2006 Timer of the Year Award Goes to Mark Leibovit of VRTrader.com.

SEDONA, Ariz. -- TIMER DIGEST MAGAZINE has awarded the Timer Digest 2006 Timer of the Year award to Mark Leibovit of VRTrader.com.

Mark Leibovit, CIMA, is the Chief Market Strategist and Publisher for VRTrader.com, a daily stock market recommendation website and successor to his "Volume Reversal Survey" newsletter launched in 1979. He also provides consulting services to institutions and recently launched a long/short real estate equity hedge fund.

You may have recognized Mark Leibovit as one of the ten "Elves" on Louis Rukeyser's "Wall Street Week" television program where he served as a weekly consultant for 7 years through 1996. Since 1980, Mr. Leibovit has appeared as a regular Market Monitor guest with Paul Kangas on PBS' "The Nightly Business Report." He is a frequent guest on several other radio and television financial programs around the U.S. and has appeared on both CNBC and CNN, Bloomberg and CBS in Chicago. In addition, he has been interviewed by Barrons, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBS.Marketwatch.com, Marketviews.tv with Ike Iossif, Michael Campbell (Vancouver), and Financial Sense online with Jim Puplava, to name only a few.

Mark Leibovit combines cyclical analysis, volume analysis and contrary opinion to create his market forecasts.

His Annual Forecast Model (available at VRTrader.com) has gained increasing notoriety on Wall Street as a predictor of future market movement. Released each year in early February, it has accurately pinpointed market highs and lows using cyclical analysis. Its claim to fame began back in 1987 when it predicted the ominous stock market crash nine months in advance. It also forecast the 2000 bear market - the report released February 1, 2000 entitled: "It Looks Like An Honest to Goodness Bear Market." Most recently, the Model predicted the May 2006 peak and the Summer 2006 trough in the stock market.

The adage that "volume precedes price" lays the foundation for his analysis and at VRTrader.com. Basically, when stocks rise on increasing volume or decline on decreasing volume, technical action is considered positive. Conversely, when stocks decline on increasing volume or rise on decreasing volume, technical action is considered negative. VR stands for Volume Reversal (tm), the trademarked indicator for this volume analysis.

Mark considers himself very much a market contrarian as a market technician and uses the financial press as one of his key indicators. In his view the financial press is caught in the same emotional exuberance on the bear and bull side as any individual and has to be viewed with a skeptical eye. Leading financial television and radio programs created to provide public information are, in his view, providing disinformation at critical market moments.

Mr. Leibovit had previously ranked the #1 Intermediate Market Timer in the U.S. for the ten-year period ending December 31, 2002 by TIMER DIGEST magazine. He was also previously ranked the #3 Gold Timer in the U.S. by that same publication.

Mr. Leibovit was a member of Midwest Options Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange where he became a market maker in 1976. In 1979, after consulting with several regional brokerage firms, he left the floor and began publishing his newsletter "The Volume Reversal Survey," now VRTrader.com. He holds a CIMA (Certified Investment Management Analyst) and AIF (Accredited Investment Fiduciary) designation, and is a member of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) and the CFA Institute.

Past performance does not guarantee future results.