As founder of Rockwell Trading, Inc., Markus has taught hundreds of investors in the U.S. and European markets.

Markus started trading 19 years ago, using point and figure charts from published numbers in the morning newspaper, mainly with stocks. In 1996, he began developing a number of trading systems by using SuperCharts (which is now TradeStation), MetaStock, OmniTrader and other software.

In 2002, Markus decided to quit his regular day job as a director at IBM and become a professional trader. He moved from Germany to the United States to get started.

Throughout his career, Markus has traded EVERYTHING: stocks, options, futures, commodities, spreads, Forex, foreign markets, interest rates, etc. If its out there, he has probably traded it. In addition, he traded on a wide variety of different timeframes: ticks, 1-, 3-, and 5-minute, hourly, daily, and weekly.

In the past 5 years, Markus has taught his strategies and methods to hundreds of traders all over the world, offering educational webinars. He has written articles on over 500 websites, and has become an expert contributor on ezinearticles.com, Yahoo Answers, and FAQTs.com.

Markus holds the German equivalent to an MBA in Business Administration and Computer Science.