This is the fourth installment of a rerun of periodic series chronicling the history of the street. The series originally ran in Technically Speaking beginning in September 2000.

Here is the second Manhattan melodrama for your consideration. The first (December 2019) was a story of an out-of-towner who had his only form of transportation burned to the ground, was forced to live in the streets, and then was sued for negligence.  The second is a story of a fast-talking city slicker who sells real estate he doesn’t own to gullible foreigners.  Common stories? Both take place in the 1600’s!

The date is 1626.  A little over a decade had passed since Adrian Block built huts on Broadway and misplaced his ship’s anchor.  The Dutch, then heavily involved in the fur trade, decided they needed a permanent colony in the Americas.  Manhattan Island, a common stopping point along the trade route, seemed the

Please tell us what you do professionally.

I’m the Chief Market Strategist for StockCharts.com and I also run an independent research and consulting firm called Sierra Alpha Research.  I work with financial advisors and institutional investors to manage risk using technical analysis, behavioral finance, and data visualization.

How did you get there?

I studied music and psychology at Ohio State and after graduation I took an entry level position at Bloomberg in New York.  I was surprised to discover that technical analysis was a perfect fit for my courses of study, with the mathematics and creativity from music and the sentiment and behavioral insights of psychology.  I moved to Boston in 2008 to run the Technical Research Department at Fidelity, and soon after was elected President of the MTA (now TAN Association).  At the end of 2016,  I left Fidelity and launched my own firm in late 2017.  I’m so thankful to

Financial content aggregator Benzinga is offering a 50% discount on registration prices to TAN Association members who wish to attend Benzinga’s Cannabis Capital Conference in Miami this coming February 24-25th.

The Cannabis Capital Conference is Benzinga’s solution to a lack of access to reputable investors and capital for cannabis entrepreneurs. No other conference offers the level of access and seamlessness of interaction between a variety of cannabis enterprises and the investors whose capital will help transform those enterprises into high-value operations.

Benzinga, a leading financial media outlet with extensive coverage of the cannabis space, frequently breaks exclusive coverage on celebrity cannabis entrepreneurs and commentary from leading political and business figures. Their team has offered our membership a generous discount on registration with use of the code CMT, in addition to their standing offer of free admission for financiers representing family offices or institutional investors.

Part of the newer generation of financial media, Benzinga

Members on the Move

The TAN Association would like to congratulate the following members on their new positions:

Barry Powley, CFA, CMT, Associate Portfolio Manager at CastleMoore Inc.

John DiRico, CAIA, CMT, Associate at BlackRock

Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA, Chief Technical Strategist at GregSchnell.com

Updating Your Profile

Have you recently joined the TAN Association and did not provide your address?  Please login to the website and enter your address as we use this information to determine which and how many test centers are needed to serve members taking exams.  The information is also used to produce reports on those exams.

To update your profile, login to the CMT website and under My CMT select My Account.  On the following page, under My Account select Edit My Information.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciated!

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Registration for the June 2020 test administration opened on December 27, 2019; be sure to register early and take advantage of early registration prices.  The TAN Level