Author Profile
Robert W. Colby Senior Analyst, TraderPlanet.com Robert W. Colby is managing director of Colby Research in New York and the author of The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators, Second Edition, which has become the standard reference work throughout the world for technical indicators and trading systems design. Colby’s firm develops research methods and custom investment decision-making systems for institutional and private clients. Colby also writes daily technical market analysis and strategy comments for an experimental educational service exploring investment strategy ideas for professional investors and traders. He previously was a proprietary trader at Schonfeld Securities with complete profit-and-loss responsibility for one of the firm’s equities trading accounts and was senior technical research analyst and vice president at Smith Barney in New York in the 1980s, writing daily and weekly reports and making thousands of presentations to institutional and individual investors. He created an objective technical and quantitative ranking system for stock selection across the full spectrum of industry groups, foreign and domestic stocks. A graduate of Ohio State University with a BS in finance, Colby is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and a member of the Market Technicians Association since 1980. He also has been a part-time professor at New York University and NewYork Institute of Finance, developing several new courses.
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