Tom DeMark

Tom DeMark is the founder and CEO of DeMARK Analytics, LLC, creator of the DeMARK Indicators® and has been a special consultant to Steven A. Cohen of Point72 Asset Management (formerly known as S.A.C. Capital Advisors) for over 27 years. 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®. 

DeMark’s stock market predictions include having forecast months in advance the October 4, 2011 U.S. market bottom within one point of the exact low and the precise Shanghai Composite market low on December 4, 2012, precise subsequent February 6, 2013 high, then June low and September 2013 high to the exact day. 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.

DeMark received his B.A. and M.B.A. in Wisconsin and attended law school there as well from 1965-1972. From 1972-1978, 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. 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 Charlie DiFrancesca (“Charlie D”). 

In 1990, DeMark and multi-billion-dollar fund manager Van Hoisington 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. Formerly, DeMark was Chairman of Logical Information Machines (LIM).

In the early 1970s, 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.

There have been several books written about the fundamental properties of the analytics pioneered by DeMark.

In 2008, Steven A. Cohen, founder of Stamford, Connecticut-based Point72 Asset Management, which manages $15 billion, and John H. Burbank, founder of San Francisco-based Passport Capital LLC, which manages $4.1 billion, became partners in DeMARK Analytics, LLC. The firm has its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona and is currently working on a new product/service called Symbolik®.

DeMark appears regularly on television and at seminars around the world. Both he and the DeMARK Indicators have been the subject of numerous feature articles in many widely circulated financial publications.

On April 14, 2011, The Technical Analyst presented its 2011 Technical Analyst of the Year award to DeMark. Also, on May 13, 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.

Bloomberg Markets Magazine 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, John Burbank and Peter Borish, former director of research at Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corporation, were quoted among other users of the DeMARK Indicators.

The Market Technicians Association invited DeMark on April 5, 2013 to be their keynote speaker for the 2013 Annual Symposium at the Sentry Centers in New York City. 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.

DeMark is the recipient of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the association’s 50th anniversary event.

On March 24, 2020, DeMark was featured on the CNBC television show “Mad Money.” Jim Cramer commented on DeMark “nailing” the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) March 23, 2020 bottom and then referred to DeMark as a “Titan of technical analysis” with a “godlike sense of timing.”