International Advisory Panel


Larry Berman, CFA, CMT, CTA is a Co-Founder of ETF Capital Management (ETFCM) and brings over 20 years of industry experience to the role of Chief Investment Officer. Larry has been ranked as one of Canada’s “Top 3 Analysts” according to institutional investor surveys. Larry began his career as a Toronto-based investment advisor in 1989 and completed a technical internship in New York with the Market Technicians Association (MTA) in 1994, where he studied the techniques of many top Wall Street technicians.  Read more 

Jeremy du Plessis, CMT, FSTA is head of Technical Analysis and Product Development at Updata Limited in London.  He is responsible for the design and development of Updata’s suite of technical analysis systems, which use a variety of datafeeds such as Bloomberg, CQG, Reuters, FutureSource, eSignal and others.  His passion is point and figure and is the author of The Definitive Guide to Point and Figure published by Harriman House in 2005.  Read more

Jack Cahn, CMT, CTA is a Director of Creative Breakthrough, Inc. (CBI) in Australia.  CBI offers real solutions to the real issues which traders face daily in the high risk / high reward futures and FX markets, with specialties in technical market forecast, strategies and algorithmic trading systems.  Read more

Ron Meisels is Founder and President of Phases & Cycles Inc. in Montréal has over 40 years of stock market experience. He specializes in the independent research of Canadian and U.S. securities. Institutions ranked him among the top three technical analysts for six consecutive years (Brendan Wood Survey).  He is listed in the Canadian Who’s Who.  Read more

Trevor Neil, MSTA, MCSI, is Founder, Director and Technical Analyst of Behavioural Economics and Technical Analysis Group (BETA Group) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK and has been a trader since he started work on the floor of the London Coffee Exchange in 1975. Moving off the floor to become a broker, he became interested in technical analysis. This was the time charting was moving off graph paper onto computers.  When the LIFFE market opened in London, he moved to trading financial futures and later into foreign exchange and equities.  Read more

Alex Spiroglou, CFTe, MSTA is an Investment Manager for Odin Capital Management outside of London. a FSA regulated global macro investment management firm. Additionally to managing firm assets, he also designed the “Hedge Fund Trader Incubation Program” (the firm's “turtle trader” project that trains aspiring junior traders), including the Training Course.  Alex is the founding chairman of the London Chapter of the Market Technicians Association, Inc.  Read more