Alex Spiroglou, CFTe, MSTA is an Investment Manager for Odin Capital Management, a FSA regulated global macro investment management firm. Additionally to managing firm assets, he also designed the “Hedge Fund Trader Incubation Program” (the firm’s “turtle trader” project that trains aspiring junior traders), including the Training Course.
Before joining Odin he spent two years at a London based Proprietary trading Group , trading futures across all asset classes.
Previously, he was with Ulysses Global Macro Hedge Fund and Energon Capital Finance in Greece. Alex began his career doing advisory proftfolio management in one of the largest brokers Greece in 1998.
Alex has been researching and developing cross asset (intermarket) trading strategies. He has created an extensive database of cross asset relationships and proprietary Cross Market Indicators (CMIs), that aim at locating directional clues or identifying the relative attractiveness of a “target market” through the study of linkages and activity between allied symptomatic markets.
Alex holds a Bsc in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School in London. He holds the Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) designation from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), the Diploma of Technical Analysis (DipTA-ATAA) from the Australian Technical Analysts Association (ATAA), has a full member designation of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK (MSTA), the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) from the UK Society of Investment Professionals.
Alex is the founding chairman of the UK chapter of the Market Technicians Association, Inc. (MTA).