Tim Knight is a full-time hedge fund manager who uses ProphetCharts and technical analysis as the basis of his trading decisions. He wrote his first book (The World Connection) at the age of 16 and wrote a total of twenty books about using personal computers. An active stock and options trader since 1987, he founded Prophet Financial Services (Prophet.net) in 1992 and sold it in January 2005 to Investools (which later merged with thinkorswim and, in turn, was acquired by TD Ameritrade).In his professional role as a full-time money manager today, Tim relies on technical analysis as the primary basis for his investment decisions, and he leveraged his passion for the markets to fuel the innovation for which Prophet.Net is known. In fact, Barron's and Forbes consistently named Prophet.Net the #1 Web Site for Technical Analysis.Before starting Prophet, Tim was Vice President of Technology Products at Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, where he led the development of an institutional online-trading platform. Additionally, he has held various positions in marketing management at Technical Tools and Apple Computer and is the author of 20 computer books. Tim is a graduate of the Santa Clara University's Honors Program and holds a bachelor's degree in business management.He writes the widely-read (and usually bearish) blog Slope of Hope (http://www.slopeofhope.com)