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CMT Program: Professional Financial Industry Certification

The Chartered Market Technician® (CMT) credential is the preeminent, global designation for practitioners of technical analysis. Awarded to those who demonstrate mastery of a core body of knowledge of investment risk in portfolio management settings:
Regional Event

Midwinter Retreat 2025

The CMT Midwinter Retreat 2025 offers a unique opportunity for education, networking, and inspiration, building on the success of last year’s event, which brought together over 100 professionals from the forefront of financial markets and technical analysis. This year’s retreat will feature expert-led discussions, forward-thinking presentations, and practical insights designed to equip attendees with actionable knowledge. Held once again at the Tampa Club, known for its stunning views and elegant ambiance, the retreat provides the ideal setting for meaningful connections and engagement with industry leaders, whether you are an experienced professional or new to the field.
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Regional Event

Midwinter Retreat 2025

The CMT Midwinter Retreat 2025 offers a unique opportunity for education, networking, and inspiration, building on the success of last year’s event, which brought together over 100 professionals from the forefront of financial markets and technical analysis. This year’s retreat will feature expert-led discussions, forward-thinking presentations, and practical insights designed to equip attendees with actionable knowledge. Held once again at the Tampa Club, known for its stunning views and elegant ambiance, the retreat provides the ideal setting for meaningful connections and engagement with industry leaders, whether you are an experienced professional or new to the field.
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Regional Event

CMT West Coast Regional Summit 2025

The CMT West Coast Regional Summit 2025, scheduled for April 4th – 6th in the iconic city of San Francisco, CA, will bring together top professionals and thought leaders in the fields of technical analysis, investment management, and financial markets.

Adding a special local touch, this year’s event will feature an exclusive wine-tasting tour through one of California’s renowned vineyards. Attendees will enjoy a scenic journey through the picturesque wine country, tasting world-class wines and relaxing in a beautiful setting. This tour offers a unique opportunity to connect with industry peers in a more casual and elegant environment, adding an unforgettable cultural experience to the summit.
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Join us in NYC. Shape the future of investing.
NYC Event

CMT Spring Summit NYC 2025

Join us for a must-attend event for financial professionals seeking cutting-edge insights into technical analysis, market strategy, and next-gen portfolio management. Taking place at the stunning Hudson Yards, this summit promises to deliver valuable knowledge from industry leaders and thought-provoking discussions. 
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Regional Event

Midwinter Retreat 2025

The CMT Midwinter Retreat 2025 offers a unique opportunity for education, networking, and inspiration, building on the success of last year’s event, which brought together over 100 professionals from the forefront of financial markets and technical analysis. This year’s retreat will feature expert-led discussions, forward-thinking presentations, and practical insights designed to equip attendees with actionable knowledge. Held once again at the Tampa Club, known for its stunning views and elegant ambiance, the retreat provides the ideal setting for meaningful connections and engagement with industry leaders, whether you are an experienced professional or new to the field.
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Global Event

CMT Global Investment Summit 2025

Join an elite gathering of fund managers, strategists, and top investors as we decode cross-asset trends, trading innovations, and regime shifts shaping the future of public markets. The 2025 CMT Global Investment Summit is the premier investment management event for financial professionals committed to building a repeatable, data-driven investment process.

Gain the tools to mitigate risk, navigate uncertainty, and master global markets with technical analysis. Set in the iconic Museum of the Future, this summit will host 250+ industry leaders from hedge funds, investment banks, proprietary trading desks, and family offices. Expect cutting-edge insights on portfolio construction, risk management, money flow, macro forces, and the evolution of technical analysis—all tailored for today’s volatile investment landscape.
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Market Insights

CMT Association’s Market Insights features timely technical analysis of current global markets by veteran CMT charterholders.
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June 18, 2024

Gold Top? Potential Price Objectives

Conclusion: In early 2024 gold reached the price objective derived from the breakout of the large triangle that had evolved…
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May 22, 2024

Signal & Noise: Macro Tests: Italy, Japan, India

This piece was meant to focus on the number of major equity indices that are near all time highs, or…
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April 15, 2024

Potential China Inflection: FXI ETF:

Conclusion: FXI has reached a potential inflection point. The outcome of the current technical setup is likely to define the…
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March 22, 2024

Ten Year Treasury Outlook Part Two:

In our last piece, we presented a long term/secular outlook for intermediate-term Treasuries, where we concluded that the structural break…
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March 21, 2024

Ten Year Yields: Potential Outcomes

Ten Year Yields: Potential Outcomes United States 10 Year Government Bonds Yield TVC:US10Y CMT_Association This is the yearly perspective Ten-year…
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February 22, 2024

10-Year Treasury Rates: A Monthly/Secular Perspective Overview

I begin each year by reviewing the long-term technical positions and behaviors of what I think of as the "Big…
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January 22, 2024

Business Cycle Rotation Part 6: Conclusions

To Recap: In parts one and two we used MACD monthly perspective momentum across a large number of tradable assets…
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January 8, 2024

Business Cycle Rotation Part 5

In the first four installments we described an exercise utilizing the momentum in asset classes, the relationship between those classes…
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December 19, 2023

Business Cycle Rotation Part 4

In the first three installments we described an exercise utilizing the long term momentum in asset classes, the relationship between…
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December 4, 2023

Business Cycle Rotation Part 3

Last year I produced several posts that described an exercise that utilizes long term momentum changes between asset classes and…
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November 20, 2023

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 2

Last year I produced several posts that described an exercise that utilizes long term momentum changes between asset classes and…
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November 6, 2023

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum SPDR Select Sector Fund - Industrial BATS:XLI CMT_Association Last year I produced…
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November 6, 2023

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum by CMT_Association on TradingView.com Last year I produced several posts that described…
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October 24, 2023

Introduction to Relative Strength Part 3

CMT Association's Market Insights features timely technical analysis of current global markets by veteran CMT charterholders. Each post appears on…
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October 9, 2023

Introduction to Relative Strength or Ratio 1-2

Introduction to Relative Strength or Ratio 1-2 LQD/HYG BATS:LQD/BATS:HYG CMT_Association In part one (linked) we discussed how to construct and…
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October 9, 2023

Introduction to Relative Strength or Ratio 1-2

In part one we discussed how to construct and use relative strength ratios (RS) in trading and analysis. We also…
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September 22, 2023

Introduction to Relative Strength or Ratio 1-1

Introduction to Relative Strength or Ratio 1-1 XLP/XLY BATS:XLP/BATS:XLY CMT_Association This is part one of a series on relative strength…
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September 8, 2023

Reversal Bars: Springs and Upthrusts: 4-2

Reversal Bars: Springs and Upthrusts: 4-2 United States 10 Year Government Bonds Yield TVC:US10Y CMT_Association In part one (4-1, linked)…
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August 21, 2023

Reversal Bars Part 4-1: Springs and Upthrust

Reversal Bars Part 4-1: Springs and Upthrust by CMT_Association on TradingView.com Spring and Upthrust: In the first three parts of…
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July 24, 2023

Reversal Bar Patterns Part 3: Buying and Selling Climaxes

Reversal Bar Patterns Part 3: Buying and Selling Climaxes by CMT_Association on TradingView.com In parts one and two (linked) we…
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June 29, 2023

Introduction To Reversal Bar Patterns: Part 2

Introduction to Reversal Bar Patterns: Part 2: by CMT_Association on TradingView.com In part one we discussed the basics of reversal…
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May 30, 2023

Introduction to Reversal Bar Patterns: Part 1:

Introduction to Reversal Bar Patterns: Part 1: by CMT_Association on TradingView.com Over the next few posts, we plan on reviewing…
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May 22, 2023

Anatomy of a Top – Seven Questions for Selling Discipline

Anatomy of a Top – Seven Questions for Selling Discipline by CMT_Association on TradingView.com The equity market may be presenting a somewhat ambiguous and…
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March 26, 2023

Banking Sector: Part 2: JPM

Trend Analysis Chart Patterns Technical indicators JPM Last week we looked at the banks through the lens of relative strength…
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March 20, 2023

10:03 AM Banking Sector: Regional Banks Verses Large Banks

I have always believed that it is difficult for broad equity to do well if banks are struggling. Credit makes…
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March 5, 2023

Big Four: 2023 Macro Conclusions

I begin each year with a macro assessment of what I refer to as the big four markets: Bonds, Equities,…
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February 27, 2023

Big Four Macro Update: Commodities

Trend Analysis - Chart Patterns - Technical Indicators There are extensive fundamental comments, context, and observations in the prior commodities…
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February 21, 2023

Big Four Macro Overview: Dollar Index

Trend Analysis Chart Patterns Technical Indicators There are extensive fundamental comments, context, and observations in the two DXY pieces written…
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February 13, 2023

Big Four Macro: Equities Part 2: Weekly and Daily

Trend Analysis - Chart Patterns - Technical Indicators Early 2022 was characterized by a sharp 27% decline in SPX , 38% in…
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February 6, 2023

Big Four Macro Overview: Equities

- Trend Analysis - Chart Patterns - Technical Indicators - SPX Monthly Log Scale: Despite last years 28% decline, the defining uptrends…
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January 29, 2023

All Declines Are Not Equal

It is pertinent to remember that there are always stocks to sell into rising markets and stocks to buy into…
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January 22, 2023

Big Four Macro: Bonds Part 2

In last week’s macro outlook post we covered the outlook for intermediate and long bond yields. The analysis concluded that…
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January 16, 2023

Big Four Macro Outlook: 10 Year Rates

Big Four Macro Outlook: 10 Year Rates United States 10 Year Government Bonds Yield TVC:US10Y CMT_Association I begin each year…
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January 9, 2023

Micro Drift Patterns

Micro Drift Patterns United States 30 Year Government Bonds Yield TVC:US30Y CMT_Association One of the more powerful but under-appreciated categories…
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January 3, 2023

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 5

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 5 SPDR Select Sector Fund - Industrial AMEX:XLI CMT_Association Visualizing Business and…
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December 19, 2022

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 4

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 4 Leading Indicators OECD: Leading indicators: CLI: Normalised for the United States…
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December 12, 2022

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 3

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Market Momentum 3 S&P 500 SP:SPX CMT_Association In parts 1 and 2 we discussed…
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December 4, 2022

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Momentum: 2

Visualizing Business and Market Cycles Through Momentum: 2 S&P GSCI SP:SPGSCI CMT_Association In part one, we discussed using a market…
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November 28, 2022

Visualizing Business/Market Cycles Through Market Momentum: 1

Visualizing Business/Market Cycles Through Market Momentum: 1 SPDR Select Sector Fund - Industrial AMEX:XLI CMT_Association Visualizing Business and Market Cycles…
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November 21, 2022

Corporate Credit Conditions: Part 4

Corporate Credit Conditions: Part 4 ICE BofA US High Yield Index Effective Yield FRED:BAMLH0A0HYM2EY CMT_Association In part 4 we look…
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November 14, 2022

Corporate Credit Conditions: Part 3

Corporate Credit Conditions: Part 3 BAMLH0A0HYM2-BAMLC0A0CM FRED:BAMLH0A0HYM2-FRED:BAMLC0A0CM CMT_Association As discussed in part two (prior installments linked below), the duration mismatch…
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November 7, 2022

Credit Conditions and the Fed: Part 2

Credit Conditions and the Fed: Part 2 ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread FRED:BAMLH0A0HYM2 CMT_Association In part 2…
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November 2, 2022

Corporate Credit Conditions Part 1

Corporate Credit Conditions Part 1 ICE BofA US Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread FRED:BAMLC0A0CM CMT_Association Since credit has far greater potential…
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October 24, 2022

Trendline and Channel Tutorial: Part 4

Trendline and Channel Tutorial: Part 4 S&P 500 SP:SPX CMT_Association All traders are different but I personally find it difficult…
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October 17, 2022

Trendlines and Channels Tutorial: Part 3

Trendlines and Channels Tutorial: Part 3 United States 10 Year Government Bonds Yield TVC:US10Y CMT_Association Before we get started on…
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October 9, 2022

All Advances Are Not Equal Within an Overall Bear Market Rally

All Advances Are Not Equal Within an Overall Bear Market Rally S&P 500 SP:SPX CMT_Association In the frustrating attempts to…
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October 3, 2022

Trendline and Channel Tutorial: Part 2

Trendline and Channel Tutorial: Part 2 BLOOMBERG COMMODITY INDEX FUTURES (CONTINUOUS: CURRENT CONTRACT IN FRONT) CBOT:AW1! CMT_Association In part 2…
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September 26, 2022

Trendlines & Channels Tutorial: Part 1

Trendlines & Channels Tutorial: Part 1 S&P 500 SP:SPX CMT_Association This will be a multi part series on trendlines and…
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September 12, 2022

Equity Seasonality and Bear Market Sector and Stock Selection

Equity Seasonality and Bear Market Sector and Stock Selection AbbVie Inc. NYSE:ABBV CMT_Association Seasonalities are regular and predictable patterns that…
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September 6, 2022

FXI: China Large Cap ETF Critical Juncture

FXI: China Large Cap ETF Critical Juncture iShares China Large-Cap ETF AMEX:FXI CMT_Association Even in retirement I scour hundreds of…
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“Obtaining my CMT charter has been one of the best decisions for my career”

Studying for and taking the CMT exams provided another turning point in my career, and allowed for an enhancement of an existing technical process.
Vernon Bice
CMT Charterholder since 2016
Vernon Bice
CMT Charterholder since 2016
A lot of what I am today is because of the CMT designation. The CMT program is the gold standard in its field, without a doubt.
Gautam Shah
CMT Charterholder since 2009
Gautam Shah
CMT Charterholder since 2009
Take calculated risks with your career. Here again, a core piece of the CMT curriculum is risk management, capturing upside while mitigating downside...
Kelly Corbiere
CMT Charterholder since 2017
Kelly Corbiere
CMT Charterholder since 2017
Joining CMT Association and obtaining my CMT charter has been one of the best decisions for my career...
David Lundgren
CMT Charterholder since 2011
David Lundgren
CMT Charterholder since 2011