Gatis is a veteran full-time stock market investor who has traded his own account since 1989 unburdened by the distraction of clients. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA). Gatis is also the author of "Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery" (Wiley, 2016).

After several successful entrepreneurial ventures, the last a high-tech Silicon Valley company which was taken public on the NASDAQ, he retired in his early 40s to focus on investing in the financial markets. With consistent success as a stock market trader, he began teaching investments at the post-college level in 2000 and continues to do so today.

A renowned communicator, he has taught thousands of investors in sold-out seminars for the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), the Market Technicians Association (MTA) and elsewhere. He also writes the popular blog, The Traders Journal, which is published weekly at StockCharts.com and has achieved a global following.