• Market Forecast Panel Discussion featuring Ralph Acampora, CMT, Phil Roth, CMT, and Jeff Lay, CMT - View Presentation

Phil Roth, CMT: Philip J. Roth, a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), is currently the Chief Technical Market Analyst at Miller Tabak + Co. He is in his forty-first year as a Wall Street professional, having been the Chief Market Technician at Morgan Stanley, Shearson Lehman, EF Hutton, and Loeb Rhodes. Currently Past-President and a director of the Market Technicians Association, and a former director of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), he has been voted No. 1 in Charting and Technical Analysis in the Reuters survey. He is a frequent commentator in the printed and electronic media. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University, and has lectured at Baruch, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Howard, Rutgers, Tulane, and the University of Richmond.

Ralph Acampora, CMT: Ralph Acampora is the New York Institute of Finance’s Director of Technical Analysis Studies. Mr. Acampora has been a pioneer of technical analysis for over 40 years and has taught at the institute for 37 years. Before joining NYIF, he was Director of Technical Research at Knight Equity Markets. Prior to this, he worked for 15 years at Prudential Equity Groups as its Director of Technical Analysis. Mr. Acampora is one of Wall Street's most respected technical analysts and has been consistently ranked by Institutional Investor for more than ten years. He is regularly consulted for his market opinion by the major business news networks as well as national financial publications. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), a designation he helped create and which is now recognized by the National Association of Securities Dealers as the equivalent of a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). With 40 years of experience, Mr. Acampora has been instrumental in the development of modern-day technical analysis. He co-founded the Market Technicians Association (MTA) in 1970, is a past president of that group and continues to be an active member of the society. He also founded and was the first chairman of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), comprising over 4,000 colleagues around the world. Mr. Acampora continues to participate in the education of technical analysts, serving as teacher and lecturer for the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) for the past 37 years and the Security Industry Association's annual Wharton seminars. Mr. Acampora is a trustee on the Board of the Security Industry Institute (SII) and currently is involved in the establishment of the Securities Traders Association University (STAU).

Jeffery E. Lay, CMT: Jeffery E. Lay, CMT is President and Co-Founder of Talon Eight Global Wealth Management. As managing partner and senior portfolio manager, he assists affluent executives, families, trusts, endowments, and foundations in creating custom tailored portfolios using a proprietary fusion of stress tested trading methodologies. An expert in strategic and tactical asset allocation using highly non-correlated asset classes, with key emphasis on capital preservation and tax efficient transfer of wealth, he delivers sophisticated asset allocation solutions for his clients. Previously, Mr. Lay served as Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Neuberger Berman Wealth Management, A Lehman Brothers company. A trusted advisor to ultra high net worth families, corporate institutions, and nonprofit organizations, he delivered the full spectrum of financial services and investment banking disciplines to senior executives and their counsel. The sole Chartered Market Technician in the organization, Mr. Lay blended fundamental and technical analysis in crafting unique investment solutions based on client goals, income needs, and tax situation. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Lay founded Sensor Fusion Asset Management. As Director of Strategic Trading Tactics, he advised private clients and hedge fund managers regarding their asset allocations to commodities, currencies and other leveraged financial instruments. An accomplished speaker, Mr. Lay personally mentored over 100 retail clients, analysts and money managers in the use of foreign currency as an asset class. Creator of the Sensor Fusion Method, Mr. Lay has appeared as market commentator regarding Euro/US Dollar spot rate movements on ForexTV.com, and his proprietary strategies have been featured in Active Trader Magazine and Stocks, Futures and Options (SFO) Magazine. He actively publishes for several major media outlets, wherein he reveals his technical approach to the markets. A passionate mentor to others, Mr. Lay also works privately with a select group of securities analysts and portfolio managers in the financial services industry. Mr. Lay has served as Director, Chartered Market Technician Institute (CMTi) for the Market Technicians Association (MTA). Also serving as Education Chair, he oversaw a sophisticated online financial training solution wherein he developed, integrated and delivered content covering Dow Theory, Elliott Wave, Business Cycles, Sector Rotation, Sentiment, and Inter Market Analysis. Mr. Lay has personally trained more than 400 analysts and portfolio managers from over 12 countries internationally, and was responsible for several initiatives critical to the future of the MTA. Mr. Lay received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1987. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), and holds the Series 3, 7, 63 and 66 securities licenses.

• Philip Erlanger - View Presentation

Phil Erlanger is the President of Phil Erlanger Research and has been providing research to institutions since the early 1990s. Prior to starting Phil Erlanger Research, Phil was the Senior Technical Analyst for Fidelity Management & Research. Phil came to Fidelity from Advest where he was the Chief Technical Analyst through most of the 1980s. Phil has developed Erlanger Chart Room, a technical analysis platform that focuses on advanced technical indicators that include in depth sentiment and seasonal studies. This platform runs on eSignal, Bloomberg and MB Trading. Phil has also developed the free www.goodmorningwallst.com educational video series that offers videos that teach how to use technical analysis in the real world. Mr. Erlanger is a two-time past president of the Market Technicians Association. In 1997, Mr. Erlanger won the MTA Best of the Best Award for Computer Assisted Analysis and has lectured at Universities such as Rutgers, MIT, Boston University, Howard University, Emory and as an adjunct Professor at Bentley College where he taught a course in Technical Analysis. He is a graduate of Boston University with a degree in Economics.

• Mark Galasiewski - View Presentation

Mark Galasiewski (gala-SHEV-ski) began his analytical career in May 2001 at an institutional brokerage in Stamford, Connecticut (USA), researching fundamentals for a broker who specialized in short-sell recommendations. After joining Elliott Wave International (EWI) 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 monthly market publication, the Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast. For six years during the 1990s he lived in Japan. He has also travelled to many other 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.