J. Michael Oliver
J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Huttons International Commodity Division, NYC. He studied under David Johnson, head of Huttons Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Oliver began to develop his own momentumbased method of technical analysis. In 1987 Oliver, along with his futures client accounts Oliver had trading POA technically anticipated and captured the Crash. Oliver began to realize that his emergent momentumstructuralbased tools should be further developed into a full analytic methodology.In 1992 he was asked by the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Banks Trust Department to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia. Within a year Oliver shifted from brokerage to full time technical research. MSA has provided its proprietary technical research services to financial and asset management clients continually since 1992.Oliver is the author of The New Libertarianism: AnarchoCapitalism.
