Karl Dean is a Professional Trader, Venture Capitalist and Angle Investor. Karl has a background in Structural Engineering and Finance. In addition to having a background in accounting from the CGA, Karl has been a Professional Scuba Diver for over 20 years and has taught for 10 of those years.
Since early 2000, Karl has been employed in the oil and gas industry. While still in school, Karl received his first taste of the stock market through an employee stock purchase plan at The Home Depot. Thereafter, a relationship with the market began to develop.
Karl trades on several markets in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including stock indices, futures, options and warrants, individual stocks, and currency (forex) exchanges. Additionally, Karl offers aspiring professional traders trading instruction and a range of market research and trading services.
Karl’s Obsession with the Market
In June of 2008, while examining stock charts, Karl observed something intriguing: oil prices had changed their pace by breaking the upward trendline. This by itself was not cause for alarm; nevertheless, the more Karl looked, the more charts he discovered exhibiting the same characteristics. Even the VXX, which indicates market sentiment, began to increase. This was the only indication Karl required, so he liquidated all of his long holdings and began shorting stocks. This sort of trading performed quite well for the following six months or so, until the spring of 2009, when things began to shift and the longest Bull Market run to date began. Karl's usage of these trading strategies led him originate the slogan "There is Always a Bull Market."
Finding the time to conduct research on the transactions they want to make, according to Karl, is the most difficult aspect of retail trading. Finding a dependable alert service that delivers trading ideas is, at best, tough. Karl launched Alien Investment Corp in 2007 with the intention of demonstrating that it is possible to maintain a full-time career and trade the stock market on the side.
Experience
Karl has over 25 years of experience as a professional trader on the US, Canadian, European, and Asian markets. He has expertise evaluating numerous financial markets, from the 2008 financial crisis to the longest bull market, and developing new trading strategies and systems for scalping, day, swing, and position trading.
Education
From Accounting to Engineering, Karl's education is diverse and well-rounded. His advanced education includes advanced mathematics, physics, and accounting from the CGA of Alberta.
The Financial and Economics courses studied as part of the CGA proved to be a significant asset in giving the information required to identify and evaluate firms during Karl’s Venture Capital and Angel Investing stages. When studying possible stocks to trade, Karl employs these talents to pick out undesirable companies to go long or good companies to short.
Karl is also an expert in Technical Analysis, having been trained by some of the most respected figures in the financial business, including Steve Nison and Dr. Van Tharp.
Karl lives in Calgary with his beautiful wife Kristen and two daughters Madison and Lily. Karl enjoys wine collecting, cooking and spending time with family and friends.