Mark L. Newton, CMT, is a Managing Director and Head of Technical Strategy at Fundstrat Global Advisors. As a former Managing Member/Owner of Newton Advisors, LLC,  Mark has more than 25 years of buy and sell-side experience in the financial services industry. He formerly worked as Greywolf’s Chief Technical Analyst on the NYSE trading floor, and prior to that, he was with Diamondback Capital Management and Morgan Stanley in New York City as their technical strategist.

Before moving to the New York City area in 2004, Mark traded equity options as a market maker/floor trader at the CBOE and worked in risk management. Mark is a member of the CMT Association and a former member of the CBOE, CBOT, and PHLX.

His expertise is primarily in using advanced methods of technical analysis to identify stocks, commodities, and currencies with above-average risk/reward characteristics that can maximize returns and minimize risk. In addition to employing standard technical tools to identify trend duration, relative strength, and momentum, he utilizes counter-trend analysis to identify potential trend exhaustion and reversals of trend. He appears frequently on CNBC, Fox Business, BNN, and has done interviews with Bloomberg Radio, TheStreet.com, and Sina in the past.

Mark graduated with a BS in Finance from Virginia Tech in 1991 and obtained his Chartered Market Technician designation in 2002.

Razan Hilal, CMT, is a Global Macro Market Analyst at Forex.com, part of StoneX Group. She delivers daily market insights in both English and Arabic through articles, videos, and webinars, with frequent local publications across the UAE and regular TV appearances discussing key trends within the context of market headlines.

Prior to this role, Razan worked as a foreign exchange dealer, navigating real-time market flows and liquidity dynamics, an experience she now integrates into her market analysis and commentary. She assesses global risks through the lens of liquidity conditions, sentiment, and technical structure, confirming her views through an intermarket framework.

She is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Women in Technical Analysis Committee.