Atilla Demiray

Atilla Demiray (born February 6, 1976) is a well-known Turkish-American trader, financial commentator and blogger. He is the inventor of xTrends - a technique to understand and predict movements in equities and financial markets.
Biography
Demiray was born in Kayseri, and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. He earned bachelors and Master of Science degrees from Anadolu University, Turkey in 1996 and 1998 respectively. In 1998, at the age of 22, he came to America to continue his academic studies towards a PhD. Demiray then acquired a second Master of Science degree from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
Demiray's involvement in trading began in 1999 while working as a software engineer at Thermo Electron Corporation. He then developed a trading technique called xTrends. In 2004, he started his own research firm, Demiray&Co. Capital Sciences LLC - a Long Island based research and investment firm.
One of Demiray's major successes was predicting the financial collapse of 2008 and quadrupling his money due to large short positions. Demiray uses xTrends, the technique he developed, to predict movements in equities and financial markets.

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