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• Ranked Relative Strength by Jeff Parent

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ranked Relative Strength by Jeff Parent How do you know which sectors to trade? Here's a system that will identify the strongest sectors so you know what you should be chasing. When Charles Dow started recording his average in the late 19th century (Figure 1), the markets were essentially a one-horse show. Transportation-related stocks dominated the blue-chip segment of the markets and were the most actively traded. Dow used them as a proxy to gauge economic conditions. He measured the simple average price of a basket of predominantly railroad stocks and compared the result to the 100 level....

AUTHOR: Jeff ParentDATE: MAY 2004SUBJECT: New Techniques

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• Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent Here's how you can evaluate how effective your trading system is. ot unlike new pharmaceutical drugs, buy and sell signals must be put through rigorous tests to determine their usefulness. Only when signals prove profitable repeatedly should the indicator being tested be incorporated into a trading system. But how can you quantify how effective your signal is? In this article I will suggest a standardized process to achieve this goal....

AUTHOR: Jeff ParentDATE: DEC 2002SUBJECT: New Techniques