2006
About Dan Ascani and DefendingYourMoney.com
Born of the Crash of 2008-2009. Reinforced during the Covid Crash of 2020.
DefendingYourMoney.com is all about you: The investor. The trader. The consumer.
After earning bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Psychology from UCLA, Dan began his career as a stockbroker in the early 1980s.
By 1984 hosted his own financial television show on the country’s first financial station, KWHY in Los Angeles, CA. Dan also appeared regularly on financial programs on CNBC, Bloomberg, NBC, CBS, ABC, and other financial stations across the country.
Dan’s Defending Your Money brand began when he founded The Defending Your Money radio show during the Crash of 2008-2009.
Launching again in 2023 on DefendingYourMoney.com, investors now tune in to Dan’s blogs, special reports, and other broadcasts available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Dan’s multi-decade experience also comes from his long career as a money manager, investment advisor, futures trader, and market research publisher.
Dan also ran a hedge fund, and was instrumental in developing and executing the strategies for the initial family of Rydex funds, including the first inverse fund, the Rydex Ursa Fund, a Capiello-Rushmore fund, a gold Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), and several RIA managed account programs.
Dan has spoken at many domestic and world financial conferences, and has edited and/or published popular newsletters such as The Elliott Wave Currency and Commodity Forecast, The Elliott Wave Theorist Telephone Hotline, the world’s first financial 900 line, Stock Market Signals in 1987, The Global Market Strategist, The Safe Money Report, and Profits Without Borders.
Dan’s extensive knowledge of how the markets function comes from “getting down in the weeds,” trading futures, stocks, and options, and working with institutions to develop and execute quant-based and other strategies.
Dan’s path has led him to embrace modern trends in the financial market strategies and hedging that has tweaked his desire to make these sophisticated institutional strategies public in the form of his publications, radio and TV shows, and now YouTube and podcasts.
His path also led him to put together a global consortium of institutions and a government agency with the goal of developing and bringing to market the first gold exchange traded fund.
Dan has also developed a sister service for traders and investors, ProTrader Alert, soon to be launched.
1984
Dan's first television show
On the country’s first financial TV station, KWHY in Los Angeles, CA
1987
World's first financial 900-line
Stock Market Signals. Hundreds of daily telephone updates. Thousands of subscribers.
2008
Defending Your Money radio show
Thousands of prime time listeners in South Florida
2023
DefendingYourMoney.com launched
Defending Your Money brand is re-launched over the internet, social media, YouTube, and more.
1987-2023: Numerous media appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, ABC, and many syndicated TV and radio shows
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Best Author Awards 2012
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World's #1 Best-selling Book
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NYT Best-selling Author 2014
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Best Author Awards 2018
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Award Winning Author
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