In this special "Meet the Experts" series, we asked our investing and trading experts to speak directly with our readers, discussing their backgrounds, investment strategies, and reviewing their presentations at the upcoming The MoneyShow Toronto.

Perhaps more than any other time in the last century, politics, economic data, monetary policy, had become inexplicably linked with global market behavior.

At the Independent Investor Institute, our job is to help you understand markets from the top down and the bottom up to spot the opportunities in the short term that can be carried out to the longer term, but more importantly to identify the downside risks that investors can face on a day-to-day basis, week-to-week basis, and quarter-to-quarter basis.

Our job at the institute is to help active investors like yourself manage, build your portfolios and of course trade around them in the shorter term.

If you're interested in learning about global macro markets combined with technical analysis, fundamental analysis, well join us, learn to trade and invest at the Independent Investor Institute with a global market perspective.

I am looking forward to seeing you at my live sessions at the Toronto MoneyShow. My name is Ziad Jasani and I look forward to shaking your hand.