J. Michael Oliver has been a student of objectivism since 1965.
He was very active in the small and emergent libertarian movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, a period in which diverse strains of libertarianism were gathering pace and solidifying their ideas.
In 1971 he was the founder and editor of The New Banner, a nationally-circulated, objectivist periodical that while it fully accepted Rand's philosophical premises, rejected Ayn Rand's limited government political concepts, concluding instead that anarcho-capitalism was the logical/practical political position of objectivist philosophy. On February 25, 1972 Oliver interviewed Dr. Murray Rothbard for the publication. The entire interview was published in December, 2014 by The Mises Institute and can be read on their site.
In 1975 Oliver moved away from a would-be academic career in political philosophy and became a gold futures market specialist with E.F Hutton. He continued as a futures specialist with several firms until 1992, when he shifted to market analysis. By means of his own proprietary methodology of technical analysis, "momentum structural analysis," he has provided timing and analysis research to mutual funds, hedge funds and banks for over twenty years.
He was very active in the small and emergent libertarian movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, a period in which diverse strains of libertarianism were gathering pace and solidifying their ideas.
In 1971 he was the founder and editor of The New Banner, a nationally-circulated, objectivist periodical that while it fully accepted Rand's philosophical premises, rejected Ayn Rand's limited government political concepts, concluding instead that anarcho-capitalism was the logical/practical political position of objectivist philosophy. On February 25, 1972 Oliver interviewed Dr. Murray Rothbard for the publication. The entire interview was published in December, 2014 by The Mises Institute and can be read on their site.
In 1975 Oliver moved away from a would-be academic career in political philosophy and became a gold futures market specialist with E.F Hutton. He continued as a futures specialist with several firms until 1992, when he shifted to market analysis. By means of his own proprietary methodology of technical analysis, "momentum structural analysis," he has provided timing and analysis research to mutual funds, hedge funds and banks for over twenty years.