Occupation Founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics, LLC
Known for Market Timing, Technical analysis, DeMark
Indicators
Thomas DeMark is the founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics, LLC,
[1] creator of the
DeMark Indicators®, and has been a special consultant to Steven A. Cohen of Point 72
Asset Management, formerly known as S.A.C. Capital Advisors,
[2]
for nearly 30 years
years.
[3][4][5] DeMark’s indicators are used in the market timing and technical
analysis of financial markets. Some of his indicators include the following: Sequential,
Combo, Setup, Setup Trend, Countdown, Range Expansion Index, D-Wave, TD Lines,
Differential and Camouflage.
[3][4][5] DeMark’s stock market predictions include having
forecast months in advance the October 4, 2011 US market bottom to within 1 point of
the exact low[6][7] and the precise Shanghai Composite market low on December 4,
2012,
[8] precise subsequent February 6, 2013 high,
[9]
then June low[10] and September
2013 high to the exact day.
[11]
. DeMark’s recent bitcoin market calls have been the exact
top on December 18, 2017, the exact bottom on December 14, 2018, and the exact top
on June 26, 2019.
[12][13]
DeMark received his B.A. and M.B.A. in Wisconsin and attended law school there as
well from 1965 through 1972.
[3] From 1972 to 1978, DeMark was an officer of National
Investment Services (NIS), a multibillion-dollar pension fund manager. From 1979 to
1982, he was president of Financial Markets Consulting, a market-timing consulting
subsidiary of NIS. In 1982, DeMark founded DeMark Investment Advisory, an advisor to
many of the largest and most successful hedge funds, fund managers, mutual funds,
and investment counseling firms. His clients included George Soros, Goldman Sachs,
Union Carbide, IBM, Minnesota Mining, Steinhardt Partners, Atlantic Richfield, First
Investors, Hoisington Investment, among many others. From 1982-1989 DeMark
founded and offered financial publications Quotron Futures Charts, Fundamental
Government Charts, and DeMark Futures Charts.
[4]
In 1988, DeMark became executive
vice president of Tudor (Paul Tudor Jones), a multibillion-dollar hedge fund. In 1990,
DeMark established a partnership with Chicago Board of Trade Treasury Bond
legend[14] Charlie DiFrancesca (“Charlie D”). In 1990, DeMark and multibillion-dollar fund
manager Van Hoisington[15][16]
formed Devan Futures. In 1994, DeMark served as special
advisor to Leon Cooperman, a $5 billion hedge fund manager. At the same time,
DeMark formed Market Studies, a provider of DeMark’s suite of market-timing software
to data vendors, such as Bloomberg and CQG.
[5][17] Formerly, DeMark was Chairman of
Logical Information Machines (LIM).
In the early 1970’s, Mr. DeMark was introduced to Larry R. Williams, a well-known
market technician and TV and investment seminar personality. Williams’ commitment to
research and the markets was an inspiration to DeMark and resulted in a five decade
business and personal relationship which has endured to this day.
[18]
There have been several books written about the fundamental properties of the
analytics pioneered by Demark.
[19][20]
In 2008, Steven A. Cohen, founder of Stamford, Connecticut-based Point 72 Asset
Management, which manages $15 billion,
[21] and John H. Burbank, founder of San
Francisco-based Passport Capital LLC, which manages $4.1 billion,
[22] became partners
in DeMark Analytics, LLC. The firm has its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona [23] and
currently working on a new product/service called Symbolik®. [24]
DeMark appears regularly on television,
[25][26][27][28][29][30][31] and at seminars[32] around the
world. Both he and the DeMark Indicators have been the subject of numerous feature
articles in many widely circulated financial
publications.
[23][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][43][44][45][46][46][9][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]
[73][74][75]
On 14 April 2011, The Technical Analyst presented its 2011 Technical Analyst of the
Year award to DeMark. The Awards Ceremony was held at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel in
London.
[76] Also, on 13 May 2011, the Market Technicians Association invited DeMark to
be their keynote speaker for the 2011 Annual Symposium on Going Global: Risk &
Reward In International Markets at the New York Stock Exchange.
[17][77][78]
Bloomberg Markets Magazine[79]
featured DeMark in its December, 2012 issue. The
article discusses the indicators DeMark developed to predict financial market movement
based upon mathematical relationships. Oswald Gruebel, former CEO of Credit Suisse
Group AG and UBS AG, Steven A. Cohen, founder of Point 72 Asset Management,
John Burbank, founder of Passport Capital LLC, and Peter Borish, former director of
research at Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corporation, were quoted among
other users of the DeMark Indicators.
[58][80][81][82]
The Market Technicians Association invited DeMark on 5 April 2013 to be their keynote
speaker for the 2013 Annual Symposium at the Sentry Centers in New York City.
[83] This
was the second MTA Annual Symposium DeMark was honored for his market timing
acumen and innovative mathematical models for decoding esoteric rhythm in data
sets.
[84][85]
Tom is the recipient of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) Lifetime Achievement
Award presented at the association’s 50th anniversary event.
[86]
On 24 March 2020, Thomas DeMark was featured on the CNBC television show Mad
Money.
[87] Jim Cramer commented on Thomas DeMark “nailing” the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) 23 March 2020 bottom and then referred to Thomas
DeMark as a “Titan of technical analysis” with a “godlike sense of timing”.
[88]
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