CMT

Chartered Market Technician (CMT) is a professional designation that confirms mastery in technical analysis of the financial markets. The CMT encompasses much more than the ability to read a chart.

Candidates learn to read and fully understand point and figure, line and candlestick charts from price perspectives past, present and future. Candidates also learn the relationship between these prices and price patterns, as well as trends and what they mean, how to draw trend lines and how to determine if trends will continue or fade.

Candidates then advance their knowledge to indicators and how they work, how they are calculated and the meaning and purpose behind those calculations. Candidates will learn implied volatilities, put/call ratios and inferential statistics from correlation analysis to t-tests to regression analysis.

They learn volume, breadth, short selling, sentiment gauges and intermarket analysis. While these examples name only a small portion of the technical skills learned from the three exams needed to become a CMT, the exams in themselves test a much wider knowledge of technical skills and analysis.