Akif Din
Akif SH. Din MSTA, CFTe, 2018 Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize Winner, has a solid understanding of global markets, fundamental analysis as well as having a vast amount of knowledge in technical analysis. Akif has experience as a proprietary trader, fund manager and technical analyst, providing daily market commentary and analysis to institutional clients. He has analysed & traded various asset classes including, G10 & EM FX, Fixed Income & Rates, European Equity Indices, Energy, Agricultural and Soft Commodities.
Akif first studied at LAT London, where he learnt the basics of financial markets and their structure all the way through to trade setups, risk management and Options trading. During his time at LAT, Akif gained tuition and mentorship from leading financial market professionals, including Steve Miley. Akif attained an ABE Level 5 Diploma in Professional Applied Financial Market Trading with Futures & Options and achieved the highest ever mark on the course since it began.
After completing his studies, Akif began trading his own capital across G-10 FX, Commodities & Indices. In late 2017, he secured a position as a proprietary trader in the City. Here, Akif had the opportunity to trade G-10 and EM FX, Commodities and European Equity bourses and apply heavily testing proprietary technical analysis strategies. He further expanded his knowledge on risk management and learnt how to code with Python to build custom charts and signals.
With an interest in writing, Akif began writing on his journey as a young trader for a UK based site called www.traderlife.co.uk. Here, he wrote a series about how he found an interest in Markets and his journey so far.
During the latter stages at the fund, Akif wrote internal TA reports for across G-10, EM FX, precious and base metals, energy and agricultural commodities.
As a young trader, Akif was interested in developing his knowledge within financial markets, especially Technical Analysis. After advice from his ex-mentors, Akif chose the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) to deepen his understand of Technical methods within trading. At the STA, he learnt advanced Technical Analysis methods, risk management strategies and techniques alongside a range of other vital topics. He attained a high-mark distinction and in 2019, was bestowed with the prestigious Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize, an honour only a few hold. He holds the MSTA and CFTe (Certified Financial Technician) professional designations (accredited by the STA and IFTA).
Akif now provides daily technical analysis, reports, commentary, trade ideas and insight across G-10 and EM FX, Fixed Income, Credit & Rates, Commodities and Equity markets for a global institutional client base. He continues to trade is own capital using both fundamental and technical analysis with STEM methodology for form a market view. Akif concentrates on Spot FX, commodity, Index futures and FX Options.