Adam Grimes has nearly two decades of experience in the industry as a trader, analyst, and system developer. He began his trading career with agricultural com- modities, a reflection of his roots in a Midwestern farming community, and traded Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) listed currency futures during the Asian financial crisis. Later, he managed a successful private investment partnership focused on shortterm trading of stock index futures, and swing trading of other futures and options products. He spent several years at the NYMEX, and has held positions for a number of firms in roles such as portfolio management, risk management, and quantitative system development.
Adam is the CIO of Waverly Advisors, LLC, an asset management and advisory firm specializing in tactical allocation and risk management in liquid markets. Adam is an expert in applying quantitative tools and methodology to market data, particularly in modeling volatility and complex intra-market relationships. In addition to his ongoing research and trading, Adam is also a prolific writer and educator. His personal website and blog (www.adamhgrimes.com) extends the work of this book with examples and applications to live market data. He has been a contributor on CNBC’s “FastMoney,” and his work and research have been quoted in major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, TheStreet.com, SmartMoney.com, SFO Magazine, and many others.
____
Adam Grimes has over 20 years of experience in the industry as a trader, analyst and system developer.
Growing up in an agricultural community in America’s Midwest, Adams first trading experiences were in agricultural commodities and futures. He then moved to currency futures, trading during the Asian Financial Crisis, and to stock index futures in 2001. His trading experience covers all major asset classes–futures, currencies, stocks, options, and other derivatives, and the full range of timeframes from very short term scalping to constructing portfolios for multi-year holding periods.
Adam is currently a managing partner at MarketLifeTrading.com and is President of Talon Advisors, LLC. He has held positions at major prop firms, funds, has traded for his own account and for others, and spent a few years at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Adam is the author of several books on trading including The Art & Science of Technical Analysis: Market Structure, Price Action & Trading Strategies, published in 2012 by John Wiley & Sons. He is also a contributing author for several publications on quantitative finance and related topics, and is much in demand as a speaker and lecturer on the topics of technical trading, risk management, and system development.
Adam Grimes is also an accomplished musician, having worked as a professional composer, and classical keyboard artist specializing in historically-informed performance practices. He is also a classically-trained French chef, coffee fanatic, and blogs regularly at adamhgrimes.com.