High-impact trading books designed to give traders and investors clarity, structure, and an edge across all markets and conditions.

Stephen Hoad is an algorithmic, quantitative, and technical analyst trader with over 25 years of global financial markets experience. He is the founder of THE STOP HUNTER, a specialist FinTech, trading, and financial markets training company established in 2015. Stephen is also the Chief Investment Officer of his own fund.

His career spans senior roles at Koch Industries, Merrill Lynch, WestLB, and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, where he specialized in commodities, technical analysis, systematic and algorithmic trading, derivatives structuring, risk management, and quantitative financial theory. He has worked as a portfolio manager, proprietary trader, options trader, quantitative analyst, and senior risk manager across global desks.

Stephen is highly regarded in the trading industry, recently described by the Society of Technical Analysts as “The Algorithmic Trading Genius.” He is passionate about empowering traders through edge-focused, probability-driven strategies and teaches both retail and institutional clients how to develop disciplined, professional-grade systems.