Manesh Patel, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is the President and Co-Founder of IchimokuTrade and a veteran quantitative trader. He is the author of the book Trading with Ichimoku Clouds: The Essential Guide to Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Technical Analysis, published by Wiley Publishing. Manesh spent many years trading for institutional trading firms, building Black Box quantitative trading models and creating many other trading tools designed to provide an edge when trading the markets, before starting IchimokuTrade to capitalize on the quality of the products he built. In addition to his CMT designation, he also holds a CFTe designation.