ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Wave market analysis Part 2 by Bryce T. Gilmore In part one of this article (February 1988), we examined four turning points--[W], [X], [Y] and [Z]--in the trend of Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange Sugar-World #11 contract. We looked at time cycles and retracements and focused on the support and resistance levels they created. This month we'll examine seven more analyses that could have been performed on the same data to detect the four turning points. Figure 1: Weekly Trend Wave. A detrending analysis chart can be a great asset when evaluating the potential risk attached to a time-and-price...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Wave Market Analysis Part I by Bryce T. Gilmore As Perry J. Kaufman says in his book Commodity Trading Systems and Methods: ""Speculation is a sophisticated business, and to be successful at it you must make it your business. To compete with a professional speculator you must anticipate the next move better or be more accurate in predicting prices from current news--not the one printed in today's newspaper but the one that has yet to be published. ""Pattern recognition over short intervals is a study of behavioral science. Within the commodities markets speculators and commercial traders will...