Editor’s Note: Jeff has enjoyed a long and successful career. Readers can benefit as much from reading his biography, which is below the interview, as they can from reading Jeff’s thoughtful answers. He demonstrates that success requires a passion for the markets, a disciplined approach to strategy, and the willingness to endure the ever-shifting face of Wall Street. Jeff has worked with some of the largest firms in the industry, and has also helped smaller firms with his brand of motivational technical analysis. How would you describe your job? I’m a technical analyst, a discipline I was motivated to pursue after having been introduced to a broker from Herzfeld & Stern in 1974 while I was living through the big bad bear market of 1973-74. I’ve been analyzing charts and drawing lines day and night, six days a week ever since. I still post my numbers by hand, one sheet for my

Editor’s Note: Investing is obviously a consuming focus of Alex Spioglou’s life. He has excelled and readers can gain a sense of how he developed a simple concept, intermarket analysis, into a complete methodology. That is a common theme among investment professionals – specialization and expertise. At the end of the interview, he provides excellent advice for the aspiring analyst. How would you describe your job? I am an investment manager for Odin Capital Management, a UK based, FSA regulated global macro-investment management firm. I trade across futures across all asset classes trading on a semi-systematic trading model. The strategies focus on exploiting short term intraday price dislocations, and also some medium-term strategic positions (2-4 weeks), based on fundamental/ macro themes. Additionally to my trading book, I also designed the “Hedge Fund Trader Incubation Program” (the firm’s “turtle trader” project that trains aspiring junior traders), including the Training Course. What led you to

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