|  AUG 1996

Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc.

MORE SYSTEM REVIEWS Editor, You have a great 'zine and I have been a subscriber for a long time. One suggestion: Review more systems that are advertised in S&C. The good ones need to have their horns blown, while some of the garbage out there needs to be shown for what it is. I am a system junkie and if there are any good, new systems out there that I'm missing, I would like to hear about them. Most traders are system players of some sort, so please add more system reviews to your already fine magazine. Thanks. ED HEXTER, Lauderhill, FL Thank you for your comments. To properly review a trading system, a considerable amount of time must be invested, because a system's performance needs to be measured over complete market cycles to get a fair picture of how well it performs. At Stocks & Commodities, we concentrate our resources on providing you with the tools and know-how you need to develop trading methods. We don't review systems for which the methodologies aren't disclosed, because that wouldn't be in accord with our editorial mission. Our goal is to give you the skills to trade effectively, and if you can't know the trading rules, you can't improve your knowledge. On the other hand, I encourage authors and prospective authors to send in articles that detail trading systems and that include performance tables. We are interested in publishing this type of research. --Editor

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