Russ Hazelcorn

Russ Hazelcorn, better known as Eddie Z, is a full-time day trader, educator, and total computer geek. He is the creator of www.EZBreakouts.com, an educational website focused on teaching traders exactly how to day trade and swing trade US equities (stocks). The EZBreakout Method focuses on teaching students from the bottom up, via step-by-step instruction, as well as top down, by giving students Hazelcorn's top 10 stock picks that have the highest probability of a breakout the next day, and letting them reverse engineer the selection process. This unique teaching style results in a much higher student rate of success.

Hazelcorn is also the founder of EZ Trading Computers (www.TradingComputersNow.com), the industry leader in high-powered trading computers for traders of all markets. He founded EZ Trading Computers to achieve a single goal: “Educate fellow traders on trading technology and offer them the highest quality computers at the lowest prices possible with the best customer service.”

Hazelcorn has had a lifetime of experience in the financial markets. His father was a commodities future trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). From the time he was five years old, his father would take him to work. Even in the 1970s, before computerized trading, he was mesmerized by all the people huddled in the trading pit screaming and getting very carried away. Interest in trading started in his teens, when his dad taught him how to draw point-and-figure charts by hand with pencil and graph paper. His first full-time job on Wall Street started in 1987 on the floor of the NYMEX, the very first Monday after he graduated high school.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Hazelcorn had a 17-year career as a licensed stockbroker. Now he enjoys trading his own accounts exclusively. He holds an undergraduate degree in accounting from Penn State and an MBA from Lehigh University, but he attributes real-world, in-the-trenches experiences to some of his greatest learning.