Cynthia A. Kase, CMT, MFTA, is president of Kase and Company, Inc. CTA. She holds a BS from Lowell Tech (1973) and an ME from Northeastern (1977), both in chemical engineering, a field in which she worked for the first 10 years of her career, commencing in 1973. In 1980, she joined Standard Oil Company of California's corporate engineering department and three years later, as the new crude oil (CL) contract was being introduced and PCs just began to show up at the workplace, was transferred into the company's international oil trading arm, CIOC, where she traded both crude oil and refined products.

In January 1990, Ms. Kase joined Chemical Bank as their first VP of Commodity Risk Management, trading over-the-counter derivatives and futures, and designing pricing models. In September 1991, she accepted a one-year consulting assignment with the Saudi Oil Ministry's Petronal, as Director Energy Risk Management and Trading.

In September 1992, Ms. Kase founded Kase and Company, Inc., which provides energy trading and forecasting, hedging advisory services, and software solutions to corporate and institutional clients, as well as, for all markets, statistically-based, precision technical analysis studies and indicators and forecasting systems. Uniquely qualified as a cash market, derivatives, and futures trader, market technician, risk manager, and technical analysis software developer, since 1989 Kase has taught thousands of traders, aspiring traders, and technical analysts technical trading and forecasting.

Kase's awards and honors include Winner “Best Commodity, Energy, and Power, Research and Strategy” Technical Analyst Awards 2014; Winner Best of the Best Award, “Relative Strength/Momentum,” Market Technicians' Association 1997; Finalist “Consultancy of the Year–West Coast, Southwest, Midcontinent, and Gulf Coast Regions,” Oil and Gas Awards 2013; Finalist “Best Specialist Research,” The Technical Analyst 2013; Finalist “Consultancy of the Year–Gulf Coast and North East Regions,” Oil and Gas Awards 2012; Finalist “Best Trading Software,” “Best Newsletter,” TraderPlanet STAR Awards 2012; Finalist “Best Commodity, Energy & Power Research & Strategy,” “Best Specialist Product,” The Technical Analyst 2012; Finalist “Best Commodity, Energy & Power Research & Strategy,” “Best Specialist Product,” The Technical Analyst 2011; Finalist “Technical Analyst of the Year” and “Best Specialist Research,” The Technical Analyst 2009; Top 50 Women Worldwide, “Vision,” Commodities Now Magazine 2002; and Key Women in Energy Americas, “Innovation/Creativity,” Bozell & Jacobs LLC 2004.

Kase has earned the professional accreditation of Chartered Market Technician (CMT) from the Market Technicians Association (MTA; 1993) and was the first American and third woman worldwide to be awarded the Master of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA) diploma (2007) from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), both of which she has been a member since 1991. Kase is also a member of the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts.

Kase has spoken often on technical analysis and/or energy trading, including Traders Expo, Gas and Power Mart, Energy Expo, Futures Industry Expo, FIA Conference, Independent Producers Association of America, Canadian GasMart, Omega World, TAG (Technical Analysis Group) Conferences, Futures Magazine Conferences, Energy Risk Management Magazine Conference, and INO Conferences.

She has been featured in many videos produced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, eSignal, NinjaTrader, CQG, Bloomberg, and more, has appeared on CNBC's Tech Talk program, and is widely published in both the energy and trading press. Her book, Trading with the Odds, published in 1996, was hailed as the first new approach to trading in 40 years.

Ms. Kase is often invited to speak about her areas of expertise at MBA programs, and acts as an expert witness in the areas of energy trading and hedging, derivatives, and financial analysis issues, including financial damage issues.

Kase is also an active member of the Military Officers Association of America, and lifetime associate member of the United States Submarine Veterans, having served as an engineering duty officer in the United States Naval Reserves from 1976 to 1991, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.