The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Kevin Davey is a US-based algorithmic trading educator, author, and founder of KJ Trading Systems, an education company built around his "Strategy Factory" workshop, an eight-step process he developed for designing, testing, and deploying systematic trading strategies in futures, forex, and stock index markets. A former aerospace engineer, he has traded independently for over two decades and has written five books on algorithmic and systematic trading, including "Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems." He is best known within the retail trading community for his results in the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading, where he claims audited, third-party-verified returns of +148% (2005), +107% (2006), and +112% (2007), finishing in first or second place across those years; these figures are the trading contest's own audited results rather than independently reported outside that context. He now mentors traders and teaches strategy-building primarily through platforms such as TradeStation's EasyLanguage and NinjaTrader, positioning his courses toward retail traders who want to systematize their own trading without needing a professional quant background.
