JC Parets, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is the founder of All Star Charts and is one of the most widely followed Technical Analysts in the world. All Star Charts is a research platform for both professional and retail investors covering US and International stocks, interest rates, commodities and forex markets.
JC’s work has been featured regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, ABC, CNN, Wall Street Journal and many other financial media outlets around the world. You will often see JC as a speaker at some of the top investing conferences; he has also been invited to speak at Harvard, Duke, NYU, University of Chicago and Hong Kong Baptist University, among other institutions, about Technical Analysis and Behavioral Finance. JC specializes in finding the most opportunistic risk vs reward propositions while at the same time bringing a top/down approach to the marketplace whose wide spectrum is rivaled by few.
In 2017, JC launched Technical Analysis Radio, a podcast dedicated to Technical Analysis and the Technicians who practice it.
When he is not looking at charts, JC enjoys playing and watching sports, good food and good wine. He splits time between New York City, Miami and Sonoma Valley but also does his best to travel the world speaking to investors from different cultures always striving to become a wiser investor.
But not because I have to. It's because I want to.
There's a difference.
But I'm taking a break out here in Newport Beach, Ca for a few days, at what has become, the #1 Conference in all of Finance.
It's not even close.
I couldn't tell you what the 2nd best was. That's how dominant this is.
Sunday afternoon I walked up to the booth in Huntington Beach to get my badge and bag of goodies and they had pins representing whether it was your 1st year at FuturePtoof, your 2nd year attending or if it was your 3rd.
I smiled and said, "This is my 3rd year here", and she jumped up with joy and put extra flair on my conference name badge.
I feel like Jennifer Aniston in Office Space with all my flair on right now.
I laugh because of course it's my 3rd year. I want to support my friends.
Even if there was no one here, I would still be here.
But do you know how happy it makes me to see my boys kicking everyone's ass?
Josh Brown and the rest of the Ritholtz Wealth Management team is absolutely crushing it.
I'm out in Newport Beach, CA for a few days hanging out at an industry conference called Future Proof.
I don't even know where to start with these guys.
I've had a front row seat to watch my good friend Josh Brown partner up with Barry Ritholtz, hire Michael Batnick and many others along the way, and turn a small advisory into a $5 Billion AUM firm - one of the fastest growing Financial Advisors in the United States.
It was awesome when they were first coming up and putting on conferences. They were big, but still small and intimate in their own ways.
Now they're just way too successful.
That band that was cool when just a few people knew about them has gone mainstream.
There are way too many people here. It's absolutely insane.
My friends are rockstars. And I couldn't be happier to see all of their success.
I say there are too many people at this conference as a joke. But I'm not even kidding. There were like 20 open bars at happy hour last night and I still couldn't get a drink.
