Building a Better CMT Program
by Brad Herndon CFA, CMT
Accreditation Committee Chair

Much work has been completed since the MTA Board of Directors embraced an exciting vision for the CMT program in September 2008.  It was during the September strategic planning committee that the board established the new CMT Director position, and authorized the creation of the CMT Test Development and CMT Advisory Committees.  

Jeanette Young, CMT Director, and the CMT Test Development Committee were hard at work during the past 6 weeks writing many new questions for the CMT exams.  The members of the CMT Test Committee are Mark Cremonie, Ken Tower, Stephen Suttmier, Jeremy Berkovits, Jim Wagenhofer, Julia Bussie, Greg Bender, Nora McAuley  -Gitin and William Geisdorf.  Their primary objective is to ensure that the CMT exams have a fresh supply of new, high quality questions to complement the current exam questions.  To date, the team has written many questions for the CMT Test data bank and has also created a new CMT 3 practice examination as a study guide.

The CMT Advisory Committee officially began its work with the following members agreeing to serve:  Julie Dahlquist, Robert Colby, Charlie Kirkpatrick, Hank Pruden, Saleh Nasser and Tim Snavely.  The dedicated work of these individuals will ensure that the CMT curriculum is up-to-date on new developments and research pertaining to technical analysis.  Additionally, committee members will assume responsibility for recommending changes to the CMT reading assignments to provide the very best coverage of the CMT Body of Knowledge.

We are very pleased with the progress over the past six weeks and excited about building a better CMT program for the future.