Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance S.) About the Author About the Author: John J. Murphy is an American financial market analyst and is considered to be the Father of Inter-market Analysis. He received an award for outstanding contribution to global technical analysis by the International Federation of Technical Analysts. He also received the Market Technicians Association Annual Award in 2002. Currently, he's working as the President of Murphymorris Inc., which provides an admirable standard of the stock market analysis to on-line investors. Murphy was a former technical analyst at CNBC for 7 years and was the director of Merrill Lynch's Technical Analysis Futures Division.