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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Updating a Pair Trade (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

Raising the sell stop-out level on this play as it has now faded quite a bit.

01:59PM 11/10/09

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Trading Update (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

Changing the sell stop on this consumer staples vs. consumer discretionary play.

12:48PM 11/09/09

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What May Catch PMs Off-Guard Now (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

11:29AM 11/09/09

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A New Tactical Trading Pair (Top Gun Trader - Weekly Issue $)

By Rick Bensignor

Establishing a pair trade in these two ETFs, given a potential turnaround in the consumer-related area.

09:04AM 11/05/09

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Reinvesting in a Previous Trade (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

Establishing a new long position in Russian stocks. Also, updating a current play on the U.S. 10-year Treasury rate.

10:31AM 11/04/09

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Is Pre-Buying Holding the Market Up? (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

03:13PM 11/03/09

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Taking Profits (Top Gun Trader - Alerts $)

By Rick Bensignor

It's a good time to exit this pair trade as our small position leaves us little wiggle room to trade tactically.

11:10AM 11/03/09

Article

Don't be Fooled with XHB (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

03:26PM 11/02/09

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Watch the VIX (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

11:27AM 11/02/09

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Forget the 'Rules' and Embrace the New Normal (RealMoney.com $)

By Rick Bensignor

Publication in a technical analysis textbook doesn't make it gospel.

Related Topics: Technical Analysis

02:51PM 10/29/09

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