Meet Our Founders

Chartered Market Technician | CEO | Head Instructor Martha Stokes CMT

Martha's life's work in her retirement years is to pass her decades of knowledge and experience in the markets onto her dedicated TechniTrader students. 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 market courses that include new, unique analyses: Relational Technical Analysis, Market Condition Analysis, and Spatial Pattern Recognition. Her focus for long-term investments is emerging displacement technologies that will have a significant impact on society, the economy, and the stock market. Martha ran a successful fund, has sat on both sides of the Venture Capital table, worked on an IPO, and has taught at several community colleges. Martha's articles can be found all around the web, i.e., Proactive Advisor Magazine, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, the CMT Association, Stockcharts.com, eZine and more.

Instructor Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson is now retired from TechniTrader. He was a Senior Trading Manager for a 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 shared with our students. Howard toured the US & Canada as a popular speaker & educator. His expertise was 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 made him a favorite among our students.