About Us
Our History and Our Leaders
Out of success, a company was born.
Nigel Hawkes, founder of Hawkeye Traders, began trading the stock market in 1986. His tools? Only graph paper and a calculator!
But his learning was not just by trial and error. From 1989 to 1993, he studied Richard Wycoff's method on volume and momentum, and he was mentored by Mark Douglas, author of "Trading in the Zone" and "The Disciplined Trader." Nigel calls these years his "university training."
After this extensive study in volume spread analysis, momentum, and price action, Nigel developed a suite of successful indicators. His goal in creating these indicators was to improve his personal trading — that was all. But eventually word got out, and people began asking how they could get these indicators. Thus Hawkeye Traders was born.
Still, Nigel's goal was not to build a business, but to continue improving his personal trading. Helping others flourish in their trading endeavors was secondary. It was his way of sharing. He'd been mentored, and now it was his turn to mentor.
So Hawkeye's stunning success originally began not from a business plan or an advertising strategy, but solely by word of mouth.
But the story doesn't end there. Through a series of key business relationships and partnerships over the years, Hawkeye Traders has developed its current suite of ChartTools available for TradeStation®, MetaTrader, eSignal, MultiCharts and NinjaTraderTM.
Who We Are
We are all full-time traders, using the Hawkeye suite of tools.
Nigel HawkesFounder, Hawkeye Traders
Back in 1986, Nigel began his trading career, using methods based on Elliott, Gann, and other popular theorists. He didn't take long to realize that standard indicators were shortsighted for the current day's market volatility. So, after much research and development, Nigel formulated his own proprietary indicator collection. Based on volume spread analysis, standard deviation price, and pattern recognition, this strategy quickly proved resilient for achieving consistently profitable trades. These tools are now the Hawkeye indicators. Based on Nigel's more than 20 years of volume research and active trading experience, the Hawkeye indicators have become one of the most powerful trading tools, applicable to all markets today.
When not trading, Nigel spends his time on the sea fishing or sailing. (He also wields a pretty mean pan in the kitchen!)
Rachel SchmidtExecutive Assistant, Customer Service
Rachel manages the day-to-day operations behind the scenes at Hawkeye Traders. She is responsible for customer relations, communications, and product delivery. She also coordinates all technical responses, making sure any issues reported are routed to the appropriate resolution contact within Hawkeye Traders. Her additional duties include maintenance of the website, blog, and she publishes the weekly newsletter.
Rachel and her husband Jeff live in Buffalo, NY, and have one son, and one daughter.
Anna CoullingAffiliate, HawkeyeFX.com
Anna Coulling has been involved in the financial markets for over 15 years, trading and investing in virtually every market with experience across all market instruments, from futures and options to stocks, commodities and forex.
She writes and publishes articles for both UK and international publications on a variety of financial topics and, in particular, she enjoys helping others to learn how to trade and invest. Since starting her first website several years ago she has since developed a network of sites covering a variety of markets and instruments. At the last count these numbered over 60, all free and dedicated to demystifying and simplifying the financial markets for fellow traders and investors.
In the last few years she has focused on trading the forex market, where she now specializes. She writes regular forex market analyzes on her personal website, and she is also an expert contributor to fxstreet, one of the world’s leading forex portals, where you can find her weekly analysis of the major currency pairs.
In addition she has a dedicated facebook page for forex traders which can be found at http://www.facebook.com/learnforextrading. She also has a large twitter following and you can find her at http://www.twitter.com/annacoull.
Denise VinciniAffiliate, Automated Trading Systems
Denise's first investments started with Italian stocks in 1989. After successfully trading these stocks, she moved into geared derivatives with mixed success — due to fear and just a bit of greed. She then decided to develop her trading plans into fully automated systems. In her previous career, she'd founded and managed a very successful manufacturing business in Italy, where she developed a passion for new technologies. She has traded with automated systems full-time since 2005, using intraday and longer-term timeframes.
In 2007, Denise discovered Hawkeye indicators. Since then, she has implemented Hawkeye indicators plus some of her own propitiatory indicators into every automated system with striking success. For further details on Denise's auto strategy's please contact her at Wealth.D@bigpond.net.au to receive a copy of her actual trading track records
Denise received a diploma in Financial Services in 2005 from AFMA, Australia and has a Management Hospitality Diploma from the Slovak Republic. She lives at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast of Australia with her two school-aged daughters, enjoying the sun, sand, and warm-weather lifestyle.






