Principal
 Steve Karnish is a respected technician and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). He started his trading career with Merrill Lynch in 1975. That same year, Steve began system trading using moving average oscillators. Steve has designed numerous trading systems and market indicators. From 1997-2001, Steve frequently guest lectured at the University of Idaho, Washington State University and the University Centre, in Brig, Switzerland. Since moving to Denver, in 2001, Steve has overseen the mechanical trading SIG group of the Denver Trading Group (presenting ten times in the last two years). He has also presented to the Denver chapter of the Market Technicians Association. During the past 20 years, Steve has consulted to the satellite data industry and financial software developers. Currently, Steve continues to simplify and improve his trading systems.
Milestones
August 2005
The "Kicker" system (moving average oscillators triggering in the direction of the trend) starts trading in real-time at Mirus Futures' TradeAssist
July 2005
Massive redesign of Cedar Creek Trading website begins
November 2004
"Flipper" mechanical systems start trading
October 2004
"TradeAssist" programs are started with Mirus Futures
September 2004
"Teach-Talk-Trade" moves from PalTalk to hotComm
August 2003
Steve presents his latest indicator: the Standard Error Oscillator and explains how to apply it to hourly Dow Jones Futures contracts. His topic: “To Err is Human…to Standard Error is Divine.”
March 2003
Steve unveils his “In the Zone” trading system. A day-trading approach to the Dow Jones Futures contracts.
January 2003
Steve Karnish presents: “The Building Blocks of Successful Mechanical Trading” for the Denver Trading Group. The six-hour seminar is attended by 85 members.
October 2002
Eighty member of the Denver Trading Group listen to Steve's eight-hour seminar: “Design, Testing and Optimization of Mechanical Trading Systems”.
September 2002
With over eighty members in attendance, Mr. Karnish gives an two-hour seminar to the Denver Trading Group: “The MO:OOSE is loose – Momentum Oscillators: Objective, Selective, Effective!”
June 2002
Steve is the guest speaker at the Denver Market Technicians Association meeting. His topic: “Active Trading Systems…Systematic Trading with Momentum Oscillators”.
March 2002
Steve forms a research alliance with Jeremy Berkovits, of National Securities, to further refine mechanical momentum trading systems with the addition of “trend identifiers” and “money management” concepts.
January 2000
Steve begins to shift his research emphasis from commodities to equities. With the announcement that Single Stock Futures will trade in the future, effort is invested in designing a robust, mechanical approach that will take advantage of these emerging markets.
June 1998
Steve conducts a series of sales and educational seminars for Equis International, Data Broadcasting Corporation, and Paritech, International.
August 1997
Steve starts his Introducing Brokerage firm: Cedar Creek Trading.
October 1997
Steve begins guest lecturing at University of Idaho, Washington State University and the University Centre in Brig, Switzerland.
January 1996
Steve begins re-testing “momentum oscillator” trading approaches (first visited in the “seventies”) as part of an MBA project. Sound after, he begins to trade large quantities of wheat for his Northwest, agricultural based, clients.
October 1988
Steve purchases MetaStock, a financial software program, from Equis International.
November 1984
As Executive Vice President of First Financial Futures, Karnish structures the Founders Fund I, a fund that is devoted to futures.
December 1982
Working as a consultant to emerging satellite data firms, Steve is responsible for the first momentum oscillators to be fed to subscribers in “real-time”.
March 1979
Steve Purchases a Model I Tandy computer and becomes the first broker in Colorado to have a computer at his desk. Many of his colleagues laugh and ask: “Why would a broker ever want a computer at his desk?”
January 1975
Pirating time from an IBM 360 computer, in Ann Arbor, MI., Steve successfully tests his first moving average oscillators.
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