Chris Carolan is a 30-year market technician and a pioneer in his field. He is the 1998 recipient of the Charles Dow Award for excellence and creativity in technical analysis. He spent eight years as an options trader on the Pacific Coast Exchange, and lived to talk about it! Chris is the editor of EWI's Asian-Pacific Short Term Update and European Short Term Update -- two tri-weekly publications for short-term oriented investors and traders.

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Steve Craig has been involved with energy futures since their inception and credits Bob Prechter's masterful stock market forecasts in the 1980s for the inspiration to make the leap from an Elliott wave student to an ardent practitioner. Prior to joining EWI in 2001, he held risk management positions at Central & South West and Kerr-McGee, two of the largest energy firms in the United States. He is intimately familiar with the production and consumption side of the business as well as the physical and financial aspects of energy trading. This hands-on experience adds a valuable dimension to his analysis. Steve is responsible for EWI’s on-line Specialty Services Energy coverage which includes up-to-the-hour forecasts for NYMEX crude oil and natural gas and end-of-day comments on crude oil, Brent, natural gas, heating oil and unleaded as well as several related ETFs. His crude oil and natural gas views are featured each month in EWI’s Global Market Perspective.

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Tom Denham publishes intraday forecasts of European Stock Indexes for Specialty Services. Tom was editor of the European Financial Forecast and the European Short Term Update from 2004 through 2008. He was editor of the International Metals Outlook from 2003 to 2004, and he also published intraday analysis of cross-rates for the International Currency Outlook. Tom managed the EWI Message Board and taught seminars on trading with the Wave Principle early in his career at Elliott Wave International. Tom began trading financial markets just after the 1987 stock market crash. He was a chaplain and psychotherapist for 15 years and approaches the analysis of markets with a deep understanding of human psychology.

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Peter DeSario has been actively involved in the futures markets for over 30 years. Peter earned an MBA from Kent State University. For 14 years, Peter managed a brokerage office for the country's largest futures firm, during which time he became the firm's Senior Technical Analyst. Beginning in December 1990, Peter edited the monthly letter The Elliott Wave Currency and Commodity Forecast for EWI. Today, he is in charge of The World Commodities Outlook.

Mike Drakulich has over 25 years of professional experience in the markets, starting in the pits at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, moving up to trade FX on a bank desk, then working for and leaving Dean Witter Reynolds Futures as Vice-President and Senior Technical Market Analyst.  He also ran his own advisory trading firm and Introducing Broker, and spent some time as the head trader at a hedge fund.  Ron has a B.A. in economics from Reed College, an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, and an M.I.M. from the American Graduate School of International Management. He is now the editor of the Prime Stocks Flash Service.

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A chance reading of a book on technical analysis and the Austrian school of economics eventually led Jason Farkas, CMT, to Elliott Wave International. Prior to joining EWI, Jason worked for 14 years as a futures, options and equity trader as well as a technical analyst and advisor. Jason is a Chartered Market Technician, which requires a rigorous certification process that demands proficiency in a wide range of technical analysis subjects. He has been tutored by some of the best traders and investment minds, including legendary trader Dick Diamond. A triathlete and Phoenix native, Jason is an avid student of financial markets and market psychology with a keen interest in proper position-sizing and risk controls, which help to differentiate gambling from speculating in investment markets.

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Ron Feinstein has nearly 25 years of professional experience in the markets, from pit trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to executing for a hedge fund, to serving as Senior Technical Market Analyst for Dean Witter Reynolds. He also ran his own advisory firm and IB. Ron has a B.A. in economics from Reed College, an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, and an M.I.M. from the American Graduate School of International Management. He now provides analysis of the primary Australia and Taiwan indices for the World Stock Markets Outlook.

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Bill Fox originally joined Elliott Wave International in 1994 after managing assets for the institutional trust division of SunTrust Bank. He has also managed futures money for a diverse clientele. Bill has been involved in market analysis since graduating in 1988 from Vanderbilt University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Communication. Bill covers European fixed-income markets for EWI’s Global Interest Rate Outlook.

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Mark Galasiewski (gala-SHEV-ski) began his analytical career in 2001, researching company fundamentals at an institutional brokerage in Stamford, Connecticut. After joining Elliott Wave International in 2005, Mark contributed to Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist and then joined EWI’s Global Market Perspective team covering Asian stock indexes. Since 2008 he has also edited EWI’s newest publication, the Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast. For six years during the 1990s he lived in Japan, where he observed that country’s extended bear market first-hand. Mark has traveled to many of the countries whose markets he analyzes. A graduate of Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) in East Asian Studies, he is fluent in Japanese and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.

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After graduating from University of Windsor, Ontario, in 1976 with a finance degree, Robert Gleadow joined Citibank as a money market and foreign exchange trader. An opportunity to gain experience in fixed income markets resulted in a move to British Columbia where he was a portfolio manager at the Ministry of Finance. A chance reading of Elliott Wave Principle in 1982 preceded his entry into the world of bond futures trading where he found ample opportunity to practice what he had read. Since then, Robert has worked on institutional proprietary trading desks at several Canadian investment dealers as well as Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities. He joined EWI in 2001 as Metals Analyst and is presently our intraday analyst for U.S. and European interest rates where his specialty is intensive and detailed coverage of bonds and notes. 

Steven Hochberg is a close associate of Robert Prechter and chief market analyst for Prechter’s company Elliott Wave International in Gainesville, Georgia. He is also co-editor of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a monthly financial newsletter, as well as editor of The Short Term Update, a three times a week online market forecasting service. The Elliott Wave Principle is one of the world’s most recognized technical tools for forecasting market behavior, and Elliott Wave International is the world’s largest provider of Elliott Wave analysis. Mr. Hochberg began his career with Merrill Lynch & Co. and joined Elliott Wave International in 1994, where he quickly established a stellar reputation providing analysis to large institutional traders and hedge funds. He became chief market analyst for the firm in 1999. Mr. Hochberg is a sought after speaker and has been widely quoted in various media outlets such as USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron’s, Reuters and Bloomberg and has been interviewed numerous times for his market views by CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg Television. Mr. Hochberg was the featured interview for the November 2001 issue of Stocks and Commodities magazine and the October 2002 issue of Chartpoint magazine.

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T.W. John Hunter has been involved with international financial markets for more than 27 years. After graduating from the University of Colorado and the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Glendale, Arizona, he joined Merrill Lynch & Co., in 1981, where he worked primarily in the firm's growing FX business in New York, London, Tokyo and San Francisco. His career then took him to Riyadh Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Bank of America in San Francisco; Reuters in New York City; and two electronic trading and analysis start-up companies in California and North Carolina. In 2004, he joined Elliott Wave International, where he currently writes the intraday coverage of the currency, and the European stock and interest rate markets during the European session.

Robert Kelley began his career in 1987 as a futures broker. He joined Elliott Wave International in 1990 and edited The Elliott Wave Short Term Update, The Currency and Commodity Hotline and the currency section of The Elliott Wave Currency and Commodity Forecast newsletter.  In 1994 he became the head technical analyst for JP Morgan in New York, and later worked for several other Wall Street firms.  In 2001 he returned to EWI and currently provides commentary for the Currency Outlook and the Global Market Perspective.

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Peter Kendall is co-editor of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a monthly financial newsletter published by Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave International in Gainesville, Georgia. The Elliott Wave Principle is one of the world’s most recognized technical tools for forecasting market behavior, and Elliott Wave International is the world’s largest provider of Elliott Wave analysis. Pete authored The Mania Chronicles with Robert Prechter, contributes to the Short Term Update, a thrice weekly supplement to EWFF, and provides consulting services to EWI subscribers. Mr. Kendall served as a financial reporter and columnist from 1983 to 1992. His column “On the Money” appeared in The Business Journal from 1991 to 1997. Pete joined Elliott Wave International as a researcher in 1992 and has contributed to The Elliott Wave Theorist since 1995. He has been co-editor of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast since its inception in July 1999. Pete provides commentary on cultural trends, the economy and the U.S. stock market and is the Director of Elliott Wave International’s Center for Cultural Studies, where he focuses on popular culture and the new science of socionomics. Mr. Kendall graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Business Administration.

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Jeffrey Kennedy is the Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI). With more than 15 years of experience as a technical analyst, he writes and edits Futures Junctures, EWI's premier commodity forecasting package that includes Daily Futures Junctures, The Weekly Wrap-Up and Monthly Futures Junctures. EWI has published four volumes of his Trader's Classroom Collection, and numerous on-line webinars, which present Jeffrey's trading insights, market analysis and advice on how to apply the Wave Principle in real time. Besides analyzing markets, he also speaks at international technical analysis conferences and teaches seminars for EWI on how to spot trading opportunities using the Wave Principle. For further information on these seminars, go to www.elliottwave.com or call 1-800-336-1618.

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Jim Martens began his work with the Elliott Wave Principle in 1985 and is editor of Elliott Wave International's Foreign Exchange Specialty Service. He got his start working with metals traders on the Commodity Exchange Center in New York and quickly earned a reputation for insightful market calls. Jim first joined EWI in September 1993, covering a diverse list of markets from commodities to financials both domestic and international, before leaving in 2001 to join Nexus Capital Limited, a Soros-affiliated Hedge Fund based in Hamilton, Bermuda, as their Technical Market Strategist. Jim rejoined EWI in the summer of 2004 and soon moved into the currency Specialty Service. He received a degree in finance from Florida Atlantic University and formal credit training from the Bank of New York (1990-1993).

Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, began his professional career in 1975 as a Technical Market Specialist with the Merrill Lynch Market Analysis Department in New York. He has been publishing The Elliott Wave Theorist, a monthly forecasting publication, since 1979. Currently he is president of Elliott Wave International, which publishes analysis of global stock, bond, currency, metals and energy markets. He is also Executive Director of the Socionomics Institute, a research group. Mr. Prechter has won numerous awards for market timing, including the United States Trading Championship, and in 1989 was awarded the "Guru of the Decade" title by Financial News Network (now CNBC). He has been named "one of the premier timers in stock market history" by Timer Digest, "the champion market forecaster" by Fortune magazine, "the world leader in Elliott Wave interpretation" by The Securities Institute, and "the nation's foremost proponent of the Elliott Wave method of forecasting" by The New York Times. Read More.

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The beginning of April 2009 marked 9-years that Tom has been with EWI. In that time he has used his unique method of analyzing price action to comment on nearly every market that EWI has made available to subscribers. Yet, his previous work and talents have placed him in the chair and product that he helped launch in December of 2003, that of the intra-day for the equity markets. As a long time analyst and futures trader prior to coming to EWI, the S&P 500 was his market of choice and it remains so to this day. His goal in coming to EWI was to be able to write on this market and his persistence and talents have been rewarded. He fills a very important niche in our U.S. stock market coverage, and we are very pleased to be able to present his unique abilities and insights to our customers.

Brian Whitmer’s analytical proficiency extends to two professions: He received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland and has served as a designer, planner, and project manager for $100-million-plus civil and residential developments. Brian also is an Elliott-savvy technical analyst who is proficient in socionomics, the science of history and social prediction. After receiving his MBA from Georgia Southern University, Brian joined Elliott Wave International in 2009. He now serves as editor of The European Financial Forecast and contributes the European stock section of Global Market Perspective.