Who are we?

We started The Auction Stack because too much of what passes for trader education today is either nostalgia or hype. The pits are gone, but the auction that the trading floor was built on is the same one driving electronic markets today. AI changed the tools. It didn't change the tape.

Between us we work from England, Australia, Arizona, Chicago, New York, and Florida. Five time zones that span the global auction from the Sydney open to the New York close. Every founding member is Series 3 qualified. Each of us teaches the era we lived through and the methods we still trade today.

The Founding Six

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Anne-Marie Baiynd

Equities & Stock Options — Gamma Flows, S/R & Fibonacci

Anne-Marie Baiynd is an equities and stock options trader, renowned author, and educator who trades both intraday and swing timeframes. Her methodology combines classical technical analysis — support and resistance, Fibonacci levels — with modern options-flow analysis: dealer positioning, gamma exposure, and the option-driven mechanics that shape equity price action. Her edge sits where the chart and the options chain meet — reading how gamma flows, hedging behaviour and volatility positioning interact with structural levels.

Her path into markets is an unusual one. Anne-Marie began her professional career as a neuroscience researcher, following her studies in Mathematical and Behavioral Statistics. The quantitative discipline stayed with her, but her path led somewhere entirely different — into the world of equities and stock options trading, where she built her reputation as a trader and educator.

She is the author of The Trading Book, a widely read guide to the technical, structural and psychological pillars of trading — and the work that established her as one of the most recognised voices in retail equities education.

Her focus areas include:

  • Equities and stock options trading across intraday and swing timeframes
  • Support and resistance, and Fibonacci levels — the structural map of price
  • Gamma flows, dealer positioning, and the mechanics of options-driven price action
  • Combining technical levels with options-flow context for higher-conviction setups
  • Trader psychology and process — drawing on her behavioural statistics background

Paying it forward seemed best once successful, reliable trading came to stay. The course of action for Anne-Marie was simple:

"Become a successful trader, and teach EVERYTHING I learned to the trader who came to learn. Simple as that. I am here to remove the blindfolds."

For Auction Stack, Anne-Marie brings the equities and stock options pillar — pairing classical S/R and Fibonacci work with gamma-flow analysis across intraday and swing timeframes — alongside an educational philosophy built on transparency and shared knowledge.

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Deeyana Angelo

Energies & Metals — Auction Theory

Deeyana Angelo is a commodities trader with two decades of experience in global futures and options, specialising in energy and metals. Her process is rooted in auction theory and Market Profile, and she runs both discretionary and algorithmic strategies.

Before charts, there were chords. Deeyana built her first career as a session guitarist on the London live and studio circuit, performing with Rod Stewart, Girls Aloud, and as a hired player in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2007 she began trading her own capital alongside her music work, and by 2013 she had traded her guitar pedals for charts full-time, moving from independent trader to full-time professional trader.

That step took her to Infinium Capital Management in Chicago, where she was first introduced to the auction framework that has underpinned her work ever since. On returning to London, she joined the UK desk of First New York, continuing in energies and metals within an institutional environment.

Her expertise sits at the intersection of four areas:

  • Energy and metals futures
  • Options trading, including gamma, dealer positioning and volatility structure
  • Auction-theory-driven discretionary trading
  • Algorithmic strategy design — building, backtesting and deploying systematic edges grounded in the same principles that drive her discretionary work

Beyond the trading desk, Deeyana is the managing director of Blahtech Limited, the London-based fintech company behind her trading tools. Blahtech designs innovative price-action indicators for NinjaTrader — including the flagship Blahtech Supply Demand (SD) and Blahtech Market Profile (MP) indicators — and has provided software architecture services to investment banks for two decades.

She holds the FINRA Series 3 qualification and has previously held the CISI Investment Advice Diploma (IAD).

Deeyana teaches her methodology through Market Stalkers — the CPD-certified trader education programme she founded — and streams live on her YouTube channel, @MarketStalkers.

Today, Deeyana researches new edges in the energy and metals space and is one of six partners behind Auction Stack — a venture dedicated to teaching traders how to apply auction theory, Initial Balance structure, gamma positioning and volume-based confirmation in modern markets.

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Paul S. Samano

Futures & Options Trader — Market Educator & Strategy Developer

Paul S. Samano is a commodities trading professional with more than four decades of experience in futures, options, portfolio management, algorithmic strategy development, and trader education. His career spans the Chicago trading floors, commercial hedging, Commodity Trading Advisor operations, proprietary trading, and risk-managed futures strategy design.

Paul served as Principal Executive Officer for Farmers Commodity Corporation, one of the largest commercial hedging operations at the Chicago Board of Trade, representing more than 750 grain elevators across regional and international offices. He also held senior trading and operations roles at the CBOT, including floor broker, pit committee chairman, and Vice President / Manager of CBOT Floor Operations.

Mentored by Peter Steidlmayer, Paul developed a deep understanding of market structure, price behavior, auction process, and trader decision-making. Paul founded Dynamic Allocation Capital Management, with international offices in London and Singapore, and managed a $10MM portfolio. Today, he researches futures strategies, mentors independent traders, and consults with Commodity Trading Advisors and futures industry professionals.

For Auction Stack, Paul brings institutional trading experience, commercial hedging expertise, and a disciplined educational framework focused on process, risk control, and reading markets through the auction process.

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Vincent Capria

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Aaron Luce

Futures — The Reactive Execution System

Aaron Luce, known online as Aaron Trades, is a full-time funded futures trader, travelling trader, and content creator whose work centres on a rule-based, reactive approach to the markets — reading liquidity, market structure and price action as they unfold, rather than trying to predict what comes next. He is the creator of The Reactive Execution System, the framework that underpins both his own trading and the mentorship programme he runs for funded and aspiring funded traders.

Aaron broadcasts the London open every weekday morning to thousands of traders on his YouTube channel, Aaron Trades. His daily Day Trading London Live Streams cover Gold, NQ, ES and other futures in real time — wins, losses, drawdowns and discipline, narrated live as it happens.

The Reactive Execution System grew out of seven years in the markets. The system was built to remove the decisions that drain funded accounts — hesitation, impulse, and prediction — and replace them with a structural process traders can execute the same way every day.

The core ideas:

  • Reactive, not predictive — trade what price is doing, not what you think it should do
  • Liquidity-first reading of structure — where unfilled orders sit, and where price is most likely to reach for them
  • Higher-timeframe context — anchoring intraday trades to 30-minute and hourly candle closes
  • Daily bias and a small number of high-probability trades — typically 1-2 setups per session
  • Treating profits as capital, not as house money — the rule-set that keeps the account intact through the bad days

Aaron is the founder of The Traders Club and his coaching brand at aarontrades.io, where he teaches the same framework he trades live every day.

For Auction Stack, Aaron brings the funded-trader perspective, the rule-based execution pillar, and the voice of a new generation of trader-educators — the live-streamed, community-first era of trading content, where strategy is taught in real time on the open and the audience grows up watching it unfold.

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© 2026 The Auction Stack. All founding members are Series 3 qualified. Quick reminder. We're sharing how we trade, not telling you what to buy or sell on any given day. Nothing on this site is investment advice or a recommendation to take any specific trade. Futures move fast and losses are real, so only trade with money you can genuinely afford to lose.