Steve Nison is founder and President of Candlecharts.com which provides premier educational products and advisory services.

Traders and investors everywhere have discovered the power of candle charting because of Steve's groundbreaking work.

Nison, the very first to reveal the startling power of candlestick charts to the Western Hemisphere, is acknowledged as the leading authority on the subject. Before Nison's work not one charting system in the Western world had candle charts. Now almost every electronic charting package has them.

While recognized as the authority on candlestick charts, Nison is also an expert on Western technical analysis with over 25 years real world experience. As such, as a result many of his products and services incorporate both Eastern and Western technical trading techniques.

Nison is the author of "Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques" and "Beyond Candlesticks". Sales of over 75,000 copies, in eight languages, have made these books the “bibles of candlestick analysis” around the world.

Nison's work has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal , Barron's , Worth , Institutional Investor , and many other publications around the world.

Nison has appeared numerous times on CNBC, and his segment on FNN (the precursor to CNBC) brought in the most viewers that network ever had.

As a renowned and sought after speaker, Nison has trained professionals in 18 countries and from almost every major investment firm, on how to apply - and profit from - these methods.

Mr. Nison has spoken, by request, before the World Bank and the Federal Reserve, He has taught at numerous Universities, and major stock and commodity exchanges. In addition, he is an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance.

He was among the first to receive the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the Market Technicians Association (MTA) and was nominated for the MTA's "Best of the Best" for Price forecasting/Market analysis.

Mr. Nison holds an MBA in Finance and Investments and was a Senior Technical Analyst at Merrill Lynch and a Senior Vice President at Daiwa Securities.