Experience
Monte’s career began as an economics lecturer before shifting to finance over a decade ago in roles that primarily dealt with analysis and strategy. He spent over five years at IG before joining Capital.com in 2025. Monte is a regular contributor to the region’s media heavyweights including Asharq Bloomberg and Sky News Arabia.
Education
Monte has a Masters degree in Economics from Waye State University where he lectured undergraduate students.
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Latest articles by Monte
Trading the S&P 500 Amidst Fresh Negative Factors
Technicals weaken in the shorter-term time frame, while in sentiment CoT speculators are finally net short all four U.S. equity indices.
7 hours ago
Trading WTI After Geopolitical Escalation
Technical overview remains volatile on the daily time frame, while in sentiment it’s a story of heavy to extreme buy bias.
07:07, 2 March 2026
Trading the Dow 30 as Tariff Uncertainty Returns
Red in the futures market sees contained retreat continuing to test its shorter-term technicals, while in sentiment there’s been a shift to net short among CoT speculators.
08:09, 23 February 2026
Trading the Nasdaq 100 amidst the ‘AI Scare Trade’
Valuation, disruption and rotation have been short-term themes testing short-term technicals, though in sentiment traders remain majority buy.
10:52, 16 February 2026
Trading Silver’s 35% Pullback
Volatile technical overview has given conformist breakout strategies the clear edge as of late, while in sentiment it remains a majority buy story.
09:06, 2 February 2026
Trading Gold as it Breaches $5,000
Technical overview remains very much volatile for the precious metal as it seemingly goes parabolic, and traders both large (CoT) and small (retail) remain majority buy.
05:41, 26 January 2026
Trading the S&P 500 Following the Greenland Tariff Threat
Equity index takes a hit in the futures market down less than 1% denting short-term technicals, and in sentiment CoT speculators remain net short.
07:25, 19 January 2026
Trading the Nasdaq 100 as Chair Powell is Under Investigation
Risk-off moves in the financial market see futures go for a dip, but it’ll require a bit more to shake off longer-term positive technicals and majority buy sentiment among traders.
10:42, 12 January 2026
Trading WTI Following the Weekend Geopolitical Events
Movement relatively contained considering the fundamental update with the technical bias still negative, while in sentiment both CoT speculators and clients are extreme buy.
07:46, 5 January 2026
Trading Gold as it Breaches $4,400
Technical overview remains volatile on the precious metals front with gold no exception, and both clients and CoT speculators are majority buy.
07:50, 22 December 2025
