"Our philosophy is to always exceed our clients' financial goals and expectations by providing them with an insider's edge into the foreign exchange market. After all, trading is not just our job...it's our passion!"
 

 Our chief trader, Chris Melendez, is also the CEO of Tempest Asset Management. He brings with him an extensive resume with well over a decade of experience in the Forex industry. From Wall Street and other financial centers around the world Mr. Melendez and his professionally trained staff provide an investment team that ranks among the very best in the industry. Originally trained at Deutsche Bank, New York/ Frankfurt in the late 80’s, Chris moved up to become a currency dealer at Standard Chartered Bank in Los Angeles/London/Singapore. He later went on to be the Senior Dealer at Smith Barney Shearson of New York. His expertise in the currency field did not go un-noticed, and in 1994 he went on to become one of the Chief Currency Dealers at Credit Lyonnais Rouse of New York, London and Munich. While at Credit Lyonnais Rouse, he developed the system of trading that he currently uses. This same system helped Chris to become the top global currency trader in the entire firm! After making millions of dollars for some of the world's largest banks and brokerage firms, Chris left Wall Street to take a job as the Senior Currency Dealer and Vice President of Sanwa Bank California in Los Angeles. While at Sanwa his duties included the management of their global currency book-- an investment fund in excess of one billion dollars!

 When Mr. Melendez left the public sector to form Tempest Asset Management, he brought with him an experienced team of traders and proven trading techniques that utilize sound risk management practices. In addition, Chris has an impressive personal network of contacts from leading institutions at financial centers around the world. He has a very disciplined approach that always looks for quality risk-reward opportunities with pre-determined exit points. If the loss levels are reached, they are cut quickly, limiting potential drawdowns, while profits are allowed to run with trailing stops. He capitalizes on long-term trends and short-term aberrations using a mixture of short and medium-term quantitative analysis and evaluation of market psychology. Countless hours of in-depth research into economic and political fundamentals is integral to his trading. These combined components allow Mr. Melendez and his team of traders to differentiate between perception and reality and provide his investors with an unparalleled advantage in the marketplace. Using his current trading system, Mr. Melendez has consistently returned an average net profit in excess of 3% per month - after fees over the last five years. (Note: Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.)

 Mr. Melendez has been a keynote speaker at seminars and universities around the world, including a symposium on economic reform along side George Bush Sr. and Henry Kissinger. He has been published countless times in many of the world’s top financial publications, including: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, The Financial Times, and does a regularly scheduled weekly broadcast on CNBC Asia Squawk Box. In fact, he was named by Bridge News as one of the best short-term traders in the world.

 Tempest Asset Management believes strongly that it can offer its investors minimal drawdowns and a return that is unmatched by any other legal investment in the marketplace today! With almost zero correlation to the stock and bond markets, a professionally managed foreign exchange account provides investors with the added benefit of reduced risk through increased portfolio diversification and access to the world’s largest marketplace. After all, if many of the worlds top investments banks, pension and hedge funds trust the Melendez team to manage billions of dollars of their funds, shouldn’t you?