Kevin Haggerty has over 40 years of financial industry experience, having spent the last decade as a professional trader and institutional trading consultant after a prior 30 years in the institutional equity trading business. Before he joined the industry as a convertible arbitrage and block trader, he served in Vietnam as a captain in the Marine Corps. Kevin worked at several firms during his institutional trading career, and retired from Fidelity in 1997 as the Senior Vice President in charge of the Fidelity Capital Markets division of Fidelity Investments, which included listed, OTC, and option trading. He was also responsible for all exchange floor executions. During the course of his career, Kevin served as a member of the board of governors for the Chicago Stock Exchange, as a member of the managing directors committee of the CBOE, on the NYSE Stock Allocation Committee, on the S.I.A. Committee, and as a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals. Kevin is a professional contributor to tradingmarkets.com, and currently runs a trading service accessible through TradingMarkets. He is the author of various trading manuals.