Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize 2021

50 THE STA

Oliver Myers

Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize

Bronwen was instrumental in developing the STA’s formal qualification in technical analysis, and apart from teaching courses for the STA Diploma, in the early years she wrote and marked all the papers. She was a Board member from 1986 until 1993, when she went to work at Adia in Abu Dhabi, and was also a longstanding member of the board of IFTA and of its executive committee. Through this connection, she was widely respected throughout the world, as well as in the UK, as an outstanding technical analyst and an expert in the teaching of technical analysis. Bronwen died on 30 December 1992, aged only 60. In her memory, the Board of the STA voted to create an annual award for the best Diploma paper, which is known as the Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize. Congratulations to Oliver Myers for winning the 2021 Bronwen Wood Memorial Prize.

This award is made for the best STA Diploma Part 2 Examination paper written each year if a score of 90% or above has been achieved.

Bronwen Wood was one of the founder Board members of the modern STA and died suddenly in late-December 2002. Bronwen was instrumental in developing both the STA Diploma Examination and the courses leading to the examination. She wrote and marked all the papers in the early years. Even when she went to work in Abu Dhabi from 1993 to 1999, Bronwen retained a lively interest in how the educational side of the STA was progressing.

Oliver is a Portfolio Manager at Brewin Dolphin, in their Lincoln office. He joined the firm straight after university four and half years ago. Oliver studied for the exams using the STA’s Home Study Course. On hearing that he had won the Award, Oliver said

“I first discovered Technical Analysis about six years ago whilst at university when I was attempting to learn to trade, and it’s great to see the hard work and curiosity pay off, having moved from first learning about Support/Resistance to now achieving a distinction in the STA Diploma.

I’m very grateful to have been awarded the Bronwen Wood prize which was a quiet goal of mine before taking the exam. The diploma has been very useful, both in terms of new knowledge, and expanding on my current knowledge, whilst the application of analysis on multiple charts/time frames in the Part 2 exam was so helpful in terms of bringing it all together for analysing with a higher degree of confluence. I look forward to carrying on expanding my skills and learning more over time.”

We look forward to presenting this Award to Oliver in person at a special Awards ceremony in 2022 - along with all other successful MSTA candidates in the UK. In the meantime, well done to them and also all our new MSTAs.

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