According to the World Health Organization, during the week of July 26th there were 4.0 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide. Weekly reported cases are up 58% since mid-June. While the Americas and Europe are still well below their peaks made in late-2020/early-2021, case counts are rising, putting people back on guard and motivating lawmakers to consider reinstating public health protocol mandates. In India, it’s quite the opposite situation, as case counts have decreased substantially since Spring; total new cases in India during the week of July 26th were 284,000, down 90% from the peak in early May. However, other APAC (Asia Pacific) countries are experiencing spikes: Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have seen case counts rise meaningfully from very low numbers previously. And cases in Russia, Turkey, Iran, and many countries in Africa are on the rise, too. The CMT Board and Staff monitor conditions where our members and CMT Program candidates live,

Please tell us what you do professionally. I am the Chief Income Strategist at The Oxford Club. I have also been a sell side analyst at Avalon Research Group, a columnist at TheStreet.com and a reporter/anchor at ON24. How did you get there? I could have made it easy on myself, as my grandfather had a seat on the NYSE and still knew lots of people on Wall Street when I graduated college. At that time, I had no interest in the markets. Shortly after he passed away, I realized I needed to figure out how to make my money go further and started reading everything I could on investing and the markets. Several years later in San Francisco, I landed a job as a trading assistant at a proprietary trading firm. I walked in and handed them my resume, even though I knew that with zero experience I had little chance of

The August episode of Fill the Gap shines a light on the vitality of technical analysis not often on display in broader financial media. Learn how client advisors use technical analysis to improve portfolio risk management, strengthen the investment process and supplement client education in this engaging conversation with Pamela Yoon, CMT, CIM, Vice-President & Portfolio Manager at RBC Dominion Securities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. An investment management veteran with 28 years of experience, Pam has guided a wide range of investors through many bull and bear markets. We discuss her process in detail to better understand how she manages concentrated, high-conviction global portfolios, while always controlling risk. As a tactical portfolio manager, Pam blends a unique mix of technical tools and analytical methods into her process. The conversation also touches on how cognitive neuroscience literature relates directly to the contrarian positioning often required by disciplined active managers who respond

Members on the Move The CMT Association would like to congratulate the following members on their new positions: Akshay Chinchalkar, CMT, Cross Asset Editor – India at Bloomberg LP Youssef El Mimouni, Senior OTC Pricing Analyst at BNP Paribas Asset Management Ron Acoba, CMT, CFTe, MFTA, Co-Founder / Partner at APG Capital Harsh Parekh, Technical Research Analyst at Bonanza Portfolio Ltd   CMT  If you haven’t already scheduled an appointment for your CMT exam, we recommend that you do so as soon as possible. When scheduling your exam, please make sure that your first and last names match the legal ID you will be using on the day of the exam.  If the names don’t match, please email admin@cmtassociation.org before scheduling an appointment for your exam.  If you have scheduled an appointment and need to adjust your name, please contact us at admin@cmtassociation.org. If both names don’t match your ID, Prometric will not allow you take the exam and the