EWI Analysts

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, fifteen-year Elliott wave veteran, graduated from California State University with a degree in finance. He began his career in 1981 as a stockbroker for E.F. Hutton. In 1988, Mike began the Wave Signals Newsletter, providing in-depth daily and intraday analysis of Elliott wave patterns, technical analysis and sentiment indicators. During this time, Financial News Network (now CNBC) interviewed Mike weekly and his commentary was regularly featured on Carl Swenlins' decisionpoint.com. Mike now provides commentary for the International Metals 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 fundamentals at an institutional brokerage in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. 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 market 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. Since joining EWI, he has presented at several investment conferences in Asia and has been interviewed by major Asian media outlets such as Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong, Japan and India, India's CNBC TV-18 and ET Now, Bloomberg newswire, Dow Jones Asia newswire and Press Trust India. 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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Wayne Gorman has more than 25 years of experience in trading, forecasting and portfolio management. He began his career at Citibank managing money market and derivative portfolios, and was later recruited for forex trading and various treasury management roles in London and New York. Wayne has been using the Wave Principle since 1986. He’s been with Elliott Wave International since 2002 performing Elliott Wave analysis, researching socionomics and teaching EWI’s courses as Senior Tutorial Instructor.

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 chief market analyst for Elliott Wave International. He is also the 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. 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. 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, Barron’s, Reuters and Bloomberg and has been interviewed numerous times for his market views by CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg Television.

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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 EWI 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 left EWI for New York to become a Vice President of JP Morgan where he was in charge of the technical market research department. He later served as a consultant for HSBC Securities and thereafter developed a proprietary options trading system. In May 2000, Robert rejoined EWI where he now provides cross rates analysis for Currency Specialty Service.

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Peter Kendall is co-editor of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast. Pete authored The Mania Chronicles with Robert Prechter in 2009, contributes to The Short Term Update, a thrice weekly supplement to EWFF, and provides consulting services to EWI subscribers. Prior to joining EWI, Pete was as a financial reporter and columnist. His column “On the Money” appeared in The Business Journal of Milwaukee from 1991 to 1997. Pete joined Elliott Wave International as a researcher in 1992 and has contributed to The Elliott Wave Theorist since 1995. 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 socionomics. He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Business Administration. Pete is a frequent guest on business talk radio programs, offering his perspective on market history and big picture analysis.

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Jeffrey Kennedy is Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI), with 20-plus years of experience as an analyst, trader and teacher. He writes and edits Futures Junctures, EWI's premier commodity forecasting package that focuses on Elliott wave analysis of the commodity markets. He also produces Elliott Wave Junctures, an educational service that shows how to spot trading opportunities with wave analysis and supporting technical methods. Over the past 10 years, Jeffrey has written a column called Trader's Classroom, which EWI has published as a 4-volume ebook series, called The Trader's Classroom Collection. He has written many magazine articles about using the Wave Principle that have been published by SFO (Stocks, Futures & Options), Tradersworld, Stocks & Commodities Magazine and The Technical Analyst. SFO magazine has also published two of his articles in its personal investor book series, Technical Analysis. As a recognized expert in Elliott wave analysis and trading, Jeffrey is a much sought-after public speaker and has taught thousands of students how to apply the Wave Principle as a trading methodology throughout the United States as well as in London, Paris, Zurich, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has taught thousands of people how to improve their trading through his EWI courses and as an adjunct professor of technical analysis at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He recently finished his second year as a part-time lecturer in the Quantitative and Computational Finance program at Georgia Tech, where he taught the technical analysis portion of a class titled, "Options Strategies, Techniques and Nuances for the Individual Investor and Floor Trader."

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Jim Martens is Elliott Wave International’s Senior Currency Strategist and editor of Currency 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 Robert Prechter’s team at EWI in September 1993, covering a diverse list of markets from commodities to financials. He left EWI 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 headed up the currency team. Jim is an experienced Elliott wave instructor and presents at various trading seminars and tutorials around the world. He received a degree in finance from Florida Atlantic University and formal credit training from the Bank of New York (1990-1993).

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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 is editor of The European Financial Forecast and contributes the European stock section of Global Market Perspective. 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. After receiving his MBA from Georgia Southern University, Brian joined Elliott Wave International in 2009. Brian's analysis and forecasts are quoted in European media outlets and he has been interviewed by notable U.S. media including Yahoo! Finance and Fortune.

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