Cornelius Luca

Cornelius Luca has spent his entire professional life in international finance. He also traded all the major crosses and the exotic currencies. He has been primarily active in the spot market but also was directly involved in trading foreign currency futures, forwards and options. In addition to trading, he has advised numerous clients in the US and around the world.     

Cornelius Luca authored “Trading in the Global Currencies Markets,” published by Prentice Hall (3rd edition – 2007), a comprehensive analysis of the foreign exchange markets, instruments, players and methods of forecasting, and “Technical Analysis Applications in the Global Currencies Markets,” also published by Prentice Hall, an exhaustive and unique coverage of currency chart analysis.  He also authored “Technical Analysis Applications,” which is published by McGraw-Hill, and “Introduction to Technical Analysis,” which is published Euromoney.

He has taught courses at the New York University, Pace University - Lubin School of Business Graduate Division in New York City, and at the New York Institute of Finance.

Outside the U.S., he presented courses and participated in conferences in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Geneva, Moscow, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Johannesburg, Sydney, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, Cairo, Kuwait and Riyadh.

He has traded currencies (spot, forwards, futures and options) at Sanwa Bank (currently BOT-Mitsubishi), Prudential Securities and Creditanstalt Bankverein (currently Bank Austria).

Mr. Luca has an MBA in International Business and Finance from the New York University Leonard Stern Graduate School of Business.