Cynthia Kase FIRST AMERICAN to Receive Prestigious MFTA Diploma

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April 30, 2007 – The International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) has awarded Cynthia A. Kase CMT, MFTA, President of Kase and Company, Inc., the Master of Financial Technical Analysis diploma. Ms. Kase, member of the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts (AAPTA), is the first American, and third woman worldwide to be awarded the MFTA diploma. The MFTA diploma is obtained by submitting a university style research paper on market technical analysis that is a severe test of professionalism in the global arena. There are only about 10 applicants per year and just half are awarded the designation, 84 in the world since 1999. Kase’s award winning paper will be published in the 2008 issue of the IFTA Journal published in November 2007.

About Cynthia A. Kase, CMT, MFTA
Cynthia A. Kase is recognized by many as the energy market’s leading technical analyst. She is a master’s level chemical engineer turned oil trader and risk manager, president of Kase and Company, Inc., CTA and is now the energy industry’s leading hedging and trading advisor and price forecaster. Ms. Kase worked for Chevron, Chemical Bank and Petronal, part of the Saudi Oil Ministry, before launching Kase and Company, Inc. in 1992. She is the author of “Trading with the Odds” and won the MTA’s “Best of the Best” award in 1997. Kase served as an engineering duty officer with the United States Naval Reserves for 15 years, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander, and now resides in Santa Fe, NM where she serves on the board of directors of Saint Elizabeth’s Shelter.

About Kase and Company, Inc., CTA
Kase and Company, Inc. is a boutique hedging and trading solutions and software firm primarily focused on serving the corporate and institutional energy sector. Since 1991, Kase has provided highly innovative and statistically rigorous risk management and trading solutions to large and mid-size corporations, money center banks and international brokerage houses.

About IFTA
IFTA, which originated in 1984, is a non-profit affiliation of over thirty individual country societies who individually and jointly dedicate themselves to promotion of the highest standards of professional conduct, international cooperation, and scholarship between all its member and developing societies within all arenas of equity and commodity technical analysis.