Alex Bernal is a Chartered Market Technician with many years of industry experience in the equity, commodity, currency, interest rate and derivatives markets. Alex also holds a degree in Economics from the University of Southern California. Originally from Santa Barbara California, Alex excelled at a very early age in the sport of competitive sailing, achieving national championship status multiple times in many different classes in addition to top honors in world championship competitions.

Alex started his career at the Beverly Hills branch of Bear Stearns & Co. in the wealth management division. Then in 2007 he moved over to M&N Trading, LLC. where he joined the prop trading desk where he specialized in statistical arbitrage in areas such as global yield curve spreads and STIR futures. Here he was mentored by Veteran Trader, Anthony Lazzara, who was once the largest 5 year treasuries floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and executed as much as $100 billion in interest rate futures contracts annually.

Alex has also been featured on many prominent news & financial blog networks such as CNBC, Bloomberg, CBOE TV, Fxstreet.com, Seeitmarket.com, Benzinga.com, MTA.org, Yorba Media Radio & First Business News.