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About TechniTrader®
TechniTrader = Technical Trading. We are a financial services education company. We have been teaching traders and investors a complete process for trading or investing in the stock market and other financial markets since 1998. We have helped thousands of traders and investors achieve their financial goals. Read about how we got started.
TechniTrader is The Gold Standard in Stock Market Education™. We teach trading and investing to the highest standards in trading education, starting with the foundation of how the modern market structure works, building all the way up to the specifics of how to execute each trading style. We were recently endorsed by Kevin Harrington!
Our courses provide a complete, comprehensive training program based on a college-style curriculum that uses a tri-level approach to analyzing stocks and ETFs to trade.
Our Student Campus provides an exceptional online learning experience with interaction between teachers and students through lesson discussions and student group communities.
TechniTrader has an A+ Rating with the Better Business Bureau. See Student Reviews here. Contact us here.
TechniTrader Credentials
Martha Stokes CMT
Chartered Market Technician | CEO | Head Instructor
Martha Stokes CMT is a retired professional Buy-Side Analyst. She is a member of the CMT Association, and earned the Chartered Market Technician designation with her thesis "Cycle Evolution Theory." She is a prolific author, having created over 40 stock, option, and financial market courses.
She started her first business at the age of 9, has sat on both sides of the Venture Capital table, worked on an IPO, and has taught at several community colleges. She is a highly sought-after speaker who fills the room to over capacity with her dynamic teaching style that engages the audience. She has created new analyses including: Relational Analysis™, Market Condition Analysis using Quantitative Theories, and Spatial Pattern Recognition. Martha’s focus for long-term investments is emerging displacement technologies that will have a significant impact on society, the economy and the stock market. Proactive Advisor Magazine Articles by Martha Stokes CMT
Howard Johnson
Senior Trading Manager | Instructor
Howard Johnson is a retired Senior Trading Manager for a small closed fund. During his years as a professional trader, he developed proprietary trade order systems, trade risk calculators, and trading plan calculators, which he generously shares with our students. Howard has toured the US and Canada as a popular speaker and educator. His expertise is trade management, risk management, and a proprietary order entry and exit process that he developed during his professional trading career, which is similar to the order systems used by Dark Pools.
Howard worked directly with a NYSE Market Maker as he developed the proprietary order types, stop losses, and trailing profit stops taught in TechniTrader Courses. His brilliant concepts so impressed the Market Maker that some incorporated those concepts to the business.
His diverse background includes CEO of three companies, software developer, production engineering, video production, audio engineering, and electronics engineering. He was an avid professional day and option trader before retirement. He started investing while in college. Howard’s passion for teaching and his careful attention to details makes him a favorite among our students.
A Chartered Market Technician is a professional certification for professional technical analysts administered by the CMT Association. It is the ONLY certification for technical analysts approved and recognized by the SEC, NYSE, and NASDAQ.
Martha Stokes was awarded her CMT after dedicating five years of extensive research and analysis in writing her doctorial equivalent thesis: “Cycle Evolution Theory: How to Identify Evolutionary Abnormal Cycle Patterns Using Technical Analysis.” Martha’s thesis consists of 92 charts with 100 written pages on cycle evolution theory. This was a landmark thesis that totally changed the way cycle theorists and technical analysts understood and approached cycle theory analysis. Her concepts continue to revolutionize our understanding of cycles and their function in the economy and the stock market.
Why is learning from a CMT important?
Each professional field has an accreditation committee that regulates and tests individuals to make certain that they have an extensive body of knowledge and expertise in their field. This certification by testing and thesis writing differentiates these professionals from all others working in their field of expertise.
When you work with a professional who has earned the highest achievement and credentials in their industry, you know you are working with a dedicated, experienced expert in that field.
The CMT Association is recognized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the NYSE, and NASDAQ.
This means you are getting the most professional education available.The TechniTrader Story
How We Got Started
I started learning about the stock market from my grandfather at age 12. That is another story, which I tell in the Methodology Essentials course to inspire my students to dream bigger than anyone thinks they can achieve.
I retired in my late 30s since I had started working at the age of 9 with my first business, and I had plenty of money from investments and the business that I sold. I wanted to enjoy life since I had started working at such a young age.
I did all the things that retirees do: travel, learn new things, volunteer work, skiing lessons, ice skating and many other activities. Soon I was very bored. It turned out that retirement was not my thing after all. I needed something more but I wasn’t sure what it was.
During this time, my business and trading partner, Howard and I had many people coming to us asking for help with learning how to trade the stock market. It was the era of the first online brokers. Stock trading and investing was something everyone wanted to learn. We were inundated with people asking for help.
One day, Howard suggested that we do a workshop on how to trade and invest in stocks and options. My reply was, “Are you nuts?? I’m retired!”
“And you're bored,” he said. “You need something meaningful to do, something that gives you purpose. You’re a great teacher.”
I said, “Everyone knows what I know already. They can read books and go on the internet. No.”
Howard pestered me for over a year and I kept saying no. Finally, one day, to get him to stop, I agreed to do ONE live workshop. I figured nobody would come or that once we did one, it would be over.
News of our 2-day workshop to be held in a Seattle hotel quickly circulated and reservations filled to more than we could fit in the huge ballroom. Professionals and ordinary people alike flew in to take our workshop.
We had agreed that we would create a complete comprehensive course that covered every detail of trading and investing in the stock market.
I stood near the door of the crowded room and got cold feet. We had put together a training manual with tests and all of the knowledge I had, along with all of Howard’s resourceful and unique trading calculators for setting up orders, risk management, everything.
I whispered in his ear as he nudged me to the front of the room to start, “We’re going to have to refund everyone. Look around. There are stock brokers here, Howard. They know this stuff.”
Howard just gave me that “go for it” grin of his and shoved me to the podium. “Just do what you do, Martha,” he said smiling.
I looked out at the eager faces and started my part of the training, going over how to read a stock chart, candlestick charts, market participants and their footprints. About 10 minutes into my presentation, I stopped in wonder. Scanning the room, I saw the intent focus of ALL the attendees. No one moved or spoke or turned away from my face. You could have heard a feather drop to the floor.
Then, it dawned on me. “You don’t know this stuff, do you?” I asked. All heads shook no. They had never heard what I was teaching before. It was at that moment that I realized Howard and I had found something uniquely special, something purposeful to do.
The workshop was a huge success. Soon we had people asking for the next workshop. People came from everywhere to attend our workshops in those early days.
Now that we are fully online with our training courses, anyone anywhere in the world can learn our unique approach to trading and investing. It is my passion and my legacy. It is the most exciting and rewarding retirement I could ever have.
Martha Stokes, CMT