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• Comparing data vendors by Steven B. Achelis

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Comparing data vendors by Steven B. Achelis If you think choosing stocks and/or commodities to buy is difficult, try selecting a data vendor to use with your technical analysis software. At Computer Asset Management we have written software (The Downloader) to automatically ""download"" data from 13 vendors for use with our MetaStock technical analysis program and other compatible software. We found significant differences among these vendors, as you'll see in Figure 1. We gathered this information to assist our customers in choosing a data vendor, but keep in mind that there may be advantag...

AUTHOR: Steven B. AchelisDATE: MAY 1988

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• Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis The terms ""overbought"" and ""oversold"" are often used to discuss market conditions. However, as anyone who has placed a short trade simply on the basis that the market is overbought knows, the market can remain overbought for long periods of time. There are a number of indicators which can be used to quantify overbought/oversold (OB/OS) conditions. Most methods deal with internal momentum as measured by changes in price. Popular price OB/OS indicators include the rate-of-change of prices (expressed in eithe...

AUTHOR: Steven B. AchelisDATE: AUG 1987