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DownloadFutures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Linear Predictive Filters And Instantaneous Frequency." Here, we present the January 2025 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Precision Trend Analysis." Here, we present the September 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Francesco P. Bufi's article in this issue, "Overbought/Oversold Oscillators: Useless Or Just Misused?" Here, we present the October 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "Ultimate Strength Index (USI)." Here, we present the November 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Ultimate Channels And Ultimate Bands." Here, we present the May 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Richard Poster's article in this issue, "Taming The Effects Of Whipsaw." Here, we present the March 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Is The Price REIT?" Here, we present the June 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry Kaufman's article in the June 2024 issue, "Trading Opening Gaps And Extreme Closes In Stocks." Here, we present the July 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry Kaufman's article in this issue, "Gap Momentum." Here, we present the January 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trend Following Masters (Volume 2): Trading Psychology Conversations by Michael Cove; Stock Trader's Almanac 2024 by Jeffrey A. Hirsch; The Naked Trader's Book Of Trading Strategies by Robbie Burns...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Alfred Francois Tagher's article in this issue, "Trend Identification By Price And Time Filtering." Here, we present the February 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Neil Jon Harrington's article in the October 2024 issue, "Revisualizing The ADX Oscillator." Here, we present the December 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Taxes For Dummies, 2024 Edition by Eric Tyson and Margaret A. Munro, published by Wiley; J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2024: For Preparing Your 2023 Tax Return by J.K. Lasser, published by Wiley; Mastering The Mental Game Of Trading by Steven Goldstein, published by Harriman House; Any Happy Returns: Structural Changes And Super Cycles In Markets by Peter C. Oppenheimer, published by Wiley; The Missing Billionaires: A Guide To Better Financial Decisions by Victor Hagha...
A Retrospective: Interviews
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this 2024 Bonus Issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine, we wanted to take a look back at some of the wisdoms and insights offered by those we've interviewed for this magazine, going back to the very early days of this magazine. Over our four decades of publishing this magazine, we've presented interviews with hundreds of analysts, technicians, traders, and educators--people who have a lot to teach us about trading and market analysis, from years ago up through the present. Such an extensive slate of interviews over the years has captured some of the best trading and in...
2023 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2023 you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2024 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2024 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Buff Pelz Dormeier's article in this issue, "Volume Confirmation For A Trend System." Here, we present the August 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "The Ultimate Smoother." Here, we present the April 2024 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Andrea Unger's article in the August 2023 issue, "The Weekly Factor Pattern." Here, we present the September 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Alfred Francois Tagher's article in this issue, "Backwardation, Positioning, And Momentum: A Recipe For High-Conviction Trades." Here, we present the October 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Scott Cong's article in the September issue, "VAcc: A Momentum Indicator Based On Velocity And Acceleration". Here, we present the November 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Scott Cong's article in the March issue, "An Adaptive Moving Average For Swing Trading." Here, we present the May 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Adaptive Moving Average...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Every Little Bit Helps." Here, we present the March 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "The Stochastic Distance Oscillator." Here, we present the June 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "Stay On Track With The Supertrend Indicator." Here, we present the July 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "True Range Adjusted Exponential Moving Average (TRAdj EMA)". Here, we present the January 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, instead of focusing on a particular article in this issue, we asked the software developers who regularly contribute to this section to submit something on a topic of their own choosing, whether that be an idea, technique, or program feature. So here, you will find some custom coding and some helpful pointers for implementing a technique or for using a platform feature...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Errata: Short-Term Continuation And Reversal Signals...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Growth Or Value?" Here, we present the December 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
2022 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2022 you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2022 TCA article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage. Here is a sample of the articles you missed in 2022 if you weren't a subscriber...
2023 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2023 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
A Retrospective: Interviews
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here in this 2023 Bonus Issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine, we wanted to take a look back at some of the wisdoms and meaningful insights offered by those we've interviewed recently for this magazine. Over our four decades of publishing this magazine, we've presented interviews with hundreds of analysts, technicians, traders, and educators--people who have a lot to teach us about trading and market analysis, from years ago up through the present. Such an extensive slate of interviews over the years has captured some of the best trading and investing wisdoms to be found...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month:...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Stella Osoba's article in the 2023 Bonus issue, "Using Price Channels." Here, we present the August 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Breakout Trading Revolution: One Proven Trading Formula, Endless Strategies, And How To Attain Ultimate Trading Freedom; Algorithm Trading 101: Trading Made Simple For Everyone, Second Edition; Build Your Wealth And Keep Your Health; J.k. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2023: For Preparing Your 2022 Tax Return...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Just Ignore Them". Here, we present the April 2023 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: CMT Symposium April 26-29, 2023, 50-Year Anniversary Of The CMT Association...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Virtual Workshop, Oct. 10-14, 2022; CMT Association 2022 Charles H. Dow Award; Slope Of Hope Animated Yield Curve...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in the August 2022 issue, "The Linear Regression-Adjusted Exponential Moving Average". Here, we present the September 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Virtual Workshop, Oct. 10-14, 2022; Transformed Charts By Applying A Formula (SlopeOfHope)...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in the February 2022 issue, Relative Strength Moving Averages, Part 2 (RS VA EMA). Here, we present the October 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
A Retrospective: 40 Years
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This issue marks 40 years that Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine has been published. Over the decades, we've presented interviews with hundreds of analysts, technicians, traders, and educators. All of those interviews add up to a lot of trading wisdoms. We wanted to share a few quotes from some of our earliest published interviews, so we dove deep into our article archives to pluck out some quotes...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in the October 2022 issue, "Recurring Phase Of Cycle Analysis". Here, we present the November 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Drawing Ehlers Loops Using Visual Basic; Errata: Trading Natural Gas Using UNG...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: CMT Association 49th Annual Symposium; New Book: Learn To Trade by Perry J. Kaufman...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in the January 2022 issue, "Relative Strength Moving Averages, Part 1: The Relative Strength Exponential Moving Average (RS EMA)". Here, we present the May 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Relative Strength Moving Averages, Part 3". Here, we present the March 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Ehlers Loops, Part 1." Here, we present the June 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Pairs Rotation With Ehlers Loops, Part 2". Here, we present the July 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Release Of Optuma; Version 8 Of Wealth-Lab Released...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "(Yet Another) Improved RSI". Here, we present the January 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Day Trading The Dow Mini: A Practical Guide For Market Participation, third edition; Stock Trader's Almanac 2022, 55th edition; The World's Simplest Stock Picking Strategy; Risk Parity: How To Invest For All Market Environments...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Inverse Fisher Transform Redux". Here, we present the February 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "Short-Term Continuation And Reversal Signals." Here, we present the December 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
2021 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2021 you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2021 TCA article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage. Here is a sample of the articles you missed in 2021 if you weren't a subscriber...
2022 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2022 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos KatsanosÕ article in this issue, "Trading The Fear Index". Here, we present the August 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Stock Market Seasonality." Here, we present the April 2022 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every SEP...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Windowing." Here, we present the September 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: ProfitLocker Pro Sets Automated Stops; MoneyShow Las Vegas, Sept. 12-14, In Person; John Ehlers Mesa Workshop, Oct. 18-22, 2021...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Cycle/Trend Analytics And The MAD Indicator." Here, we present the October 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Workshop, Oct. 18-22, 2021; 2021 Asia Pacific Summit, Oct. 2-3 (Virtual); Slopealerts For Real-Time Notification...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "The MAD Indicator, Enhanced." Here, we present the November 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "A Technical Description Of Market Data For Traders." Here, we present the May 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Rate Of Change With Bands." Here, we present the March 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "Creating More Robust Trading Strategies With The FM Demodulator". Here, we present the June 2021 Traders' Tips with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Wealth-Lab Version 7 Launched With A New Engine...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos KatsanosÕ article in this issue, "Buy & Hold, Or Buy & Sell?" Here, we present the July 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You've Never Heard Of; How I Invest My Money: Finance Experts Reveal How They Save, Spend, And Invest; Investing For Growth: How To Make Money By Only Buying The Best Companies In The World--An Anthology Of Investment Writing, 2010-20; The Vix Trader's Handbook: The History, Patterns, And Strategies Every Volatility Trader Needs To Know...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry J. Kaufman's article in this issue, "A Fresh Look At Short-Term Patterns." Here, we present the January 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Launch Of Website To Offer Courses, Education, Data For Hedged Trading; Risk And Decision-Analysis Platform For Asset Allocation; In-Depth Guides From IG Markets...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Trend Direction And Probability: The Bull Bear Index; Verifying Readers' Choice Awards...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Psychology Of Money: Timeless Lessons On Wealth, Greed, And Happiness; Bulletproof Trader: Evidence-Based Strategies For Overcoming Setbacks And Sustaining High Performance In The Markets; When the Fund Stops: The Untold Story Behind The Downfall Of Neil Woodford, Britain's Most Successful Fund Manager; Technical Analysis And Stock Market Profits (Harriman Definitive Edition)...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Richard Poster's article in this issue, "Trend Strength: Measuring The Duration Of A Trend". Here, we present the February 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. EhlersÕ article in this issue, "The DMH: An Improved Directional Movement Indicator". Here, we present the December 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
2020 TCA article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage. Here is a sample of the articles you missed in 2020 if you weren't a subscriber...
2020 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2020 you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2021 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2021 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Art Of High Probability Investing by Mike B. Siroky, MD; Trading Option Volatility: A Breakthrough In Option Valuation Yielding Practical Insights Into Strategy Design, Simulation, Optimization, Risk Management, And Profits by Brian Johnson; Trend Following Mindset: The Genius Of Legendary Trader Tom Basso by Michael Covel; The DIY Investor: How To Take Control Of Your Investments And Plan For A Financially Secure Future, third edition by Andy Bell...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Moving Average Band Width", as well as his July 2021 article "Moving Average Bands." Here, we present the August 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various soft...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Data Visualization And Configurable Homepage Through Slope Tiles; Schaeffer's Investment Research Celebrates 40 Years; Xtasytrader Trading Platform; Sentiment-Based Trading Signals Via AI...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Detecting High-Volume Breakouts." Here, we present the April 2021 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Neuroshell Trader Adds Tradegate Indicators; Trading Course And Coaching; Extended-Hours Charting, Microsoft Excel Add-In For Data; Live Weekly Webinars...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Kaufman Constructs Trading Systems; Trading Commodity Options...With Creativity; Dating The Stock Market: 10 Key Mindsets You Need To Excel As A Trader; Benjamin Graham's Net-Net Stock Strategy: A Practical Guide To Successful Deep Value Investing In Today's Markets...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is James Garofallou's article in this issue, "Tracking Relative Strength In Four Dimensions." Here, we present the September 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Virtual Workshop, Oct. 19-23, 2020; Schwab To Keep And Integrate Thinkorswim Trading Platform Following Merger; Investiquant Daily IQ; Slope Of Hope Releases IOS And Android Apps; New Forex Trading Idea Website...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "Swing Trade With The Gann Hi-Lo Activator." Here, we present the October 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is F. Arden Thomas' article in the August 2020 issue, "Voting With Multiple Timeframes." Here, we present the November 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Interview With Jay Kaeppel; 1st And 2nd Cross Strategy--Easylanguage Code...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Correlation As A Trend Indicator." Here, we present the May 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Fibonacci Analysis; Price Shocks And What To Expect; Errata: KJ Trading Systems; Errata: Essential Math For Traders...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trading Systems, 2nd Edition: A New Approach To System Development And Portfolio Optimisation; Applications Of Computational Intelligence In Data-Driven Trading; Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach To Building Trading Strategies, 2nd Edition; Technical Analysis For Dummies, 4th Edition...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Using Relative Strength To Outperform The Market." Here, we present the March 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Pivot Conditions For The Leavitt Convolution; Code To Generate Histograms In Leavitt Convolution Chart...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Correlation As A Cycle Indicator." Here, we present the June 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Truncated Indicators." Here, we present the July 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Correlation As A Trend Indicator; The 1st And 2nd Cross; On-Balance Volume Modified (OBVM)...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Jay Leavitt's article in the October 2019 issue, "An Interplanetary Marriage." Here, we present the January 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Leavitt Indicators; Coding In Python; Global Seasonality In The Stock Market...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Patient Capital: The Challenge & Promises Of Long-Term Investing; Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral And Drive Major Economic Events; The Ultimate ETF Guidebook: A Comprehensive Guide To The World Of Exchange-Traded Funds--Including The Latest Innovations And Ideas For ETF Portfolios...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Exponential Deviation; Errata: Gold Momentum Strategy...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Reflex: A New Zero-Lag Indicator." Here, we present the February 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Virtual Trading Live On Slope Of Hope; Cycles Organizations Merge To Further Cycles Science...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "Noise Elimination Technology." Here, we present the December 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
2019 TCA article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage. Here is a sample of the articles you missed in 2019 if you weren't a subscriber...
2019 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2019 you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2020 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2020 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: John Ehlers Mesa Virtual Workshop, Oct. 17-18, 2020; Adaptrade Builder Now Supports Ninjatrader 8; Market Analyst Software Is Now Optuma; Obtaining CMT Charter Remotely...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "The Compare Price Momentum Oscillator (CPMO), Part 1." Here, we present the August 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Using Your Own Market Data For Excel Worksheets; Errata: Variations On Gold Momentum Strategy...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Trading Systems And Methods, New Edition; Algorithmic Trading Workshop From The Strategy Factory; Searchable Database Of Comments In Slope Of Hope; Portfolioanalyst From Interactive Brokers; CMT Association Annual Symposium, April 2-3, 2020; Weekly Signals From Hottingersignals; Multicharts With Advanced Strategy Pack; Predictive Analytics Trading Platform For Derivatives...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "On-Balance Volume Modified (OBVM)." Here, we present the April 2020 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Interview With Mish Schneider; The Sentiment Dimension; Clean Energy ETFs?...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry Kaufman's article in this issue, "A Simple Way To Trade Seasonality." Here, we present the September 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Laws Of Trading: A Trader's Guide To Better Decision-Making For Everyone; The Art Of Currency Trading: A Professional's Guide To The Foreign Exchange Market; Equity Smart Beta And Factor Investing For Practitioners; Plant Your Money Tree: A Guide To Growing Your Wealth; 7 Financial Models For Analysts, Investors And Finance Professionals: Theory And Practical Tools To Help Investors Analyse Businesses Using Excel...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Pawel Kosinski's article in this issue, "Combining Bollinger Bands With Candlesticks." Here, we present the October 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Turning Ehlers' Voss Predictor Into A Strategy...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "The Stochastic MACD Oscillator." Here, we present the November 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Anthony Garner's article in this issue, "Backtesting A Mean-Reversion Strategy In Python." Here, we present the May 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Code For SRSI; Trading Perspectives...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in the September 2018 issue, "The V-Trade, Part 7: Technical Analysis--V-Wave Count." Here, we present the March 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Leavitt Convolution...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New System Testing Feature In Slopecharts...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, ""Fourier Series Model Of The Market."" Here, we present the June 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various soft...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Formulas For Stock Scanning; Errata: Formula Syntax; Futures Liquidity...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Exponential Deviation Bands." Here, we present the July 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in the July 2018 issue, "The V-Trade, Part 5: Technical Analysis--Moving Average Support & Resistance And Volatility Bands." Here, we present the January 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: The Stiffness Indicator...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trading Your A Game: Are Feelings Expensive?; Keeping At It: The Quest For Sound Money And Good Governance; Stay The Course: The Story Of Vanguard And The Index Revolution; How To Think About Money: Make Smarter Financial Choices And Squeeze More Happiness Out Of Your Cash...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Quantacula.Com Introduces Rotation Models; New Trading Psychology Blog; Global Markets Outlook Conference; Cmt Association 46th Annual Symposium, Bloomberg Panel Discussion; Fintech Conference In London...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in the August 2018 issue, "The V-Trade, Part 6: Technical Analysis--Divergence Indicators." Here, we present the February 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Stiffness Indicator...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Devcic's article in this issue, "Using Renko Charts." Here, we present the December 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Bollinger Bands And Candlesticks; Dow Jones Transportation Average; LcSlope And LcAcceleration; More On Leavitt Convolution...
2018 TCA article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage. Here is a sample of the articles you missed in 2018 if you weren't a subscriber...
2018 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2018, you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2019 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2019 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "A Peek Into The Future." Here, we present the August 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Workshop For Algorithmic Trading And Digital Signal Processing, Oct. 18-20, 2019; Add-On For Metastock For AI; Automated Daytrading From Daytradingbias.Com; Moneyshow San Francisco, August 15-17, 2019; Options Mentoring; CMT Exams 2019...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Options On Futures Added To Ninjatrader Brokerage; New Backtesting Capabilities In Tradesignal 9; Advicetrade Launches Fatrader For Fundamental Analysis; eSignal Release Offers Enhancements; CMT Association 46th Annual Symposium...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trading Sardines: Lessons In The Markets From A Lifelong Trader; The 100 Best Stocks To Buy In 2019; The Everything Guide To Investing In Cryptocurrency: From Bitcoin To Ripple, The Safe And Secure Way To Buy, Trade, And Mine Digital Currencies; Tailored Wealth Management: Exploring The Cause And Effect Of Financial Success; Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Adaptive Exponential Moving Average." Here, we present the April 2019 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Workshop On DSP And Algorithmic Trading...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Weekly & Daily Stochastics." Here, we present the September 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: A Technical Method For Rating Stocks, Code For Technical Stock-Rating Method...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Silicon Valley Babble On; The WealthTech Book; Review Of Financial Economics; High Frequency; Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing From Railroads To The Internet And Beyond...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Probability--Probably A Good Thing To Know." Here, we present the October 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: NinjaTrader Launches Cryptocurrency Support...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Errata: The V-Trade, Part 6; Weekly & Daily Stochastic; Hanging Out With The Junkies...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Meaningful Money Handbook; The Naked Trader's Guide To Spread Betting: How To Make Money From Shares In Up Or Down Markets; Financial Planning Review: Inaugural Issue; Shares Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide To The Stock Market; Figures To Watch: In Gauging Market Turning Points...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "The Stiffness Indicator." Here, we present the November 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Revisiting Double Bottoms; Weekly & Daily Stochastics; Traders' Tips Code...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "RocketRSI - A Solid Propellant For Your Rocket Science Trading." Here, we present the May 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Bollingerbands.com Adds Weekly Market Timing Reports; Harmonic Pattern Collection; Bookmap Version 7 Trading Platform; Stockcharts' Chartcon & Stockcharts TV; Fundseeder Trader Boot Camp; Forex & Money Expo 2018...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Trading Volatility; Sector Rotation Strategies; Article Code At Traders.Com...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Derivatives Markets And Analysis; Pitch The Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide To Winning On Wall Street; The Investment Trusts Handbook 2018; The Smart Financial Advisor: How Financial Advisors Can Thrive By Embracing Fintech And Goals-Based Investing...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Recursive Median Filters." Here, we present the March 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Chartpattern Seminar, April 21; Forex & Money Expo 2018; Quantacula LLC Releases Trading Model Product Suite; TD Ameritrade Launches Live Broadcast Financial Network...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Insights Into Pair-Wise Correlation; Article Code At Website; Thanks For The Education...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Stock Charts For Dummies; The 100 Best Stocks To Buy In 2018; Smart Portfolios; Harriman's New Book Of Investing Rules: The Dos And Don'ts Of The World's Best Investors; Day Trading 101: From Understanding Risk Management And Creating Trade Plans To Recognizing Market Patterns And Using Automated Software, An Essential Primer In Modern Day Trading...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "A Technical Method For Rating Stocks." Here, we present the June 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Site Provides Algorithmic Strategies; New Website With Charting And Social Posts; One-Year Volatility Index Launched; Mobile App Featuring Automated Earnings Call Analysis...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John F. Ehlers' article in this issue, "The Deviation-Scaled Moving Average." Here, we present the July 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trading In Sync With Commodities: Introducing Astrology To Your Financial Toolbox; The End Of Indexing: Six Structural Mega-Trends That Threaten Passive Investing; The Geometry Of Wealth: How To Shape A Life Of Money And Meaning; Deep Value Investing: Finding Bargain Shares With Big Potential...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Trading Spreadsheet...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "The CAM Indicator For Trends And Countertrends." Here, we present the January 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Art And Science Of Trading: Course Workbook; Integrated Pitchfork Analysis: Basic To Intermediate Level; Smart Portfolios...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Wealth365 Summit; Semi-Automated Trading Added To Trading Course...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Conquering The Seven Faces Of Risk: Automated Momentum Strategies That Avoid Bear Markets Empower Fearless Retirement Planning; Trading With Ichimoku: A Practical Guide To Low-Risk Ichimoku Strategies; Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Chartpattern Seminar, April 21; Bitcoin Futures Launch At CME; Bitcoin Futures Launch At CBOE; Tradestation To Support Trading Of CBOE's Bitcoin Futures...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Weekly & Daily Percentage Price Oscillator." Here, we present the February 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Weekly & Daily MACD; More; Three Wishes...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Forex Platform Social Media; Bloomberg Panel Discussion & CMT Association 46th Annual Symposium; Fall 2018 ETP Forum; International Lineup Of Fintech Conferences...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in the May 2018 issue, "The V-Trade, Part 3: Technical Analysis--Fibonacci Projections And Daily Pivots." Here, we present the December 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Capitalism In America: A History; The Behavioral Investor; The Work Of The New York Stock Exchange In The Panic Of 1929; The Story of Kelsey's Keys...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Stiffness Indicator And Indicators For Esignal; Stiffness Indicator Components; Errata: Stiffness Indicator Buy Condition...
2017 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2017, you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed...
2018 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2018 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: TSAA-SF Conference In San Francisco, August 25, 2018; Stockcharts.Com Online Conference, August 10-11, 2018; Advanced Risk And Portfolio Management Bootcamp, August 13-18, 2018; IFTA Conference 2018, October 26-28, 2018; Forex & Money Expo, October 25-26, 2018...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Domenico D'Errico & Antonio Zaffino's article in this issue, "Portfolio Strategy Based On Accumulation/Distribution." Here, we present the August 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Adaptive Moving Averages." Here, we present the April 2018 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: The V-Trade Series; Through The Stratosphere; Emotions And Trading; Viewing Charts...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers's article in this issue, "The Reverse EMA Indicator". Here, we present the September 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Workshop On Cycles And DSP; Auto-Trading Platform; Name Change For The MTA; and CMT Exams...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power Of Value Investing; The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity In The World Of Risk And Return; The DIY Investor, second edition; and Creating Strategic Value Through Financial Technology...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Jerry D'Ambrosio and Barbara Star's article in this issue, "A Candlestick Strategy With Soldiers And Crows." Here, we present the October 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Workshop On Cycles And DSP; Literature Review; Annual International Technical Analysis Conference...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Best Investment Writing: Selected Writing From Leading Investors And Authors; Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing; Super Investors: Lessons From The Greatest Investors In History--From Jesse Livermore To Warren Buffett And Beyond; The Property Chronicle...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article from the October 2017 issue, "Swing Trading Four-Day Breakouts." Here, we present the November 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Jurik Research Gap Awareness Technology; Trading Courses Based On Chaos Theory; New Cryptocurrency Datafeed; 5th Annual Behavioral Finance Symposium...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: In Memory of Henry Pruden; Leavitt Convolution; Easylanguage Code; Volatility Oscillator...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Domenico D'Errico's article in this issue, "Detecting Swings." Here, we present the May 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article in this issue, "Golden Cross Breakouts". Here, we present the March 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Domenico D'Errico's article in this issue, "Daytrading With Night Volume". Here, we present the June 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance: Equity Derivatives, Volume 2; Machine Trading: Deploying Computer Algorithms To Conquer The Markets; Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities For Growth, Returns, And Impact; and The Economic Indicator Handbook: How To Evaluate Economic Trends To Maximize Profits And Minimize Losses...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Chaikin Analytics Releases Powerfeed; SEC Approves Listing Of Realday Options; Updated Interface For Chartlabpro Platform; Russell 2000 Index Futures And Options To Return To CME Group...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Psychology Of Trading, Live Events For Traders, and Code Listings Online...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trend Following: How To Make A Fortune In Bull, Bear, And Black Swan Markets, 5th ed.; Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution At The Speed Of Thought; Derivatives; and The Derivatives Workbook...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos's article in this issue, "Trading The Nikkei". Here, we present the July 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Trade Setups And Outcomes Demonstration; New Features In Power User Versions Of Neuroshell Trader; New Options Feature Added To Gorilla Trades; The Annual MTA Award Goes To ... ; Gamma Optimizer For Options Trading...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Moving Average Stochastic; Alter Ego Of Swing Trading...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Foundations Of Trading: Developing Profitable Trading Systems Using Scientific Techniques; and The Volatility Smile...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article in the December 2016 issue, "Mean-Reversion Swing Trading." Here, we present the January 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: NinjaTrader 8 released...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Vertical Runup, Note From A Book Author And Reader, Waves And Profit-Taking, and Which Trend Indicator Wins...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Stock Trader's Almanac 2017; The Harriman Stock Market Almanac 2017; Option Income Strategy Trade Filters: An In-Depth Article Demonstrating The Use Of Trade Filters To Enhance Returns And Reduce Risk; Trade Financial Markets Like The Pros...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: MTA Annual Symposium On Technical Analysis; New Earnings Analysis Tools In Thinkorswim Platform; New Features In Chaikin Analytics Stock Research Platform...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Exponential Standard Deviation Bands". Here, we present the February 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Weekly & Daily MACD." Here, we present the December 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Wealth365 Summit...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: "No Nines" Rule; Selling Weekly Options; W.D. Ga...
2017 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2017 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Toolset For eSignal; MTA Exams; Uncertainty Indexes; Annual International Technical Analysis Conference; Market Analysis Courses, Fall 2017; Private Mentoring For Options Trading...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Domenico D'Errico and Giovanni Trombetta's article in this issue, "System Development Using Artificial Intelligence." Here, we present the August 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner's Guide To Building A Momentum-Based Stock Selection System; How To Pick Quality Shares: A Three-Step Process For Selecting Profitable Stocks; Rogues Of Wall Street: How To Manage Risk In The Cognitive Era; Investing All-In-One For Dummies; The Ten Roads To Riches: The Ways The Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!), 2d ed....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article from the February 2017 issue, "Volume-Weighted Moving Average Breakouts." Here, we present the April 2017 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Stock Advisory App, Fintech Exchange Conference, Fundamental Data Research And Screening In Thinkorswim, and MTA Annual Symposium On Technical Analysis...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: A Complete Guide To The Futures Market: Technical Analysis, Trading Systems, Fundamental Analysis, Options, Spreads, And Trading Principles, second edition; Wiley 11th-Hour Guide For 2017 Level I CFA Exam; The 10-Minute Millionaire: The One Secret Anyone Can Use To Turn $2,500 Into $1 Million Or More; and Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Exponential Standard Deviation Bands, Volume-Weighted Moving Average Breakouts, Interview With Ed Dobson, Excel Spreadsheet, and Stock Fundamentals Worksheet...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Advanced Concepts For Market Technicians; The 27 Year Picture: Stock Charts, 116 Companies, 1953-1979; Study Helps In Point & Figure Technique; FX Option Performance; The Defensive Value Investor...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Chartcon 2016, Workshop From John Ehlers On Mesa, Tools To Enhance Charting On Multi-Threaded Platforms, New Filtering Tool For Choppy Markets, and New Option-Trading Feature...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Measuring Market Cycles". Here, we present the September 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Trend Love, and Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Which Trend Indicator Wins?". Here, we present the October 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Roulette Wheel, Averaging Reward-To-Risk Ratios...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Options Mentoring; Investment Research Tool; Online Mentoring Class For Futures Traders; Energy Price Forecast Service, Hedging Consulting, Indicator Library; CMT Exam Rapid Retake Option...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is James Breen's article in this issue, "Does Fully Automated Trading Software Work?" Here, we present the November 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Infrastructure As An Asset Class; How To Measure Anything In Cybersecurity Risk; The ETF Handbook: How To Value And Trade Exchange Traded Funds; 2016 Stocks, Bonds, Bills, And Inflation (SBBI) Yearbook...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Excellent Magazine, Anatomy Of A Trade, Dylan Wave Theory, S&C Articles Online...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Adaptive Asset Allocation; Day Trading And Swing Trading The Currency Market; The Institutional ETF Toolbox; Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages Of Stock Market Mastery; Handbook Of High-Frequency Trading And Modeling In Finance...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, "Zero In On The MACD." Here, we present the May 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Discovery Tools For Trade Setups, Analytics Based On 13f Filings, Annual Option Training Retreat, Market Data Desktop Platform...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Picking Stocks Using P/E Multiples, Money Flow Oscillator...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Stock Trader's Almanac 2016; Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices To Best Processes; Algorithmic And High-Frequency Trading; The Forex Trading Course: A Self-Study Guide To Becoming A Successful Currency Trader, second edition...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Vectorvest Partners With Tradestation For Trade Execution, Free Market Analytics Platform...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article in this issue, "ADX Breakouts". Here, we present the March 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Ergodic Candlestick Oscillator, Higher Highs & Lower Lows, Failing Successfully, More...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month:ÊTo Be A Trader: Finding A Path To Your Trading Success; The Options Edge: An Intuitive Approach To Generating Consistent Profits For The Novice To The Experienced Practitioner; The Art Of Risk; HypnoTrading: A Practical Guide To Using Hypnosis And NLP To Improve Your Trading Performance; Investments: Analysis And Management, 13th edition...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article in the May 2016 issue, "ATR Breakout Entries". Here, we present the June 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month:ÊThe Best Purchase Price; Analyzing A Stock With Fundamentals...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Concentrated Investing: Strategies Of The World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors; Anatomy Of The Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms; The Way To Trade Better: Transform Your Trading Into A Successful Business; The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook For Investors, Entrepreneurs And Visionaries; and Multi-Asset Investing: A Practitioner's Framework...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Edition Of Investment Software, Technical Analysis Courses, Fall & Spring 2016, and Exchange-Traded Managed Funds...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "The Super Passband Filter". Here, we present the July 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: MACD And Aroon, Long-Time Subscriber, MACD Originator, and Study Group...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices To Best Processes; The Trade Lifecycle: Behind The Scenes Of The Trading Process, second edition + website; Financial Risk Management: Applications In Market, Credit, Asset And Liability Management And Firmwide Risk; Financial Planning Competency Handbook, second edition...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is James and John Rich's article in the November 2015 issue, "Simplify It". Here, we present the January 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: In Memory Of Don Bright, Thanks For Your Magazine, Simplify It: Screening And Average Daily Volume, Simplify It: Moving Average Criteria, Money Flow Oscillator Code And Follow-On...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Higher Highs & Lower Lows." Here, we present the February 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Fidelity Launches Fidelity App For Apple TV, Market Technicians Association Announces Dates For 2016 Annual Symposium...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Trading The Loonie, follow-ups...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: FinTech Innovation: From Robo-Advisors To Goal-Based Investing And Gamification; Objectives And Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, And Engagement With OKRs; SAS Data Analytic Development: Dimensions Of Software Quality...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Domenico D'Errico's article in this issue, "Pair Trading With A Twist." Here, we present the December 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Kaufman Efficiency Ratio...
2016 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2016 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Chart Patterns: After The Buy; The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website: Using Today's Technology To Help You Become A Better Trader; Technical Analysis And Chart Interpretations: A Comprehensive Guide To Understanding Established Trading Tactics For Ultimate Profit; The Feel Rich Project: Reinventing Your Understanding Of True Wealth To Find True Happiness...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Technical Analysis Conference In San Francisco, Annual International Technical Analysis Conference, and Fall CMT Exams...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Middle-High-Low Moving Average". Here, we present the August 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Richard D. Wyckoff Series, Excel Spreadsheets, and Analytical Inspiration...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Trader's Pendulum: The 10 Habits Of Highly Successful Traders; DIY Financial Advisor: A Simple Solution To Build And Protect Your Wealth; Inside Volatility Filtering: Secrets Of The Skew, second edition; Myths And Mortals: Family Business Leadership And Succession Planning...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ken Calhoun's article in this issue, "Trading Gap Reversals". Here, we present the April 2016 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Citytrader Platform Links To Daw Trading, Investiquant Introduces Analytic Tools For Tradestation Platform...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Failing Successfully, Reacting To Market Moves and Analyzing Volume Method...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Trading Playbook; Exploiting Earnings Volatility; ABCs (Advanced & Basic Charts) Of Gann & Fibonacci; FX Option Performance; The Handbook Of Technical Analysis + Test Bank...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Stock-Picking Challenge; International Technical Analysis Conference; Video Series For Learning Technical Analysis; Stock-Trading App...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Decyclers". Here, we present the September 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Errata: Shannon Entropy; Excel-based system for forex...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Equity Crowdfunding For Investors, A Wealth Of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity In Any Investment Plan, The Advanced Fixed Income And Derivatives Management Guide, Share Attack, and The Value Of Debt In Retirement: Why Everything You Have Been Told Is Wrong...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Talent Incubator Event For Traders, Equities Research Tradingapp, Platform Tool To Analyze Potential Trades, and Cloud-Based Futures Trading Platform...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "The Money Flow Oscillator". Here, we present the October 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Gorillatrades iPhone App; Dynamic Trend Platform Release; CMT Exam Prep Ebooks; New E-Reader From Financial Book Publisher; Hedge Fund Benchmarks...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vitali Apirine's article in this issue, "Average Percentage True Range". Here, we present the November 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Market Forecast; Breakout Relative Strength Index; More On BRSI; Code For Breakout Relative Strength Index...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: 21st Century Point And Figure, Beat The Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest The Herd By Thinking Differently, Trading As A Business: The Methods And Rules I've Used To Beat The Markets For 40 Years, A Trader's Guide To Financial Astrology: Forecasting Market Cycles Using Planetary And Lunar Movements, and Fundamentals Of Actuarial Mathematics, 3rd ed....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, "Filtering Price Movement". Here, we present the May 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: new payment options, financial app for Apple Watch, CBOE & LSEG licensing agreement, TT & NFX connectivity and volume spread analysis software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Candlesticks, Condensed and More Candlesticks...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Doug Kass On The Market: A Life On TheStreet; No One Loves Your Money Like You Do: The Ultimate Retirement Planning Guide For Business Owners And Private Practitioners; The Intelligent Option Investor: Applying Value Investing To The World Of Options; Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy For Higher Returns With Lower Risk; Mystifying Square, Divine Proportions: Nature's Black Box....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New website for market data analysis; Stock-picking service adds option trading; New trend system; Collection of strategies; Packages of indicators....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers & Ric Way's article in this issue, "Trading System Design: A Statistical Approach". Here we present the March 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Supersmoother Oscillator; Suggestions; Rethinking Diversification....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Spot FOREX added to trading platform, proprietary research from Oxford Capital Strategies Ltd., and user exchange of strategies added to workshop club...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Invest With The Fed: Maximizing Portfolio Performance By Following Federal Reserve Policy; The Complete Guide To Mergers And Acquisitions: Process Tools To Support M&A Integration At Every Level, 3rd ed.; Buffett And Beyond: Uncovering The Secret Ratio For Superior Stock Selection, 2d ed. + website; and Uninvested: How Wall Street Hijacks Your Money And How To Fight Back...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Kevin Luo's article in this Issue, "The RSI & Price Trends". Here, we present the June 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Slow RSI; condensed candlesticks; Gann squares & Elliott waves...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Get Rich With Dividends: A Proven System For Earning Double-Digit Returns; Profiting From Weekly Options: How To Earn Consistent Income Trading Weekly Option Serials; Impact Investment: A Practical Guide To Investment Process And Social Impact Analysis; Risk Management And Financial Institutions; Enough Bull: How To Retire Well Without The Stock Market, Mutual Funds, Or Even An Investment Advisor...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is mainly Vitali Apirine's article that appeared in the April 2015 issue of Stocks & Commodities, "The Slow Relative Strength Index." Other Traders' Tips are based on different S&C articles as indicated. Here, we present the July 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Indicator Set And Live Trading Room; Discount Online Futures Broker; Trading Course; Trading Method For Daytrading; Online Platform for Physical Grain Trading; ETFs Will Track Spot Indexes...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Squares & Waves; Fundamental Analysis...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Stock Trader's Almanac 2015, Building Algorithmic Trading Systems, Asset Rotation, The Mathematics Of Financial Models, and With A Little Help From Our Friends....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Whiter Is Brighter". Here we present the January 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from AgriCharts/Meredith Agrimedia and CBOE with their new mobile app....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: the Market Technician Association's 2015 symposium; Quantopian algorithmic trading platform; ConsistentOptionsIncome.com's SmartLevels course; Oxford Capital Strategies Ltd. trading models; Nadex (North American Derivatives Exchange) binary option contracts on bitcoins; and the Stocks & Commodities magazine Readers' Choice Awards (RCA)....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Dave Cline's article in this issue, "Candlesticks, Condensed". Here we present the February 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: flags & pennants; Traders' Tips....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: The Ruff Guide To Trading: How To Make Money; Systematic Trading; The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When And The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy; Financial Regulation And Compliance: How To Manage Competing And Overlapping Regulatory Oversight + website...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos's article in this issue, ""Trading The Loonie."" Here, we present the December 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software. Code for MetaStock is already provided in Katsanos's art...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: New Options Feature In Chaikin Analytics Platform; Charles H. Dow Award Submissions Deadline; Version 3.0 Of Barchart App...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Paget 16-Year Cycle, Money Flow Oscillator...
2015 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2015 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA)....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Jesse Livermore: Boy Plunger; Quantitative Technical Analysis; A Guide To Starting Your Hedge Fund; Advances In Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook Of Operational Risk...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: International Technical Analysis Conference; Technical Analysis Conference In San Francisco; Technical Analysis Courses, Fall 2015; Trading Methodology Instruction...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, we focus on Vitali Apirine's June 2015 article, "The Slow Volume Strength Index", as a follow-up to last month's Traders' Tips, which focused on Vitali Apirine's April 2015 article, "The Slow Relative Strength Index". Here, we present the August 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softw...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Slaying the Dragon; In Memoriam...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month: Forex Trading Platform, Stock & Option Trading System Service, Algorithms Introduced To Trading Platform, Rare Books On Trading, Finance And Accounting Digest, and Compliance Tool For RIAs....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies And Techniques, Second Edition; Getting Started in Stock Analysis, Illustrated Edition; Wiley Study Guide for 2015 Level II CFA Exam: Complete Set; MONEY: How The Destruction Of The Dollar Threatens The Global Economy And What We Can Do About It; Virtual Banking: A Guide to Innovation And Partnering....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is mainly Dave Cline's article in this issue, "Basket Trading Using A Directed Acyclic Graph", with some Traders' Tips focusing on "Kiss & Touch With The Modified True Range" by Chris Lindgren, which appeared in the February 2015 issue. Here, we present the April 2015 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softw...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Detecting Flags Spreadsheet, Diversification, and Elliott Wave Analysis....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Derivatives: A Guide To Alternative Investments, Option Strategy Risk/Return Ratios: A Revolutionary New Approach To Optimizing, Adjusting, And Trading Any Option Income Strategy, and Technical Trading Mastery: 7 Steps To Win With Logic....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from NinjaTrader Group LLC, Trading Central, Ward Systems Group, Zaner Group, McMillan Analysis Corp., and Stage 5 Trading....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Charlotte Hudgins' article in this issue, "Finding The Golden Triangle." Here we present the September 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from AlgoTrades and EquaMetrics; eSignal and Market Prophit; NinjaTrader and SharkIndicators; and DayTradingForecasts.com and MoneyTide.com....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is mainly Sylvain Vervoort's article from the September 2014 issue, "Exploring Charting Techniques: Creating A Trading Strategy, Part 3." Here we present the October 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from the Technical Securities Analysts Association San Francisco (TSAA-SF) & StockCharts.com; BBands.com; FXStreet; Shift Theory; Ward Systems & FXCM; and Barchart.com....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Integrating Technical Analysis For The Investor; Tramline Trading; Statistically Sound Machine Learning For Algorithmic Trading Of Financial Instruments; Non Random Profits; and Decoding The Hidden Market Rhythm, second edition....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is mainly Sylvain VervoortÕs article in this issue issue, "Price Projections" which is part 5 of his Exploring Charting Techniques series. Here we present the November 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Donald W. Pendergast Jr.'s article "A Trading Method For The Long Haul," which appeared in the 2014 Bonus Issue. Here we present this month's Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Forex Models, WallStreetWindow.com, Become A Better Trader, Zentraders.net, TradeStation, and FundSeeder.com....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Cycle Analytics For Traders by John F. Ehlers, The Little Book Of Market Wizards: Lessons From The Greatest Traders by Jack D. Schwager, Stocks For The Long Run, fifth edition, by Jeremy J. Siegel, High Probability Relative Strength Trading by Clif Droke, and The Enlightened Capitalism Manifesto, A Blueprint For A Revitalized America by Henry B. Zimmer....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from BollingerBands.com, Brooks Trading Course, AbleSys, NinjaTrader, TradingView, and Trendpro.com....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry Kaufman's article in this issue, "Timing The Market With Pairs Logic." Here we present the March 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. Presented here: The Master Trader: Birinyi's Secrets To Understanding The Market + website, Stock Trader's Almanac 2014, Trading For Dummies, 3rd edition, The Part-Time Trader: Trading Stock As A Part-Time Venture + website, Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This month: letters about swing tading and opening a trading firm....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Perry Kaufman's article in this issue, "Slope Divergence: Capitalizing On Uncertainty." Here we present the June 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Chaikin Analytics, TradeStation, Forest Park FX, The Blue Collar Investor, Interactive Brokers, Equities.com, ETNA, Trading Central SA, AdvancedIndicators.com, GaplessIndicators.com....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: books from Gregory Morris, Thomas Bulkowski, and Michael Lewis....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is mainly Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, "Exploring Charting Techniques, Part 1," with some Traders' Tips focusing on topics from recent issues instead. Here we present the July 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Fusion Analytics, DailyFX from FXCM, North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex), and Recognia Inc....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month, letter-writers ask us about detecting patterns algorithmically, and digital-only subscriptions to S&C....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Market Taker Mentoring (MTM), FXstreet.com, Trading Technologies International (TT), and Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Trading Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading systems can help take the subjective interpretation out of trading decisions by providing automated buy and sell signals based on preprogrammed rules. Here is a list of some commercially available trading systems....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "Predictive And Successful Indicators." Here we present the January 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from OANDA/FinGraphs and Option Workbench/Tradier Brokerage....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Oscar Cagigas's article in this issue, "The Degree Of Complexity." Here we present the February 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...An introduction to this issue from our Editor....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Profitable Day and Swing Trading, The Complete Guide To Option Selling, The New Trading For A Living, Open Secret, Investing For A Lifetime....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Markos Katsanos's article in this issue, "Detecting Flags In Intraday Charts". Here we present the December 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwar...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from MTA.org, John Bollinger, Openfolio, JBL Risk Manager, Barchart.com, Investing.com, CBOE, Linedata, and InvestSoft....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
2014 Readers' Choice Awards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2014 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA)....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from AlgoTrades.net, Barchart.com, Cotton's Technically Speaking, FundSeeder.com, and NASDAQ OMX Group and ETRE Financial....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers' article in this issue, "The Quotient Transform." Here we present the August 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month: Arms Candlevolume, The Education Of A Value Investor, and The Secret Club That Runs The World....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Worden Brothers, VectorVest, Trading Technologies International, U.S. News & World Report, and CBOE Futures Exchange....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Melvin Dickover's article in this issue, "Evidence-Based Support & Resistance." Here we present the April 2014 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), the Market Technicians Association (MTA), Innovative Market Analysis, Profitunity Trading Group, Interactive Data, BrooksPriceAction.com , KeyFutures, Gecko Software, and Tradespoon....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Forex Brokers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Foreign exchange traders have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to forex brokerages. With a little research, you will be able to find a forex brokerage targeted to your interest....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, ""Oscillators, Smoothed."" Here we present the September 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softw...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...How are Portuguese bond yields? Is the European Central Bank (ECB) going to keep interest rates as they are? How is China's economy faring? Is the euro still fragile? The answers to these questions and many more are what foreign-currency traders need to know if they intend to navigate today's 24-hour market that is dominated by institutional traders....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Our Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Trading Sciences Technologies, tradeMONSTER and Lumineye, NeuroShell Trader, MTPredictor Ltd., STOXX Ltd., and MB Trading....
Books for Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES every month....
Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Advisory services are widely available. How to choose? One key factor is whether the outfit youÕre checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). In our listing, filled in by the companies themselves, youÕll find those who have RIA and/or CTA certifications as well as those who are nonregistered advisories....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, ""Head & Shoulders, Algorithmically (Part 2)."" Here we present the May 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softw...
NinjaTrader
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A full-featured trading platform that's free: That's the reason behind the success of NinjaTrader....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) crossed above the 14,000 mark, you could sense some euphoria in the market. But was it enough to lead us to believe that we were out of the doldrums and finally going to see the optimism that market rallies usually bring?...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Chaikin Analytics has announced the Chaikin Analytics for iPad....
Traders' Resource: Online Trading Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including investing, trading, and the financial markets....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Slawomir Bobrowski's article in this issue, ""Camarilla Points."" Here we present the March 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When your trading system is no longer working, you either abandon your system and use a different one, or you tweak it so it works the way you want it to....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from TickZoom Services, TheUpTrend.com, MIPS Timing Systems, TradersOnly.com, TradingBlock, and FactSet....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Data Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...All kinds of vendor-maintained data services are available online these days. When selecting a data vendor, find out if it has the necessary technology to deliver data in the format you want....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Traders' Tips "The 1-2-3 Wave Count."
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, ""The 1-2-3 Wave Count."" Here we present the June 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various softwa...
Product review: StockSpotter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...StockSpotter.com, which provides daily alerts for equity buy trades (long positions), has a new and improved look....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When your trading system is no longer working, you either abandon your system and use a different one, or you tweak it so it works the way you want it to....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Ward Systems, Fidelity Investments, BollingerOnBollingerBands.com, Best Choice Software, TipRanks and Trading Technologies International....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Publications for Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing?...
Traders' Tips The Step Candle Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, "The Step Candle Pattern." Here we present the July 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When markets look like they are embarking on a bullish rally, you will notice some hesitation from those who look to buy & hold for the long term....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month's Trade News & Products section includes announements by Ward Systems Group, Richey Enterprises, Aqumin and Option Research & Technology Services (ORATS), MLN Brokerage Services, BRICS Global Markets, Guggenheim Alternatives Platform, and New Zealand Market....
Traders' Resource: Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading systems can help take the subjective interpretation out of trading decisions by providing automated buy and sell signals based on preprogrammed rules. Here is a list of some commercial trading systems....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, The DMI Stochastic."" Here we present the January 2013 Traders' Tips cod...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Morningstar has launched a Morningstar StockInvestor app for the iPad....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Exchanges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With the explosion of exchanges around the world and the increasing poaching of products between exchanges, traders should be aware of all the places where trading opportunities occur....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Ron McEwan's article in this issue, ""The Volatility (Regime) Switch Indicator."" Here we present the February 2013 Traders' Tips c...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Innovative Market Analysis, KaufmanSignals.com, RJO Futures, Speculator Academy, and PredictWallStreet....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Donald Pendergast's article in this issue, "Swing Trading With Three Indicators." Here we present the December 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Traders' Resource: Books for traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Whether you choose to turn a physical page or a virtual one using your favorite high-tech reading device, tablet, or platform, books today are alive and well, available in more formats than ever before. With so many to choose from, including classic texts published long ago and the most recent arrivals on the scene, you can find numerous books that will teach you what you need to know about trading and the techniques to trade better....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
2012 S&C article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2012, you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed....
2012 Traders.com Advantage article list
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage, which now comes free with a paid subscription to Stocks & Commodities magazine. Found at Traders.com, it offers articles almost daily that are of immediate interest to traders and technical analysts, covering a range of markets, industries, and sectors, as well as indicators, chart patterns, and indexes. Here is a sample of some the articles you missed in 2012 if you weren't a subscriber. And these are only a partial list; hundreds of articles are published e...
Traders' Resource: Software
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a list of trading and investing software reprinted from the Traders' Resource database of products at Traders.com....
Readers' Choice Awards 2013
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2013 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA)....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...From bullish market rallies to market meltdowns, the financial markets just keep going and going, entertaining us each day with their mysteries....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Trade News & Products section each month presents announcements of new or updated products related to the trading industry. This month, we present announcements from Speculator Academy; the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA); Technical Analysis Today (TA Today); Phantom Trader; PowerZone Trading; and STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine regarding an educational seminar to be given by Anthony Trongone....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The book descriptions given here represent a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. This month, books include Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds, Harriman House edition; How To Make Money In Stocks: Getting Started; The Big Trade: Simple Strategies For Maximum Market Returns; Kathleen Brooks On Forex; Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies And Their Rationale; Modern Security Analysis: Understanding Wall Street Fundamentals....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Consultants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have, from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, "Within The Volatility Band." Here we present the August 2013 Traders' Tips code with possible implementations in various software...
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Wolfram/Alpha announced that it had designed individual apps for the iOS and PC to work with investors' financial needs....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Resource: Mutual Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...It's critical to consider all of the costs when approaching mutual fund investing....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When your trading system is no longer working, you either abandon your system and use a different one, or you tweak it so it works the way you want it to....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is a selection of news about products and new product releases for September 2012....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Forex Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Foreign exchange traders have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to forex brokerages....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Vladimir Vladimirovich Voznjuk's article in this issue, ""Developing A Multilevel Strategy."" Here we present the September 2012 Traders' Tips c...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ever since we saw the Dow hit 13,000, the true character of the markets has revealed itself. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) broke above this level, we saw optimism in the markets....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TradersExclusive.com is a new website that provides trading information, free educational webinars, trading ideas, and other resources for traders....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Courses & Seminars
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...They say that the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn. This is true in trading. If youÕre not fully prepared when you go to trade, you could be the one whom the smart money profits from....
Traders' Tips
How We Began
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Before this magazine came together in the 1980s, trading and technical analysis were in a very different place in the financial industry than they are today....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FXCM has announced the addition of the NinjaTrader trading platform to its platform offerings....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Self-directed traders, as Stocks & Commodities readers usually are, have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to brokerages....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is BC Low's article in this issue, ""Identify The Start Of A Trend With DM...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Jigsaw Trading said it had completed its suite of tape reading and order book analysis tools, adding that showing the orders executed alongside the limit orders in the book gave perspective on the trade flow and the ability of market orders to consume liquidity....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Exchanges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With the explosion of exchanges around the world and the increasing poaching of products between exchanges, traders should be aware of all the places where trading opportunities occur....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Walid Khalil's article in this issue, ""Sentiment Zone Oscillato...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ever since we saw the Dow hit 13,000, the true character of the markets has revealed itself. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) broke above this level, we saw optimism in the markets....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Brady plc announced that Brisbane Australian Bullion Exchange (ABX) has extended its use of Brady solutions to bring order transparency to the market via its electronic trading platform....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Online Trading Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including investing, trading, and the financial markets. You can even find a good amount on technical analysis....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers & Ric Way's article in this issue, Introducing SwamiCharts....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...I can't believe it's almost the end of the first quarter of 2012. And where are we?...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Market Vectors ETF Trust announced the Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap exchange traded fund (IDXJ), one of the first US-listed ETFs designed to provide investors with pure-play exposure to the small-capitalization segment of Indonesia's stock market....
Data Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The advent of the Internet has made available data services of all kinds maintained by the vendor. This gives you, the buyer, a myriad of possibilities when it comes to data frequency, method, and delivery....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Brooke Gardner's article in this issue, ""Trading High-Yield Bonds Using ETF...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If one thing is certain in the financial markets, it is that there will be a crisis. Yet, knowing this, why is it that we are never prepared for it? Because we prefer to believe it will never come....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Dow Jones Indexes has expanded their LSP Position Sizing Index family to include three new size-segment indexes: US Large-Cap 250 Index, US Mid-Cap 250 Index, and US Small-Cap 250 Index....
Newsletters & Publications
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing?...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, ""Long-Term Trading Using Exchange Traded Funds...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ever since we saw the Dow hit 13,000, the true character of the markets has revealed itself. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) broke above this level, we saw optimism in the markets....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Russell Investments launched four small-cap investment discipline exchange traded funds (ETFs) on NASDAQ....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Currency Trading For Dummies 2nd ed. (342 pages, $24.99 paperback, 2011, ISBN 978-1-118-01851-4) by Brian Dolan, published by Dummies, a branded imprint of Wiley Publishing. This is a plain-English guide to currency trading. Forex markets can be fast and volatile to trade, with money lost or made in seconds. This hands-on guide shows you how the forex market works, what moves it, and how you can actively trade in it without losing your head!...
Traders' Resource: Books
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Whether you choose to turn a physical page or a virtual one using your favorite high-tech reading device, tablet, or platform, books today are alive and well, available in more formats than ever before....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, Applying The Put/Call Ratio Indicator, which is the final article in his three-part series....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, In your Traders' Tips section, you feature many providers, including eSignal, NinjaTrader, MetaStock, and so on....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After what seemed to be an ever so extended bearish market, is there just the slightest chance that the markets are finally breaking out of that rut? Or is it yet another treacherous trap?...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Counting Elliott Waves The Profitunity Way (90 minutes, $795 + S&H DVD, 2011, ISBN 2011905233) by Justine Williams-Lara, published by Profitunity Trading Group. This DVD is filled with real-life examples of counting Elliott waves....
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Advisory services are all over the place, as our listing at Traders.com shows. You have plenty of choices and price points to consider....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trade Ideas announced that NASDAQ market velocity and forces had been integrated into its market scanning platform, giving end users the ability to measure levels of pretrade order activity....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders Tips, the focus is Barbara Star's article in this issue, Trade Breakouts And Retracements With TMV....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, I read the article The Eight Best Performing Candles by Thomas Bulkowski in your November 2011 issue. I found it interesting that the bullish reversal pattern called three inside up was one of the top two best-performing candles....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The year 2011 ended with some serious global debt problems, which could have a negative impact on the global markets in 2012....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month's Trade News & Products section includes announements by MESA Software together with NeuroShell Trader; the Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX) and FlexTrade Systems; MarketsPulse; Jurik Research; and Ditto Trade....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Traders' Resource: Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Whether you choose to turn a physical page or a virtual one using your favorite high-tech reading device, tablet, or platform, books today are alive and well, available in more formats than ever before....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Trent Gardner's article in this issue, ""Using VIX To Forecast The S&P 500."" Here we present the December 2012 Traders' Tips c...
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
2011 S&C Articles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you weren't subscribing to Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, The Traders' Magazine, throughout 2011, you missed out on a lot of information. Here is some of what you missed....
2011 Traders.com Advantage Articles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you're looking for near on-the-spot commentary about what's happening in the markets, you may be interested in Traders.com Advantage, which now comes free with a paid subscription to STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. Found at Traders.com, it offers articles almost daily that are of immediate interest to traders and technical analysts, covering a range of markets, industries, and sectors, as well as indicators, chart patterns, and indexes....
Software
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In this day and age, the choice of software with which to analyze and interact with the markets is rich, with different packages offering different capabilities, methodologies, and price ranges to fit every style of trader....
Readers' Choice Awards 2012
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2012 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...On February 3, 2012, the big headline of the day was the better than expected jobs number. The report was that the US economy added 243,000 jobs in January. As expected, the markets reacted positively with all major indexes, giving the already rallying market a jolt. Those who apply Bollinger Bands to their charts will have noticed that prices were pushing past the upper bands....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ChartLabPro.com is a self-directed tool to help investors make more informed investment decisions during uncertain market conditions by utilizing proprietary algorithms....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field. Books described here may be from some of the major book publishers as well as some independent book publishers. These are not critical reviews or editorial evaluations, but rather a brief look at the book marketplace to help keep readers up to date on new book offerings....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Consultants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have. They have been called in to consult on everything from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, ""Applying The Sector Rotation Mode...
Trading Blox
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading Blox is software you install on your PC to perform backtesting across selected portfolios using different money management schemes and trading systems. The mission for Trading Blox is to provide all of the flexibility needed by money managers, and as such more than 50% of Trading Blox's clients are corporations with staff who have the ability to program new schemes if needed....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ever since we saw the Dow hit 13,000, the true character of the markets has revealed itself. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) broke above this level, we saw optimism in the markets....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The following selection of book descriptions represents a sampling of recent book releases in the investing field....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Open trading technology provider UNX welcomes commodities and derivatives technology and data firm CQG as the latest provider to join the Catalyst Marketplace, UNX's open-source software store, CQG announced....
Mutual Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including investing, trading, and the financial markets. You can even find a good amount on technical analysis....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is John Ehlers & Ric Ways article in this issue, ÒIntroducing SwamiCharts.Ó...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...There was a lot of excitement toward the end of February when the Dow Jones Industrial Average tapped 13,000 and that was as it should be, given that the index hasn't seen those levels since 2008....
Traders' Resource: Forex Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Foreign exchange traders have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to forex brokerages. First, you must find a forex brokerage that handles your particular currency cross or pair. You should also look at margin requirements/leverage, and whether the broker offers a miniaccount. With a little research, you will be able to find a forex brokerage targeted on your interest. After that, your first question might be, "How fast can I execute an order?" For this, it's best to test out a demo account offered by...
Books For Traders
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Andrew Coles' article in this issue, "TD Sequential And Ermanometry For Intraday Traders." MetaStock code for the TD Setup and Ermanometry techniques is already provided in Coles' article. Subscribers will also find the same code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries are contributed by various software developers or programm...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, The color-based system presented by Edgar Kraut in his July 2011 article ("A Color-Based System For Short-Term Trading") looked promising and simple. However, using the Excel spreadsheet example given in your Traders' Tips section in that same issue, I recoded it into Mechanica Professional, but I did not get anything close to the performance shown in the article. I'm fairly sure I coded it correctly because I get the same color bars as those shown in Figure 6 in the article and the same number (98) of bars (45 green bars and 53 blue bars) in the first tr...
Books for Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Finding #1 Stocks: Screening, Backtesting, And Time-Proven Strategies (300 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-90340-7) by Kevin Matras, published by John Wiley & Sons. Learning a better way to pick more profitable stocks is one of the quickest ways to improve your trading. This book shows you how to implement proven trading techniques in your own trading....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FXCM, a global online provider of forex trading and related services worldwide, is now offering mobile trading, one-click order execution, and trading from real-time charts....
Traders' Resource: Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Self-directed traders, as Stocks & Commodities readers usually are, have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to brokerages....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Jay Kaeppel's article in this issue, "The JK HiLo Index." Additional Traders' Tips presented here are based on topics of the contributors' choosing. Spreadsheet formulas are already provided in Kaeppel's article. Subscribers will also find the same formulas at the Subscriber's Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, I am looking for more information on the market instrument function, which was described in an article by the same name in your December 2010 issue. Is this forecasting tool built into any trading software?...
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For some time, I have been saying that the markets are rallying for reasons unknown and to expect a turnaround in the markets any time. Is it finally here? But when I listen to the financial channels, many are suggesting that this is a temporary pullback and a good time to look for good buying opportunities. But I don't buy that. ...
Books for Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Big Secret For The Small Investor: A New Route To Long-Term Investment Success (156 pages, $20 hardcover, 2011, ISBN 978-0-385-52507-7) by Joel Greenblatt, published by Crown Business, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House. Investors have many options when it comes to investing in the markets....
Futures Liquidity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading liquidity is often overlooked as a key technical measurement in the analysis and selection of commodity futures. The following explains how to read the futures liquidity chart published by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities every month....
Trade News & Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BollingerOnBollingerBands.com now provides daily lists of US stocks in a W formation, which are technical tools that traders use to analyze price charts to determine a market bottom. A recent website upgrade includes Bollinger's latest work and some technical analysis tools unique to the website....
Traders' Resource: Courses & Seminars
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...They say that the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn. This is true in trading. If you're not fully prepared when you go to trade, you could be the one whom the smart money profits from....
Traders' Tips
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, Thank you for Jamie Theiss' articles in the May 2011 and August 2011 issues of Stocks & Commodities ("Gap Fill And Go" and "The V-Bottom Buy Setup"). I have put the ideas from both articles to good use since May of this year....
Opening Position
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Oh boy! And here I thought September was a quiet month in the markets. But if what happened this September is a sign of a quiet market, what does it mean for the rest of the year?...
Books For Traders
Traders' Resource - Exchanges
Traders' Tips - In the Volume Zone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Walid Khalil and David Steckler's article in this issue, "In The Volume Zone." One additional Traders' Tip is contributed for Koos van der Merwe's article in the December 2010 issue of S&C, "Less Stress With The JM Internal Band."...
Letters To S&C
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Johnan Prathap's article in this issue, "ThreeBar Inside Bar Pattern." Code for TradeStation is already provided in Prathap's article. Subscribers will also find the same code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries are contributed by various software developers or programmers for software that is capable of cu...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Behavioural Technical Analysis (201 p a g e s , £ 3 4 . 9 9 paperback, 2 0 1 0 , I S B N 978-1-905641- 41-3) by Paul V. Azzopardi, publ i s h e d b y H a rr i m a n H o u s e , Ltd. At its core, trading is a decision-making p r o c e s s b a s e d on the analysis of data and a judgment on risk and uncertainty. When humans make trading decisions their emotions, physiology, and the natural qualities of the brain automatically play a role. To better understand the financial markets we need to better understand the behavior of individual investors within...
Traders' Resource: Online Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including investing, trading, and the financial markets. You can even find a good amount on technical analysis. Each month in St o c kS & co m m o d it i eS' Traders' Resource, we present a listing for different categories of products and services related to trading, all to aid our readers in their pursuit of trading. This month, we focus on the topic of online trading services....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Clear meThod Editor, It was with great interest that I read Ron Black's article in the September 2010 issue of your magazine, "Getting Clear With Short-Term Swings." The concept is simple and signals are easy to follow (the best starting point for any indicator!). In the article, the author provided the EasyLanguage code for displaying the swing line. But since many readers want to implement indicators using a spreadsheet, I decided to translate the Clear method to Excel. I am providing a spreadsheet with the Clear method applied to the S&P 500 ("Clear Sp x...
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Big Investment Lie: What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know (298 pages, $24.95 h a r d c o v e r , 2 0 0 7 , ISBN 978-1-57675- 4 0 7 - 8 ) by M i c h a e l Edesess, published b y B e r r e t t - Ko e h l e r Pu bl i s h e r s. Th e i nvestment advice and management industry is built on fraud -- the idea that professional advisors can consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments is a sham. Here, the truth is exposed that the success of nearly every investment professional is the ability to procure high fees from their ...
Traders' Resource by Data Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The advent of the Internet has made available data services of all kinds maintained by the vendor. This gives you, the buyer, a myriad of possibilities when it comes to data frequency, method, and delivery. It is now a key issue to sort out, of course, when you are investigating data services, with more details to ponder. On the one hand, all the data maintenance hassles are taken out of your hands, as opposed to earlier times, when data cleansing was a real issue; on the other, the vendor, in its maintenance, may be too casual for your tastes in how it maintains the data y...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Walid Khalil and David Steckler's article in this issue, "The Price Zone Oscillator." Code for the price zone oscillator for MetaStock and TradeStation is already provided in Khalil and Steckler's article. Subscribers will also find the same code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries are contributed by various software deve...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Ben Graham Was A Quant: Raising The IQ Of The Intelligent Investor (338 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 2011, ISBN 978-0- 47 0 - 6 4 2 0 7- 8 ) b y Steven P. Greiner, published by John Wiley & Sons. Benjamin Graham, the pioneer of value investing, believed in a p h i l o s o p hy t h a t continues to be followed today. Part of this philosophy includes adhering to your stock selection process. If a quant designs and implements mathematical models for predicting stock or market movements, what better way to remain objective than to invest using algorithms ...
Traders' Resource: Newsletters & Publications
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing? Perhaps the question should be where can't you? These days, financial information is put out in print, on TV, on your handheld, and over the Internet in various formats, but there's still nothing more readable, reliable, or researchable than a regularly published newsletter or magazine....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Edgar Kraut's article in this issue, "A ColorBased System For Short-Term Trading." Code for MetaStock is already provided in Kraut's article. Subscribers will also find the same code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries are contributed by various software developers or programmers for software that is capable of customi...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, Excellent article by Jamie Theiss in the May 2011 S&C. Nearly all my trades are done by fading the gaps right after the opening using one-minute candlesticks plus a couple of indicators. Occasionally, I will wait around after my exit and look for a continuation back in the direction of the gap, as Theiss describes in his article, and that works too. I'm done by 10:30 at the latest every day. His article was very timely for me because I've been thinking about staying around longer more often. Thanks for the encouragement....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading Options In Tu r bu l e n t M a r k e t s (254 pages, $50 hardcover, 2010, ISBN 978-1-576-60360-4) by Larry Shover, published by Bloomberg Press. This work reveals how volatility in option trading relates to today's stormy marketplace and shows you how to manage risk and take advantage of market volatility. The author addresses how to use historical volatility to predict future volatility for a security or the implied volatility, and offers suggestions for dealing with that odd feature of option trading known as skew. Skew is uncertainty squared, and the ...
Traders' Resource: Trading Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading systems can help take the subjective interpretation out of trading decisions by providing automated buy and sell signals based on preprogrammed rules. Trading systems are usually computer programs but can also be a real-time service issuing signals or a set of published rules to follow. They can rely on one or more trading disciplines, such as artificial intelligence, Gann analysis, astrology, indicator sets, or custom rules....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Peter Konner's article in this issue, "Combining Rs i With Rs i." Code for the Scandinavian technical analysis program AvanzaVikingen is already provided in Konner's article elsewhere in this issue. (Subscribers will also find Konner's code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www. Traders.com.) Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, I just finished reading L.A. Little's article "Price And Volume Disconnect" in the November 2010 issue of St o c kS & co mm o d i t i eS. I have a general question I was hoping he could answer for me. (I loved the article, by the way.) While I completely understand his reasoning behind identifying disconnects between price and volume as well as how to act when a suspect trend is spotted, I was hoping he could speak to why such situations sometimes arise in the first place. I know it's a loaded question and I don't expect a lengthy response, but I'm curi...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Dan Valcu's article in this issue, "The Spearman Indicator For Technical Analysis." Code for AmiBroker is already provided in Valcu's article. Subscribers will also find Valcu's AmiBroker code at the Subscriber Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries are contributed by various software developers or programmers for software that is capable of ...
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Advisory services are all over the place, as our listing at Traders.com shows. You have plenty of choices and price points to consider. One key factor is whether the outfit you're checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (Ria) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (Ct a). Though it doesn't weed out the undependable advice, the act of registration puts the person or persons under the government's scrutiny. In this listing, filled in by the companies themselves, you'll find those who have Ria and/or Ct a certifications as well as those who are nonregistered advi...
Books For Traders
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Author Duane Archer replies: Gw t is both a refinement and expansion of the old 50% measured move [AB=CD] rule. The propagation principle is an expansion allowing the creation of several templates for forecasting. The intersection and 3-C rules are refinements for delimiting possibilities and zeroing in on legitimate trade candidates. These are the three primary principles of Goodman wave theory, but there are quite a few more principles and rules. My article in the December 2010 issue was simply meant as an introduction....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, Applying The Put/Call Ratio Indicator, which is the final article in his three-part series....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2011 Readers' Choice Awards (Rca). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to technical analysis and trading. The following pages present the products and services you and your peers chose this year as your favorites....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, In your recent interview with Marcus Heitkoetter ("Short Swings In Futures With Markus Heitkoetter," May 2011), I noticed that when he was discussing the Bollinger Bands adjustment for the moving average, he suggests lowering the number of bars in the moving average. Then, however, the article goes on to say he adjusts them from nine to 12. Is this a typo? It seems that he is increasing the number of bars rather than decreasing them. Thanks for your response. The interview was another good one....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the main focus is Andrew Coles' article in this issue, "Automated Techniques For Intraday Traders." Code for MetaStock for Coles' technique for intraday application of the Fibonacci and Lucas series indicators is already provided in Coles' article. Subscribers will also find the same code at the Subscriber's Area of our website, www.Traders.com. Presented here is an overview of possible implementations for other software. Traders' Tips are provided to help the reader implement a selected technique from an article in this issue. The entries ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus is Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, "Identifying Cup Formations Early." One additional Traders' Tip is contributed for Peter Konner's article in the January 2011 issue of S&C, "Combining Rsi with Rsi." Code for MetaStock is already provided in Siligardos' article....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Editor, Where can I find the results of your Readers' Choice Awards, which I saw a reference to at your website? Ah m e t The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards can be found in our 2011 Bonus Issue, which was mailed in February to all subscribers, and which will continue to be mailed out throughout the year to new subscribers. The Readers' Choice Awards are based on the results of an online poll asking subscribers to vote for their favorite products and services.--Editor...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. CLARIFICATION ON DOUBLE 7s STRATEGY Editor, In the January 2009 S&C article, "Three Rules, One Easy Way To Trade Etfs," Figure 2 shows point B and the caption refers to "a new, seven-day low at point B." However, two days earlier, the price bar is lower than the bar pointed to at B (using a magnifying glass). A check of my data shows the same results. Point B, on December 14, 2007, has a low of 50.92, but on December 12, the low is at 50.89, according to data from Yahoo! Finance. Is it possible the arrow is pointing to the next day, or do the auth...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF LUNA B. LEOPOLD Editor, Curious readers may be interested in the article "Up A Lazy River" by Brian Hayes in the N...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. IMPLIED VOLATILITY Editor, I enjoyed Sam Bhugaloo's recent article in STOCKS & COMMODITIES ("The Power Of Implied Volatility," July 2006)...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (79-84): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement one of the strategies presented in this issue. Steve Palmquist's article in this issue, "Shorting Moving Average Pullbacks," reviews a shorting technique that can be applied to a list of stocks. The technique uses a combination of signals: bars under a moving average, the existing trend, the existence of a "pullback" to the moving average, a trigger condition...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (10-14): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. OFFLINE CHARTING SOFTWARE Editor, Is there any stock market graphing software I can use without going on the 'Net and working with just t...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (94): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Bible Of Options Strategies (356 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 2005, ISBN 0-13-171066-4) by Guy Cohen, published by FT/ Prentice Hall. Pick the right options strategies ... implement them step-bystep ... maximize your profits! This is a comprehensive reference to contemporary options trading. OptionsEasy creator Guy Cohen identifies today's strategies and tells you how and when to use each one. It includes the strategies of buying and shorting shares, calls and puts, income strategies like covered calls, naked ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (83-89): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement one of the strategies presented in this issue. This month code is given for John Ehler's article "Fractal Adaptive Moving Averages."" Included are: TradeStation, MetaStock, AIQ, WealthLab, eSignal, NeuroShell Trader, AmiBroker, NeoTicker, TradingSolutions, and Financial Data Calculator....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (10-11): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit letters on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. --Editor FINDING GUJRAL Editor, I read your magazine every month, cover to cover, and always find articles of interest. I have been devouring everything I can f...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (75-83, 95): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. In his article, "Improve Your Trading System With Speed," Gomu Vetrivel presents an indicator called speed. He defines speed as the absolute value of the difference between two closing prices. Vetrivel presents the results of tests he conducted to attempt to determine whether speed can be used to improve th...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. TRUE STRENGTH INDEX Editor, As a veteran reader of S&C, I have found the recent dialogue on William Blau's TSI (true strength index) very interesting. I consider Blau's work on double smoothing as remarkably insightful....
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (82-88): Traders' Resource: Advisory Services by Technical Analysis, Inc. Advisory services are all over the place, as this listing shows. You have plenty of choices and price points to consider. One key factor is whether the outfit you're checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Though it doesn't weed out the undependable advice, the act of registration puts the person or persons under the government's scrutiny. In this listing, filled in by the companies themselves, you'll find those who have RIA and/...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (75-81): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Stuart Belknap's article ""Cycles In Time And Money"" describes an algorithm for ploting a centered cycle oscillator. Trader's Tips supplies code for his indicator, the universal cycle index (UCI), which is intended to be ""in phase"" with the market and to operate in real time. Code is given for the following...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (10-12): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders.co...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (86-92): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Editor's note: Since the TradeStation code for this month's primary Traders' Tips topic (John Ehlers' article "The Secret Behind The Filter: What's The Difference?" elsewhere in this issue) was already provided in the article by Ehlers, the following TradeStation Traders' Tips submission treats a different topic...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (108): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here's a sample entry: The Astute Investor (404 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2005, ISBN 0-9759660-0-6) by Eric Prentis, published by Prentis-Business. Is the stock market undervalued or overvalued? Is the market in a long-term upward trend or a long-term downward trend? What is the most promising stock to buy? This book allows investors to answer these vital questions, and more, for themselves. Uncomplicated and easily implemented through the use of correct investment models and current data on the Internet, it brin...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (96): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market (250 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-6337-X) by Jim Rogers, published by Random House. The next bull market is here, not in stocks or bonds, but in commodities. The commodities bull market began in 1998 and Rogers thinks it will last for at least 15 years. The fund he started in 1998 is up more than 165% and is one of the best-performing index funds in the world. Rogers' strategies are simple and straightforward. He offers th...
Traders' Resource: Consultants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (84-86): Traders' Resource: Consultants Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have. A quick perusal of our listing in this issue shows that they have been called in to consult on everything from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe. The rules for checking out consultants are simple: check references, check references, and (did you guess?) check references. Nothing can be more vague than a consultant's initial proposal, but nothing is clearer than a client's opinion on the success of a consultant's engagement. Co...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (76-81): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Daryl Guppy's two articles, "Something Darvas, Something New" in this issue and "Darvas-Style Trading" in the May 2005 S&C, introduce a new trading system. Code for this system shows how Darvas boxes are drawn and also the three methods for using the boxes: classic, modern, and breakout methods. MetaStock code...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders.co...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (97): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Automatic Millionaire Workbook (200 pages, $14.95 softcover, 2005, ISBN 0-7679-1948-3) by David Bach, published by Broadway Books. This workbook features the five questions that determine, with 90% certainty, if you will be an Automatic Millionaire, and charts and checklists for paying down debt while you save. There is one crucial step that guarantees your financial plan will succeed, as well as details on where to invest, what phone calls to make, and exactly what to say when automating your financial futur...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (80-85): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Massimiliano Scorpio's article, "Targeting Your Pattern," describes price bar patterns. Every price bar can be identified by its pattern. It can then be determined both how frequently a pattern occurs on a chart and how frequently the subsequent day closes higher than it did on the day on which the pattern occurr...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. S&C MARKET PROFILE ARTICLES Editor, I am conducting research on every article you have published on Market Profile. Can you please help m...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (88-101): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Markos Katsanos' article "Detecting Breakouts In Low- Priced Stocks: Las Vegas Or Los Nasdaq?" describes a system of tests for early determination of conditions suitable for a penny stock's price to "break out" of its established trading range. The tests include Katsanos' finite-volumeelement; three linear regr...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (128): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Trading Method That Can Make You Rich (199 pages, $195 hardcover, 2004, ISBN 0-97607150-0- 9) by Roy Kelly, published by ARC Systems. Roy Kelly explains a mechanical trading approach that has proven to be an effective strategy for trading all markets. He has compiled 30 years of research into this book, with 129 illustrative charts and graphs that explain a method that can enable the reader to become a successful trader....
Traders' Resource: Trading Systems by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (102-113): Traders' Resource: Trading Systems by Technical Analysis, Inc. Trading systems can help take the subjective interpretation out of trading decisions by providing automated buy and sell signals based on preprogrammed rules. Trading systems are usually computer programs but can also be a real-time service issuing signals or a set of published rules to follow. They can rely on one or more trading disciplines, such as artificial intelligence, Gann analysis, astrology, indicator sets, or custom rules. This month in Traders' Resource, we present a list of publ...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders.c...
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Traders' Resource: Exchanges by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (114-117): Traders' Resource: Exchanges by Technical Analysis, Inc. With the explosion of exchanges around the world and the increasing poaching of products between exchanges, traders should be aware of all the places where trading opportunities occur. No longer bound by national borders or even physical locations, exchanges can be no more than a box in the corner of an office. Differentiation comes in the form of product, volume, speed, pricing, and investor protections. Look for an exchange with extensive trade documentation so that disputes can be resolved qui...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave., SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (94): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Definitive Guide To Point And Figure (515 pages, $90 hardcover, 2005, ISBN 1-897-59763-0) by Jeremy du Plessis, published by Harriman House Publishing. This work seeks to demystify point & figure charts, one of the great secrets of the technical analysis world. After an explanation of the history and development of the technique, from invention to present day, the author explains how to use P&F charts to project targets and calculate risk-reward ratios, and covers many other aspects of point & figure chart...
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Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (78-84): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Jacobus van den Brink's article in this issue, "Overhauling Market Breadth," presents a modified version of the Arms index. Code for this system is provided for TradeStation, MetaStock, Wealth-Lab, AmiBroker, eSignal, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, Trading Solutions, AIQ, and Financial Data Calculator....
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. TREND-FOLLOWING TECHNIQUES FOR LONG-TERM INVESTING Editor, Most articles I have read in your magazine deal with short-term trading. Do y...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (94): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Economic And Financial Decisions Under Risk (244 pages, $35 softcover, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12215-6) by Louis Eeckhoudt, Christian Gollier, and Harris Schlesinger, published by Princeton University Press. Understanding and dealing with risk is an essential part of modern economics. This book represents a summary of basic multiperiod decision-making under risks. The authors start with the fundamentals of risk measurement and risk aversion, then apply these concepts to insurance decisions and portfolio choice in a on...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (76-82): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Andrew Tomlinson's article in this issue, "Stochastics And Price Range Dynamics: Home, Home On The Range," reviews two techniques for evaluating price ranges: price bands and stochastics. In addition, he compares the use of current-day and previous-day price ranges for both price bands and stochastics. The code ...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. SWING TRADING Editor, After trying VectorVest, TC2000, MetaStock, and other programs, I can't seem to win in swing trading options. I hea...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (96): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. InvestorWiz!: An Educational Investment Course For Novice Investors (124 pages, $65 softcover, 2003, ISBN 1932560777) by Soraya Nasrallah, published by Lumina Press. InvestorWiz! is a 10-chapter investor course for novice investors and features samples, practice exercises, answer pages, and other resources on stock basics, brokerage accounts and forms, the economy, chart analysis, and more. This book will assist novice investors and those seeking more financial independence or searching for a career in the broker...
Traders' Resource: Courses And Seminars by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (81-85): Traders' Resource: Courses And Seminars by Technical Analysis, Inc. They say that the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn. This is true in trading. If you're not fully prepared when you go to trade, you could be the one that the smart money profits from. Education is crucial in trading. If you don't step up to the line with the right tools and know-how to trade the markets, you might as well be gambling -- with the odds on the house's side. But help is available, in courses, seminars, classes, manuals, books, tutorials, and personal trading...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (76-80): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, with code contributed by TradeStation, Wealth-Lab, AmiBroker, eSignal, MetaStock, Trading Solutions, NeuroShell Trader, Investor/RT, Prophet.net, NeoTicker, Trade Navigator, Aspen Graphics, BullCharts, Technifilter Plus,SmarTrader, and Stockwhiz for Steve Palmquist's article ""Trading Moving Average Pullbacks.""...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (10-14): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. FUTURES LIQUIDITY Editor, I just received and enjoyed reading your magazine, STOCKS & COMMODITIES. In the February 2005 issue, on page 87, you list futures liquidity from most to least liquid. I find it amazing that you list the British pound (GBP) as being more liquid than the Canadian dollar (CD). I have traded on the floor at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for 25 years and have traded actively in both the GBP and the CD pits. The CD pit is far more liquid than the GBP pit. While trading in the GBP pit, I wa...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:9 (96-108): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's Traders' Tips are for Giorgos Siligardos' article ""The Decomposition Method,"" which presents a procedure for using his reverse-engineered RSI of weekly lows to identify possible price supports. The code is supplied for the following programs: TradeStation, Wealth-Lab, AmiBroker, eSignal, Prophet.net, AIQ, NeuroShell Trader, Aspen Graphics, TradingSolutions, TechniFilter Plus, NeoTicker, SmarTrader, Financial Data Calculator, and BullCharts....
Traders' Resource: Forex Brokerages by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:9 (116-119): Traders' Resource: Forex Brokerages by Technical Analysis, Inc. Foreign exchange traders have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to forex brokerages. First, you must find a forex brokerage that handles your particular currency tradable; full-service brokerages dealing with equities, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, and cash goods are usually full-priced as well. A little research, however, will get you a forex brokerage targeted on your currency of interest. After that, your first question m...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:9 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD Editor, I am a 34-year-old Italian engineer. I am interested in the maximum entropy method as applied to the financial markets. I would implement this method in an Excel spreadsheet. Could you kindly suggest a list of articles I could buy from you in order to do that? GIUSEPPE BASSETTO, via email Publisher Jack K. Hutson replies: Over the years, we have published many articles on maximum entropy spectrum analysis (MESA). In Volume 2 (1984) of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, The Traders' Magazin...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (94-107): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. In this issue code has been provided for Dennis Peterson's article ""Fibonacci And Gann Projections,"" which presents a technique for forecasting time and price turning points. Included are Tradestation, AmiBroker, Wealth-Lab, eSignal, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, and Prophet.Net code. Finally, Stratagem So...
Sidebar: Four steps to calculate Lambert's commodity channel index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (61): Sidebar: Four steps to calculate Lambert's commodity channel index Formulas are provided for the following four steps that calculate Lambert's commodity channel index. 1. Compute today's "typical" price, using high, low, and close: 2. Compute a moving average of the N most recent typical prices: 3. Compute the mean deviation of the N most recent typical prices: 4. Compute the commodity channel index:...
Traders' Resource: Mutual Funds by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (124-129): Traders' Resource: Mutual Funds by Technical Analysis, Inc. When investing with mutual funds, the issue is cost of all kinds. Sales charges, turnover costs (trading costs), tax costs, management fees, marketing costs, and cash-holding costs all eat into your returns; then the compounding effect magnifies your losses. It's critical to consider all of these costs when approaching mutual fund investing and do the appropriate research to make sure you are making the most of your investment. A family of low-cost, no-load funds that allows costless switching...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (117): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Analysing & Interpreting The Yield Curve (359 pages, $79.95 hardcover, 2004, ISBN 0470821256) by Moorad Choudhry, published by John Wiley & Sons. The yield curve is the defining indicator of the global debt capital markets, and understanding it is vital to the smooth running of the economy. All participants in the market, whether they are issuers of capital, investors, or banking intermediaries, have a need to estimate, interpret, and understand the yield curve. Fund managers who accurately predict the shape a...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (102-114): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's code is for Vadim Gimelfarb's article, "Using Volume To Detect Shifts In Power," which proposes the TRsV (true range specified volume) indicator. The TRsV indicator is used in the article in conjunction with the bull and bear power indicator described in the October 2003 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Finally, the two indicators are combined to form a strategy. Code is provided for the following programs: TradeStation, MetaStock, Wealth-Lab, Trading Solutions, AmiBroker, eSignal, AIQ, NeoTicker, P...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. READERS' CHOICE AWARDS Editor, I heard that you published the results of a study comparing different training courses for options tradin...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's tips contain code for John Ehlers' Inverse Fisher Transform in the following software programs: TradeStation, MetaStock, AmiBroker, WealthLab, TradingSolutions, NeuroShell Trader, AIQ TradingExpert, TickQuest, Prophet, StockWiz, Aspen Graphics, Financial Data Calculator, TechniFilter Plus, and eSignal....
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. This article contains short one-paragraphic descriptions for the following recently published books: ? The Event-Trading Phenomenon ? Trade Like A Hedge Fund: 20 Successful, Uncorrelated Strategies & Techniques To Winning Profits ? An Investor's Guide To Trading Options ? The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures ? Quantitative Trading Strategies ? Stikky Stock Charts ? The Retirement Savings Time Bomb ? And How To Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan For Protecting Your IRAs, 401(K)s, And Other Retirement Plans From Near Annihilation B...
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Advisory Services Advisory services are all over the place, as this listing shows. You have plenty of choice and plenty of price points to consider. One key factor is whether the outfit you're checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Though it doesn't weed out the foolish advice, the act of registration puts the person or persons under the government's scrutiny. In this listing, filled in by the companies themselves, you'll find those who have RIA and/or CTA certifications as well as those who are nonregistered ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. EMAIL SPAM Editor, I received a piece of spam today that mentions your magazine. I am contacting you to enlist your aid in battling such spam. Inasmuch as I resent every uninvited email contact such as this, and think that spammers ought to be banished from civilized society, I urge you to adopt the editorial position that this person and his company are no longer welcome in the pages of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine, and that he is also no longer entitled to use your logo in his ads. Such use by him reflects badly on your publication due to guilt ...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:3 (92-102): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's Traders' Tips feature code for Giorgos Siligardos' article ""Mechanically Recognized Triagular Formations,"" which describes a method of assessing chart patterns in terms of triangles with falling volume. Code is supplied for the following software: TradeStation, MetaStock, AmiBroker, eSignal, Wealth-Lab, NeuroShell Trader, TickQuest, Prophet, TechniFilter Plus, and Trade Navigator....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:3 (122): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Sample entry of the books reviewed in this month's magazine: Mutual Fund Investor's Guide 2004 (509 pages, $20 softcover, 2004, ISBN 1-59184-031-7) by Kirk Kazanjian, a Portfolio book by the Penguin Group. Mutual funds remain the vehicle of choice for smart investors. But in today's markets, which ones? The author provides clear, practical advice, filtering through the universe of stock and bond funds, and dispels the mystery around mutual funds to show you how to figure out the funds that suit you best....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:3 (104-113): Traders' Resource: Online Trading Services by Technical Analysis, Inc. You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including investing, trading, and the financial markets. You can even find a good amount on technical analysis. Each month in STOCKS & COMMODITIES' Traders' Resource, we present a listing for different categories of products and services related to trading, all to aid our readers in their pursuit of trading. This month, we focus on the topic of online trading services. We contacted companies that offer services to t...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:3 (10-14): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. ON-BALANCE VOLUME Editor, I enjoyed D.W. Davies' January 2004 article, "Daytrading With On-Balance Volume." As a point of reference, I need to point out that while Joe Granville (for whom I have utmost respect as a technician and friend) popularized the term on-balance volume, the idea was originally called cumulative volume and was presented in a course written by Woods and Vignolia in San Francisco in 1946. LARRY WILLIAMS Thank you for pointing this out. It's always important to know history. . ....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:6 (96-105): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. This month's tips are for Markos Katanos' article ""Using Money Flow To Stay with The Trend."" In it, he describes a method of assessing trend strength with a modified on-balance volume calculation. Code for his volume flow indicator are provided for: Tradestation, AmiBroker, eSignal, Wealth-Lab, TradingSolutions, Neuroshell Trade...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:6 (130): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here are brief descriptions of recently published books in the financial field. Ponzi (347 pages, $14 softcover, 2004, ISBN 0- 7679-1499-6) by Donald Dunn, published by Broadway Books. The republishing of this 1975 biography seems altogether fitting in light of today's recent corporate shenanigans. The tie-in is exemplified by Senator Peter Fitzgerald's quote on the cover of the book of his comment to former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay: "You, sir, are the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi." This book is about the ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:6 (116-121): Traders' Resource: Consultants by Technical Analysis, Inc. Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have. A quick perusal of our listing in this issue shows that they have been called in to consult on everything from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe. The rules for checking out consultants are simple: check references, check references, and (did you guess?) check references. Nothing can be more vague than a consultant's initial proposal, but nothing is clearer than a client's opinion on the success of a consultant's engag...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 22:6 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. SPREADSHEETS Editor, The April 2004 issue of S&C contained an article called "Trend Quality Indicator." I would like to see an update of this article in your magazine showing the formulas using Excel. WOLFGANG TILCH, via email Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, we cannot always include formulas for Excel. Perhaps other readers who have created a spreadsheet will be able to share it with you. You may wish to post a message to this effect at our Message Board at http://messageboards.traders.com/.--Editor...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: VFI PERFORMANCE Markos Katsanos' article in this issue, "Volume Flow Indicator Performance," provides four strategies for trading the volume flow indicator (VFI). All four strategies are provided here in TradeStation EasyLanguage. In addition, Katsanos introduced a new indicator, the VFI-price divergence, which is also coded here. Most of the calculations are performed in the function "VFISmoothed," which was given in the TradeStation tip in the May 2004 Traders' Tips column. When using these strategies, please remember to format yo...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Publications by Technical Analysis, Inc. Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing? Perhaps the question should be where can't you? These days, financial information is put out in print, on TV, on your handheld, over the Internet in various formats, but there's still nothing more readable, reliable, or researchable than a regularly published newsletter or magazine. In Traders' Resource this month, Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES presents a short listing of publications in a variety of methods and ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. REVERSAL DATES Editor, I'm a regular reader of your magazine and very much look forward to it each month. I rarely read the Letters to S&C column, and I don't think I've ever written a letter to any editor, except for this one to you now. In the May 2004 S&C, I happened to read a letter to the editor wherein a reader wrote disparagingly about the article "Reversal Date Indicator: Predict, Identify, And Trade Future Market Swings" by John Crane (S&C, February 2004). I couldn't believe what I was reading, as the writer was trashing the article as ba...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: HOLDING OVERNIGHT POSITIONS Anthony Trongone's article "Holding Overnight Positions" describes a trading strategy called rising darkness, in which trade entries for the cubes (AMEX: QQQ) are based on the oneday percentage change in QQQ price and a comparison of the present day's QQQ volume to historical volume. Four different combinations of price and volume are used as trade entry triggers. When certain conditions are met, this strategy enters trades at the end of the day. (It should be noted that Trongone's article describes enteri...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (86-98): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. In the article "Trend Trigger Factor", M.H. Pee describes a trend trigger factor (TTF) indicator, which is a method of detecting uptrends and downtrends using a 15-day buy power and 15-day sell power calculation. Pee also provides sample criteria that can be used to create an always-in-the-market reversal strat...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (128): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Applying Elliott Wave Theory Profitably (222 pages, $69.95, hardcover, 2003, ISBN 0-471-42007-7) by Steven W. Poser, published by John Wiley & Sons. During the late 1920s, Ralph Nelson Elliott theorized that stock markets do not behave in a random, chaotic manner, but rather move in cycles, reflecting the actions and emotions of human mass psychology. Elliott believed that the ebb and flow of mass psychology reveals itself in repetitive patterns, or waves. This book makes sense of this proven trading strategy...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (10-13): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or email to Editor@Traders....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? NEOTICKER: ADVANCE ISSUES MOMENTUM (AIM) Editor's note: Lawrence Chan and Louis Lin of TickQuest (developer of NeoTicker) contributed the article to this issue on which this month's Traders' Tips is based ("Boosting Pro?tability"), and they have included NeoTicker code in the article. Thus, please see the article starting on page 28 in this issue for NeoTicker code for the advance issues momentum (AIM) indicator. --Kenneth Yuen, TickQuest Inc. www.tickquest.com TickQuest...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To The Editor by Technical Analysis, Inc. ZIGZAG INDICATOR VS. FILTERED WAVES Editor, As one who has more gray in his beard than he'd like, I wanted to point out that the "zigzag indicator" or "zigzag filter" referred to in Norman J. Brown's June 2004 article is misnamed. I believe the mistake started when Equis included this indicator in the first version of its MetaStock charting software. CompuTrac did not include the indicator in its package (I told you there was too much gray in my beard). At any rate, the concept was introduced before IBM had even introduced the first PC. It ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (90-99): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Internet users will also find these and most previous Traders' Tips at our website at www.Traders.com. To locate the various tips, use our site's search engine or click on the STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine icon on the left-hand side of our homepage, then scroll down to the "This month in S&C" section on the left-...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (10-13, 86-87): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. CANDLESTICKS REVISITED Editor, While I disagree with the importance placed on a single tall white candlestick line in Stephen Bigalow's article in the February 2004 issue ("Stop-Loss Procedures Made Easy"), I am glad he touched on the importance of using stops. In all of my training material, I stress that while candlesticks give many timing advantages, the trader must always take into account risk and reward. One of my Nison Trading Principles (my 13 most important trading concepts) is, "Even a perfect ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's trader's tips include TradeStation, MetaStock, AmiBroker, Wealth-Lab, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, and Investor/RT code for: Markos Katsanos' article ""Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts,"" and Viktor Likhovidov's article ""Index Of Chart Sentiment."" There is eSignal, TradingSolutions, and Financial Data Calculator code for: Markos Katsanos' article ""Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts. ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Incl EFFECTS OF DEFLATION Editor, David Penn's excellent article on "Intermarket Relationships" (July 2003 issue) included a review of my earlier writings on the subject and a description of changing relationships in the current environment. My 1991 book Intermarket Technical Analysis described the world up to 1990. My revision of that book (which should be available later this year, 2003) describes changes that have taken place since then. As Penn correctly points out, the main change is the "decoupling" of bonds and stocks. That change, in my opinion, ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Resource: Books by Technical Analysis, Inc. You can blunder around the Internet all you want for information, but for focused instruction on trading technique, the best information can still be found in paper pages. Here is just a sampling of all that is available out there in the way of books for traders and investors. No doubt, what the Internet is good for is browsing and searching. Using the Internet, you can quickly locate just about any book on trading these days through websites such as those of book resellers Ino.com (http://store.ino.com), Trader's Press (www.traderspressboo...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. READERS' CHOICE AWARDS Editor, I sometimes see on the websites of some financial software a statement that they won a Readers' Choice Award from your magazine. I tried searching at your website, Traders.com, for the listing but couldn't find it. Can you send me more information about your Readers' Choice Awards, or provide me with a link to see it? MASSIMO TANZI, via email, Italy ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Fibonacci For The Active Trader (221 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 2003, ISBN 0972122974), by Derrik S. Hobbs, published by TradingMarkets. This book promises to teach you the author's favorite Fibonacci strategies for anticipating and potentially capturing the most significant turns in stocks, stock indices, and exchange-traded funds. A professional money manager, Hobbs applies seven principal Fibonacci strategies and shows you rules for trading each of them. . . Other new publications briefly described in this issue are: Investing Despite Wall Stre...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's selection of tips includes: TradeStation, MetaStock, AmiBroker, eSignal,WealthLab, NeuroShell, NeoTicker, TradingSolutions, AIQ Expert Design Studio, Investor/RT, and Financial Data Calculator code for the ""Bull And Bear Balance Indicator"" by Vadim Gimelfarb....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. CODE AND TRADERS' TIPS Editor, I read S&C every month. It's a good magazine with good content and presentation. The only problem I run into is with the Traders' Tips section of your website. When you include the code for, say, TradeStation or MetaStock in an article, the problem is you don't post it to the Traders' Tips section at your website -- the tip simply refers us back to the article. ...continuded...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: ZIGZAG TREND INDICATOR Spyros Raftopoulos's article in this issue, "The Zigzag Trend Indicator," describes a method of deducing trend from reversal filters. In earlier articles, Raftopoulos described methods for charting zigzags, but his zigzag validity indicator only displayed the "locked" high and low, not the moment when the retracement criteria were met. Raftopoulos's new zigzag trend indicator, described in this issue, can now display this previously undisplayed information on the chart....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in some of the articles in this issue. Internet users will also find these and most previous Traders' Tips at our website at www.Traders.com. To locate the various tips, use our site's search engine or click on the STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine icon on the left-hand side of our homepage, then scroll down to the "This month in S&C" section on the left-hand side and...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Anaylsis, Inc. DAYTRADING QQQ Editor, I found the article "Daytrading QQQ" in the March 2003 STOCKS & COMMODITIES to be quite misleading. In the latter part of the article, author Misha Sarkovich suggests taking advantage of the low probability of the QQQ falling outside a daily price range of +/- 2.5% from the open. For the +2.5% case, the probability is stated to be approximately 30%, which I confirmed with my own testing. However, the basis for the daily high technique is described in the false statement: "If the prices increase 2.5% from the open, there is a ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. KONDRATIEFF WAVE Editor, From the first issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES I picked up a year ago to the most recent issue, I have never been disappointed in the quality or content of your publication. In the September 2002 S&C was an article on the Kondratieff wave by Tim Elrod, which I found interesting. However, I noticed that the chart showing the wholesale prices in relation to the idealized long wave was dated only till 2000. Since we're now at the start of 2003, I was wondering where I could find an upto- date chart like the one in the article? I...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: FIBONACCI RETRACEMENTS AND THE RSI Ingo Bucher's article in this issue, "Fibonacci Retracements And The RSI," describes the advantages of considering Fibonacci retracement levels for use with the classic RSI indicator. Bucher reviews six charts, each displaying Fibonacci retracement levels for the RSI associated with each chart. The EasyLanguage code given here will allow you to automatically recreate these charts for any security available in TradeStation. Bucher calculated his retracement levels by picking the RSI high and low for ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: IMPLIED VOLATILITY AND VOLUME Scott Castleman's article in this issue, "Using Implied Volatility And Volume," describes a market-adaptive channel breakout system in which the channel lookback period is a function of implied volatility and volume. The core strategy's EasyLanguage code can be found in the sidebar of the article itself. We have elaborated on Castleman's code by creating two new indicators. The first displays the "LookBack" calculations producing his trading "thresholds." The second plots the thresholds themselves. We ha...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRADERS' TIPS ONLINE Editor, Is there a way I can get the Traders' Tips from last month's magazine online? STEVE STOYKA, via e-mail Yes. Past Traders' Tips can be viewed at our website at Traders.com. The current issue's Traders' Tips can be found at: http://www.traders.com/Documentation/ FEEDbk_docs/TradersTips/ TradersTips.html. (Alternatively, from our homepage at Traders.com, click on the STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine icon on the left, then scroll down to the "This month in S&C" section on the left-hand side, and look for "Traders' Tips.") For...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: REGULARIZATION In his article in this issue, titled "Regularization," Chris Satchwell describes a regularized exponential moving average. ? TRADESTATION: THRUST OSCILLATOR David Hawkins' article in this issue, "Find Those Market Tops," demonstrates the use of a thrust oscillator....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. S&C TRADERS' GLOSSARY Editor, Your magazine advises readers to "Log onto our website at Traders.com for our comprehensive Traders' Glossary." But where on earth did you hide it? Why not put a link in an obvious place on your homepage? RICHARD KRANE, via e-mail The S&C Traders' Glossary can be found at: http://www.traders.com/Documentation/ RESource_docs/Glossary/ glossary.html Or go to our homepage at Traders.com, then click on "Stocks & Commodities" in the red box on the left containing the contents listing, then click on "Glossary." This is in ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, include code from: AmiBroker, Tradestation, eSignal, Wealth-Lab, TradingSolutions, Neuroshell Trader, Neoticker, Metastock, SmarTrader, and Wall Street Analyzer for: Implementation of the moving trend indicator as described by William Rafter in his article in this issue, "The Moving Trend."" Amibroker, Tradestation, Wealth-Lab, and Neuroshell Trader for: The nonparametric performance measure (ACC) described by Guy Brys and Luc Van Hof in "A NonparametricPerformance Measur...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: Z-SCORE INDICATOR Veronique Valcu's article "Z-Score Indicator" in this issue provides a description and commentary on a new method of displaying directional change normalized in terms of standard deviation. This indicator can be drawn on a TradeStation screen by using the following function code, called ZScore: Function: ZScore inputs: Price( NumericSeries ), AvgLen( NumericSimple ) ; ZScore = (Price - Average( Price, AvgLen ) ) / StandardDev( Price, AvgLen, 1 ) ; This indicator has two inputs, "Price" and "AvgLen." Price can be the ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C HOW RELIABLE ARE CANDLESTICKS? Editor, First, I want to compliment you on your excellent magazine. Next, I would like to point out some faults in "How Reliable Are Candlesticks?", which appeared in the November 2002 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES. In the article, author Giovanni Maiani uses definitions of candlestick signals without validating how correct these signals are. Remember, just because candle signals are in a software package, that does not necessarily make them correct... ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: DIVERGENCE BIAS Giorgos Siligardos' article "Divergence Bias" describes alternative methods of calculating two of the most popular trend indicators, momentum and moving average convergence/ divergence (MACD). The two indicators from his article are presented here as fractional momentum and fractional MACD. The code for both indicators is provided here. All four indicators are shown in Figure 1. In addition, the built-in zigzag% indicator is used on the price plot to show an idealized trading pattern....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Resource: Forex Brokerages by Technical Analysis, Inc. Foreign exchange traders have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to forex brokerages. First, you must find a forex brokerage that handles your particular currency tradable; full-service brokerages dealing with equities, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, and cash goods are usually full-priced as well. A little research, however, will get you a forex brokerage targeted on your currency of interest....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. REGULARIZATION Editor, The concept of "Regularization" presented in the July 2003 S&C seems to be very new to the field of technical analysis and is interesting because, it says, it can solve the two main problems of any indicator: smoothing and lag. Can you refer me to any books or websites where I might learn more about this? GOMU VETRIVEL Chennai, India...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Software by Technical Analysis, Inc. In this day and age, the choice of software with which to analyze and interact with the markets is rich, with different packages offering different capabilities, methodologies, and price ranges to fit every style of trader. Are you interested in a basic software package, but also find that you need to write custom indicator formulas? Are you interested in ranking, screening, and producing a list of candidates based on your favorite technical indicators? Or are you a daytrader, a position trader, or a professional trader? Are you looking ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: REVERSE ENGINEERING RSI (II) Giorgos Siligardos' article "Reverse Engineering RSI (II)" in this issue describes a translation process to plot the "next bar" price required to produce three variations on the relative strength index (RSI). The first is an exponential moving average of the RSI. The second is a simple moving average of the RSI. The third is an RSI trendline. The EasyLanguage code for the last one, the RSI trendline, was presented in the June 2003 Traders' Tips. Here, we present the EasyLanguage code called "RevEngRSIEMA" ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. MARKET PROFILE Editor, A letter from Matt Thomson in the May 2003 S&C asks, "How do you determine what the value area for the next day is?" You responded that the answer could be found in earlier articles on Market Profile. The correct answer is that Market Profile does not predict the next day's value area. A quote from my September 1987 article in STOCKS & COMMODITIES (S&C V.5:8, "Estimating The Market Profile Value Area For Intraday Trading") is explicit: "We really do not know where the market is going." The value area at the end of the curre...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? The Candlestick Course ? Blind Faith: Our Misplaced Trust In The Stock Market And Smarter, Safer Ways To Invest ? Investment Guarantees: Modeling And Risk Management For Equity-Linked Life Insurance ? Investing In Hedge Funds: Strategies For The New Marketplace ? The Money-Making Guide To Bonds ? The Motley Fool -- What To Do With Your Money Now: Ten Steps To Staying Up In A Down Market ? Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives To Controls...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Resource: Brokerages For Traders by Techincal Analysis, Inc. Self-directed traders, as STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers usually are, have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to brokerages. First, you have to find a brokerage that handles your tradable; full-service brokerages dealing with equities, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and cash goods are usually full-priced as well. A little scouting, however, will get you a brokerage targeted on your market of interest. After that, your first ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADESTATION: FINITE VOLUME ELEMENTS (FVE) Markos Katsanos' article "Detecting Breakouts" describes the calculation and use of a price-volume indicator called the finite volume element (FVE). Katsanos provides a detailed Excel spreadsheet in the article, and I've used it to write the equivalent EasyLanguage code for the FVE. We named this indicator "FiniteVolumeElement." Katsanos spends much of the article discussing divergence between price and FVE trends. He defines these trends in terms of linear regression slopes. The following indicator, "FinV...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. How The Bond Market Works, Third Edition Global Asset Allocation: New Methods And Applications NASDAQ: A History Of The Market That Changed The World Professional Electronic Trading Stocks For The Long Run, Third Edition Trading The Moves: Consistent Gains In All Markets Wall Street People, Vol. 2: True Stories Of The Great Barons Of Finance...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's Traders' Tips include code from: TradeStation: Support and Resistance Levels Equis: Support and Resistance Levels Neuroshell Trader: Fuzzy Patterns, Support and Resistance Levels WealthLab: Support and Resistance Levels, Fuzzy Patterns TickQuest: Support and Resistance Levels Investor/RT: Support and Resistance Levels TradingSolutions: Support and Resistance Levels WaveWi$e: Support and Resistance Levels...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders The Procrastinator's Guide To Financial Security: How Anyone Over 40 Can Still Build A Strong Portfolio -- And Retire Comfortably (306 pages, $24.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0814406211), by David F. Teitelbaum, published by AMACOM. Have you spent your earning years focused more on consumption than on saving? Or maybe, like most people over 40, you just can't believe you've hit middle age with so little money to show for it. This book gives you a crash course in the fundamentals of money management, budgeting, saving, and investing. You can't rely solely on company pension plan...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C PRICE TARGETS Editor, I thoroughly enjoy your mag and can't wait for the next issue each month. How does one place price targets on any stock? What charts patterns give the best probability of price predictions? Is there a book on the subject dedicated to target setting/interpretation? YACOOB KADWA, via e-mail According to Don Bright's Q&A column in the June 2001 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, "That is something the world would like to know," and he points out that the price-target predictions by analysts are usually not accurate. However, we have explored techniques for projecting...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. TradeStation code for: ""The RSI Smoothed"" by John Ehlers, ""Volatility Breakout Systems"" by Paolo Pezzutti. MetaStock code for: ""The RSI Smoothed"" by John Ehlers, ""Volatility Breakout Systems"" by Paolo Pezzutti. eSignal code for: ""The RSI Smoothed"" by John Ehlers. AIQ code for: ""Volatility Breakout Systems"" by Paolo Pezzutti. Wealth-Lab code for: ""The RSI Smoot...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders The Winning Edge 4: Traders' & Investors' Greater Success (227 pages, $69.00 hardcover, 2002, ISBN 0934380821), by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, published by Traders Press, Inc. Okay, you have a good trading system. It gives you signals that prove profitable more than 75% of the time. Your money management program keeps your overall risk to a minimum. So why aren't you making lots of money? Perhaps what is lacking is the proper emotional outlook. The mental and emotional arena is the focus of this book. Toghraie's belief in repeating the basics of good trading practices over and...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM Editor, The recent article "Fast Fourier Transform" by Amy Wu in the July 2002 STOCKS & COMMODITIES was an informative article. The last two sentences stated: "...many aspects, such as phase, are being discounted to fit the type of data in use. [I agree.] Still, interpreted correctly, FFT can greatly enhance your accuracy on other more fitted indicators." We need a followup article telling us what these other indicators are -- such as stochastics, MACD, RSI and others -- and how to select the best parameters for them using the FFT results. LEE S. AKIN,...
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Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis TRADESTATION: AFFINE GEOMETRY In "Affine Geometry Of The Markets" in this issue, author Viktor Likhovidov describes how to calculate the projected affine price given the start and end points of a trendline. Here, we'll present the EasyLanguage code for an affine price indicator based on Likhovidov's ideas. The way the indicator is written, the start and end points of the trendlines are passed in as inputs to the indicator, and the actual input values used are shown in the chart. Note that each point is specified by a date, a time, and a price. (Another wa...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis Dynamic Trading Indicators: Winning With Value Charts And Price Action Profile (230 pages, $69.95 hardcover, 2002, ISBN 0471215570), by Mark W. Helweg and David C. Stendahl, published by John Wiley & Sons. ...and many more!...
Novice Traders' Notebook: The Eve & Eve Double Bottom Vs. The Double Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Novice Traders' Notebook: The Eve & Eve Double Bottom Vs. The Double Bottom There are different types of double bottoms, as Thomas Bulkowski's article "Eve & Eve Double Bottoms," will attest. The notable difference between the classic double bottom and the Eve & Eve double bottom is that in the latter, the two bottoms should be at least three weeks apart and volume is typically higher on the left bottom. The basic characteristics of the double bottom, however, do not change....
Books For Investors by Technical Analaysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Investors by Technical Analaysis Essential Stock Picking Strategies (220 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2002, ISBN 0471400637), by Daniel A. Strachman, published by John Wiley & Sons. ...and many more!...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters by Technical Analysis WAITING FOR THE FED Editor, Can you clarify a point in the article "Waiting For The Fed" by David Penn, which was published in August 2002 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES? Does Mark Boucher's system keep out of stocks if the T-bill rate is lower than the prior year? I got confused in reading the description of the system and the commentary. GLENN BERGEVIN via e-mail David Penn replies: Thanks for writing. The monetary timing model I mentioned is a rate of change model. In other words, it doesn't matter if the percentage change is up or down. If the year-to-year...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK: Projected Fibonacci targets In "Projected Fibonacci Targets" in this issue, Mohab Nabil introduces Fibonacci studies, which may be new to some readers. In MetaStock, it is very easy to apply Fibonacci retracements to a chart. In MetaStock, bring up a chart you want to analyze. With your cursor, you can simply click on the Fibonacci retracements icon or use the Insert menu and select Fibonacci, then choose one of our four studies. It will then apply the study to your chart. The defaults of 23.6, 38.2, 50, and 61.8% will automatically appea...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. POINT & FIGURE CHARTING ONLINE Editor, Regarding the letter in the January 2002 issue regarding point and figure software, a good site for P&F is PFscan.com. It's a UK company but their software can also be used for the US market. I hope this is of some help. BILL THORNE, via e-mail...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities To Maximize Profits, by Stephen W. Bigalow ? Core Trading Tactics, by Oliver Velez ? Mutual Fund Investor's Guide 2002, by Kirk Kazanjian ? Trading Options Visually: What You Must Know To Trade Options On Futures, by Paul Forchione ? How To Choose Stocks That Will Outperform The Market 2002, by Grace K. Morris ? Online Trader's Dictionary, by R.J. Shook ? Web Rules: How The Internet Is Changing The Way Consumers Make Choices, by Tom Murphy ? Advanced Modeling In Finance Usin...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. CALCULATING MOVING AVERAGES Editor, Is there a program on the market that calculates moving averages with different filters and nothing else? JOHAN RISBERG, via e-mail The moving average itself is a low-pass filter. There are several programs that calculate moving averages with filters, including MESA, VIDYA, KAMA, MAMA, Gaussian filters, and Butterworth filters, among others.--Editor...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered: Investment Wisdom That Stands The Test Of Time by Anthony M. Gallea ? The Busy Woman's Guide To Financial Freedom by Vickie L. Bajtelsmit, JD, PhD ? Gann: Simplified by Clif Droke ? Maestro: Greenspan's Fed And The American Boom by Bob Woodward ? The New Fibonacci Trader: Tools & Strategies For Trading Success by Robert Fischer and Dr. Jens Fischer ? The Trading Athlete: Winning The Mental Game of Online Trading by Shane Murphy, PhD, and Doug Hirschhorn, MS ? Trading Strategies For ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selection of Traders' Tips includes TradeStation, MetaStock, eSignal, AIQ, Neuroshell, Wealth-Lab, TradingSolution, Investor/RT, Neoticker, and WaveWise code for M.H. Pee's trend intensity index (TII); and Neuroshell Trader and Wealth-Lab code for the walk-forward technique described in Dennis Meyer's article ""Trading IBM Intraday.""...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Editor, I recently subscribed to S&C magazine and find it the best in the field. I believe it was in the March 2002 S&C that you covered trading systems with a huge list of different systems. My question to you is this: I have spent years on personal trading systems that I developed from scratch. I need software or a way to test them. Can you help? Vladimir Stepnov's article "Equity Curve Analysis" was great in the April 2002 S&C, but I need to go deeper......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK: DIVERGENCE FORMULAS I've seen many divergence formulas written for MetaStock, but in my opinion, none of them work well. Here, I'll present a divergence formula for MetaStock using RSI(14) and the close. I'll also introduce another divergence formula, which I call double successive divergence (DSD)....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Editor, This technical analysis business seems intriguing. Is the art and science of it developed and practiced by many? How long has TA been practiced? MARK MCCLATCHEY, via e-mail I credit Charles Dow with developing the first technical analysis system, which some call Dow theory. Dow was the cofounder of Dow Jones & Company and the first editor of The Wall Street Journal in 1889. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published in 1896. Intellectual debate about the validity of technical versus fundamental analysis has gone on for more than a hundred years. From a pra...
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? The Options Workbook, second edition ? The ART of Risk Management: Alternative Risk Transfer, Capital Structure, And The Coverage Of Insurance And Capital Markets ? Bull's Eye Trading: A Trading Champion's Guide To Pinpointing Tops & Bottoms In Any Market ? CNBC Guide To Money & Markets: Everything You Need To Know About Your Finances And Investments ? The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices ? The Investing Bible ? Single Stock Futures: The Complete Guide...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books You can blunder around the Internet all you want for information, but for focused instruction on trading technique, the best information can still be found in paper pages. Here is just a sampling of all that is available out there in the way of books for traders and investors. No doubt, what the Internet is good for is browsing and searching. Using the Internet, you can quickly locate just about any book on trading these days through websites such as those of book resellers Ino.com (http://store.ino.com), Trader's Press (www.traderspressbookstore.com), and Trader's Library (www.traders...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips TRADESTATION: RELATIVE VIGOR INDEX John Ehlers's article "Relative Vigor Index (RVI)" in this issue includes a version of EasyLanguage code for the indicator. That version includes hardcoded implementations of a symmetrically weighted moving average in three places, and also a hardcoded implementation of two summations. We provide an alternative version below that replaces these hardcoded implementations with function calls. This version produces identical results, except for minor initialization differences. The SWMA, also known as a triangular moving average, can be convenie...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BALANCE OF MARKET POWER Editor, In "Balance Of Market Power" (S&C, August 2001), author Igor Livshin constructs an oscillator based on three types of rewards. But I think it lacks one more type of reward: today's open minus yesterday's close; that is, overnight action on digesting news by market participants. Without this, the oscillator may interpret the situation incorrectly. Suppose the Nasdaq opened down with a gap of 100 points, then rallied from the open 50 points, and closed at the high of the day. Say the situation repeated five days in a row. Calculating the oscillator's value base...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? Bollinger On Bollinger Bands by John Bollinger ? Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee with W.H.C. Bassetti ? Bear Market Game Plan: Strategies For Success In Choppy Markets by Ross Jardine ? Exchange Traded Funds And EMini Stock Index Futures by David Lerman ? Investing For Cowards: Proven Stock Strategies For Anyone Afraid Of The Market by Fred Siegel ? Profiting In Bull Or Bear Markets by George Dagnino, Ph.D. ? Conquering Investment Risk In The Wall Street Garden Of Eden by Marvin M. Cohen, Ph.D....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. NEUROSHELL TRADER: INSTANTANEOUS TRENDLINE The instantaneous trendline described by John Ehlers in his article in this issue can be easily implemented in NeuroShell Trader by using NeuroShell Trader's ability to call external code segments written in traditional languages such as Basic, C, C++, and Pascal. We've created the Ehlers instantaneous trendline in a chart (Figure 1) and you can download a compiled, working version from the NeuroShell Trader free technical support website. After installing the custom indicator, you can insert it in new char...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATOR FOR AGRICOMMODITIES Editor, Can you help me determine the right indicator to use on the CBOT corn, beans, meal, and wheat markets? - MOHAMED ELSHAMY, via e-mail There really is no "right" indicator to use on the grain markets. However, grains are seasonal, and we have published articles discussing strategies for trading seasonals. Try using the search engine at our website, Traders.com, to search for articles on seasonals. You could also try visiting the Chicago Board of Trade's website at CBOT.com for ideas on this topic.--Editor...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRADESTATION: DEVELOPING HOT ZONES Massimiliano Scorpio's article "Developing Hot Zones" in this issue addresses a technique for producing statistical reports on the predictive nature of the key reversal pattern. As the author makes clear, this particular pattern is only one of many possible patterns for study. The author's goal is to show the reader a process for building statistical reports on any pattern that might be of interest. These statistical reports are the product of the MSOpenClosePct indicator. This indicator is the focus of the article...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY Editor, The October 2002 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES finally reached me here in New Zealand. Congratulations on the 20th year of publishing S&C. I remember meeting STOCKS & COMMODITIES publisher Jack Hutson at a seminar in Toronto, Canada. He was telling me about this exciting idea he had about publishing a new magazine that would feature new ideas in technical analysis of all markets. He asked me if I would write some articles for the magazine. I told him I liked his idea and would be glad to help. That was 20 years ago. Ja...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Various books on trading....
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. ZigZag Validity code in: TradeStation, Wealth-Lab, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, Investor/RT, and Wave Wi$e. Center of gravity code in: eSIGNAL, Wealth-Lab, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, AIQ, TechniFilter Plus, SmarTrader, and Wave Wi$e. RSI system code in: Wealth-Lab, NeuroShell Trader, NeoTicker, Investor/RT, TradingSolutions, and Wave Wi$e....
Books For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders Big Trends In Trading: Strategies To Master Major Market Moves (253 pages, $39.95 hardcover, 2002, ISBN 0471412694), by Price Headley, published by John Wiley & Sons. If you're the kind of savvy trader or investor who aggressively seeks profits in bull and bear markets, this book is for you. You'll learn the secret to success in any market by utilizing a trading plan that identifies prevailing conditions and then seeks situations with the highest reward-to-risk ratios. This book explores indicators that will help you gauge investor sentiment and guide you through specific ...
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Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Letters include comments and updates on the Trend Intensity Index, TRIX, the A/D Line, Elliott Waves and the center of gravity oscillator....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRADESTATION: Stop-and-reverse In his article "Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse" in the Working Money section of this issue, Rudy Teseo appears to have based his discussion and illustration on the version of parabolic SAR included in SuperCharts, one of our legacy products. Our current software, TradeStation 6, includes a more powerful multiple-outputs version of the parabolicSAR function, as well as several wrapper functions, indicators, and trading strategies based on this underlying function....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRADERS' TIPS Editor, Thanks for putting out a great product that brings us up to date on a lot of trading issues. The articles are well written and helpful. I would like to see you include TC2000 in your Traders' Tips column so TC2000 users can more easily implement some of the strategies presented. UDAY MEHTA, via e-mail We've checked with Worden Brothers, developer of TC2000. Custom programming is not one of the program's major features.--Editor...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? Dave Landry On Swing Trading, by Dave Landry ? Dave Landry On Swing Trading, by Dave Landry ? Fixed Income Securities, by Frank J. Fabozzi ? Girl, Get Your Money Straight: A Sister's Guide To Healing Your Bank Account And Funding Your Dreams, by Glinda Bridgforth ? Make Your Kid A Millionaire (302 pages, by Kevin McKinley ? Moving Averages Simplified, by Clif Droke ? Options On Futures, New Trading Strategies, by John F. Summa and Jonathan W. Lubow...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's tips include: Viktor Likhovidov's CandleCode trading systems, described in "Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading" implemented in NeuroShell Trader, Investor/RT, Wealth-Lab, TechniFilter Plus, and TradingSolutions; and John Ehler's MESA adaptive moving average (MAMA) code in Byte Into The Market, NeuroShell Trader, Investor/RT, and TradingSolutions....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C VERTICAL HORIZONTAL FILTER Editor, First of all, congratulations on your magazine. I have read the article "Vertical Horizontal Filter" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, July 2000) and I would like to know how I can apply it in MetaStock. I used it in a spreadsheet in Excel and it is really fantastic! IGNACIO HUERTA SÁNCHEZ, Madrid, Spain Unfortunately, the VHF wasn't a Traders' Tips topic for that issue, so check with Equis International at Equis.com for MetaStock code.--Editor...
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Advisory Services Advisory services are all over the place, as this listing shows. You have plenty of choice and plenty of price points to consider. One key factor is whether the outfit you're checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Though it doesn't weed out the foolish advice, the act of registration puts the person or persons under the government's scrutiny. In this listing, filled in by the companies themselves, you'll find those who have RIA and/or CTA certifications as well as those who are nonregistered a...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips In "Money Management Indicators" Michael Bryant describes the average trade P/L indicator. Traders' Tips gives the code for this indicator in: TradeStation EasyLanguage, NeuroShell Trader, Wealth-Lab, and WaveWi$e. Code is also supplied for M.H. Pee's Trend Detection Index in TradeStation EasyLanguage....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C BALANCE OF MARKET POWER Editor, I read with interest the August 2001 article by Igor Livshin on the balance of market power (BMP) and decided to implement the indicator. After some observation, it turns out that all the formulas for this indicator turn out to be, after making all the summations: BMP := (C-O)/(H-L) That's it -- the balance of market power is simply the difference between the close and the open, divided by the daily range. What is most curious, because it was not apparent during my reading of the philosophy behind the indicator, is that BMP is the same for the...
Traders' Resource: Consultants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Consultants Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have. A quick perusal of our listing this issue shows that they have been called in to consult on everything from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe. The rules for checking out consultants are simple: check references, check references, and (did you guess?) check references. Nothing can be more vague than a consultant's initial proposal, but nothing is clearer than a client's opinion on the success of a consultant's engagement. Consultants without satisfied clients are...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NEUROSHELL TRADER Hans Uhlig's nearest neighbor prediction (NNP) trading system presented in his article in this issue works by finding near neighbors of the reference pattern, and then averaging the next moves of the neighbors to get an estimate of the next move of the reference pattern. In the article, under the heading "Refinements," Uhlig outlines a method of improving the performance, wherein each neighbor is weighted in proportion to its distance. A further refinement he describes would be to apply different weights to individual elements of the pattern. Here's how to implement the NNP...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CANDLECODES AND BOLLINGER BANDS Editor, I liked very much Viktor Likhovidov's use of Bollinger Bands on an indicator in "Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, September 2001). Figure 5 on page 26 nicely demonstrates why this technique is so powerful. (Though I am leery -- as I always am of optimization -- of the optimized parameters used later in the article.) As Likhovidov astutely observes, fixed indicator levels rarely serve well. The markets evolve, and that evolution is portrayed in indicator action; this year, one set of levels serves well, while th...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Hardware Hardware Hardware choices these days often boil down to getting the fastest processor and the most memory you can afford, to-gether with a cable connection or an-other high-bandwidth connection for quotes. Dual processors aren't too much for some of the software that's available for traders. The new LCD screens are much easier on the eyes, so pay up for those. That said, the vendors listed here can supply you with some tweaks, such as customized trading setups and multiple-monitor setups. Regarding multiple monitors, you'll probably want to have Windows 98 or late...
Traders' Resource: Exchanges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With the explosion of exchanges around the world and the increasing poaching of products between exchanges, traders should be aware of all the places where trading opportunities occur. No longer bound by national borders or even physical locations, exchanges can be no more than a box in the corner of an office. Differentiation comes in the form of product, volume, speed, pricing, and investor protections. Look for an exchange with extensive trade documentation so that disputes can be resolved quickly and with quick reference to events. Since more and more alternatives are rapidly becoming ava...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CLARIFICATION, NOT CRITICISM Editor, I was shocked to learn that an S&C reader interpreted my letter to the editor in the February 2001 STOCKS & COMMODITIES ("Phasor Displays") as a criticism of John Ehlers. I have so many faults that I have a personal rule never to criticize any person. My letter was an appeal for help, not a criticism. Ehlers's articles show brilliance, but I'm frustrated because they go over my head. (Perhaps, as my wife reminds me, an idea goes in one of my ears and out the other -- with nothing to stop it.) If I say that I don't understand Einstein's writings (and I don...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...? TRADESTATION EASYLANGUAGE "Relative Performance Charting" by Phil Doyle in this issue presents a technique for comparing the rate of price change of two or more tradable instruments. The purpose is to help find the sectors with the best trading opportunities. Relative performance charting is a built-in feature in TradeStation Pro. After opening a standard linear-scale bar chart, enable Percent Change Charting via the Format Window dialog. This will change the chart to a Percent Change Chart. You can then add additional securities to the same chart for comparison purposes via the Insert Symb...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...? METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS In my article in this issue, "Coding Candlesticks (II)," I continue with a discussion of my method for quantitatively analyzing candlestick charts, a discussion I began in the November 1999 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES with my original article, "Coding Candlesticks." My approach is to assign values to each candlestick, so that candlestick charting will lend itself better to analysis with indicators, pattern recognition, and trading systems. Here is the code for the CandleWeight indicator I discuss in this month's article....
Traders' Resource: Online Trading Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Online Trading Services You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including trading, the financial markets, and technical analysis. Each month in STOCKS & COMMODITIES' Traders' Resource, we present a listing for different categories of products and services related to trading, all to aid our readers in their pursuit of trading. This month, we focus on the topic of Online Trading Services. We contacted companies that offer services to traders over the Internet as well as financial website developers and asked them to fill out an online survey form...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...VOLUME INDICATORS Editor, It was with considerable interest that I recently read the interview with David Vomund in the October 1999 S&C. He brought to mind what I felt was a balanced view of market efficiency. He also whetted my appetite for volume indicators. I already use Marc Chaikin's money flow indicator in the Australian market, without a great deal of success, and I am interested in the volume accumulation percent indicator. However, as Vomund does not mention how this indicator is calculated, and I have no other references to it, I wonder if you can enlighten me? TREVOR T. BESTOW, vi...
Broadening Bottoms and Complex Bottoms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Novice Trader's Notebook: Broadening Bottoms and Complex Bottoms BROADENING BOTTOM The broadening bottom is virtually the same as the broadening top, except it is reversed. Like the broadening top, the broadening bottom forms a symmetrical triangle. Although the broadening top is a rare formation, the broadening bottom is even rarer. Figure 1 shows a typical broadening bottom with three successively lower lows and two successively higher highs that combine at the end of a downward move. This gives the impression of an erratic market, as the swings in both directions get wider each time. The ...
Traders' Resource: Publications
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Publications Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing? These days, financial information is put out in print, on TV, and over the Internet in various formats, but there's still nothing more readable, reliable, and researchable than a regularly published newsletter or magazine. This month in Traders' Resource, we present a listing of publications -- printed on paper, on the World Wide Web, or delivered straight to your e-mail inbox -- that may help you to improve your trading. As you can see, some publications...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's Traders' Tips contain TradeStation EasyLanguage, MetaStock for Windows, NeuroShell Trader, Trading Solution, Investor/RT, WealthLab, andTechnifilter Plus code for Christian Fries's elastic volume-weighted moving average (eVWMA), described in the article "Elastic Moving Averages." The formulas discussed by Gordon Gustafson in his article in this issue, "Which Volatility Measure?" are given for: MetaStock 6.52 or higher, NeuroShelll Trader, AIQ TradingExpert Pro, Trading Solutions , Technifilter Plus, Investor/RT, and WaveWi$e....
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C MARK D. COOK: SIMPLE WISDOM Editor, Your interview with Mark D. Cook in the March 2001 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES was excellent. It's refreshing to hear the views of a totally independent trader. Many so-called experts in the investment arena have some kind of hidden agenda. By far, Cook's greatest wisdom lies in his simplicity of approach: "Buy when everyone is selling and sell when everyone is buying." This solid investing principle would have warned you of a possible top at 5,000 in the Nasdaq (now about 2,000) and of a possible bottom on the Commodity Research Bureau ...
Traders' Resource: Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Brokerages Self-directed traders, as STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers usually are, have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting when it comes to brokerages. First, you have to find a brokerage that handles your tradable; full-service brokerages dealing with equities, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and cash goods are usually full-priced as well. A little scouting, however, will get you a brokerage targeted on your market of interest. After that, your first question these days might be, "How fast...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's tips include Tradestation EasyLanguage code for the 2001 Bonus Issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES article titled "Three-Line Break Reversal Signals""; EasyLanguage code for the Midas support and resistance indicator presented in "Volume- Weighted Average Price" by George Reyna in the May 2001 STOCKS & COMMODITIES; and the code for R.G. Boomer's variable-interval moving average (VIMA) as described in this issue, for EasyLanguage, Wealth-Lab, and TechniFilter Plus....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V. 19:7 (10-14): Letters To S&C Editor, I would like to know if there is any way to learn to read charts without indicators or systems -- just the open, close, high, low, and volume. and volume. RICARDO AIVADO, via e-mail In addition to the above letter, this month's column answers questions on auditing backtested returns, code for ProTA Gold, S&C special subscriber area, and more on spot/cash commodity schemes....
Traders' Resource: Books
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...You can blunder around the Internet all you want, but for focused instruction on trading technique, the best information can still be found in paper pages. Here is just a sampling of all that is available out there in the way of books for traders and investors, but one thing the Internet is good for is browsing. You can quickly locate just about any book on trading over the Internet these days from Websites such as that of book reseller Trader's Press (www.traderspressbookstore.com). Also, both Amazon and Barnes and Noble will suggest related books once you home in on a subject. They can also ...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' RESOURCE: BOOKS Editor, I am interested in trading actively (daytrading) as my career. Toward this goal, I have read several books -- Beating The Dow by Michael B. O'Higgins; Your Guide To Trading On The Web by David L. Brown and Kassandra Bentley; Fire Your Broker And Trade Online by Jonathan R. Aspatore; How To Get Started ...
Traders' Tips
Traders' Resource: Trading Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading Systems Trading systems can help take the subjective interpretation out of trading decisions by providing automated buy and sell signals based on preprogrammed rules. Trading systems are usually computer programs but can also be a realtime service, issuing signals or a set of published rules to follow. They can rely on one or more trading disciplines, such as artificial intelligence, Gann analysis, astrology, indicator sets, or custom rules. This month in Traders' Resource, we present a list of publicly available trading systems, most of which are sold as software packages for persona...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PHASOR DISPLAYS Editor, I don't like to be negative, but I must admit that John Ehlers's article in the December 2000 S&C, "Phasor Displays," as usual, frustrates me. On a scale of one to 10, I'd grade him, brilliance: 9, clarity of exposition: 1. For example, a small puzzlement: In Figure 7, in quadrant II there's a note, "point 28." Isn't this point 23? There's a point 28 near the top of the chart, in quadrant I. In quadrant I, there's a note, "counter clockwise segment." Isn't the swing bar 21, 22, 23?41 a clockwise swing? It could have been helpful to include a chart showing typical trend...
Traders Tips
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips TRADESTATION: FINDING KEY REVERSALS Massimiliano Scorpio's article "Finding Key Reversals" in this issue includes the EasyLanguage code for a key reversal?based strategy (a trading system) that also performs some basic statistical analysis to determine how often such price patterns occur and how often they lead to profitable moves. The strategy calls a custom function for identifying key reversals, and the EasyLanguage code for that is also included in the article. While the ideas presented are sound, there are some issues with the code that may make it difficult to use as-is,...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C TREND DETECTION INDEX Editor, I always look forward to receiving STOCKS & COMMODITIES and seeing what new indicators may be presented. The October 2001 S&C article by M.H. Pee on the trend detection index (TDI) was intriguing and very well written. The TDI seems to have a lot of promise. I would very much like to compare it head-to-head with other trend measures, such as the ADXR, vertical horizontal filter, polarized fractal efficiency, Chande momentum oscillator, and so on. That is half the fun -- to see how a new technique compares with established ones! Thus, I was most di...
Traders' Resource: Mutual Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Mutual Funds When investing with mutual funds, the issue is cost of all kinds. Sales charges, turnover costs (trading costs), tax costs, management fees, marketing costs, and cash-holding costs all eat into your returns; then the compounding effect magnifies your losses. It's critical to consider all of these costs when approaching mutual fund investing and do the appropriate research to make sure you are making the most of your investment. A family of low-cost, no-load funds that allows costless switching between funds can be very beneficial in the long run. After you've ...
Traders' Resource: Software
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Software In this day and age, the choice of software with which to analyze and interact with the markets is rich, with different packages offering different capabilities, methodologies, and price ranges to fit every style of trader. Are you interested in a basic software package, but also find that you need to write custom indicator formulas? Are you interested in ranking, screening, and producing a list of candidates based on your favorite technical indicators? Or are you a daytrader, a position trader, or a professional trader? Are you looking for software to run from you...
Readers' Choice Awards 2001
Traders' Resource - Data Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource -- Data Services If you thought brokerages have had to face a new world, think of data services. The advent of the Internet has made available many pieces of software with dedicated access to securities data maintained by the software vendor. This gives you, the buyer, fewer choices when you buy the software, and it is now a key issue to sort out when investigating software, particularly web-based software. On the one hand, all the data maintenance hassles are taken out of your hands; on the other, the vendor may be too casual for your tastes in how they maintain the data you...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by article authors from this issue and by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. This month's code includes: Igor Livshin's balance of market power (BMP) indicator in TradeStation EasyLanguage, MetaStock for Windows, NeuroShell Trader, Investor R/T, TradingSolutions, Wealth-Lab, Wave Wi$e, Byte Into The Market, and SmarTrader; John Momsen's crude oil trade in TradeStation EasyLanguage, MetaStock for Windows, Neuroshell Trader, and ...
Novice Trader's Notebook - The Double Top
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Novice Trader's Notebook -- The Double Top Consider a security or a futures contract that is in an uptrend. The price reaches a point at which all of the buyers' demand is met, and the sellers, whether traders taking profits or aggressive short sellers, enter the market and overwhelm the buyers. That price level will become known as major resistance, as the level establishes a point at which the supply is significantly greater than the demand (point A)....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C EISENSTADT INTERVIEW Editor, Thank you for the wonderful, clear-structured interview with Samuel Eisenstadt of Value Line in the May 2001 issue. Above all, two important keynotes stuck in my mind. These keynotes are excellent guidelines for any rational work in the field of technical or fundamental analysis of the markets. First, Eisenstadt stressed that only exact, discernable, and known information must be rationally arranged and operated on to predict trustable guidelines of future market behavior. Second, he emphasized the importance of intersubjectivity, an important fac...
Traders' Resource: Courses And Seminars
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Courses And Seminars They say that the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn. This is true in trading. If you're not fully prepared when you go to trade, you could be the one that the smart money profits from. Education is crucial in trading. If you don't step up to the line with the right tools and know-how to trade the markets, you might as well be gambling -- with the odds on the house's side. But help is available, in the way of courses, seminars, classes, manuals, books, tutorials, even mentors. Readers often ask us how they can further their knowledge and skills in trading ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...? TRADESTATION EASYLANGUAGE Here is some EasyLanguage code I developed to compute the filters presented in my article in this issue, ""Nonlinear Ehlers Filters."" First is the code for the nonlinear Ehlers filter...continuded...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PRAISE FOR EHLERS Editor, I have subscribed to STOCKS & COMMODITIES for several years. It is no exaggeration to say I learn new and useful things from every issue. Many of the things I've learned are included in the consistently profitable trading method I have coalesced. I first learned about the work of John Ehlers from his articles in S&C. Over the past year or so, I have studied and experimented with the various modifications and applications of the Hilbert transform/dominant cycle period as put forth by Ehlers. I have become as big a fan of him as I am of S&C. ...continuded...
V. 19:15: Books For Traders
Traders' Resource: Advisory Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Advisory Services Advisory services are all over the place, as this listing shows. You have plenty of choice and plenty of price points to consider. One key factor is whether the outfit you're checking out is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) or a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Though it doesn't weed out the foolish advice, the act of registration puts the person or persons under the government's scrutiny. In this listing, filled in by the companies themselves, you'll find RIAs and/or CTAs in the first part, with nonregistered advisories and other advisory...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selection of Traders' Tips include Omega Research Easy Language code for the Hilbert period, March issue; MetaStock, TradingSolutions' EasyLanguage, NeuroShell Trader, Byte Into The Marktet, and Technifilter Plus code for ""Squelch Those Whipsaws""; and WaveWi$e formulas to compute and chart fixed-length cycles....
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C The editors of S&C received, among others, letters discussing daytrading margin changes, planetary influences on the stock market, and John Ehler's article about adaptive trends and oscillators....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's Traders' Tips have MetaStock formula for ""Ichimoku Charts"" by Ken Muranaka, ""Playing the Breakouts: Gary B. Smith Of TheStreet.com"", and ""Normalization"" by Brian Bell. AIQ TradingExpert code is supplied for ""Playing the Breakouts: Gary B. Smith Of TheStreet.com"", and ""Normalization"" by Brian Bell. Omega Research code is given for ""Ichimoku Charts"" by Ken Muranaka; NeuroShell Trader code for ""Enhanced Fund Switching"" by Jack Singer, ""Playing the Breakouts: Gary B. Smith Of TheStreet.com"", Ichimoku charting, and ""Normalization"" by Brian Bell; Byte ...
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters Letters this month include questions on end point moving average, trading psychology, strength and resistance, a buyer beware, price patters, and testing and optimization....
Traders' Resource: Consultants
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V.18:10 (112-113): Traders' Resource: Consultants Consultants consult on just about every conceivable worry traders have. A quick perusal of our listing this issue shows that they have been called in to consult on everything from tax advice to weather reporting. Can all this help you? Maybe. The rules for checking out consultants are simple: check references, check references, and (did you guess?) check references. Nothing can be more vague than a consultant's initial proposal, but nothing is clearer than a client's opinion on the success of a consultant's engagement. Consultants without sati...
Interview: John C. Bogle Of Vanguard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Interview: John C.Bogle Of Vanguard John C.Bogle, president of Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, founded The Vanguard Group, Inc., in 1974, after having been associated with a predecessor company since 1951. The Vanguard Group is one of the largest mutual fund organizations in the world, with more than 100 mutual funds with current assets totaling more than $550 billion. In 1975, Bogle founded Vanguard 500 Index Fund, currently the largest fund in the group. It was the first index mutual fund. Bogle is the author of two best-selling investment books. His third book, John Bogle On Inve...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented: EasyLanguage code for Hilbert Channel Breakout indicator, John Ehler's revised version of the Hilbert indicator for EasyLanguage code, EasyLanguage code for Brian Bell's article ""Normalization"", NeuroShell DayTrader Professional applied to ""Optimization With Hilbert Indicators"", and how to computer fixed length cycles using Wave Wi$e....
Traders' Resource: Hardware
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Hardware Hardware choices these days often boil down to getting the fastest processor and the most memory you can afford, together with a cable connection or another high-bandwidth connection for quotes. Dual processors aren't too much for some of the software that's available for traders. The new LCD screens are much easier on the eyes, so pay up for those. That said, the vendors listed here can supply you with some tweaks, such as customized trading setups and multiple-monitor setups. Regarding multiple monitors, you'll probably want to have Windows 98 or later installed...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Readers sent in letters discussing on-balance volume, stochastic pop enhancement using RSI, the put/call oscillator, the Chaikin Money Flow, and adaptive trends and oscillators....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders.com. METASTOCK Here is the code for use in MetaStock 6.52 or higher for the instantaneous trendline and sinewave indicator as described by John Ehlers in ""Adaptive Trends And Oscillators"" in this issue. To implement them, the following formulas must be created in MetaStock's Indicator Builder...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Editor, The letter to the Editor in your February 2000 issue titled ""Candlesticks Formulas"" and your response hit the nail on the head of what your magazine is all about - giving your readers trading ...
Traders' Resources: Exchanges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Exchanges With the explosion of exchanges around the world and the increasing poaching of products between exchanges, traders should be aware of all the places where trading opportunities occur. No longer bound by national borders or even physical locations, exchanges can be no more than a box in the corner of an office. Differentiation comes in the form of product, volume, speed, pricing, and investor protections. Look for an exchange with extensive trade documentation so that disputes can be resolved quickly and with quick reference to events. Since more and more alternatives are rapidly...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders'Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders.com. OMEGA RESEARCH EASYLANGUAGE In this month's EasyLanguage tip, I'll focus on the article ""Pivot Points"" by Jayanthi Gopalakrishan, which was published in the February 2000 STOCKS &COMMODITIES. Here, I'll present an EasyLanguage function and two EasyLanguage indicators to calculate and plot the varia...
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@traders.com. Letter-writers must include their full name and address for verification. Let...
Interview: Hersh Shefrin On Behavioral Finance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Biases Of Traders Hersh Shefrin On Behavioral Finance Technicians became interested in behavioral finance because it could explain behaviors that previously they had tried to capture in the forms of charts, indicators, and trading rules. Academic studies rigorously defined anecdotal phenomena that technicians had tried to capture using empirical tools, with varying success. In addition, it helped that the behavioralists challenged the efficient markets hypothesis anathema to technicians. Hersh Shefrin was in the field of behaviorial finance from the beginning when he and economist Richar...
Traders' Resource:Online Trading Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Online Trading Services Each month in STOCKS & COMMODITIES' Traders' Resource, we present a listing for different categories of products and services related to trading, all to aid our readers in their pursuit of trading. This time, we focus on the topic of Online Trading Services. You can find a wealth of information on the Internet for nearly any subject imaginable, including trading, the financial markets, and technical analysis. We've compiled a list of Internet sites that focus on a variety of investment and trading topics. We contacted online trading services and fi...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders .com. OMEGA RESEARCH EASYLANGUAGE In Traders' Tips this month, we take a look at the trend- following system and its accompanying indicators as presented in ""How To Get In With The Trend And Out At The End"" by Bryan Strain in this issue. A set of three indicators are used, and each contribut...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less)about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS &COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@traders.com. Letter-writers must include their full name and address for ver...
Traders' Resource: Publications
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource Publications Where can traders turn for market insight, trade recommendations, and education about trading and investing? These days, financial information is put out in print, on TV, and over the Internet in various formats, but there's still nothing more readable, reliable, and researchable than a regularly published newsletter or magazine. This month in Traders' Resource, we present a listing of publications - printed on paper, on the World Wide Web, or delivered straight to your E-mail inbox - that may help you to improve your trading. As you can see, some publications ...
Traders' Resource: Brokerages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Brokerages Hardly anything has changed as much in the last year as the world of brokerages has. No longer is the best choice necessarily your buddy downtown, especially if you make your own decisions about where to put your money. Self-directed traders, as STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers usually are, have more choices than ever in their ongoing search for speed, pricing efficiency, and good accounting. First, you have to find a brokerage that handles your tradable; full-service brokerages dealing with equities, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and cash goods are usually ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our Website at http://www.Traders.com. BIOCOMP In ""Bollinger Band Targets"" by Benjamin Cotton in this issue, the future price that is required to cross a Bollinger Band is calculated. A similar indicator available within Biocomp Profit, WinPctB, calculates price relative to a Bollinger Band. WinPctB is the percentage distance from +/-2 s...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@Traders.com. Letter-writers must include their full name and address for verification. Let...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our Website at http:://www.Traders .com. TRADESTATION/SUPERCHARTS In the November 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, my article ""Coding Candlesticks"" presented a quantitative approach to interpreting candlesticks with code provided in MetaStock format. After the issue came out, many STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers asked about a version of the code i...
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CANDLESTICK CODE IN EASYLANGUAGE Editor, After the November 1999 issue of STOCKS &COMMODITIES came out with my article, ""Coding Candlesticks,"" and the accompanying sidebar, ""Candle code construction with MetaStock,"" many traders asked about the TradeStation/SuperCharts variant of the candlestick code. Well, trader Valeriy Lazarenko has developed the EasyLanguage code for indicators discussed in my article. VIKTOR LIKHOVIDOV See Traders' Tips in this issue for this EasyLanguage code. It will also be posted at our own Website at http://www.traders.com/Documentation/FEEDbk_docs/TradersTips...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, include MetaStock and C++ code for ""Refining The Hilbert Indicator"" by John Ehlers and ""Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators"" by Roger Darley; Byte Into The Market's system for ""Chaikin's Money Flow""; and an example of neural networks using NeuroShell Daytrader Professional software....
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters December letters include comments from Arthur Merrill, and a clarification of Alex Saitta's article ""Commodities And The Inflation Rate.""...
Traders ' Resource:Mutual Funds
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Some of the tips here were contributed by the authors of articles in this issue. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our Website at http://www.traders.com/S&C_homepg.html. For easiest access to the Traders' Tips listings, use the search engine at www.traders.com by typing 'Traders Tips' into the search field box.. OMEGA RESEARCH EASYLANGUAGE In 'Catching DJIA Breakouts' in...
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@Traders.com. Letter-writers must include their full name and address for ...
Traders' Resource:Data Services
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource Data Services If you thought brokerages have had to face a new world, think of data services. The advent of the Internet has made available many pieces of software with dedicated access to securities data maintained by the software vendor. This gives you, the buyer, fewer choices when you buy the software, and it is now a key issue to sort out when investigating software, particularly Web-based software. On the one hand, all the data maintenance hassles are taken out of your hands; on the other, the vendor may be too casual for your tastes in how they maintain the data you...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders.com. METASTOCK MetaStock's Expert Advisor, in version 6.5 or higher, is a collection of powerful tools that keep you informed of the current technical state of a chart. When attached to a chart, an Expert keeps you informed of the state of these conditions by various methods:...
Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@traders.com. Letter-writers must include their full name and address for verification. Let...
Traders' Resource: Courses and Seminars
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Courses And Seminars They say that the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn. This is true in trading. If you're not fully prepared when you go to trade, you'll be the one that the smart money profits from. Education is crucial in trading. If you're not fully prepared to trade the markets, you might as well be gambling -- with the odds on the house's side. But help is available. Readers often ask us how they can further their knowledge and skills in trading (that is, in addition to reading STOCKS & COMMODITIES!). Some readers write us asking for certification programs, some wan...
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Stocks &Commodities V.18:15:Websites for Traders
Stocks &Commodities V.18:14:Books for Traders
Product Review:RadarScreen
V.17:9: LETTERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CHARTS & GRAPHICS Editor, I read and enjoy your magazine each month with great enthusiasm. I have learned a lot from it and will continue to do so. There is nothing else that compares. My complaint is that the size of the charts is way too small. This is technical information with a lot of detail. Can you make the charts and text larger? I'll bet you'll get many compliments. JOE GNANDT, via E-mail Our intent is certainly to make Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, The Traders' Magazine, as easy to read as possible. At the same time we want to make sure that each magazine issue has a ...
TRADER'S TIPS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...?TRADESTATION/SUPERCHARTS This month in Traders' Tips we take a look at stochastics as defined in this issue's article "Stochastics" by Stuart Evens. The calculation of the %K line, as defined in the article, is identical to the way in which it is calculated in EasyLanguage. The %D line, though, differs slightly. With this in mind, I have presented the calculation for the %K and %D, using both the regular and slow calculations. In addition, I have included two EasyLanguage indicators, one that plots the regular version of the pair and one that plots the slow version of the pair....
Websites For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IQC.COM - www.iqc.com IQC.com is a data source for the technically oriented investor. IQC Corp. offers free stock charts, quotes, stock scans, and market information. The Website is straightforwardly laid out and easy to navigate. The homepage gives you today's index data and a five-minute chart of the DJIA, with news headlines below. View a market summary with charts of indices, or enter a symbol to display a quote or chart. In keeping with IQC's technical focus, two types of free quotations are available: Detailed quotes include a complement of technical indicators, while basic charts are q...
V.17:10:LETTERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IDENTIFYING SUPPORT & RESISTANCE LEVELS Editor, Bravo! I found Ned Gandevani's article in the July 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, "Identifying Crucial Support And Resistance Levels," the true remedy for my quest. As an S&P day trader, I've been in search of a solid method to identify support and resistance levels in the S&P market. I couldn't agree more with Gandevani's statement that none of the old and linear techniques work in the S&P market. The author's simple and creative concept offers a great practical tool in locating crucial support/ resistance levels or common numbers. Great choice and...
TRADER'S TIPS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...?TRADESTATION/SUPERCHARTS This month in Traders' Tips we look at the MACD of the relative strength (MACD RS) between two instruments. This indicator is fairly easy to recreate in TradeStation's PowerEditor using the built-in MACD function. In the EasyLanguage for this indicator, relative strength is calculated first. Once the relative strength value has been obtained, then the MACD function is used to calculate the differential line for Plot1. Both the XAverage and the MACD functions are used in Plot2 for the calculation of the signal line. The suggested format for this indicator is specifie...
Website For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...QUOTE.COM'S FAST QUOTE AND LIVE! CHARTS - http://fast.quote.com Quote.com offers a range of free and paid charting services at its site. In the March 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, we reviewed QCharts, the Internet-delivered real-time quote and charting service from Quote.com. But Quote.com offers packages for every level of trader, from free to $99.95 a month for the real-time QCharts service. In the free area, you can plot quick charts or live, streaming charts....
Stocks & Commodities V17:11: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Regression for forecasting, exit strategies and getting started as a trader are some of the letter topics in this month's issue....
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Traders' Tips
V.17:5: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mai...
V.17:3: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mai...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help read-ers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.traders.com. TRADESTATION / SUPERCHARTS In this issue's interview with Robert Zellner, Zellner describes a stochastic oscillator model with a fixed-bar exit. To create an indicator and system based on this model in TradeStation, we first need to create a function to calculate the %K and %D stocha...
Traders' Notes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For those traders who want a clear and brief explanation of various concepts often touched on in technical analysis and trading, we offer Traders' Notes. INTERMARKET ANALYSIS Intermarket analysis, one of the pillars of technical analysis, is the comparison of the price action of one market to another. This comparison can be as simple as placing two different charts side by side. The most widely endorsed use of intermarket analysis hails from the Dow theory, whereby the movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is compared with the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA). The theory...
V.17:6:LETTERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ELECTRONIC DAYTRADING Editor, As a long-time subscriber to your magazine, I would like to ask why I haven't seen any articles on electronic or online trading. That being the case, could you recommend some books or other sources of information so that I can get a better understanding of this new means of trading stocks? ROBERT CAMPBELL, via E-mail In the May 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, we presented an interview with David Nassar, author of How To Get Started In Electronic Day Trading. The other recent article was Mark Conway's "Daytrading Stocks" in our August 1998 issue.--Editor BOLLINGER BANDS...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...?METASTOCK In the May 1998 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, a Traders' Tip provided MetaStock formulas for calculating support and resistance levels and the WRO and WSO support and resistance oscillators. The Traders' Tip was based on my article, "Automated Support And Resistance," also in that issue. Since then, I've received many E-mail messages from STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers about it. ?METASTOCK "How Smooth Is Your Data Smoother?" by Patrick E. Lafferty in this issue reviews different types of moving averages, including a sine-weighted moving average. The sine-weighted moving average can ...
V.17:7: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WYCKOFF METHOD USEFUL Editor, I recently finished reading your wonderful book, Charting The Stock Market: The Wyckoff Method, and am send-ing this letter to thank you for publishing it and for making it available at a very reasonable cost. Economy isn't everything, but in this arena, spending hundreds of dollars for books and products, replete with appeals to human greed and promises of ease of gain, is not uncommon. I also appreciate the fact that your book consistently states that this method offers no magic formula or indicator, but rather presents itself as an aid to navigation of the mark...
Traders' Notes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...? ELECTRONIC DAYTRADING Considering the increased interest in daytrading and our interview with David Nassar in the May 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, we thought that some clarification of common terms used in electronic direct access trading (EDAT) might be helpful. Archipelago: Also called Terra Nova, this electronic communications network (ECN) has the symbol of TNTO on the Level II screen. Bloomberg: An ECN with the symbol BTRD for B-Trade on the Level II screen....
Websites For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month, we begin a new section called Websites For Traders, describing Websites of possible interest to traders, technical analysts, and investors. Since this magazine's focus is technical analysis, we'll begin by discussing some Websites that offer charting. ASK RESEARCH www.askresearch.com Ask Research is a free service providing historical and real-time market data and charts. Select daily or intraday charts, and select your preferred settings for charts and indicator parameters. Indicators include on-balance volume (OBV), stochastics, Williams' %R, relative strength index, moving aver...
V.17:1: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mai...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.traders.com. TRADESTATION / SUPERCHARTS Our focus this month in Traders' Tips is on the cup-with-handle chart pattern that Rick Martinelli and Barry Hyman explored in the October 1998 STOCKS & COMMODITIES in "Cup-with-handle and the computerized approach." When all the criteria fall ...
V.17:2: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mai...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders.com. ✦ METASTOCK In "Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System," Jeffrey Owen Katz and Donna McCormick introduce a system based on stock cycles. In MetaStock 6.5 or higher, you can easily recreate this system. With MetaStock running, choose System Tester from the Tools menu, click on the...
Stocks & Commodities V17:12: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Four pages of letters to the editor relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Some of this month's letters are on the following topics: EXCEL CODE FOR TREND-FOLLOWING METHOD, COSINE-WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE, and THE VAP INDICATOR....
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V.17:8: LETTERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRACKING COMMODITY PORTFOLIO Editor, Is there a Website I can use to track my portfolio of commodities and options? Currently, I use Yahoo!, but it only covers the Chicago Board of Trade and doesn't provide quotes from NYMEX and other exchanges. Perhaps this topic could be the subject of a short article. TIM DENKER, via E-mail Thanks for writing. Last month, we launched a new section called "Websites for Traders," where we describe Websites with features that traders would find of interest. We'll keep an eye out for a Website that offers commodity and options portfolio tracking. In the meant...
NOVICE TRADER'S NOTEBOOK
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...? COMPLEX TOP The complex top is a broad classification of somewhat irregular patterns that do not fit into any one of the other pattern definitions. One complex top pattern, the complex head-and-shoulders top, is one of the more symmetrical formations that fall into this group. The complex variety of head-and-shoulders tops consists of different numbers and combinations of shoulders and heads, rather than just one head and one each of left and right shoulders, as in the standard variety. The complex head-and-shoulders top occurs less frequently than the standard variety but has the same, if n...
Website For Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...YAHOO! FINANCE http://quote.yahoo.com Yahoo!, a leading Website directory, also offers a site-within-a-site at http://quote.yahoo.com for quotes, charts, and financial information. Here, you can check delayed quotes, view basic charts, and access a range of news and fundamental data. You can perform some basic fundamental analysis on stocks and mutual funds. You can research equities by industries. You can even access data on foreign markets. A well-rounded site, it also provides information on consumer products such as mortgage loans and auto loans. Input a symbol and get a delayed, extended...
Stocks & Commodities V17:4: Letters
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V16:9: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IN THE TOP THREE Editor, Thanks for the great article on channel analysis by Editor Thom Hartle in your July 1998 issue. It's one of three of my favorite articles in seven years. Keep up the good work. I also like the artwork in your magazine. ROGER GARABEDIAN, Fresno, CA TRADING SYSTEMS Editor, Would you do a big favor for the trading community and bring some truth to the surface about the best trading systems out there? Please publish some serious scientific work. ARTHUR C. G. JOHANNPETER, via E-mail Opinions abound on the usefulness of one trading system over another. Trading syste...
Traders' Tips
V16:10: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NOTE FROM UKRAINE Editor, I am deeply impressed by the high quality of your journal. It was a great pleasure to read articles in different areas of technical analysis. VLADIMIR KHRAPKO Dept. of economics and management Simferopol State University, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine DAYTRADING STOCKS Editor, A few months back, I wrote you requesting articles on daytrading the financial markets. In the August 1998 issue, an article by Mark Conway, "Daytrading stocks," was published dealing with the new techniques of daytrading. Well, I'd like to congratulate you on such an informative and exce...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK In MetaStock for Windows, you can use the Expert Advisor to recreate the SHARK-32 signals on your charts as discussed in Walter Downs's article in this issue, "Combining statisti-cal and pattern analysis." First, choose Expert Advisor from the Tools menu in MetaStock 6.5. Next, choose New and enter the following formulas: Name: Click the Name tab and enter "Shark-32" in the name field. Trends: Click the Trends tab and enter the following formu-las in the bullish and bearish fields. Bullish: Mov(C,5,S)>Mov(C,20,S); Bearish: Mov(C,5,S)<Mov(C,20,S); Highlights: Click the Hig...
V16:11: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADING THE TREND Editor, In his September 1998 article ("Trading the trend"), Andrew Abraham states in the second paragraph that "the calculation uses a 21-period weighted average of the true range, giving higher weight to the true range of the most recent bar." What does he mean by the second part of that sentence? The idea of qualifying trends in this manner appeals greatly to me, even though it may take a considerable effort to keep track of all the mathematics on a daily basis for perhaps two contracts each of 40 commodities. Being able to use a volatility indicator in a charting progra...
Traders' Tips
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selections of Traders' Tips cover Mel Widner's article ""Automated support and resistance"", providing code for MetaStock for Windows, TradeStation/SuperCharts, TechniFilter Plus, and Wave Wi$e. And for you Fibonacci enthusiasts, there is a Traders' Tip that describes how SMARTrader can count from a user-supplied date to determine Fibonacci time zones and apply a graphic to the chart reflecting each zone....
Stocks & Commodities V.16:5: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C This month's letters discuss ""The New Gann Swing Chartist"" by Robert Krausz, provide an introductory reading list of technical analysis books, and author Jeffrey Owen Katz replies to a reader's inquiries into seeming misconceptions in his July 1997 article "Evaluating trading systems with statistics.""...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips For Perry Kaufman's article in the 1998 Bonus Issue, here is the adaptive moving average code in TradeStation/SuperCharts, MetaStock, TechniFilter Plus, Wave Wi$e, and SMARTrader....
V.16:3:Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C This month's letters discuss Tim Tillson's smoothing technique and the previous issue's interview with Andrew Lo....
V16:6: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C This month's letters discuss Robert Krausz's article on the Gann swing chartist, Elliott wave theory, the importance of backtesting, and John Sweeney's article on moving averages....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips To implement the strategies from Walter Down's article, ""Mutated variables, volatility and a new market paradigm,"" codes have been provided for TradeStation, MetaStock, WaveWi$e, TechniFilter Plus, SmarTrader, and Window on WallStreet....
Stocks & Commodities V16:7: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@Trad...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.traders.com. WINDOW ON WALLSTREET In ""A volatility trade in gold"" in this issue, David Landry describes several volatility formulas. These formulas can be implemented in Window On WallStreet Day Trader and Window On WallStreet Professional Investor. In Window On WallStreet, begin with any open chart on your s...
V.16:1: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Some of the letter received this month discuss Daniel Chesler's article in the September 1997 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, "Identifying significant chart formations," the McClellan oscillator, and an article by Dennis Meyers....
V.16:2: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C This month's letters discuss the CMT and CTA designations, the definition of the fair value index, hedge funds, and has a beginner's reading list on stocks and another on commodities....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Code for this month's Traders' Tips include the four indicators presented in Rudy Stefenel's article "Anchored momentum," recreated in MetaStock; Tim Tillson's article "Smoothing techniques for more accurate signals" in TradeStation, SuperCharts and Windows On WallStreet; Gerald Marisch's ""Breaking out of price channels,"" in Technifilter Plus, WAVE WI$E, and SMARTrader....
V16:12: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CUP WITH HANDLE Editor, The article "Cup-with-handle and the computerized approach" in your October 1998 issue was great, but authors Rick Martinelli and Barry Hyman certainly leave us in the dark as to the software that will enable us to use the ideas expressed there. Producing a valid system using the "Cup-with-handle" article as a basis would take a high level of programming knowledge. ACEEBO, via E-mail, Chagrin Falls, OH See Traders' Tips in this issue for software code implementing the cup-with-handle concept. Each month, Traders' Tips features programming code contributed by vendors ...
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Subscribing to Lists Over the Internet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Readers often ask how they can get in touch with other traders to discuss trading ideas. In this age of electronic communication, one way to connect with other traders is through the Internet, by subscribing to E-mail-based ""lists."" The following information, provided by our Technical Editor and resident Inernet surfer, will get you started....
Stocks & Commodities V.16:8: Letter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DOW THEORY Editor, I especially enjoyed your interview in the June 1998 STOCKS & COMMODITIES ("Before and beyond technology: Michael Sheimo on Dow theory") because Sheimo comments on the Dow theory in light of the much larger volume and velocity of trades today as compared with the late 1800s, when Charles Dow developed his theory. Based on other articles that have been published in your magazine and based on my own research, I've concluded that Dow theory has not lost its relevance to market behavior in spite of massive changes in trading volume and velocity since the 1800s. Although electro...
Traders' Tips
V16:4: Letters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Letters this month include questions on ""The New Gann Swing Chartist"" by Robert Krausz, the interview with Andrew Lo regarding efficient market hypothesis, and suggested reading on divergence analysis and intraday trading....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. For Jack Karczewski's article ""Identifying Market Trends"", the r-squared calculations are given for: TradeStation/SuperCharts, Technifilter Plus, SMARTrader, Wave Wi$e, and Window on Wall Street....
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V15:9: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WEB FORUM ON TRADING? Editor, I'm a longtime subscriber to your magazine and enjoy it very much, including especially the reviews of products. There is a related need that your Web site could meet while it would be impractical for a periodical. The product reviews in the magazine are good for an overall view of a product but can-not shine a light on many users' everyday experiences with the product, including those annoying or efficiency- wasting implementation issues related to usage and configurations, and intangibles such as ease of living with a product and enthusiasm and depth of support...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADESTATION Here are two indicators to assist readers in identifying some of the classic chart patterns, as discussed in Daniel Chesler's "Identifying significant chart formations" elsewhere in this issue. Ideally, you will use one or both of the indicators in conjunction with other analytical techniques, such as trendlines, to identify trading opportunities on your charts. The first indicator, the ADX/MovAvg Combo, is a relatively simple indicator based on the average directional movement indicator (ADX) and moving average calculation. This indicator plots a 50-bar moving average and trigge...
V15:10: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MECHANICAL SYSTEMS Editor, Excellent article on the relative strength index by John Sweeney in the September 1997 issue! Has STOCKS & COMMODITIES published any articles on mechanical systems using relative strength index (RSI)? Can we look forward to future articles from John Sweeney on on-balance volume (OBV) and moving averages (MAs)? BROOKS RIMES - via E-mail See this issue for an article on the on-balance volume by Technical Editor John Sweeney. Moreover, see my article in the upcoming November 1997 issue for an article on using RSI as an indicator of trend. --Editor...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK "On using volatility bands" by Ahmet Tezel and Suzan Koknar-Tezel introduces two different volatility band trad-ing systems, one system using bands based on moving averages and the other based on regression bands. To plot the moving average asymmetric volatility price bands (MAAVPB) in MetaStock for Windows, simply plot Bollinger bands using 11 periods and 1.7 standard deviations. Then click your right-mouse button while the cursor is over the lower band and choose properties. Change the standard deviations to 2. This plot will now appear exactly as the bands discussed in the articl...
V15:11: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499, or E-mail to editor@Trad...
V.15:11 (525-527) Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and some previous Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.Traders.com. TRADESTATION The focus of this month's Traders' Tips is the article ""Using Fibonacci ratios and momentum"" by STOCKS & COMMODITIES Editor Thom Hartle. In this TradeStation implementation, we'll focus on the RSI-based oscillator described in the article. In TradeStation, Fibonacci bands can be appl...
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V15:5: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Topics this month range from inflation and interest rate questions in response to the interview with Alex Saitta in the March 1997 issue to Robert Krausz's article titled "Dynamic multiple time frames.""...
V15:3: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Letters this month include one responding to Jeffrey Katz and Donna McCormick's December 1996 article titled "A rule-based approach to trading," and the Dennis Meyer article published in the January 1997 issue....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Code has been provided for Richard Goedde's article, "Market timing with the regression oscillator," in MetaStock; Dennis Meyers' article ""A new utility average tock market system"" in TradeStation, TechniFilter Plus and WAVEWISE; and a technique called STARC bands in SMARTrader....
V15:6: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C The editor provides further information on technical analysis accreditation programs and additional reading on the Point and Figure technique....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Jay Kaeppel's simple trading system described in the May issue is based on the crossover of two simple moving averages (SMAs), filtered by the crossover of the closing price and a longer SMA. The code for this system is supplied for SMARTrader, TradeStation, TechniFilter Plus, WAVEWI$E, and MetaStock....
V15:7: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...POINT & FIGURE CHARTING Editor, Concerning Daryl Guppy's March 1997 article ("Building point & figure charts"), the one-box point & figure chart was created incorrectly. When the reversal is one unit, you do not always move one column to the right. The only reason to move one column to the right in any P&F chart is to avoid overwriting the Xs or Os in the current column. You will always need to move to the right in reversal charts of two, three, five or more units, but not with one-unit reversal charts. For example, if the price reverses by only one unit and then reverses back again, you do n...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADESTATION In the article "Rainbow charts," author Mel Widner introduces a colorful technique for plotting an oscillator to signal trend changes. The oscillator is derived from a consensus of trends that, when plotted in color, has the appearance of a rainbow. Using a few studies and functions in TradeStation, the rainbow lines and rainbow oscillator can be developed in Easy Language. As always, the functions should be devel-oped first. For the indicators themselves, special formatting is required for each. An outline of the recommended format is given after each set of indicator code. B...
V15:1: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Several readers wrote to S&C in response to Dennis Meyers's article, "The siren call of optimized trading systems," in the October 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, and Meyers himself wrote a lengthy respose to the various questions....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Code for the ADRrs-NH-NL system as described by Dennis Meyers in "A daily A-D new high-new low market system," as well as the indicators that plot the ADRrs, Nhstrand NL Nlstr lines, are provided for TradeStation, WaveWi$e, TechniFilter Plus and SMARTrader....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. In the August 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, an article by Thom Hartle titled "The market facilitation index" showed how to color chart bars to identify chart patterns based on changes in the market facilitation index and volume. In this month's Tips, code is given demonstrating how to do this using MetaStock 6.0's new Expert Advisor. Code is also provided for Adam White's article ""The derivative...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTER FROM JOHN BOLLINGER Editor, The conventional interpretation of Bollinger bands is not overbought at the upper band and oversold at the lower band, as the Tezels assert in "On using volatility bands" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, October 1997). Bollinger bands provide a relative definition of high and low that can be used in the interpretation of indicators to arrive at trading decisions. If a tag of the upper band is accompanied by confirmation from an appropriately specified indicator, higher -- not lower -- prices are called for. If that same tag were unconfirmed then lower prices would be ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK In "High volatility and market turns" in this issue, William Brower uses a historical market lookback to show how volatility readings can help predict turns in the market. The indicator he presents, volatility%, is used to analyze the true range of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and thus compare the historical market with today's market. In MetaStock for Windows, you can easily recreate the volatility% indicator from Brower's article. First, choose Indicator Builder from the Tools menu in MetaStock....
V15:8: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PATTERN RECOGNITION Editor, I have read some of the articles by Thomas Bulkowski, particularly, "On rising wedges" and "Ascending and descending triangles." I found them very interesting and accurate. I'd like to see more of his articles in the future. HOMER TSAI, via E-mail MLM INDEX As a subscriber, I am very appreciative of the surprising continual improvement in the quality of your magazine. The articles seem to be increasingly accessible and more pointedly relevant -- in other words, the articles are easier to read and understand, and their information and ideas are more readily us...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADESTATION The June 1997 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES discussed a tried-and-true technique known as TRIX in the article "Playing TRIX: The triple exponential smoothing oscillator." The TRIX indicator and system code below for TradeStation includes alerts and signals based on both the crossing of the zero line and the crossing of the linear regression average. The inputs, aside from the basic parameter adjustments, will also allow you to specify whether you want to generate alerts and signals on the crossing of the zero line, the linear regression average or both. ...continuded METASTOCK ...
Using Statistics with Trading Systems J.Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Using Statistics With Trading Systems: by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick In part 1, Katz and McCormick looked at the underpinnings of how statistics can help the trader determine the feasibility of a system. This month, in part 2, they explain the steps necessary to evaluate trading system behavior with the use of statistics. Last month, I laid the groundwork for how statistics can help the trader determine whether the per-formance of a system is due to chance, or if the trading model is valid. I explained how to use samples to make inferences about the populations from whi...
V15:4: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C S&C readers voice their opinions on the historical volatility debate, the Futures Liquidity column, Mark Douglas' interview, and trading options futures....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Code is provided for Alex Saitta's "Bonds, price momentum and trends" in TechniFilter Plus, SMARTrader, WAVEWI$E; and Tushar Chande's ""The cumulative market thrust line"" in TradeStation....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. SOMETIMES SIMPLE IS BETTER Editor, First, I want to send you all my best compliments for the magazine and for all the articles you feature, which I read every month with great interest and attention, especially the articles about trading psychology, which in my opinion is a matter of the same importance as any trading technique. I am a private, part-time trader. In your 1996 Bonus Issue, I read the article by Nelson Freeburg, ""Evolution of a timing model."" The section concerning the 4% swing system I found of great interest because of the simpli...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK Here are the MetaStock formulas for calculating the indicators used in my article, ""Standard error bands"": 21 period regression slope... TECHNIFILTER PLUS Here are the TechniFilter Plus formulas for the indicators used in ""Standard error bands"" in this issue. You can use these formulas to display the bands on bar charts. The first formula, STD_ERR, is the standard error calculation. The parameter 21 is the period used in the regression analysis. The second parameter, 19, is the first parameter minus 2. The second formula, LSF_PSE, is ...
SIDEBAR: Slope of Activation Function - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SLOPE OF ACTIVATION FUNCTION - Technical Analysis, Inc. A new slope of activation functions to improve the neural net's fit. In an effort to improve the model's fit of the data, we updated the slope of the activation function. This approach, however, is not required to calculate neural network confidence intervals. We updated the activation function slopes because it improves the capability of neural networks to predict future values....
SIDEBAR: Standard Error Bands - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Standard error bands by Thom Hartle Microsoft's Excel comes with statistical formulas that can be used to create the standard error bands and the related indicators (sidebar Figure 1). The following example uses Microsoft stock price series; column A is the date. Column B is a numerical series for representing the X-axis for calculating the statistical indicators. We are not using the date column for the X-axis because the weekends will be counted in the calculation of the statistical indicators. The difference between Friday and Monday is three periods to Excel, not one, and therefo...
Novice Trader's Notebook
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Double Bottom Downtrends often end with a process of building a base on the chart. This pictorial display represents a shift from negative fundamentals and pessimistic investor sentiment, driving prices down, to the news turning positive, encouraging traders and investors to become net buyers. Typically, this process takes time, and market participants are dealing with conflicting news that leads to a market trading in a sideways fashion. But as the news turns more positive, the change in the fundamentals creates a new uptrend. One technical base or bottom chart pattern that distinguishes...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Editor, I'm so glad I subscribe to STOCKS & COMMODITIES. What great reading from great minds! I would like to encourage Tushar Chande to write more articles describing his ideas. I enjoyed his past articles in S&C and I would like to read more. I also enjoy any article that deals with trading longer-term positions, such as weekly charts. EUGENE T. McENERY III via E-mail TESTING AND HARD WORK: KEYS TO SUCCESS Editor, Technical analysis and trading systems are often considered pseudo-sciences. One reason for this reputation is the widespread use o...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS The K-ratio model, which is discussed in Editor Thom Hartle's interview with Nelson Freeburg, is a technique used by Freeburg to generate signals in the precious metals market. The K-ratio model is based on the ratio of Barron's Gold Mining Index (GMI) to gold bullion, over which Bollinger bands are plotted to generate adaptive signals that conform to patterns of price behavior in the precious metals market. To recreate Freeburg's precious metals switch fund system in MetaStock for Windows, you must first create the K-ratio as a composite security. To do ...
SIDEBAR: The Pathfinder Trading System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Pathfinder currency trading system uses the same model for trading each of four currency futures contracts - the yen, the Deutschemark, the Swiss franc and the British pound. The trading rules are based on a set of conditions, which in turn are based on the closing values of a set of indicators. The first set of indicators is the six-day, nine-day and an 18-day simple moving average of the currency's daily closing price. A buy alert occurs when today's nine-day moving average crosses above today's 18-day moving average. This is just a buy alert; two more conditions must be satisfied before...
SIDEBAR: The K-Ratio Precious Metals Switch Fund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In the July 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, Jay Kaeppel described a technique for evaluating gold stocks using the Barron's Gold Mining Index (GMI) relative to gold bullion. He showed that analysis of the ratio between the GMI and the price of gold bullion could establish favorable and unfavorable outlooks for the direction of gold stocks and gold bullion. Nelson Freeburg modified Kaeppel's method, which he referred to as the K-ratio, and developed a trading system for the gold stock's group. The following discussion details Freeburg's precious metals switch fund system. The first step in the trad...
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Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented. Internet users will also find these and past Traders' Tips on our home page at http://www.traders.com. METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS To recreate the Pathfinder currency trading system (described in the October 1996 interview with Nelson Freeburg) in MetaStock for Windows, open two charts, one of the desired currency and the other of Treasury bonds. For this example, I used the Swiss franc. Choose Tile ...
SIDEBAR: BASIC and TradeStation Code for Phase Calculation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BASIC CODE FOR PHASE CALCULATION by John F. Ehlers This BASIC code finds the real part of the phasor (the horizontal component) and the imaginary part of the phasor (the vertical component) by summing the product of the price and the two sinusoids over one full cycle of the dominant cycle. The arctangent function locates the phase to be in the first or fourth quadrant. The quadrant ambiguity is removed by adding p to the phase angle is the real part is negative. A value of p/2 is arbitrarily added to the computed phase so the start of the cycle is referenced to a sinewave. The computed phase ...
SIDEBAR: Normalize to Compare
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NORMALIZE TO COMPARE You can't compare apples and oranges - but if you need to try, normalizing the data is a way to make unlikely comparisons possible. A traditional method is to map values from the raw data onto a standard normal or bell curve. This lets you state, for example, that the apple has a ""normal"" weight - that is, average compared with other apples - whereas the orange is perhaps heavy, weighing several standard units (called standard deviations) above the average weight for oranges....
Stocks & Commodities V. 14:11: Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Letters ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? Send your formulas, solutions, tips and questions to Traders' Tips, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW , Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Please send a hard copy and, if possible, the information on a disk in unformatted ASCII along with ...
SIDEBAR: Comparison between actual price changes and normal distribution.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...COMPARISON BETWEEN ACTUAL PRICE CHANGES AND NORMAL DISTRIBUTION The average weekly natural log changes in the Standard & Poor's 500 index from April 1986 through December 1995 was measured and the standard deviation of these changes calculated. The results show an average weekly log change of 0.19% (annualized to 9.88% by multiplying by 52) and a weekly standard deviation of these changes of 2.0% (annualized to 14.42% by multiplying by the square root of 52). The entire range of price changes was then normalized by creating a series in which the mean is equal to zero and the standard deviatio...
SIDEBAR: Statistical Primer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...STATISTICAL PRIMER Two samples are used in the analysis of event-driven breakouts: Sample 1: Market returns with event-driven breakouts removed Sample 2: All event-driven breakouts. To determine if sample 2 yields consistently higher returns than sample 1, a two-sided t- test is used:...
SIDEBAR: Monte Carlo Simulation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MONTE CARLO SIMULATION Let us assume we have a specified string of profits and losses -- for example, the 1985-89 string of profits and losses for the 25-market portfolio used in the article. The Monte Carlo simulation is the technique we use to determine the probability of losing a specified number of dollars when trading this string of profits and losses before reaching a specified profit goal. The technique simulates how a trader would fare if he were to sequentially place trades that were randomly selected from the specified listing of profits and losses....
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C TECHNICAL ANALYSIS IN AUSTRALIA Editor, I received my November 1996 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine and noted the addresses of the various professional organizations in the Letters to S&C column. Missing from the list was the Australian Technical Analysts Association, GPO Box 2774, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia. President: Merril Armstrong (+61-2-2310011); public relations: Tony Reeves (+61-2-299-7858). The fax number is +61-2-6347772. We have branches in each state, a fantastic monthly newsletter, monthly meetings and annual conferences. We extend an invitation to any m...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS TRADESTATION Alex Saitta's simple method of confirming a price cross of the moving average with an increase in volume (""A price-and volume-based system,"" elsewhere in this issue) is equally simple to test with both SuperCharts and TradeStation. The code below should be written in the quickeditor. Type the corresponding line of code into the condition box of the editor and select the enter or exit on close order; be sure to define the two inputs. The first input of length will have a default of 20 to represent the length of the moving average, while the second input is length2...
SIDEBAR: Maximizing your Zen meditation experience
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MAXIMIZING YOUR ZEN MEDITATION EXPERIENCE Here are eight pointers to help you make the most of your meditation exercise....
SIDEBAR: The K-ratio TradeStation Code
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE K-RATIO TRADESTATION CODE The K-ratio system includes no buy or sell signals. When run simultaneously with other trade-generating systems, it prints the K-ratio of the trade-generating system to the print log window. System Name : K-ratio VAR: Observation(0), Count(0), SumXY(0), SumX(0), SumY(0), SumXSqr(0); VAR : Beta0(0), Beta1(0), SumResidSqr(0), SigmaRegress(0), StandardErrB1(0); VAR: StandardErrB1Denom(0), YProjected(0), KRatio(0); ARRAY: Equity[5000](0); Observation = Observation+1; Equity[Observation] = NetProfit + OpenPositionProfit; ......
SIDEBAR: Indicators and Formulas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATORS AND FORMULAS Bollinger bands are channel lines plotted two standard deviations above and below a 20-day simple moving average. A 20-day lookback period is also used for the standard deviation measurement. The formula for standard deviations is as follows: ... Standard deviation measures the difference between each day in the lookback period and the moving average, squares the differences so that they are all positive values, sums the differences and divides by N . The square root is then calculated of this ratio....
V14:6 Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DISCOUNT BROKERAGE SERVICE Editor, I'm an Italian subscriber and TradeStation user and I'd like to start trading soon. My problem is finding a discount brokerage service that allows me to trade in CBOT and LIFFE markets directly via keyboard from Italy. I know the names of some discount brokers in the US, but none of them seem to offer this kind of service. I know discount brokerages exist with online service in the US, but I don't know if I can use them from Italy. I'd appreciate it if you could help me locate a list of international discount brokerages with this kind of service. BARONI GAB...
V14:6 (282-283) Traders' Tips - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TECHNIFILTER PLUS The set of TechniFilter Plus formulas called ""OBV disparity trading system"" produces a TechniFilter Plus strategy that implements the trading system presented in Phillip Holt's ""Enhancing on-balance and negative volume"" in this issue. In the article, Holt computes a ratio of two Bollinger %B calculations, one based on price and one based on a volume indicator (either the on-balance volume or the negative volume index). A %B calculation based on price expresses the position of the closing price within the upper and lower Bollinger bands. A value of ""1"" places the close ...
SIDEBAR: Indicators - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATORS The following steps can be used to implement the on-balance volume disparity indicator and the negative volume disparity indicator in Microsoft Excel. The example uses daily data for the stock J.P. Morgan [JPM]. Because Holt's article "Enhancing on-balance and negative volume" uses weekly data for the NYSE Composite Index, the same parameters are used here. However, it is recommended that the parameters be reviewed for use for daily data of indi-vidual stocks. In addition, using a relative strength line as an indication of an upward trend is also recommended as an initial filter fo...
SIDEBAR: MetaStock and Indicators - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MetaStock 4.5 formulas - Technical Analysis, Inc....
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V14:7 Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V14:7 Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc. SWING LINE CHARTS Editor, I would appreciate any information you have on swing line charts. Also, do you know of a charting system that shows this type of chart? I'm not referring to oscillators but to a type of chart that W.D. Gann used. In Gann's day, he updated his charts by hand using this technique, and in comparison to his other techniques, it was simple to understand. It also appealed to me because it potentially could improve my own cash management of a trade - when to enter or exit a trade. DAVID BLUE Nelson, New Zealand I can't tel...
SIDEBAR: Calculating the McClellan Indicators - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING THE McCLELLAN INDICATORS - Technical Anlaysis, Inc. The McClellan oscillator can be used for measuring changes in momentum of price, volume, advances and declines. The most common use is for measuring the momentum of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing of the daily number of stocks that advanced and the number of stocks that declined. The calculation of the McClellan oscillator is a three-step process. First, determine the difference between the number of stocks advancing and the number of stocks declining for each day. This raw number is then smoothed with two exponential...
SIDEBAR: The Alpha Indicator - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE ALPHA INDICATOR - Technical Analysis, Inc. To build your own alpha indicator in Microsoft Excel, use the following steps. Column A should be the date, column B the Treasury bond futures data and column C is the Fidelity Select Chemical Fund data....
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V.14:7 (304-310): A/D Volume, New-High, New-Low System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Here, classic stock market indicators have been combined into a trading system for the market. Previously, I developed a stock market system using the weekly advance-decline line and the weekly new highs and new lows. While a system using weekly data is valuable for filtering out daily price fluctuation noise, it does, however, leave the trader exposed to large adverse price movements during the trading days between the weekly buy/sell signal calculations. This one-week gap of inactivity could result in serious lo...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C MOVING AVERAGE WINDOW Editor, I have been reading S&C now for about a year and have spent a lot of time understanding some of the trading systems presented in the magazine. I have also spent time actually setting them up with data in Excel. In your April 1995 issue was a really interesting program submitted by Alex Saitta for range breakout trading in Treasury bonds. I hope to try it in real-time trading soon. My question is actually a rather generic one having to do with comparing current trading data to some historical calculation. Mr. Saitta defines how he determines if the ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS TRADESTATION To create the divergence index in Matt Storz's ""Quantifying Divergence with the Divergence Index,"" you must first create two User-Functions, PeakDivergence and TroughDivergence. The code for both is listed below. Be sure you create and verify these before you build the indicator. Since I have built them as User-Functions, you can now call these functions from any other study or system without having to recreate the code. Type: User-Function Name: PeakDivergence Inputs: Strength(NumericSimple), OSC(NumericSeries); Vars: Hc(0), Hp(0), Hh(0), HL(0), Ic(0), Ih(0), I...
SIDEBAR: Historical Market Turning Points
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...HISTORICAL MARKET TURNING POINTS The Kinsman smoothed A-D has caught major trend changes in the market well over the past two decades. The most recent of these: 1987 1 Selecting norms for 1987 was one of the more complicated exercises in using this oscillator. The problem was the 1986 market (not shown), with four spikes above +400 and four under -400, plus one at -649 in September. Still, the other highs and lows averaged out to a range of +100 to +300 and -200 to -300. The September spike low barely qualified as a bear alert and no following second spike announced a trend change. 2 Janua...
SIDEBAR: Kinsman Smoothed A-D Calculation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...KINSMAN SMOOTHED A-D CALCULATION A clear advantage of this oscillator is its simplicity of calculation. Two Lotus or Quattro spreadsheet columns are all that are required, although I'll show them in four for the sake of clarity. The first two, the daily NYSE advances in A, and declines in B, can be combined as one net formula, A minus B, in column C....
SIDEBAR: Defining parameters
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DEFINING PARAMETERS TradeStation's EasyLanguage has a number of restrictions on the use of variable names. Variable names cannot exceed 20 characters in length, cannot use spaces and cannot use special characters (such as the characters above the number keys on a standard IBM keyboard). In addition, variable names cannot be one of TradeStation's reserved words; for example, the variable name delta , which is a TradeStation reserved word, cannot be used for that purpose. These restrictions make abbreviations necessary for the variables in this article, and some of them may confuse the reader. ...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C ENTERING AN ARRAY IN EXCEL Editor, I am writing for clarification on the article ""Smoothing data with less lag"" in the February 1994 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES. On page 68 is a listing for formulas calculating the DEMA2 and MACD. The formulas for cells J2 and K2, which calculate a 26-week regression, are indicated to be identical. Figure 3 displays a number for cell K2, which does not correspond with the formula. An identical issue exists for cells J5 and K5. Please advise the correct formula for both cells K2 and K5. DAVID HADLEY Concord, CA The single formula is ente...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS TIPS METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS To create a MetaStock chart containing the indicators discussed in Dennis Meyers's article, you must first collect data for the Standard & Poor's 500, the Dow industrials, advancing issues, declining issues, new highs and new lows. After collecting this data, you need to create a composite security of advancing issues and declining issues in The DownLoader. To create the composite, choose new and then composite from the file menu in The DownLoader. Next, choose advancing issues as the primary symbol, declining issues as the secondary symbol, subtract as the...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C This month's letters discuss possible flaws in the May 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES article ""Presidential parties and the stock market,"" calculating chi-square and historical volatility....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's selection of Traders' Tips include code in MetaStock, TradeStation, SmarTrader, TechniFilter Plus, and WAVEWI$E for the 2/20-day EMA breakout system as described by David Landry....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MORE SYSTEM REVIEWS Editor, You have a great 'zine and I have been a subscriber for a long time. One suggestion: Review more systems that are advertised in S&C. The good ones need to have their horns blown, while some of the garbage out there needs to be shown for what it is. I am a system junkie and if there are any good, new systems out there that I'm missing, I would like to hear about them. Most traders are system players of some sort, so please add more system reviews to your already fine magazine. Thanks. ED HEXTER, Lauderhill, FL Thank you for your comments. To properly review a trad...
Traders' Tips - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders Tips - Technical Analysis, Inc. TECHNIFILTER PLUS In ""Historical volatility and pattern recognition,"" Laurence Connors and Linda Bradford Raschke combine a historical volatility ratio with some short-term patterns to spot potential price moves. Here's a set of TechniFilter Plus formulas that will filter for these situations. Formula 1 is the historical price volatility ratio. It compares the five-day standard deviation of the logarithm of the one-day price change ratio to the 99-day version of the same calculation. Connors and Raschke suggest using six-day and 100-day periods, but...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Double Top. Consider a security or a futures contract that is in an uptrend. The price reaches a point at which all of the buyers' demand is met, and the sellers, whether traders taking profits or aggressive short sellers, enter the market and overwhelm the buyers. That price level will become known as major resistance, as the level establishes a point at which the supply is significantly greater than the demand (point A)....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...YOUR TRADING PERFORMANCE - Technical Analysis, Inc. Koppel explains in The Intuitive Trader that trading performance is a direct reflection of how you, the trader, feel. When you feel good, therefore, you perform at high levels. Further, Koppel explains that trading performance at the highest levels occurs without conscious deliberation when the right internal climate for trading has been established....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MFI INDICATORS - Techncial Analysis, Inc. TradeStation and SuperCharts users can use the following formulas in the PaintBar Study to color bars for each of the MFI indicators. Simply type the formula in the IF box of the PaintBar formula dialog box and choose your color for the bar to be painted....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Listing of Exchanges and indicators. - Technical Analysis, Inc. THE EXCHANGES AND INDICES New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) The New York Futures Exchange, a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE), has approximately 359 members holding 435 seats; its members include many of the country's largest and most prestigious brokerage houses. Pacific Stock Exchange (PSE) The Pacific Stock Exchange, located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, lists 1,784 different equity issues and 297 equity options. During 1994, option volume surged to 20.9 million contracts. PSE Technology ...
SIDEBAR: Calculating Historical Volatility - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING HISTORICAL VOLATILITY - Technical Analysis, Inc. Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of the one-day price changes of the security or futures contract. To perform this calculation in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (as can be seen in sidebar Figure 1), follow these steps. First, convert the price changes to percentage daily price basis....
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Letters ...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? Send your formulas, solutions, tips and questions to Traders' Tips, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW , Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Please send a hard copy and, if possible, the information on a disk in unformatted ASCII along with...
SIDEBAR: Converting Absolute Data to Change in Log of Price
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CONVERTING ABSOLUTE DATA TO CHANGE IN LOG OF PRICE Sidebar Figure 1 is a sample of weekly interest rate and S&P 500 index data and the formula used to convert absolute interest rate data to changes in logs. Formulas first calculate the log of price and then subtract the week-earlier value from the current week value. Change in log of interest rates and the S&P index is the data used throughout. ASSESSING STATIONARITY 1. Divide the range of data into five to 10 equally sized bins so that each observation falls into a bin. The two bins at the upper and lower extremes of the range should be de...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis TRADING PSYCHOLOGY REVISITED Editor, When I was first learning the trading business, a mentor once told me to pick a system, any system, and use it. The emphasis was appropriately placed, because actually implementing the signals from your trading system is the hard part. Professional traders know that trading is all in the mind, not the system. The trading psychology articles are among the most valuable in your outstanding magazine. Please continue publishing them. JOHN BOLLINGER, CFA, CMT, Manhattan Beach, CA MORE VOTES FOR PSYCHOLOGY Editor, I am...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This month's Traders' Tips give MetaStock software code for the indicators in Donald Dorsey's ""Refining the relative volatility index,"" and SMARTrader & Technifilter Plus code for Tushar S. Chande's time price oscillator....
SIDEBAR: Old RVI, new RVI and inertia
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...OLD RVI, NEW RVI AND INERTIA The relative volatility index (RVI) is a modified form of the relative strength index (RSI). The original RSI calculation separates one-day net changes into positive closes and negative closes, then smoothes the data and normalizes the ratio on a scale of 11 to 100 as the basis for the formula. The RVI uses the same basic formula but substitutes the 10-day standard deviation of the last 10 days' closing prices for either the up close or the down close. The goal is to create an indicator that measures and reports the general direction of the volatility. In a Micros...
SIDEBAR: The short-range oscillator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE SHORT-RANGE OSCILLATOR The short-range oscillator combines daily New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) market statistics with the daily closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to provide indications of overbought and oversold market conditions. Sidebar Figure 1 is a Microsoft Excel 4.0 spreadsheet demonstrating the results of the formulas. The first step is to add the day's number of advancing stocks to 50% of the day's number of unchanged stocks and express this sum as a percentage of the total issues traded. This step is calculated in column E. Enter the following formula into...
SIDEBAR: Calculating noise level
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING NOISE LEVEL Some of the other methods I use to calculate noise level (NL) are: ... where P is the averaging period for the daily range; the article's Figure 3 is a plot of ADR j . Another method uses the average daily range and three standard deviations of the daily range: ... The next method uses the length of the price path data file (ADR j ), the lookback period (P ) and the length of the original pricing data file (M ): ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C OVERBOUGHT/OVERSOLD LIMITS Editor, I'm new to the markets, technical analysis and SuperCharts. I'm constantly agonizing over where to set my overbought and oversold limits. What I would like to do is shift them up in a clearly definable uptrend and shift them down in a clearly definable downtrend. Presumably, then, an indicator such as stochastics wouldn't take me out of the market prematurely. Is my logic sound or dangerous? Should I shift or spread my overbought/oversold levels? For example, subsequent to a long position, should I shift my oversold 25 and overbought 75 lev...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Code for EQUIS METASTOCK is given for Steven Schinke's article ""Options spread psychology."" In it, he demonstrated the advantages of trading option spreads and discussed how a trader's emotions and expectations affect which option spread he or she uses for a particular market opportunity. In addition, code for the variable moving average (VIDYA) by Tushar Chande is given for SmarTrader, Technifilter Plus, Behold!, and TradeStation....
SIDEBAR: Technicals
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TECHNICALS Z test for significance of difference between two proportions Assume first CTA has 8 winning trades out of 15 Assume second CTA has 41 winning trades out of 113 Test for statistical significance in difference of ratios ......
SIDEBAR: Expectations and Spread Positions
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPECTATIONS AND SPREAD POSITIONS For bull market forecasts, graphs in the top half of the article's Figure 3 portray two spread positions. In these positions, the leftmost line on each graph depicts maximum loss as the premium paid for the call debit spread and the difference in strike prices less premium received for the put credit spread. If the price of the underlying issue increases, the loss line first assumes an upward movement as it transverses diagonally to the right and across the zero or breakeven line. The breakeven point for a two-contract call debit spread position is the sum of...
SIDEBAR: Variable-length moving average
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...VARIABLE-LENGTH MOVING AVERAGE by Thom Hartle Tushar Chande's variable-length moving average (VIDYA) uses a measure of volatility to modify the smoothing constant used in an exponential moving average (EMA). In the article, Chande uses the Chande momentum oscillator (CMO) to measure volatility. The CMO is based on the popular indicator relative strength indicator (RSI). The only difference between the two oscillators is the ratio has an extra term (- Sd ) in the numerator of the formula: ......
V13:11 Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Have you run across trading techniques, services or products that have proved useful? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Address your correspondence to: Editor, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98116-4499. Letters ...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADER'S TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? In this month's Traders' Tips MetaStock, SmarTrader, Trade Station and TechniFilter Plus code is supplied for the Connors-Hayward volatility system....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips You can test the range breakout trading system discussed in Alex Saitta's article, ""Range breakout trading in Treasury bonds,"" in the April 1995 STOCKS & COMMODITIES using MetaStock, and the flying Titanic syndrome of ""Making the Titanic fly"" is implemented in the TechniFilter Plus strategy....
SIDEBAR: Profit Objectives and Sequential System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Profit Objectives and Sequential System The classic form of chart analysis incorporates a method to project profit objectives after a trendline is penetrated. Along those lines, Tom DeMark developed three methods to identify profit objectives after the penetration of TD demand or supply lines. The methods are known as TD price projectors and the objectives are based on DeMark's observation that the difference between the extreme low price and the TD supply line is duplicated once the market has penetrated the TD supply line....
SIDEBAR: The candlestick method
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: The candlestick method The candlestick chart can be used to interpret the movement of markets from intraday out to a monthly chart format. This sidebar provides an illustration of the candlestick body....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: TradeStation code Here's the code for flying the titantic for tradestation 3.01. Anyhting between the curly brackets {.....} is a comment statement and doesn't have to be typed in....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Readers ask questions on the ""Option Premium Ratio article by Christopher Cadburys, specifics on software code for a variety of systems, and information on friendly trading competitions....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's Traders' Tip's shows how to create code for the bottom-fishing test from Tushar Chande's article (""A market bottom pattern for the S&P futures"") in MetaStock, TradeStation's Easy Language, SmarTrader, and TechniFilter Plus....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Steps to overcoming resistance Self-help questions on your resistance to change....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V13:06: (271-273): Letters to S&C THE X FILES Editor, In the March issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, you published a very enlightening article by Joe DiNapoli titled ""The X'd trade."" This was quite informative and a number of my friends have found this interesting. I would like to see more articles about details of this nature. I don't think that I will have this problem, as I am a very short-term trader and do mostly market orders. However, I am aging and will not want to sit in front of the computer for the rest of my life ? at least I hope not. Understanding these ""X"" trades may become ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V13:06: (269-270): Traders' Tips SMARTRADER Here are the formulas to implement the system discussed in Adam White's ""A weekly S&P trading system"" for SMARTrader. ... This is a simple system to implement. As you can see, the highest/lowest functions are integral to building the system. The highest/lowest rows each have a suffix appended to clarify their use in subsequent rows. TAI is the trend analysis index calculation. The buy rule is that the current highest five-bar high is greater than the previous five-bar highest and the current lowest five-bar low is higher than the current 13-ba...
SIDEBAR: Averaging Lag and the EMA Constant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...AVERAGING LAG AND THE EMA CONSTANT The equation to compute an exponential moving average (EMA) is: ... Picture a function that increases by 1 for each new day. Then, on the generalized i th day the function will have a value of I . Assume the EMA lag is K . ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK SYNTAX Here's the system's syntax for MetaStock 4.5: ......
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V13 (316-318): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. EQUIS METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS The projection bands and other indicators discussed in ""Signaling change with projection bands"" can easily be implemented in MetaStock for Windows. To create these indicators, enter the following custom indicators in the indicator builder: Slope of high (14 period regression line of High): ((14 * (Sum( Cum(1) * HIGH, 14))) - (Sum( Cum(1), 14) * ( Sum(HIGH, 14)))) / ((14 * Sum( Pwr( Cum(1), 2), 14)) - Pwr( Sum( Cum(1), 14), 2)) ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C This month's letters include queries into fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), information on where to get historical data and data downloading services, the futures liquidity column, candlestick formations, and portfolio management....
Sidebar: The T-Test
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: The T-test by James Stakelum There were 24 trades produced in the simulation run using the September 1994 Deutschemark futures contract. This sidebar gives sample calculations of the T-test using these figures....
Sidebar: Risk of Ruin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Risk of Ruin This brief sidebar discusses the risk of ruin- an estimate that indicates the probability that a trader will eventually lose all his trading capital- and the probability from zero to 100% that a trader will eventually lose all of his trading capital....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Compliments, data information and spirituality are discussed in this month's letters....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips The following responds to numerous requests to explain how I create the bar charts with an indicator using Microsoft Excel 4. This Traders' Tips is based on the article ""Statistically Positioned Trend Channels"" by Bob McCullough....
SIDEBAR: Calculating leverage and simulated trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Calculating leverage and simulated trading The following explanation uses a Microsoft Excel 4.0 spreadsheet calculating final equity versus leverage and simulated trading. Referring to Figure 1 from the article, the values placed in the spreadsheet for columns A to H are identified by the titles at the tops of the columns....
SIDEBAR: Calculating the mean, standard deviation and cumulative
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Calculating the mean, standard deviation and cumulative probability density functions. Calculating the mean of a series of numbers is the same as calculating the average of a series of numbers. First, sum the numbers together and divide by the total amount of numbers (n)....
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. INTERVIEWS ARE VALUABLE Editor, Thank you for the excellent interviews with Joseph Stowell, Justin Mamis and Robert Krausz (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, July, August and September, respectively). They are correct when they say that charting by hand provides an extra level of perception. I have found that interacting with each piece of data and translating the data into form requires extra commitment, but it is an element of classical charting that has its own payoff. I especially want to thank you for the explanation and detailed charts of Robert Krausz'...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? Send your formulas, solutions, tips and questions to Traders' Tips, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 4757 California Ave. SW , Seattle, WA 98116-4499. METASTOCK FOR WINDOWS In MetaStock for DOS, many users create macros to quickly switch from one c...
SIDEBAR: Calculating an 11-period CCI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING AN 11-PERIOD CCI The commodity channel index (CCI) can be calculated using any lookback period chosen by the trader. The Excel spreadsheet shown in sidebar Figure 1 is an 11-period CCI for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The first step is to calculate the daily typical price. This is the high, low and close added together and divided by three. This step is performed in column E. The formula for cell E2 is:...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V13:08 (366): Traders' Tips TRADESTATION Several requests have been made for the code to Adam White's ""Weekly S&P trading system"" from the June 1995 Stocks & Commodities to be translated into Easy Language. Using the QuickEditor, I coded the formula as follows: ... In preparing the code, I created two user functions based on the trend analysis index (Tai) and the retracement of the low (LowRetr): ......
Sidebar: Constructing MW patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V.13:08 (357): Sidebar: Constructing MW patterns Here are the formulas for identifying MW patterns using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Columns A through E contain the date, open, high, low and close of the data you wish to analyze. In sidebar Figures 1 and 2, the data is September 1994 Treasury bond futures. Cell G1 has the filter size, which will be 0.01, but first, name the cell as a filter, using the insert-name-define keystroke sequence (see your manual regarding defining a name for a cell) and then enter 0.01....
Sidebar: Money Management
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MONEY MANAGEMENT There are two common ways of trading an account. The way an account will be traded in real-time should be the same as the way the system was historically tested. Otherwise, the analysis will be incorrect....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Editor, I recently purchased one of your magazines and found the information contained in it rather complex and extensive. I do have some computer and stocks/commodities background, but here's my question: What kind of software is best for a beginner given the following criteria: buy/sell signals and ease of use?...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips You can implement the strategy from the article ""Measuring linkage"" with the bond market, the CRB index, the Standard & Poor's 500 and the US Dollar Index in MetaStock. Trader's Tips shows you how. The remainder of the article is devoted to providing code for the range breakout system in Alex Saitta's article for the following programs: Behold, TechniFilter Plus, SmarTrader, and EasyLanguage code for TradeStation....
SIDEBAR: The long wave
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: The long wave According to Charles Kirkpatrick's award-winning ""Charles Dow looks at the long wave,"" there is a fourth wave or a cycle of a longer-term nature beyond the ""three well-defined movements,"" as Charles H. Dow himself referred to in January 1902 in a Wall Street Journal editorial. In that article, Dow outlined his theory following an earlier article depicting stock market movements as comparable to ocean waves during a tidal cycle....
SIDEBAR: Calculating probability
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Calculating probability Using the data from the example, we have r = 0.00093553 and sr = 0.011258649. Suppose we wish to see the probability of being at a loss for L = 4 after 36 trades?...
Sidebar: The Parabolic Trading System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: The Parabolic Trading System by Dennis Meyers The parabolic time/price system was introduced by J. Welles Wilder in New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. The trading concept itself is an automatic reversal system, in which the system always has a position that is either long the market or short the market. For example, the first entry for a long position occurs when the recent extreme high is violated, at which point the trailing stop and reverse (SAR) order is placed at the recent extreme low price. Each day, the SAR order will advance higher in price, slow at first and then mo...
Sidebar: Correlation Coefficient.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Correlation Coefficient by Thom Hartle The correlation coefficient, denoted as r , is an index that measures the degree and direction of a linear association between two variables. The values of the correlation coefficient can range from 1 to -1. If you were to measure the correlation of two variables such as the weekly closing price of a stock compared with the weekly closing price of the Standard & Poor's 500 over a specific period, the correlation coefficient will indicate the direction and degree of the relationship between the two....
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SIDEBAR: Calculating the RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: CALCULATING THE RSI The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator that uses the net difference of closing prices for up days and down days. The following are steps by which to build a 14-period RSI, using as an example the price data for Boeing (BA)....
SIDEBAR: Calculating the Bandpass Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Calculating the Bandpass Indicator The bandpass indicator is an oscillator-type indicator using two filters. This sidebar give the formulas for using this indicator as described in John Ehler's article, in Excel. In calculating the bandpass indicator, the first step is the calculation of the two Butterworth filters using two different cutoff periods (P). Sidebar Figure 1 has the cutoff period 10 for filter 1 placed in cell I1, and for filter 2, the cutoff period is 35 and is placed in cell L1. You can use any cutoff period your analysis warrants....
SIDEBAR: Fourier Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Fourier Analysis Market data is considered to be a complex wave form composed of cycles with different lengths or frequencies. When you look at a price chart, you can see that there are upward trends with countertrend declines or downward trends with countertrend rallies. Each price movement has a varying number of days between consecutive tops and bottoms; in other words, the price action appears to be the sum of cycles with different cycle lengths. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) of a complex wave form such as market data decomposes the time series into its underlying frequency co...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here are the custom formulas to create a relative strength index (RSI) ratio used in ""Trading the ratio of the RSI"" by Russell Rhoads presented in MetaStock; the formulas for CompuTrac SNAP and Behold! for the money flow index discussed in the August 1994 article "On trendlines, money flow index and the Elliott wave" by Brian D. Green; and the TradeStation code for the "First-hour breakout system," which was introduced in July 1994 (page 282)....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips This month's Traders' Tips all focus on the rate of change (ROC) indicator discussed in Bruce Faber's article. The rate of change is a function already available in both SuperCharts and TradeStation. From within the Quickeditors of either program, you can create a new indicator. The performance of ROC can often be improved by smoothing. An example is given in CompuTrac SNAP. Also, Behold! and MetaStock's System Tester can be used to measure the performance of the ROC indicator....
Louis Navellier Of The MPT Review
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Louis Navellier Of The MPT Review Modern portfolio theory (MPT) uses statistical analysis, screening and ranking of stocks to decide what and where to invest. Louis Navellier, money manager and publisher of The MPT Review, specializes in using this method for selecting stocks that will outperform the market. Stocks & Commodities asked Navellier for details on how he goes about selecting stocks and designing portfolios. Q: So tell us about your early days and how you developed your approach to analyzing stocks and managing money. A: Sure. I've always been interested in the markets, even bef...
SIDEBAR: Calculating the Coppock Curve in SuperCharts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Calculating the Coppock Curve in SuperCharts The Coppock curve in Figure 1 of the article ""The Coppock Curve"" by Elliot Middleton, labeled ""CoppockAnnual"" takes the essence of Coppock's original formulation and puts it in modern mathematics. Technicians have found that instead of using 11 and 14 month lags, a single annual lagged percentage change of the index works almost as well....
SIDEBAR: Calculating The Relative Strength-MACD Crossover
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Calculating The Relative Strength-MACD Crossover The relative strength ratio-MACD crossover indicator in this example uses the daily closing price of Boeing (BA) compared with the daily closing price of the S&P 500 index. The first day's period is January 1, 1994....
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Breadth Stix And Other Tricks By Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Breadth Stix And Other Tricks By Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. Interested in advance-decline indicators? Well, you're in luck. Here, Chande reviews popular versions of these indicators and explains that since they are all derived from the same raw data, they have certain similarities. Chande explains how to derive a stochastic oscillator from market breadth data for market timing. The daily number of advancing issues (ADI) and the daily number of declining issues (DCI) are two items of data unique to the stock market. Technical analysts have developed a variety of ways to analyze this data. Strong...
SIDEBAR: SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here's a simple way of setting up a return versus leverage analysis in a spreadsheet (sidebar Figure 1). Specifically, this is for Lotus 1-2-3, but you should be able to follow the example and apply it to any spreadsheet....
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc....
SIDEBAR: THE ELLIOTT WAVE by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE ELLIOTT WAVE by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Elliott wave principle is a method for classifying and forecasting market movement. The basic tenet is that markets move in a five-wave pattern in the direction of the trend. Once the five waves have been completed, the market will move counter to the trend in a three-wave pattern. For example, in Figure 1 the trend is up and there are five waves labeled waves 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Waves 1, 3 and 5 are called impulse waves. Waves 2 and 4 are corrective waves, moving counter to the preceding waves. Once a five-wave movement is complete, the market w...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK The January 1994 STOCKS & COMMODITIES featured an article by Hans Hannula on polarized fractal efficiency. Here is the custom formula for creating the five-period smoothed 10-day PFE (Figure 1) using Metastock: Polarized Fractal Efficiency......
V.12:6Calculating the KST
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Calculating the KST The suggested parameters for short, intermediate and long term can be found in sidebar Figure 1. There are three steps to calculating the KST indicator. First, calculate the four different rates of change. Recalling the formula for rate of change (ROC) is today's closing price divided by the closing price n days ago. This result is then multiplied by 100. Then subtract 100 to obtain a rate of change index that uses zero as the center point. Second, smooth each ROC with either a simple or exponential moving av-erage (EMA). Third, multiply each smoothed ROC by its p...
SIDEBAR: THE McCLELLANS' INDICATORS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: THE McCLELLANS' INDICATORS The McClellan oscillator can be used for measuring changes in momentum of price, volume, advances and declines. The most common use is for measuring the momentum of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing of the daily number of stocks that advanced and the number of stocks that declined. The calculation of the McClellan oscillator is a three-step process. First, determine the difference between the number of stocks advancing and the number of stocks declining for each day. This raw number is then smoothed with two exponential moving averages (EMA) to cr...
SIDEBAR: P-V RANK BY HAND
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: P-V RANK BY HAND As the article "Price-volume rank" describes, P-V rank can be figured by hand by using the guidelines outlined. I do so, and then I manually enter the resultant data (numbers 1 through 4) into EQUIS International's The Technician software. I am able to do this by listing P-V rank as a custom indicator and adding the daily data manually under the user-added variable capability. After the raw data is listed, the technical study or software of choice can be manipulated....
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips The steps to create the calibrated summation index, the McClellan oscillator, the McClellan summation index and the advance-decline line are all very similar. Here is the code in MetaStock and TradeStation languages....
SIDEBAR: Chaikin's Money Flow Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Chaikin's Money Flow Indicator This sidebar providesChaikin's basic money flow formula and sample code for MetaStock and TradeStation languages. The first step to calculating the 21-day money flow indicator is to calculate the raw one-day accumulation/distribution indicator....
Trader's Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trader's Tips This month's Traders' Tips creates an on-balance volume line with a 40-period Bollinger Band in a spreadsheet as discussed in the interview with Gilbert Raff. Code for Bollinger Band is also provided for MetaStock and TradeStation....
SIDEBAR: TICK LINE MOMENTUM by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TICK LINE MOMENTUM by Technical Analysis, Inc. The daily closing tick is collected in column C in sidebar Figure 1. The first step is to smooth the daily closing values using a 10-period exponentially weighted moving average. To start this process, we need to calculate the 10-day simple moving average, which is done in cell D11. The formula for cell D11 is: =TRUNC(AVERAGE(C2:C11))...
SIDEBAR: Polarized Fractal Efficiency Spreadsheet by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...POLARIZED FRACTAL EFFICIENCY SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc. The first step to calculate the 10-period polarized fractal efficiency (PFE) on a percentage basis is to calculate the first-to-last close spacing....
SIDEBAR: METASTOCK IMPLEMENTATION OF DEMA1 AND MACO-DEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK IMPLEMENTATION OF DEMA1 AND MACD-DEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc....
SIDEBAR: Dema1 Derivation by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Dema1 Derivation by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is a nonrigorous derivation of the one-parameter double exponential moving average (DEMA1), which assumes there is no noise and that the MAs have reached a steady-state value (i > w). The observed data will be defined as an exact linear process....
SIDEBAR: DEMA1 EXCEL SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DEMA1 EXCEL SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis This Excel spreadsheet (Figure 4) presents the calculation of the DEMA1 (column G) of the weekly closing price of the NASDAQ (column D). We will be using the regression coefficients for the initialization of the single exponential moving averages (column E) and the double exponential moving averages (column F). Column A is the date, column B is the high and column C is the low for the weekly NASDAQ. The first step in calculating DEMA1 will be calculating the linear regression of the closing price to determine the v (slope) and the u (y-intercept) ...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK The interview this month, with Marc Chaikin, discussed one of his indicators, called the Chaikin money flow. To create Chaikin's money flow indicator in MetaStock, simply enter and plot the following custom formula:... Figure 1 shows the 21-day Chaikin money flow plotted below the price chart of COMPAQ (CPQ). Note how each of the turns in the price of COMPAQ was forewarned by the indicator turning direction before the price. --Allan McNichol, EQUIS International...
SIDEBAR: 20 QUESTIONS ABOUT GAMBLING (TRADING) BEHAVIOR by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...20 QUESTIONS ABOUT GAMBLING (TRADING) BEHAVIOR by Technical Analysis, Inc. In 1980, Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles published a list of 20 questions about gambling behavior. I took the liberty of inserting the word trading to help you translate your answer to your own trading....
SIDEBAR: FORMULAS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FORMULAS by Technical Analysis, Inc. COMPUTRAC TRADE PLAN Thomas Aspray supplied the following trade plan for the MACD histogram and MACD momentum oscillator. His current trade plan no longer includes the three-unit smoothing of the MACD momentum oscillator that was part of the original calculation....
SIDEBAR: METASTOCK IMPLEMENTATION OF TEMA1 AND MACD-TEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK IMPLEMENTATION OF TEMA1 AND MACD-TEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc. The TEMA1 moving average and the MACD-TEMA1 can be implemented in MetaStock version 3.x using the custom formulas. The period for the example TEMA1 below was chosen as 26; however, this is user-selectable. As stated, the DEMA2 formula, unfortunately, cannot be implemented in MetaStock because of its interrecursive nature....
SIDEBAR: Calculating DEMA2 AND THE MACD by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Calculating DEMA2 AND THE MACD by Technical Analysis, Inc. This Excel spreadsheet (sidebar Figure 3) presents the DEMA2 along with the MACD using DEMA2 as the smoothing filters. Column B (labeled X value) is the time t. This column could be elsewhere, as the values are not needed after the EMAs are initialized using a linear regression. Coulmn C is the weekly closing price for NASDAQ. The first linear regression is calculated in cells J2 and K2....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING TEMA1 AND DEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING TEMA1 AND DEMA1 by Technical Analysis, Inc. These Excel spreadsheets (sidebar Figures 1 and 2) present the calculation of TEMA1 (column H) and DEMA1 (column N). TEMA1 uses a multiple linear regression over a 52-week period of closing prices to calculate the coefficients a2, a1 and a0 in cells I2, J2 and K2, respectively. The weekly closing price for NASDAQ is in column B. Column C has the values for X (representing the value t) and column D is X^2 (representing t^2) for the regression formula....
SIDEBAR: CANSLIM.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CANSLIM CANSLIM is the acronym for the seven criteria that William O'Neil determined were the most important in identifying winning stocks. These are the key characteristics that were present just prior to many of history's best-performing stocks: C Current quarterly earnings per share: Should be accelerating. A Annual earnings increases: Look for meaningful growth. NNew products, new management, new highs: Buy at the right time. S Shares of common stock outstanding: Keep it small. L Leader or laggard: Find an industry's leaders, not laggards. I Institutional sponsorship: A little goes a...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES Editor, In ""Smoothing data with faster moving averages""(January 1994 STOCKS & COMMODITIES), author Patrick Mulloy refers to the steps used to calculate the 26-week one-parameter double exponential moving averages (DEMA1). Figure 6 is titled ""Weekly NASDAQ, 26-week EMA and 26-week DEMA1"" and its caption states the DEMA1 shows higher response to the changing prices than the single EMA. Actually, the principal reason for this greater responsiveness is that the plot for the EMA1 ""equivalent"" moving average of 26 weeks is being compared to...
SIDEBAR: METASTOCK FORMULAS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: MetaStock Formulas This sidebar provides the formulas for investigating the overlap of daily trading ranges as described in the article ""Studying Price Behavior"" by Mike Daley....
SIDEBAR: The Money Flow Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...How to calculate the money flow index, a volume-weighted form of the RSI. The money flow index (MFI) is a volume-weighted form of the relative strength index (RSI). Instead of using up closes versus down closes, the MFI compares today's average price to yesterday's average price and then weighs the average price by volume to calculate money flow (MF). The ratio of the summed positive and negative money flows are then normalized to be on a scale of zero to 100. The following are steps with which to build a 14-period MFI, using as an example the price data for Boeing (BA)....
Trader's Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trader's Tips In ""Maximizing bond fund profits'' by Jay Kaeppel this month, a 12-month (52-week) rate of change indicator o f Barron's Gold Mining Index (GMI) is used with the Treasury bond futures market. The formula for this trading system is given for Equis MetaStock and in Micrsoft Excel format....
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SIDEBAR: Zweig's Super Model by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Zweig's Super Model by Technical Analysis, Inc. Zweig's Super Model combines the monetary model and the momentum model to create the Super Model for identifying favorable stock market conditions. The monetary model is a collection of three indicators, each of which is assigned a numerical score that will then provide a composite reading on monetary conditions. The first indicator is the prime rate indicator, which has either a value of +2 or a value of zero for the monetary model. A +2 is awarded if the prime rate peak is above 8%, there is a decline of 1% or there are two consecutive cuts i...
SIDEBAR: Indicators by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Indicators by Technical Analysis, Inc. Below are descriptions and formulas for the indicators mentioned. These are usually included in most technical analysis packages. For a more detailed discussion, refer to the references cited....
SIDEBAR: WHAT IS A FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM? by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WHAT IS A FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM? by Technical Analysis, Inc. There is an intuitive appeal in the concept that cycles are apparent in price data. The cycles do not appear to be consistent, but more of a combination that are longer- and shorter-term cycles added together. This creates a market of upward movements with countertrend declines and downward movements with countertrend rallies. Now look at an ideal example of this process. In sidebar Figure 1, the line labeled A+B+C is a composite or a summation of waves beginning with the trend (labeled C) and the two wave forms labeled A and B. I...
SIDEBAR: EXCEL FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS, DECEMBER COPPER DATA by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXCEL FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS, DECEMBER COPPER DATA by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is the layout for preprocessing data and running a fast Fourier transform (FFT) in Excel. Column A of the spreadsheet (sidebar Figure 8) is the date column. Our first date beginning with cell A4 is July 8, 1993, and the last date is November 18, 1993. The total number of periods is 95, which is entered into cell B3. Column B represents the daily closing prices. Column C is a counter beginning with 1 and ending with 95. This column is needed for other calculations. Column D is the trend calculation, the linear...
SIDEBAR: WAMI SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WAMI SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc. The spreadsheet (seen in sidebar Figure 5) provides a way to evaluate the WAMI power and phase spectrum as a function of the WAMI parameters L, M and N. The first column starting with A5 contains the frequency values to be evaluated. Columns B, C, D, E, F, G and H are intermediate results needed to create the spectra, and columns I and J contain the power and phase spectra at each cycle frequency. To set up the calculations, first, I input values into A2, B2, C2 and D2: These are the input parameters. The value placed into A2 is the frequency incr...
SIDEBAR: DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS FOR WAMI SPECTRUM by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS FOR WAMI SPECTRUM by Technical Analysis, Inc. The equations here have been included for researchers who may want to study and modify WAMI. Simply, the WAMI power and phase spectrum is obtained by using Z transform theory to obtain a WAMI transfer function and then evaluating filter response as a function of frequency....
SIDEBAR: CYCLES, POWER AND PHASE by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CYCLES, POWER AND PHASE by Technical Analysis, Inc. Cycle length is the term most traders use when they refer to cycles. For example, two cycles are plotted, each with two different cycle lengths in sidebar Figure 1. The first cycle has a length of 64 periods; that is, a complete cycle occurs every 64 observations. This period could be hours, days or weeks, depending on what time domain you are working in. The second cycle plotted has a cycle length of 16 periods, meaning a complete cycle occurs every 16 periods. The frequency of a cycle is a measurement of change -- that is, how much the cyc...
Traders' Tips by Techniceal Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Techniceal Analysis, Inc. MICROSOFT EXCEL The feature article this month, "Optimizing momentum," presents custom formulas for the Warren momentum indicator (WAMI) for use in Equis MetaStock. Here are the custom formulas for a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (Figures 1 and 2) using the parameters L = 4, M = 13 and N =13. Column A is the date, column B is the closing price of December 1993 copper futures and column C is the one-day difference in price....
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SIDEBAR: THE VERTICAL HORIZONTAL FILTER by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE VERTICAL HORIZONTAL FILTER by Technical Analysis, Inc. Formula for the 28-day VHF (vertical horizontal filter)....
SIDEBAR: Calculating Bollinger Bands by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Calculating Bollinger Bands by Technical Analysis, Inc. Bollinger band formulas for an Excel spreadsheet....
SIDEBAR: PROTECTIVE STOPS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PROTECTIVE STOPS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Definitions of initial and trailing protective stops....
SIDEBAR: SELF-EVALUATION by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SELF-EVALUATION by Technical Analysis, Inc. Testing your level of perfectionism....
SIDEBAR: TRADING TACTICS IN DETAIL by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADING TACTICS IN DETAIL by Technical Analysis, Inc. Application of the Martingale system....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Neural Network Development For Financial Forecasting by Lou Mendelsohn Extensive research has been conducted about the application of neural networks to financial forecasting in today's globalized trading environment. What makes this particular use of artificial intelligence so attractive to financial analysts and traders? Here, Lou Mendelsohn of Mendelsohn Enterprises highlights some of those issues and establishes goals for training neural networks. With the advancements being made in computer and telecommunication technologies today, the world's major economies and financial markets are ...
SIDEBAR: The RSI and the RMI by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The RSI and the RMI by Technical Analysis, Inc. Formulas and sample spreadsheets for the RSI and RMI....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING THE DEV- STOP by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING THE DEV- STOP by Technical Analysis, Inc. Calculating the DEV-stop....
SIDEBAR: JSA MOVING AVERAGE CALCULATIONS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...JSA MOVING AVERAGE CALCULATIONS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Calculations for the simple, linear, and exponential moving average, plus the authors new interpretation....
SIDEBAR: THE RPI by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE RPI by Technical Analysis, Inc. Applying the RPI, restoring pull indicator, which uses current cycle length and volume in its calculations....
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRADESTATION The following formulas for Omega's TradeStation EasyLanguage are for both the double-smoothed stochastics and the stochastics momentum indices as described by William Blau in the January 1993 STOCKS & COMMODITIES....
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS by Technical Analysis, Inc. STANDARD DEVIATION Editor, In the ""Relative volatility index"" sidebar on pages 64-65 of the June 1993 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, the Excel spreadsheet gives the formulas for the up close volatility and down close volatility in columns E and F. Please define for me STDEVP(D2:D11). I would appreciate a numerical answer. Thank you. ROBERT MAAS - Largo, FL The STDEVP(D2:D11) formula in Excel measures the standard deviation of the closing prices listed in cells D2 through D11. Standard deviation measures the variance about the mean. In our case, we are measurin...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS by Technical Analysis, Inc. COPPOCK'S ORIGINAL FORMULA Editor, Regarding my article ""The Coppock guide"" in the March 1993 issue, astute technicians may have noticed that the described formula varied somewhat from Coppock's original formula, which he explained in a Barron's article published in October 1962. Using Coppock's original rules, the DJIA's 14-month rate of price change is added to the DJIA's 11-month rate of price change, and that total is then used to determine a 10-month weighted moving total. The moving total is calculated by multiplying the sum for the most recent mo...
SIDEBAR: Building swing charts by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Building swing charts by Technical Analysis, Inc. How to build a swing chart, with example....
SIDEBAR: BUILDING A RANDOM WALK INDEX by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: BUILDING A RANDOM WALK INDEX by Technical Analysis, Inc. Instructions on creating a random walk index....
SIDEBAR: THE CHL/LLF METHOD SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE CHL/LLF METHOD SPREADSHEET by Technical Analysis, Inc. Recall that the ""concurrent highest low"" filter (CHL) is a condition set up for the ""largest low to low fall"" trigger (LLF) and that the two are true/false situations. Therefore, the CHL filter can be presented with either a 1 for true or a zero for false readings. The LLF indicator can be presented as a 2 for true and a zero for false. In this manner, both the CHL and the LLF can be plotted simultaneously as in sidebar Figure 1, December Treasury bonds, 5/13/93 to 9/13/93. The sell signal is used as an exit from a long position t...
SIDEBAR: SIMPLE RISK CONTROL by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: SIMPLE RISK CONTROL by Technical Analysis, Inc. Evaluating your tolerance for risk and determining the size of a purchase. Assume you have $200,000 for your trading portfolio and a trading strategy that generates buy and sell signals. You have a buy signal at $400 and a stop-loss price of $390. The following guidelines will determine the number of contracts......
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. - RELATIVE MOMENTUM INDEX This is the code in EasyLanguage for relative momentum index (RMI) by Roger Altman, from ""Relative momentum index: Modifying RSI,"" from STOCKS & COMMODITIES, February 1993. The RMI is a variation of the relative strength index. The relative strength index begins its calculation using the one-day difference in price. The RMI uses a user-selected difference between closing price periods -- for example, the difference between today's price and the closing price as of five days ago. Type this in as a user function and then plot ...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc....
SIDEBAR: EXCEL SPREADSHEET Thom Hartle, Editor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXCEL SPREADSHEET --Thom Hartle, Editor The Excel 3.0 spreadsheet presented here in sidebar Figure 1 shows the indicators described in ""Volume variations."" The daily high, low and close of the Standard & Poor's 500 index along with the daily total NYSE volume is used. The first indicator is a simple 10-day moving average of the daily volume and is calculated in column F. The formula for cell F11 is: .......
SIDEBAR: CUSTOM METASTOCK FORMULAS Thom Hartle, Editor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CUSTOM METASTOCK FORMULAS Three MetaStock formulas for volume indicator, line variation, and momentum....
SIDEBAR: The RSI and the RMI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE RSI AND THE RMI The formula for the relative strength index (RSI) is: RSI = 100((RS/(1+RS)) where: RS = AU/AD during the last X days AU = Yesterday's AU - (AU/X) + today's up close or zero AD = Yesterday's AD - (AD/X) + the absolute value of today's down close or zero...
Traders' Tips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS r PERCENT NEW POSITIONS Percent new positions (PNP), which was developed by Don Iglehart of Stanford University, is used with data on a futures contract. It will tell you the percentage of today's volume that represents new positions being put on, as opposed to existing positions being closed out. PNP is expressed as: ......
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING THE THRUST OSCILLATOR WITH THE TECHNICIAN
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING THE THRUST OSCILLATOR WITH THE TECHNICIAN Plotting the thrust oscillator (TO) requires two user formulas. The first one calculates the daily value; this formula in The Technician's language is: ......
SIDEBAR: SYSTEM TEST
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Heat test to show profitability over a range of set sizes....
SIDEBAR: COIN FLIPPING MATH
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...COIN FLIPPING MATH To find the optimal bet size for a coin that heads wins two times the fraction bet, and tails loses the fraction bet of the running total stake on tails: ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Put/call ratio, Hines ratio, Bollinger, put/volume indicator, and technician's oscillator....
SIDEBAR: TREND CHANNEL SPREADSHEET
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TREND CHANNEL SPREADSHEET The trend-following method uses exponential smoothed moving averages (EMA) of price data. The equation for an EMA requires the previous day's EMA for the calculation of today's EMA. Consequently, the first period's closing price will be used as the first period's EMA and the smoothing process begins with the second period. In the spreadsheet, cells B2, C2, D2 and E2 are the first period's closing prices. The first exponential smoothing of the data occurs in column C. This is the three-week EMA prefilter. The alpha constant is 0.5. To produce a filter with zero lag th...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK The lead/lag filter can be implemented in MetaStock version 3.0 using custom formulas: Formula 1 mov(C,N,E) Formula 2 mov((N*fml(#1))-((N-1)*ref(fml(#1), -1)), N, E ) where mov(C,N,E) implements an N-point EMA on the closing price, fml(#1) refers to Formula 1, and ref(fml(#1), -1) implements a one-point delay on the EMA....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MATHEMATICA One measure of price volatility is to compute s, averaging the square difference between current closing prices and a smoothing filter, yi, and taking the square root -- that is, ... with ci denoting the current closing price and yi denoting the current value of a data filter such as an N-point moving average. The s uses a longer 2N data length because there is much greater noise variability when we compute the square error. First, we examine data lag versus moving average length N for a standard moving average. Suppose that the input sequence of values is a linear trend, as in...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Data Filtering For Trend Channel Analysis by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. Trend-following methods typically utilize moving averages of closing price data for buy and sell signals. Often, the signals turn out to be false due to short-term market fluctuations. Here, longtime STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Anthony W. Warren, correcting one of the major drawbacks of moving averages, introduces a trend-following method that smoothes the data for trend identification and measures short-term price fluctuations to establish statistical boundaries. The following article will teach you how to use a zero...
SIDEBAR: RELATIVE VOLATILITY INDEX by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RELATIVE VOLATILITY INDEX by Technical Analysis, Inc. The relative volatility index (RVI) is a modified form of the relative strength index (RSI). The original RSI calculation separates one-day net changes into positive closes and negative closes, then smoothes the data and normalizes the ratio on a scale of zero to 100 as the basis for the formula. The RVI uses the same basic formula but substitutes the 10-day standard deviation of the last 10 days' closing prices for either the up close or the down close. The goal is to create an indicator that measures and reports the general direction of ...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. r ON-BALANCE VOLUME Many indicators try to divine from daily data what went on in intraday trading. For example, the simple on-balance volume indicator (OBV) assigns the full impact of a day's full volume by the behavior of the closes. For steady-volume blue chips, this is not much of a problem, but it is for thinly traded stocks such as the penny stocks. The close could be affected by a small last-minute trade in a very thin market. Traders of penny stocks will have noticed an adverse sensitivity of the classic unmodified on-balance volume indicator...
Proactive Trading Thomas K. Lloyd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Proactive Trading Thomas K. Lloyd What does it take to trade successfully? Here are some guidelines for using technical analysis to pick stocks, focusing on bar charts. What is most important in order to trade successfully? Is it technical analysis, fundamental analysis, news access, discipline, dispassionate objectivity or a little of all of these? Probably a little of all. But at least one thing is certain. Whatever helps you to trade successfully encourages you to slip into a proactive mode, providing the tools you need to trade objectively, conscientiously and in an informed manner. Mo...
SIDEBAR: METASTOCK CUSTOM RSI FORMULAS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...METASTOCK CUSTOM RSI FORMULAS by Technical Analysis, Inc....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING THE RSI by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING THE RSI by Technical Anlaysis, Inc. The RSI classic The first step in calculating a 14-period relative strength index (RSI) in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is determining the up momentum and the down momentum. This is performed in columns G and H in sidebar Figure 1....
RSI Variations Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RSI Variations Barbara Star, Ph.D. Sometimes we forget that indicators long considered standard contain parameters that can be adjusted to become more responsive to various trading needs. Here, Barbara Star presents four variations of the classic relative strength index: one that provides readings on only the most recent data; one that incorporates volume; one that substitutes the average price for the close; and one that combines two days of price action. This month, she uses Greg Morris's article, ""Facelift for an old favorite,"" as a basis for this tutorial. Most charting software conta...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? THE MCCLELLAN OSCILLATOR AND SUMMATION INDEX The McClellan oscillator is the difference between a 19-day exponential moving average (EMA) and a 39-day EMA of the daily difference between the number of advancing issues and the number of declining issues on the NYSE. In Figure 1, the Excel spreadsheet calculates the difference between the advancing issues and the declining issues in column D. The formula for calculating the difference beginning with cell D2 is: =B2-C2 The smoothing process begins with column E. An exponential moving average uses the...
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SIDEBAR: SOURCES OF RISK IN A SECURITY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SOURCES OF RISK IN A SECURITY Sources such as: Business risk: The degree of uncertainty associated with an investment's earnings and the investment's ability to pay investors the returns owed them....
SIDEBAR: Calculating Momentum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING MOMENTUM Momentum is traditionally calculated as the difference between the price today and the price n days ago. The method presented here substitutes for the price n days ago an average of the previous three period's high, low and closing prices. ......
SIDEBAR: TRUE STRENGTH INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRUE STRENGTH INDEX The formula for the true strength index is ... where: Mtm= one-day change in closing price Mtm| = absolute value of Mtm Er = exponential smoothed moving average of r days Es = exponential smoothed moving average of s days .......
SIDEBAR: STOCHASTICS MOMENTUM INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...STOCHASTICS MOMENTUM INDEX The spreadsheet features in sidebar Figure 1 an example of calculating the stochastics momentum index (SMI) for a lookback period of two days (q = 2) and a double smoothing of 20 days (r = 20, s = 20) using an exponential smoothed moving average (EMA). The first step is determine the highest high for the last two days, which is column E. The formula for cell E21 is: =MAX(B20:B21) Then determine the lowest low for the last two days. This is performed in column F. The formula for F21 is: =MIN (C20:C21) ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS METASTOCK To recreate the stochastic momentum index, explained this month by William Blau, in MetaStock Professional, plot the custom formula (remember, this should all be on one line): SMI(13,25,2) 100*(mov(mov(C-(0.5*(hhv(H,13)+llv(L,13))),25,E),2,E)/(0.5*mov(mov(hhv(H,13)-llv(L,13),25,E),2,E))) The parameters can be changed to any values desired. The moving average menu may be used to plot a signal line as mentioned in Blau's article. After plotting the SMI, press [M] to access the moving average menu. Select an exponential moving average of the indicator. Choose whatever...
SIDEBAR: REGRESSION CHANNEL ANALYSIS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...REGRESSION CHANNEL ANALYSIS To construct a regression channel (Article Figure 16) from the last key high or low on a weekly chart, we built a least-squarest best-fit regression line Z to the next key low or the last trading day, whichever is lower. To derive this line, it is most convenient to use one of the many excellent computer charting programs; calculating by hand simply takes too long....
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE CANDLESTICK METHOD The candlestick chart can be used to interpret the movement of markets from intraday out to a monthly chart format. The basic candlestick chart depicts the market open, high, low and close....
SIDEBAR: MONEY FLOW INDICATOR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MONEY FLOW INDICATOR The money flow indicator is based on the concept that the large-volume single trades are much more important than smaller-share trades. For example, if a stock trades down one tick on 200 shares and then the next trade is an uptick on 12,000 shares, then the large buyers are aggressively purchasing the stock. The opposite holds true for a negative indication. A stock that trades up a tick on 100 shares and the next trade is down a tick with 11,000 shares is being sold by large traders. The volume of shares traded on upticks is summed and the volume of shares traded on dow...
SIDEBAR: The RSI and the RMI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE RSI AND THE RMI The formula for the relative strength index (RSI) is: RSI = 100((RS/(1+RS)) where: RS = AU/AD during the last X days AU = Yesterday's AU - (AU/X) + today's up close or zero AD = Yesterday's AD - (AD/X) + the absolute value of today's down close or zero ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS MetaStock 3.0 Using the built-in stochastic function: MetaStock 3.0 users can use the built-in stochastic function to combine multiple-length stochastics as discussed by Stuart Meibuhrin the December STOCKS & COMMODITIES article ""Multiple-length stochastics."" For example, I built a custom formula as shown below: (stoch(30,15)+stoch(60,30)+stoch(90,45))/3 to use a combined 30-, 60- and 90-day stochastic. I smoothed the stochastic heavily to see the underlying trend. Users can try different combinations to identify important tops or bottoms. One example is Figure 1 using the ...
SIDEBAR: THE GREEKS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE GREEKS Delta: The rate of change of option price with regard to its underlying asset. An option with a delta of 25 will move 25% as much as the underlying asset. The delta of options changes with the distance of the strike price from the underlying. It also measures the equivalent unhedged position in the underlying. Calls have positive delta; puts are negative....
SIDEBAR: IMPLIED RISK
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IMPLIED RISK This version of the implied risk formula differs slightly from the original DYR version given in the June 1993 interview with Jim Yates, because this version uses average implied volatility of all of the options multiplied by the total option volume....
SIDEBAR: MARKET THRUST
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MARKET THRUST In a spreadsheet, the cumulative market thrust line and the thrust oscillator (TO) use the daily number of advancing issues, declining issues, upside volume and downside volume. In Figure 1, the NYSE Composite is column B, the number of advancing stocks is column C and the number of declining stocks is column D. The volume of advancing stocks is in column E and the volume of stocks declining in column F. The daily market thrust is calculated in column G. The following formula is entered into cell G2 and copied down:...
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGES The first step for calculating a weighted moving average (WMA) is to decide the lookback period (n) and the alpha (a). For our example in sidebar Figure 1, we are using n = 8 and a = 0.6 to calculate the optimized weighted moving average (OWMA) described in ""Weighted moving averages."" The OWMA is calculated in column E and is smoothing the put/call ratio calculated in column D. Each cell in column D is simply the ratio of the put volume in column C divided by the call volume in column B -- that is, cell D2 = C2/B2. Enter the alpha in cell F2; our example...
SIDEBAR: MATRIX MULTIPLICATION
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MATRIX MULTIPLICATION If matrix A is size (m × n) and matrix B is size (n × k), then the product of matrix A times matrix B is another matrix, AB, of size (m × k). To find the element of the ith row and jth column of the product matrix, multiply each element of the ith row of A by the corresponding element in the jth column of B and then add these products. Example: Find the product of matrices A and B. (Matrix A and B are identical because we want to multiply matrix A by itself.)...
SIDEBAR: TREND REVERSAL
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TREND REVERSAL Before discussing the concept of a trend reversal, the proper way to draw a trendline must be discussed. If a market is in a downtrend, the trendline is drawn from the highest high to the lowest minor high before the lowest low on the chart. In sidebar Figure 1, two downward trendlines are drawn. Trendline A is incorrect because the line uses the minor high after the lowest low. Trendline B is the correct trendline because it uses the lowest minor high just before the lowest low. Finally, the trendline should not have any prices trading through the trendline between these two...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS Do you have a custom formula, solution or user tip for your software that you would like to share? Have you ever pondered a trading question that you'd like to share with other readers? Have you ever contemplated a question for a while and come up with a solution that you'd like to share with others? Or are you still stuck without a solution? Send your formulas, solutions, tips and questions to Traders' Tips, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, 3517 SW Alaska St., Seattle, WA 98126-2700. Please send a hard copy and, if possible, the information on a disk in unformatted ASCII along with your n...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS TIPS by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK The more I talk to MetaStock users, the more users I find who are not taking advantage of layouts. The only reason I can think of why people are not doing so is that they don't realize how much easier it will make their trading -- or maybe they don't understand what a layout does. When you save a layout in MetaStock, the layout remembers what charts were loaded and virtually every characteristic of each chart (for example, number of records loaded, date compression, indicators, moving averages, trendlines, text, and so on). Thus, layouts can ...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's letters consist of one long letter discussing the construction and interpretation of linear regression models as explained IN Jack Karczewski's article ""Using multiple regression analysis,"" STOCKS & COMMODITIES, August 1993. Karczewski responds to the questions posed by this reader....
SIDEBAR: RELEVANT TERMS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: RELEVANT TERMS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Short paragraph-length descriptions are given for: dependent variable, independent variable(s), coeffeient of determination (R2), alpha, and beta....
SIDEBAR: METASTOCK CUSTOM FORMULAS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MetaStock custom formulas for price offset and momentum oscillators....
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE CANDLESTICK METHOD Illustration of a basic candlestick body....
SIDEBAR: LEAST-SQUARES CYCLE AND THE TIME SERIES MOVING AVERAGE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LEAST-SQUARES CYCLE AND THE TIME SERIES MOVING AVERAGE The least-squares cycle oscillator calculates a regression line that is a best fit of the data for the selected time period, and then the difference between the current closing price and the current value of the least-squares regression line is determined. This value is smoothed with an n period moving average. To understand the calculation of the least-squares regression line, we begin with the formula for a straight line: ......
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING MVI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING MVI The market volume impact (MVI) uses the daily net change of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the total volume for the New York Stock Exchange. These two values are multiplied together to calculate MVI. The next step is to smooth MVI with a 10-day moving average (S). Then smooth this value with a five-day moving average for the short-term (ST) trend. ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRADERS' TIPS r ADVANCE-DECLINE LINE AND MCCLELLAN STUDIES I am frequently asked by new MetaStock users how to create the advance-decline line and McClellan studies in MetaStock. The procedure for doing this has changed for users who have upgraded to MetaStock 3.0, so I will explain how to create these market timing studies in MetaStock Professional 3.0. The first step is to collect data for advancing issues and declining issues using two separate files. Next, create a composite security for these files. This is accomplished from the File Maintenance menu. To access the File Maintenance men...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc. KST formulas for short, intermediate, and long term daily or weekly data....
SIDEBAR: THIRTEEN INVESTMENT TENETS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THIRTEEN INVESTMENT TENETS by Technical Analysis, Inc. To improve your investment performance... THIRTEEN INVESTMENT TENETS THAT COULD IMPROVE YOUR INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE...
SIDEBAR: Random Walk Index Spreadsheet by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Random Walk Index Spreadsheet by Technical Analysis, Inc. Random Walk index spreadsheet....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK PROFESSIONAL 3.0 Mass Index The June 1992 issue of S&C presented an indicator called the mass index developed by Donald Dorsey. The indicator is a 25 day moving sum of a ratio of two moving averages. The numerator of the ratio is the exponentially smoothed moving average of the daily ranges. The denominator of the ratio is the numerator smoothed a second time using the same exponential moving average. The exponential moving averages use a smoothing factor (alpha) equivalent to a nine-day simple moving average....
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Sidebar: Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sidebar: Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc. The suggested parameters for short, intermediate and long term can be found in sidebar Figure 1. There are three steps to calculating the KST indicator. First, calculate the four different rates of change....
SIDEBAR Performance Summary by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Performance Summary by Technical Analysis, Inc. Building on a February 1990 article by Jay Kaeppel, ""Formula Research"" report editor Nelson Freeburg and engineer/investor Charles Skelley introduce a stock market timing model using the Fed discount rate and the 13-week Treasury bill rate spread. By Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley...
SIDEBAR: INDICATOR PHASE by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATOR PHASE by Technical Analysis, Inc. The phase of an indicator is defined as the distance of an indicator above or below a median value. For indicators that are plotted together with the price such as moving averages and on-balance volume, the phase is simply the difference between the price and the value of the indicator at a certain time period....
SIDEBAR: ODD-LOT SHORTS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ODD-LOT SHORTS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Short interest--the sale of a borrowed stock--is one of the most useful tools of the technician....
SIDEBAR: LOGARITHMIC POINT & FIGURE by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: LOGARITHMIC POINT & FIGURE by Technical Analysis, Inc. The point and figure chart, which is built on a filtering technique, is an old favorite. In a one-point chart, moves of less than one point are filtered out; in a three-point chart, all moves of less than three points are filtered out. The idea is good, but this type of chart has several drawbacks. First, the chart makes the error of using points and not percentages. Points are a poor measure of importance in a stock chart. One point can be very important in a $10 stock but be a very minor move in a $100 stock. Another limitatio...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. MetaStock Professional 3.0 The Discount Rate/T-Bill Spread...
SIDEBAR: OSCILLATOR TRADING SYSTEMS DEFINED by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...OSCILLATOR TRADING SYSTEMS DEFINED by Technical Analysis, Inc. An oscillator is an indicator that moves back and forth between two limits. Most oscillators, such as stochastics, relative strength index and commodity channel index, are defined so that they range between 0 and 100 or -100 and +100. Usually, an oscillator is interpreted by watching for crossovers; that is, when the indicator crosses a given level (such as 20 or 80 for stochastics), a buy or sell signal is generated. The problem with crossover systems is that they are usually late -- by the time the indicator penetrates the trigge...
SIDEBAR: AN MACD VARIATION by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...AN MACD VARIATION by Technical Analysis, Inc. The method used is a variation of the original moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) indicator. Longer-term exponentially smoothed moving averages (EMA) have been used in the calculation of the MACD. The new smoothing constants a are 0.0299 and 0.0589, which approximate a 66-week simple moving average and a 33-week simple moving average, respectively....
SIDEBAR: WEIGHTED AVERAGE TRIN10 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WEIGHTED AVERAGE TRIN10 by Technical Analysis, Inc. The steps for calculating WTRIN10 begin with the calculation of the open TRIN10 (column G). The 10-day moving average of the individual day's value of the number of advancing shares (column C), number of declining shares (column D), advancing volume (column E) and declining volume (column F) are used to calculate the open TRIN10....
SIDEBAR: Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Calculating the KST by Techncial Analysis, Inc. KST formulas for short, intermediate, and long term daily or weekly data....
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. MICROSOFT EXCEL 3.0 Here's a method to calculate and plot a trendline from the data in a spreadsheet. A trendline is a straight line that is a plot of rise over run. The run calculation is easy to do because the run is equidistant between the values on the X-axis (time). Finding the rise requires identifying the difference between the two highest points (for a downward trendline) or the two lowest points (for an uptrend). Excel can locate these values. Our example will be for a downward trendline (Figure 1). The first step is to plot the data (such a...
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING RELATIVE STRENGTH
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING RELATIVE STRENGTH Calculating relative strength performance in a spreadsheet is easy. Ours example, sidebar Figure 1, uses the closing price of Pepsico (column A) versus the closing price for the S&P 500 (column B). Any two items can be compared. ......
SIDEBAR: SAMPLES OF USE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SAMPLES OF USE Three samples of data in different programs manipulated to be used in other software trading programs....
SIDEBAR: SETTING UP AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SETTING UP AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET Following is an example of setting up an Excel spreadsheet for creating a forecast using a five-day linear regression for tomorrow's close. Sidebar Figure 1, Column A, lists the dates and Column D lists the closing prices (the Y variables) used for the forecasted close. ......
SIDEBAR: Calculating TrSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING TrSI Calculating the true strength index requires an introduction to exponentially smoothed moving averages (EMA): Exponential Moving Average--The EMA for day D is calculated as: EMAD = aPRD + (1-a)EMAD-1 where PR is the price on day D and a (alpha) is a smoothing constant (0<a<1). Alpha may be estimated as 2/(n+1), where n is the simple moving average length....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...UNDERSTANDING STANDARD MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS It is inevitable that today's technician will encounter steps to calculating an indicator that uses standard mathematical symbols that appear to be beyond simple arithmetic. In reality, these symbols are simply shorthand notation for no more than basic arithmetic. The following is a guide and interpretation to mathematical symbols commonly seen in STOCKS & COMMODITIES....
SIDEBAR: OPTIMUM DETRENDING SPREADSHEET EXAMPLE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...OPTIMUM DETRENDING SPREADSHEET EXAMPLE The following is a spreadsheet example (sidebar Figure 1) and a QuickBasic source code (sidebar Figure 2) of optimum detrending. Our spreadsheet example is for detrending the price data of the bond market example used in Article Figure 9 of the text of the article. Our spreadsheet example uses the variables listed in the text of the article: ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DETERMINING GROWTH RATE One method for determining a growth rate is to fit a regression line using the least-squares method to the data. Figure 1 is a graph of the annual dividends for Merck & Company with a regression line drawn. This straight line is calculated to fit the data with the least amount of error. The formula for this line is: Y = a + bX The letter Y is the dividends and the letter X represents time. The letter a is the Y intercept when X equals zero and the letter b is the slope of the line. The slope of the line is the rate of change of the line. The formula that statisticians...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MATH MODEL FORMULAS My mathematical model of the stock market is based on fundamental economic parameters and has been modified slightly from the model described in the article ""Determining stock value from price and earnings."" The Standard & Poor's 500 is used to represent the market as a whole. The premise is that stock index prices are proportional to earnings divided by interest rate: ... The earnings in the model are the average earnings one year, or four quarters, ahead of the price of the S&P 500 and is expressed using the least-squares method by the following equation: ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATOR TRIX The indicator TRIX is an oscillator designed to indicate changes in momentum and a filter of random market noise. The process is the triple exponential smoothing of the log of price. The indicator is the one-day difference of the smoothed data. ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...GANN'S 28 TRADING RULES 1. Never risk more than 10% of your trading capital in a single trade. 2. Always use stop-loss orders. 3. Never overtrade....
SIDEBAR: THE MASS INDEX AND MOVING AVERAGE FORMULAS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE MASS INDEX AND MOVING AVERAGE FORMULAS The mass index is a 25-day moving sum of a ratio of two moving averages. The numerator of the ratio is the exponentially smoothed moving average of the daily ranges. The denominator is the numerator smoothed a second time. ......
SIDEBAR: THE VOLUME INDEX AND ON-BALANCE VOLUME
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE VOLUME INDEX AND ON-BALANCE VOLUME The volume index is a sum of each financial index's current on-balance volume (OBV) reading. On-balance volume is an indicator based on each day's change and the accompanying volume. ......
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...T-TEST RETURNS For each of the 10 trading strategies, Article Figure 2 presents the mean quarterly net returns, the standard deviation of these returns, the results of the t-test, the autocorrelation coefficient (the column titled Auto contains the estimated values of the correlation coefficient between adjacent returns), and the value of the Shapiro-Wilkes statistic (the column titled S-W). The Shapiro-Wilkes test statistic is bounded between 0 and 1, with small values cause for rejection of the null hypothesis; the distribution of the Shapiro-Wilkes test statistic is right-skewed and, thus,...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TESTING INDICATORS FOR PROFITABILITY In our first study of 34 indicators, MicroVest's BackTrak was used to simulate optimization using three strategies: speculation, hedging for a commercial holding a long position in the cash yen market and hedging for a commercial holding a short position in the cash yen market. ......
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SIDEBAR: THE RANDOM WALK INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE RANDOM WALK INDEX The channel height ratio to one day figures given show a consistent excess beyond the square root column. This excess indicates the presence of trends and hints how to create a trend ""yardstick."" If no trends were present, the ratios would be expected to all fall exactly on the square roots, and thus an ""expected random walk"" over n days would be the square root of n multiplied by the average daily range (same as average one-day channel height)....
SIDEBAR: MODIFYING RISK AND RETURN WITH S&P 500 FUTURES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MODIFYING RISK AND RETURN WITH S&P 500 FUTURES Stock index futures modify risk by altering the portfolio beta and portfolio return by affecting cash balances. Take an example. A $10 million portfolio currently has a beta of 1.2. The manager wants to increase the beta to 1.4. How many S&P 500 contracts should he buy?...
SIDEBAR: WRITING AND EXECUTING A SPREADSHEET MACRO
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...WRITING AND EXECUTING A SPREADSHEET MACRO A macro is a series of commands or keystrokes that can be stored for use for repeated operations. For all popular spreadsheets, macros can take on two different forms. One is a series of keystrokes that can be recorded as you enter them. This set of keystrokes can be saved in the spreadsheet and assigned a name for later reference. This kind of macro is useful for keystroke actions that are frequently performed, such as setting up a page layout for printing or entering repeated formulas or data. The second kind of macro is a series of commands that al...
SIDEBAR: TRIPLE EXPONENTIALLY SMOOTHING A DATA SERIES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRIPLE EXPONENTIALLY SMOOTHING A DATA SERIES One purpose of triple exponentially smoothing a data series is to remove meaningless fluctuations from the data while maintaining the correct appraisal of the direction of the trend. This is accomplished by smoothing the data three times with an exponentially smoothed moving average (EMA) using the same constant for the smoothing factor each time. The definition of an EMA is: ......
Exponentially Smoothing The Daily Number of Declines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Exponentially Smoothing The Daily Number of Declines This article presents an indicator that is the one-day rate of change of a triple exponential smoothing of the daily number of declines, an oscillator similar to TRIX (covered by Jack Hutson in the early years of STOCKS & COMMODITIES). Raff explains how the decline line, the number of stocks that have dropped in a given period (most often seen as a day), as the basis of this oscillator, could have warned of the impending stock market tumble in 1987. The method looks good -- but not good enough. It's deceptive: it works well enough, but in t...
SIDEBAR: ADD-ONS VS. PYRAMIDING
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ADD-ONS VS. PYRAMIDING A paragraph explaining the difference between add-ons and pyramiding....
SIDEBAR: PROFITABILITY OF BREAKOUT AND OSCILLATOR METHODS WITH S&P 500
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PROFITABILITY OF BREAKOUT AND OSCILLATOR METHODS WITH S&P 500 Profitability of breakout and oscillator methods with S&P 500....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING A RATE OF CHANGE OSCILLATOR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING A RATE OF CHANGE OSCILLATOR A rate of change oscillator (Roc) is calculated by dividing the price in the current time period by the price n periods ago. For example, a 10-day rate of change would be today's price divided by the price 10days ago. Roc indicators are quite useful in wide trading range markets but can give misleading signals if a strong trend is in force. In addition, a specific Roc oscillator will reflect only one cycle. Incorrect interpretations will occur if another cycle length is dominant. Combining various Roc oscillators into a single indicator is one method wi...
SIDEBAR: CONTRACT SPECS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CONTRACT SPECS Eurodollar time deposits and one-month LIBOR futures....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING BOLLINGER BANDS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING BOLLINGER BANDS An Excel spreadsheet is used to calculate Bollinger Bands for the DJIA. The actual formula for each cell is shown at the bottom of the column; the formula presented is specific for the location of that cell....
SIDEBAR: Calculating an 11-period CCI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING AN 11-PERIOD CCI The commodity channel index (CCI) can be calculated using any lookback period chosen by the trader. The Excel spreadsheet shown in sidebar Figure 1 is an 11-period CCI for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The first step is to calculate the daily typical price. This is the high, low and close added together and divided by three. This step is performed in column E. The formula for cell E2 is: ......
SIDEBAR: TRIX MOMENTUM IN METASTOCK by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TRIX MOMENTUM IN METASTOCK by Technical Analysis, Inc. TRIX momentum in MetaStock....
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc. How to make a basic candlestick chart....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING VIDYA by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING VIDYA by Technical Analysis, Inc. The variable index dynamic moving average (VIDYA) builds on the concept of the exponential moving average (EMA). While the EMA uses a constant (alpha) to smooth today's data, the VIDYA adjusts the alpha according to the data's volatility. The volatility is measured by taking the ratio of a 30-day standard deviation to a reference standard deviation ....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING STOCHASTICS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING STOCHASTICS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Calculating %K and %D, with formulas for a spreadsheet....
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. GANN-DO ATTITUDE Editor, January's article, ""The Gann Quarterly Chart,"" was the best article I have read in nine months. I can use it for buying and selling mutual funds for long-term investing. I would appreciate more articles simply written with actual buy and sell dates for long and intermediate investing. Could you explain the difference between a 50-day moving average and a 10-week moving average? DAVID PORTNEY Staten Island, NY The moving average, a mathematical procedure to smooth or eliminate the fluctuations in data, emphasizes the dir...
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. METASTOCK PROFESSIONAL AND CANDLESTICKS Candlestick charts are still new to traders in the U.S. Here's a method to assist you in identifying specific candlestick patterns in MetaStock Professional. Candlestick patterns use the open, high, low and closing prices, and so your data will need all four to correctly plot a candlestick pattern. The opening and close for the day define the body of the candlestick, while low and high are the thin lines that extend beyond the body. The thin lines are called the shadows. If the market closes above the opening,...
SIDEBAR: TIME DELAY OF LINEAR EXPONENTIAL AVERAGES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TIME DELAY OF LINEAR EXPONENTIAL AVERAGES Article Figure 2 indicates that if the price goes up linearly, after a while the exponential moving average will also be a straight line that is parallel to the original. For this to occur, there must be a constant separation between the lines. Let's designate the separation as ""B."" This situation is pictured in Article Figure 2. Recalling equation (1): ......
SIDEBAR: EXPANDING THE AVERAGE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPANDING THE AVERAGE How to modify the start of an exponential moving average....
SIDEBAR: EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES Defining exponentially smoothed moving averages -- which, for most traders, would be a series of closing prices -- is simply another form of a moving average. ......
SIDEBAR: DONCHIAN'S TRADING GUIDES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DONCHIAN'S TRADING GUIDES Richard D. Donchian revised his 1934 guidelines for securities trading in 1974. His two sets of basic rules for general and technical trading have stood the test of time....
SIDEBAR: DESCRIBING A SPREADSHEET PROGRAM
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DESCRIBING A SPREADSHEET PROGRAM...
SIDEBAR: USING OPTION RATIOS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...USING OPTION RATIOS To many traders and investors, the limited-risk aspect of the purchase of both call and put ratios is appealing. Many market followers believe that when the major activity is concentrated in either calls (bullish expectations) or puts (bearish expectations), extremes in crowd psychology will appear. An overabundance of optimism usually accompanies a market top, while market bottoms are typified by a preponderance of pessimism....
SIDEBAR: EXPLAINING r
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPLAINING r Correlation analysis to measure the degree of relationship between two variables. Gives a spreadsheet example and formulas....
SIDEBAR: BREAKOUT RELIABILITY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BREAKOUT RELIABILITY The reliability of a breakout from a trading range as a signal for an impending trend is significantly improved if prices are still beyond the range after a number of days (e.g., 5) . ... --Jack D. Schwager...
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Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. LEAST SQUARE, MOST COOL Editor, ""A regression-based oscillator"" by Patrick E. Lafferty (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, September) was very good, and I would like to see many more articles by him. His trading method was logically developed and appears to be very promising. As the basis of his approach depends upon a least-square trend, I was dumbfounded in applying this method because I did not understand the least-square equation: P = 390.52 - t(0.77202) + t2 (0.0055339) where P is the price of June gold in dollars per ounce and t is the time in days. ...
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING PERR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING PERR Price/earnings ratio reliability (PERR) is simply 100 ´ the R-square that measures the correlation between the logarithms of price and earnings. PERR is most easily visualized through scatter charts: Article Figure 2 shows Merck's high PERR of 85.5, with scatter points keeping close to the 45-degree line that bisects the price and earnings axes, while Article Figure 4 shows uncorrelated scatter with Alcoa's low PERR of 15.9. Normally, R-square is encountered as a byproduct of a regression analysis, which often reports R-bar-square, adjusted for degrees of freedom. PERR uses ...
SIDEBAR: TEN RECOMMENDED FUNDS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TEN RECOMMENDED FUNDS According to the relative strength analysis of Paul Merriman & Associates since July 1, these are the funds that Merriman would choose at present:...
SIDEBAR: MERRIMAN'S TIMERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MERRIMAN'S TIMERS According to Paul Merriman, the most productive of the four systems that Merriman & Associates uses has been Stan Lipstadt of PSM Investors, Inc. Carlisle, MA-based Lipstadt has been timing on a real-time basis since 1974. The most important factor in Lipstadt's model is the tracking of daily points up, points down, volume up and volume down. These numbers are collected from the Lowry Report Service, West Palm Beach, FL, and are placed in a long-term moving average perspective, with the buy/sell rules based on changes in the momentum of the number. Annually, Lipstadt's syste...
SIDEBAR: EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES Defining exponentially smoothed moving averages -- which, for most traders, would be a series of closing prices -- is simply another form of a moving average. An exponentially smoothed moving average utilizes a smoothing constant (a) that approximates the number of days for a simple moving average. This constant is multiplied times the difference between today's closing price and yesterday's moving average value. This new value is then added to yesterday's moving average value (Figure 1):...
SIDEBAR: DRAWING CANDLESTICKS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DRAWING CANDLESTICKS If drawn by hand, Japanese candlestick charting is time consuming but simple. First, collect the high, low, open and close price for the period under consideration (five minutes, hourly, daily, weekly or whatever you may choose). Second, mark the open and the close on a price chart and join them by a small rectangle to form the body of the candle (the small end on the time scale and the long on the price scale, representing the difference between the open and close prices). Third, paint the rectangle black when the open is higher than the close and leave it white when the...
PC Buyers Guide
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PC Buyers Guide Speed Versus Price by Jack K. Hutson Sooner or later, most traders give in to the urge to purchase a personal computer to help them analyze the markets as well as manage their money in and out of the markets. One of my tasks here at STOCKS & COMMODITIES has been to evaluate equipment for our editorial and circulation staff as well as for software testing platforms. About 18 months ago, I undertook the task of evaluating personal computer hardware with the hopes of producing a meaningful ranking of these systems for market technicians. As with all methodologies, I have chosen ...
Fed Policy And The Stock Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Fed Policy And The Stock Market Revisiting Gould's Rule by George A. Schade Jr. On February 24, 1989, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York raised its discount rate to 7% and triggered the most recent signal of the ""three steps and a stumble"" rule. The rule decrees that whenever three successive rises occur in any of the three rates set by the monetary authorities--the discount rate, the reserve requirement and the margin requirement--sometime afterward the market is likely to suffer a substantial setback. The rates are set by the Federal Reserve Board. The discount rate is the interest rate t...
SIDEBAR: RSI: TWO VERSIONS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RSI: TWO VERSIONS It may not be obvious that (1) RSI14 = 100?(100 / 1+RS) is the same as...
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING TSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING TSI Calculating the true strength index requires an introduction to exponentially smoothed moving averages (EMA): Exponential Moving Average- The EMA for day D is calculated as: EMAD = aPRD + (1-a)EMAD-1 where PR is the price on day D and a (alpha) is a smoothing constant (0<a<1). Alpha may be estimated as 2/(n+1), where n is the simple moving average length....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALCULATING RSI Calculate RSI by summing the up closes during the first 14 days and dividing by 14. This is the up average (Column E). Then sum the down closes during the first 14 days and divide by 14. This is the down average (Column F). All values are absolute values (positive integers). Then divide the up average by the down average to determine the RS value (Column G). Add 1 to the RS value (Column H). This result is divided into 100 (Column I). The quotient is then subtracted from 100 to produce the RSI value (Column J)....
SIDEBAR: Discipline and Flexibility
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DISCIPLINE AND FLEXIBILITY The novice trader will ignore a failed signal, riding his position into a large loss while hoping for the best. The more experienced trader, having learned the importance of money management, will exit quickly once it is apparent that he has made a bad trade. However, the truly skilled trader will be able to do a 180-degree turn, reversing his position at a loss if market behavior points to such a course of action. In other words, it takes great discipline to capitalize on failed signals, but such flexibility is essential to the effective synthesis of chart analysis...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C THE UPS AND DOWNS OF IT Editor, I have some questions regarding ""Historical movement of the stock market"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, November 1991). Mr. Moody states that the data cover the quarterly periods from 1940 through June 1991. This would be 206 quarters. My questions are: 1. Figures 1 and 2 cover 82 quarters, not 206. Why was 60% of the quarterly data not reported? Also, all frequency charts I have previously seen show the market up 60% of the time, but these two charts are 50/50. 2. Figures 3 and 4 together appear to cover 196 of the 206 quarters. Were the missing ...
SIDEBAR: IS IT TIME TO GO MAC?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...IS IT TIME TO GO MAC? Time was when virtually no software existed for traders whose machines were Apple Macintosh personal computers. Even Commodore had more software than Apple's machines, though retail technical analysis really got started with a lowly Apple II and CompuTrac's pioneering work. (Could it have been barely eight years ago?) Nowadays, an analyst can legitimately think of going the Macintosh way for his daily analysis and his heavy-duty technical requirements. CompuTrac Mac is a tour de force, a delightful program that fully exploits the Mac interface. Personal Hotline is anoth...
SIDEBAR: PROBABILITY CONSIDERATIONS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PROBABILITY CONSIDERATIONS Statistics using a binomial formula to calculate failure and success probabilities of stocks, page 215....
SIDEBAR: TWO VERSIONS OF THE RSI FORMULA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TWO VERSIONS OF THE RSI FORMULA Derivation of the RSI formula containing an exponential moving average, from the basic RSI formula, page 205....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C GOING UP Editor, I have some doubts about the procedures explained in one of Arthur Merrill's recent columns, ""Testing Indicators"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, May). Mr. Merrill outlines a method of assessing the significance of an indicator by reviewing the performance of the DJIA in the weeks and months after the indicator turns positive. He prepares a ""batting average"" of the number of times the DJIA showed gains versus the number of times the DJIA showed losses, and he also tests the significance of the indicator with a chi square formula. I think the upward bias of the o...
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SIDEBAR: POINT & FIGURE TECHNIQUE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...POINT & FIGURE TECHNIQUE Point and figure charting is a technical trading approach that has been credited to Charles Dow, originator of the Dow theory. This technique differs from bar charting in that price reversals below a minimum size are eliminated and time is not a factor (it may be listed as only a frame of reference). Any market or indicator can be plotted using this technique; we use a stock for our example....
SIDEBAR: QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE SPECIALIST
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE SPECIALIST Computer parameters of the pseudo stock specialist used in the main article, page 120....
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Quick descriptions and definitions of candlestick charting patterns and terms, page 108....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C LOOKBACK OR LENGTH? Editor, I have a question that deals with the formula listed on page 30 of the February 1991 issue. When calculating the formula gives a lookback length of one through 20 days, is the average range based on the current lookback length or is it the length of the total data series up to the day of the calculation? For example: data of 100 days, currently at 40 start with lookback of 2. avg.rng = 2, avg (h- 1, past two days) start with lookback of 3. avg.rng = 3, avg (b - 1, past three days). or avg.rng = avg (h-1, day 1 to 40)? ROBERT ZUPP Hackensac...
SIDEBAR: THE WYCKOFF WAVE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE WYCKOFF WAVE The Wyckoff wave used as a common stock price index, page 227....
SIDEBAR: BUILDING THE VARIABLE-LENGTH MOVING AVERAGE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BUILDING THE VARIABLE-LENGTH MOVING AVERAGE Seven steps to constructing a variable-length moving average, page 223....
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C FILLING THE GAPS Editor, In ""Trading the Deutschemark's gaps"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, June 1991), John Sweeney presented an excellent model of explanatory research, going from ""what-if?"" to price-change and timing guidelines. The reader learned a way to trade gaps and also a way to analyze market action. After watching many real-time screens, I formed the opinion that markets always try to fill gaps if they can and failure to fill is a very strong signal. If you recall, I used that same principle in projecting prices for your September Mystery Chart contest. In the curre...
SIDEBAR: THE OPTIMISM/PESSIMISM INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE OPTIMISM/PESSIMISM INDEX The Wyckoff method divides each trading session into intraday buying and selling waves....
SIDEBAR: THE ARMS INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE ARMS INDEX The Arms index, also known as TRIN or Trader's Index, was developed by Richard Arms in 1967 to indicate when abnormally high volume is accompanying either advancing or declining stocks. The index is based on the assumption that volume tends to swing in the direction of market sentiment. If we are in a bullish atmosphere, volume will tend to be proportionately higher in the stocks that are going up. If the bears are in control, the volume will tend to be proportionately heavier in those stocks that are declining. The formula is a ratio of two ratios:...
SIDEBAR: EQUIVOLUME CHARTING
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EQUIVOLUME CHARTING Equivolume charting is a method of charting developed by Richard Arms based on the principle that the market is a function of volume, not time, and so gives more emphasis to volume than traditional bar charts. Equivolume charts put volume rather than time on the horizontal axis and depict each day as a box. The bottom and top of the box represent the low and high for the day, while the width is the volume of shares or contracts traded during that day. The shape of the box generated is thus a visual representation of the relationship between price range and volume. Tall, th...
SIDEBAR: EASE OF MOVEMENT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EASE OF MOVEMENT This indicator is an oscillator designed to reveal the direction that a stock or commodity is moving with the least amount of resistance. First, calculate the midpoint movement (MPM):...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C REAL-TIME FAIR VALUE? Editor, In the July 1991 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES you published two letters concerning Jean-Olivier Fraisse's December 1990 article, ""Clues to market direction with the S&P 500 premium."" Mr. Fraisse noted in the July issue that the easiest way to get the fair value and program levels was through Financial News Network. There are two potential problems with Mr. Fraisse's comment: 1) What if the reader does not have access to FNN? and 2) The fair value is not constant during the day; it varies in relation to the price of the cash S&P 500 index. How...
SIDEBAR: THE WYCKOFF WAVE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE WYCKOFF WAVE To determine the current trend, the present position and probable future trend of the market, a means of charting the market's action to reveal the general direction of the trend is necessary. ......
SIDEBAR: RELEVANT FORMULAS AND OBSERVATIONS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RELEVANT FORMULAS AND OBSERVATIONS Focusing on the profit and loss profiles, we have established that: Rstock + Rput - Rcall = 0 Where Rstock, Rput and Rcall are the risk--profit or loss --of holding the stock, the put and the call, respectively. ......
SIDEBAR: HLC INDEX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...HLC INDEX A version of the double smoothed stochastic index factoring in the e high, low and close....
SIDEBAR: EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES Defining exponentially smoothed moving averages -- which, for most traders, would be a series of closing prices -- is simply another form of a moving average....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C FAST FOURIER AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS Editor, I am a student at The School of Business Economics, Aarhus, Denmark. Presently I am working on my graduate report, which concerns the efficiency of the foreign exchange market. In order to detect inefficiency in the market I have performed several statistical tests, including spectral analysis. None of these tests have produced any significant results, however, and considering the fact that certain investors and investment firms through the use of technical analysis have produced profits substantially larger than could be expected un...
SIDEBAR: TERMS AND PROGRAMMING HOW -TOS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TERMS AND PROGRAMMING HOW -TOS Here are the definitions of the terms used in Article Figures 2 and 3, and the names of storage variables you see at the top of the macro: CURR--Currency for which the database holds exchange rates SERIES--Ex. 12345, a numerical series that is optimized ......
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SIDEBAR: MUGEN: COMPUTATION OF MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MUGEN: COMPUTATION OF MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION Membership functions can probably be computed with any plausible mathematical function suitable to the occasion. In practice, however, many situations are well served by simple first- or second-order functions....
SIDEBAR: DERIVATION OF THE RULE OF 72
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DERIVATION OF THE RULE OF 72 The mathematics behind the rule of 72, stating that if an amount is invested at a compound interest rate until it doubles in value, then the product of the number of years (or periods) and the interest rate is approximately equal to 72; page 81....
SIDEBAR: THE WYCKOFF WAVE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE WYCKOFF WAVE The Wyckoff wave used as a common stock price index, page 71....
SIDEBAR: USING OPTION RATIOS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...USING OPTION RATIOS AnCall/put TRIN as a market sentiment indicator, page 64. To many traders and investors, the limited-risk aspect of the purchase of both call and put options is appealing. Many market followers believe that when the major activity is concentrated in either calls (bullish expectations) or puts (bearish expectations), extremes in crowd psychology will appear....
SIDEBAR: CONVERTING ASCII TO APEX NDX FILE FORMATS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CONVERTING ASCII TO APEX NDX FILE FORMATS Steps to convert ASCII to APEX NDX file formats, pages 56-57....
SIDEBAR: LETTERS TO AUTHOR MERRILL
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters in response to Arthur Merrill's article, ""The 28% Rule"", page 54....
SIDEBAR: Patters Perfection, part I
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PATTERS PERFECTION, part I Quote by H.M.Gartley, author of Profits in the Stock Market...
SIDEBAR: Defensive Moneymaker
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...DEFENSIVE MONEYMAKER Quote from William J. O'Neil, author of How to Make Money in Stocks...
LETTERS TO S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C GETTING A FIX ON LOOKBACKS Editor, I would like to comment on the excellent article by E. Michael Poulos entitled ""Of trends and random walks"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, February 1991). Mr. Poulos presents an extremely useful alternative to indicators calculated over fixed periods of time. I found this alternative very helpful in analyzing market indicators that I have begun to study and was able to apply his variable-length lookback concept to these indicators. The variable lookback techniques by itself provides a new perspective on developing accurate predictive models. Howe...
SIDEBAR: OBSERVATIONS AND FORMULAS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...OBSERVATIONS AND FORMULAS To devise a technical indicator out of all this, consider first Article Figure 3. Today's low (Day 1 low) is 250 points below the high of Day 4 and 300 points below the high of Day 9. To which high is today's low most overextended, relatively speaking?...
SIDEBAR: MEASURING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RETURNS ON TWO ASSETS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MEASURING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RETURNS ON TWO ASSETS The covariance between the total returns on two assets X and Y is defined as the average over the entire period of the products consisting of asset X's return in a given subperiod less its average return for the whole period, multiplied by asset Y's subperiod return less its average return. Specifically:...
SIDEBAR: ASSESSING A SINGLE EQUITY INVESTMENT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ASSESSING A SINGLE EQUITY INVESTMENT The total return on an equity investment reflects both capital gains and periodic income such as dividend payments. Specifically:...
SIDEBAR: SHORT INTEREST AND LEVEL OF PAIN
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SHORT INTEREST AND LEVEL OF PAIN Generally, short interest is a monthly statistic presented on a current-month versus previous-month basis. Viewing one or two months of short interest data is, unfortunately, a tantalizing but less than satisfying experience. To appreciate short interest data, it is necessary to gather as much historical information as possible, including price and volume as well as short interest data. The objective is to determine which stocks and groups have been most ""wrongfully"" shorted -- that is, the degree that price has advanced against established short positions. S...
SIDEBAR: BUYS AND SELLS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BUYS AND SELLS In Figure 3a, the greatest buying opportunity occurs when price action becomes strong at a time that many are doubters. Depicted are indicators of both price strength and investor sentiment. Relative and absolute strength are indicators of price. When Merrill's relative strength line is rising, its stock price is outperforming the market. When Merrill's absolute strength line is rising, then Merrill's stock is behaving better than it typically does, given Merrill's beta and the current market action. (Beta measures a stock's sensitivity to the direction of the market.) Points P...
SIDEBAR: UNDERSTANDING STANDARD MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...UNDERSTANDING STANDARD MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS It is inevitable that today's technician will encounter steps to calculating an indicator that uses standard mathematical symbols that appear to be beyond simple arithmetic. In reality, these symbols are simply shorthand notation for no more than basic arithmetic. The following is a guide and interpretation to mathematical symbols commonly seen in STOCKS & COMMODITIES. By convention, the first few lowercase letters of the Roman alphabet (a, b, c) are used to denote constant terms or coefficients. A constant is simply a value that does not change. F...
SIDEBAR: FIGURING THE NUMBER OF PERIODS IN AN ANNUITY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FIGURING THE NUMBER OF PERIODS IN AN ANNUITY Often, investors anticipate a need for a given amount of funds at some future date. One way to guarantee that such funds will be available is to put aside a series of payments at predetermined intervals, known as an annuity. When the payments are made at the beginning of the period, the' series is known as an annuity due. When made at the end of the period, as assumed here, the series is an ordinary annuity. The value of an ordinary annuity is the sum to which the payments would accumulate, assuming that all are invested at some fixed compound int...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C PARAMETRIC CONTROL AND SAMPLE SIZE Editor, ""Stopping a system"" by John Sweeney (Settlement, December 1991) may have suggested a misleading lesson to your readers. John introduced what appeared to be a very normal response concerning the system he was analyzing. Profits were too small, so he decided to introduce stops to improve the results. In fact, his change improved the system's profitability five-fold. What John did was add a new parameter without deleting an old one or increasing the sample size. When parameters are added to a process, freedom, in a statistical sense,...
SIDEBAR: THE OPTION DELTA by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE OPTION DELTA by Technical Analysis, Inc. Simply stated, the delta of an option is the amount by which the option will increase or decrease in price if the underlying instrument moves by 1 point. The deltas of call options have positive values, while those of put options have negative values. The delta of a call option will be close to 1, or 100%, if the underlying instrument is trading well above the strike price of the option. If the underlying instrument is trading well below the strike price of the call, the delta will be nearly zero....
SIDEBAR: POINT & FIGURE TECHNIQUE by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...POINT & FIGURE TECHNIQUE by Technical Analysis, Inc. Explanation of point and figure charting, which is similar to bar charting except that price reversals below a minimum size are eliminated, and time is not a factor. This is one of the simplest methods for following markets. Point and figure charting is a technical trading approach that has been credited to Charles Dow, originator of the Dow theory. This technique differs from bar charting in that price reversals below a minimum size are eliminated and time is not a factor (it may be listed as only a frame of reference). Any market or ind...
SIDEBAR: PATTERN EXPLICATIONS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...PATTERN EXPLICATIONS by Technical Analysis, Inc. In Figure 1, the first pattern shown (A), called ""meeting lines,"" is a gap opening and an unchanged close. This pattern indicates that the market direction is unclear or it is the conclusion of a trend. With the %D above 80 at the time of this pattern, a potential reversal is indicated. The second pattern is a ""hammer"" (B). Hammers have a small real body with a long lower shadow with a small or no upper shadow. This pattern indicates a bottom as the market is hammering out a base. This particular time the pattern was early, but with the %D ...
SIDEBAR: A COMPOSITE INDICATOR by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A COMPOSITE INDICATOR by Technical Analysis, Inc. Interview subject Tim Hayes suggests a modified version of the composite indicator using just three indicators. You refer to your composite indicator that is made up of subgroups. Can you tell our readers about one or two indicators from each subgroup? A lot of data and a lot of indicators go into our models. They're very, very broad, and there's too much in there for an individual to try to update without a computer. So what you could do is put a model together with just these three indicators, you take the same approach toward timing the m...
SIDEBAR: RULE PROCESS GENERATION by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RULE PROCESS GENERATION by Technical Analysis, Inc. To illustrate how this process of rule generation works, suppose that the exponential moving average, taken together with the computed direction of the market and today's Standard & Poor's, represents a potent combination to produce a decision to buy or to sell under trending market conditions (the decision of which will depend, of course, on the absolute numerical values of those indicators today and yesterday, and their relative values compared with each other). Two rules, then (actually used in our system), may semi-automatically be induc...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. NETTING AN EXPERT SYSTEM Editor, Congratulations to Mark Fishman and Dean S. Barr for their description of a hybrid system for market timing (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, August 1991). Their use of neural networks to generate ""IF-THEN"" rules to feed an expert system truly combines the best properties of both technologies. One shortfall of the article, however, was the lack of information provided by the authors with respect to the predictive power of the hybrid system. It's easy to create a system that generates profitable buy/sell signals with the ben...
SIDEBAR: THE ELLIOTT WAVE ZIGZAG FORMATION
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE ELLIOTT WAVE ZIGZAG FORMATION --Thom Hartle, Editor An explanation of subdivisions of the Elliott Wave pattern, page 173....
SIDEBAR: THE VOLUME INDEX AND ON-BALANCE VOLUME
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...THE VOLUME INDEX AND ON-BALANCE VOLUME --Thom Hartle A leading and confirming indicator, page 170....
SIDEBAR: FLDJ: ANALYSIS OF DAILY WSJ STATISTICS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FLDJ: ANALYSIS OF DAILY WSJ STATISTICS Data available from the Wall St. Journal that can be used in a fuzzy logic system, page 164....
SIDEBAR: EXPERT SYSTEMS, FUZZY OR CRISP
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EXPERT SYSTEMS, FUZZY OR CRISP Expert systems in the form of if?then rules, page 165....
V.9:4 (160-162) SIDEBAR: RSI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RSI --Thom Hartle, Editor Formula and explanation of the RSI, relative strength index, page 160....
SIDEBAR: INDICATORS GALORE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INDICATORS GALORE --Thom Hartle, Editor Listing of indicators used in a neural network, page 138....
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SIDEBAR: Contraction/Expansion & ORB/Trend Day
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Contraction/Expansion & ORB/Trend Day Definitions along with illustrations of Contraction/Expansion, opening range breakout and trend day concepts....
SIDEBAR: Four-year cycles on a mathematical basis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Four-year cycles on a mathematical basis The mathematical basis for the four-year cycle is found in many types of analysis. A good demonstration is the standard deviation of a market average as a risk parameter....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Editor, After reading your Opening Position on index arbitrage (Stocks & Commodities, January 1990), a question that I've been unable to answer since program trading became a controversial topic came to mind again. Information available on index arbitrage seems to support one of the following two arguments: Program trading is harmful to markets due to the potential for increased volatility and, therefore, bad for investors; or, there is no proven evidence that program trading increases market volatility and, therefore, is not bad for investors. Neither of these arguments addr...
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SIDEBAR: Relevant formulas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Relevant formulas This sidebar gives the formulas and an example showing how to detrend wheat contracts, page 401....
SIDEBAR: Model identification
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Model identification ARIMA models are specified by defining three parameters q represented by the variables p, d and q. Mathematically, this is expressed with the notation ARIMA (p,d,q), where. . ....
SIDEBAR: Sample Selection Method
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Sample Selection Method This sidebar gives a selection of decliners and nondecliners that were used in the article, ""Can Stock Fundamentals Protect You?""...
SIDEBAR: Summary statistics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Summary statistics Summary statistics can provide most of the relevant statistical information for a stock option or commodity contract. In particular, the mean ut is the expected value of the closing price on day t and represents an average measure of the closing price; the standard deviation st is a measure of dispersion about the mean on day t; and the autocorrelation function r(t,s) is a measure of the dependence between the closing prices on days t and s....
SIDEBAR: Weighting schemes to computes implied volatility
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Weighting schemes to computes implied volatility This sidebar lists the types of weights based on volume, distance in- or out-of-the-money, and volatility....
SIDEBAR: Calculating the standard deviation of the percentage change in closing prices
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Calculating the standard deviation of the percentage change in closing prices Calculating the ratio of two sequential prices in Lotus is straightforward. The natural log function is preprogrammed as @In(). The standard deviation of the logs can then be calculated with the @STD() function. Since the denominator in the @STD function is n rather than (n-1), the result should be multiplied by the square root of n/(n-1) and further annualized with the proper A factor....
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SIDEBAR: SOME TEAM STRUCTURE TYPES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: SOME TEAM STRUCTURE TYPES Each team shown in this diagram is a two-person alliance unless specified otherwise. Note that we are dealing with changeable combinations. An information team can develop into a working team or even a trading team, or a trading team can develop into a working team, and so on. The transition phases are fluid....
SIDEBAR: Simple moving average
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A quick definition of the Iterative and noninteractive forms of the simple moving average....
SIDEBAR: A five-day step-weighted moving average
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Examples of calculations for five-day weighted moving average....
SIDEBAR: ELLIOTT WAVE PROPORTIONS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: ELLIOTT WAVE PROPORTIONS According to Elliott wave theory, the first, third and fifth waves are proportional by the 1 to 1.618 to 1 ratio, known as the Fibonacci ratio. Figure 1 illustrates the basic five-wave sequence of the Elliott wave, and Figure 2 shows how waves 1,3 and 5 relate based on the Fibonacci ratio. Figure 3 shows how waves 1, 3 and 5 for bonds would proportionally relate based on the Fibonacci ratio, while Figure 4 shows how wave 3 of a real-life bond move exceeded the ideal proportionality by only 2/32nds in the move from 101-08 to 88-07 during the first four months ...
SIDEBAR: Assessing volatility's predictive value
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Assessing volatility's predictive value To assess the predictive value of volatility, I reviewed 1,443 days of price action on the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index, starting on May 15, 1984. Volatility was measured by the standard deviation of percentage change in closing prices over a 20-day period and the ensuing price action by the ratio of the highest to the lower closing price in the 30 days following the end of the volatility estimation period. If periods of low volatility are followed by large price moves, the coefficient of correlation between volatility and price action sh...
SIDEBAR: Option price sensitivity and the Greek alphabet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Option price sensitivity and the Greek alphabet To analyze the risk/reward profiles of option strategies, traders measure the sensitivity of option strategies to unit changes in independent variables such as the price of the underlying security, interest rates, volatility, and so forth. These sensitivities are traditionally designated by Greek letters....
Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese In the past, conventional market sentiment indicators have been criticized for deficiencies such as the delay involved in reading market letters, weighing their content, estimating their influence on public traders and publishing the results. Also criticized has been the lack of precision (and potential conflict) in polling short-term investors such as pit traders and in projecting public trader market positions from a poll of market gurus, especially given the growing reliance on personal computers. I designed the Commitme...
SIDEBAR: Relevant formulas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Relevant formulas Formulas are given for nominal price, earnings average, effective interest rate, and divergence as used in the article ""Determining stock value from price and earnings"" by Paul T. Holliday...
SIDEBAR: The Commitments of Traders report
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: The Commitments of Traders This sidebar simply gives the address for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where the ""Commitments of Traders in Commodity Futures"" monthly report can be obtained....
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SIDEBAR: Portrait of a cycle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Portrait of a cycle Combining volume indicators, my new high and new low indicators and the advance/decline line (ADL) helps me to define cycles in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or other broad indices such as the New York Stock Exchange Index or Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. The charts in Figures 1-4 show how these three sets of indicators detect a DJIA cycle. Figure 1 is an overview and shows five complete DJIA cycles delimited by my new low indicator (NL), the single best indicator I have found for defining cycles. Figures 2-4 are close-ups of the last cycle in Figu...
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Insider insight Richard W Arms. Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Insider insight Richard W Arms. Jr. For months the stock in question has done very little. It has moved sideways in a narrow trading range on moderate volume. Suddenly, volume doubles, the stock moves sharply higher, breaking out above the old congestion and signaling the beginning of a move which could be extremely profitable! It's a trader's dream, if he or she happens to notice the move and recognizes its importance. The dream can turn into a nightmare, however, if the move is quickly aborted and the stock drops back into the old range or, worse yet, if it abruptly turns around.. There are...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Test parameters Parameters needed to use a Bezier program or to test curves by hand....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Bezier equations The Bezier method is based on three equations which are provided in this sidebar....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C This month's letters give definitions of short interest, short interest ratio and total short sales; and discuss point and figure software....
SIDEBAR: STOCHASTIC OSCILLATOR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: STOCHASTIC OSCILLATOR The stochastic oscillator is used to indicate overbought or oversold conditions on a scale of zero to 100%. The stochastic process is based on the observation that as price decreases, the daily closes tend to accumulate nearer the extreme lows of the daily range. Likewise, as price increases, the daily closes tend to accumulate closer to the extreme highs of the daily range. This concept also holds for monthly, weekly or even intraday time frames....
SIDEBAR: IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEM
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEM The system described is complex, and therefore we are implementing it gradually, starting with a small prototype that automates only a small fraction of the total system. The expert system described here programs only some of those decisions that depend on market timing. It's built with the aid of the VP-Expert shell (knowledge base management system) Release 2.0, made by Paperback Software International. Its platform is the IBM PS/2 Model 55SX with 2 MB of RAM and a 30-MB hard disk with a double-sided 3.5-inch diskette drive, together with the MS-DOS 3.0 oper...
SIDEBAR: COLE'S METHOD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: COLE'S METHOD Roger Cole developed a technique to determine when insiders are alerting each other about which stock will move and to what price. The technique involves categorizing trading days by price patterns and matching these patterns with volume requirements to look for up or down signals. According to Cole's work, every trading day for every stock must fall into one of four categories: Rally Day, Reaction Day, Inside Day and Outside Day....
SIDEBAR: RELEVANT FORMULAS AND CALCULATIONS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: RELEVANT FORMULAS AND CALCULATIONS To calculate and adjust a mutual fund's annualized five-year return to maintain a top 30 ranking: First, convert the annualized five-year return (A) from NLFI to the full compounded return, as shown in column 3 for March 31, 1990. Thus, Fidelity Magellan's annualized 20.9% return becomes 158.3% (column 4). . ....
SIDEBAR: WSJ FUTURES
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: WSJ FUTURES In The Wall Street Journal , you will find the closing prices of both the S&P 500 index and S&P futures in the futures table of the Index Trading Section. This sidebar gives a sample of the August 21, 1990, futures prices....
SIDEBAR: CALCULATING PREMIUM FAIR VALUE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: CALCULATING PREMIUM FAIR VALUE A risk-averse investor wants to invest in the stock market. How does he do it without risking loss? He can borrow funds, buy a portfolio of stocks equivalent to the S&P 500 index at the price of S and simultaneously sell a S&P futures contract at a price of F. He has achieved a hedged position that is totally riskless, any depreciation in stock prices being compensated by a decrease in the value of the futures he sold....
SIDEBAR: What about lags?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: What about lags? What about the lags introduced by triangular moving averages? An example is the best way to study them. The index in Article Figure 2 is a sine curve with a period of 40 observations and an amplitude of 10....
SIDEBAR: Triangular moving averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Triangular moving averages Article Figure 1 represents a 20-period triangular moving average (P=20). By convention, the maximum weight for all values of P is 2.0. If P=20, the maximum weight 2.0 must be at the midpoint, time period 10. Incremental weights from zero will be 2/(P/2), or ±0.2 in this example. The diagram indicates that weights return to zero at time period 20, period P. Therefore, the number of effective time periods and weights, n, are 19, so n=P- 1 ....
SIDEBAR: A tale of two frequencies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: A tale of two frequencies Using the prices in Article Figure 2 as examples of this technique, we'd place the first price, 233.76, in the first histogram; the second price, 234.91, in the second histogram; and the third price, 232.56, in the first histogram. We'd continue this process until we reached the last price....
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SIDEBAR: Integer data types
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Integer data types Integer math gives the program a tremendous speed advantage over floating-point math on most computer systems, but it is not as easy to work with. Problems can arise with overflow, where a calculation yields a value too large to be represented in an integer. Overflow problems with moving averages are most likely to show up in long-period linear moving averages, where the total weighting can reach into the tens of thousands. Similarly, problems can occur when calculations produce results that are too small (for example, 0.5) to be held in an integer....
SIDEBAR: How moving averages are computed
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: How moving averages are computed Moving average are usually specified by two parameters. The first is the length of the moving average and is generally expressed in the same periodicity as the data. For example, if we have the daily price of the data, we might speak of a 10-day moving average. The second parameter is which data point's moving average we want to compute. For example, you might request the 30-day moving average for July 6. Three moving average algorithms are in wide use: simple, linear and exponential. Each performs roughly the same goal of averaging several days (wee...
SIDEBAR: Details of the Study.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Details of the Study. The trade timing, transaction costs and statistical tests used in the study....
SIDEBAR: Pertinent formulas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Pertinent formulas This sidebar provides the three formulas used in the article, ""Correlation of common stock indicators.""...
SIDEBAR: Correlating made easy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Correlating made easy To find the correlation between two technical indicators, first calculate the positive or negative change of the indicator. If you were testing with no ""lagging,"" you'd then compare the first indicator's first change with the other indicator's first change. Utilizing the pencil and paper compartment technique outlined by Clifford Sherry in Stocks & Commodities, this comparison would be tallied in the appropriate ++, -+, +- or -- compartment. (The notations ""++,"" ""-+"" and so on refer to the four possible combinations of changes the two indicators show. If b...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Letters from readers this month ask our editors for charting programs, data retrieval, point and figure and option analysis information....
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews MESA 3
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis (MESA) edged onto the trading scene several years ago, we (favorably) evaluated it over our previous choice for cyclical analysis, Fourier analysis. MESA was the first program that conveniently applied a better technique to price data in a manner that the average trader could comprehend....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews MetaStock-Professional 2.0
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EQUIS INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 26743 Salt Lake City, UT 84126 (801) 974-5115 Product: Advanced-level technical analysis and profitability testing package. Equipment required: IBM PC/XT/ AT/PS2, 640K. Can use up to 1.8 MB of expanded memory (EMS LIM 4.0). CGA, EGA with 256K graphic memory, VGA. Two 720K floppies minimum but really needs a hard disk. Asynchronous communications adapter with Hayes modem or 100% compatible. PC or MS DOS 3.1 or higher. One of 150 supported dot matrix, ink jet or laser printers. You'll need about 900K disk space with sample data....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: SIDEBAR: OTHER CONTENDERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After Dow's Market Analyzer Plus and MetaStock Pro 2.0, two contenders remain: N2 and CompuTrac. The all-time price leader at over $3,000 is CompuTrac-- the originator of this entire genus of software. After a developmental slowdown several years ago, acquisition by Telerate has pumped new money and new features into the program, and a recent revision included so many new items it almost overloaded our comparison table. It'S the next package we have to review and the obvious question will be, "What could possibly be worth that much money?" N2 is unique in providing, albeit in a host o...
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts S&C's "how-I-done-it" challenge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A true technician loves a challenge and the formation highlighted above presents one. First, tell us what this is and when it occurred. Describe how it would have been traded by your discipline (charts, regression, breakouts and so on). We will judge the entries for accuracy and coherence, in the first part, and in consistency and success in the second part. The winner will receive a one-year subscription extension to Stocks & Commodities plus the title of Certified Technical Genius!...
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Picking the winner for our first Mystery Chart (November 1989) was tough, since we received several great entries. But we had to choose, and finally, we settled on Greg Carnell's effective use of moving averages, momentum and divergence. A close second was John Fortune's straightforward analysis starting from the weekly charts and moving down to daily entry and exit signals. Both struck us as being logical, internally consistent and realistic....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: First Mystery Charts Results
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In our first Mystery Chart contest, we were fascinated with the variety of ways traders looked at the same data. From pure chartcraft to Gann angles to spreads, readers hardly felt constrained in generating ideas for trading. We've summarized some of the most interesting here....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: December Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We're the first to admit December's Mystery Chart (Figure 1) was tough. We threw in too few hints and, since we used the Standard & Poor's index rather than the Dow, only four people came up with the 1982 stock market bottom, although thousands have begun their analyses from that turning point....
JANUARY 1990 MYSTERY CHART
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Headed by a ruthless CEO renowned for his punishment of opposing short-sellers and backed by the wiliest band of directors in Christendom, nothing else trades like this NYSE stock. This month's mystery selection is a carefully selected chunk of 1989's action. If you haven't seen it, don 't despair. Even knowledgeable traders touch this gingerly. What stock is this? Did you make money here? Could you have made money? Explain in words and pictures. Our advice: Forget fundamentals or technicals. Think of this as war. Can you identify when and in what market this price formation o...
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: January Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Chumps don't trade Teledyne, which was January's Mystery Chart (Figure 1). Brokers should accept no orders from anyone who isn't well-capitalized, well-connected or just as ornery as the other players. The window in Figure 2 itself shows what has happened since Teledyne's summer 1989 runup and, for perspective, Figure 3 is Teledyne'sThe weekly chart since 1986. The tumultuous action evident since last summer shows that Teledyne's character has hardly changed....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: March Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Mystery Chart in your March issue is a daily soybean chart from about May 15, 1979, to June 23, 1980. The chart depicts a low in April 1980, which preceded a seven-month rise of more than $2.00 a bushel. However, the moves in 1979 and 1980 were dwarfed by a 13-month decline (from November 1980 to December 1981), which carried beans down about $6.00 a bushel....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: April Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Answers to April's Mystery Chart contest ("No chumps and Mystery Charts," Stocks & Commodities, April 1990) were pretty terse, although contestants had no trouble identifying the weekly heating oil price chart. The brevity may have been from the simplicity of the situation: a breakaway gap to the upside and the approach to support on the downside. The question was: What next?...
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: April Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...April's challenging chart should have leaped off the page to any member of the energy trading complex. The weekly heating oil chart from July 1988 to January 1990 was indeed a unique opportunity to trade a panic. Action like this -- out of nowhere -- can make a pit hysterical....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts Repetitive bottoming soybeans
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: May Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For the May Mystery Chart (Figure 1), I contrasted theperformance of two blue-chips headed, I said, in different directions despite their industry fundamentals. Which stocks were they and where would they be in a year....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: June Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Yes, I suppose I gave away the June chart when I said it was a currency spread ( Figure 1). On the other hand, it turned out there were a lot of currency traders! Picking a winner this time was tough. There were no wrong entries and the quality of the trading was strong....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: July Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...All entrants save one for the July Mystery Chart correctly identified COMEX gold (variously, June and March) and most amazingly traded it correctly for the subsequent breakdown (Figure 1). Since the move was so dramatic, heavy emphasis was placed showing how the action before the break led to the break....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: September Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The winner for our September Mystery Chart (Orange Juice, Figure 1) was easy to determine: only two sturdy souls made the necessary predictions, though many recounted their work on the historical data. One person was right and one was wrong. Our newest Certified Technical Genius, whose work is below, is Eddy Mark of Toronto, Ontario (Figures 3 through 6). The runner-up, Dennis Krull of Citicorp Futures, Chicago, IL, had the direction right (south) but his entry would never have been hit in the subsequent action (Figure 7)....
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Our November Mystery Chart is a world-class stock index, the richest in the world. I'm giving this broad hint so you can readily load in the information necessary for your analysis, which will show us what we would have done on August 3, 1990, when the subject approached support (Figure 1, parts A and B) at the 29,000 level. Got that? 29,000!? We've included two Mystery Charts this time so that you can get a better look at the index in question....
SIDEBAR: THE RULE OF ALTERNATION
SIDEBAR: Normalization
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Normalization When comparing indicators, it helps to ""normalize"" the data first. This adjusts the values in both series to values between zero and 100 and shows the relative movement between the two. As an example, I've used advance/decline statistics....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Suggestions for topics Editor, In your March 1989 issue you have an article by Steve Notis called ""Testing breakout systems."" It's described as an S&P 500 system. My question is, will it work with bonds, gold, silver, etc? If it will, but with slightly different parameters, would you write about it in an upcoming issue? If possible could you also write about trading thrusts in general: Are there times a thrust will be a reasonably safe trade, how to tell if it's going to be a failure, volume patterns to look for, etc. One more thing I would like to see is more in-depth rep...
Market Facilitation Index Charles F. Wright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Market Facilitation Index Charles F. Wright The Market Facilitation Index (MFI) is an objective means of measuring facilitation of trade which, in its simplest terms, means how well the market is working efficiently. An efficient market is very liquid and both short- and long-term investors are actively trading, from the locals in the pit to commercials and speculative traders. A market that is not facilitating trade is generally a one timeframe market, dominated by short-term oriented locals. Volume is low and there is very little activity from the longer term traders and investors. The loc...
SIDEBAR: Numeric weighting
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Numeric weighting Mathematical formula for calculating numeric weighting data....
SIDEBAR: System Writer Plus programming
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...System Writer Plus programming The System Writer can be copied and modified to use with other currencies or to graph cross-currency rates....
SIDEBAR: Chaos on CompuTrac
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Chaos on CompuTrac A version of the chaos equation systems, programmed as a user study in CompuTrac is below....
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SIDEBAR: True range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...True range Formula for calculating true range, page 231....
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C MTA and CTA Editor, I wonder if you might publish the address, telephone number and name of a contact person at the Market Technicians' Association? Also, I learned recently that there is a program leading to qualification as a Certified Technical Analyst. Could you tell me how I might find out more about this? LEE SNOWDEN Ogosha, MN Contact Robert Prechter at (404) 5360309 regarding MTA membership. Accreditation is through John Brooks at (404) 393-1610. ?Ed....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Optimization Editor, Several articles have appeared in S&C wherein optimization was discussed. I would like to discuss something I encountered at least six years ago when I first tried optimizing. Some of your readers may have had the same experience and can further comment on the subject. The best way to explain this subject may be by example. The example is extremely simple. It involves optimizing, in one of my programs, only two parameters--a decimal for an exponential average for buying and a decimal for an exponential average for selling. The buy decimal was stepped fro...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Copyrighting Editor, I'm teaching biology at college level. I'm also a private investor and one of your subscribers. I'm planning to offer the general public a mini-course on technical analysis of the stock market. I would appreciate your permission to quote some of the articles in S&C. Could you also let me know the regulations concerning such a use? GEORGES CHAUVETTE Laval, Quebec, Canada Write to Copyright office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20559 and ask for circular R21, ""Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians."" --Ed....
SIDEBAR: Analysis and moving averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Analysis and moving averages Definition of terms used by the author when discussing indicators in the article ""Volume percentage ratio"". In interpreting any charted indicator, it is only the relative position of the plotted line that is important. ......
SIDEBAR: Alpha-beta, Version II
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Alpha-beta, Version II This generic QuickBASIC routine for computing alpha-beta trend channels and trading filters assumes that you already have a means of inputing historical time series data into an appropriately dimensioned array X(M,N), where M >= 4 and N is at least as large as NUM, the number of time points in the input data. You also will need some method of plotting the trend channel and trading filter on the same graph....
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Fast Fourier Transforms Editor, I am a current user of the technical analysis software CompuTrac and have been recently introduced (two months) to your theory on FFT (Fast Fourier Transform). However, I am puzzled by the fact that Fourier transforms can be used in technical analysis. As an engineer, I have used Fourier transforms but from an engineering perspective. I would appreciate it if you could send me more information on FFT as I would like to seriously study this new form of analysis. K. GIN Singapore As In engineering, Fourier Analysis is used to locate possible p...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C From one author to another Dear Dr. Anthony, Congratulations on your excellent article on the alpha-beta trend following system (S&C, April 1989). Three questions: 1. ML is the ""lag,"" or one-half of the moving average. Your default value is 15. Is the moving average 15 or is it 30? 2. MS default of 6. Is the moving average 6 or 12? 3. YS is the number of standard deviations. How long a period do you use to calculate one standard deviation (the number to be multiplied by 2.5)? If you have time to answer, many thanks! ARTHUR MERRILL Chappaqua, NY ......
SIDEBAR: Money supply and the S&P 500
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Money supply and the S&P 500 I suspect most economists would say that M2 money supply and the S&P 500 are independent of each other. Here is evidence that there are significant serial dependencies between these two important time series. For illustration, trigger the collection of data in the histogram on a large increase (a '3') in money supply. Collect in the histogram, the first sequential large decrease (a '1') to occur in S&P 500 after the trigger (Article Figure 9). If these two time series were independent of each other, the distribution of 1s in this histogram should be evenly distri...
SIDEBAR: Other Research
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Other Research There are at least two reasons why other researchers have not found the significant dependencies described here and in the October 1987 S&C article on money supply. First, most of the other workers in this area have used either serial or auto correlation or runs tests (see for example, P. Cottner, Random Character of Stock Market Prices, MIT Press, 1964). As I pointed out in the April 1988 S&C issue, there are some significant problems associated with using correlation techniques on this data. Further, correlation only tests for one form of serial dependency -- there are other ...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Technical analysis software Editor, I have an Apple II/e with dual disk drive and an Epson printer, and am very interested in your software for charting markets. However, I am very unfamiliar with the graphics tool kit and 5-inch disk format that you mentioned in your current issue. I have Appleworks and would like to know how, if possible, I could create a graph with data from the spreadsheet. If you can help me with my obvious dilemma, I would indeed be highly grateful. GLENN ZACHER Dublin, CA Technical Analysis Charts? is for the Apple 11 series of computers with a min...
Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor
Black-Scholes vs. Cox-Ross-Rubinstein By John W. Labuszewski and John E. Nyhoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Black-Scholes vs. Cox-Ross-Rubinstein By John W. Labuszewski and John E. Nyhoff Professors Fischer Black and Myron Scholes of the University of Chicago introduced, in 1973, what was to become the most commonly cited option pricing model. This was a fortuitous beginning because it roughly coincided with the introduction of exchange-traded stock options on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). A few years later, Professors John Cox, Stephen Ross and Mark Rubinstein introduced another pricing model which now enjoys popularity second only to the Black-Scholes model. Both models produce s...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Volatility via Black-Scholes Editor, I have all the S&C magazines. In the July 1988 issue, ""Trading Clues from Options Volatility,"" David Caplan says he uses a ""modified"" Black-Scholes model. Is this model defined in any of the back issues of S&C? Can I get the formula from textbook in the local library? Would you explain it in letters to S&C in the next issue? JOHN CLINCH Los Angeles, CA When I mentioned in the article that I use a ""modified"" Black-Scholes model, it could be more properly stated that the computer programs I rely on to compute volatility use this mod...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Adam Theory Editor, I refer you to the August 1988 issue and, in particular, to your review of J. Welles Wilder Jr.'s book on The Adam Theory of Markets. I would like to purchase the book, however I do not have an address. Could you please forward the address to me? JEOFF SCOTS New South Wales, AUSTRALIA The book is available from Trend Research, 5615 MeLeanville Rd., McLeansville, N.C. 27301, (919) 698-0500. -Ed. Back issues Editor, You recently were very kind to send me the first two volumes of S&C reprints to support my research for an upcoming article. I was impres...
SIDEBAR: Creating Linked Histograms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Creating Linked Histograms Alphabetic characters were used to build the histograms in this article because it is a familiar scheme to users of CBOT'S Market Profile. However, you may wish to use arbitrary characters, with each character defining a time interval such as day, hour or minute. A single character represents a given unit of the variable being represented. In our example, one character represented 100 shares of volume. If the unit is the smallest trading unit and the number of units becomes larger, or if a continuous variable such as time spent at price is being depicted, the diagr...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C I like your magazine, but... Editor, I like your magazine, but: month after month; graphs are misplaced, or mislabeled; formulas are not clearly explained; misprints occur.... With so much time between issues, I think you should do better at being explicit; being correct. KEITH JOHNSTON Milwaukee, WI Actually, it's pretty frantic getting this out each month. We clearly need to move deadlines up a week or so just to proofread the graphics! - Ed. Trading system reviews Editor, I was disappointed to read in your editorial regarding trading system reviews that because of t...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Profit Taker Editor, In the August 1987 issue of Stocks & Commodities magazine (pages 42-45) you reviewed the software program Profit Taker but did not provide an address or telephone number. I would like additional information on this program. Would you please send me their address and telephone number? RONALD FINKBEINER La Crosse, Wl More about Profit Taker can be had from developer Louis Mendlesohn's company: Investor's Growth Corp., 50 Meadow Lane, Zephyr Hills, FL 34249 (813) 973-0496. - Ed. Not so quick Quickbasic Editor, I just received my Quickbasic 4.0 update....
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SIDEBAR: Using BASIC Programs to Massage Data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Using BASIC Programs to Massage Data Microsoft BASIC has become the standard programming language on today's PC's and clones. It comes in a couple of slightly different flavors: BASIC, BASICA and GWBASIC, for example, are the most common IBM and clone versions. There are plenty of rather esoteric versions popular among programmers. The following steps will help you to install and use the BASIC programs provided in this issue. 1. Getting started Whichever version of BASIC you have, start it up exactly as you would start your spreadsheet. That is, when the DOS prompt appears, type the name of...
SIDEBAR: SIDEBAR 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR 1 The period of maximum sensitivity cycle is half the window length, L. Attenuation of a Simple Moving Average (SMA) for this period is 2/pi. For an equivalent Exponential Moving Average (EMA) attenuation this is expressed as:...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Getting to know you Editor, I recently purchased the set of tapes from the TAG IX CompuTrac seminar held last September. I would like to know more about your ""Technical Analysis Magazine"" and some of the articles from past issues, in whatever form they may be available, that you mentioned. Listening to the tapes, I must say that your presentation was one of the better organized and clearly laid out. I believe I almost understand what you were saying--from a two-hour tape, that is frightening. I'd better learn more. STEVE PAINTER Aurora, CO On with the show Editor, I ve...
SIDEBAR: SIDEBAR 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR 1 As an aside, note that volatility must be adjusted for the price action around dividends in mutual funds. I calculate a ""price factor"" (PR) if a dividend (D) paid between quotes Qi-1, and Qi:...
SIDEBAR: Testing your macros
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Testing your macros The lines between the {Down} macros separate the processing. Each macro is a separate line and you rename each macro as '\x in order to test it separately. You can use other letters if you choose. I always use '\x for test macros in order to avoid confusion. Next, set up the range name for Range1, Range2, Counter1, and Counter2 using the /Range Name Down command. Lastly, when it is time to invoke the macro, put the cursor somewhere such that you can observe the down movement, and hit Alt x. Enhanced uses of {Down} If you read the documentation for 2.0, you probably know...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Questions on Smoothing Editor, I have recently become a subscriber to your magazine and also purchased back volumes of articles. I have analyzed all articles pertaining to smoothing, and particularly to triple exponential average smoothing. I am quite familiar with exponential averages but not what you define as triple exponential smoothing. The articles show certain contradictions and all lack the essential analytical formulas. Why? Is not such an analytical formula the essential conclusion of the discussion? Some show a BASIC program which can be no better than the formula...
SIDEBAR: More on optimization
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...More on optimization It may seem a daunting prospect to find the optimal combination of 10 trading parameters over an eight-year quote file on a personal computer, but it's not as bad as it sounds. What Strategist does is to start with an initial strategy specified by the user, go through the quote file and compute the initial payoff. Then it varies the first of the 10 parameters until it finds the value that gives the highest payoff--the optimal value for that parameter. It optimizes each of the remaining nine parameters in turn, then starts over again with the first parameter. It may seem...
Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C Overbought/Oversold Editor, I read with interest the letter from George N. Bower on the Overbought/Oversold indicator, in which Mr. Bower referred to the indicator's publication as a possible ""con"" on the reader, or the reader's sensibility. I have incorporated the indicator into my own trading system with some success, but do not choose to rely on it wholly. I use the indicator to tell me what the likelihood of a substantial move in the general market is in the near future, not as a specific buy/sell signal, the use Mr. Bower apparently tested the indicator under. In mutu...
Opening Position John Sweeney - Editor
Pelletier on PDI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Pelletier on PDI Bob Pelletier is a distant but favorite figure to us at Stocks & Commodities. He's distant, residing in Florida while we are in Seattle. He's a favorite because for years he has supplied us with data and software for trading. We've watched CSI grow from a small package that could run on Apples and Commodore 64's to a full-service data vendor for major institutions. To us the interesting thing was that Bob himself, with the help of a band of programmers, was constantly developing new indicators and technical trading tools. His monthly newsletter often read like a trader's ins...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Novice Plan Editor, I was reading one of the back issues of Stocks & Commodities (April 85) when I came across your article ""Novice Speculator Trading Plan."" In it you offered to share the plan you were referencing; if the offer is still good, I would greatly appreciate a copy. I am on the verge of diving into the commodities trading business as a day trader and trying to prepare myself. So if you have any plan specifically tailored to day trading or others you found interesting and are willing to share, please include them. Great magazine, keep up the good work. ROBERT B...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Goaded Editor, I'd rather Stanley Kroll's program remained a well-kept secret, but Alexander Elder's condescending review of Kroll's latest book (S&C, August 1988) has goaded me to speak out. Elder would have us believe that Kroll ""struts"" and touts a system which delivers ""anything your heart desires, short of curing baldness."" Kroll's basic message is discipline: following ANY system with discipline is liable to provide profits. Kroll cannot be faulted for mentioning that the system he uses helps one guard against a multitude of common pitfalls. I don't recall his claiming in the book...
SIDEBAR: Holt-Winter Channel Calculation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Holt-Winter Channel Calculation The Holt-Winter formula estimates the three quadratic coefficients recursively as follows: Ft+1 = (l - a) (Ft + Vt + 0.5 At) + aCt+1 Vt+1 = (l - b) (Vt + At) + b(Ft+1 - Ft) At+1 = (l - c) At + c (Vt+1 - Vt) where Ct = Closing price on date t and a, b, and c are constants determined by the person performing the analysis. For simplicity, I use the Holt-Winter formula to forecast the next day's closing price. To determine the upper and lower boundaries of the Holt-Winter Channel, I use a comfort factor (T) value of l.0 as follows:...
Profit taking with Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Profit taking with Mendelsohn Over the years, Lou Mendelsohn has been not only a persistent presence among trading system vendors, he's also stood out as one of the few who advocated complete disclosure of the systems being sold. Not content to disclose his own system, ProfitTaker, and its refinement, ProfitTuner, he's also written and spoken out publicly on the hazards of buying undisclosed trading systems. He's also one of the most realistic voices on the fad of optimization. With ProfitTaker now well established and his family comfortably ensconced in a Florida ranch, Lou's turned his att...
Letters To S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C Insider trading Editor, Your article in the June issue, ""If the boss only knew technical analysis,"" by Vincent Cosentino, caught my eye for an obvious reason: We recently published a new book on legal insider trading, authored by the father of the system that tracks and interprets such buying and selling of securities, Ed Buck. Ed is publisher of Vickers Stock Research's Weekly Insider Report. His emphasis is on evaluating and interpreting insider transactions. I enclose a copy of The SIB Stock Market Ratio: Profiting from Legal Insider Trading for your consideration. You'...
SIDEBAR: What is Chi Square?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...What is Chi Square? If, in the past, records show that the market exhibited more rises than declines at a certain time, could it have been by chance? Yes. If a medication produced cures more often than average, could it have been luck? Yes. If so, how meaningful is the record? To be helpful, statisticians set up ""confidence levels."" If the result could have occurred by chance once in 20 repetitions of the record, you have 99% confidence that the result isn't just luck. This level has been called ""probably significant."" If the expectation is once in 1,000 repetitions, you can have 99.9% ...
SIDEBAR: Coefficient of Correlation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Coefficient of Correlation Correlation is a measure of the degree of relationship between two series. When odd lot shorts are rising, is the Dow usually rising? When odd lot shorts are declining, is the Dow usually declining? Or is the reverse usually the case? Instead, is the relationship weak or nonexistent? The correlation coefficient (r) varies between +1 and -1. If it is close to +1, the two series are in close agreement. If it is close to -1 when one series is rising, the other is declining. If the coefficient is close to zero, there is no evident relationship. Here is a suggested inte...
Kaufman on commodity trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Kaufman on commodity trading Perry Kaufman's first book, Commodity Trading Systems and Methods, was probably the second book I read on trading. I later discovered it to be a classic and it's been an indispensable reference ever since, particularly around the offices of Stocks & Commodities, where ""new"" trading ideas make recurrent appearances. When the revised version came out late in 1987 it stimulated S&C to track down Perry and get a ""state of the trader's art"" report directly from him. After more than the usual thrashing around we finally tracked him down in the sunny climes of Bermu...
Quick-Scans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...LETTERS TO S&C Data Transfer? Editor, I am a subscriber to your Trader's Magazine, which I consider very good and most interesting. I wonder whether you could advise me regarding (1) the cost of the complete Wyckoff Method series, and (2) the availability of a good software program to transfer stock data from one program to another, e.g., CompuTrac to Market Maker and Technical Investor. W.J. HOENEVELD Epse, Netherlands In answer to your first question, the Wyckoff series is not now available as a single publication. All these articles are contained in S&C volumes 4 and 5 (1986-1987), av...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Schwager on Schwager Editor, I always get a kick from seeing references to my articles (or interviews) in the ""Letters to S&C'' column. It reminds me of the line about the suspense involved in watching the 1962 Mets. ""Whenever there was a fly ball, you knew someone was going to drop it, but you didn't know who."" Well, in my case, I know I'm going to be misquoted--I just never know how. Sheldon Smith (June 1987, ""Letters to S&C"") quotes me as follows: ""He then makes the statement that he has a block on trading: for him nothing works."" Where do...
Point/ Counterpoint By Clifford S. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Point/ Counterpoint By Clifford S. Sherry, Ph.D. I believe there are some major flaws in the statistical reasoning in Curtis McKallip's article ""Investigating Chart Patterns Using Markov Analysis"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES December 1986). Using the raw numbers from his transition matrix, I believe that the observed probabilities for the pairs of states should be as follows: p1,1 = 58/309 = 0.1877; p1,2 = 15/309 = 0.0485. Thus the probability of a 1, 2 or 3 is 78/309 = 0.2524; 139/309 = 0.4498 and 92/309 = 0.2977, respectively. If we assume independence, the probability of a 1,1 is equal to p1 ...
SIDEBAR: Prices and Cycles by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Prices and Cycles by Technical Analysis, Inc. There appears to be a correlation between the magnitude of a stock price move and the strength of the planetary cycle. Article Figure 3 is a scatter plot on which the vertical scale denotes the number of positive points for a given corporation at the crest of a wave. The horizontal scale indicates the percentage the stock price increased between the predicted buy date and the predicted sell date. Each dot represents one successful transaction and each x represents a losing transaction....
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. FRASER OUT Editor, We talked today regarding the citation of Fraser Financial Publications in the August issue of Stocks & Commodities. This firm was stated as a source of books or pamphlets on the Wykcoff Method. However, no address or telephone number was given for Fraser Financial Publications. I would appreciate your sending me a card with this information when you locate it. CHARLES MARCELLUS -New York, NY...
Market Analyzer PLUS by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Market Analyzer PLUS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Dow Jones & Company, Inc., P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300 Phone: Mark Fischer (609) 520-4641 Erin Rodgers (609) 520-4642 Customer Service: (800) 257-5114 Price: $449 Hardware: IBM PC/XT/AT or AT&T PC 6300, Tandy 1000, 1200 or 3000, 2 DSDD floppies or better, 300-2400 baud Hayes or true Hayes compatible modem, monochrome or color monitor, CG or EGA card, Epson FX or MX compatible printer, DOS 2.0+ or MSDOS 2.11. This package will use about 640K of storage on a hard disk, plus space for data. Ratings: Ease of Use: B Documentation: A Re...
Tools for thinking traders: MicroVest's Steven Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Tools for thinking traders: MicroVest's Steven Kille Successful software development was nowhere in Steven Kille's life plan when he headed off to Western Illinois University for a master's degree in economics. Computer programming, in fact, wasn't even on the agenda. But when his mother presented him with a Franklin computer, the now 28-year-old founder of MicroVest discovered an unrivaled addiction in programming. He wrote his first technical trading program as an teaching assistant to Dr. Thomas Drinka, associate professor at Western's Department of Agriculture. By graduation, Kille had d...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. COMMENTS Editor, In response to your editorial in the March issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I would like to offer a few comments and suggestions. I enjoy your magazine very much, but I think it could be improved. I would like to see more articles describing new or improved trading systems and indicators. The mathematics should be described in cook-book fashion and an example given. This way everyone would understand exactly how to calculate the indicator or system. A table should be included showing date and exact price when buy and sell signals we...
SIDEBAR: How digital filters work by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: How digital filters work by Technical Analysis, Inc. Filters are tools for ""tuning into"" parts of the total energy contained in an information stream. For example, all of the information transmitted on the AM radio stations near you arrives at your car radio. If you tried to listen to it all, you would hear a terrible, useless din. But with your radio's dial, you can adjust the ""center frequency"" of the radio's filter, and select the one station you want to hear. In essence, the filter operates as an electronic door, which can be slid along the dial, letting some of the energy th...
Letters To S & C
Larry Williams: Where will he go next?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Larry Williams: Where will he go next? Larry Williams--author, trader, technical systems designer--is a man of many interests. He began following the stock market in 1965, soon started trading and by 1967 was a registered investment adviser. He switched to commodities and is probably best known for the $1 million he made and wrote about in the 1973 bull market. At age 45, he has, among other things, run for the United States Senate in his home state of Montana and narrowly lost, carried on a busy lecture/seminar circuit while managing his trading from airport telephones, written trading books,...
SIDEBAR: Complete computer trading program by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Complete computer trading program by Technical Analysis, Inc. 10 REM COMPLETE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS BY JOHN F. EHLERS MODIFIED BY JACK K. HUTSON...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. ON THE BALANCE Editor, Hope I qualify as a new subscriber, although I am not a ""brand-new"" subscriber. For the sake of balance, you might try countering those Ph.D. articles with an occasional piece by a high school dropout. WAYNE H. ROBERTS -Atlanta, GA Good idea! However, the Ph.D's seem to be more prolific....
Computer Investment Software by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Computer Investment Software by Technical Analysis, Inc. A/R Graphics REINHART INDUSTRIES 1250 OAKMEAD PKY STE 210 SUNNYVALE, CA 94088 408-738-2311 This is a program used by investors to determine their daily orders and to test out their trading methods. It draws the following lines: Schiff, Andrews Median Lines, Trend & Parallel lines, Moving Average Channel Lines, Angles, Gann Lines, Fibonacci Time Cycle lines, Action Reaction lines, and more. Adds up to 30 days on the screen without redrawing lines or reloading data. Converts daily data to weekly or monthly. Menu driven, and comes with CS...
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In search of the perfect system: Interview Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In search of the perfect system: Interview Jack Schwager Jack Schwager, self-confessed skeptic and diligent debunker of ""new and improved"" commodity trading systems, is director of both research and managed trading for PaineWebber and is a not-too-recent convert to the ways of technical analysis. Fifteen years ago, as an economics major fresh out of graduate school, Schwager began his career as a research analyst at Reynolds Securities with no previous experience with commodities. ""But I wasn't into the job for more than a week,"" he says, ""when I realized this was something interesting ...
SIDEBAR: Statistical vs. practical significance by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Statistical vs. practical significance by Technical Analysis, Inc. Let's look more closely at practical significance when using chi-square methodology. First, you need to specify two different hypotheses. They are frequently called the null and alternate hypotheses. In this case, the null hypothesis would be that prices are not random, and the alternate hypothesis would be that prices are random. What level would the chi-square statistic have to reach in order for you to reject the null hypothesis and accept that prices are random?...
Black Monday Postscript by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Black Monday Postscript by Technical Analysis, Inc. The record plunge that took the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 1738.7 on Monday, October 19,1987 will replay itself in the nightmares of traders for many years to come. However, most technicians saw it coming and followed their indicators onto the sidelines well before the carnage started. On the day after the fall, when volatility was extraordinary and the trading floor was still bloody, we called some of the top technical analysts to inquire after their financial health. They were, without exception, watching the Exchange from a safe dist...
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Not Ready for IBM Editor, Do you know of any program for MACD, either in the conventional form or modified form (Gregory Morris, Stocks & Commodities, February 1987) that is available in BASIC for the IBM and is compatible with the program that you and John Ehlers have written? I want to be able to bring up the MACD in to do is to be able to bring up MACD in histogram form on a split screen with a standard bar chart above it, incorporated in Ehlers system. I would also like to thank you for your kind suggestion that I get an IBM AT instead of an XT...
Stop worrying yourself out of profits By Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stop worrying yourself out of profits By Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Every time Michael thought about entering the market, he said to himself ""But what if I lose?"" Those thoughts often paralyzed him from action or delayed his entry so long that many opportunities simply passed before he would pick up the phone. When Michael did open a position, all he could think about were negative consequences. ""My system is wrong at least half the time--what if this is one of those times?"" He couldn't sleep because his mind was racing with those ""what if"" thoughts. Michael suffered from a chronic ""dis-ease"...
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Edit Errors Editor, The articles in your magazine are usually so well written that they are interesting to read even though the reader may not agree with the contents. The article written by William Eng was therefore most surprising. It would have been an act of kindness to either edit it or not print it. The English language was much abused by Mr. Eng, and his writing style showed much confusion in use of words. For instance: page 23, column 1, last paragraph. The quote ""It's none of your goddamn business!"" is uttered 1) matter-of-factly, 2) w...
SIDEBAR: Complete computer trading program
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Complete computer trading program 10 REM COMPLETE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS BY JOHN F. EHLERS MODIFIED BY JACK K. HUTSON...
SIDEBAR: Retracement corrections by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Retracement corrections by Technical Analysis, Inc. In the ""real"" world, markets seldom trace out patterns exactly as our technical forecasting approaches would have them behave. I find it's true in calculating ideal retracements, as well. But another advantage of this method is recognizing when price action is deviating or moving away from the projected correction pattern....
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Where are we? Editor, I enjoy S&C and look forward to each new issue, including articles by guys getting off on esoteric concepts that hardly anyone will ever bother with. Although I enjoy the theory, I do find it difficult to understand the prevailing nuts and bolts philosophy of the S&C editorial staff concerning: can an informed, ""off-the-floor"" speculator make any money in commodities? The February 1987 issue has a glowing critique of some Gann software. It also contains Schwager's skepticism regarding most things. John Sweeney is a part-time...
Trade News And Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Applying the Elliott Wave theory by Clarence J. Liataud The validity of the Elliott Wave theory can be proven by p applying its wave sequence to any long-range commodity or stock chart. The reason most analysts have trouble applying this theory while prices are unfolding is the difficulty in determining the shape and size of a current correction. However, if you keep in mind that after the first and third wave (whatever their size) there will be a correction, and only a correction, you will know what price action to expect. The various shapes of corrections are below. To apply the Elliott Wa...
SIDEBAR: The length of runs
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SIDEBAR: The basics by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: The basics by Technical Analysis, Inc. There is a special vocabulary of options trading that must be mastered in order to understand the uses of options and communicate with brokers and other option traders. An option is a legal contract that gives the holder the right to buy or sell a specified amount of the underlying asset at a fixed or determinable price (called the exercise or strike price) upon exercise of the option. Options that can be exercised at any time before they expire are sometimes called American options. They are to be distinguished from European options, which can...
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. More on the Computer-Assisted Investment Handbook Editor, Thanks for the Computer-Assisted Investment Handbook review in your June issue. However, there are some factual errors that need correction: 1. It was published in 1983 (not 1982) 2. The Foreign Exchange programs are not ""genuinely trivial"" (see pages 134-145 of the handbook). The use of these programs could have successfully forecast the trends in foreign exchange rates since generalized floating in March 1973. (Also see Richard & Schumpeter, et.al.) 3. It is not true that ""no evidence i...
Sweeney Agonistes by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Sweeney Agonistes by Technical Analysis, Inc. KNOW YOUR TIME-HORIZONS My Club 3000 buddies and subscribers often ask how I go about trading. The truth is I use only moving averages and RSI. These are both ""optimized"" with time-horizons approximating the cycle length which I literally eye-balled on daily and weekly charts drawn on my Commodore 64 with QuickTrieve software! Believe me, none of this impresses anyone else. Yet my back-testing and actual trading is consistently profitable. That simple basis is continually being refined these days and that work has convinced me that far more wo...
In This Issue by John Sweeney
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. S&C Computer Program Editor, Would you please spend a few minutes to reply to my inquiry as to what equipment I will need in order to run the upcoming Stocks & Commodities programs for non-CompuTrac users? I am currently using an Apple II + with 48K and one disk drive. I have a Panasonic 1091 NLQ dot matrix printer and am uncertain as to the interface card. I wish to be one of the first purchasers in line--as my father was with CompuTrac--for my intention is to start a business on the side using your program. I intend to teach others how to interpre...
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Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis Fourier Analysis Editor, I have an understanding of Fourier analysis from being an old-time EE. Not a lot of depth. I would like more information on the Volume 1 and Volume 2 disks. I have Volumes 1 and 2 of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities; also an IBM PC. Do you have any further literature or a phone number I can use to call you? ED VILAS - Silver Spring, MD Dear Mr. Vilas Volumes 1 and 2 computer disks are currently only available in Apple II computer format. We intend to supply them as subroutines for IBM DOS at a later date. Fourier analysis ...
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CTCR's BRUCE BABCOCK By Melanie Bowman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CTCR's BRUCE BABCOCK By Melanie Bowman ""Perceptive"" and ""to-the-point"" describe Bruce Babcock, the attorney turned professional commodity trader to whom thousands of traders now look for advice on what's hot and what's not in services, systems, and software. Babcock's best known newsletter, the Commodity Traders Consumer Report, is a one-stop resource for ratings, reviews, and information on advisory services, trading systems, seminars and publications. His style is to ""lay it on the line,"" report the good with the bad, and look for value at a reasonable price. While earning his law d...
Trade News And Products by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trade News And Products by Technical Analysis, Inc. KEY FORECASTER KEY DATA 4415 Cowell Road, Suite 2000 Concord, CA 94518 Computer: IBM PC/XT/AT,128K, DOS 2.1 or higher, monochrome or color CRT, printer Software: A supported spreadsheet or database (see below) Price: $79 KEY FORECASTER is a computer program that forecasts data value obtained from spreadsheet files, databases, or manual entry. It uses several sophisticated techniques to calculate forecasts that require very little user input. This ease of use is meant to make these sophisticated techniques available to traders who have not b...
Trade News And Products by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trade News And Products by Technical Analysis, Inc. ADP DATA SERVICES 175 Jackson Plaza Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (313) 995-6400 ADP Data Services has released the Inside Trading Data Base, an on-line source of corporate insider trading information. Updated daily, the Insider Trading Data Base provides financial professionals with a timely, convenient research tool for assessing the market impact of insider trading, and how it may influence investment decisions. The Insider Trading Data Base is compiled by the Invest/Net group which has maintained a comprehensive insider trading database since 19...
SIDEBAR: Bull or bear market?
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Wilder's back ...by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Wilder's back ...by Technical Analysis, Inc. An in-depth interview with J. Welles Wilder, developer of the popular Relative Strength Index and other technical indicators. It's not often that truly original discoveries are made in technical market analysis. J. Welles Wilder, however, lays claim to an entire collection of systems that have reshaped contemporary commodities trading and analysis. Wilder's methods first came to light in 1978 with the publication of his book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. The book is required reading among technical traders today, and many of its too...
Charting the universe of funds by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Charting the universe of funds by Technical Analysis, Inc. FUNDGRAF Parsons Software 118 Woodshire Drive Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26101 (304) 424-5191 Price: $100 Computer: IBM PC and compatibles So wide-spread is today's speculative impulse that ""playing"" the markets has spread to that bastion of conservative diversification, the mutual funds. Those who wouldn't dream of shorting an individual issue don't hesitate to try picking tops and bottoms in the Magellan Fund. Naturally, for those folks, there is software support available and FUNDGRAF is part of this genera: a program to chart ...
Letters by Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters by Technical Analysis Editor: Clifford Sherry's article on the Gambler's Paradox (better known as the Gambler's Fallacy) in the October issue contains a serious error. In using Chi square to test the independence of price changes, Dr. Sherry gives the probability of obtaining a sequence of '+,+' or one of '-,-'as 0.1666 and the probability of obtaining a sequence of '+,-' or of a ',+' as 0.3333. In any random and independent sequence of events, each of which has any probability of 0.5, the probability of obtaining any one of the four possible sequences is simply 0.25. In the sample o...
In This Issue Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
Computerized RSI programs by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Computerized RSI programs by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Relative Strength Indicator (RSI) has proven itself over the past eight years to be a consistent overbought-oversold indicator as well as an effective trading tool. A change in price direction has often been observed subsequent to a divergence between price and the RSI. Because of this, the RSI is published in numerous chart services as well as software programs, either online via telephone or in stand-alone programs such as the CompuTrac system....
SIDEBAR: Markov analysis by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR: Markov analysis by Technical Analysis, Inc. A natural process which has a random element but also shows the effects of previous events influencing subsequent events is a Markov process. Markov models lie in the spectrum between fully deterministic models (such as y = 3 * x) and independent events models (where the probability of a system being in a particular state is not affected by previous states). They lie somewhere between the beliefs of random walk theorists and those who explain the markets using deterministic equations. Although they do not allow one to pin down exactly what ...
Cycle Analysis à la Peter Eliades By Melanie Bowman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Cycle Analysis à la Peter Eliades By Melanie Bowman Perhaps best known in recent months for his Number 1 standing in Timer Digest rankings, Peter Eliades approaches the stock market from a combination of cyclic and technical analysis. Eliades divides his cycle analysis into two categories--time cycles which identify time periods for potential bottoms and price cycles from which price projections for the popular averages are derived. Technical analysis confirms or contradicts the cycle analysis. Eliades is a Harvard College graduate in the physical sciences, a graduate of Boston University Law...
Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. No Tar Brush Editor, I want to congratulate you on the recent improvement of your magazine. It is developing into a valuable resource for technical analysts. Your magazine's October 1986 issues carried a broadside at systems vendors (I sell no systems and have no personal interest in this matter). I object to the flippant comments (""junk mail"", ""peddling"", etc.) indiscriminately applied to a list of systems developers that included Vilar Kelly. Mr. Kelly is a man of knowledge and integrity. After having been a cryptoanalyst in the military and...
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Prechter on the Elliott Wave Theory By Melanie Bowman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Prechter on the Elliott Wave Theory By Melanie Bowman The Elliott Wave Theorist's Robert Prechter discusses his views on Elliott analysis and how he thinks the markets work. At age 36, Robert R. Prechter Jr. is, without a doubt, one of the youngest masters of technical analysis and today's foremost expert on the intricate Elliott Wave Principle, a market theory developed in the late 1930s by Ralph N. Elliott. Prechter is most often recognized in technical circles as the editor of The Elliott Wave Theorist, a monthly newsletter forecasting the stock market, interest rates and gold and silve...
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
The futures market game Speculator
Market Analyzer PLUS
Market Manager PLUS
Macro*World Investor
Historical Data
MetaStock Downloader
Direc-Tree PLUS
Back Trak High Tech
BLUE CHIPS
TechniFilter
Strategic Investment Timing
Options as a Strategic Investment
MESA
Precision Ratio Compass
Stock/Commodity Products
Computer-Assisted Investment Handbook
The Right Time programs
Market News
Iomega Corp.'s Bernoulli Box
Winning on Wall Street
Stock/Commodity Products
Direc-Tree
In This Issue Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis Dear Dr. Warren, The purpose of this letter is to request your help, as the author, to obtain a working version of the program for Maximum Entropy Forecasting which appeared in the December, 1984 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. I have become interested in using a technique such as maximum entropy to evaluate cross-over points to try to eliminate whip-sawing. The initial analysis section published in the July/ August issue seems to be functioning with the corrections. However, the later section for forecasting from the December issue appears ...
In This Issue Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
Stock and Future Option Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stock and Future Option Trading Trading in stock and futures options is one of the least understood yet potentially most rewarding forms of investing for the individual, professional trader and institutional investor. While trading in stock options can be traced back more than a century in the over-the-counter market, it is only within the last decade that it has become a significant activity in listed stocks. According to Forbes magazine, by 1980 the total volume of options traded measured in terms of their underlying stock exceeded the volume of actual shares traded on the New York Stock Ex...
In This Issue Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis This column is our means of communicating with our subscribers and serves as an outlet for questions and answers. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more (or less) about or pass along to the rest of us. We all run across trading techniques, services and products that have proven to be useful to some degree under different market conditions. Without a constant source of new ideas and subject matter coming from our readers this magazine would not exist. Each issue is designed to hold at least one idea or clarify one subject that sh...
In This Issue by Jack K Hutson, Publisher
Commodity spread
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Commodity spread The Handbook of Commodity Spreads Price: $39.95 Wayne Esserman (800) 428-7808 (800) 382-7884 (Indiana) EWE Publishing P.O. Box 201 Delphi, Ind., 46923 The problem with spreads is that they just aren't sexy. There's not enough ""pop"" in them, not enough gusto. They ooze along, steadily but minutely changing day in and day out --a banker's deal. Not for them is the explosive single-day rally or collapse. Sure, the pros play these things and make money at them, but what fun are they? You have to follow at least two contracts at once, perhaps more. You have to worry abou...
Stock/Commodity Products
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stock/Commodity Products MACTRADER (312) 262-1318 Computer: Apple MacIntosh (512K) Richard Batchelor has released MacTrader, trading software combining the powerful graphics of the Maclntosh with on-line update of prices and a disclosed trading system. MacTrader runs on a ""fat Mac"" using ""Radio Exchange"" updates, the same system supporting Pocketquote. A typical MacTrader display shows two bar graphs (using five minutes to one day per bar) with a moving average oscillator on top, a moving average channel lagged and projected on the bar chart together with two moving averages, a line sh...
SIDEBAR: Cycle plot program listing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Cycle plot program listing 1 REM ""Cycle Plot Program"" 2 REM FOR APPLE ] [ COMPUTER. 3 REM BY JOHN F. EHLERS 4 REM COPYRIGHT (C) 1985 BY TECHNICAL ANALYSIS, INC. 10 TEXT : HOME...
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis Gentlemen: Just received your October issue. The article by Morris on page 16 contains a gross error; specifically, the RSI formula on mid-page, and the subsequent information which is based on that formula. Morris' formula (second part) reads:......
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis This column is our means of communicating with our subscribers and serves as an outlet for questions and answers. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more (or less) about or pass along to the rest of us. We all run across trading techniques, services and products that have proven to be useful to some degree under different market conditions. Without a constant source of new ideas and subject matter coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Each issue is designed to hold at least one idea or clarify one subject that s...
InThis Issue Jack K Hutson, Publisher
SIDEBAR: SIDEBAR 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SIDEBAR 1 RUN DECISION MAKER DECISION MAKER I CAN HELP YOU MAKE DECISIONS BY CHOOSING THE BEST POSSIBILITY FOR YOU OUT OF SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES. ALL I NEED TO DO IS ORGANIZE INFORMATION YOU ALREADY HAVE. WHICH OF THESE BEST DESCRIBES THE DECISION YOU HAVE TO MAKE? 1- CHOOSE AN ITEM FROM SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES? 2- CHOOSE A COURSE OF ACTION FROM SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES? WHICH TYPE (1 OR 2) DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE? 2 I WILL NOW NEED A LIST OF EACH COURSE OF ACTION THAT YOU ARE CONSIDERING. PLEASE INPUT THEM ONE AT A TIME. THE ORDER IS OF NO IMPORTANCE. (9 ITEMS MAXIMUM) HOW MANY ARE THERE ALTOGET...
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SIDEBAR: Series 40 Handheld Computer
SIDEBAR: Programming conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines:
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SIDEBAR: FORMULAS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...FORMULAS ""K regular ""= ... To produce the slow version of the stochastic the formula for the ""%D"" is modified as follows:...
SIDEBAR: Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines: NO Input/Output routine is provided, only a generic BASIC computational subroutine containing the fundamental technical analysis is provided. This subroutine should, with only minor changes, work on any computer using the BASIC language. INPUT data {daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) must be provided by the user (i.e. YOU} in the following matrix format: X(7,NUM) where NUM= Number of days in the Matrix...
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Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Dear Jack: I enjoy the publication very much. Please find enclosed renewal. I look forward to articles on Maximum Entropy. Please include a program on this that will run on Compu-Trac, if possible. Would you also consider an article and a program on equivolume charting? Your programs on the disk run very well and are very useful. Please let me know how I can modify TRIX #40 (STUDY.40) so it will run without user inputs so I can use it in procedures. I want to put the inputs right into the program. Thanks for the help, D.D.H. Redwood Falls, MN Dear D.D.H., The Maximum Entropy computer p...
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Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis Dear Dr. Warren: Recently I purchased a book, Digital Foundations of Time Series Analysis, by Robinson and Silvia, that touches upon the Maximum Eutropy Method (MEM). As much as I want to understand I the basics, my college training doesn't give me the advanced mathematical concepts needed to fully appreciate what the authors try to explain. For this reason, I am grateful for your series on the MEM applied to spectral analysis and forecasting. It has already clarified a few basic ideas, for which I thank you. The MEM appears to be an elegant and powerful analyti...
Corner The Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Corner The Market Many instructive articles and major works in the field of technical analysis and speculation lie undisturbed on dusty back shelves, or have fallen into obscurity because they are no longer in print. As a unique feature of this magazine and in line with our continuing commitment to offer our readers instructive or practical material we will be reprinting classic stories and articles on speculation and technical analysis culled mostly from private libraries. We feel this material, which is only available to our subscribers, will be of interest and value as we are all reaching ...
SIDEBAR: Programming conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines:
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Programming conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines: NO Input/Output routine is provided, only a generic BASIC computational subroutine containing the fundamental technical analysis is provided. this subroutine should, with only minor changes, work on any computer using the BASIC language. INPUT data (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) must be provided by the user (i.e., YOU) in the following format: X(7,NUM) where...
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Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis This column is our means of communicating with our subscribers and serves as an outlet for questions and answers. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more (or less) about or pass along to the rest of us. We all run across trading techniques, services and products that have proven to be useful to some degree under different market conditions. Without a constant source of new ideas and subject matter coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. Each issue is designed to hold at least one idea or clarify one subject that c...
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CALL/PUT OPTIONS 2.0
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CALL/PUT OPTIONS 2.0 Name of Program: Call/Put Options 2.0 Publisher: Harloff, Inc. Price: $499.00 Backup: Disk is protected, no backup provisions Hardware: APPLE II+, IIe or III in emulation mode. DOS 3.3 The Call/Put Options 2.0 Program has definite value for the trader who has decided to deal in the options markets. The program has some glaring faults, and some less important disadvantages are apparent, but overall the usefulness for the options trader outweighs these flaws. This program model was constructed by analysis of 2000 individual call and put options. Interest rates, divide...
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The Evolving State of Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Evolving State of Technical Analysis Leafing through a back issue of ""Success Farming"" magazine the other day, I was quite surprised to run across a fairly sophisticated article on the technical analysis of some of the meat and grain futures. The purpose of the article was apparently to educate and to provide a method of calculating hedging levels for some of its subscribers. In fact, some of the Midwestern farmers I know, use words like ""Elliot wave or 50% retracement"" just as easily as they use ""heifer or grain combine."" At first, it sounded somewhat strange to me, hearing all thi...
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis This column is our means of communicating with our subscribers and serves as an outlet for questions and answers. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more (or less) about or pass along to the rest of us. We all run across trading techinques, services and products that have proven to be useful to some degree under different market conditions. Without a constant source of new ideas and subject matter coming from our readers this magazine would not exist. Each issue is designed to hold at least one idea or clarify one subject that CO...
SIDEBAR: Univac 1 (1951)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Univac 1 (1951) Delivered to the government in 1951 to help with the census, it cut human work hours from 200,000 to 28,000. On October 3, 1963, the computer was retired after 73,000 hours of operation and is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution....
SIDEBAR: Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines:
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines: NO Input/Output routine is provided, only a generic BASIC computational subroutine containing the fundamental technical analysis is provided. This subroutine should, with only minor changes, work on any computer using the BAS C language. INPUT data (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) must be provided by the user (i.e. YOU) in the following matrix format: X(7,NUM) where...
SIDEBAR: Mark 1 (1944)
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Mark 1 (1944) Conceived by Howard H. Aiken of Harvard University in 1937, the first automatic digital computer was built by International Business Machines in 1944. An automatic sequence controlled calculator, it was first used for computing ballistic data. The computer could do three additions per second, working as fast as 20 people on calculators. The Mark 1 took up a lot of space; it was 51 ft. long and 8 ft. high, with 750,000 parts....
SIDEBAR: Author's Biographies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Authors' Biographies Tucker J. Emmett, Vice President Trading and Research Anspacher & Associates, Inc. Tucker Emmett is a cum laude graduate from Harvard University where he studied mathematics and economics. In 1970 he was awarded the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He is a registered representative in securities and commodities and is a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. At Anspacher he is currently involved in research on the application of regressional models to commodity price trends. He also writes a bi-weekly review published by Anspacher on gr...
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Communication with Technical Analysis
Philosophy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Philosophy There is a great deal of expertise among our subscribership. This periodical collects letters and other information from subscribers and after a little rewriting, if needed, publishes the results. Documentation for computer programs is intended to define how to operate the program, not how to interpret the results, we will endeavor to help in this area. We will not be making specific trade recommendations, but rather suggesting possible techniques that should help you reach your own decisions. The interpretation of results will be based on observations, opinion and statistical corr...
Personal Computers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Personal Computers The computer is no longer just a large, complex, expensive object that major corporations blame when they screw up your order. Thanks to the miracle of electronics, today's computer is a large, complex, expensive object that you can have in your own home. If you read your major trend-spotting magazines such as Time and Newsweek, you know that in recent years virtually every man, woman, and child in the United States has bought a personal home computer. You constantly see articles explaining how ordinary people like yourself are finding all kinds of handy uses for computers...
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis Dear Jack: I'm having a problem with the new Fourier disk you just sent out. All goes well until it's time for the COMMAND LINE to appear. Instead of the COMMAND LINE I just get a blank cursor and the system hangs. I collect my data from CSI using their new Quicktrieve disk. Could that be the problem? I use CompuTrac for my analysis. --E R., Malibu, California...
SIDEBAR: COMPUTER TRIVIA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...COMPUTER TRIVIA *The Analytical Engine (1835-1869) Because of lack of government support, English mathematician Charles Babbage (1792-1871) never got to build his invention, the design of which presaged the modern computer. Had it seen the light of day, the engine would have used data fed by punched cards, performed arithmetical calculations, and stored information in a memory bank. Lady Lovelace, the mathematically brilliant daughter of Lord Byron, developed some potential problems for the future machine, in effect acting as the first programmer....
SIDEBAR: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Curtis Arnold holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and for the past two years has been directing the technical research efforts at Weiss Research, an economic research firm and publisher of two newsletters, MONEY FORECASTS and MONEY & MARKETS. He credits technical analysis and computer technology with the tremendous success enjoyed by his daily Financial Futures Hotline. Mr. Arnold will shortly be publishing his new book, Your Personal Computer Can Make You Rich In The Stock Market....
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In This Issue With this issue we have reached a minor milestone in our magazine size. Our third time out Technical Analysis is exactly two times the original sample issue size. Starting with the May issue we will be soliciting commercial advertising to help offset our publishing costs. The addition of this income base will allow us to expand and improve the magazine format. We are happy to introduce a number of new authors to our pages in this issue. Tim Slater of CompuTrac and IntraDay Analyst gives us an update of the IntraDay Analyst software package. Curtis Arnold with Martin D. Weiss Re...
SIDEBAR: Four steps to calculate CCI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Channel Index can help both stock and commodity traders detect when ""real world conditions,"" such as climate, are affecting seasonal price patterns. The author explains how to calculate as well as use the CCI. By Donald R. Lambert Four steps to calculate CCI 1.Compute today's ""typical"" price using high low and close: X1 = 1/3 (H + L + C) 2. Compute a moving average of the N most recent typical prices:...
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis This column is our means of communicating wit our subscribers and serves as an outlet for questions and answers. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more (or less) about or pass along to the rest of us. We all run across trading techniques, services and products that have proven to be useful to some degree underd different market conditions. Without a constant source of new ideas and subject matter coming from our readers this magazine would not exist. Each issue is designed to hold at least one idea or clarify one subject that CO...
SIDEBAR: Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines:
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Programming Conventions for BASIC Technical Analysis subroutines: NO Input/Output routine is provided, only a generic BASIC computational subroutine containing the fundamental technical analysis is provided. This subroutine should, with only minor changes, work on any computer using the BASIC language. INPUT data (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) must be provided by the user (i.e. YOU) in the following matrix format: X(7,NUM) where...
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Moving Averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Moving Averages In our studies of stock or commodity time series data, i.e. a stream of successive daily closes (highs, lows, volume), we are constantly reminded of moving averages and their application. A moving average is one of the simplest and most often used smoothing or filtering methods available. All that is required is that one choose a number of days, N, that you intend to average your data by and plot that average coincident with the last day of data. MATHEMATICALLY:...
SIDEBAR: GLOSSARY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...GLOSSARY ROUNDING ERROR -- When numbers are rounded many times. errors creep into the result. For example, 2.4+8.4=5.8 which rounds to 6, but if we round 2.4 and 3.4 we get 2+3=5. TREND--A straight line pattern to prices. This may be clouded by price variations above and below the trend line. AUTOREGRESSIVE--One today in terms of past days. The atuoregressive part of an ARIMA model uses previous days prices to predict today's price. The ""previous days"" could be just yesterday, or yesterday and the day before yesterday etc....
Letters to Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to Technical Analysis We have received hundreds of inquiries about Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities and are endeavoring to answer ALL via mail or through this column. The effort involved has been a strain on our meager resources, so bear with us. Please feel free to write about anything that you would like to know more about or pass along to the rest of us. Dear Jack, I like your ""Technical Analysis"" publication, the first copy of which I received at the TAG seminar in Toronto . . . This letter is my pledge that I will subscribe .. . I'm enthused about the potential fo...
SIDEBAR: RESEARCH in Progress:
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...RESEARCH in Progress: To make this research periodical a viable and useful tool to the investor, we plan to offer a broad spectrum of information. The centerpiece of each issue will be feature articles on specific numerical or graphical technical analysis techniques with emphasis on application to trading stocks or commodities. ADAPTIVE FILTER: A short-term forecasting technique that computes optimum weighted moving averages is concurrently under development for use with stocks or commodity historical data. This study will calculate an optimum weighting of past observations (weighted moving ...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In This Issue. The Intra-day Analyst is a computer system for technical analysis of the market during the trading day. We regret that an article describing this system was not available to meet our January printing deadline. Typically, articles and advertising must be received 30 days prior to the month that they will appear. The Intra-Day Analysts systems was designed by the same individuals who developed the Compu Trac System. It has been almost two years since its first release and is now a major stand-alone trading tool. With this issue we intitiate a new ongoing forum for exchange of st...
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INTRODUCTION: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS of Stocks and Commodities
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...INTRODUCTION: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS of Stocks and Commodities Our primary consideration of an article is whether it teaches, describes or illustrates an applicable trading method or technique. Also, information about the use of chart or numerical methods is examined to improve ones probability of having a successful trade. (Prospective authors please feel free to include any charts, graphs or computer programs that would help in presentation. The emphasis is on application of existing trading techniques and interpretation of computer programs used to trade Stocks and Commodities. Trader observat...
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