Tony Plummer is the director of Helmsman Economics Ltd. He is a former director of Hambros Bank Ltd, of Hambros Fund Management PLC, and of Rhombus Research Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Society of Technical Analysts in the UK, and was until November 2011, a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Economics Department at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of 'Forecasting Financial Markets', which describes the influence of crowd psychology on economic activity and financial market price behaviour.
Tony has worked and traded in financial markets since 1976, concentrating primarily on bonds and currencies. He now specialises in strategic economic and financial market analysis, and writes and lectures on group behaviour and trading competencies.
He has a Masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics and an Honours degree in economics from the University of Kent. He has a four-year training in Core Process Psychotherapy and is a qualified NLP practitioner.