ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Average Behavior by John Sweeney Let me speculate a little here. I know from experience that the half-cycle moving average generally runs along the tops of declining trends and along the bottoms of rising trends Ñ at least in the financials I follow. Th
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Behavior of the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index by Cliff Sherry, Ph.D. Is it stationary, random or independent? Editor's note: In preparing for magazine publication, this article has been heavily condensed. Some insights that were peripheral to the S
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chaos theory and market behavior by Bernd Anders Chaos, in the original Greek, describes the primal condition--a w translation that means ""confuwsion"" as well as ""reality."" With this one word, the ancients captured what they intuitively knew about th
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor's note: On occasion of the recent passing of Henry "Hank" Pruden, who was a longtime industry associate, a dedicated teacher of technical analysis, and a past contributor to this magazine, we are presenting an article from our archives that he had
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Life Cycle Model Of Crowd Behavior by Henry O. Pruden, Ph.D. For a large part of the past 30 years, the discipline of finance has been under the aegis of the efficient market hypothesis. But in recent years, enough anomalies have piled up, cracking its
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can find out all sorts of interesting and useful things if you explore new types of data.
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 a
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After reaching a bubble top near $50 an ounce in April, silver hasn't given the bulls anything to cheer about.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Use statistics to profile patterns of trading behavior as part of an ongoing training program to help traders maximize their performance. Traders have habits and beliefs that have significant impact on their trading, whether they realize it or not. Int
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price behavior? Can you really read it? This article points out ways to look at price behavior to give you insight into possible consistencies, such as how much today's range typically overlaps yesterday's range. Not only that, how often does today's ran
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Studying Risk Behavior Taking risk and taking losses are two different parts of trading. Here's how to manage the emotional side of risktaking. by Ari Kiev, M.D. If you think about it, the markets are a natural laboratory for studying risktaking behavio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 4 Understanding group stock behavior by Jack K. Hutson The Richard D. Wyckoff method of trading brings the technical analyst a clean, logical way to understand stock market behavior and to anticipate the most opport