Honorary members

Nobody in Canada's history has contributed more to the dissemination of technical analysis of the financial markets than Jeff.
For this reason he has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in May 2010.

He ceased public activities related to financial investments in 2012.

For his unique contribution to the dissemination of technical analysis of the financial markets to Spanish investors, Jaume has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in May 2010.

For his admirable efforts in promoting concepts of technical analysis of the financial markets to French-speaking investors for many years, Claude has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in May 2010.

Compared to most professionals who use the stock markets as their personal piggybank to fund mean and selfish goals such as putting kids through college, buying a new home or latest sports car, John understood to exceed himself not only in bringing his inspired contributions to the field of technical analysis to the masses through publishing market research works over the years but also in fighting the charlatans who, under the pretense of high gains from what they were affectionately calling "trading systems", wanted to enrich themselves at the expense of the gullible public.
John has put several vendors of mechanical trading systems out of business for their hyped-up, unscrupulous claims showing that what they were selling was in fact software of inferior quality which, if used, would have generated irrecoverable losses to buyers.

Additionally, John succeeded to involve his family with online securities trading at one time proving he had the skills, enthusiasm and inspiration to diversify not only among different asset classes, time frames, capital sizes or trading systems in order to pursue profits but also among different ages, skill levels, zodiacs and destinies.

He lives on his old 200-acre estate in North Carolina, USA and is still professionally active at the age of 88 in 2013 traveling often to Japan where he is an icon to Asian investors.

For his insightful technical analysis works and combative spirit in righting the wrongs of the stock market's dark side gratis when he did not have to do so, Mr. John R. HILL has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in April 2013.

Many researchers worked on his discoveries over the years to add a new twist or build up new technical tools based on his ideas, but nobody succeeded to match the quality of his novelties.
Seeming to follow a pattern of growth and change from success to success, Welles abandoned his groundbreaking inventions in favor of The Delta Phenomenon, a unique concept which a totally unknown mathematician and trader until then has introduced to him in 1983.

His great passion for price charts made Welles influence his son, David, positively into becoming a fund manager.

Envisioning the huge problems USA has today and the downtrend that started because of swelling government debt in the 1980's, Welles retired early at that time to Christchurch, New Zealand where he and his wife live reclusively.  They are old not getting any younger, and his picture above taken in 2009 might be among the last ones available to the public.

For his brilliance and unsurpassed originality, Mr. J. Welles WILDER, living legend, has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in August 2013, on our 7th anniversary.

USA stockbroker since 1969, educator, author, lecturer, newsletter writer, market researcher and fund manager, Martin J. Pring has been active longer than most professionals in this industry.

He is the world's first author to put together a book and CD package in 1997 for the absolute beginner to learn price charts principles fast and well confirming my belief that, no matter how big the fund a money manager handles, that money manager - if he is the real McCoy - can still find time to educate the public.

Among his many books, instructional CDs and videos is his masterpiece the 'Technical Analysis Explained', the bible of price charts reading.

The recipient of several prestigious industry awards, Martin distinguished himself not only by steady returns from the funds he managed, but also by developing his own mechanical trading system, Know Sure Thing (KST), which he made available to the public.
In one of the most secretive industries where money managers see no reason to reveal their moneymaking concepts to outsiders, Martin was not afraid that his signature system would stop working for him if he publicizes it.  After all Martin is the second strongest character on Earth in the Chinese zodiac - giveaway is the name of his software at his website.
"Secrets" about KST flood the Internet by now and MetaStock sells an add-on with that name for years.

Energetic and influential, Martin also succeeded in making his wife, Lisa, dabble in securities.  How many traders can say the same in a world where lots of them had to divorce their shopping-happy and excessive spending other significant half in order to achieve peace of mind and continue their value creation work?

Martin lives in Florida, USA, is present at major investment shows on the international circuit and continues his activity at all levels: educator, author and fund manager.  He is the perfect proof that if someone really loves what he does for a living, that person is blessed with finding time, energy and resources to do many things at the same time, not just one at a time.

For his seminal contribution to the dissemination of technical analysis of the financial markets to the masses, for his royal attitude of fearlessly sharing his KST mechanical trading system with all of us, for his pioneer work in bringing innovation to the publication of textbooks and for enduring success in a field where not many pros last long and where his name will last forever, Mr. Martin J. PRING has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in August 2014 on our 8^th anniversary.

In response to increasing demand for a real-time version of MetaStock, MetaStock RT™ was released in July 1992.  Since then, numerous versions of both EOD and RT versions have been released.  (Read the full software history here).

From the beginning, Steven always worked to make sure that what he was creating would have real value for investors.  The result of his genius is that  MetaStock has over 150,000 customers in over 97 countries now and received numerous awards, including the Readers' Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities Magazine for over 20 consecutive years: the best investment charting and analysis software.

An extraordinary programmer, Steven is also a chartist, inventor, investor, author and philanthropist.
He sold the company some years ago and goes on with his private trading, presides over several software companies and cares to participate in rescue missions in the mountains of Utah, USA.
Steven, you climbed all the mountaintops of the investment world!

I use MetaStock since Dec. 1997 without which I would not have been able to pursue my journey of 19 years now in 2016 as a pure chartist, author, cyber-trading tutor, programmer, charting tools inventor, and investor.
Thank you Steven for having helped a lot of inquisitive minds discover the wonderful world of technical analysis and investments!
Thinking at you, these words made my day:

Real success is not when a man manages to do something well
but only when other men using that something achieve success.

For his vision and originality in creating the world's first professional charting software setting an irreversible trend, Mr. Steven B. Achelis has been awarded The Technical Analysis Society of St. Lucia Honorary Award in August 2016 on our 10^th anniversary.

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