OUR TEAM

Sean Allison is a highly respected trading educator, speaker, and market strategist with more than 20 years of experience helping everyday people build confidence, clarity, and consistency in the markets. Known for his practical, no-nonsense approach, Sean has spent two decades focused on one mission:
 to show ordinary people how to generate extraordinary results without taking extraordinary risks.

Before becoming a full-time trader and educator, Sean studied accounting and began his career as an accountant. It was during this time, working closely with individuals, families, and small businesses that he witnessed firsthand how much everyday people lacked basic financial education. He saw how confusion, fear, and misinformation around money kept people from building financial security and opportunity. This realisation became a turning point: Sean left his accounting career and committed himself to learning how the financial markets truly worked so he could one day teach others to take control of their financial future.

Sean’s unique teaching style and methodical strategies have made him a sought-after voice in the financial education world. He has spoken alongside globally recognised economists and financial thinkers including Peter Schiff, Harry Dent, and Robert Kiyosaki, and has trained more than 10,000 people worldwide. His work is rooted in real market experience forged through years of research, testing, and disciplined execution.

Unlike many modern traders who emerge during bull markets or social-media trends, Sean built his expertise the hard way, through decades of trial, error, refinement, and exploration across multiple market conditions. From market booms to major downturns, he has navigated the full spectrum of volatility, developing a deep understanding of the principles that truly matter: risk management, consistency, and repeatability.

Throughout his career, one question has driven his work:
 “How can the everyday person trade the markets safely, simply, and successfully?”

This question ultimately led Sean to specialise in lower-risk Options trading strategies, the same structured, rules-based methods used by institutional traders to generate steady, predictable outcomes. Through deep research and hands-on experience, he discovered that Options, when used correctly, offer one of the most effective ways to create reliable returns without relying on speculation or high-risk bets. He became determined to make these institutional-grade strategies accessible and understandable for everyday people.

At Reliable Trading, Sean plays a central role in delivering education that aligns perfectly with the company’s mission: empowering individuals to take control of their financial future through lower-risk, practical, and easy-to-understand strategies. He specialises in breaking down complex Options concepts into step-by-step frameworks that anyone can follow, regardless of experience or account size.

His members value him not only for his expertise, but also for his integrity. Sean never promises miracles or shortcuts. Instead, he teaches the disciplined approach that has served him and many others through every market cycle. His trainings focus on building skills, strengthening confidence, and helping individuals create reliable, repeatable outcomes with small, manageable starting points.

Sean is also known for his engaging teaching style, relatable communication, and ability to make the financial markets, especially Options, feel less intimidating. His long-standing commitment to helping everyday people, combined with decades of real-world experience, makes him an indispensable part of Reliable Trading’s mission.

Today, Sean continues to inspire and educate traders around the world, offering them the tools, mindset, and Options strategies needed to grow and protect their wealth through practical, lower-risk methods. His life’s work reflects the core vision of Reliable Trading:
 empowering people to build true financial resilience, one smart decision at a time.

With extensive experience in derivatives execution, commodity strategy, and multi-asset risk management, Tony Barassi is known for his deep expertise in commodity markets with a particular passion for the structure, behavior, and timing of gold trading. As part of Reliable Trading’s expert team, Tony applies years of institutional trading experience to help everyday people learn how to approach the gold market with confidence, clarity, and lower-risk strategies.

Tony spent six years as a Trader at Stifel Financial Corp., where he specialized in precision execution across futures, options, and derivatives. In highly liquid and volatile markets (including gold, index futures, and other commodities) he built a reputation for reducing slippage, identifying liquidity imbalances, and improving execution quality using advanced analytics and algorithmic tools. Tony engineered a Bloomberg-based portfolio optimization system that cut research latency by 40%, and he developed automated VWAP/TWAP execution prototypes. These experiences now shape the way he teaches Reliable Trading members to think strategically, manage risk, and understand gold’s unique market microstructure.

His earlier role as a Commodity Derivatives Trader at Seaboard International Forest Products expanded his technical and macro-based approach to commodities. There, Tony developed multi-leg futures strategies, proprietary indicators, and macro-aligned positioning methods, skills that directly strengthened his ability to analyze precious metals. His understanding of volatility cycles, supply-demand imbalances, and price behavior in commodity futures translates seamlessly into teaching gold traders how to recognize opportunities while avoiding unnecessary risk.

Tony’s analytical foundation began at the Minuteman Alternative Investment Fund and WGL Midstream, where he researched and traded natural gas, electricity, equities, and commodity futures. At Minuteman, he achieved 10 consecutive positive-return months through asymmetric, lower-risk strategies, an approach that aligns perfectly with Reliable Trading’s mission. This disciplined, protective style is the same philosophy he brings to gold trading education: structured, methodical, and focused on safeguarding wealth.

Academically, Tony earned a 3.7 GPA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management, a significant achievement in a competitive finance program. A GPA at this level reflects mastery of quantitative analysis, strong work ethic, and consistent high performance, all qualities that shape his disciplined approach to gold and commodity trading.

Tony is also fully credentialed with the FINRA Series 57, Series 7, and Series 63 licenses, which together represent deep regulatory knowledge and professional market competency. The Series 57 demonstrates advanced expertise in trading execution and market microstructure; the Series 7 confirms broad, sophisticated understanding of securities and options; and the Series 63 ensures adherence to ethical and state-level regulatory standards. These licenses reinforce the integrity, professionalism, and rigor behind Tony’s teaching.

Today, Tony brings his passion for gold trading, his institutional expertise, and his commitment to transparent, risk-conscious education to the Reliable Trading community. His mission is to help everyday people learn the same principles and protective strategies that professionals use empowering them to approach the gold market with confidence, clarity, and long-term resilience.