Carter Braxton Worth is an American

United States

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 financial analyst

Financial analyst

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 and stock market strategist. He is the chief market technician and a managing director at Oppenheimer & Co.. He is the second highest ranked technical analyst on Wall Street

Wall Street

Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...

 according to institutional investor's

Institutional Investor (magazine)

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 2011 analyst survey.

Worth's weekly market commentary "Money in Motion" is known for its utilization of the "150 day moving average".

Early life and career

Worth graduated from Boston University

Boston University

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 and began his career as a fundamental analyst at Value Line

Value Line

Value Line is an independent investment research and financial publishing firm based in New York, New York, USA, founded in 1931 by Arnold Bernhard. Value Line is best known for publishing The Value Line Investment Survey, a stock analysis newsletter that is updated weekly and kept by subscribers...

. He began his work in technical analysis

Technical analysis

In finance, technical analysis is security analysis discipline for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis incorporate technical analysis, which being an aspect of active management stands...

 at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette or DLJ is a defunct U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research;...

 under the tutelage of Vincent Boening. He joined Oppenheimer & Co. in 2005.

Market calls

Worth rose to prominence with several well timed market calls the most noteworthy being one of the first analysts in print to call the beginning of the bear market on November 9, 2007.