How Alex Pusco followed the charts to success

Alex Pusco turned his enthusiasm for financial technical analysis into a multi-million pound business.

Swiss entrepreneur Alex Pusco was "always passionate about technical analysis", the use of charts to understand financial markets. As a teenager he would lap up new theories and when personal computers became more common in the 1980s he started testing them for himself.

"Computers changed everything. They made it possible to run complex calculations and automate a lot of the hard work." By the time he was studying computing and business at the International University of Monaco, Pusco's flair for technical analysis was starting to attract attention. It was only a matter of time before he would start making money from it.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.