"We have technical trading momentum and that feeds on itself," Mr. Dunay said.
He graduated from a technical trade school in Salt Lake City and later owned a gas station.
Non-native English-speaking MEPs are further deterred by highly technical trade-law jargon.
He analyzes their technical trading patterns, looking at stock trading volume, price trends and other factors over the last 18 months.
Beginning in the early 1990's, the use of technical trading systems in other kinds of markets also began to fail.
During college, I developed a relationship with a financial adviser who worked at what was then Dean Witter Reynolds and was involved in technical trading analysis.
"Central banks in India and China will be happy to accumulate gold at these levels," said Aaron Smith, the Asia head of the $1.65 billion technical trading fund Superfund.
With a PhD in economics from the University of California, Davis, she is certainly no slouch when it comes to technical trade issues.
John Frank, Microsoft's legal director for Europe, said the Sun Microsystems complaint was "based on its desire to gain access to our technical trade secrets".
Many attributed the pace of the recent decline to "technical trading" where sell orders were placed automatically as markets fell, magnifying price swings.Most analysts are brushing off the mini-crash as a minor setback to the commodities bull market.
