Daan Joubert studied Physics at the Potchefstroom University, South Africa, during which study he spent a year at the SA National Antarctic Expedition base in Antarctica. After receiving his degree, he returned to the Antarctic as leader of the expedition.

On his return he joined Control Data Corporation in South Africa as a software systems engineer and developed operating system software for 5 years before switching to computer education at JCI’s mining support services complex in Randfontein. This was followed by a stint in the management information department of Sentrachem, a large chemical company, after which Daan went on his own in 1982 to develop technical analysis software.

He has developed a number of new methods for technical analysis, including Chart Symmetry, which he uses for his own work as an independent technical analyst and that has earned him a place in national rankings of analysts. Apart from doing a daily analysis of the SA bond market for a stockbroker, Daan also writes on markets and whatever else is of interest for various places on the internet.

A long term interest in management theory and some breakthrough discoveries, including a formal definition of management, have resulted in a quite original and simple solution for management’s problems – setting Daan up for another change in career!

He lives in Roodepoort, South Africa, 8 miles from Durban Roodepoort Deep, and his home is just 3 miles from where the first horizontal shaft was sunk in 1886 to exploit the gold lying under the Witwatersrand. (Ridge of White Waters).