About Us

Clive is the founder, and continues to be the main contributor, for FuturesTechs. He has been in the City for 22 years, has been in the Futures Market for 18 years as a Broker and Trader, and has been writing Technical Analysis for 9 years.

He is an active Board Member of the U.K. Society of Technical Analysts. He has spoken at several of the Society's monthly meetings and has also been enlisted as a regular lecturer on the Society's annual Diploma Course, covering a wide range of subjects over the years.

He has taught technical analysis around the world, numbering 7City Learning and the CME Group among his clients in this respect.

He has had articles published in various Technical Analysis publications, is regularly quoted on the leading newswires, and also appears regularly on CNBC.

He is married with three children, the eldest of which regularly beats him at golf. He has been a keen Southend United supporter for 25 years, something that's been a real struggle at times!

His first book "Candlestick Charts" was released in January 2009. He is only at the "thinking about it" stage for further book projects!

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Jon Beddell writes the FuturesTechs' Forex report, he has been a financial market trader for 12 years, starting his career as a stockbroker. He has also been a futures trader and investment advisor in the city.

His investment philosophy draws heavily on technical analysis, and he continues to spend time developing trading systems for his own account, and writing for Futurestechs. In early 2004 he had an article published in appliederivatives predicting the bull run in the gold market.

Jon is also the managing director of Tor Currency Exchange Ltd, a foreign exchange brokerage providing commercial exchange rates, market analysis and corporate risk management services to companies with foreign currency exposure.

Jon is married, and a keen glider pilot, spending his free time trying to find his way back to the airfield. It's just as well his navigation of the Forex markets is more accurate than his flying!

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Graham Neary has been with FuturesTechs since January 2009 and has quickly established himself as an important member of the team.

He passed the Society of Technical Analysts' Diploma in 2009, shortly after joining FuturesTechs.

He previously interned in the research division of NCB Stockbrokers in Dublin, and continues to maintain the MyHome Property Barometer, a leading measurement of Irish house prices.

Graham holds a BA in Mathematics from Trinity College in Dublin, the certificate in Economics awarded by the US-based Ludwig von Mises Institute, and is currently pursuing the CFA designation.

In his younger days he had the great pleasure of playing chess for Ireland’s youth teams.

His interest in all things that glitter has made him a natural choice to regularly write our Gold and Silver reports.