Beacon Learning Group



Become Your Best

Our goal at Beacon Learning Group (BLG) has been to provide consumers with high quality adult education and training programs designed to motivate them to achieve their personal, financial and self improvement goals.

Achieving financial independence is a goal for many Americans. At the Beacon Learning Group, we have focused our resources on developing and delivering programs that align and support our students' trading/financial objectives.

These programs are designed to enable any student, including new traders, to fulfill his or her dreams of a lifetime of financial freedom, independence and security.

Problem Solved

For most people there is a big gap between "knowing and doing". Beacon Learning Group is dedicated to making the learning process powerful through real world education that will change a student's life. We believe "well done" is better than "well said" so we teach via action activities that will empower each student to achieve their full potential. We believe that you can learn through trial and error or from someone that has already done it. Learning from someone who has been there will save you time and money! With each student the focus is on Safer, Smarter and Faster.

Beacon Services

  • Forex
  • Options
  • Eminis
  • Stock Market Investing and Trading

Our Coaches

Beacon has been fortunate to attract some of the best coaches in the business. Their wisdom and experience has been an asset to our students, of which we mentor in over 42 different countries.

"The coaching program really is for serious students whose intention is to regularly extract sums of money out of the market by learning to trade like a professional. I can see differences in my trading techniques because the personalized program was able to address the flaws that were holding me back. My coach used his experience to quickly plug the holes in my trading techniques and nurture new habits for better trading. I do feel a lot more confident about the career I have chosen.

I was pleasantly surprised that the coach picked was someone who had worked on an institutional level, professionally managed money for others and was still successfully active in the market today. To allow a novice to learn off a professional on a one to one basis is a unique opportunity. The program is really about professional traders giving back to the beginning trader who is struggling to reach that same level. This coaching program has been long overdue in my opinion."
- Ravi M. West Indies



Brian Latta
Brian is the Director of Trader Development for Trade Foreign Currencies, CEO of The International Association of Traders and the author of the soon to be published book: The Book on Trading. Brian has been a Systems Analyst and active trader in the Forex market since 2002. He was also successful as a member of a firm that managed client funds in the Forex market. Read more...




Gary Wabel
Gary has been working in the financial services world since 1995 when he started working with the largest mutual fund company in the world where he worked his way up the ranks from being a trader, and then to sales and operations. During this time Gary was intrigued by trading stocks and options and over the next several years mastered this process himself. Read more...




Mark Fechner
Mark Fechner has been an active trader for 6 years in the Forex and Futures markets. He is the moderator of the Chicago Forex Trading Group, the Chicago Futures and FX Group, and the Chicago Active Traders Meetup Group. Mark hosts virtual meetings twice a month for its Meetup members who reside in the US and Canada. Read more...




Hal Lewis
Hal Lewis has been involved in the Investment Industry since his introduction in 1983 to Investments at the University of Utah. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Finance and also a degree in Management from the University of Utah in 1985. Mr. Lewis has been a successful and active trader for over 24 years in stocks, stock options, commodities and futures markets. He is also a successful Forex trader. Read more...




Neal Craythorn
Neal Craythorn started trading forex in early 2004. Within a year he started sharing his passion for the Forex market with others. He now has over 7 years experience in training and coaching within this market. He has 3 years of experience teaching end users of a data feed company to use their proprietary software and charting tools to trade in the stock market. Read more...





Gordon Scott, CMT
Gordon Scott has been an active investor for 11 years, has coached individuals for seven years, and been a professional teacher to every age group at some point in his career. He learned the art of investing from a personal coach, a former NASDAQ market maker, who taught him an insider's perspective. From that experience he went on to become a licensed broker, a proprietary day trader and a full-time trader in securities, futures and forex. Read more...




Jerry Maass
Jerry has a Bachelors Degree in Finance from the University of Utah with a composite major in Accounting and minor in Economics. Graduate work at Utah State University in Marketing and Marketing Psychology. He has been involved in currency trading for 6 years. He became acquainted with Elliott Wave International 5 years ago and was immediately fascinated by their philosophy. Read more...






Janet Robins
Janet Robins worked as an accountant / financial controller in the software and homebuilding industries for 25 years. In 2004 she was introduced to the Forex market by a "friend". How hard could it be? The market only goes 3 ways - up, down or sideways. Or at least, that was her initial thought. In a relatively short period of time, she soon realized it wasn't that simple. Read more...




David Nielsen
David retired after 30 years in the Transportation business. He has always had an entrepreneurial desire, owning several successful small businesses. He was invited five years ago to join the Salt Lake City Trading Club and was introduced to the Elliott Wave Principle a few months later. He felt an immediate affinity with this basis of methodology and the natural laws it is founded on. Read more...




Edward Goettig, CMT
Edward started his financial career 17 years ago serving in different banking capacities. He received his licenses in securities and has a broad and extensive trading knowledge in Currencies, Securities, Derivatives, Futures, Bonds, and Treasuries. Edward worked for several years on a trading desk where he managed the bank's solvency through the Federal Reserve Bank, which also involved actively managing a billion dollar account. Read more...



Scott Beck
Scott began his career in 1999 working on the trading desk for one of the largest online brokers in the country. As a Series 7 and 63 registered representative he was able to gain a strong understanding of how the markets work from a logistical and operational perspective. It was also in 1999 that he began trading and investing in his own accounts, sparking a strong desire to study and learn as much about the markets and how to trade them as possible. Read more...