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Traders' Tips

TRADERS' TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? Send your formulas, solutions, tips and questions to Traders' Tips, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW , Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Please send a hard copy and, if possible, the information on a disk in unformatted ASCII along with your name, address, and phone number. METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS Here's how to use MetaStock to create market thrust, the MT-line and the thrust oscillator, three market timing indicators found in Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll's The New Technical Trader. Market thrust calculates the products of advancing issues and advancing volume, as well as declining issues and declining volume. This provides the daily advancing thrust, or power of the move, minus the declining thrust, thus providing a clear picture if the market is advancing on greater volume or more stocks, or both. The MT-line is the cumulative value of market thrust and provides the equivalent of a volume-based advance-decline line. The thrust oscillator compares relative volume flows, has a bounded scale and has the same scale for up and down days. Further information on all three indicators can be found in The New Technical Trader.

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