Phil Flynn is Vice President, Energy Analyst and General Market Analyst with Alaron Trading Corporation (www.alaron.com). Phil is one of the world’s leading energy market analysts, providing individual investors, professional traders and institutions with up-to-the-minute investment and risk management insight into global petroleum, gasoline and energy markets.  Phil’s market commentary, fundamental and technical analysis, and long-term forecasts are sought by industry executives, investors and media worldwide.

Most recently, Phil and his energy team were one of the first to predict that global crude oil prices would exceed $30/barrel in the year 2000, a correctly-predicted market milestone which has highlighted the economic scene in the new millennium. Through hundreds of media interviews, Phil Flynn and Alaron Trading have become familiar names in living rooms and boardrooms worldwide. The world’s print, broadcast and online media have come to rely on Phil’s accurate and animated forecasts and analysis.

Media highlights include: ABC, CBS, NBC’s “Today Show” and “Nightly News with Tom Brokaw”, CNBC, CNN/ CNNfn, FOX’s “O’Reilly Factor”, PBS’s “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and “Nightly Business Report”, MSNBC’s “The News with Brian Williams”, Wall Street Journal Report, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, The Toronto Globe & Mail, Houston Chronicle, Futures Magazine and National Public Radio.

Phil’s daily market analysis can be viewed at www.alaron.com and at http://forum.ino.com, the world’s leading futures Web site. He has an extremely popular bi-weekly live interactive Q&A on AOL Market Talk, the largest interactive financial forum on the Web, and has been featured on MarketWatch.com, ino.com and FutureSource.com.

Phil’s commitment to and experience in futures trading is documented in two books, The Mind of a Trader (Financial Times/Pitman,1997), and Trading Online (publisher, date), both by Alpesh B. Patel.  Phil is a lifelong resident of Illinois. He attended Daley College in Chicago before beginning his career on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Check out his daily Energy Report at www.alaron.com