Background

Cesar Alvarez attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1989 and his Masters of Science in Computer Science in 1990.cesar

Cesar was a Software Engineer on Excel versions 3, 4, and 5, helping Microsoft Excel go from single digit market share to owning the market.

Cesar spent nine years as a professional market researcher for Connors Research and TradingMarkets.com. Cesar has been at the forefront of stock market research, having developed a number of successful trading systems now used by numerous investors and fund managers in the United States and internationally. Cesar has given trading presentations both over the web and in person to hundreds of traders.

Cesar has been trading his own account since 1995. His preference is for short-term mean reversion in US stocks.

Cesar is the founder and main writer for the popular site Alvarez Quant Trading.

 

Books

Cesar was the primary researcher and co-author of the following research:

Indicators

Strategies

I have been involved in the creation of over 100 trading strategies. These include equity day trading, equity swing trading, long term equity trading, equity options trading, emini swing trading, volatility day trading, volatility swing trading, ETF day trading, ETF swing trading, long term and ETF trading.

TheMachine

Created the prototype for TheMachine. Involved in the creation of most of the strategies in TheMachine