Article: Don Evans: bear wrestling the S&P 500. (FX 500 Ltd. founder Don Evans; Standard and Poor's 500-Stock Price Index)

Don't call Don Evans a doom-and-gloomer. True, he is chief trading strategist for FX 500 Ltd. in Virginia Beach, Va., a firm that has successfully made money shorting S&P 500 futures for the past five years, but he is quick to note his experience as a market-timing trader working from the long side in equities stretches back to the early 1970s.

Prior to FX 500, he was a principal of Evans, Brinkerhof and Nelson, an "ultra-conservative money management firm," where he executed no-load fund switching. Along with FX 500 co-principal Mark Finn, who began his career in banking investments in 1968 and served 11 years as trustee and chairman of the Virginia Retirement System's ...

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