative and exclusive Mind Muscles™ training process. Prior to joining MarketPsych he founded ePIT Systems which produced exchange software solutions for financial institutions. He has received five significant patents on electronic trading interfaces.

Prior to ePIT Systems, Mr. Friesen founded, built and sold Trade Management LLC, an options and equity trading firm. As a member of the Pacific Exchange, he served as Exchange Director and Chair of the New Products Committee. In addition to options trading, his twenty plus years of experience in the financial world includes trading grains on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and equity futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Rich holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M. A. in Clinical Psychology. His background in psychology has been instrumental in his development of training programs that produce profitable traders and trading systems.

Mr. Friesen is a popular speaker on the psychologies of trading, politics and self-defense.