The nearest thing that the UK has to a Richard Russell in age and experience is probably Brian Marber, who has been selling his market views, and his own more combative brand of humour, for more than 50 years. His verdict on his chosen profession as a technical analyst is uncompromising: “Anyone who tells you it’s a science is a charlatan, or con-artist, not a chartist- Jonathan Davis, Financial Times10th December 2007