With degrees in economics and a lecturing background, Monte has combined it with well over a decade of experience in the financial markets to speak and create content that provides traders with what they require be it fundamental, technical, sentiment, or risk.

He is a frequent contributor to financial news networks including Asharq Bloomberg, Sky News Arabia, Dubai One, CNBC Arabia, and Al-Arabiya, and is fluent in both English and Arabic.

Before joining IG, he worked as an analyst for hedge funds, investment firms, and brokerages.

With IG since: 2019

Market commentary since: 2012

Preferred trading focus: Sentiment correlated with the technical overview, while noting key macro changes

Favourite financial book: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Monte publishes IG’s Daily Market Report which focuses on the technical overviews, strategies, levels, risk management and sentiment from both IG clients and CoT speculators for over a dozen key markets, and includes the Market Brief. He also publishes IG’s Weekly Market Report which tackles the items on the weekly time frame and includes the Week Ahead, and the Weekly Sentiment Report which provides mapped sentiment and commentary on what traders both large and small have been up to, with both releasing on Monday. All reports release well before the European open to give traders time to process and set up their traders.

He also created and hosts the Technical Cheat Sheet video series, which looks at a specific market each week and breaks down technicals and sentiment while noting fundamental updates in that particular week. Shorter videos twice a week include market updates for social media that look at key markets impacted that day on IG’s trading app.

MA in Economics from Wayne State University.