Rick Bensignor

RealMoney Contributor

Strategy Manager - Top Gun Trader
Rick Bensignor is chief market strategist at Execution, Ltd. He was previously chief market strategist at Morgan Stanley Principal Strategies, responsible for providing the firm's proprietary traders with strategic investment and tactical trading ideas. Prior to that, Bensignor was the corporation's Institutional Investor-ranked chief technical strategist, overseeing the firm's banner technical research product. He was formerly the head of technical analysis, futures and commodities at Bloomberg, where he was responsible for the product development, sales and marketing of those applications. Before that, he was Morgan Stanley's commodities technical strategist and head of the institutional commodities sales desk, which followed his 14-year trading career as a broker and independent trader on the floor of several New York futures exchanges.

In addition, Bensignor is an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and was an adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Finance, where he taught technical analysis and trading courses for five years. He wrote the book New Thinking in Technical Analysis: Trading Models from the Masters and contributed the chapter on futures for Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets, and has written several articles in the Bloomberg magazine. He appears regularly on financial news television and is often quoted in major global financial media.

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Providing Pre-Holiday Updates (Top Gun Trader - Weekly Issue $)

By Rick Bensignor

Summarizing our current open trades and taking the time to reflect and be grateful ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

08:44AM 11/25/09

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We're Much More Cautious Here (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

11:40AM 11/24/09

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Panning for Gold (Top Gun Trader - Weekly Issue $)

By Rick Bensignor

Establishing a higher-risk, higher-reward trade in this fund as a play on when the commodity inevitably declines.

10:11AM 11/19/09

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Howard- (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

02:00PM 11/18/09

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Ringing the Register (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

Two of our holdings are trading about 10% higher than our purchase price, making this a good time to take profits.

11:05AM 11/17/09

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Game On! (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

09:50AM 11/16/09

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S&P Futures Still Beneath Important Level (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

02:18PM 11/13/09

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Can the Dollar Move Higher? (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

10:49AM 11/12/09

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Betting Technology Will Trump. Energy (Top Gun Trader - Weekly Issue $)

By Rick Bensignor

Initiating a new ETF pair trade based on the presumption that one sector will outperform the other into year-end.

10:16AM 11/12/09

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Potentially Heading for the Exit (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

If the market continues its upward bias, we will look to close this consumer staples vs. consumer discretionary play.

11:21AM 11/11/09

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Dow Jones S&P 500 NASDAQ 10-Year Note
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