ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...One of the very first software products for financial charting and technical analysis was CompuTrac. Tim Slater, who dreamt up the idea for the product and then co-founded CompuTrac, Inc., offers some of his remembrances of how the groundbreaking software came to be. He also offers a few words about what he'd tell traders today. Following is some background and an encapsulation of a recent conversation with Slater...