#PreMarket Prep Guest List For The Week Of December 29, 2014

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Monday, December 29, 8:35 a.m.

Anne-Marie Baiynd (@AnneMarieTrades), Author and Financial Analyst

Anne-Marie Baiynd is a trader, author and financial analyst best known for her book, "The Trading Book Course: A Practical Guide to Profiting with Technical Analysis."

9 a.m.

Winthrop H. Smith Jr., Former Chairman of Merrill Lynch International

Winthrop H. Smith is also the son of one of Merrill Lynch's founders. During Smith's final decade with the firm, he was EVP of Merrill Lynch & Co., member of the Executive Management Committee, and Chairman of Merrill Lynch International. In the latter capacity, he led one of ML's four business units with 9,000 employees, over $2 billion in revenues, and client assets of $180 billion.

9:20 a.m.

Marlon Weems (@GeekTrader), Founder of Hillcrest Strategies

During his 30-year career in the financial industry, Marlon Weems has experience in a wide array of areas from supervision of trading system integration projects and implementation of regulatory compliance procedures, to managing day-to-day sales and trading operations. He has worked as a fixed income sales trader for Stephens Inc., as well as founding MSW International, a commodities trade and finance house.

Tuesday, December 30, 8:35 a.m.

Nic Chahine (@racernic), Creating income with options spreads

Nic Chahine joins the show every Tuesday to discuss the week's options outlook.

9 a.m.

Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs), Author Of "A Wealth Of Common Sense"

Ben Carlson has been managing institutional investment portfolios since 2005. Hiscareer began with an investment consulting firm developing portfolio strategies for pensions, foundations, endowments, hospitals, insurance companies and high net worth individuals. Now, he is a part of a team that manages a large investment portfolio for an endowment fund of a charitable organization.

9:20 a.m.

Paul Mladjenovic (@PaulMlad), Author of "Stock Investing For Dummies" and "The Raving Capitalist"

Paul Mladjenovi is a national seminar leader, author and consultant. His specialties are investing and home business issues. Since 1981, His company has helped thousands build wealth through nationwide seminars, workshops and investment conferences.

Wednesday, December 31, 8:35 a.m.

Fari Hamzei (@HamzeiAnalytics), Founder of Hamzei Analytics

Fari Hamzei joins the show every Wednesday, bringing his wealth of knowledge on aggressive equity options and index futures trends.

9 a.m.

JJ Kinahan (@TDAJJKinahan), Chief Strategist for TD Ameritrade

Joe Kinahan began his career as a Chicago Board Options Exchange market maker in 1985, trading primarily in the S&P 100 and S&P 500 pits. While spending his time there primarily as an independent market maker, he also worked for ING Bank, Blue Capital and was Managing Director of Option Trading for Van Der Moolen, USA. In 2006, Kinahan joined the thinkorswim Group, which was eventually acquired by TD Ameritrade.

9:20 a.m.

Dr. Mikhail Melnik, Economics Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University

Mikhail Melnik's economics research in online commerce and taxation is recognized internationally, and he has been interviewed in media outlets such as Forbes, Bloomberg News Radio, The Buffalo News, and CNBC. His research has been cited by policy makers, including the State of Florida Senate, and prominent think tanks, including American Enterprise Institute.

Friday, January 2, 8:10 a.m. #FedForecast2015

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Thomas Simpson, Former Federal Reserve Officer and Author of "Financial Markets, Banking, and Monetary Policy"

At the board, Thomas Simpson was a senior officer, with responsibilities in the area of monetary policy, economic forecasting, and financial markets, and served as an officer of the Federal Open Market Committee. In addition, he represented the Board in various outside organizations, including the Committee on Financial Markets of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute

Alice M. Rivlin is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings, a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. She recently served as a member of the President’s Debt Commission, was founding director of CBO, served as OMB director and was Federal Reserve Vice Chair. She is an expert on fiscal and monetary policy.

8:45 a.m.

Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff), CEO and Chief Global Strategist at Euro Pacific Capital

Euro Pacific Capital is a a US-based a full-service, registered broker/dealer specializing in foreign markets and securities. Peter Schiff is the chairman of Euro Pacific Precious Metals and Euro Pacific Bank, Peter's international brokerage firm. He is also the radio host of the nationally syndicated Peter Schiff Show. His latest book is “The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy.”

Ron Insana (@rinsana), CNBC Contributor and Author of Insana's Market Intelligence

Ron Insana is a contributor to CNBC and MSNBC, where he discusses the most pressing economic and market issues of the day. He also delivers The Market Scoreboard Report to radio stations around the country. For nearly three decades, Insana has been a highly respected business journalist and money manager.

9:20 a.m.

Richard Vague, Managing Partner at Gabriel Investments

Richard Vague is currently one of the managing partners of Gabriel Investments, as well as the author of "The Next Economic Disaster," a book with a new approach for predicting and preventing financial crises. He serves on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Vague is also editor of the blog and email newsletter service Delanceyplace.com and of the website Debt-economics.org.

Dr. King Banaian (@repbanaian), Former Minnesota State Representative

Dr. King Banaian is a professor in the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University. He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He is author of "The Ukrainian Economy since Independence." He directs the Center for Economic Education at SCSU. He is a fellow of the Armenian International Policy Research Group in Washington, DC and Yerevan, Armenia. He is a past representative of the north and east portions of St. Cloud and Haven Township in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

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