Michael Harris is a trading expert and the founder of of TradingPatterns.com, a company he started back in 1999. Trading Patterns specialty is developing advanced pattern recognition software for the benefit of position and swing traders. Michael developed APS Automatic Pattern Search software which has received great acclaim and recently Price Action Lab, a program that includes an advanced technical analysis indicator based on price patterns, called the p-Indicator. He is also the director for of Harrison Investments, Inc., a fund management and consulting firm which specializes in serving institutional investors as well as hedge funds.
In years past, Michael has also done work for Bell Laboratories as well as a number of different Wall Street firms, where he developed a bond portfolio optimization program and trading systems for commodities and stocks. Since 1989, he has been working as an active trader.
Michael is also a best selling author. His first book “Short-Term Trading with Price Patterns” was published in 1999. His other two books “Stock Trading Techniques with Price Patterns” and “Profitability and Systematic Trading” were published in 2000 and 2008, respectively.
EDUCATION:
In 1981, Michael graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Buffalo with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then went on to receive a Masters degree in 1983 from SUNY Buffalo in Systems Engineering. In 1988, he attained a second Masters degree in Operations Research, this time from Columbia University, with an emphasis in forecasting and financial engineering.
