Stephen W. Bigalow

About the Author

Stephen Bigalow possesses over twenty-five years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms: Kidder, Peabody & Company; Cowen & Company; and Oppenheimer & Company. He holds a Business and Economics Degree from Cornell University.

His book, Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profits, published by John Wiley & Sons, hit the market in January 2002. The book is directed towards the new investor all the way up to the most sophisticated professionals. In addition to developing many educational training products, he has written articles for Stocks and Commodities, and Futures Magazines. High Profit Candlestick Patterns, his recent book, was released in December 2005. This book takes candlestick investing to the next level and illustrates how to use candlestick signals with other technical patterns for increased profitability of trades.

He is the owner of the Candlestick Forum, LLC an educational website developed to teach individual investors how to trade by utilizing the candlestick technical signals. (www.candlestickforum.com) His commitment is apparent through his continued support and instructions provided through private chat rooms, and live online web events. While other experts lecture about trading, Mr. Bigalow actively trades on a daily basis.

While consulting with Institutional Investment firms, money managers and energy trading firms, Mr. Bigalow successfully combined conventional techniques with Candlestick analysis to produce unique trading strategies. He shares his distinctive trading approach by presenting Keynote Speeches and Seminars throughout the US and abroad. Mr. Bigalow has advised professional traders, money managers, mutual funds and hedge funds, and is recognized by many in the trading community as the “professional’s professional.”