The STA is pleased to announce our 2015 Dictum Meum Pactum (DMP) Award Recipient, Ralph Acampora.

Ralph Acampora is a pioneer in the development of market analytics and has a global reputation as a market historian and a technical analyst, providing unique insights on market timing and related investment strategy issues. Ralph was previously the New York Institute of Finance’s Director of Technical Analysis Studies. Ralph Acampora taught at the institute for nearly 40 years.

Before joining NYIF, he was Director of Technical Research at Knight Equity Markets. Prior to this, he worked for 15 years at Prudential Equity Groups as its Director of Technical Analysis. Ralph Acampora is one of Wall Street’s most respected technical analysts and has been consistently ranked by Institutional Investor for more than ten years. He is regularly consulted for his market opinion by the major business news networks as well as national financial publications.

He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), a designation he helped create and which is now recognized by the National Association of Securities Dealers as the equivalent of a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

The STA will honor Ralph Acampora on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at its 82nd
Annual Market Structure Conference.

About the dictum meum pactum Award
The Dictum Meum Pactum Award was established in 2002 to recognize individuals whose contributions to the industry, their firms, STA and their communities are consistent with the ideals that STA has supported since its inception.