Timothy Straiton

Name: Timothy Straiton

Position: Managing Director

Timothy Straiton, Managing Partner and co-founder of Straiton & Partner, Asset Management was born in July 1944 in London, U.K and can look back on over 25 years Forex and Precious Metal Trading and Risk Management. He has been a board member of the Swiss Association of Market Technicians (S.A.M.T.) for many years, although his originally absolved his studies in Gemmology at the Northern Polytechnic in London in the early sixties and took on a job as managing director of one of the most important precious stone dealers in Switzerland shortly after. In 1974, he started his career in finance as a precious metal and forex dealer at Bank Leu in Zürich, which he held until being asked to develop the precious metal arbitrage for American Express bank in Zürich, which he built up from 1977 until 1981. In 1976 he became a member of the Swiss Forex Club. From 1981 to 1987 he was Assistant Vice President of Bank Leumi Le-Israel in Zürich , member of the credit committee and chief forex and precious metal trader. In addition he was head of institutional and private client advisory services in the sector of trading and investment management. In 1986 he became interested in technical analysis and shortly afterwards began developing computerized decision support systems which were then used by traders and import/export companies throughout Europe. From 1988 until 1994 he was a director of Investment Bank in Zürich (Bacardi-Martini Group) (now Sella Banca), where he was responsible for the formulation and implementation of investment strategies, co-ordination of the group cash management and netting operations, Treasury, Forex, Commodity and Equity trading. He was able to quadruple the Forex income of the bank within 3 years. From 1994 until today- Managing Partner of Straiton & Partner, an Independent asset management and trading company, based on the outskirts of Zürich, Switzerland. Regulated by VQF in Zug.