Instructor

Adam Shrager

Practical Experience:

Adam Shrager is a New York Institute of Finance faculty member who specializes in Equity Markets. Adam served as Director of Training for FIRE Solutions, Inc., a financial services licensing training and continuing education firm. Prior to this role, he was the Corporate Training Manager with Knight Trading Group, Inc, where he developed and managed ''Knight School'', the Market Maker training program, at the world's leading market maker in NASDAQ and listed equity securities and options. He has also worked on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, and is a published author. At the New York Institute of Finance, Mr. Shrager has taught courses in statistics for the finance professional, domestic equity market structure, and equity trading.

Mr. Shrager is on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught such graduate-level courses as ''Financial Management in the Public and Corporate Sector'' as well as courses in quantitative analysis. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.

Areas of Expertise:

Equity Markets

Equity Trading

Statistics and Probability

Quantitative Analysis

Education:

M.A., (PhD ABD), Political Science, Princeton University

B.A., Political Science, Tufts University

Licenses:

Series 7

Series 24

Series 4

Series 55

Publication(s):

The Finest Crew In The Fleet, June 1997, Wolf Valley Books, NY, NY. Also published by Summersdale Books (United Kingdom and Canada, 1998) and Heel Verlag (Germany, 1999, an updated edition published as Die Trek - Crew von Picard bis Troy. Die Stars aus TNG vor und hinter den Kulissen)

''IPO Allocation Practices,'' in STCompliance Digest, Volume 10, 2002

''Rational Ignorance and the Power of First Impression: Considerations in the Presidential Election,'' November 1995, presented at the Northeast Political Science Association Convention

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