Dennis Gartman
Dennis Gartman, a recognized economist and commodity expert, serves on the Investment Committee of the endowment fund at The University of Akron and on the Investment Committee at North Carolina State University. He is the retired Publisher and Editor of The Gartman Letter, a widely-followed daily commentary published since 1987 until its retirement at the end of 2019. Gartman has been directly involved in the capital markets since 1974. He appears often in financial media discussing commodities and the capital markets, and speaks before various associations and trade groups around the world. Gartman is also an accomplished trader and continues, even during retirement, to comment on financial markets.
Dennis Gartman Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Chairman of the Akron University Investment Committee
Academic History
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B.A., English
THE GARTMAN LETTER
Launched in 1987, The Gartman Letter roamed widely, surveying economic, political and market trends, with attention to the commodity markets.
The Letter addresses political, economic, and technical trends from both long-term and short-term perspectives.
Clients of The Gartman Letter include many of the leading banks, broking firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy trading companies, and grain trading companies.
EARLY CAREER
Gartman began his career as an economist for Cotton, Inc. in the early 1970s, analyzing cotton supply and demand in the U.S. textile industry.
From there, he went to NCNB National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments.
Gartman was chief financial futures analyst for A.G. Becker & Company while an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
At the Chicago Board of Trade, he traded Treasury bonds and notes and GNMA futures.
In 1984, Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Sovran Bank.
Gartman has lectured on capital market creation to central banks and finance ministries around the world, and has taught classes for the Federal Reserve Bank's School for Bank Examiners on derivatives.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Gartman has conducted numerous presentations and courses on issues relating to the capital markets and derivatives for various brokerage firms, central banks and U.S. government entities.
He has been a frequent guest on financial television and radio networks, including as a panelist on CNBC's Fast Money.
He has also appeared in Bloomberg, Fox Business, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, MoneyShow, MarketWatch, Cointelegraph, Seeking Alpha, ETF.com, InvestmentNews, The Economic Times, Financial Post, and more.