About The Authors
Charles Drummond
Charles Drummond was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. As a young man he enjoyed studying literature and geometry in school. His market experiences started in a conventional way with various experiments in buying stocks and commodities. He lost money on penny stocks, he lost money on futures contracts, he lost money following broker recommendations. After these losing experiments, he decided that if he was going to lose money, it would be in his own way, and not following the recommendations of others, and began his serious study of the markets.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, as he was trading in a variety of markets, Drummond experienced very substantial success. During these years he developed the basics of his market theory, and published these findings privately in a series of books, starting in the late 70s. During the 1990s he continued to add to his theories and develop new insights and has published a number of significant enhancements.
Drummond has always had a small group of private students and his theories have been taught by several market technicians.
However, Drummond himself has always preferred to maintain a low profile and generally eschews publicity and public exposure of any kind. His students have all been bound by non-disclosure agreements, and by an understanding that they were privy to a rather special set of information that is worth holding closely. Thus most of Drummond's insights have remained in private hands and have not been widely distributed. In this current electronic format the lessons are more accessible, but they will still be carefully controlled.
If you enroll as a student and undertake to complete these lessons, you will join this small elite group, and you also will sign a non-disclosure form covering the contents of these lessons, and the books and materials which accompany them. We ask that you "keep the faith" and abide by both the spirit and letter of this agreement. Little can be gained by the participants if this information is available on every street corner and used by every market participant.
Drummond currently lives in Eastern Canada where he trades and maintains an organic vegetable farm. He produces a daily market commentary for his students and is working on several new books.
Ted Hearne
Ted Hearne is a trader and consultant who lives in the Midwest; he has been studying P&L methodology privately with Charles Drummond since the early 90s. He was a member of the Mid-America Commodities Exchange, and has written about Market Profile and other trading methodologies.
In the course of his research into technical analysis, Hearne has also investigated the psychology of trading, and has practical expertise in the field of hypnotism. His experiences in this area led him to develop an approach to self-hypnosis tapes, which coordinate with the P&L methodology and lesson plan.
Hearne was born and raised in the Eastern United States and has lived and studied in Berlin, Vienna, and Jerusalem as well as the U.S. His undergraduate education was at the College of Wooster in Ohio; his graduate education, at the University of Chicago.
Prior to his work in the markets, Hearne worked as a foreign correspondent, a film producer and director, and a consultant on mass communications and behavior change. In the 1970s and 1980s Hearne founded and managed a 30-person communications firm with a national client base. He is a professional writer, and has had an extensive career in communications involving award-winning print, film, and multi-media productions, for a wide range of clients.
From 2004 through 2006 Hearne lived in Shanghai, where he studied Mandarin and traveled extensively in the interior of China. Currently he is living in Michigan, where he is writing on labor economics and other topics, developing software and trading.
Dennis Martell
Dennis Martell is a private trader, inventor and engineer living in Michigan and Arizona. He has been an active Drummond Geometry trader since 2000 and has been developing Drummond Geometry trading software and systems trading concepts since 2001.
Martell is a graduate of Bradley University and also holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Purdue University, and a MBA degree from Northern Illinois University. He has more than 30 years of experience in electrical and design engineering, including 22 years with Northern Illinois Gas, Aurora, IL, and 12 years as President of Dastec, Inc., Naperville, IL.
During his 22-year employment with Northern Illinois Gas, Martell held various positions, including managerial positions supervising more than 30 employees. He has designed many products including a variety of portable electronic instruments, especially in the field of gas detection, some of which became highly successful commercial products. Martell holds a number of patents for his engineering products and continues to work in that field from time to time.
In recent years, however, Martell has focused his interest on applying mathematical algorithms and computerized analytic techniques to the problem of market prediction and robust trading system development. His combination of cutting-edge analytic tools with the Drummond Geometry multi-time period methodology has lead to a number of useful trading software concepts.