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• Trend-Spotting In The Markets

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Identifying the beginning and end of trends is a challenge that many traders face. This technique will help you determine when a trend begins and when it ends. Most stock market data can be thought of as combinations of trends of various lengths and directions, and cycles of various frequencies and durations. As a result, many techniques have been developed to discern when a particular stock is trending or cycling. Let me describe a simple approach to trend-spotting that is based on the idea that correlations in price differences translate into trends in prices....

AUTHOR: Rick MartinelliDATE: Bonus Issue 2011SUBJECT: Trading Techniques

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• Harnessing The (Mis)Behavior Of Markets by Rick Martinelli

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (21-30): Harnessing The (Mis)Behavior Of Markets by Rick Martinelli Do market prices vary due to large numbers of random effects such as the whims of individual traders? In 1900, Louis Bachelier was awarded a doctorate from the University of Paris following his defense of a dissertation titled "Théorie de la Spéculation," an event that marked the first time a serious academic paper addressed the behavior of the financial markets. In his dissertation, Bachelier proposed that market prices vary due to large numbers ofrandom effects, such as the whims of individual...

AUTHOR: Rick MartinelliDATE: JUN 2006SUBJECT: Quantitative Analysis

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• Pattern Recognition In Time Series by Rick Martinelli

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Pattern Recognition In Time Series by Rick Martinelli Here's how to use a spreadsheet as a pattern recognition tool. The spreadsheet can be used to identify the cup-and-handle formation on daily closing prices over a given number of days. Pattern recognition is a term that has been used to describe a variety of different, but related, phenomena. The ability of a camera and a computer to discern a particular image in a visually noisy environment is a classic example. For traders, pattern recognition has been used to study chart formations. Our interest here is with patterns that appear in m...

AUTHOR: Rick MartinelliDATE: JAN 1998SUBJECT: New Techniques