General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> July 26, 2004
DAVID T. REGISTER has over 20 years of experience trading futures
markets. He has researched and developed a variety of successful
projects and products related to futures trading. For 17 years Mr.
Register worked at Lockheed as a Principal Scientist, eventually
becoming a member of the famed 'Artificial Intelligence Team' for NASA.
He left Lockheed and for nine years was Director, Intelligence Systems
at Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave International. While at EWI he led the
team effort to build and develop EWAVESTM, an 'Expert System' that
implemented the Elliott Wave Principle. This 'Expert System' is in use
at EWI. Mr. Register left EWI to form his own research and development
company to help future traders and analysts. He and Robert Prechter
still have an active relationship refining the EWAVESTM system. Mr.
Register obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics in 1969 and a Master's
degree in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 1974 and is
an active member of the American Statistical Association. He is
registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor with the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a quick overview of Elliott Wave?Mr. Register: Elliot Wave is certainly the primary means by which I do
technical analysis, and I've been doing it since I read the