Carter Braxton Worth (born June 15, 1966) is an American
financial analyst
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The role may specifically be titled securities analyst, research analyst, equity analyst, investment analyst, o ...
and stock market strategist. Each year since 2008, he has appeared on
institutional investor's All America Research Team, ranked as one of the Top 3 technical analysts on Wall Street. Carter is married to Andrée Jill Finkle (January 13, 2007).
Worth's weekly market commentary "Money in Motion" is known for its utilization of the "150-day
moving average
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".
Early life and career
Worth graduated from
Boston University
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with a degree in International Relations. Early in his career, he worked as a fundamental analyst at
Value Line
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.
He began his work in
technical analysis
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at
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
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under the tutelage of Vincent Boening. He joined
Oppenheimer & Co. in 2005 and departed in early February 2014. From 2016-2021 Carter was the Chief Market Technician at Cornerstone Macro. In 2021 Carter founded Worth Charting LLC. Carter appears regularly on
CNBC
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.
Market calls
Worth rose to prominence with several well timed market calls the most noteworthy being one of the first analysts in print to call the beginning of the bear market on November 9, 2007.
References
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1966 births
American financial analysts
Living people
People from Manhattan
CNBC people
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni