About Us
About the Machine
The Machine is the financial industry’s first commercially available software product that allows users to build customized portfolios of stocks and ETFs based on quantified and backtested strategies. The Machine allows individuals, investment advisors, and money managers to test and actively manage portfolios that utilize a variety of high performance, fully quantified trading strategies.
The Machine was in development by The Connors Group for over 3 years and incorporates more than a decade of quantitative market research. The Machine was named finalist for the 2010 Innovative Market Data Project award by Inside Market Data and is the only software that builds quantified investment portfolios.
The Machine Lite was introduced in October 2010. This version of The Machine provides individual traders and investors with a more streamlined approach to creating their own portfolios based on multiple quantified strategies.
About The Connors Group
The Connors Group was founded in 1999 by a group of professional traders led by Larry Connors, along with several industry leaders – including Kevin Haggerty, former head of trading for Fidelity Capital Markets.
The Connors Group is a leading innovator in the development and distribution of financial market trading information and data for institutional investment companies, investment advisors, and individual investors and traders.
The firm builds and develops model-driven, quantitatively validated trading and investing methods based on a proprietary database of over 8.4 million U.S. equity trades.
Our singular focus and commitment is to provide our customers with new ways to find the edge they need in investing and trading the financial markets.
The Connors Group was twice awarded as the 10 fastest growing private companies by the Entrex Private Company Index.
The Connors Group is also very active with community services and has worked with the following organizations: ArtWorks The Naomi Cohain Foundation; Chouteau Public Library; Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure; Go for Broke National Education Center; A Place Called Home; Dana Farber Cancer Institute; National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Lubwe Zambia Fund; Children of the Night; UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association Scholarship Fund; CAPAODA Consultants Inc./Women Incarcerated Giving Back; Lights, Camera, Action; America Scores National Poetry Slam!; Foundation for the Junior Blin; Agape Families; and The Jimmy Fund Clinic.
About The Management Team:
Larry Connors – Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Chief Executive Officer & founder Mr. Connors has 30 years of experience working in the financial markets industry. He started his career in 1982 at Merrill Lynch and later moved on to become a Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette (DLJ).
Mr. Connors has built two multi-million dollar financial market companies since 1995 including The Connors Group. He has also successfully managed money since 1994 in two separate private partnerships.
Mr. Connors has authored top-selling books on market strategies and volatility trading, including How Markets Really Work and Street Smarts (with Linda Raschke). Street Smarts was selected by Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine as one of “The Classics” for trading books written in the 20th century.
His latest book, High Probability ETF Trading was selected by SFO Magazine as one of the Ten Best Investment and Trading Books for 2009. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
Mr. Connors’ opinions and insights have been featured and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Bloomberg TV & Radio, Bloomberg Magazine, Dow Jones Newswire, Yahoo Finance, E-Trade Financial Daily, Futures Magazine, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, and many others.
Mr. Connors has also been a featured speaker at a number of major investment conferences over the past two decades. He is widely regarded as one of the leading educators in the financial markets industry.
Email: lconnors@cg3.com
Rob Davenport – President
Prior to joining The Connors Group in 2010, Mr. Davenport served as a research consultant to Connors Research and a business consultant to The Connors Group. He has over 8 years of experience in the financial markets in research and as a trader of equities, ETFs, and futures.
Mr. Davenport worked for 12 years for Applied Materials, the leading supplier of semiconductor equipment in the world. As Director of Marketing he was responsible for the product management and marketing activities of two of the industry’s most successful products. He oversaw each line from the early development stage to over 60% market share with world class gross margins and annual sales in the $1B per year range. He holds 7 U.S. patents related to these products.
Mr. Davenport started his career in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear propulsion officer onboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
Email: rdavenport@cg3.com
Paul Brost – Vice President of Technology
Paul Brost is the Vice President of Technology for The Connors Group. Mr. Brost has over 10 years’ experience successfully designing, developing and growing web-based applications. Prior to joining The Connors Group in 2008, Mr. Brost worked as a program manager for Moody’s Analytics, part of Moody’s Investor Services. While at Moody’s, Mr. Brost focused on new product development and expanding the core research and data services into alternate delivery methods, advances that enabled the retention and expansion of critical research relationships with the world’s largest fixed-income investors.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Email: pbrost@cg3.com
How To Contact Us:
The Connors Group
10 Exchange Place, Suite 1800
Jersey City, NJ
888-484-8220
973-494-7311