About Bob Iaccino
Bob Iaccino spent the last 17 years in the futures and Forex markets. He is in high demand by various media outlets for his unparalleled understanding of market confidence, tone and trader outlook. He has appeared on CNBC, CNBC Asia, Bloomberg Television and Radio, CNN, CNN International, CNN Moneyline, Fox Business News, First Business (Canada), Phoenix TV (China) and several local television broadcasts throughout the country. To date, Bob has done over 500 interviews on the markets. He continues to appear in 10-15 live television interviews per month.
Bob got his start in 1993 by joining Nikko Securities (Japan’s second largest brokerage house at the time) as a phone clerk. Showing great aptitude for the industry, Bob was promoted to assistant market strategist by early 1994 and Chief Market Strategist by 1996, with his analysis being sent to hundreds of trader’s in the US, Europe and Asia. Bob’s analysis became well known throughout the firm and with the firm’s clients for insight into trader outlook and market tone. Bob left Nikko in 1997 to serve as Chief Market Strategist for Commerzbank Futures, the brokerage arm of Germany’s 4th largest bank at that time. Bob was again distributing his research and insight on trader outlook to the bank’s traders and clients as well as trading the markets. Bob left Commerzbank in 2003 to become Chief Market Strategist for a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago, who gave him the opportunity to run his own commodity pool. This local firm had over 100 traders that relied on Bob’s analysis to help them in their daily trading. During this time, he also gave internal seminars on trading psychology and trader outlook. Most recently Bob served as a Principal and a member of the investment committee for a futures and Forex based fund of funds, where his responsibilities included trader-style analysis and manager selection. He was one half of a 2 person committee charged with discovering “start-up” managers.