Kevin Davey is a champion trader, critically-acclaimed author, and award-winning educator. He is the Founder of KJ Trading Systems, where he helps individual traders enhance their algorithmic trading skills through workshops, mentoring, and educational resources. Davey is a renowned figure in the world of algorithmic trading who has been developing, analyzing, testing, and creating trading strategies for over 25 years. He first gained widespread recognition for his impressive performance in global futures trading competitions, earning returns over 100% in multiple years. He has also authored several influential books on algorithmic trading, which have been well-received in the trading community.
Kevin Davey Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
Academic History
TRADING CAREER
Davey is a three-time top finisher in the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading, earning returns over 100% in multiple years.
He finished second in 2005 (+148% return), first in 2006 (+107% return), and second in 2007 (+112% return).
Currently, Davey trades full time, writes trading related articles and gives trading webinars, including his award winning Strategy Factory® workshop.
He emphasizes a systematic, quantitative approach to trading, leveraging his engineering background to create robust algorithmic trading systems.
PUBLICATIONS
Davey is the author of several well-received books including Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems (2014) and Entry and Exit Confessions of a Champion Trader (2019).
He also authored Introduction to Algo Trading, Stock Investing for Everyone, and Algo Trading Cheat Codes.
He writes the monthly column "Algo Q&A" for the Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine.