FX WOMEN IN FOREX
Carol Harmer Interviewed by Maud Gilson
“Most of the newer technical analysts today who base their analysis on algorithmic or mathematical models have never traded on a market,” says Carol Harmer, founder of Charmercharts. “I am sure they would not be able to trade in today’s markets using the tools we had when T/A first became popular…” With a career spanning 29 years and ranging fom trading in the pits of the London Futures Exchange, to helping set up the technical analysis operation on the dealing room floor for Midland bank, to heading the Nomura Technical Analysis Trading desk, Carol has undoubtedly become one of the most respected and established technical analysts in the UK. She was one of the first Bank T/A traders to join the Society of Technical Analysis back in the mid 80’s when Technical Analysis was still “a new budding flower in the City’s bank dealing rooms,” says Carol. She has since created her own website in answer to widespread demand for her forecasts. “Even to this day, when I look at a chart,” says Carol, “In my mind’s eye I still see those bond pit traders all bellowing and shoving each other in their struggle to get out of the wrong way positions.” In this “Women in Forex” exclusive interview series fom
FXstreet.com, Carol Harmer talks about insights market movements, trader behaviors, being a woman in the banking culture, and the charts behind them all.
56 FX TRADER MAGAZINE July - September 2011
Charts are there to make us money, you shouldn’t need a doctorate to understand them
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88