Luise Kliem is a Fellow of the STA and current STA Chief Examiner. During a 20-year City career she worked first as a commodity broker, then as a stockbroker, before becoming a full-time technical analyst. She was Senior Technical Analyst (Director of Global Securities Research & Economics) at Merrill Lynch from 1995 to 2000, then joined Commerzbank Securities as Head of Technical Analysis. Luise specialised in equity research, and was consistently highly rated in surveys such as Thomson Reuters Extel, until leaving the City in 2001.

Richard Lake was one of the founders, and a former Chairman, of ACTA, the predecessor of the STA. He was also one of the earliest exponents of technical analysis among the institutional stockbroking community in London, and produced technical reports from the mid 1960s until around 2012. He was responsible for persuading a number of initially sceptical fund managers that charts could be of major assistance in their investment decisions. Richard has been a frequent speaker at technical analysis conferences over the years, both in the UK and elsewhere.

Clive Lambert is former Vice Chair of the STA and former IFTA Board member. Clive is the founder and director of Futurestechs, one of the UK’s leading independent technical analysis providers, established in 2000. Clients for their widely read Energy report include several of the world’s leading Oil Majors and Europe’s largest Utilities. Futurestechs’ Analysis is a 10 times winner at the Technical Analyst Awards. They are consistently shortlisted in several categories; topping the “Best Independent Research for Commodities” category for the 5th time in 2022.

Clive has 30+ years market experience including 10 years on the LIFFE floor. He has served on the STA Board from 2004-2011 and again from 2015 to 2021 and has been both a regular conference speaker and lecturer on STA courses for many years.

His book “Candlestick Charts: An Introduction to using Candlestick Charts” is on the STA reading list and is published by Harriman House.

John J Murphy, former technical analyst for CNBC, is author of several popular books including Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets. His three books on intermarket analysis created a new branch of market analysis emphasizing global linkages. His latest book, entitled “Trading With Intermarket Analysis – A Visual Approach to Beating The Financial Markets Using Exchange Traded Funds”  was published by John Wiley in 2013. The International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) recognized his accomplishments with an award for outstanding contribution to global market analysis in 2014. He is also a recipient of the Market Technicians Association Annual Award. John relies heavily on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to implement global asset allocation and sector rotation strategies. His intermarket approach bridges the gap between economic, fundamental, and technical analyses. He is the chief technical analyst for Stockcharts.com website, and his current market views are published on that site.

Trevor Neil was on the board which created the Society and served under four chairman for its first 10 years. He has been a trader since he was 18, when he was on the floor of the London Commodities Exchange for Merrill Lynch. He has been a broker, fund manager, Associate Director and an Investment Bank, worked again with traders on the LIFFE floor, then Global Head of Technical Analysis at Bloomberg and then ran a hedge fund in South Africa. In 2007 he returned to the UK to run BETA Group and manage his smaller systematically traded fund. Today, as well as managing his fund, he consults and teaches the institutional application of technical analysis. He has worked with many large and smallest institutions worldwide. He is recognised as the ‘go-to’ teacher of technical analysis skills in dealing rooms. He is also a Director of RRG Research.

He has presented the popular Trevor Neil’s Technical Analysis Surgery for over 15 years. This monthly webinar is hosted by Refinitiv and promotes the good and practical use of technical analysis in professional environments

Deborah Owen served as STA chairperson (2008-13), head of education (2013-16), IFTA board member (2012-15) and was the editor of the Society’s Journal, The Market Technician, for over two decades. She also sat on the STA’s ethics and grandfathering committees.
Deborah is the Managing Editor of Investment Research of Cambridge Ltd. and has co-written the book “Mapping The Markets: A Guide to Stockmarket Analysis” with Robin Griffiths, another STA Fellow. She is a visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.

Tom Pelc has over 35 years’ experience in the financial markets. He is the founder of Pelc Enterprises Ltd an advisory to financial institutions and high net worth individuals and is also Chief Investment Officer at Fortu Wealth working with high-net-worth individuals and family offices. He also is a director of a Hedge Fund, (Amalfi Capital).
His was formerly employed by Nomura International plc for 7½ years as a Managing Director as the Co-Head of Macro Technical strategy. Travelled the globe speaking with central banks, pension funds and hedge fund clients and Asset Managers. Prior to Nomura, Tom spent 11 years as the Head of Technical Strategy at RBS plc. Before that he was a trader and portfolio manager at a hedge fund responsible for a $2 billion portfolio trading listed and OTC Euro and US products. He was in the top 15 of the McLagan list of traders for commission generation.

Tony has worked in financial markets for more than 40 years, and currently researches group behaviour in financial markets and economic activity. He is also on the investment advisory committee of the Osiris Property Fund, and is a trustee of two pension funds.
Tony is a Fellow of the STA and was, until recently, a Visiting Professorial Fellow in economics at Queen Mary, University of London. His seminal book ‘Forecasting Financial Markets’ is now in its 6th edition and has been translated into a number of languages. More recently, Tony has had two books published. The first, ‘The Law of Vibration’, was published in 2013. This book addresses the source of, and theory behind, the wisdom of William D Gann. The second, ‘The Life Cycle Hypothesis’, was published in 2018. This book explores the idea that there is a fundamental, and very specific, pattern of evolution behind fluctuations in financial markets and in economic activity.

Robert R. Prechter, Jr, CMT, is President, Elliott Wave International and Executive Director, Socionomics Institute. He has written 14 books on finance, beginning with Elliott Wave Principle in 1978, which predicted a 1920s-style stock market boom. His 2002 title, Conquer the Crash, predicted the beginning of the 21st century debt crisis. In December 1989, Financial News Network (now CNBC) named him “Guru of the Decade.” In 1999, Bob received the CSTA’s first annual AJ Frost Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Technical Analysis. In 2003, Traders Library granted him its Hall of Fame award.

Axel Rudolph is Head of Education at the Society of Technical Analysts, and former STA Chairman (2013 to 2018). Prior to becoming chairman he was responsible for education and program organisation at the STA for six years. He has been a lecturer on the STA Diploma Part 1 and 2 courses at King’s College University London, London School of Economics and Queen Mary University of London for over two decades. From 2007-2010 Axel was Vice-Chairman Europe on the board of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).

Axel is currently a senior technical analyst at IG Group. Previously he has been a director and senior technical analyst at Commerzbank, Dow Jones’ Chief Technical Analyst for Europe and a bond, derivatives and proprietary trader in Paris and London.

Michael Smyrk is a past Board Member and a Fellow of the STA. He started charting in the commodity markets in 1965, and – although now retired – continues to use technical analysis for his private investments. He is a firm believer in the power of ‘the crowd’.
Michael is an examiner for the STA Diploma Part 2 Examination. His previous experience covers ground as varied as Floor Trader to Head of Research at two leading international brokerages. He has spoken at conferences across the world, and was for some years a lecturer on the STA/South Bank University Diploma Course and the STA/LSE Diploma Course.

David Sneddon is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He is global head of Technical Analysis and is responsible for overseeing the entire technical analysis product, covering the Fixed Income, FX, Equity and Commodity markets, as well as the provision of technical analysis education within Credit Suisse and for clients globally.
The Credit Suisse Technical Analysis team has won various awards, including the Extel European Fixed Income survey, Best Commodity and Best FX Technical Analysis by the Technical Analyst magazine, as well as being runner-up in the Euromoney European Fixed Income and US Institutional Investor Fixed Income surveys.
David regularly appears in the media and has been a guest anchor for CNBC on several occasions.
David joined Credit Suisse in 1994, having worked previously for Investment Research of Cambridge Ltd, and is a former board member of the UK Society of Technical Analysts and IFTA.  He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Adam Sorab was STA Chairman from 1998 to 2008 and was President of IFTA from 2010 to 2013. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics, an STA Diploma and a CFTe. Adam has been working in financial markets since 1984 and he is currently a Partner at Aptior Capital LLP in London, a hedge fund management company.

Dr Henry Southworth was for several years the editor of ‘The Chartist’ (as the STA magazine was then known), whilst conducting research into technical analysis at the University of Birmingham. Following on from this he set up and managed a technical analysis-based futures fund, before turning to the property market instead. After setting up and managing a UK-based student housing property fund, he then invested in property in Spain, from which followed the establishment of SpainAway, a tour operator focusing on Spanish holiday rentals. Presently his time is spent running an offshoot of this – AfricaAway – which specialises in organising safaris in sub-Saharan Africa. A long way from technical analysis perhaps, but with a just about identifiable route in between!