John Pope is a trader, analyst, and economist with more than a decade of experience in the financial markets. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Mississippi State University, and a master’s degree with an Economics concentration from Auburn University.

John was a financial planner before joining the U.S. Air Force where he worked as supply & logistics officer for eight years. He went on to found his own successful retirement savings advisory service, where he focuses on systematic trading and testing in the currency, stock, bond, and gold markets.

John is founder and Head of Research at TSPkey.com, a site geared toward one of the largest retirement savings plans in the U.S. TSPKey.com uses systematic timing approaches to help participants optimize the performance of the five primary stock and bond funds of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). In 2006, TSPKey.com's suggested allocations produced the highest return of all TSP related advisory services, according to published performance records.