George Pruitt is a renowned author, editor, researcher, and Director of Research for Futures Truth. He is a software engineer for applications focused on analyzing time series data. In the past, he has managed commodity futures based hedge funds. Pruitt is now working on developing some longer-term methodologies that will provide noncorrelation to other trend followers. With the recent market volatility, Pruitt is also working on ways to filter out low probability trades without hurting the profit side of the equation too much.