Joe’s Bio

Joseph Grant Bridges - he goes by Joe - grew up in the mountains of North Carolina and is a product of the North Carolina university system. A sports addict and exteremly competitive as a youth Joe played and excelled at Baseball, Basketball and Football and has remained in competitive areas as an adult.

Joe compete's to this day in the markets!

After being introduced to the futures markets during a summer tour of the Midwest in 1979, Joe began trading a simple “volatility breakout” system in the Gold markets in the early 80’s. As volatility declined with Gold prices, Joe began to study alternative methods of trading and analysis but primarily focused on a hybrid version of Elliot Wave analysis also known as Marly in his trading career that relying on indicators or oscillators in the public domain was a bad idea.

He began to develop his own unique techniques in the early 80’s. With the encouragement of his early mentors he has relied on nothing in the perlin at the time.

Joe has been very fortunate in that he entered the trading arena during a period when mentoring by older and more experienced traders was common for those worthy. Joe proved worthy early on with a natural aptitude for risk management and a keen sense for short-term market direction. He also benefited from several years of direction from some of the 80’s heavy hitters.

Gifted in math and always an original thinker, Joe realized early in his trading career that relying on indicators or oscillators in the public domain was probably a bad idea so he began to develop his own unique techniques in the early 80’s at the encouragement of his mentors and has relied on nothing in the public domain since, other than a moving average.

Joe moved to the Chicagoland area in 1985 and has resided there since. During that period he has exhibited a wide variety of skills from managing high volume retail divisions and providing custom execution services for both institutional and accredited individuals. He's also provided custom analytical solutions for private clients as well as custom software and system solutions in both TradeStation and Excel. 

Joe has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor – CTA – with the National Futures Association and the founder of Capital Research & Trading, LLC – known as “ CRT ”.

Capital Research & Trading, LLC is a firm dedicated to the statistical research of market price action using unconventional proprietary algorithms to uncover recurring events that may be exploited