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Axel Rudolph
Axel Rudolph is a Senior Market Analyst at IG and a multiple award-winning cross asset technical analyst, having over the last decade been ranked in the top 3 in the international FX Euromoney Survey and winning it in 2014 and in 2019.
Before joining IG Axel held technical analysis and trading positions at Commerzbank, Société Générale, The Co-Operative Bank and Dow Jones Newswires. He is a Fellow, Non-Executive Director and Head of Education at the Society of Technical Analysts (STA), having previously been its chairman.
Axel has also been a lecturer in technical analysis at several London universities for over two decades and Vice-Chairman Europe on the board of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).
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