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Best of Wyckoff 2015 - TSAA-SF Annual Conference

Dr. Hank Pruden

Dr. Hank Pruden is a professor in the School of Business at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he has been teaching for 38 years. Dr. Pruden is the executive director of the Institute of Technical Market Analysis (ITMA). At Golden Gate University, he developed the accredited courses in technical market analysis in 1976. Since then, the curriculum has expanded to include advanced topics in technical analysis and trading.

In his courses, Dr. Pruden emphasizes the psychology of trading as well as the use of technical analysis methods. He has published extensively in both areas. He has mentored individual and institutional traders in the field of technical analysis for many years. He presently serves on the board of directors and is past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco. Dr. Pruden was also on the board of directors of the Market Technicians Association (MTA). He has served as vice chair, IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts); From 1982 to 1993 he was a member of the board of trustees of Golden Gate University. He is the recipient of the Life Achievement Award.

Bruce Fraser

Since 1987, Bruce has been teaching at the only university to offer a graduate level program in technical analysis, Golden Gate University in San Francisco. As an adjunct professor in the early 1990’s, Bruce and Dr. Hank Pruden crafted the curriculum for the first graduate-level class in the Wyckoff Method. Bruce’s broad breadth of experience has allowed him to periodically teach many of the other required courses in Golden Gate’s Technical Analysis degree program, including Technical Analysis of Securities, Business Cycle Analysis, and Strategy & Implementation.

Bruce is a market veteran and co-founded the Pring Turner Capital Group with Martin Pring and Joe Turner 26 years ago. Considered to be one of the foremost experts on the Wyckoff Method, he has been a full-time trader for the last 15 years, using the Wyckoff Method exclusively.

Linda Bradford Raschke

Linda began her professional trading career in 1981 making markets in options as a member of two exchanges. She became a registered CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) in 1992

Since then, she has been the principle trader for several funds and started her own hedge fund in 2002 for which she is the CPO (Commodity Pool Operator). Linda’s hedge fund has been ranked 17th out of 4500 for best 5 year performance by BarclaysHedge and her early successes were recognized by Jack Schwager in his renowned Market Wizards series. Linda continues to trade a similar program today that she has traded since 1992.

In the world of professional trading and money management, Linda Raschke stands out from the crowd for three factors (all of which should be priorities for any serious trader): Performance, Longevity and Consistency.

Roman Bogomazov

Roman is an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is President of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco (TSAASF) and the Online Development Director for the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) . Roman entered the trading profession in 1996 and has since developed his focus on education and professional training.

Roman teaches “Wyckoff Method” as a technical analysis class and “Trading Strategies and Implementation” which focuses on trading plan development, back testing and trading performance. He is a consultant and developer of the Cyber Campus technical market analysis program at Golden Gate University. Roman is a frequent speaker at local, national and international events.

Roman holds a B.S. in Economics and Management from University of Maryland and a M.S. in Finance from Golden Gate University. He is one of the first graduates to receive a Certificate of Technical Market Analysis from Golden Gate University.

David Weis

David Weis has over 40 years of experience as a futures trader and analyst. He began his career as a technical analyst for ContiCommodities and later became its Director of Technical Research.

He is one of the leading practitioners of the Wyckoff method which is the subject of his latest book, Trades About To Happen, published by Wiley & Co. Weis’s earlier books are Trading With the Elliott Wave Principle, A Practical Guide and Charting the Stock Market, The Wyckoff Method, the latter which he co-authored. Currently he writes the Stock Market Update, a free, nightly report dealing with his interpretation of S&P futures based on price/volume behavior.

Mr. Weis has adapted Wyckoff’s original tape reading chart to create the Weis Wave, a charting method that provides a truer picture of volume and is especially proficient at recognizing changes in behavior prior to trend reversals.

Tom Hamilton

Tom purchased his first stock, 3 shares of General Telephone, at the ripe age of 10. He was fortunate enough that the first investment book he read was “Technical Analysis of Stock Trends” by Edwards and Magee. From that point on Technical Analysis has been his focus and his continuing study.

The technical bent lead him to engineering, and after 33 years in the automotive industry he retired at age 55. Having witnessing so much investment misadvise he formed Special Risk Capital Management, LLC to manage his family’s retirement assets, while taking on a select group of clients.

Two philosophies have driven his work over the past 12 years, risk adjusted return and techniques that add alpha value to a portfolio. While studying the high growth stock investment techniques of William O’Neil, he found that the Wyckoff Theory fits his personality and investment objectives very well.