MANESH PATEL, CTA, is the President of EII Capital Group, a financial company that offers a variety of services, including money management, consulting, and trading. He is a technical trader whose technical foundation is built around a Japanese trend trading system called Ichimoku Kinko Hyo. With Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, Patel trades the following instruments: currencies, futures, options, stocks, and commodities. He is actively involved in Ichimoku trading and runs www.ichimoku.net and www.kumotrader.com, which has 125,000 subscribers and is ranked 260 among active Forex Web sites. Patel is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and received his master’s in engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.