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About the Foundation
In 1993, the Market Technicians Association (mta.org) established the MTA Educational Foundation (the Foundation/MTAEF) with a primary mission to create and fund educational programs in the field of technical analysis – the study of how prices in freely traded markets behave and how they can be used to anticipate the future direction. This mission has since expanded to include the creation and support of a complete technical analysis curriculum that is now being taught for credit in colleges and universities around the world.
- The Foundation has committed to technical analysis by providing guest speakers, training material to educators, and course material including a complete lecture series.
- The Foundation’s prestigious Board of Directors is comprised of college-level instructors, Wall Street professionals, and former directors and presidents of the Market Technicians Association.
- The Foundation continues to raise money to fund its efforts in creating courses and providing support to professors at undergraduate or graduate levels in technical analysis, and for academic research into the theory and practical use of technical analysis.
The Foundation has worked with a number of colleges and universities to develop programs and courses on technical analysis and the study of the financial markets. Among these affiliations, perhaps the oldest, is with Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where Dr. Henry Pruden is executive director of the Institute for Technical Market Analysis. Conferences and lecture series on markets and technical analysis have been held at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School, the Harvard Business School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, Columbia University and University of Hartford, among other colleges and universities.
The first technical analysis course at an accredited university was taught at Golden Gate University in 1976. The first Foundation course was offered in 1996 at the University of Richmond in Virginia. The number of universities and colleges offering courses in technical analysis as part of the regular curriculum has expanded rapidly since then, including Rutgers University, Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business, Baruch College, the University of Richmond, Mercer University (GA) and Georgia Tech. In 2007 the Foundation updated a complete course in technical analysis comprised of 12 lectures, with all necessary charts and exhibits. This course serves as the core curriculum in technical analysis accredited by the Foundation.
In addition to its efforts at colleges and universities, the Foundation has also been reaching out to professionals in the financial community. As part of this effort, the Foundation has sponsored courses open to investment professionals both on its own and in association with the New York Society of Security Analysts. The Boston Security Analysts Society and the Centro Studi Bancari in Lugano, Switzerland are now offering the Foundation’s technical analysis course as part of their education program.
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