Michael L. Barna is Trading System Lab's founder and President. Mike received a Master of Science in Astronautical and Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University and specialized in advanced guidance and control systems. His background includes positions in hedge funds, managed account funds and engineering and management positions at several large aerospace defense firms where he developed ramjet, and space based laser defense systems. His work included the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms as a means to enhance various guidance and control systems.
Mr. Barna has utilized similar AI techniques in the design of modern Trading Systems and has pioneered AI and Trading System integration. Mike has created numerous popular and successful Trading Systems that are employed by fund managers, brokerage houses and traders worldwide. His Legacy Trading System "Big Blue" is ranked one of the Top Ten Trading Systems of All Time as published in the Book: "The Ultimate Trading Guide", by Hill, Pruitt and Hill. Mr. Barna is the creator and author of one of the most popular Legacy daytrading systems ever written, The RMESA Trading System, which is his first trading system to include a basic Neural Network approximation filter. His original RMESA3 daytrading system remains today, 10 years following its deployment, one of the highest ranked daytrading system since release date.
Mike's background includes airline captain and flying management positions at one of the largest international airlines in the world. Mr. Barna's associations include Mesa Software and Alfaranda Systems. Mr. Barna has provided more Futures Truth top ranked trading systems than any other developer in the country. Mike is a TradeStation™ Open Platform developer and has produced Trading Systems and Indicators for TradeStation™ for over 10 years. Previously, he was the Vice President of Regency Stocks and Commodities Fund, LP where his mechanical trading systems were employed to manage the firm's futures portfolio. His work has been published in numerous books and journals on Trading Systems. Mike holds or has held 10 FAA pilot ratings or licenses, 2 commodity licenses and a California State Realtors license. Mike is an tournament level, indoor 4 wall handball player with Canadian National and California State Championship titles. Mr. Barna resides in Northern California with his family where he works closely with several other top programmers, traders and money managers, on the use of Genetic Programming for the Automatic Creation of Trading Systems.