The Technical Analyst Awards 

Winners 2018

RESEARCH & STRATEGY

BEST BANK FOR EQUITY RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Banque Pictet & Cie • Goldman Sachs • Oppenheimer & Co.

Winner:

Oppenheimer & Co.
Ari Wald, Technical Analyst

BEST BANK FOR FX RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Banque Pictet & Cie • Commerzbank • Haitong Bank • RBC Capital Markets

Winner:

RBC Capital Markets
George Davis, Chief Technical Analyst, Fixed Income & Currency Strategy

BEST BANK FOR FIXED INCOME RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Banque Pictet & Cie • Goldman Sachs • RBC Capital Markets

Winner:

RBC Capital Markets
George Davis, Chief Technical Analyst, Fixed Income & Currency Strategy

BEST BANK FOR COMMODITIES RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Banque Pictet & Cie • Goldman Sachs • RBC Capital Markets

Winner:

Goldman Sachs
Sheba Jafari & Jack Abramowitz, FICC Market Strategy

BEST BANK FOR EMERGING MARKETS RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Goldman Sachs • Malayan Banking Berhad • RBC Capital Markets

Winner:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Paul Ciana, Chief FICC Technical Strategist and
Stephen Suttmeier, Chief Equity Technical Strategist

BEST BANK FOR MULTI-ASSET RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Banque Pictet & Cie • Goldman Sachs • RBC Capital Markets

Winner:

Banque Pictet & Cie
Stéphane Bultey, Technical Analyst

BEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE FOR EQUITIES

Finalists:

BBSP Research • The ECU Group • Futurestechs • Lowry Research Corporation • Trading Central • Vermilion Research

Winner:

The ECU Group • Lowry Research Corporation

BEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE FOR FX

Finalists:

Adcock Analysis • BBSP Research • PIA-First • TECHFX TRADERS • TraderMade Systems • Trading Central

Winner:

Adcock Analysis

BEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE FOR FIXED INCOME

Finalists:

Adcock Analysis • BBSP Research • The Capital Observer • Futurestechs • The Market Chartist

Winner:

Futurestechs

BEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE FOR COMMODITIES

Finalists:

BBSP Research • Futurestechs • Marex Spectron • The Market Chartist • Trading Central

Winner:

Marex Spectron
James Dima, Technical Analyst

BEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE FOR EMERGING MARKETS

Finalists:

BBSP Research • The Capital Observer • The ECU Group • Lowry Research Corporation • WaveTrack International

Winner:

BBSP Research

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH HOUSE OF THE YEAR

Finalists:

Adcock Analysis • BBSP Research • The ECU Group • Futurestechs • Lowry Research Corporation • Trading Central

Winner:

The ECU Group
Robin Griffiths, Head of Multi-Asset Research and
Rashpal Sohan, Senior Quant & Macro Strategist

BEST INSTITUTIONAL BROKERAGE FOR EQUITY RESEARCH

Finalists:

Instinet • Louis Capital Markets • Market Securities • Redburn • Strategas • Tradition

Winner:

Market Securities
Jean-Charles Gand, Strategist

BEST SPECIALIST RESEARCH

Finalists:

Bloomberg • The Capital Observer • RW Market Advisory • Scotiabank • WaveTrack International

Winner:

The Capital Observer

PRODUCTS & SOFTWARE

BEST SPECIALIST PRODUCT

Finalists:

EOTPRO Developments • QuantHouse • RavenPack • Trading Central • Wall Street Horizon

Winner:

Trading Central
(Technical Insight)

BEST DATA PROVIDER

Finalists:

Bloomberg • dxFeed • QuantHouse • RavenPack • Thomson Reuters • Wall Street Horizon

Winner:

Thomson Reuters

BEST TRADING SYSTEM

Finalists:

Deltix • FlexTrade • Horizon Software • Qbitia • QuantHouse • Tethys Technology

Winner:

Deltix

BEST TECHNICAL ANALYSIS PLATFORM

Finalists:

Bloomberg • Optuma • Thomson Reuters • Tradesignal • TradeStation • Updata

Winner:

Bloomberg

MOST INNOVATIVE NEW PRODUCT

Finalists:

Apcela • dxFeed • Itiviti • Optuma • RavenPack • Wall Street Horizon

Winner:

RavenPack
(Text Analytics)

OTHER

TECHNICAL ANALYST OF THE YEAR

Finalists:

Winner of each Research category

Winner:

George Davis
Chief Technical Analyst, Fixed Income & Currency Strategy, RBC Capital Markets