Letters To S&C  |  MAR 1999

V.17:3: Letters

LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@traders.com. Letters published may be edited for length or clarity. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily represent those of the magazine.—Editor NOVICE TRADER SERIES Editor, It’s a great idea that STOCKS & COMMODITIES includes the Novice Trader articles. You will surely gain more new readers with the series while not losing the current ones. I’d like to suggest that in your future issues, you may want to present such topics as Fibonacci, Elliott wave, and Dow theory basics. I’m not a security- or investment-related professional, but I like to trade. Being a daytrader is out of the question for me, but I want to catch intermediate up- and downtrends. Can you recommend software that is not too costly and that has good charting capabilities and indicators for weekly (not daily or monthly) stock and index trends? RICHARD ZHU Thanks for your suggestions. Regarding our novice articles, we have recently added a Staff Writer, which will allow us to run more of the articles like the ones you mention. With regard to software, we publish product reviews each month. In addition, our 1999 Bonus Issue, available only to subscribers, contains our Readers’ Choice Awards for favorite technical analysis software, and our Website contains the Software Comparison Table, which details software features. We can’t recommend individual products to each of our readers because everyone’s needs and budgets are different, but we try to provide as much information as we can to help you narrow down your choices.— Editor

by Technical Analysis, Inc.