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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