Ralph Acampora, CMT is a pioneer in the development of market analytics. He has a global reputation as a market historian and a technical analyst, providing unique insights on market timing and related investment strategy issues to a wide audience within the financial industry. Ralph has been an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance for close to four decades, and previously served as the NYIF’s Director of Technical Analysis Studies. Before joining NYIF, he was Director of Technical Research at Knight Equity Markets.
Prior to joining Knight, he worked for 15 years at Prudential Equity Groups as its Director of Technical Analysis. Ralph is one of Wall Street’s most respected technical analysts and has been consistently ranked by Institutional Investor for more than ten years. He is regularly consulted for his opinion on market events by several major business news networks as well as national financial publications. He helped create the Chartered Market Technician designation and continues to advocate for its application in distinguishing practitioners of technical analysis.
Ralph co-founded the Market Technicians Association (now called the CMT Association) in 1970. He established the first technical library (now the CMT Library) in 1975 at the New York Institute of Finance at 70 Pine Street, New York City. He also co-authored “The First Fifty Years” – a history of the CMT Association – a must read.
