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Biography

John Bollinger, CFA, CMT is the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, Inc., an investment management company that provides technically driven money management services to individuals, corporations, trusts and retirement plans. Bollinger Capital Management also develops and provides proprietary research for institutions and individuals.

Mr. Bollinger was the Chief Market Analyst for many years for Financial News Network, a nationwide cable network. He continues to present market analysis and commentary on CNBC, FNN’s successor and speaks at financial conferences worldwide.

John Bollinger is probably best known for his Bollinger Bands, which have been widely accepted and integrated into most of the analytical software currently in use. His book Bollinger On Bollinger Bands was published by McGraw Hill and is has been translated into six languages.

His Capital Growth Letter is published monthly and updated twice weekly via a hotline. It provides investment advice for the average investor employing a technically driven asset allocation approach and is available electronically or via post.

John Bollinger also is the founder of several financial websites:

www.EquityTrader.com
EquityTrader is a website Mr. Bollinger launched in 1998. The site provides stock charts with Bollinger Bands and various technical indicators, plus rankings of past performance and potential appreciation for 4,200 equities and indices. Investors use EquityTrader for new investment ideas, rating of stock's performance potential, second opinion on stocks being considered and excellent technical charts. A Pro section offers stocks with trading signals based on Bollinger Bands, plus screening for selecting stocks based upon a wide variety of criteria.

www.FundsTrader.com
FundsTrader provides past performance and potential appreciation rankings for 1,200 mutual funds. A unique feature of the site is the prediction of the closing net asset value for the mutual funds tracked prior to the close of the market using a proprietary correlation system. Provides excellent charts and mutual fund analysis.

www.BollingerBands.com
BollingerBands.com provides comprehensive information about Bollinger Bands.  Bollinger’s newsletters, DVD set, videos classes and book are available at this site.

www.BollingerOnBollingerBands.com
The site supports John Bollinger's book “Bollinger on Bollinger Bands” and provides access to the trading systems that are introduced there. It provides daily lists of the stocks that qualify for each of the three Trading Methods presented in the book. There is also an excellent charting and screening area.

www.GroupPower.com
This new site provides industry group analysis using a group structure developed by Mr. Bollinger. The premise behind Group Power is that the key to successful stock picking is selecting industry groups which are strong. Group Power provides a wide array of market statistics designed to assist the investor when making market timing and investment decisions.

www.PatternPower.com
This is a site developed for institutional investors. The analysis classifies stocks into 32 patterns, 16 M patterns and 16 W patterns and analyses each security to answer three questions: Where is it trading? Where is it going? What does it take to break the pattern? Screening, alerts and analysis are also provided.

After purchasing his first microcomputer in 1977, Mr. Bollinger became involved in the seminal stages of computer driven market analysis. Today he continues to write some of his own software and also makes use of a number of commercial analysis packages.

Bollinger graduated from the School of Visual Arts majoring in cinematography and started studying the market shortly thereafter. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and a former board member of the Market Technicians Association. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts and was the founding president of Market Analysts of Southern California. He is the recipient of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco Lifetime Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technical Analysis and the 2005 Market Technicians Association Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Technical Analysis.