Thomas DeMark | |
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Occupation | Founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics, LLC |
Known for | Technical analysis, DeMark Indicators |
Thomas 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 Point 72 Asset Management, formerly known as S.A.C. Capital Advisors, for 20 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 recent stock market predictions include having forecast months in advance the October 4, 2011 US market bottom to within 1 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 received his B.A. and M.B.A. in Wisconsin and attended law school there as well from 1965 through 1972. From 1972 to 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. 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 multibillion-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).