Richard Adcock is the Managing Director at Adcock Analysis Ltd, which he founded in 2016. During his career, Richard has been voted Top Fixed Income Technical Strategist in the Technical Analyst magazine poll for 2009, 2011 & 2013, as well as runner up in 2010 and 2012. He was also short listed for the FX award during this time.

Richard started his career with Investment Research of Cambridge Ltd where he published a number of reports covering all markets, as well as managing client funds. He was approached by Credit Lyonnais to join their prop trading team as Technical Analyst, from which he joined the HSBC futures broking desk, taking both a strategy and sales role. UBS then asked him to join them in 2000, where he managed both the rates and FX technical teams. In early 2015, he joined Brevan Howard, where his technical reports were used by portfolio managers in their day to day trading. Richard also traded risk on his own views.

He specializes in candlestick analysis, combining it with momentum and trending techniques to establish both long and short term strategies.