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About Tradepedia
Tradepedia is a leading provider of independent educational seminars and courses to both institutional and retail financial markets traders across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Founded by renowned financial markets analyst and management expert, Avramis Despotis, Tradepedia has built a portfolio of clients that represent some of the world’s leading banking and financial institutions. With its motto, ‘learn to earn’, Tradepedia’s charter is to nurture trading excellence. Its lectures are delivered across Europe and the Middle East in multiple languages by highly qualified lecturers and address both the theoretical and practical aspects of trading. With webinars and workshops focusing on technical analysis, risk management and behavioral finance, Tradepedia works to equip students with the knowledge, strategies and tools to make educated trading decisions and gain long-term financial independence.

To date, the company has provided training to over 20,000 individuals and in 2014, Tradepedia opened its licensed MENA headquarters (license no. CL1433) in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

Founder & Head Lecturer, Avramis Despotis
Avramis Despotis is an enthusiastic educator, authoritative voice in price action trading and inspiring personal coach, Avramis Despotis has been immersed in the financial markets for over two decades. Founder and CEO of Tradepedia, he is an expert instructor in technical analysis, risk management and behavioural finance and has mentored over 20,000 private and institutional traders. His technical analysis reports and signals are sought after by clients and stock brokers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As a specialist in stocks and derivates, he correctly predicted the drop of the Western stock markets in 2007 and their subsequent rise in 2009 and the MENA region’s drop in 2008 and rise in 2013. A long-time trader in his native Greek stock exchange, he publicly predicted in Bankingnews.gr the drop of the stock market from 2500 to 500 points in 2010 and the subsequent rise to 1000 points in 2013.

Avramis is regularly called upon by top-tier global firms like Interarab Cambist Association (ICA), The Financial Markets Association (ACI), Saxo Bank, HSBC, Barclays Bank, National Commercial Bank, Arab Bank, Emirates NBD, Abu Dhabi National Bank, MENACORP, FX Pro, XM.com, ADS Securities and more to provide expert-level training to their top traders, fund managers and risk assessors. A regular speaker for Thomson Reuters Middle East, Despotis cites the highlight of his career as speaking at the 37th annual conference of the Interarab Cambist Association, with Tony Blair as keynote speaker, where he delivered two technical analysis courses to 500 delegates from all the banks in the MENA Region.

In 2009 he founded Tradepedia where he brought together all his years as a successful trader, instructor, technical analyst and automated algorithmic software developer. He developed a concise series of courses giving private investors and institutional firms access to proprietary market analysis tools and the skills to become assured, independent traders. Under his astute direction, Tradepedia has fast become a leading training institute and provider of automated software, market reports and signals.

Avramis Despotis is a Certified Financial Technician from the International Federation of Technical Analysts, a member of the British Society of Technical Analysts and is certified by CySEC for Portfolio Management and Own Account Trading. He holds a BSc. in Economics from the University College London and an MSc. in Finance and Banking from the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB).

Prior to Tradepedia, Avramis was a sought after educator and led teams of instructors delivering seminars to multiple clients across Europe and the Middle East. He trained high net worth individuals in the financial markets and institutional clients to pass the Certified Financial Technician CFTe I & II examination. He was a portfolio manager for Atlantic Securities, a leading general insurance company, where he managed funds in FX, commodities and equity markets. He developed automated trading systems for trading and scanning the markets and risk managed all positions and operations undertaken by the company.

His extensive trading experience in the financial markets stems from a decade of interbank trading. He worked for ten years at the Hellenic Bank where he set up multiple departments including the dealing room, credit card department, stock trading accounts and mutual funds. He was entrusted with creating the Hellenic bank’s first capital guaranteed products for FX and equity derivatives until he assumed overall responsibility for FX proprietary trading at the Treasury in Greece.

Currently, he is leading his team of trainers at Tradepedia and is prop trading in the international and local Markets. He is based in Dubai, UAE with his family.