Our Team
Michael Berman
Biography and Professional History
Michael has decades of experience as a professional trader, hedge fund manager and incubator of emerging traders. He has built a number of trading analytic platforms with 3 successful exits and has served as the CEO of a regulated CFD broker and as a director of a public company in his late 20’s. He has also co-founded a high frequency market making business and acted as its risk manager before selling the business to a large digital asset company.
Successful trading is a blend of discipline, analytics, and self-awareness. Real breakthroughs happen when you don’t just follow a strategy — you understand why it works and where it might fail.
Michael is an out the box thinker with a wide area of interests spanning economics, finance, technical and fundamental analysis, quantitative and behavioral finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency, philosophy, psychology, religion, and technology. Michael currently runs a trading and investment consultancy Signal2Noise.
Expertise
- Trading
- Portfolio management
- Investment management
- Management consulting
Achievements and Education
1996– MS in Property Development & Management, University of the Witwatersrand.
2007– PhD in Economics, Rushmore University.
1999-2003 – Property Executive & Hedge Fund Manager at Corpcapital Bank.
2003-2015 – CEO at VT International, a boutique hedge fund and research think tank/consultancy.
2015-2021 – CEO at PsyQuation, an Australian domiciled cloud-based software platform for traders, brokers, and capital allocators.
2021– Co-Founder of True Alpha Ventures, a proprietary quantitative high frequency market making trading firm focused on the crypto market.
2021-2023 – CEO of trading platforms Ditto Trade and FXTRADING.com.
2023– Founder of Signal2Noise, a global macro newsletter and research portal focused on traders and investors.
