Frank Barbera, CMT, is a veteran money manager and is currently the editor of The Gold Stock Technician (GST) newsletter, published since 1993. He uses technical indicators to analyze precious metals and mining stocks, as well as oil and the overall market. Barbera has also managed private equity capital for a number of years, most notably for the Los Angeles-based Caruso Fund, which earned returns in excess of 25% to 30% during the last bear market. In his role as a hedge fund manager, he sought to regularly trade precious metals, energy and currencies along with the broad stock market indices. Barbera's technical work on gold and gold stocks is considered among the best in the industry, building a reputation sufficient to warrant a profile in the 2006 book Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today's Top Traders.