Keith Fitz-Gerald is a Contributing Editor to Money Morning, as well as Investment Director of the Money Map Report and editor of the New China Trader. He is also a seasoned market analyst known for his accuracy, perspective and insight. He is also a former professional trader and licensed CTA advising institutions and qualified individuals, and he specializes in non-directional trading.

Fitz-Gerald started his first business and began investing the proceeds at age 15, but he officially launched his business career 19 years ago when he joined Wilshire Associates, the globally recognized financial consulting firm. He is currently Founder and Managing Member of Fitz-Gerald Research Publications LLC, an investment-research firm that publishes general investment research, commentary and analysis.

Having discovered key financial relationships that allow the markets to be modeled using complex systems based on Chaos Theory, Fitz-Gerald has been recognized as both a true pioneer of the form and an expert at using non-linear theory for market prediction, risk management and portfolio construction. That makes him one of the few people in the world who works exclusively with non-linear theory to predict the markets and forecast economic and financial events.

With his cutting-edge analysis strategies, Fitz-Gerald has actually called some of the key market events in recent history. When crude oil was trading at less than $20 a barrel, Fitz-Gerald predicted it would rocket to $50, $60 and even $70 a barrel - the record levels that crude oil has reached today. He was one of the only analysts who correctly predicted both the 2000 stock-market decline and its subsequent turnaround in 2003. In February 2007, during an appearance at the World Money Show in Orlando, he publicly predicted that China’s shares were in for a tumble: He notified his subscribers of his prediction a full four days before that country’s stock market plunged 9% in a single trading session. And most recently, in speeches and detailed articles that preceded the actual event by several months, Fitz-Gerald repeatedly warned of the credit crisis that’s only now roiling the global financial markets.

He was recently named a founding member of The Kenos Circle, a Vienna, Austria-based think-tank that identifies long-term economic and financial trends using the Science of Complexity, which is better known as “Chaos Theory.”

Fitz-Gerald holds a BS in Management and Finance from Skidmore College and an MS in International Finance - with a focus on Japanese Business Science - from Chaminade University. He and his family split their time between Portland, Oregon and Kyoto Japan.