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About Us

We'd like to thank you for considering Alaron Las Vegas to handle your commodity trading needs. Alaron Las Vegas is a branch of Alaron Trading Corporation, one of the fastest growing commodity futures and options firms. Alaron is a clearing member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Board of Trade, and OneChicago LLC and is a member firm of the Climate Exchange and the Merchants' Exchange. Our professionals offer high quality brokerage services both to the experienced and novice trader. We take pride in our ability to keep even the "pickiest" trader happy.

Paul Brittain - Vice President of Alaron and Branch Manager of Alaron Las Vegas

Paul Brittain entered the Futures Industry in New Jersey 1983 as an option specialist and joined Alaron in 1998.

Considered by the media to be an “Industry Veteran,” his articles on trading have been published in Futures Magazine, Stocks and Commodities, Active Trader, Option Trader, Pit News and Trader Monthly. He has also participated on trading panels as an “option expert” throughout the country. He publishes several trading signal newsletters, The Beast, The Big MacDaddy and the Optionologist. Mr. Brittain is also a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and managing partner of “The Pirates of Profit”.

In 2004 he created Commodity Trading School, which provides FREE daily online educational webinars to help traders learn more about the markets as well as trading techniques.

He lives in Las Vegas where he is a partner and manager of Alaron Las Vegas. When he is not trading, writing or teaching he builds and restores classic muscle cars.

Carley Garner – Senior Analyst and Assistant Branch Manager of Alaron Las Vegas

Carley Garner is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, from which she earned duel bachelor’s degrees in both Finance and Accounting.

Upon completion of her education, Ms. Garner jumped into the options and futures industry with both feet. Within months in the business, she had published her first article in a nationally distributed periodical. She has been featured in the likes of Stocks and Commodities, Futures, Active Trader, Option Trader, Your Trading Edge, and Pitnews Magazine. Ms. Garner is often interviewed by news services such as Reuters and Dow Jones Newswire, and has been known to participate in Radio interviews.

Ms. Garner is currently registered as a Principal and managing member of the CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) the Pirates of Profit. Through the Pirates of Profit, Carley Garner, along with Paul Brittain, they offer incentive based managed accounts.

Robert B. Firestone - Analyst & Account Executive

Mr. Firestone has worked in the commodities and futures industry and the forex industry since 2002. He regularly provides market commentary for various media outlets. His years of experience and deep understanding of trading techniques and product structure allow him to tutor new and experienced traders on a one-on-one basis.