Prudential kills its Technical Analysis Group
FYI: Prudential, recently purchased by Wachovia Securities, has laid off its entire Technical Analysis group. This follows a similar layoff by Citibank back in February (also while digesting a major acquisition).
On a personal note, I took the NYIF Technical Analysis course with Ralph a decade ago; He is not only a terrific instructor, but he is a consumate gentleman as well. I wish him the best in whatever he chooses to do in the future.
For those of you who may be too young to recall, Ralph's Dow 10,000 call -- back when the industrials were about 3,000 -- was both controversile and dead right. (As of late, he has been way too optimistic).
From the AP, here's the Ubiq-cerpt:™
NEW YORK - Prudential Equity Group has shuttered its technical research group, laying off Wall Street veteran Ralph Acampora, who has been with the firm for 15 years.
Jim Gorman, a spokesman for Prudential said Tuesday the move to close the department was due to cost cuts.
In addition to Acampora, the group included analyst Peter Martin.
Acampora has been in the business for 40 years and was called the dean of technical analysis by many colleagues. He was most well-known for being the first analyst to say, in June 1997, that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would hit 10,000. The Dow did so on March 16, 1999.
Technical analysts use charts and supply and demand patterns to get a read on whether stocks or sectors are attractive and pose buying opportunities.
Acampora was managing director and the director of technical analysis for Prudential Equity Group. He joined the firm in 1990 after working for 10 years at Kidder Peabody & Co.
In 2003, Acampora was named to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team for the eighth consecutive year.
Acampora's departure comes roughly seven months after Citigroup Inc.'s Smith Barney unit fired its U.S. technical analysis team. The move was part of Citigroup's cost-cutting efforts.
UPDATE: October, 6, 2005 12:28pm
It turns out that Economist Richard Rippe and the entire Economics department have also been let go as part of the same cost-saving move at Prudential . . .
Source:
Prudential shutters tech research group
Associated Press
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/financial_markets/12816518.htm
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I don't really know all that much about technical analysis. But the line I always hear is something like:
"It's bunk, but some people believe in it. So you need to know how it allegedly works anyway."
Sounds like the "it's bunk" school is winning the day?
Posted by: Brian | Oct 4, 2005 8:44:54 PM
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