Paul Ciana, CMT

Paul Ciana, is Bank of America’s Chief Global FICC Technical Strategist and Director of Research.
Paul believes the best technical strategy is a diversified technical strategy, so he aligns proprietary and familiar technical theory to make the best call. He publishes his views on Rates, FX, Commodities and emerging markets in the Technical Advantage report and manages his open trades in the Chart Alpha report. He publishes a popular primer series called Technicals Explained and Quantifying Technicals. He contributes regularly to cross discipline reports such as Global FX Weekly, Global Rates Weekly and Global Liquid Markets Weekly, too. Paul is ranked among the top Technical Analysts in the All-American Fixed-Income Institutional Investor survey. Prior to Bank of America, Paul he led the technical analysis specialists at Bloomberg LP.

Ciana authored the book New Frontiers in Technical Analysis, October 2011, John Wiley & Sons. He has been a speaker and panelist at industry events including the CFA, CMT Association, IFTA, NYSSA and CAIA, and his work is regularly quoted in many mainstream media channels.

Paul earned his CMT designation in 2006 and was the president of the New York CMT Chapter and an Instructor for a CMT preparation course. Paul received his MBA in Marketing and Finance from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance & Economics(Magna Cum Laude) from the State University of New York at Albany.

Contributions

FICC Strategy & Intermarket Overview with Paul Ciana, CMT & George Davis, CMT - After the keynote, this session will continue in our main ballroom as two leading FICC strategists present a deep technical perspective on Rates, Currencies and Important Commodities. The FICC Strategists will present a broad global outlook for 2019 individually, and finish the...
Technically Speaking, June 2015 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Technical analysis has always been focused on the application of knowledge. In the early editions of Edwards and Magee’s Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, they focused on how to trade chart patterns. But these pioneers of the field also included a...
Technically Speaking, April 2015 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Once a year, the MTA Symposium assembles a lineup of great speakers yet some of the best technicians attending are in the audience. Symposiums have long been one of the most valuable of MTA membership and now technology makes it possible to extend that...
Technically Speaking, January 2015 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Many publications are dedicating January issues to a look at the year that was or a forecast for the year that is to be. We decided to ignore time and in this issue of Technically Speaking we review timeless techniques. Gaps, for example, have been a...
Technically Speaking, November 2014 - Letter From The Editor Many readers already know that Fred Dickson, CMT, passed away at the end of October. In this issue, we look at an example of his work. It is an amazing example of clarity and focus and provides an example of how to turn ideas into...
Technically Speaking, September 2014 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR This month we are including a number of charts. As technicians, it is a relatively simple matter to generate charts. The challenge is to create meaningful charts. We think the authors of the charts in this month’s newsletter accomplished that. Each of...
Technically Speaking, November 2012 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR This edition of Technically Speaking consists almost entirely of ideas discussed in Seattle at the recent MTA Regional Seminar. I did not attend the Seminar hoping to find these ideas but all MTA events result in a large number of ideas for me. The...
Technically Speaking, June 2012 - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Market Technicians Association has always been at the forefront of technical analysis and in this issue we demonstrate some of the ways the organization is doing that. We provide summaries of a few of the presentations made at the Annual Symposium in...

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