Jason Ayres

Jason Ayres is President and Founder of OptionSource.net and has been providing education and opportunities in the stock and options market over the last five years. Jason is a Derivative Market Specialist by designation. Jason actively advocates and educates investors on the use of options for managing risk, cash flow and leverage. This includes developing numerous strategic relationships with some prominent brokerage firms, advisors and portfolio managers in creating real value-added services for their clients.

Patrick Ceresna

Patrick Ceresna is the Chief Derivatives Market Strategist of OptionSource.net, and the author and editor of the Stock Rental Business and Risk Free Trader newsletters. Patrick is a Chartered Market Technician, Derivatives Market Specialist and Canadian Investment Manager by designation. Before joining OptionSource.net, Patrick attained ten years experience working at CIBC in numerous trading roles including the trading of a large asset pool dedicated exclusively to options writing. Patrick is the founder of eminisource.com, an educational and subscription-based service for the trading of E-mini Futures. In addition, Patrick is one of the senior instructors at learn-to-trade.com, teaching independent traders to trade the stock, options, futures and forex markets.

Richard N. Croft

Richard N. Croft has been in the securities business since 1975. Since February 1993, Richard has been licensed as an investment counselor/portfolio manager, operating under the corporate name R. N. Croft Financial Group Inc. Richard writes a weekly market commentary and options commentary for Scotia iTrade and is a regular contributor to Investment Executive, where his articles focus on options and option strategies. In 1998, he co-developed three FPX indexes for the National Post, tracking the returns for a series of portfolios geared to average Canadian investors. In 1999, Richard developed two option-writing indices for the Montréal Exchange (MX). Most recently, Richard co-authored his ninth book, a Canadian best-seller on portfolio building, entitled Protect Your Nest Egg.

Marie-Josée Laramée

Marie-Josée Laramée is a marketing analyst for the options and futures markets of the Montréal Exchange. Over the years, Marie-Josée wrote several articles and publications on the use of derivatives such as the New Options newsletter and trading guides for MX products. She is responsible for all communications to retail investors. Since 1996, Marie-Josée is the content manager of the Exchange’s Web site. In addition, Marie-Josée collaborates with the R&D team in the launch of futures and options contrats.