Don Vialoux, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is an independent advisor with close to 40 years of experience in the investment industry. He is a past president of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts and a former technical analyst at RBC Investments. Don and his son Jon publish a regular technical analysis newsletter, Tech Talk, on their website, Timing The Market.

His CMT paper, entitled “Seasonality in Canadian Equity Markets,” was published in the Spring-Summer 1996 edition of the CMT Association Journal. Don also has extensive experience with ETFs and conservative option strategies. In 1990, he wrote a report that was released in the International Federation of Technical Analyst Journal entitled “Profiting from a Combination of Technical and Fundamental Analysis.” The report introduced “The Eight Phases of the Stock Market Cycle,” an investment concept that continues to identify profitable entry and exit points for North American equity markets. He is currently a member of the Toronto Society of Fundamental Analyst’s Derivatives Committee. Don is a frequent contributor to BNN TV.