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Download"Stopping" A System by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...""Stopping"" A System by John Sweeney Once you get hold of an idea, it's often tough to get rid of it, especially if it shows no promise whatever. It tugs at the back of the mind--what was it about the original insight? What was valid? What was bogus? I
"Technician's Technician" Martin Pring by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...""Technician's Technician"" Martin Pring by Thom Hartle Technician-writer-money manager: Martin Pring was described as the ""technician's technician"" by Barron's, and his diverse background can certainly confirm that. Pring received his initial trainin
%B complements on-balance volume by Joseph Barics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...%B complements on-balance volume by Joseph Barics Williams' on-balance volume, or WAD, by itself isn't always a clear indicator of a bottom. To better observe supply and demand, I combine WAD with the percentage of buying for the day, or %B, on a high-l
'Tis The Season by Bob Kargenian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...'Tis The Season by Bob Kargenian The seasonal tendencies of the stock market have been the subject of extensive research. The likes of Yale Hirsch, Arthur A. Merrill, Martin Zweig and Norman Fosback -- all noted technical analysts -- have explored this to
10 How-Tos For Option Trading by Ron Ianieri
10 Rules For Options Traders by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...10 Rules For Options Traders by Joe Luisi The success of your trading career is determined by profitability. And this profitability lies in the way you follow your trading plan. Here are 10 rules you should always consider before making a trade. It's a
1989 cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...1989 cycles by John F. Ehlers Cycle activity in 1989 was substantially higher than in 1988, and some role reversals in cycle personalities appear to have occurred relative to the previous year. To measure and examine 1989 cycle activity, I used 12 perpe
1991 Cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...1991 Cycles by John F. Ehlers If you've always suspected that contracts have definite personalities, you would have your suspicions confirmed this way. Here's an overview of various cycles that appeared in some futures markets during 1991, the way only
2-bar NR and ORB by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...2-bar NR and ORB by Toby Crabel Markets are in a constant state of flux; they are continuously shifting from movement to rest and back to movement again. This interchange is never ending -- from contraction to expansion to contraction -- with one phase di
2003 Readers' Choice Awards by Technical Analysis, Inc.
2008 Readers' Choice Awards by Technical Analysis, Inc.
: Curtis Faith And Trading From Your Gut by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Curtis Faith is best known for getting his start as a member of the Turtles, the elite Chicago trading group. In his early 20s, Faith earned more than $30 million as a member of the renowned group that started as a bet between its founders, Richard
A 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D. Crowd psychology plays a role in the development of market tops and bottoms. In theory, a bottom forms when the majority of investors are extremely pessimistic, and a top occurs when the investo
A Big Bang By Cisco
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cisco breached a major resistance after a gap up followed by a bullish reversal candlestick pattern.
A Blueprint For Your Trading by Vadym Graifer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (72-75, 84): A Blueprint For Your Trading by Vadym Graifer The active management of a trading account should be treated as a business and requires a complete trading plan. Here's how to build one. A trading plan is often de
A CHRISTMAS STORY by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A CHRISTMAS STORY by Ron Jaenisch Jaenisch, a student of Professor Allen Andrews, reviews some of the Andrews Median Line and pivot point techniques in a whimsical story about trading Santa's account. It was September 15, 1984 and time was getting sho
A Closer Look At Divergences by Clive Roffey, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Closer Look At Divergences by Clive Roffey, Ph.D. In 1972, the investor and well-known goldbug James Dines produced a 600-page treatise called How The Average Investor Can Use Technical Analysis For Stock Profits. I regard this book, unfortunately now
A Conservative Bet On Oil By Buying Russia
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While OPEC economies are almost entirely dependent upon oil, Russia offers a way to profit from high oil prices with a margin of safety offered by a more diversified economy.
A DJIA Long-Term Momentum Indicator by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A DJIA Long-Term Momentum Indicator by Jay Kaeppel Picking the tops and bottoms of the market has always been the dream of traders. Is it necessary, though? Here are the results of using a long-term momentum indicator based on the Dow Jones Industrial A
A Duration Proxy For Stock Portfolios by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Duration, used in fixed-income portfolios to measure risk associated with changes in interest rates, is applied here to measure the risk of a stock portfolio. The duration statistic has proved to be a valuable risk indicator for fixed-income portfolios
A Father-Daughter Team: Bill Williams & Justine Williams-Lara by J. "Jay" Norris
A Flexible Strategy For Volatile Markets by John Manley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Flexible Strategy For Volatile Markets by John Manley Profit from option spreads on the S&P 500 by applying the same tactic as you would playing chess. Here's how. Good chess players are always focusing on a couple of moves in advance of the current
A Gann Study of A Bull Move In Wheat by Richard Diaz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Gann Study of A Bull Move In Wheat by Richard Diaz Gann's methods have been studied for years and applied by many to trading stocks and commodities. Here, Richard Diaz of Refco, Inc., provides us with his Gann analysis of a bull market in wheat. Whe
A Genetic Algorithm System For Predicting The OEX by Deniz Yuret and Michael de la Maza
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Genetic Algorithm System For Predicting The OEX by Deniz Yuret and Michael de la Maza Since artificial intelligence made its debut within the pages of Stocks & Commodities, various and sundry methods by which neural networks can be used in designing t
A Guide To Pyramiding by Nauzer J. Balsara
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Guide To Pyramiding by Nauzer J. Balsara Pyramiding, the process of adding to the number of contracts during the life of a trade, needs to be distinguished from the strategy of increasing or decreasing the trading size contingent on the outcome of a c
A Hybrid System For Market Timing by Mark B. Fishman and Dean S. Barr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Hybrid System For Market Timing by Mark B. Fishman and Dean S. Barr Hybrid technologies are perhaps the most-investigated topic in artificial intelligence today and here's how to apply the subject to trading. In two recent articles in STOCKS & COMMO
A Low-Risk, High-Potential Return Option Strategy by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Low-Risk, High-Potential Return Option Strategy by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Can call options be used as a substitute for purchasing stocks? Covered calls -- selling a call on stock being held -- is one low-risk strategy, but profits can be limited o
A Market Bottom Pattern for S&P Futures by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Market Bottom Pattern for S&P Futures by Tushar S. Chande The S&P futures market is dominated by anti-trend traders. It's a fact: It's a tough market to trade using trend-following approaches. But if you can't beat 'em, why not join 'em? The trading
A Market Maker's Perspective by Don Bright
A Marriage In Artificial Intelligence by D.M. Wong, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (38-41): A Marriage In Artificial Intelligence by D.M. Wong, Ph.D. Can you really make better decisions with more information? Perhaps artificial intelligence has the answer. Find out how you can develop skills to gain contr
A Master Systems And Pattern Tester by Leslie N. Masonson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Master Systems And Pattern Tester by Leslie N. Masonson Chris Manning has spent thousands of hours poring over published systems, models, and charting patterns. Now he is a widely recognized systems expert who regularly appears on the CNBC and the Blo
A Mathematical Game Plan by Gene Carey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MONEY MANAGEMENT A Mathematical Game Plan by Gene Carey Here's how the elements of a successful trading plan - profits, losses, commissions and slippage - can be used to quantify performance goals. I t's a given: Operating with a game plan is a nec
A MiniGuide to Fourier Spectrum Analysis by ANTHONY WARREN, PH.D./STAFF WRITER
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A MiniGuide to Fourier Spectrum Analysis by ANTHONY WARREN, PH.D./STAFF WRITER The basic idea behind Fourier Analysis of time series is to decompose the data into a sum of sinusoids of varying cycle length, each cycle being a fraction of a common or fun
A Mutual Fund Switch System by Nelson Freeburg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Mutual Fund Switch System by Nelson Freeburg Testing indicators to confirm viability is always important, and here, two indicators that stand up to historical testing are presented and then used to develop a simple mutual fund switch system. Many su
A Mutual Fund Trading Method by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Mutual Fund Trading Method by Norman J. Brown Get better profits and reduce your risks by using the one-rank method to select mutual funds to trade. There are many techniques and tools you can use to define turning points that generate trading signal
A Neural Network System For Reliable Trading Signals by Marlowe D. Cassetti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Neural Network System For Reliable Trading Signals by Marlowe D. Cassetti For those of you who have complained that you have to be a rocket scientist to understand what we run in Stocks & Commodities, here's a rocket scientist to explain it to you.
A New Advance-Decline Line by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Advance-Decline Line by Daniel E. Downing Here's a trading tool that uses a unique version of the daily advance-decline line of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This version helps in our short- and long-term trading of index options and stock i
A New Exit Strategy by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Exit Strategy by Adam White Most traders search for entry signals for trading systems and use a reversal of the entry signal for exits. Sounds simple enough, right? But what about developing exit strategies separate from your entry method? Here, t
A New Market Index by Dan Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Market Index by Dan Downing Technicians are always looking for leading indices and indicators. We continually search for tools that will give us some advanced warning of the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or the Options Excha
A New Slant On Head And Shoulders by Charles E. Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Slant On Head And Shoulders by Charles E. Miller Here's a detrending technique that will help you visualize slanted head and shoulder top patterns more clearly. When the good old reliable head and shoulders (H&S) pattern emerges simultaneously in
A New Utility Average Stock Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Utility Average Stock Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. This month, Meyers uses a daily indicator based on the Dow Jones Utility Average as a market timing system for the Standard & Poor's 500 index. In the August 1995 STOCKS & COMMODITIES,
A Nonparametric Performance Measure by Guy Brys and Luc Van Hof
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Nonparametric Performance Measure by Guy Brys and Luc Van Hof Many an indicator generates buy/sell signals, but how effective are they? We can measure the quality of such signals by embedding them into a fairly simple trading system. We will apply tw
A One Rank Screening Technique For Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (39-45): A One Rank Screening Technique For Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown Here's a momentum-following method using three technical analysis tools to help switch your mutual funds. In my earlier articles describing a "One
A Personal Neural Net Trading System by James Stakelum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Personal Neural Net Trading System by James Stakelum What goes through the mind of someone developing a neural network trading system? What are the steps involved in putting together something that mimics the mystery of the human mind? Here are some c
A Price- and Volume-Based System by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES A Price- And Volume-Based System Traders often use moving averages of just price to signal trends. Here's a moving average system that uses price and volume for trading signals. by Alex Saitta N ot a month goes by that a trading m
A Rationale For Managed Futures by Charles R. Lightner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Rationale For Managed Futures by Charles R. Lightner Although the futures markets are widely misunderstood even among knowledgeable investors, they serve a critical purpose in our economy; through the managed futures industry, they provide an importa
A Regression-Based Oscillator by Patrick E. Lafferty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Regression-Based Oscillator by Patrick E. Lafferty Editor's note: Mr. Lafferty originally submitted this article as an entry to the June Traders' Challenge contest. We decided to run it as a separate article because the idea that Mr. Lafferty presente
A Rising Wedge Formed By Semiconductor Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A long-term bearish reversal pattern is formed by the Semiconductor Index on a daily as well as a weekly time frame. Will the pattern undergo a successful bearish breakout?
A Rule-Based Approach to Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Rule-Based Approach to Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. Last month, Katz presented his experience developing a trading system using a neural network?based approach. This month, he delves into a rule-based approach to trading. Previously, I showed
A Seasonal System For Soybean Futures by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Seasonal System For Soybean Futures by Markos Katsanos Here's a system that exploits historical seasonal patterns to trade soybean futures. Some markets are affected by certain fundamental factors that are seasonal in nature. These tend to recur at
A Session With Alex Elder by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Session With Alex Elder by Thom Hartle Alexander Elder, director of the Financial Trading Seminars, is no newcomer to technical analysis nor to trading. Technical Editor John Sweeney and Editor Thom Hartle interviewed Elder on July 18 of last year in
A Short-Term Buy Signal For The DJIA by John Toombs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Short-Term Buy Signal For The DJIA by John Toombs Buying the first retreat in prices following a strong move up in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is often profitable. Three questions are involved in doing so, however. What constitutes a ""str
A Simple Range-Trading System by Xavier Maria Raj
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (50-52): A Simple Range-Trading System by Xavier Maria Raj Creating a trading system is always a good idea, and keeping it simple is even better. Here's a look at one strategy that could make all the difference. It is alwa
A Smoothed RSI Inverse Fisher Transform by Sylvain Vervoort
A Spreadsheet For Price Ratio Projection Analysis by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Spreadsheet For Price Ratio Projection Analysis by Robert Miner Traders who follow Gann and Elliott wave analysis use ratios of past price movement as guidelines for possible turning points in the future. Here, Robert Miner of Gann/Elliott Educators g
A Spreadsheet For Time Ratio Analysis by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Spreadsheet For Time Ratio Analysis by Robert Miner Traders using ratio of time cycle analysis will find this spreadsheet version of determining target dates of possible cycle highs or lows helpful. The author discusses the use of projected target dat
A System For Trading Fidelity Select Funds by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A System For Trading Fidelity Select Funds by Jay Kaeppel The key techniques for trading stocks, options, and futures can also be applied successfully to mutual funds. Here's a systematic approach to mutual fund trading. Several keys to investment and
A Tale Of Two Indicators by Andrew Tomlinson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (22-27): A Tale Of Two Indicators by Andrew Tomlinson What do you do when two apparently similar indicators give opposite signals? On July 6, 2004, I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. The stock market was falling and
A Trade in Foreign Currencies by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Trade in Foreign Currencies by D.W. Davies Here's a recent trade in foreign currencies what was used, the reasoning behind it and the outcome. Take a look. Without a universal truth to define the beginning and end of trends, most successful traders
A Trend Channel Trade by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Trend Channel Trade by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a trade that combines fundamentals, trend channels, pattern recognition and volume. Selecting a stock to trade means more than just throwing darts. For my own trading, I use statistically positioned tren
A Twist On The Arms Index by Harley D. Wilbur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Twist On The Arms Index by Harley D. Wilbur The Arms index, which was originally known as TRIN (for trading index), utilizes up and down volume and advancing and declining issues for calculation. The indicator, which aims to identify possible turning
A Volatility Trade In Gold by David S. Landry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Volatility Trade In Gold by David S. Landry, CTA Large moves often follow low-volatility environments. Here's one method of combining volatility indicators and pattern recognition along with trend-following methods to capture a breakout in the 1997 go
A Weekly S&P Trading System by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V13:06: (233-237): A Weekly S&P Trading System by Adam White Here's a trading system based on a price pattern and which uses the Standard & Poor's 500 index as a test case. Should a stock market investor buy and hold, or should he or she attempt to t
A Wyckoff Approach To Future by Craig F. Schroeder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Wyckoff Approach To Future by Craig F. Schroeder The Wyckoff approach, which has been a standard for decades, is as valid for futures as it is for stocks, but even students of the technique appear to be unaware of its extended uses. Most technicians k
A Wyckoff Guide for Investors and Speculators by Craig F. Schroeder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Wyckoff Guide For Investors And Speculators by Craig F. Schroeder The Wyckoff method as it is taught today represents the results of more than 100 years of continuous market study. Those years have brought the development of numerous refinements and a
A better way to smooth data by J.S. Payne, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A better way to smooth data by J.S. Payne, Ph.D. What every trader desires is indicators that give strong signals with no misleading period-to period jitter, or noise. We all know what noise is to a trader, but let's restate it. Noise is something in yo
A case for patterns by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A case for patterns by Kent Calhoun Probabilities are nothing more than mathematical odds of occurrence. The success of any trading system is a direct function of probability, yet how often is a trader aware when the odds shift strongly in his or her fa
A complete computer trading program (part 1) by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A complete computer trading program (part 1) by John F. Ehlers This is the first of four articles that give a description and computer listing, enabling you to perform technical analysis with your computer. In the second article I will cover the basics
A complete computer trading program Part 4 by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A complete computer trading program Part 4 by John F. Ehlers This is the conclusion of four articles that give a description and listing of an AppletÒ ][ BASIC computer program, enabling you to perform technical analysis on your computer with 48K of mem
A complete computer trading program part 2 by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A complete computer trading program part 2 by John F. Ehlers This program works with the standard CompuTrac or CSI (Commodity Systems, Inc.) disk data reading format (Table 1). The fundamental idea of this program is to take a 40-character string record
A complete computer trading program part 3 by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A complete computer trading program part 3 by John F. Ehlers This is the third of four articles that give a description and BASIC computer program listing enabling you to perform technical analysis on your Apple ][ computer. In the first two installmen
A helping hand from the Arms Index by James Alphier and Bill Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A helping hand from the Arms Index by James Alphier and Bill Kuhn It was just about 20 years ago when Richard W. Arms, Jr. published in the pages of Barron's his new index number which combined upside and downside volume with the traditionally watched s
A mechanical trading system by William F. Eng
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A mechanical trading system by William F. Eng As a professional floor trader at the Chicago Board of Figure 1 Trade, I have studied many trading techniques. Some work and some don't. Most trading techniques work with the one missing element that we all
A modification of Wilder's directional movement system by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A modification of Wilder's directional movement system by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille In his New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems (Copyright 1978) J. Welles Wilder Jr. introduced his directional movement system with the following: ""Direc
A more conservative estimate of risk by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A more conservative estimate of risk by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Risk is, or at least should be, of interest to all investors. One of the traditional measures of risk is the standard deviation of expected returns (that is, the spread of the expected re
A new cycle analysis trading technique by Russell L. Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A new cycle analysis trading technique by Russell L. Miller This article describes a novel cycle-based day trading system that, under testing, turned in nearly a 300% annualized profit on equity. In most cases, trading with cycles involves entering a po
A new indicator for the S&P stock index futures by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A new indicator for the S&P stock index futures by Daniel E. Downing Little is new in the field of technical analysis. Even with a staff of seven analysts, my firm can take credit for developing only three entirely new technical tools for the markets. W
A simple analogue of auto- and cross-correlation by Clifford J. Sherry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A simple analogue of auto- and cross-correlation by Clifford J. Sherry If you trade commodities or stocks and if you expect to make a profit, you are making the tacit assumption that you can predict the future price of your commodity or stock. Traders
A simple cycle finder by Curtis McKallip Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A simple cycle finder by Curtis McKallip Jr. Cycle signatures are patterns created by cycles. If you're familiar with Fourier analysis and maximum entropy methods of cycle analysis you know they produce a pattern called amplitude spectra which requires
A simple variation of the moving average by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A simple variation of the moving average by Peter Aan General description: The Moving Average Direction System is trend-following; always in the market. Originator: Peter Aan Advantages: Profits from most significant trends; entry technique eliminates
A sojourn through random territory by Henry S. Patricoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A sojourn through random territory by Henry S. Patricoff The New York Stock Exchange Advance/Decline (A/D) figures, dice, and roulette have a bit in common on a probability basis. The figures are for these particular 6,500 trials. At some future sampli
A thing of duty by Sara Nuss-Galles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Duty or passion? In either direction there is poetry in work. By Sara Nuss-Galles; page 273.
A trader's tale: Post-crash profits with fast action by Patrick D. Bosold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A trader's tale: Post-crash profits with fast action by Patrick D. Bosold For most people, commodity trading means getting on an adrenalin high at the start of the trading day, scrutinizing the markets intensely, making bold buy or sell decisions under
A"map" for the trading jungle by Grant D. Noble
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A""map"" for the trading jungle by Grant D. Noble Most of the common methods used by traders can be classified under three main theories. Noble outlines these trading methods, then recommends a strategy for choosing those that best fit your trading styl
A/D Volume, New-High, New-Low System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
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
ADX Reversal Patterns by Charles B. Schaap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (64-67): ADX Reversal Patterns by Charles B. Schaap When is the trend not going to continue? The average directional movement index can provide you with information you need to differentiate between the end of a trend, a con
AIQ/Stock Expert Version 2.51 by John Sweeney
ARIMA Forecasting by ERIC WEISS, PH.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...ARIMA Forecasting by ERIC WEISS, PH.D. In the October 1982 of Technical Analysis, I discussed Autoregressive-Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and why it is such an accurate forecasting technique. In this article, I'll discuss how to build an ARIMA mode
ARSI, The Asymmetrical RSI by Sylvain Vervoort
About Managed Futures And Commodity . . . Gary Spitz by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...About Managed Futures And Commodity Trading Advisors -- Interview with Gary Spitz by Thom Hartle Gary Spitz, principal of CTA Research Corp., recognized early on the value of professional money managers in the futures markets as an asset class for inves
Absolute Tick Volume by Charles F. Wright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Absolute Tick Volume by Charles F. Wright Volume is one of the major tools used in technical analysis. The volume of a particular day or intraday bar is used as a gauge for activity during the time period. Trading judgments are based on traders' interpr
Active Risk Management by Richard Gard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Active Risk Management by Richard Gard The options market is often thought of as a simple directional play: Buy a call option if you're bullish or buy a put option if you're bearish. But options can also be used to manage a position. Here's a real-life
Adam & Adam Double Bottom by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adam & Adam Double Bottom by Thomas Bulkowski If you see this type of double bottom, it may mean you need to make a quick exit. discussed the Eve & Eve double bottom chart pattern in the November 2002 STOCKS & COMMODITIES. If the Eve & Eve double botto
Adam & Eve Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adam & Eve Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski Here's the final part of a four-part series discussing double bottoms. If you read my article in the January 2003 STOCKS & COMMODITIES about the Eve & Adam double bottom, you can guess that an Adam & Eve do
Adapting Moving Averages To Market Volatility by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adapting Moving Averages To Market Volatility by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. If a market is active, it has volatility: that cannot be avoided. And because the market is continuously changing, an indicator that attempts to predict market activity must itself
Adding The Human Element To Neural Nets by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. with Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adding The Human Element To Neural Nets by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick Is it possible to train a neural network to ""see"" the way you and I do? These Contributing Writers walk you through their research in selecting chart-based tr
Adding Volume To The Move-Adjusted Moving Average by Stephen Bisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (38-41): Adding Volume To The Move-Adjusted Moving Average by Stephen Bisse In this second article of the series, we look at how adding volume can help identify large moves in one direction. In "Visiting MOMA," my previous
Adjusting A Long Call With The Synthetic Straddle by Chris Tyler
Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adjusting Option Trades With Bill Ladd by John Sarkett Bill Ladd, a full-time, independent option trader, spent 20-some years in the pharmaceutical industry (Burroughs Wellcome, which became Glaxo Smith/Kline) as a certified internal auditor and a certi
Advance Breakdowns And Breakouts In Oscillators by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance Breakdowns And Breakouts In Oscillators by Martin J. Pring Oscillators have always been a popular tool for traders. Here are some guidelines from a leading market analyst on various ways to apply this widely used technique. I think of momentum
Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing It never hurts to refresh your memory on the basics. Here's a primer on following the advance-decline line for the stock market. A stock investor who has just begun to analyze the stock market using tech
Advance-decline divergence as an oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-decline divergence as an oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill Which indicators signaled the crash last October? One that had been shouting a warning was A-D Divergence. This is one of our most venerable indicators. The Advance-Decline Divergence Osci
Advanced Scale-In Strategies For Short-Term Traders by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advanced Scale-In Strategies For Short-Term Traders by David Penn How can short-term traders add an edge of as much as 10% to their per-trade win rate? High-probability exchange traded fund (Etf) trading is a quantified strategy of buying Etfs after
Affine Geometry Of The Markets by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Affine Geometry Of The Markets by Viktor Likhovidov Think the market doesn't have a memory? Think again. bout five years ago, I came across an interesting article concerning the channeling behavior of market charts. I don't remember much about the arti
Aftermath Of The Bubble by Phil Abel
Agricultural Options by Dr. Alexander Elder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Agricultural Options by Dr. Alexander Elder Agricultural Options George Angell American Management Associates 135 West 50th St. New York, NY 10020 230 pages, $22.95 hardcover It used to be that each new book by George Angell could be counted on to prov
Alex Saitta of Salomon Brothers by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alex Saitta of Salomon Brothers by Thom Hartle Seasoned equity traders know that interest rates are a key force behind the direction of the stock market. The term ""interest rates,"" of course, is really a catch-all phrase for a group of markets that pr
All By His Elf: Robert Nurock by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All By His Elf: Robert Nurock by Thom Hartle The most money is made in the market by those who are able to identify trends early and stick with them -- not trade out of issues just because they've gone theoretically too far, too fast."" -- Robert Nurock
All By His Elf: Robert Nurock by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...All By His Elf: Robert Nurock by Thom Hartle The most money is made in the market by those who are able to identify trends early and stick with them -- not trade out of issues just because they've gone theoretically too far, too fast."" -- Robert Nurock
Alpha-beta trend following system Version II, tuning for performance by Anthony W. Warren Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alpha-beta trend following system Version II, tuning for performance by Anthony W. Warren Ph.D. Several years ago, I published the alpha-beta trend following method in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Although similar in concept to the c
Alpha-beta trend-following revisited by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alpha-beta trend-following revisited by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. In the June and December 1985 issues of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine, I presented a new method for trend-following based on the use of alpha-beta filtering for trade
AlphaTrade.com by Dennis D. Peterson
Alternative Investments For Volatile Times by Gary Spitz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alternative Investments For Volatile Times by Gary Spitz The stock market isn't the only asset class available to qualified investors; for example, there are managed futures and hedge funds. Here's an overview of the hedge fund industry, as well as rece
An Alpha Indicator for Bonds by Frank Ritchie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alpha measures the performance of a stock compared with the stock market. Here, the alpha between a cyclical stock group and the Treasury bond market is used as an indicator for trading T-bonds to signal trends. By Frank Ritchie The alphaY´ of a stock h
An Elliott Wave perspective: DJIA 400 or 6000? by Elliot Brenner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An Elliott Wave perspective: DJIA 400 or 6000? by Elliot Brenner To put the stock market's present wave structure into perspective, I believe it is helpful to examine an important rule of Elliott Wave analysis--the Rule of Equality. This rule has been co
An Introduction to Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) Technical Analysis by Anthony W. Warren, Ph. D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An Introduction to Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) Technical Analysis by Anthony W. Warren, PhD RESEARCH Preface to Maximum Entropy Articles A reasonable assumption concerning the motivation of subscribers to Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
An Issue/Volume Weighted Long-Term Arms Index by Jack Rusin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An Issue/Volume Weighted Long-Term Arms Index by Jack Rusin Consider, if you will, two vastly simplified trading days on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). On the first day, 10 issues advance and 10 decline with 100 shares of up volume and 200 shares o
An MACD Parallax View by Edward Donie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An MACD Parallax View by Edward Donie Fundamental to technical analysis are indicators and signals, such as moving averages. Here are situations where variations of these indicators are helpful in decision-making for traders. Fundamental to technical a
An Overview In Elliott Terms by Mark Thompson
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An advance/decline line for commodities by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An advance/decline line for commodities by Thom Hartle One of the first technical lessons in stock market investing is understanding the relationship between the movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the advance/decline (A/D) line for
An after-Christmas story by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An after-Christmas story by Ron Jaenisch Santa completed his rounds at Christmas and went on a one-month vacation in Mexico. When he got back to the North Pole he realized that it was once again time to raise funds for the Christmas toys. Since it was o
An assist in market timing by Irving Lehren
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An assist in market timing by Irving Lehren Determining turning points and changes in the stock market often requires looking back at how the market reacted under similar circumstances. But aberrations occur in most cycles and a trader must formulate so
An ultimate oscillator program for the HP-41C(V) by Charles F. Johnson
Analysis Of A Winning Trade by Gary Smith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analysis Of A Winning Trade by Gary Smith Winning traders tend to have something in common in at least one way, and that is the ability to make rapid trading decisions based on all the factors that affect the market. Here, private trader Gary Smith reco
Analysis in Action: Tushar Chande by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tushar S. Chande is a familiar name to regular Stocks & Commodities readers, as he's contributed any number of solid, well-researched and thoughtful technical articles over the years and has been a Contributing Editor for the past few. His background, li
Analyze Net Positions by Jon D. Andersen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyze Net Positions by Jon D. Andersen Commitment of tradersÝ (COT) data has, for many traders, been difficult to understand and apply. This has largely been because access to usable forms of the data has been limited, and analysis techniques have bee
Analyzing Risk/Reward Tradeoffs by Fred S. Gehm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyzing Risk/Reward Tradeoffs by Fred S. Gehm These days, more and more potential traders are avoiding the day-to-day problems of commodity trading by committing their funds to professional money managers. For many, perhaps most, this is a reasonable
Analyzing Trends In Momentum by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Quo Vadis? Analyzing Trends In Momentum Momentum pure and simple is fine, but how about the trend of momentum? Here's what it can tell you. by Martin J. Pring Momentum is a generic term that applies to all oscillators, and the principles of momentum in
Analyzing Volume For Consolidations And Reversals by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyzing Volume For Consolidations And Reversals by Thom Hartle Markets move from one price level to another as trends. Once a trend has been established, technicians tend to continually analyze the market searching for clues about the current status o
Analyzing indicators with the cells method by David R. Aronson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyzing indicators with the cells method by David R. Aronson Does a given technical indicator have predictive value or not? This fundamental question must be answered before using it to forecast market trends or as input to trading decisions. An intui
Anatomy of a Trade by JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Anatomy of a Trade by JACK K. HUTSON All you have to do to be successful is follow the advice you give to others. -- The Scottish Rite Torch. WEEDING OUT THE TRASH During a daily course of market review we produce a number of computer studies to suppl
Anchored Momentum by Rudy Stefenel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Anchored Momentum by Rudy Stefenel A centered simple moving average can be used as a reference point when creating technical analysis indicators. Even though a centered simple moving average produces a plot much smoother than its related price plot, the
Andrew Addison of the Addison Report by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW Simplicity for Simplicity's Sake: Andrew Addison Of The Addison Report by Thom Hartle In this increasingly complicated world, it's a comfort to hear that indicators don't have to be complicated to work well, as Andrew Addison of The Addison Re
Andrew Lo And The Future of Technical Analysis by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Andrew Lo And The Future of Technical Analysis by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber Andrew Lo, who is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Sloan School of Management and director of MIT's Laborat
Another Chance With Breakaway Gaps by John Crane
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another Chance With Breakaway Gaps by John Crane Suppose you've been monitoring the market for weeks, faithfully updating your daily charts and studying your favorite indicators. The criteria for your trade are met and, at long last, a buy signal is gen
Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers by Dimitris Tsokakis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (20-26): Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers by Dimitris Tsokakis Although simple moving averages may be a technical analyst's best friend, they do tend to lag. Here's how you can overcome this problem. Moving averages a
Anxiety Cure by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Anxiety Cure Here are some tips on not letting those feelings of anxiety affect your trading. ""Hope is not a strategy; it's a simple emotion," a retired army general remarked. He was talking about a war, but his comment reminded me of trading. I remem
Applied artificial intelligence by Jerry Felsen, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applied artificial intelligence by Jerry Felsen, Ph.D. Both the science of cybernetics and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are central to the design of viable man-computer investment decision systems. Cybernetics has been defined as the interdi
Applying ARIMA Forecasts by ERIC WEISS, Ph.D.
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Applying Expert Systems To Trading by Wolf von Ronik
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applying Expert Systems To Trading by Wolf von Ronik Artificial intelligence was introduced 50-odd years ago to model the way humans learn and extrapolate from the knowledge they glean. How can the theory of expert systems, one of the two current though
Applying Gann Angles To Computer Charts by Brent Aston
Applying MIDAS To Daily And Weekly Charts by A. Coles and D. Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applying MIDAS To Daily And Weekly Charts by A. Coles and D. Hawkins In this second part of this series we go one step further by adding deeper insight into price action. SO far, we have explored what technical analyst Paul Levine called the scientifi
Applying Moving Averages by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applying Moving Averages by John Sweeney The moving average, one of the first technical methods that novice traders study, can be applied to your favorite markets. Here are its strengths and weaknesses. It's commonplace to honor simplicity but to simu
Applying Pit-Trading Techniques To Electronic Trading by Clem Chambers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (16-19): Applying Pit-Trading Techniques To Electronic Trading by Clem Chambers Just like every other established futures market, the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) used to have a pit where colorful
Applying statistical pattern recognition to commodity trading systems by Scott Brill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Applying statistical pattern recognition to commodity trading systems by Scott Brill Statistical pattern recognition (SPR) is a subfield of artificial intelligence concerned with automatic recognition of meaningful regularities in noisy or complex envir
Applying the Elliott Wave theory by Clarence J. Liataud
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 pr
Appreciating The Risk Of Ruin by Nauzer J. Balsara
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Appreciating The Risk Of Ruin by Nauzer J. Balsara Traders focus on developing trading rules and systems that identify market entry and exit points. A factor that is often overlooked is the percentage of trading capital available that is risked on trade
Archiving The Experts by Jason S. Glazier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Archiving The Experts by Jason S. Glazier If the experiential technical and fundamental knowledge of the stock experts were merged with the technical and fundamental buy/sell indicators found in books and software, a more accurate market prediction syst
Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little Find out if you can include these products in your list of tradables. IN 1992, the American Stock Exchange (Amex) petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (Sec) to create a standalone index-ba
Are Managed Futures the Future? by Victor Sperandeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Managed Futures The Future? by Victor Sperandeo This well-known money manager believes that managed futures should be a part of your portfolio. Here's why. Very little can drastically alter the economy and financial markets more than a change in mo
Are The Averages in Gear? by Richard L. Evans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are The Averages in Gear? by Richard L. Evans What is Dow theory really indicating when the industrial and transportation averages are out of sync? Here's a Dow theory specialist to clarify. One of Dow theory's main tenets and the basis of much modern-
Are There Persistent Cycles? by E. Michael Poulos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are There Persistent Cycles? by E. Michael Poulos Most technical indicators use a fixed lookback length based on the idea that cycles are present in the price data. Should the same fixed lookback length be used for all markets? Are there persistent cycl
Are Three-Bar Patterns Reliable For Stocks? by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Three-Bar Patterns Reliable For Stocks? by Thomas Bulkowski Futures traders often use a three-bar swing low as a reversal pattern,but is the three-bar pattern reliable for stocks?Find out here. I discovered this gem of a pattern while prospecting
Are Two Channels Better Than One? by Stephane Reverre
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Two Channels Better Than One? by Stéphane Reverre This author tested two channels based on Bollinger Bands around a standard moving average and an application of the capital asset pricing model, and discovered that a combination of the two performs
Are Your Inputs Correlated? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Your Inputs Correlated? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. If you use neural nets to model the behavior of equity markets in an effort to develop a trading strategy, it's likely that your model has multiple inputs. You may very well find that two or more
Are Your Profits Robust? by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Your Profits Robust? by Steve Notis Your trading system probably has a set of parameters you think are the most profitable. But is it the most consistent? Here's a technique to find the most robust set that will give you regular profits. For those
Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar Why this article? In spite of what my wife says, I do follow my own advice, at least part of the time. In some of the past issues of Stocks & Commodities I have promoted bottom fishing, not to catch healthy co
Are there gaps in your thinking? by Richard W. Arms Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there gaps in your thinking? by Richard W. Arms Jr. Usually in the use of technical analysis we are concerned with what happened and how it happened in order to predict what will happen. But there are times when what didn't happen can be as importan
Are there patterns in financial ratios? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there patterns in financial ratios? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Technical analysts strive to find patterns in the past history of the prices of stocks and commodities (using charts, moving averages, etc.) that will allow them to predict future pric
Are you piloting your trading with safety? by Ana Maria Wilson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you piloting your trading with safety? by Ana Maria Wilson As a full-time trader of highly speculative stock and commodity options armed with a basically sound system, I'm always looking for ways to strengthen the weakest link in my trading program:
Arms Equivolume Charting System by James S. Gould
Arms On Arms by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Arms On Arms by Thom Hartle STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers may already be familiar with the work of Richard Arms, inventor of the Arms index and Equivolume charting, author of many books, a 30-year veteran of the stock market and contributor to STOCKS & C
Artificial Intelligence And Market Analysis by Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Artificial Intelligence And Market Analysis by Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick Markets are chaotic and their randomness is real but intermittent; we can approach the development of trading systems with that assumption. We can also assu
Artificial Intelligence by Neil Gordon, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Artificial Intelligence by Neil Gordon, Ph.D. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science that attempts to imitate human cognitive behavior in computers. In problem solving, AI reflects the approach, knowledge, viewpoints and biases of
As The Bond Turns by Alex Saitta
AskChart.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AskChart.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan ASKCHART.COM One look at AskChart's home page tells you this is an information-packed site. Not many sites give you an overall picture of the market in such a condensed fashion, but a visit to AskChart.com will g
Asoka Selvarajah Of Rabobank International by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Asoka Selvarajah Of Rabobank International by Thom Hartle According to Asoka Selvarajah, markets do make sense ultimately, but not in a way that most people imagine. To understand the markets, according to Selvarajah, requires a dash of Pythagorean theo
Assessing Risk In An Equity Portfolio by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assessing Risk In An Equity Portfolio by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Portfolio management is a balancing act -- enhancing returns by systematically investing in the most promising assets while simultaneously limiting the variance of returns (that is, ri
Assessing Risk On Wall Street by Robert W. Hull
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Book Review: Thomas A. Rorro's Assessing Risk on Wall Street. By Robert W. Hull Thomas A. Rorro Sobaro Publishing Company, 1984 Price: $17.95 (202 pages) Thomas A. Rorro's book, Assessing Risk on Wall Street , is indeed a bridge between the investment
Assessing risk on Wall Street by Thomas A. Rorro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assessing risk on Wall Street by Thomas A. Rorro We have discussed the Random Walk theory as a philosophy of investing and its technical implications. This final article in the series presents the framework for spreadsheet implementation of the concepts
Assessing risk on Wall Street part 2: Applying the Random Walk by Thomas A. Rorro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assessing risk on Wall Street part 2: Applying the Random Walk by Thomas A. Rorro The Random Walk theory lets the investor evaluate the risk of an investment before the investment is made. In the first article in this three-part series, the potential pr
Asset Allocation: Stocks, Bonds, Futures by K.D. Angle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Asset Allocation: Stocks, Bonds, Futures by K.D. Angle Investment survival depends on an investor's ability to adapt to the market. Is it possible to develop a strategy that performs under all conditions, whether inflation or deflation, recession or p
Asset Management Funds In Review by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Asset Management Funds In Review by Charles Idol Many small investors would be grateful for a service that adjusted their portfolio for diversification and modified the mix to meet the changing financial climate. While money management services have bee
At The Close by Adrienne Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Adrienne Toghraie When is it too soon or too late? How much is too much or not enough? Some of the most important questions that a trader must address have to do with getting the timing and the amount just right. There is an art to find
At The Close by Brandon H. VanLandingham
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has this ever happened to you? You go long the market or a particular security and it immediately goes down; you go short and it immediately goes up. That is two back-to-back losses. Now extremely anxious, you ignore your trading rules and skip the
At The Close by Brian Twomey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Brian Twomey This indicator can be used with great reliability to catch moves in the currency markets. Doug Schaff, president and founder of FX Strategy, created the Schaff trend cycle indicator in the 1990s. It is the product of more
At The Close by Dan Altman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Dan Altman Is Trading Right For You? If you are interested in becoming a trader, this is a very important question to ask yourself. ost traders new to the business don't ask themselves if trading is right for them. They may assume t
At The Close by Danish Kapur
At The Close by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (97-98): At The Close by Dennis D. Peterson Chart Analysis Trying to anticipate market support and resistance requires practice and knowing a few rules. Let's take a look at the QQQQs. First, it's obvious from Figure 1 tha
At The Close by Dennis Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (98): At The Close by Dennis Peterson Trading The Qs One way to trade the NASDAQ Composite is to trade the QQQQ (NASDAQ 100 exchange traded fund). In recent days, trading out of my IRA has been challenging, since I can't sh
At The Close by Don Bright
At The Close by Don Bright
At The Close by Donald Pendergast
At The Close by Donald W. Pendergast Jr
At The Close by Eliot Brenner
At The Close by J.L. Lord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (98, 97): At The Close by J.L. Lord New Margin Rules (Part I) On April 2, 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted permission to the retail brokerage industry to adopt margin requirements in the style of t
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (98): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan So far, the 50-day moving average on the Standard & Poor's 500 chart has been acting as a good support level during February (Figure 1). Not only is it acting as a support, it ha
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (110, 100): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan In my February 2005 column, I hinted about coming up with In a new trading system. That was because the number of trades I was making per month had dwindled to one or two --
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (98): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The S&P 500 has done a good job staying above its 50- day moving average since May 18, 2005 (Figure 1). There was only one day (7/07/05) when it hit a point below the MA, but tha
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (130, 116): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Forex Trading And Technical Indicators Jeff Hughes is a self-taught technical trader of stocks who recently entered the foreign exchange (forex) market for the first time
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (97): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan It doesn't hurt to remember that the simplest of indicators can provide a great deal of information. I'm looking at the daily chart of the Standard & Poor's 500 index when I say
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (98): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan For reasons that are obvious (think prices at the gas pump if you're confused), I have been watching the action in the crude oil market recently. Given that haven't seen prices
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (98, 82): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Here's an informal question and answer with Sohail Asghar, president of PennyStockAction.com and a pioneer of two independent home-based activities, penny stock trading and s
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (98, 88): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The Standard & Poor's 500 index has not really been doing much of late to get excited about. If you look at the daily chart of the index in Figure 1, you will see that it has
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (130, 116): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan With the Presidential elections behind us, the "uncertainty factor" that was so often talked about for several months is no longer an excuse for the market's unpredictable
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (130, 118): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan How did the markets open today? For the last four months, I've been watching market movements in the e-minis. After all, they are a popular trading instrument, and one tha
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (98): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Continuing from last month's look at crude oil contracts, we did experience some easing in crude oil prices. The 40-day moving average turned down, the upward sloping trendline
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (130, 116): At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Just when I think I have a system in place and have it all figured out, the market pulls a fast one on me. Just when everything is moving along in one direction, something
At The Close by Jeffrey P. Seyler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (98, 96): At The Close by Jeffrey P. Seyler An Update On Single-Stock Futures Now that single-stock futures (SSF) have been trading for more than four years, we have had an opportunity to see how they have developed and obs
At The Close by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by John A. Sarkett Here's a turbocharged option strategy. Francisco Antonio Urrutia, a former banker with a penchant for a single index option and risk management, has been generating stupendous returns for the past three years. In this ni
At The Close by John McKinnon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by John McKinnon Do you know how you will react under specific circumstances? Do your emotions keep getting in the way? Sometimes, the market is described as a living organism with a personality all its own. In an effort to understand this
At The Close by Koos van der Merwe
At The Close by L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by L.A. Little The name of Charles Ponzi, the Boston financier and swindler, has come to symbolize the idea of fraudulent investment operations where investors are paid handsome returns by subsequent investors rather than from profits. This
At The Close by L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by L.A. Little The Measure Of A Trader What makes a successful trader? IN 1973, Burton Malkiel published a book titled A Random Walk Down Wall Street, where he argued that asset prices typically exhibit signs of random walk behavior and
At The Close by Marge Sherald
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (98): At The Close by Marge Sherald What do you think of when you think "cocoon"? Is it small, fetal, round, cozy ? formative? When trader Kenneth Branch uses the term, more often than not he uses it in regard to trading, in
At The Close by Moses Sanchez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Moses Sanchez Many people can be grouped into one of two categories. I am an eternal optimist while my wife is pessimistic and we complement each other perfectly. Investors or traders need to know which category they fall into and acknow
At The Close by Sam Baum
At The Close by Sarp Cercioglu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Sarp Cercioglu Although a general understanding of the intermarket dynamics between the credit and equity markets exists in the investment world, it really hasn't gone beyond the axiom of "What's good for bonds is bad for stocks and vice
At The Close by Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Teresa Lo Looked At Market Sentiment Lately? The volatile markets make for uneasy market participants. Keep a calm, cool, collected eye out and don't get swept away by the hysteria of the crowds. IN the summer of 2002, market partici
At The Close by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a handy set of tips on what to look for in a stock to add to your portfolio. Traders and investors are always shopping for bargain stocks. When you log onto your favorite website and see that the price of a stoc
At The Close by Tony Juste
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (98): At The Close by Tony Juste Expectations Of A Rangebound Market Expectations have tremendous importance in the decisions of speculators, and that may lead them to ignore other variables of the market. Here's a recent s
At The Close by Vikrant Goyal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (97, 96): At The Close by Vikrant Goyal A Sweet Report Sugar prices are moving up after a lull of a quarter century. Will history repeat itself? Since 1966, global sugar prices have seen two major boom? bust cycles. Remarka
At The Close by Wallace Wang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Wallace Wang It can be done, and here's how. It's a fact of modern-day life that no matter what kind of computer you use today, you're going to have to replace it tomorrow. Most traders these days are probably using Windows XP, but if y
At The Close by Wayne Whaley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by Wayne Whaley Can a simple and popular strategy such as the 200-day moving average crossover outperform a buy & hold strategy? The trend is your friend" is one of the first rules in trading. Given the big moves in commodities in 2009, I
At The Close by William Ferree
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close by William Ferree Where Do Indexes Reverse? Those big round numbers have an influence on prices?sometimes great, and sometimes (surprisingly) not so great. Big round numbers, those with a single digit followed by zeroes, obviously have an
At The Close: New Margin Rules (Part II) by J.L. Lord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close: New Margin Rules (Part II) by J.L. Lord New Margin Rules (Part II) AS I wrote in the June 2007 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, while the new margin rules are a powerful addition to retail traders, they do not imply there is free money to b
At The Close: Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market by John Rose
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close: Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market by John Rose Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market On May 9, 2006, the New York Board of Trade sponsored its first sugar convention in New York City. The event was well attended, and many of the major players in the
At The Close: Understanding The Trading Enviornment by Joseph J. Mertes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close: Understanding The Trading Enviornment by Joseph J. Mertes Spending time to assess the market environment you are trading is a good habit to develop. I have a lot of trading experience from trading -- some good, some bad, but great lessons
Auction Market Theory And The Longer Time Frame by Donald Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Auction Market Theory And The Longer Time Frame by Donald Jones Last issue, I provided an overview of Auction Market Theory. Two important facts should be kept in mind as I discuss the next stage, applying the theory: First, markets are not correlated o
Author and Analyst John Murphy by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Author and Analyst John Murpy by Thom Hartle John Murphy, a veteran of nearly 30 years in the equities and futures markets, is the technical analyst for CNBC television, publisher of the ""Futures Trends and Intermarket Analysis"" newsletter and author
Automated Support And Resistance by Mel Widner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Automated Support And Resistance by Mel Widner, Ph.D. Support and resistance analysis is a proven method for selecting key price levels for trading decisions; traders usually perform the analysis by hand. The automatic charting method and new oscillator
Average Behavior by John Sweeney
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
Average True Range Trailing Stops by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Average True Range Trailing Stops by Sylvain Vervoort In this second of a three-part series we will compare trailing-stop methods using an average true range (Atr) trailing stop. by Sylvain Vervoort The average true range (Atr) was developed by J. Wel
Averaging systems by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Averaging systems by Charles Idol Everyone knows the secret of successful investing: buy low and sell high. Unfortunately, that rule requires accurate market predictions. If clouds obscure your crystal ball, it would be to your advantage to consider the
Avoid the call-writing hazard by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Avoid the call-writing hazard by Jerry Kopf An option may sometimes be a good buy. Other times it may be a good sale. Sometimes you should buy long term, sell near term. Sometimes the opposite should be done. To participate in the market without the abi
Avoiding Bull And Bear Traps by Nauzer J. Balsara, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Avoiding Bull And Bear Traps by Nauzer J. Balsara, Ph.D. Bull and bear traps are gap openings that are reversed the same day and that can cost a trader dearly. S&C contributor Nauzer Balsara presents his method of analyzing market history to calculate t
Avoiding False Signals by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some people may think that technical analysis doesn't work anymore, but here's one author's solutions to today's challenging modern markets. by Joe Luisi Having been involved with technical trading for several years, I've noticed that technical analysis
Avoiding Overconfidence by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Avoiding Overconfidence by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. If I could give just one piece of advice to a trader, it would be: Avoid overconfidence--it could be your worst enemy. Thousands of traders make the mistake of becoming overconfident each month and lose subs
Avoiding Risk: Jerry Wagner, Fund Timer by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Avoiding Risk: Jerry Wagner, Fund Timer by Thom Hartle Jerry Wagner, president of Flexible Plan Investments, Ltd., of Bloomfield Hills, MI, currently has approximately $200 million under management. His firm was the top-ranked market timer for the last
Avoiding The Herd Mentality In Forex by Todd Gordon, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (58-60): Avoiding The Herd Mentality In Forex by Todd Gordon, CMT Careful analysis of the technicals along with a good dose of logic and common sense will help you become a more successful foreign exchange trader. There wa
BASIC programming for technical analysis by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BASIC programming for technical analysis by Steve Notis I decided recently to start to program some of my own software after writing for so long about everyone else's. Once I got going, I discovered that programming is not as difficult as I'd anticipate
BBForex.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BBForex.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan BBFOREX.COM When trading currencies, keeping abreast of forex-related news is very important, which is why if you go to any forex site you expect to see a real-time news update. But have you ever seen a site wher
BOOK REVIEW: Commodity Market Money Management by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BOOK REVIEW: Commodity Market Money Management by John Sweeney Commodity Market Money Management by Fred Gehm John Wiley & Sons, 1983 One Wiley Drive Somerset, New Jersey. Price: $37.95 There are really two sides to trading: the idea and the execut
Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V13:06: (255-259): Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang Market traders and advisors use sentiment surveys as a tool to identify extreme bullishness or bearishness. Here, then, is one trader's research into identifying what the best levels o
Back To Averages by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back To Averages by John Sweeney Getting back to the subject of averages skimming tops and bottoms of price curves (Settlement, STOCKS & COMMODITIES, February 1991), two readers, C. Skelley of Tucson, AZ, and John Ehlers of Goleta, CA, wrote to explain
Back To Basics In Trading Stocks by Gregory J. Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back To Basics In Trading Stocks by Gregory J. Kuhn Identifying the once or twice a year that the market is ready to embark on a very profitable move is the ultimate quest of anyone trading stocks. But in this day and age of artificial intelligence, wit
Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek Ever notice how we seem to want to do things the hard way? Anthony Macek, publisher of the ""Just the Facts"" newsletter, has, and he's proposed a solution to simplify our lives using quantit
Backtesting And Edgetesting by Damir Wallener
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (22-26): Backtesting And Edgetesting by Damir Wallener Anybody with a computer and an Internet connection can evaluate trading strategies. But how do you judge the validity and significance of the results? Here's a look at s
Balance Of Market Power by Igor Livshin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Balance Of Market Power by Igor Livshin Who's in charge, bulls or bears? It doesn't take higher-order math to get a good reading. The balance of market power (BMP) indicator measures the strength of the bulls vs. the bears by assessing the ability of e
BandwidthVolatility Extremes by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (50-57): Bandwidth Volatility Extremes by Barbara Star, Ph.D. Knowing when volatility has reached extremes could work in your favor. Volatility refers to the range or spread between high and low prices over a given time, b
Barrier Stops And Trendlines by J. Katz, Ph.D., and D. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Barrier Stops And Trendlines by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Last time, Katz and McCormick measured the performance of using this strategy as an exit rule. This time, we examine the effect of eliminating entries that would have been
Basic Options Techniques by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many stock traders and investors avoid options because they seem too complex or risky. Although it is very easy to lose large amounts of money in a very short time misusing options, investors and traders of all kinds should at least consider them as one
Basic Programming For Technical Analysis, part 2 by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Basic Programming For Technical Analysis, part 2 by Steve Notis Last month I explained the advantages of doing some of your own programming for technical analysis. I showed you a program called MSTRLST, which allows you to see the real names of CompuTra
Basic Techniques for Analyzing Systems by Mike DeAmicis-Roberts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (348-351): Basic Techniques for Analyzing Systems by Mike DeAmicis-Roberts What should you consider when you're designing or testing a trading system? Here are some hints that may help you. Trading is all about fear and greed,"" a trader once
Basis for Stock Worth by William N. Hosley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V14:2 (63-64): Basis for Stock Worth by William N. Hosley Estimating a company's value can be the initial filter for identifying trading opportunities. Here's a method to determine a company's value based on earnings growth rates and interest rates.
Be Rich or Be Right? CTCR's Courtney Smith by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trader Courtney Smith has added publisher and editor of Commodity Traders Consumer Report to his long list of accomplishments. S&C spoke with him on why traders lose and how to change that. So when did you start in the business? I started trading in
Beans In The Teens by Emil van Essen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Beans In The Teens Most years about this time, there's an opportunity in soybeans. by Emil van Essen I t's about that time of year again, when soybean traders wake up and wonder whether this will be the spring
Bear Flags by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (48-55): Bear Flags by Markos Katsanos Here's how you can estimate price targets more accurately in a declining price trend and more. My 2005 articles on flags included statistics for bullish flags only. Although my researc
Bear Market Survival Kit by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bear Market Survival Kit by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA Any system can produce stellar results when it suggests taking a position in the same direction of a trending market. But what do you do when the market quickly changes direction? Few if any
Beat the Market with Cyclicals by Paul and Carole Huebotter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...""The new Dow strategy"" outlined here is a method to pick a 10-stock portfolio to outperform both the Dow 30 and the well-known Dow dividend strategy. Take a look. by Paul and Carole Huebotter Economists maintain that the markets are too efficient for
Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D. In the past, I have invested in mutual funds based on their long-term performance, typically requiring that a fund's five-year history exceed the compounded return of Standard & Poor's 500-sto
Beating The Benchmark by Roberto Chahin
Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen A mathematically provable trading system (MPTS) can be defined as a trading method for which superior expected performance can be proved scientifically. I measure system performance by mea
Becoming A Professional Stock Trader by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Becoming A Professional Stock Trader by Don Bright Are you interested in taking the plunge? Here are some of the things that you should know. It's important to identify the differences between professional trading and retail trading, particularly the n
Before the chartbook by Raymond J. Kaider
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before the chartbook by Raymond J. Kaider To the active trader of futures and futures options, sitting down in front of a chartbook or computer for a round of technical analysis can be a most promising endeavor. The fact is, though, that the average sma
Behavior of the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index by Cliff Sherry, Ph.D.
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
Behavioral Force by David Schimel, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Behavioral Force by David Schimel, M.D. Here's a new tool that can help you predict stock price movements. Evidence now exists to refute the long-held belief that stock price variations are random and unpredictable. Numerous studies have shown that the
Beliefs And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beliefs And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt You are what you believe--and that includes your trading beliefs. Your unconscious mind is the final arbiter of whether you will succeed as a trader. Ruth Roosevelt, director of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, expla
Benguet revisited by Richard Maturi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Benguet revisited by Richard Maturi The November/December 1983 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities carried an article of mine entitled ""Gold Stocks"" which addressed the following question: ""Can the average investor successfully par
Beta Mutual Funds: Do They Make Cents? by Norman J. Brown
Beta-Adjusting Trailing Stops by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beta-Adjusting Trailing Stops by Thomas Bulkowski Have you ever wondered how to improve the performance of your favorite indicator or trading system? By using your indicator to signal a buy and a beta-adjusted trailing stop to get you out, you could imp
Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler What exactly are they, and how can we use them to our advantage? Launched on November 8, 2002, security futures products have been watched by many but traded by few. The reasons for this var
Better Trade Management With Candlesticks by Tracy Knudsen, CMT
Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy How do you improve your trading results? Risk management, of course. Understanding how the tools of technical analysis work and how they are applied makes a big difference to your initial trading results.
Between Price And Volume by Buff Pelz Dormeier, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Between Price And Volume by Buff Pelz Dormeier, CMT Here's an indicator that can be used to measure the intrinsic relationship between price and volume. When securities change hands on a securities auction market, the volume of shares bought always mat
Beware The Greeks by Ron Ianieri
Beyond Setups by Steve Palmquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (48-51): Beyond Setups by Steve Palmquist There are several aspects to trading beyond your trading setups. Here's a look at five factors that will help you become a better trader. Like most professions, trading requires a
Bezier Curves: No Tool For Trading by Donald R. Lambert
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bezier Curves: No Tool For Trading by Donald R. Lambert Once upon a time, long, long ago, when the dates all ended in ""B.C."" (which, as we all know, stands for ""before computers""), draftsmen were often faced with a problem. The head draftsman would
Bi signal indicator by Joseph Barics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bi signal indicator by Joseph Barics To minimize false signals associated with moving average crossings, I began searching for an indicator that would ""suggest first"" and ""confirm or reject later."" During this search I found interesting concepts in
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 i
Black phantasy in P by Stephen Edwards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Black phantasy in P by Stephen Edwards What a pip is P.I.P., thought Peter Parsifal on Friday. Peter was head financial ""rocket scientist"" for Smith, Wesson, Winchester and Colt, Inc. P.I.P. was the Portfolio Insurance Program that was Peter's persona
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 fort
Blending Time Frames by Linda Satterfield
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Blending Time Frames by Linda Satterfield The stock market has worlds within worlds, if you think about it -- time frames within time frames, all interlinked and interdependent. The problem is, if you look at too small a time frame, you could find yourse
Bollinger Band Targets by Benjamin L.Cotton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bollinger Band Targets by Benjamin L.Cotton You can calculate the future price movement necessary to cross a moving standard deviation band condition such as a Bollinger Band, emoving the guess-work from systems trading on such elationships. Here's the
Bollinger Bands by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bollinger Bands by Stuart P. Evens This indicator combines popular technical methods -- moving averages, support/resistance, and envelopes -- with statistical analysis to create a powerful technical analysis tool. Bollinger Bands, used in combination wit
Bonanza Bottoms by Scott Brown Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (46-48): Bonanza Bottoms by Scott Brown Ph.D. Powerful reversal patterns are synonymous with good buying opportunities. Here's how to identify them. To succeed in the stock market you must buy low and sell high. Why is this
Bond Market Timing Revisited by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bond Market Timing Revisited by Jay Kaeppel Here's an update of this author's article from August 1994 on trading bond funds using Barron's Gold Mining Index as an indicator. In addition, take a look at a new version of that model, as well as informatio
Bond Yield Diagnosis by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bond Yield Diagnosis by John Kean Inflation is usually the first choice for analyzing the forces driving the direction of bond yields, but systems analyst John Kean illustrates that charting government borrowing can help determine the trend of interest
Bonds vs. Stocks: A Historical View by Tim Hayes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bonds Vs. Stocks: A Historical View by Tom Hayes Relative value is a familiar buzzword when it comes to comparing bonds and stocks. But is it accurate? There are criteria that must be specified for comparisons, as Tim Hayes of Ned Davis Research Inc. po
Bonds, Price Momentum and Trends by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bonds, Price Momentum and Trends by Alex Saitta A market trends, and then consolidates, before either resuming the trend or reversing. Is there any way that a technical trader can get a hint about which outcome, the reversal or the continuation, is more
Book For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Book Review: by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Book Review: by John Sweeney An Easy Course in Using the HP-12C and Other Financial Calculators by Chris Coffin and Ted Wadman Grapevine Publications, Inc. Corvallis, Oregon 97339 Price: $18.00 There seems to be something about financial calculatio
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!
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis
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
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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 unde
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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
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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
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The CPM Gold Yearbook 2007 (187 pages, $150 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-04951-8) by CPM Group, published by John Wiley & Sons. Gold is widely sought after for its inves
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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 ? I
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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 Champio
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (100): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Candlestick And Pivot Point Trading Triggers (353 pages, $80 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 0-471-98022-6) by John L. Person, published by John Wiley & Sons. To truly excel in th
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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 .
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Chart Your Way To Profits (410 pages, $70 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-04350-9) by Tim Knight, published by John Wiley & Sons. Making money in today's market isn't easy,
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Various Book Reviews
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Business Fairy Tales: Grim Realities Of Fictitious Financial Planning (281 pages, $39.95 hardcover, 2006, ISBN 0-324-30539-7) by Cecil W. Jackson, published by Texere. Th
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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 P
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (94): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Trading With Median Lines (180 pages, $199.99 + $10 S&H softcover, 2003, ISBN: 0-9729829-0-6), by Timothy Morge, published by Blackthorne Capital, Inc. Beginning with a d
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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
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Almanac Investor: Profit From Market History And Seasonal Trends (525 pages, $39.95 softcover, 2005, ISBN 0-471-65405-1) by Jeffrey A. Hirsch and J. Taylor Brown, publi
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Complete Idiot's Guide To Personal Financial Documents (266 pages, $18.95 softcover, 2005, ISBN 1-59257-446-7), by Ken Little, published by Alpha Books. You know you
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Beat The Odds In Forex Trading: How To Identify And Profit From High-Percentage Market Patterns (216 pages, $60 hardcover, 2006, ISBN 0-471-93331-7) by Igor Toshchakov (L.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 see
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators: 2nd Edition ? Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide To Managing Market And Credit Risk ? Investing In Information Technology Stocks ? New E
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Adventures Of A Currency Trader: A Fable About Trading, Courage, And Doing The Right Thing (221 pages, $55 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470- 04948-8) by Rob Booker, publishe
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 re
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (92-93): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Essentials Of Trading: From The Basics To Building A Winning Strategy (300 pages, $60 hardcover, 2006, ISBN 0-471-79063-X) by John Forman, published by John Wiley &
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (92): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Commodities For Dummies (360 pages, $24.99 softcover, 2006, ISBN 0-470-04928-6) by Amine Bouchentouf, published by John Wiley & Sons. This guide gives you, in plain English
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 & Tech
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. Various books on trading.
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books for Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Books for Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Boost Your Forex Trading Results With John Forman by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Boosting Profitability by Lawrence Chan and Louis Lin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Boosting Profitability by Lawrence Chan and Louis Lin Here's how you can use advance issues momentum to create an end-of-day trading system with superior profitability. The stock exchanges broadcast the number of advancing issues each trading day. This
Boosting Rates Of Return With Noncorrelated Systems by Richard L. Weissman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Boosting Rates Of Return With Noncorrelated Systems by Richard L. Weissman Here's how adding noncorrelated assets within a trading system and combining noncorrelated systems can help your trading. Mechanical trading systems offer traders and risk manag
Breadth Of Fresh Air by Gregory L. Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (36-41): Breadth Of Fresh Air by Gregory L. Morris The significance of the levels of the McClellan summation index can help improve your trading results. I was writing my second book, The Complete Guide To Market Breadth I
Breadth Statistics: What Do They Tell You? by Tom McClellan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (68-72): Breadth Statistics: What Do They Tell You? by Tom McClellan Let's revisit the advance/decline line. Advance/decline (A/D) statistics have been used since 1926, when they were first analyzed by Col. Leonard Ayres a
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
Break Faster Than Rally? by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do markets decline in value at a faster pace than they rally? The question is put to the test using the Chicago Board of Trade Treasury bond futures contract. Nearly all market analysts agree that the bull market in bonds began in 1981, when the price o
Breakaway Gaps by Kenneth Gillilan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A gap up in a stock's price is an exciting event. Usually, such moves will be covered by the financial media, creating hysteria and resulting in some people frantically buying the stock "before it's too late." Rarely do the pundits provide a reason
Breakeven Analysis For Daytrading by Roberto Chahin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (42-46): Breakeven Analysis For Daytrading by Roberto Chahin When you're creating a business plan, you've got to make sure you can break even, or better yet, make a profit. That goes for the business of daytrading, too. Se
Breaking Out Of Price Channels by Gerald Marisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breaking Out Of Price Channels by Gerald Marisch Here's a technique based on Tushar Chande's variable-length moving average. The indicator is more responsive to market price movements than a conventional simple or exponential moving average and can be u
Breaking Out Of The Trading Range by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breaking Out Of The Trading Range by John Sweeney Some blessed day, after being mired in a trading range for two years, your market is going to finally go into a trend. You must be there when it does, not trading something else or, worse, ignoring it fr
BrokerageAmerica.com by Amy Wu
Buff Up Your Moving Average by Buff Dormeier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Averages On Steroids Buff Up Your Moving Averages by Buff Dormeier Want better results? Combine your moving averages with volume and see what happens. Why should technicians only consider open/high/low/close numbers and time in forming price ave
Building A Trading Template by Girogos Siligardos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Building A Trading Template by Girogos Siligardos A template makes things so much easier for so many things, trading included. What should you build into yours to manage your trading? roper trade management and money management are a must for all types
Building A Variable-Length Moving Average by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Building A Variable-Length Moving Average by George R. Arrington, Ph.D. Of the tools in the technician's arsenal, the moving average is one of the most popular. It is used to eliminate minor fluctuations in prices, filter data noise and identify any und
Building A Workable Trading Model by Seth Weinstein
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (32-35): Building A Workable Trading Model by Seth Weinstein Having trouble designing a successful trading system? Here's how you can develop a robust, non?curve fitted system for trading. Statistical models allow you to re
Building Automatic Trendlines by Giorgos E. Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (36-44): Building Automatic Trendlines by Giorgos E. Siligardos, Ph.D. Here's a simple mechanical method for automatic trendline construction using monoparametric trendlines. Despite the continuing evolution in technical a
Building a trading system by Frank Alfonso
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Building a trading system by Frank Alfonso Dramatic world events will continue to produce uncertainty in today's global financial markets, and most trading experts will agree that some form of technical strategy is necessary to reduce this information e
Building studies based on psychological matrices by Walter T. Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's how the psychological terms that technicians employ to describe the markets are transformed into technical tools. It is possible to transform psychology from a subjective interpretation into an objective tool. By creating a psychological matrix,
Bull And Bear Balance Indicator by Vadim Gimelfarb
Bullish Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bullish Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski Can you recognize bullish patterns when they appear? Find out what they look like here. One day, the market will find a bottom and start building a base from which to launch another bull market. Will your mark
Bullish Consensus by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bullish Consensus by David Penn This enduring sentiment indicator was designed specifically for the futures markets. "Paradox is one of the deepest and most important secrets of life, and ? irony is the punishment for not having understood that." --Jame
Bullish/Bearish Percentages and the DJIA by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bullish/Bearish Percentages and the DJIA by Christopher C. Cadbury Curious about how state of mind plays a role in trading? This author has studied investment surveys that detail bullish and bearish states of mind of advisors and investors and he has id
Buy Strong Groups Or Weak? by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (34-37): Buy Strong Groups Or Weak? by Jay Kaeppel Is it better to buy weak industry groups or strong ones? The best approach might be to utilize both strategies. Is it better to buy weak stocks or strong ones? The theory behind buying weak sto
Buy-And-Hold Comparisons To Evaluate Stock Trading by Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buy-And-Hold Comparisons To Evaluate Stock Trading by Jack Schwager Benchmark comparisons are a standard technique for the performance of a trading system. One particular benchmark is the buy-and-hold approach. This noted market analyst looks at the ste
Buying Puts And Calls With PROVEST by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buying Puts And Calls With PROVEST by Jay Kappel The second article in this series discusses the details of the PROVEST strategy and how you can apply it to trade calls and/ or puts. As discussed in the first part of this series, several key factors sh
C3KANSYS by John Sweeney
COBWEB DYNAMICS: Microeconomic Basis for Technical Stock Market Analysis by Kent Kachigan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...COBWEB DYNAMICS: Microeconomic Basis for Technical Stock Market Analysis by Kent Kachigan Introduction For many years, investors, analysts and economists have been debating whether the theories developed by technical stock market analysts have their fo
CORNERSTONE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: The Dow Theory by Timothy A. Maguire
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CORNERSTONE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: The Dow Theory by Timothy A. Maguire ""The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance."" (Samuel Adams, 1771) Historical Perspective Charles
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
Calculating Interest With the Rule of 72 by Raymond Rothschild
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating Interest With the Rule of 72 by Raymond Rothschild Despite the convenience these days of computers, business calculators and the like, it is often desirable to perform some calculations either mentally or using pencil and paper. After all, o
Calculating Momentum A New Way by Darryl W. Maddox
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating Momentum A New Way by Darryl W. Maddox Traditionally, the calculation of market momentum has been a difference calculation. Thus, a momentum indicator for the Dow Jones Industrial Average is calculated by subtracting the closing value on one
Calculating Relative Strength Of Stocks by Robert L. Hand Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating Relative Strength Of Stocks by Robert L. Hand Jr. Heavy on consumer stocks? You may want to rethink your strategy and make some adjustments to your portfolio. Robert Hand addresses the shift of leadership early this year from consumer stocks
Calculating retracements by Hal Swanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating retracements by Hal Swanson The following forecasting method is an approach to charting price retracement in stocks, commodities, indices or any free market. It is a study of momentum, an evolution somewhere between Gann and Elliott Wave, th
Calendar Ratio Backspread by Jeff Neal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calendar Ratio Backspread by Jeff Neal Would you be interested in a trading strategy that has limited risk, unlimited profit potential, is adjustment-friendly, and can profit in a sideways or breakout-type market? Of course you would! Here's a look at t
Calendar Spreads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (18-26): Calendar Sprerads With Dan Sheridan by John A. Sarkett In the first part of a series based on a seminar on option strategies with Dan Sheridan, we take a look at calendar spreads. Options and seminars go together l
Calendar Spreads by Joe Corona and Bill Winger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calendar Spreads by Joe Corona and Bill Winger Look at the different ways you can use this strategy. The calendar spread, also known as the time spread or the horizontal spread, is so called because it exploits differences in time value between options
Campaign: April '90 Gold by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Campaign: April '90 Gold by Robert Miner Every trading action must be made in accordance with the trader's trading plan. Unfortunately, most traders are very disorganized. One of the most useful habits I have developed for trading is to keep a daily tra
Can Price Patterns Be Objective Tools? Recognia's Kathryn St. John Tells You by J. Gopalakrishnan a
Can Relative Strength Be Used In Portfolio Management? by J. Lewis, M. Moody, H. Parker, & A. Hyer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (24-29): Can Relative Strength Be Used In Portfolio Management? by J. Lewis, M. Moody, H. Parker, & A. Hyer The concept of relative strength is part of the foundation of technical analysis, but can it be used successfully wh
Can Stock Fundamentals Protect You? by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can Stock Fundamentals Protect You? by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D. To use fundamental information to find the characteristics of crash-proof stocks, I correlated the price action of stocks during the October 1987 crash with their fundamental statistics.
Can Technical Factors Gauge What Works In The Stock Market? by Mark Vakkur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can Technical Factors Gauge What Works In The Stock Market? by Mark Vakkur In the second part of this series we look at the technical factors you can use to gauge the magnitude and direction of the trends in the S&P 500. Using only month-tomonth, close
Can you draw a straight line? by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you draw a straight line? by Ron Jaenisch The stock market has reached record highs and the markets are dominated by large financial institutions with vast computer systems to aid them in their decision making. If the average investor turns to the e
Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Does this sound familiar? The price of a stock is moving up. Feeling the adrenaline course through your body, you click the buy button. You watch in horror as the market tumbles, taking the st
Candlestick Filtering by Rudy Teseo
Candlestick Trading Principles by Steve Nison, CMT
Candlesticks And Intraday Market Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks And Intraday Market Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Can the much-ballyhooed candlestick method be helpful in intraday trading? To find out, Gary Wagner and Brad Matheny went through one day's trading via candlesticks for o
Candlesticks And Preserving Capital by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks And Preserving Capital by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Candlestick analysis, the Japanese charting method introduced by Steve Nison to Western technicians only a few years ago, has been slowly gaining acceptance to help the technic
Candlesticks And Stochastics by Greg Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks And Stochastics by Greg Morris Is it all hype and no substance, this candlestick business? This author says not. Here's a closer look. Japanese candlesticks have added a new and exciting dimension to technical analysis. They offer nothing
Candlesticks And The Method Of 3 by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks And The Method Of 3 by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Various uses of the number three, a number of importance in Japanese culture as well as Western culture, can be seen prominently throughout candlestick technique and particularly
Candlesticks As A Leading Indicator by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks As A Leading Indicator by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Most technical indicators are coincident with the market - that is, the indicators do not forecast market turns but only turn if the market turns. Certain candlestick formation
Candlesticks For Support And Resistance by John H. Forman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:06: (243-246): Candlesticks For Support And Resistance by John H. Forman Even as you read this, the candlestick charting technique, with its origins in Japan, is being absorbed into the ways of Western technical analysis. Here's how candlestick cha
Candlesticks Vs. Bar Charts by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks Vs. Bar Charts by Rudy Teseo When you look at your charts, do you understand everything they're telling you? Most books and articles on candlestick charting point out that any patterns occurring in bar charts (cup with handle, head and sho
Candlesticks and the Malaysian Stock Market by Gary S. Wagner, Bradley L. Matheny and F.Tam
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks and the Malaysian Stock Market by Gary S. Wagner, Bradley L. Matheny and F.Tam Here's a look at how candlestick technique is applied to the Malaysian stock market, from the developers of Candlestick Forecaster and the director of PI Capital
Capturing Opportunity By Fading The News
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is there an opportunity to sell a rally following a stock upgrade or other bullish news on a company? Here's a test to find out
Casino Trading by Phil Abel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Casino Trading by Phil Abel The Monte Carlo simulation, a statistical technique used to model the expected outcomes of a random series of events such as a casino game, also has valuable applications in the evaluation of a systematic trading program. Wh
Catching Profitable Market Opportunities By Harnessing Dominant Trends
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a strategy for forex trading that uses moving averages alongside critical price levels to identify trading opportunities as major trends develop
Categorizing Stocks By Price And Volume Action
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...By analyzing certain strengths and weaknesses, you can get a better handle on how stocks trade.
Centered Trading by Ari Kiev, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Centered Trading by Ari Kiev, MD Successful trading requires the willingness to commit to specific objectives. Here, psychiatrist Ari Kiev explains how to center your state of mind to optimize your trading. Successful trading requires the willingness
Chaikin 's Money Flow by Christopher Narcouzi
Chaneling With Elliott Waves Part III by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chaneling With Elliott Waves Part III by Rudy Teseo Project coming waves with this classic technique. Now that you are familiar with some of the many Elliott wave patterns (see parts I and II), I'll discuss a means of projecting the course of a wave in
Changing Your Negative Trading Beliefs by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Changing Your Negative Trading Beliefs by Ruth Roosevelt Negative thinking gives you negative results and that holds true for your trading beliefs. Ruth Roosevelt, director of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, explains how to take your negative and limit
Changing tides in the investment software market by Thomas A. Rorro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Changing tides in the investment software market by Thomas A. Rorro Remarkably, the investment software industry is on the threshold of a major transition. In the near future, it will no longer be economical to buy investment software. Instead you will
Channel Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Channel Analysis by Thom Hartle A market does not move in a straight line; instead, its movement travels across the chart in peaks and valleys, forming a channel in the direction of the trend. Early identification of the channels can give you important
Channel breakout by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Channel breakout by Peter Aan Rules and Formulas: Channel systems use the highest and lowest prices in a series. Many possible trading variations can be employed and the one I tested involves finding the highest high and lowest low for the most recent n
Channelingstocks.com by Dennis D. Peterson
Channels In The Forex Markets by Gareth Burgess
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The foreign exchange markets are an arena of competing forces constantly in conflict with each other. The markets are torn apart by worry, uncertainty, doubt, fear and greed, not to mention profit. As a consequence, many traders get shaken out
Chaos Theory And Neural Network Analysis by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chaos Theory And Neural Network Analysis by John Kean Do markets have memory? In this new theory by Edgar Peters, an offshoot of chaos theory, John Kean explains, markets can be regarded as nonlinear dynamic systems, and neural networks can be used to a
Chaos theory and market behavior by Bernd Anders
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
Charles D. Kirkpatrick II of Kirkpatrick & Co. by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Charles D. Kirkpatrick II of Kirkpatrick & Co. by Thom Hartle Charles Kirkpatrick II is not only a market researcher and money manager, but he also holds the distinction of being the first recipient of the Charles H. Dow Award for technical a
Charles White Of Tucson Asset Management by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charles White Of Tucson Asset Management by Thom Hartle Charles White's career has ranged broadly from fixed-income portfolio manager to Commodity Trading Advisor. Today, as one of the three principals of Tucson Asset Management, White is doing it all a
Chart Analong Scenarios by Sam Whitehill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis is based on the theory that history will repeat itself. What is not so obvious, however, is that these historical repetitions may happen not just over a few months but over a few decades. This is where chart analogs can be of g
Chart Congestion Analysis by Holliston Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chart Congestion Analysis by Holliston Hill Congestion areas appear in all markets whether it be gold, soybeans, IBM, or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Being able to recognize the different types of congestion areas and knowing what they will lead to
Chart Pattern Surprises by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chart Pattern Surprises by Thomas Bulkowski What chart patterns are really reliable, portending significant moves? This S&C author did some research,and we present the results from his survey of some 15,000 patterns. In exploring and answering question
Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (20-27): Chart Your Stocks With Float Charts by Steve Woods Price is king. Volume is queen. Both live in the context of time. But is there a prince or prime minister who has been overlooked? Float charts may have the answer
Charting Cramer: GS And MO by David Penn
Charting Equity by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting Equity by Joe Luisi Technicians apply technical analysis to charts for trading decisions. This technician applies similar techniques to his trading system results. When asked what the key to long-term trading success is, successful traders alw
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn TRIX Long, long ago, in a bull market era that now seems far, far away (that is, 1983), a technical analyst by the name of Jack K. Hutson was trying to tease out of his computer a solution to the "drudgery" of trading.
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (58-61): Charting The Market by David Penn Writing in Commodities Magazine back in 1980, technical analyst Donald Lambert observed that: Many commodities exhibit some type of cyclical or seasonal price pattern. But the com
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn MOVING AVERAGES If trendlines are the first thing that most traders and technical analysts learn to do with a chart, moving averages are perhaps a close second. Rereading swing trader Dave Landry's commentary about a m
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (99-100): Charting The Market by David Penn GAPS Are gaps to technical analysts what stock splits are to fundamental analysts: clear evidence of a market event, the significance of which is often inversely related to the l
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (88-89, 107): Charting The Market by David Penn WHEN SELLERS SELL OUT Writing about "The Selling Climax" in Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends, authors Robert Edwards and John Magee observe that: Most true Selling Climaxes
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (70-71): Charting The Market by David Penn CHANNELLING If one trendline is good, are two trendlines better? That's one way of summing up the attraction many people have with channeling and trend channels. A technician coul
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (90-91): Charting The Market by David Penn SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE Among the first things anyone who studies technical analysis learns is the role that support and resistance play in market price action. Why does a collapse in the price of cattl
Charting The Market by David Penn
Charting The Market by David Penn
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn ON-BALANCE VOLUME Interviewed by BusinessWeek magazine late in the spring of 2002, legendary market forecaster and technical analyst Joseph Granville was asked, "Does technical analysis still work?" The journalist fur
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn THE RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX Writing about his relative strength index (RSI) in 1978, J. Welles Wilder noted five different ways that the indicator could be helpful to investors and traders. These include identifying to
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn Here's a new section showing some recent news events and accompanying market shifts. Coincidence? You decide.
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn TRENDLINES First job? first car? first love? There is always something to be said for what comes first. Even if your first job was as stimulating as manual labor on a Virginia plantation, your first car an always-broke
Charting The Market by David Penn
Charting The Market by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn Here's a sample MICEX chart showing some news events in 2002 and accompanying market shifts. Coincidence? You decide.
Charting The Market: Piercing Patterns by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (62, 83): Charting The Market: Piercing Patterns by David Penn Writing about dual candle lines in his book ""Beyond Candlesticks,"" Steve Nison recalls a particularly vivid (and metaphoric) description of a "piercing pattern
Charting The Market: Stochastics by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (120-121): Charting The Market: Stochastics by David Penn STOCHASTICS For many technicians, stochastics are the first real oscillator to be encountered when embarking on the study of technical analysis. Unlike some of the m
Charting The Market: Swing Rule by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (10-15): Charting The Market: Swing Rule by David Penn What do the measuring rule for double bottoms, head & shoulders tops and bottoms, cups with handles, double tops, rectangle bottoms and tops, ascending and descending tr
Charting The Market: Triangles by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (124-125): Charting The Market: Triangles by David Penn TRIANGLES Writing about triangles as significant patterns in technical analysis, trader, author, and educator John Murphy observes that: ""? The triangle is usually a
Charting The Markets by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Markets by David Penn MOMENTUM Momentum? The Big Mo? Is there anything in the physical world more exciting than momentum? If you're going slowly and you gain momentum, you're going faster. If you're already going fast and you gain momentum
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 ""
Chatting With Marc Chaikin by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chatting With Marc Chaikin - by Thom Hartle Veteran technician Marc Chaikin, senior vice president of Instinet Corp., got started in the financial industry with most fortuitous timing: He was issued his stockbroker's license the very day that the bear m
Checking for Stationarity by Gregory N. Hight
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Checking for Stationarity by Gregory N. Hight A price chart is really a time series, and if you're using technical analysis on one segment, then it's important that the statistical characteristics are the same throughout the data. This is called station
Chi Squared by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chi Squared by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Just how meaningful are statistics? Arthur Merrill explains how to find out. If records show that market behavior exhibited more rises than declines at a certain time in the past, could it have been by chance? Y
Choosing A Time Bar Length In Intraday Trading by Cynthia Kase
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Choosing A Time Bar Length In Intraday Trading by Cynthia Kase Most intraday technical traders use charts based on hours or fractions of an hour. Most trading days, however, don't divide evenly into hours or conventional time fractions such as 30 or 45
Choosing The Right Time Frame by Hal Masover
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Choosing The Right Time Frame by Hal Masover Using multiple time frames has many benefits, but which ones work for you? A friend once described his perspective on time frames: "People have different definitions of ?long term,' ?short term,' and ?interm
Christmas Comes Early With The DJIA by John L. Momsen
Christmas tree spread - the all-purpose strategy by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a football team breaks from the huddle, the players set up at the line of scrimmage in a formation. Usually, it's the I or T formation. As the center snaps the ball, each player knows exactly what to do. There is no guesswork, no deciding at the lin
Classic Point And Figure by David Vomund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Classic Point And Figure by David Vomund It was around before computers; it was around before calculators. It's been around forever, and despite that, it still works. It's point and figure charting, and it still offers unique advantages. Here are some e
Classic Reversal: A Double Bottom by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Classic Reversal: A Double Bottom by Thom Hartle The major commercial interests are involved in markets as a business. Large amounts of money are committed to managing the risk that is faced by these companies. Companies on the cash side of markets will
Closing Arms by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Closing Arms by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. The Arms index has been verified, deified, and even modified, certainly within the pages of STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Now the index is examined again, this time by noted veteran technician Arthur Merrill, to find ou
Closing Tick by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Closing Tick by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Buyers' market or sellers' market? Counting the upticks and downticks can give you a clue, Merrill says. Are buyers reaching for stock? Do they have to bid a price higher than the last price given (an uptick)? O
Cloudbanks by Thomas N Bulkowski
Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA Need a clue to short-term market direction? The premium between the Standard & Poor's 500 futures and the corresponding cash index may help, provided you understand how it i
Coding Candlesticks (II) by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analyzing Candlesticks Quantitatively Coding Candlesticks (II) Few charting innovations have become so widely accepted in the US since their introduction from Japan as candlesticks. Until Viktor Likhovidov's article in the November 1999 issue of STOCKS
Combined Trend and Oscillator Signals by Jeremy G. Konstenius
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Trend and Oscillator Signals by Jeremy G. Konsten Most trading systems fall into two categories. One, the most popular, is the trend-following method, where the signals are oriented toward putting the trader on board long-term trends. The prof
Combining A/D Indicators And Volume Patterns by V. Kalitowski and A. von Stuermer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (18-27): Combining A/D Indicators And Volume Patterns by V. Kalitowski and A. von Stuermer Here's a novel approach to market timing that can forecast mid-term runs on the S&P 500. There are certain critical advance and dec
Combining Andrews With Elliott Wave High by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Andrews With Elliott Wave High by Ron Jaenisch The first concept that a student of the Elliott wave theory learns is about the five-wave structure of a move. The first concept that a student of the Andrews method learns is that prices make the
Combining DMI and Moving Average For A EUR/USD Trading System by Rombout Keerstens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining DMI and Moving Average For A EUR/USD Trading System by Rombout Keerstens Here is a simple trend-following system where profits are realized in a relatively small number of lucrative trades. IN a world in which we are inundated with informati
Combining Fibonacci Retracements And The RSI by Ingo W. Bucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Fibonacci Retracements And The RSI by Ingo W. Bucher Combining the two can help identify significant support and resistance levels. Many of you have used the relative strength index (RSI) and Fibonacci retracement levels independently, but ha
Combining Long And Short Funds by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Long And Short Funds by Norman J. Brown Obtain better profits and reduce your risks by using this method to select mutual funds for trading. In the June 2003 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, in my article "A Mutual Fund Trading Method," we saw
Combining Negatively Correlated Forecasts by Denis Ridley, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Negatively Correlated Forecasts by Denis Ridley, Ph.D. Will combining two negatively correlated forecasts of price data produce a more accurate forecast? STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Denis Ridley says yes. It's called ""antithetic forecast
Combining P/E Ratio With Earnings Growth Rates by Pamela H. Brown and William G.S. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining P/E Ratio With Earnings Growth Rates by Pamela H. Brown and William G.S. Brown The price/earnings (P/E) ratio is widely used in fundamental stock analysis. It serves to normalize earnings so that stocks with widely varying earnings may be comp
Combining Patterns with Indicators by William Q. Smith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining a technical indicator with another technical method can be the start of a viable trading system. Here's how to combine a technical indicator with a chart pattern to form one. Pattern recognition and trend-following can be combined to form a u
Combining RSI with RSI by Peter Konne
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimization and stop-losses can help you minimize risks and give you better returns. ou would like to be long in a market that's trending up, but what about when the trend turns down? Do you exit and just watch from the sidelines, or do you try
Combining Sentiment Indicators For Timing Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Sentiment Indicators For Timing Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte Market sentiment can be useful in market timing, and mutual funds in particular. Here's a method in which a careful perusal of Investor's Intelligence, Market Vane and Barron's can hel
Combining Statistical and Pattern Analysis by Walter T. Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns are one of the oldest forms of technical analysis. Yet, because patterns can often be subjective, few of us take the time to combine statistical information with this type of market analysis. Mathematical definition and detailed statistical an
Combining Technical And Fundamental Analysis by Mark C. Snead, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Technical And Fundamental Analyses The two forms of analysis approach market forecasting in radically different styles. Can they be combined? Few topics generate as much heated discussion as the time-honored debate of technical vs. fundamenta
Combining Volume And Market Change by Anthony J. Macek
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Volume And Market Change by Anthony J. Macek Price and volume is a never-ending fount of ideas for judging the market's current technical condition. Here, S&C author and newsletter publisher Anthony Macek combines the magnitude and direction o
Come Here Quick, Durbin Watson by Ron McEwan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (58-60): Come Here Quick, Durbin Watson by Ron McEwan Here's how you can use the Durbin Watson statistic to measure the autocorrelation of two securities. One of the most powerful statistical tools traders have at their dis
Comex the Game by William T. Taylor
Commercial Floor Traders Identify Value by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commercial Floor Traders Identify Value by Donald L. Jones STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Donald Jones presents the use of Liquidity Data Bank (otherwise known as Market Profile) to analyze the futures market by studying commercial activity. A comm
Commitment Of Traders Report: Demystified by Jason Braswell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (22-23, 28-31): Commitment Of Traders Report: Demystified by Jason Braswell Debunking the myths about the COT, its traders, and their markets can help you build indicators for your own trades. Most traders know that the Com
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 the
Commodities And The Inflation Rate by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodities And The Inflation Rate by Alex Saitta Which individual commodities have the strongest coincidental relationship with the inflation rate? Successful traders need to keep an eye on commodity price changes to gain insight into the latest chang
Commodity Channel Index: Tool for Trading Cyclic Trends by DONALD R. LAMBERT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Channel Index: Tool for Trading Cyclic Trends by DONALD R. LAMBERT Reprinted from Commodities Magazine 1980 219 Parkade, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Many commodities exhibit some type of cyclical or seasonal price pattern. But, the commodity trade
Commodity Portfolios by DR. BASIL VENITIS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Portfolios by DR. BASIL VENITIS The techniques introduced here are a pre-requisite for any serious commodity investor who does not play the game just for the fun of it. They are the guidelines that separate the men from the boys. The main reas
Commodity Spreading: An Art of Price Differentials by DR. BASIL VENITIS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Spreading: An Art of Price Differentials by DR. BASIL VENITIS A Commodity Spread or Straddle is a combination of a long position and a short position in related commodity futures. It is a sort of arbitrage between futures. (The same way hedgin
Commodity Trading Risks by Allen D. Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Trading Risks by Allen D. Hanson Few traders fully realize the risks that they are taking when they make a commitment in the futures market. They have learned all about charts, cycles, fundamentals, and basic trading theory, but when it comes
Comparative Risk Transfer Method by Richard A. Harrison
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparative Risk Transfer Method by Richard A. Harrison It would be nice to get the higher returns of a speculative investment like a managed futures fund, but they're just too risky."" Is that statement familiar? There is a method that allows an invest
Comparative Trading Volume by Anthony Trongone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The first part of this series looked at how price action can be used to anticipate future price movement in the S&P 500 Sp d r exchange traded fund. This time, we add trading volume to the mix, but not in the typical way. As technicians, we depe
Compare Option Strikes With This by Tim Zurick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compare Option Strikes With This by Tim Zurick How do you compare options with different strikes, margin requirements, and expiration dates? Here's a tool that will help you make that decision. More bang per buck: Many businessmen will tell you that th
Comparing Indicators: Stochastics %K versus Williams' %R by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing Indicators: Stochastics %K versus Williams' %R by Thom Hartle Ironically, technicians today suffer from overabundance. Compared with the dearth of only a few years ago, technical analysis packages today offer so many indicators that a trader c
Comparing Technical and Fundamental Analysis by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE TRADER Comparing Technical And Fundamental Analyses by Alex Saitta Philosophically, technicians and fundamentalists appear to be at odds: One group studies underlying factors driving the market, while the other focuses on the market itself. Tech
Comparing The CRB With Bonds by Jim Bianco, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing The CRB With Bonds by Jim Bianco, C.M.T. The Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) price index and the bond market have frequently been compared in the past because of their interrelated natures. The CRB is considered to be an indicator of inflation
Comparing Three Indicators by J.R. Davis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing Three Indicators by J.R. Davis Three trend-following indicators swing charts, random walks and moving averages are compared as separate mechanical trading methods. Although the markets that we trade are (arguably) fractal in nature and so not
Comparing data vendors by Steven B. Achelis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing data vendors by Steven B. Achelis If you think choosing stocks and/or commodities to buy is difficult, try selecting a data vendor to use with your technical analysis software. At Computer Asset Management we have written software (The Downloa
Comparing wave predictions by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing wave predictions by Jack K. Hutson The challenge in Elliott Wave analysis is identifying and counting the correct waves. ...
Completing the DMI rules by Jim Summers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Completing the DMI rules by Jim Summers Finally, after these many months, the Lotus Command Language code to reproduce Wilder's Directional Movement Index system (DMI) reaches an end. In using Wilder's DMI to teach readers of Stocks & Commodities how to
Compound Pivots And Market Symmetry by William T. Erman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compound Pivots And Market Symmetry by William T. Erman Many traders see only simple symmetry such as a 20-week bottom-to-bottom move followed by another. Unfortunately, if indeed there is another 20-week cycle, it could very well turn out to be 18 week
Compressing Candlestick Patterns by Jean-Olivier Fraisse and Kevin D. Armstrong
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compressing Candlestick Patterns by Jean-Olivier Fraisse and Kevin D. Armstrong Market action is similar to territorial claims between competing species in that bulls seek to expand their territory by increasing prices and, conversely, bears seek to exp
Compu-Tracâ My Trading Partner! by Harry Schirding
Compu/CHART by John Sweeney
CompuTrac makes technical analysis a SNAP! by Steve Notis
Computer Data Conversion by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computer Data Conversion by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A. Computers talk to each other all the time -- except when you get involved. A familiar feeling? Ever have data you'd love to have on your system, except the data aren't compatible with your setup and
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 method
Computer spread analysis by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computer spread analysis by Jim Summers, Ph.D. Many traders shy away from spread trading owing to the extra difficulties of calculating the spread and the analysis of the spread in both its legs. Data and software now available for IBM-PCs and clones ca
Computer-Assisted Trading by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computer-Assisted Trading by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. You can't be a good trader without being a good analyst. But the two are not synonymous: Just because you're a good analyst doesn't guarantee you'll be a good trader. To the accomplished analyst, trad
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 ha
Computerizing Elliott by ROBERT R. PRECHTER, JR.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computerizing Elliott by ROBERT R. PRECHTER, JR. A ny discipline that can be explained and quantifed is ultimately programmable, and the Elloitt Wave Principle is no exception. In fact, many aspects probably could be computerized relatively easily. Howe
Computers and Market Analysis by Gregory L. Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you just starting out as a technical trader? Or are you a veteran who wouldn't mind a refresher course on the basics? Here's a primer for the novice and a reminder for the veteran covering points of interest, including computer hardware, software and
Computers in the Futures Industry by William T. Taylor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computers in the Futures Industry by William T. Taylor The futures industry, like other investment-oriented industries, relies heavily on information. For years, exchanges have used the computer for price recording and data gathering as well as for acco
Computing Cyclic Entries by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computing Cyclic Entries by John F. Ehlers Knowing how to compute entry points for your trades exactly at price crests and valleys when the market is in the cyclic mode can be advantageous. In fact, the procedure can be adjusted to anticipate price extr
Computing curved trendlines by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computing curved trendlines by Arthur Merrill Data sometimes shows a tendency to level off with a downward curve. A curved trendline, in these cases, would be more useful than a straight line. Quite often, the data rises more and more rapidly, like a s
Confessions of a Speculator: Why Losses Occur by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Confessions of a Speculator: Why Losses Occur by JESSE H. THOMPSON/ Technical Analysis staff writer ""The Markets"", whether envisioned as the stock markets, the futures markets or any of the myriad forms and reflections of price activity, are all somew
Confessions of a technical heretic by Grant Noble
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Confessions of a technical heretic by Grant Noble Recently, I chatted with someone who runs a fairly well-known advisory service. He mentioned that one client tested more than 700 computerized systems and came to the conclusion that some worked well in
Confirming High-Probability Turning Points by Todd Krueger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (52-56): Confirming High-Probability Turning Points by Todd Krueger Here's how to use volume spread analysis to track market activity of the professionals. As traders, we have different methods with which to analyze the ma
Confirming Price Trend by Barbara Star, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Confirming Price Trend by Barbara Star, PhD Regression And R-Squared, Together Again Confirming Price Trend Here's a technique using linear regression slope and r-squared to confirm the price trend. Linear regression is a statistical method some trade
Congestion Phase Analysis With Candlesticks by Holliston Hill Hurd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can trade markets by combining congestion phase analysis with candlestick charting patterns. This technique, a form of pattern recognition, can be used to profit from stocks, commodities and futures. Holliston Hill Hurd explains. Three steps are nec
Conquer The Crash by Robert R. Prechter Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Conquer The Crash by Robert R. Prechter Jr. You Can Survive And Prosper In A Deflationary Depression Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, www.wiley.com Author: Robert R. Prechter Jr. It is hard to ignore the idiosyncrasies when studying Elliott wave theory.
Consensus indicators by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Consensus indicators by Arthur A. Merrill There are scores of indicators and, at the same moment, some present an optimistic picture of the future while others are predicting trouble. Which indicator should be watched most carefully? When two indicators
Consider Covered Calls ? And The Caveats by Kevin Lund
Considering risk by James Covington Bryce
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Considering risk by James Covington Bryce Risk and reward appear to be a double-edged sword. Most professionals advocate that you calculate them both before entering a position. This is normally done in terms of a ratio where first you determine the dif
Consolidation Patterns by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Consolidation Patterns by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle Every price trend, be it stock or commodity, takes a breather from time to time. It is a period of indecision when the pressures of buyers and sellers balance each other out. This stalemate mos
Constructing an efficient short-term timing model by Marcus S. Robinson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Constructing an efficient short-term timing model by Marcus S. Robinson You can use two sets of ratios to forecast short-and intermediate-term turning points in stocks and commodities . In my trading, I look for these ""change in trend"" (CIT) days usin
Context Is Everything by Gil Morales and Chris Kacher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You do not have to be a Chartered Market Technician to understand how market context can influence the price behavior of stocks. No stock is an island, and how a stock behaves is often a function of the market at large, which in turn is a function of
Contextual Trader Larry Williams by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the arena of technical analysis, it's hard to imagine not ever having heard about Larry Williams, well known as trader, author, newletter editor and money manager. Think of it -- virtually every technical-based software has some of his technical indica
Continuation Patterns by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Continuation Patterns by Amy Wu The rising three and falling three candlestick patterns can help you confirm trends, add to positions,and grant you a cease-fire from the battle between the bulls and the bears. Candlestick charting extends well beyond c
Continuation Price Patterns by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Continuation Price Patterns by Alexander Sabodin Take a look at some of the more common continuation patterns that you find on charts. Like reversal models (or patterns), continuation models are formed during periods of market instability. These appea
Contrarian Thought by John Blasic
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Contrarian Thought by John Blasic As a rule of thumb, the crowd is always wrong at the top or at the bottom, but how does one gain insight into what the crowd is doing? John Blasic discusses some basics of measuring crowd psychology and using it in cont
Contrary opinion by Henry Van Kessel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Contrary opinion by Henry Van Kessel A contrarian is a person ahead of the times. He sees things others don't. Like a master chess player, he observes more pieces of the situation, looks further on the horizon. When the situation is right, he plays a bi
Contrary opinion by R. Earl Hadady
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Contrary opinion by R. Earl Hadady Facts are unimportant! It's what they are perceived to be that determines the course of events. That, in a nutshell, is what drives the principles of contrary opinion that are at work in various human activities, parti
Converting Data Files by Franz Hrazdira
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Converting Data Files by Franz Hrazdira Most charting programs work with historical data stored in files of a specific data structure best suited to that program to access, process and present. Only one source I know of, Telescan in Houston, TX, supplie
Corona Charts by John F. Ehlers
Correction or Reversal? by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets trend. And within those trends are corrective phases, which in turn are followed by the trend resuming. At some point, the major market trend reverses. So what might be a clue to whether the current price action is a correction or a trend reversa
Correlation Among Stocks by Michael P. Turner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CorrelationAmong Stocks by Michael P. Turner If you are trading stocks, you may find opportunities by tracking the correlation between them. This can lead to different strategies such as trading one company off of another's news, spread trading, and sec
Correlations of common stock indicators by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Correlations of common stock indicators by Frank Tarkany Not surprisingly, it turns out that certain stock indicators are highly correlated with each other and with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). There appear to be short but usable lags betwee
Correlations: serial and auto by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Correlations: serial and auto by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Suppose you are testing a pricing pattern to see what relationship it has to future price movement. Or, you are testing an indicator's correlations with price movement. In each case, you need a
Covered Call Writing by Steven Schinke, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DERIVATIVES Covered Call Writing Here's a primer on writing options to boost return on investment. by Steven P. Schinke, Ph.D. Options derivatives for stocks and commodities come in two types: One is bought and sold in transactions between two parti
Covered calls by Richard Maturi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Covered calls by Richard Maturi Sophisticated and neophyte investors alike can benefit from option trading. Though options are typically viewed by many investors as speculative, options can be a very effective conservative investment tool. A stock opti
Create A Hybrid Indicator by Jim Ritter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Create A Hybrid Indicator by Jim Ritter Interested in creating an indicator with a little bit of this from one kind of indicator and a little bit of that from another? Well, you're in luck. This may be your solution. Technical indicators are tools, and
Create Your Trading System With John Wang by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Create Your Trading System With John Wang by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber John Wang received his bachelor's degree in chemical physics from University of Sciences and Technologies of China (Ustc), his master's degree in quantum chemistry from Zhongsha
Creating A Synthetic Security by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating A Synthetic Security by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Experienced investors know their goal is to maximize returns while minimizing risk. The smaller the capital invested for a profit is, the higher the return is. Using synthetic securities may
Creating Indicators With Physics by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating Indicators With Physics by John F. Ehlers Do we limit words or do words limit us? As Stocks & Commodities contributor John Ehlers opines, we can't really describe market activity with terms now used in the technical trading field. He suggests a
Creating Prosperity by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating Prosperity by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Can you create prosperity by sharing resources? What is the key to creating prosperity? Prosperity consciousness is the answer. This state of mind comes from a sense of abundance, which comes in turn from
Creating Your Own Trading System by Rene Koch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating Your Own Trading System by Rene Koch, Ph.D. It can be done -- and without the headache you would expect. IN technical analysis, when you hear the word band it consists of two boundaries: one above and one below the price series similar to what
Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating charts with Lotus by John O'Donahue Those who have used a personal computer for technical analysis of the markets probably are familiar with Lotus 1-2-3, and recognize what a powerful tool it can be. It is particularly good for evaluating new i
Creating prices for system testing by D. Howard Phillips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating prices for system testing by D. Howard Phillips Technical trading systems are evaluated using historical, real-time or computer-generated data. All three data sources are useful, but computer-generated data can be the most powerful. In particul
Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Commodity Conferences by FRED S. GEHM
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Commodity Conferences by FRED S. GEHM/ Technical Analysis staff writer I wanted to title this column ""How I Spent My Summer Vacation."" But the conferences were in Chicago and no reasonable individual would ever beli
Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Commodity Periodicals by FRED S. GEHM
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Commodity Periodicals by FRED S. GEHM (The first of a regular feature column) This is going to be a column of reviews of criticisms. It will be a consumer's guide to technical analysis. This includes books, magazines
Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Trading Psychology by Fred S. Gehm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crooks, Cranks and Honest Citizens: Trading Psychology by Fred S. Gehm In a competitive game like commodity trading, a player should hardly expect to receive good advice from the other players. It's like asking the poker player across the table from you
Cross Your Arms by Richard W. Arms Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cross Your Arms by Richard W. Arms Jr. The dinner had been marvelous, the wine had been perfect, and now my wife and I were arriving at the theater. I knew we were right on time, and I had the tickets in my inside coat pocket. As we walked up to the ent
Cross-Currency Coefficients by Brian Twomey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cross-Currency Coefficients by Brian Twomey How do currency pairs move in correlation to their US dollar counterparts? When we think about correlation coefficients between two currency pairs, we usually think about correlations among the major pairs
Cross-Market Evaluations With Normalized Average True Range by John Forman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (60-63): Cross-Market Evaluations With Normalized Average True Range by John Forman This technique can be useful to longer-term traders for comparing tradables. Like Bollinger Bands, the average true range (ATR) indicator f
Cross-currents.net by Dennis D. Peterson
Crossword Puzzle by Myles Mellor
Crude Oil And Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crude Oil And Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner The rise and fall of oil prices have a global effect on all aspects of the markets. Here we look at this historical price movement through the eyes of candle patterns. he underlying psychology of market sen
Cueing Off Support And Resistance Levels by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cueing Off Support And Resistance Levels by Thom Hartle Tracking previous highs and lows and analyzing price action can provide clear indications of trend direction. Early in your trading career, you probably learned that you should buy at support and
Cumulative Volume and momentum Part 2 by John C. Lawlor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cumulative Volume and momentum Part 2 by John C. Lawlor Price is so obvious that we all expect it to tell us everything. For example, if our stock gains $1 on the day, we feel good. However, what we really do is multiply that $1 by, say, the 500 shares
Cumulative Volume by Stuart Thomson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cumulative Volume by Stuart Thomson Do you need a street map in a new city? Do you need any direction before buying or selling a stock? Do you need to know the right time to buy or sell stocks? And, do you need a feeling of certainty once you have acted
Cup-with-Handle and the Computerized Approach by Rick Martinelli and Barry Hyman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The cup-with-handle is a chart pattern that identifies stocks preparing for uptrends. Here are the steps to convert this pattern to a set of rules for screening your stock database to identify likely candidates. The CANSLIM approach to investing combin
Currency Investment With Tactical Trading by John Beatty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Currency Investment With Tactical Trading by John Beatty Foreign currency deposit accounts -- for German Deutschemarks, British pounds and so forth--are not routinely available in the cities and towns of the United States. In fact, before January 1989, fe
Curvilinear chart analysis by D.O. Christian Reiger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Curvilinear chart analysis by D.O. Christian Reiger Nothing in the universe moves in an unswerving line ? least of all futures prices. Why then, should straight lines dominate our technical analysis of charts? In the following examples, you'll see how t
Custom messages Part 10 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Custom messages Part 10 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. Believe it or not, all the work we've done so far programming Lotus does not complete the Directional Movement Index system (DMI). We also must include message modules -- the only way some correct signals can
Customer Option Activity by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Customer Option Activity by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. The Options Clearing Corporation issues a weekly report to subscribers that lists the totals of options bought and sold on all exchanges nationwide. The transactions are segregated by customer, marke
Cycle Analysis And Intraday Trading by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycle Analysis And Intraday Trading by John F. Ehlers Veteran S TOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor John Ehlers explains how to make use of cycles analysis in intraday trading, heretofore a rarity. Take a look. Intraday traders have long had most of the tec
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 hi
Cycle Analysis: A comparison of the Fourier and Maximum Entropy methods by John F. Ehler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycle Analysis: A comparison of the Fourier and Maximum Entropy methods by John F. Ehler The motivation for reducing price history to a mathematical expression is clear. If we can describe the prices mathematically, we have the means to extend the equat
Cycles In Time And Money by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (28-35): Cycles In Time And Money by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D. Wouldn't you like to be able to identify top and bottom extremes and get signals to open new positions or close current ones? This may help. When was the last time
Cycles and Trading Systems by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles and Trading Systems by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. This time, this Contributing Writer looks at using cycles as the basis of a trading system. In previous articles, my search for successful trading systems led me to discover a very effective devel
Cycles and chart patterns by Anthony F. Herbst
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles and chart patterns by Anthony F. Herbst Many who analyze price charts of stocks or commodities recognize that cycles influence the patterns they observe. But few carry this insight through the logical steps that could mean better trade timing. Th
Cycles by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles by Arthur Merrill The market certainly moves in waves. Is there regularity in these cyclical waves that can give us useful clues to the future? Any curve can be approximated by adding together a number of sine waves, each with a different period
Cycles without tears by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles without tears by Hans Hannula, Ph.D. No doubt you have seen the ad in The Wall Street Journal for the book Math Without Tears . Well, this is how to find cycles without math and, therefore, without tears. Even though I have done a lot of technica
Cycles, Volatility, And Chart Formations by Daniel L. Chesler, CTA, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cycles, Volatility, And Chart Formations by Daniel L. Chesler, CTA, CMT Understanding the building blocks of classical chart patterns can improve your analysis and trading results. Here's how. A nyone who has studied or traded with classical chart patt
Cyclic Timing by JOHN HERRICK
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cyclic Timing by JOHN HERRICK The concept of cyclic timing can be applied to most charting systems, including the most sophisticated analytical systems; such as, oscillators. It is not adaptable to the Swing Vector System, because the passage of time is
Cyclic personalities by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cyclic personalities by John Ehlers Are there basic differences in the cyclic behavior of various commodities? Although theory predicts short-term cycles will come and go, there is no theory predicting different cyclic ""personalities"" for different co
Cyclical Channel Analysis And The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cyclical Channel Analysis And The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies Trading bands and the commodity channel index, two popular indicators, are used together here by D.W. Davies, who publishes the ""Chameleon"" financial newsletter. Davies analyzes
Cyclical analysis of stock prices with astrology by Robert S. Kimball
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Cyclical analysis of stock prices with astrology by Robert S. Kimball Over the past four years I have participated in a research project that has sought to test the validity of a rather controversial and unorthodox approach to cyclical analysis. The pri
DAT To The Future by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (17-23): DAT To The Future by David Penn Electronic trading has come a long way in the six years since the SEC's display rules of 1997. How have individual traders continued to take advantage of a revolution in access and transparency? In many
DJIA/NYSE Auto/Cross-Correlations by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DJIA/NYSE Auto/Cross-Correlations by Frank Tarkany This article investigates auto/cross-correlations for the weekly Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) price close and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) total volume from January 9, 1897 to December 27,
DMI trading rules by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DMI trading rules by Jim Summers, Ph.D. In this issue, we start programming into Lotus 1-2-3 the trading rules used in J. Welles Wilder's Directional Movement Index (DMI) system. In the previous columns, we programmed the various mathematical components
Daily price and volume study: trading windows by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daily price and volume study: trading windows by Frank Tarkany This article investigates day-to-day price changes of the Dow Jones Industrial Averages (DJIA) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) total volume over a 85 year period to see whether the change
Daily stock technician by Thomas K. Lloyd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daily stock technician by Thomas K. Lloyd For several years, I marketed a proprietary chart service, called Flow of Capital, to major money managers in the country who generally had at least a billion dollars in equities under management. Each chart pl
Daily stock tendencies by L. R. James
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daily stock tendencies by L. R. James Most of us who have done a substantial amount of stock trading would agree that the broad market does a lot of funny things. In theory, the stock market is a vast, highly efficient mechanism that takes in informatio
Dare To Trade by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, MNLP, MCH
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Making Of The Modern Trader Dare To Trade To understand how much courage it takes to be a trader, take the trader's journey. by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, MNLP, MCH The markets are not sympathetic to the meek. Few professions require as much courag
Darvas-Style Trading by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (36-42): Darvas-Style Trading by Daryl Guppy The markets have changed since the 1960s, with the weekly trading volumes of those days often exceeded by a single day of trading now. With that in mind, can classic techniques su
Data Filtering For Trend Channel Analysis by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
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
Data Filtering Methods For Technical Analysis by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D./Technical Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Data Filtering Methods For Technical Analysis by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D./Technical Analysis staff writer Data filtering methods such as moving averages are quite prevalent in many trading systems. In this article we will discuss a methodology for selectin
Data Mining And Cubes For Traders by Art Tennick
Data Smoothing using a Kalman Filter by Vince Banes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Data Smoothing using a Kalman Filter by Vince Banes ""The analysis of continuous pricing information works well with this form of filtering"" The concept of optimum estimation was introduced by Dr. R.E. Kalman in 1960. The first major application of hi
Day Trading The Averages by JOHN F. KEPKA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Day Trading The Averages by JOHN F. KEPKA When Stock Index Futures trading with the Value Line contract was initiated at the Kansas City Board of Trade, futures traders suddenly gained the opportunity to trade the entire stock market. Large profitable m
Day Trading With Stochastics by John F. Kepka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Day Trading With Stochastics by John F. Kepka I have been using the Stochastics oscillator ""K"" and ""%D"" for well over a year (RE: May and Sep 1984 issues of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine). I use Stochastics, (in conjunction wit
Day trading and short-term trading techniques Part 2 by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Day trading and short-term trading techniques Part 2 by Kent Calhoun In my three years of day trading markets in Chicago, not one person who opened an account strictly for day trading purposes lasted more than six months. Yet, the most successful trader
Daytrading QQQ by Misha T. Sarkovich, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading QQQ by Misha T. Sarkovich, Ph.D. Looking at price history can help you become a more successful trader. The QQQ is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), sometimes referred to as "cubes" or "Qs." The QQQ is traded primarily on the exchange floor of
Daytrading Stock Pairs by Mark Conway and Aaron Behle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading Stock Pairs by Mark Conway and Aaron Behle Tired of trading Level II quotes and one-minute charts? Try a market-neutral strategy. It can take years of experience to discover one unique insight to exploit that can consistently pull money out
Daytrading Stocks by Mark Conway
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many traders in the stock market are moving to short-term approaches and taking advantage of today's technology. Here's a walk through the basics. Welcome to the battlefield of electronic daytrading. The confluence of technology and trading has created
Daytrading The E-Mini With Point & Figure by Eugene Steele
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading The E-Mini With Point & Figure by Eugene Steele Here's a look at how you can trade the e-mini with a classic charting technique. Point & figure charting has been largely ignored as a tool for daytrading, but it is actually one of the most po
Daytrading The E-Mini by Lawrence Chan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading The E-Mini by Lawrence Chan Data Reduction - Daytrading The E-Mini See how reducing data can boost your trading system performance. I will show you how to preprocess raw data in such a way that even a simple trading system will perform with
Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (16-23): Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones Markets are complex, self-regulating, and driven by feedback. The message is clear: Decipher the feedback to understand your market. How can you understand the market
Daytrading With On-Balance Volume by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading With On-Balance Volume by D.W. Davies Where is the smart money going? Here's how you can find out. On-balance volume (OBV) is a momentum indicator that relates price change to volume. It has proven itself over and over again as an important
Daytrading With Volatility by Mark Hodge
Dealing with Change by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with Change by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Change is a part of life, and for a trader, it can be a problem or an opportunity. Here's how a trader can make sure it's not a problem. In recent times, I have received countless calls from floor traders
Dealing with conflict Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with conflict Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. ""I have an elaborate computer system, on-line market quotes direct from the major exchanges, and a program that gives me distinct buy-sell signals. I know that if I followed those signals, I'd make mo
Dealing with conflict by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dealing with conflict by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Emotional conflict is one of the most significant problems that most traders (or people) have to deal with in their lives. Yet explaining what it is or how it occurs is not easy. What follows is an interview
Dean Barr On Artificial Intelligence by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dean Barr On Artificial Intelligence by Thom Hartle Barr explains the differences between expert systems and neural networks and some of the keys to successfully applying neural network technology to trading. He also looks at the future of neural netwo
Debit or Credit? by Giorgos E. Siligardos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Debit or Credit? by Giorgos E. Siligardos That is the question. If you are confused about which vertical spread to use, find out here. Are vertical credit spreads better than their counterpart debit spreads? In this article I will discuss their main a
Debugging and the virtues of experimentation Part 6 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Debugging and the virtues of experimentation Part 6 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. In last month's column we discussed the use of {Put} and @Index(...) menu commands in Lotus 1-2-3. These can increase significantly program speed by avoiding cursor movement and r
December Treasury Bonds by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...December Treasury Bonds by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Interest rate futures are always interesting to chart as well as to trade. Aside from the speculative aspects of interest rate futures, it is also valuable to know how much a l
Decision Making by Fred Gehm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Decision Making by Fred Gehm One group of techniques that traders should know more about are those for multiple-criteria decision making. These techniques allow the trader to simultaneously analyze a number of alternatives in terms of a number of attrib
Deep Freeze by Adrienne Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Deep Freeze by Adrienne Toghraie Having trouble pulling the trigger? Stop it right now! At a recent professional basketball game, a 14-year-old girl was preparing for a great honor. She had been selected to sing the national anthem in front of a large
Defining Advance/Decline Indicators by Fay H. Dworkin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Defining Advance/Decline Indicators by Fay H. Dworkin, Ph.D. The notion is simple. When fewer and fewer issues participate in the upward trend of a primary bull market, ""bad breadth"" warns of a market turnaround. Although it is easy to track advancing
Defining The Bull And The Bear by Chuck Dukas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Defining The Bull And The Bear by Chuck Dukas "Bullish" and "bearish" are terms frequently used to describe the price behavior of financial instruments. What exactly do they mean? All price action can be categorized into six phases of trends that descr
Defining The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Defining The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies Presented here are the ins and outs of the commodity channel index, as defined by creator Donald Lambert and modified by the author. The trials and tribulations of trading, the probability of ruin and
Defining directional movement Part 8 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Defining directional movement Part 8 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. Given the old adage that ""the trend is your friend"" and that most trading systems follow trends, J. Welles Wilder's Directional Movement Index (DMI) lets you measure whether a trend is in effe
Delayed Channel Breakout System by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Delayed Channel Breakout System by Peter Aan Originator: Unknown; this is a variation of the simple channel breakout method. Rules and formula: The simple channel breakout is a tried-and-true trading system that has been used for years. The delayed cha
Demand Oscillator momentum by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Demand Oscillator momentum by Thomas Aspray The Demand Index developed by James Sibbett and its counterpart, the Demand Oscillator, are quite useful in identifying accumulation or distribution in both stocks and commodities. (See ""Fine-tuning the Deman
Designer Funds by Gary H. Elsner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designer Funds by Gary H. Elsner, Ph.D. Mutual funds show a less than stellar performance relative to the Standard & Poor's 500 index. It should come as no surprise, then, that Wall Street has responded by offering products that mimic the S&P 500. Goin
Designing A Money Management Strategy by Ray Overholser,O.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing A Money Management Strategy Using Volatility-Based Stops And The Kelly Criterion by Ray Overholser,O.D. Sorting out the criteria for a coherent money management plan is a complex, detailed job. Using a spreadsheet to keep track of the logic h
Designing A Personal Neural Net Trading System by James Stakelum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing A Personal Neural Net Trading System by James Stakelum What goes through the mind of someone designing a neural network trading system? Last month, James Stakelum explained some of the steps involved in putting together a neural network. This
Designing Trading Systems For The Stock Market by Roger Altman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing Trading Systems For The Stock Market by Roger Altman, Ph.D. System designers are aware that the traditional methods used to select parameter values are prone to overfitting. What, then, can be done about it? Stocks & Commodities Roger Altman p
Designing Volatility Breakout Systems by Paolo Pezzutti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing Volatility Breakout Systems by Paolo Pezzutti Interested in improving your system's profit factor? Here are some suggestions. The principle of range expansion/contraction was first studied and analyzed by Toby Crabel in Technical Analysis of
Detecting Breakouts From Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (48-57): Detecting Breakouts From Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos Here's a system to identify and trade flag and pennant formations. In my previous article, I wrote about the measuring implications, duration, and identi
Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Breakouts In Intraday Charts by Markos Katsanos Here's an important enhancement to the finite volume elements indicator that's especially useful with intraday minute charts. In the April 2003 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I introduced the finite volu
Detecting Breakouts by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Breakouts by Markos Katsanos The finite volume elements (FVE) indicator is yet another money flow indicator -- but it takes into account both intra- and interday price action. Most technical analysts underestimate volume indicators in favor of
Detecting New Trends Early by David R. Steckler
Detecting Seasonality by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Seasonality by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D. Seasonal or cyclical patterns, whether real or only imagined, have been a popular topic among traders for years. Lewis Carl Mokrasch, continuing research published originally in his article in April 19
Detecting Trend Direction And Strength by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting Trend Direction And Strength by Barbara Star, Ph.D. Using an indicator by itself can reveal a portion of the entire picture. Combining it with another can reveal more. Traders use technical indicators to recognize market changes. They look to
Detecting a dependent process by Clifford J. Sherry Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting a dependent process by Clifford J. Sherry Ph.D. If you know the price of a commodity today, can you predict what the price will be tomorrow? Can you predict whether the price will increase or decrease? Dr. Sherry proposes a statistical method
Detecting dependence part 2 by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting dependence part 2 by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. In an article in the last issue (Stocks & Commodities, April 1986), I outlined a means of detecting whether dependence existed between prices in a time series. To read this article, you should rec
Detecting hidden signals by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Detecting hidden signals by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Do you have a signal, such as a particular pattern of price movements, that is buried in noise like random fluctuations or seasonal trends? If you believe this signal is time-locked to some internal
Detecting the Minimum Tradable Cycle by Robert Wayman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Detecting The Minimum Tradable Cycle by Robert Wayman Cycle theorists will tell you that there may be tradable cycles within market data. Before looking for those cycles, though, you must determine the noise level within the data. H
Determining Balance Points In Crowd Psychology by Carl Gyllenram
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Balance Points In Crowd Psychology by Carl Gyllenram Balance points, the pivotal points between the swings of the bulls and the bears, turn out to be excellent ways to determine market moods and to spot breakouts from a trading range. Peop
Determining Capital Amounts for Trading by Ajay Jani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Capital Amounts for Trading by Ajay Jani Last month, Ajay Jani covered several topics crucial to developing a comprehensive trading plan, including the importance of portfolio level simulations and the ability to use risk-reduction strategie
Determining Equity Growth Performance by John F. Ehlers and Mike Barna
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Equity Growth Performance by John F. Ehlers and Mike Barna What are the merits of using technical analysis trading systems? Evaluate them here. Technical analysts have the option of trading with either discretionary or systematic techniques
Determining Leverage For Trading Systems by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Leverage For Trading Systems by John Kean When your trading's going your way, you're apt to think about leveraging your trading based on your success in hindsight. However, leveraging can be a two-edged sword when it comes to profits and dra
Determining Optimal Risk by Ed Seykota and Dave Druz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Optimal Risk by Ed Seykota and Dave Druz Seasoned traders know the importance of risk management. If you risk little, you win little. If you risk too much, you eventually run to ruin. The optimum, of course, is somewhere in the middle. Here,
Determining stock value from price and earnings by Paul T. Holliday
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining stock value from price and earnings by Paul T. Holliday The value of stocks and stock indices are generally derived from such fundamentals as earnings and return on investment. The value that investors place on a stock or stock index may als
Develop Your Own Market Lens by Brett Grendahl
Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones Here's an intraday trading model that uses auction market theory. A tenet of auction market theory is the unpredictability of the markets. An auction market model is built from market kno
Developing A System by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A System by John Sweeney The great thing about many of the new trading support systems is that they facilitate the respectable practice of ""dinking around"": that process of tweaking every crazy idea that strikes one until something producti
Developing A Trading Strategy by Frank McGuff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Trading Strategy by Frank McGuff Trading strategies have several required characteristics, ranging from the ability to provide clear, unambiguous signals to the ability to validate each trade against the strategy. Developing and validating
Developing A Trading System by Curtis Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Trading System by Curtis Arnold Successful trading is built upon using a dependable trading method. What is a good trading method? It is simply a set of rules that cover the important aspects of trading, such as trend identification, entry
Developing A Trading System by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Trading System by Dennis D. Peterson If you've ever tried it, you know that developing a trading system is no easy task. But you may find that following a series of steps could help you reduce the learning curve. Here's an example. There a
Developing An Edge by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing An Edge by John Sweeney Once you've developed something with an edge on the market, it's only natural to want to exploit it mercilessly, making hay while the sun shineth, so to speak. The simplest way I know to do this is to add more position
Developing An Expert System To Forecast The Stock Market by Mike Flanagan, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing An Expert System To Forecast The Stock Market by Mike Flanagan, Ph.D. Nowadays, computers are often used to develop rule-based trading strategies. Frequently, these rules will be based on work provided by experts; such rule-based models are g
Developing Discipline With Daily Debriefing by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (50-53): Developing Discipline With Daily Debriefing by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. It is easy to design a system that will produce annual returns of 100% or more. Trading the system so you will get those returns is not so easy. Her
Developing Hot Zones by Massimiliano Scorpio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing Hot Zones by Massimiliano Scorpio Can you forecast a bar's close from its open? This technique is helpful in trading recently introduced tradables that don't have historical charts yet, such as single-stock futures. In the December 2001 STOC
Developing My Trading Strategy by Leonardo Jafet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing My Trading Strategy by Leonardo Jafet Are the risks and returns involved in a more active investment style compatible with your resources and financial goals? Here's a trading approach that can help answer your questions. ntry in my mental
Developing Neural Network Forecasters For Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing Neural Network Forecasters For Trading by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. Neural networks, for many, still exist only in the realm of theory, without having real, practical, everyday uses -- yet. But neural network applications need not be confined s
Developing Systems With a Rule-Based Approach by Jeffrey Owen Katz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing Systems With a Rule-Based Approach by Jeffrey Owen Katz This month, Katz discusses a trading system he developed using a rule-based approach. Previously, I explored the development of simple rule-based trading systems. Specifically, I looke
Developing Your Own Indicators by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (18-26): Developing Your Own Indicators by Lee Leibfarth Does the thought of developing custom indicators intimidate you? It doesn't have to. Here's a stepby- step look at the process. Custom indicators can give you a persp
Developing a personal trading style The Wyckoff method of trading Part 14 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing a personal trading style The Wyckoff method of trading Part 14 by Jack K. Hutson Trading the stock market with the Wyckoff Method is as much a test of personality and personal perseverance as it is a test of analytic education. Wyckoff was st
Developing and using pattern recognition by Tom Johnson and Mark Boucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing and using pattern recognition by Tom Johnson and Mark Boucher Do you find yourself getting drawn into the game of predicting market trends? Are you awash with newsletters, TV programs and news stories about ""gurus"" calling the markets? Such
Diagnosing market tops by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Diagnosing market tops by Thomas Aspray In the June 1988 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I discussed a few of the more than 250 indicators that I use for stock market timing. I applied these indicators to some of the recent stock market bottoms. In this
Diary Of A Strangle by Charles Steiner
Did Dow Theory Fail? by Tim W. Wood, CPA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Did Dow Theory Fail? by Tim W. Wood, CPA Here's a look at the chain of events that have taken place since 2002 and what we can learn from them. AS the Dow Jones industrials topped out in 2000 and plunged nearly 38% into the 2002 low, every indication,
Directional Breakout Indicator by Barbara Star, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (44-51): Directional Breakout Indicator by Barbara Star, PhD Price breakouts of moving averages present many profitable trading opportunities. Here's an indicator you can use to detect breakouts and identify price direction.
Directional Movement by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Directional Movement by Stuart Evens There's no way around it: Traders trade the trend, be it short term or long term. It follows, then, that there is a need to identify when a market is trending. Here's J. Welles Wilder's directional movement, a set o
Directional Ratio Revisited by John Jay Norris
Directional To Delta Neutral by Chris Tyler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (58-64): Directional To Delta Neutral by Chris Tyler Staying alert to new opportunities and changing market conditions means you have to adjust your positions. Here's how. A Wall Street adage says winners take care of thems
Discerning Portfolio Patterns Using Data Animation by Bruce Peterson, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discerning Portfolio Patterns Using Data Animation by Bruce Peterson, PhD Here is a method using animation that helps you visualize patterns of stock behavior for an entire portfolio. Traders have long used technical indicators and charts to identify p
Discipline in trading by James Covington Bryce
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discipline in trading by James Covington Bryce I would like you to bear with me for a moment and consider something that, at first, might appear to be a little ""far out."" Let's say all of a sudden you found yourself going about your daily tasks but yo
Discount Broker Blues part 3 by Dan Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discount Broker Blues part 3 by Dan Weinberg The conclusion to Weinberg's experiences as a novice trader learning how to play the game the hard way. PURCHASE AND PANIC (PART TWO) Merger Mania is another form of Takeover Mania, but my example here is a
Discount Stock Brokers by Richard Maturi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discount Stock Brokers by Richard Maturi If you're a sophisticated investor, willing to make many of your own investment decisions then May 1,1975 marked a milestone for your investment activities. On ""May Day"" the Securities and Exchange Commission e
Discount broker blues Part 2 by Dan Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discount broker blues Part 2 by Dan Weinberg Beginner's Luck Everyone assumes that when you talk about ""beginner's luck"" you are referring to good luck. This is an incorrect assumption in many cases, and it certainly was with my early trades in the s
Discount broker blues by Dan Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discount broker blues by Dan Weinberg ""Do-it-yourself investing is easy!"" --a discount broker ad ""There's a sucker born every minute.""--P.T. Barnum ""I really thought I knew what I was doing!""--Anonymous Hook All your life you've scoffed at people
Dissecting A Winning Trade by Brett Grendahl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (50-53): Dissecting A Winning Trade by Brett Grendahl There's a good reason you should keep a trading journal: analyzing your previous trades helps you understand what you're doing. One of the best ways to find winning trad
Divergence Bias by Giorgos Siligardos
Diversification And Risk by Raymond Rothschild
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Diversification And Risk by Raymond Rothschild No method of stock or equity selection is perfect. Even the best of schemes can fail. For example, suppose we had a system of selecting stocks with a probability of success of two thirds. The probability of
Diversification And Your Portfolio by Phil Abel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Diversification And Your Portfolio by Phil Abel Thinking about adding financial and commodity futures to your trading? Here's how it can improve profitability and reduce risk. Stockpicking can enhance a portfolio, but only to a certain extent. If you i
Dividend Yield Buy-and-Hold Meter by Elliott Middleton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (329-331): Dividend Yield Buy-and-Hold Meter by Elliott Middleton Here's a comparison of the historical dividend yield of the S&P 500 on a monthly basis and what the 10-year total return for the S&P was after each observation of the dividend yie
Do Cycles Exist in the Market? by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This longtime S&C contributor explains the basis of the existence of cycles in market data. The markets are not always efficient; this is why trading decisions based on technical analysis work. Chart patterns that are discernible, technical events such
Do Equations Tell The Whole Story? by Gordon Gustafson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do Equations Tell The Whole Story? by Gordon Gustafson Success in systems trading depends on having good trading systems and good money management practices. Optimal f can help you. Once you have a good trading system, wouldn't it be wonderful if you h
Do Five-Year Growth Rates Mean Anything? by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do Five-Year Growth Rates Mean Anything? by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D. The five-year growth rate, usually of earnings, is a common index of a company's well-being. Other factors being the same, you would want to own the stock of a company with a high fi
Do Momentum Indicators Follow Trends? by Clive Roffey, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do Momentum Indicators Follow Trends? by Clive Roffey, Ph.D. Do momentum indicators follow trends, or are they independent of them? The stochastic oscillator, relative strength index (RSI), rate of change (ROC), and moving average convergence/ divergen
Do Or Die Trading by Bo Yoder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do Or Die Trading by Bo Yoder Bring consistency to your trading. A s any active trader knows, once a trade is initiated, the market will do everything in its power to convince you that you are an idiot who has just put on the worst trade in the history
Do Price Patterns Really Work? by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (30-37): Do Price Patterns Really Work? by Martin J. Pring How far can you expect prices to go when they break out of a pattern? Here's one technique you can use to find out. Technical analysis focuses on identifying trends
Do The Dogs Still Have BITE? by John Devcic
Do funds distort price movements? by B. Wade Brorsen and Scott H. Irwin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do funds distort price movements? by B. Wade Brorsen and Scott H. Irwin The rapid rise of large-scale technical trading by futures funds has led to a concern that such trading could distort futures price movements. Our previous research shows that quite
Do stock prices reflect Fibonacci ratios? by Herbert H.J. Riedel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do stock prices reflect Fibonacci ratios? by Herbert H.J. Riedel The claim has been frequently made that Fibonacci ratios occur in stock market data. A Fibonacci ratio is the ratio between any successive numbers of the Fibonacci sequence -- the Fibonacci
Does Consecutive Covered Call Writing Beat... by Gunter Meissner and Sandra Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (22-26): Does Consecutive Covered Call Writing Beat Buy & Hold? by Gunter Meissner and Sandra Wu One of the most popular option strategies meets one of the most popular investing methods -- which will win? One of the most po
Does Gold Still Have Room To Run? by Teresa Fernandez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many investors are hesitant about investing in gold. Memories of the stratospheric and unexplained rise to the unchartered territory of the high $800s in January 1980, followed by several limit-down days, still haunt baby boomers, many of whom ha
Does The Head & Shoulders Formation Work? by Martin Boot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does The Head & Shoulders Formation Work? by Martin Boot Rarely will you come across a technique that detects an imminent change in trend, but here's a method that can help you do just that. The head and shoulders pattern has long been considered one o
Does The Market Have A Personality? by James Kellndorfer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does The Market Have A Personality? by James Kellndorfer Here's a look at how you can convert the NYSE's tick into a sentiment indicator using statistical analysis. Along with the other US stock exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides in
Does The RSI Give You An Edge? by Larry Connors & Ashton Dorkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does The RSI Give You An Edge? by Larry Connors & Ashton Dorkins The relative strength index has been heavily used since its creation, but does it work for you? The relative strength index (RSI) is one of the most popular tools used by traders. As such
Does Volume Matter? by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (18-22): Does Volume Matter? by Thomas N. Bulkowski If a chart pattern breaks out on high volume, is it a blessing or a curse? Recently, I was reading some reviews on Amazon.com for a book on technical analysis, and one reader comment that stuc
Does pyramiding make sense? by Fred Cehm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does pyramiding make sense? by Fred Cehm The leverage obtained through pyramiding can be immense. But is it smart? Gehm examines the pyramiding technique and its possible consequences. Recently, well-known traders and trading advisors have argued that
Dollar-Weighted Put/Call Ratios by Fari Hamzei and Barbara Star Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (52-55): Dollar-Weighted Put/Call Ratios by Fari Hamzei and Barbara Star Ph.D. Does this new twist on the popular sentiment indicator hold some predictive value? Find out here. Many years have passed since Martin Zweig used
DollarLink by Rich Rosen
Don't Regulate Futures Like Stocks by Howard S. Portnow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't Regulate Futures Like Stocks by Howard S. Portnow Even as I write this, the U.S. Congress is considering ways in which the financial markets, and especially the futures market, may be ""reformed."" The main proposals being put forth are to unify t
Donchian Breakouts by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Donchian Breakouts by David Penn Buy strength and sell weakness with this simple yet effective breakout trading strategy. There may be as many different forms of the Donchian breakout as there are moving average crossover or pattern recognition strateg
Doomed By The Divergence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Negative divergences in the Russell 2000 signaled the potential for weakness in late May.
Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski The mirror image of a double top, the double bottom is a more profitable longer-term play. Find out why. At first, I thought double bottoms were just double tops flipped upside down, but I was wrong. It's not the for
Double Calendars And Condors by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (36-39): Double Calendars And Condors by John A. Sarkett In this, the second part of a series based on an option seminar with trader Dan Sheridan, we look at the double calendar and condor strategies. With a stock at 50, an
Double Diagonals And Butterfly Spreads by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With Dan Sheridan (Part 3) Double Diagonals And Butterfly Spreads by John A. Sarkett The third part of this series with trader Dan Sheridan looks at double diagonals with long, protective wings one or more months out from the short options, as
Double Smoothed-Stochastics by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Double Smoothed-Stochastics by William Blau The stochastic oscillator devised by George Lane is one of the most useful and widely used tools in technical analysis. This oscillator is based on the current close in relation to the highest and lowest price
Double Tops by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Double Tops by Thomas Bulkowski It takes more than twin peaks to make a double top. Here's a refresher on the formation. Double tops aren't hard to identify. Novice investors with just a smattering of technical knowledge can identify any two peaks clo
Double-Bottom Confirmation Strategy by Arthur Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Get Into The Trade Double-Bottom Confirmation Strategy Here's a strategy using a tried-and-true pattern to achieve faster entry signals and improve the reward-to-risk ratio. by Arthur Hill The double bottom that emerged in the Dow Jones Industri
Double-Smoothed Momenta by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Double-Smoothed Momenta by William Blau The prices of stocks and commodities are usually plotted as bar graphs. In a bar graph, each bar represents a certain time interval, be it an intraday, daily or weekly bar. The last price in each time interval is
Dow 1000 by Edwin Polokoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow 1000 by Edwin Polokoff There are many ways to succeed in this world, and help can come from an unlikely source. A long time ago, I received a telephone call from a friend and teaching colleague. "Buy a copy of The Saturday Evening Post and read the
Dow Theory Confirmation And Divergence by Richard L. Evans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow Theory Confirmation And Divergence by Richard L. Evans According to one of the most important tenets of the Dow theory, the Dow Jones Industrial and Transportation Averages must confirm each other to be able to derive forecasting significance from t
Dow Theory Direction by Tim W. Wood, CPA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow Theory Direction by Tim W. Wood, CPA Why do opinions on Dow theory so often vary, and why do Dow theory "signals" so often fail? Typically, there is one common denominator that becomes immediately apparent in most articles about Dow theory: too man
Dow Theory by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow Theory by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle For a man who had the perfect opportunity to widely publicize his theory of stock market trends but never used it, Charles H. Dow nevertheless left a definitive legacy--the Dow theory is at the root of tech
Dow Theory: Bullish Or Bearish? by Jack Rusin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow Theory: Bullish Or Bearish? by Jack Rusin Most people are familiar with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), but relatively few are familiar with the Dow theory, Charles Dow's major contribution to the study of the stock market. Utilizing foreru
Downside Protection With Double-Digit Returns by John Manley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Downside Protection With Double-Digit Returns by John Manley This strategy has potential for double-digit returns with a large built-in hedge. Current market conditions have set up a unique opportunity to build a conservative portfolio that will profit
Drunkard's Walk: Theory And Measurement By Autocorrelation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we look at some of the basic issues that underlie technical analysis itself. And we introduce a new indicator, called "autocorrelation", you can use to test for correlation in the da
DynaMind Developer Version 3.0 by Lou Mendelsohn
Dynamic Asset Allocation: Beyond Buy and Hold by Gary Harloff, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dynamic Asset Allocation: Beyond Buy and Hold by Gary Harloff, Ph.D. Even during the strongest of bull markets, not every investment rises at the same rate. This range of performance among different investments has led to money managers developing strat
Dynamic Multiple Time Frames by Robert Krausz, MH, BCHE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dynamic Multiple Time Frames by Robert Krausz, MH, BCHE This private trader, who was profiled in The New Market Wizards, discusses one of his techniques to trade the market based on an early signal for trend direction. Over the years I have studied man
Dynamic Zones by Leo Zamansky, Ph.D., and David Stendahl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dynamic Zones by Leo Zamansky, Ph.D., and David Stendahl Most indicators use a fixed zone for buy and sell signals. Here's a concept based on zones that are responsive to past levels of the indicator. One approach to active investing employs the use of
ELLI-VOL II by James S. Gould, Ph.D.
EPOCH by John Sweeney
Early Trend Identification by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Early Trend Identification by John F. Ehlers Impressive profits can be accumulated just by staying with a position during a trend. We would all be millionaires if only we could identify the trend early in its onset. While the trends are obvious in retro
Ease of movement by Richard W. Arms Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ease of movement by Richard W. Arms Jr. On occasion it seems as though a stock or commodity must have discovered anti-gravity. It moves upward with little effort. Such a move is characterized by increasing volume but similarly increasing price spread on
East Meets West: CandlePower Charting by Greg Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...East Meets West: CandlePower Charting by Greg Morris Candlestick charting was introduced to me back in May 1988 at an annual Market Technicians Association meeting. The method, which originated in the Japanese rice futures market in the 1600s, received
Ed Seykota Of Technical Tools by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ed Seykota Of Technical Tools by Thom Hartle Ed Seykota, whose thoughts and insights were chronicled in Jack Schwager's book Market Wizards, has been involved with trading commodities since the late 1960s. According to Market Wizards, Seykota's ""model
Elastic Moving Averages by Christian P. Fries, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elastic Moving Averages by Christian P. Fries, Ph.D. Approximating the average price paid per share can generate a very responsive moving average. What if the period of your average fluctuated with volume? You'd have an elastic volumeweighted moving av
Elementary Bond Trends by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elementary Bond Trends by Thom Hartle The bond market provides the technician with an assortment of approaches to trading. Complex and esoteric styles occupy one end of the spectrum, while the other extreme is represented by techniques that are simple a
Elements of charting Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 2 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elements of charting Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 2 by Jack K. Hutson The second of a series which presents the Richard D. Wyckoff method of trading stocks. In this article, the different types of charts upon which the Wyckoff method is based a
Elizabeth Marbach of Rodman & Renshaw by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elizabeth Marbach of Rodman & Renshaw by Thom Hartle Elizabeth Marbach, first vice president and broker/analyst in the financial futures group for Rodman & Renshaw, started out in the early 1980s down in the Treasury bill trading pit on the Chicago Merc
Elliott Wave And Gold by Horatio Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave And Gold by Horatio Miller Ask any Elliott Wave analyst about the outlook for gold, and he will without doubt say that the precious metal is on its way down to the $100-200 range. A divergent-Elliott Wave interpretation, however, suggests t
Elliott Wave Risk And Reward by Tony Beckwith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave Risk And Reward by Tony Beckwith Establish your exit stop strategy before placing your next trade. Traders have no business trading if risk/reward analysis is not at the top of their concerns. If a trader has no idea of the potential profi
Elliott Wave Theory, Simplified by Koos van der Merwe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave Theory, Simplified by Koos van der Merwe Elliott wave counts can get complicated, but it doesn't have to. Here's a simplified look at how to study Elliott wave theory. IN the late 1920s, Ralph Nelson Elliott came to the conclusion that the
Elliott Wave dilemma: Bull or bear market? by C. R. MacDowell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave dilemma: Bull or bear market? by C. R. MacDowell The Elliott Wave Theory, while complex and subject to individual interpretation, offers a powerful means of putting the overall market developments into reasonable perspective and provides so
Elliott wave: Fact or fiction? by F. David Minbashian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott wave: Fact or fiction? by F. David Minbashian Using concepts from the elegant new science of chaotic dynamics, I was writing an essay to show as simply as I could arguing how commodity and stock prices follow a path of motion without any pattern
Emotionally Intelligent Trading by Eliot Brenner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (62-65): Emotionally Intelligent Trading by Eliot Brenner, Ph.D. Increase your trading profits by incorporating these strategies for emotional intelligence with a sound trading plan. A few months after I began daytrading equities, I learned a t
Empirical Mode Decomposition by John F. Ehlers and Ric Way
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Empirical Mode Decomposition by John F. Ehlers and Ric Way Is the market trending or is it in a cycle mode? Identify the mode of the market and trade accordingly. Even the most casual chart reader will be able to spot the times when the market is cycli
Empowering Traders To Trade Commodities by Gail Mercer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With more and more products being added to the marketplace, how do you decide what to trade? Here's a look at what you should consider before trading the commodities. New traders are often overwhelmed at the number of different instruments the
Empowering Traders With The Russell 2000 by Gail Mercer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever thought of trading the Russell 2000? Here's how retail traders could benefit from trading this index. New traders are drawn to the emini Standard & Poor's 500 like bees to honey. Go into any live trading room and chances are that the mo
Engineering Look At Cycles by Arthur Zernov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do cycles exist in markets? Here's a look at the markets from a different angle -- one that will help you realize that there is a harmony among cycles, events, and market behavior. The existence of cycles in stocks and commodities prices is considered
Enhanced Fund Switching by Jack Singer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhanced Fund Switching by Jack Singer Jay Kaeppel published a highly successful fund switching strategy in July 1999. Here 's how to make it even juicier. In March 1999, I lost a client to a stockbroker because I was too conservative in my investing s
Enhanced Returns With Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhanced Returns With Mutual Funds by Norman J. Brown Is buy and hold the best strategy when it comes to mutual funds? Here's a mutual fund switching technique that uses multiple-fund ranking to improve returns. In my earlier articles, I showed it was
Enhanced Williams %R by Robert J. Kinder, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhanced Williams %R by Robert J. Kinder, Jr. The Enhanced Williams %R Index on Volume and Price (EWRVP) is based on the original %R oscillator constructed by Larry Williams. The original %R . considers only changes in price, while the Enhanced Williams
Enhancing index stock portfolios with futures by Donald L. Jones and Timothy L. Walsh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhancing index stock portfolios with futures by Donald L. Jones and Timothy L. Walsh The benefits of diversification are well known: most investment managers diversify by including bonds and cash in a stock portfolio already diversified across many ind
Enhancing the Raff Regression Channel by Robert B. McKinnon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A market follows its primary trend in a zigzag form. The trend direction is easy to see; the real challenge lies in identifying the minor trends. Price channels are a technique used to discover the outer boundaries of the market's action concerning a t
Ensign IV by John Sweeney
Entering The Fibonacci Zone With Carolyn Boroden by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
Entering Trades At Pullbacks by Candy Schaap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Entering Trades At Pullbacks by Candy Schaap When opportunities knock, tell them to come in! Here's how pullbacks in trends offer opportunity. Anybody who has ever bought an asset, whether it's bonds, stocks, mutual funds, or real estate, knows that pr
Entropic Analysis Of Equity Prices by Ron McEwan
Equity Curve Analysis by Vladimir Stepnov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Equity Curve Analysis by Vladimir Stepnov What can you expect from your trading system? he random nature of the markets can alter your profit expectations, which is why you must determine how your system will perform in any type of market. When you des
EquityTrader.com by Dennis D. Peterson
Equivalent Option Strategies by Lawrence G. McMillan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Equivalent Option Strategies by Lawrence G. McMillan Stock option traders and futures option traders may think they're already outsmarting stock and futures traders by trading options against their stock or futures positions, but Larry McMillan, author
Equivolume Using A Spreadsheet Program by James Leahy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Equivolume Using A Spreadsheet Program by James Leahy Equivolume charting, which permits plotting price movements vs. volume instead of time, can be plotted by hand or with one of several charting programs, but a plain spreadsheet program on your person
Essentials Of Technical Analysis by Larry Swing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:13 (62-64): Essentials Of Technical Analysis by Larry Swing Technical analysis doesn't have to be complex. Here's a reminder to keep it simple. We have a hard time making fast decisions with complicated information. That is w
Essex Eurotrader by John Sweeney
Essex Eurotrader by John Sweeney
Establishing Risk And Reward by Cory Mitchell
Estimating Future Drawdowns by Tushar S. Chande
Estimating the Market Profile Value Area for intraday trading by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Estimating the Market Profile Value Area for intraday trading by Donald L. Jones T he prime question for every trader is whether to get into a market, or if in, whether to stay in or get out. Since these questions must be decided on the basis of inadequ
Eurodollar futures using entry/exit methods combined with stops by S.L. Kille and T.P. Drinka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Eurodollar futures using entry/exit methods combined with stops by S.L. Kille and T.P. Drinka In the May 1987 issue of this magazine, we reported the impact of money management on total net profit from simulated trading of Eurodollar futures with Relat
Evaluate Your Risk by Simon Vine
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Evaluate Your Risk by Simone Vine To accurately determine risk, you must filter classical statistical factors. How, you ask? With a personal risk profile. In classical statistics, risk is defined as the standard deviation from the mean. To some extent,
Evaluating Forex Trades by Brian Twomey
Evaluating Performance by K.D. Angle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MONEY MANAGEMENT Evaluating Performance When you're taking a look at records of trading systems and money managers for consistent performance, here are some things to look for. By K.D. Angle Knowing what to look for in the performance characteristics
Evaluating Sysem Efficiency by Leo Zamansky, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We've all experienced good trades, bad trades and so-so trades. Wouldn't it be better if you had steps you could take to improve the entries and exits of the trades that your system generated to quantify the good from the bad? This article provides basic
Evaluating Trading Systems with Statistics by J. Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, in part 1 of two, these Contributing Writers explain the steps necessary to evaluate trading system behavior with the use of statistics. by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Most systems I have seen are simply optimized by being te
Evaluting the COMMODEX(R) System by Ronald R. Goodis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Evaluting the COMMODEX(R) System by Ronald R. Goodis The COMMODEXÒ System-- practically every futures trader has heard of it. Most serious traders subscribe to it. It remains the only daily futures system published in the world and is internationally cir
Eve & Adam Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Eve & Adam Double Bottoms by Thomas Bulkowski If you read this author's first two articles about the Adam and Eve combinations of double bottoms, the Eve & Adam combination should be a snap. It combines elements from the Eve & Eve and Adam & Adam double
Eve & Eve Double Bottom by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Eve & Eve Double Bottom by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a look at one of the four combinations of double bottoms. You may be familiar with double bottoms, but have you ever heard of an Eve & Eve double bottom? I hadn't heard of them myself until a few years
Event Trading in the Bond Market by Ben Warwick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Event Trading In The Bond Market by Ben Warwick The financial markets frequently react with large price movements after the government and private agencies release their economic reports. Are there any reliable patterns to the way a market reacts to the
Evolution of a Timing Model by Nelson Freeburg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Evolution of a Timing Model by Nelson Freeburg How does a trading model evolve? Formula Research newsletter publisher Nelson Freeburg discusses the evolution of a trading model and explains such concepts as out-of-sample testing, parameter sensitivity t
Examining the EMA by Tim Treloar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Examining the EMA by Tim Treloar You know how to apply the exponential moving average, but what do you know about its development and behavior? Here's a deeper look at the popular moving average. The popular exponential moving average (EMA) depends on
Exits, Stops And Strategy by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exits, Stops And Strategy by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Everyone's looking for entry trading signals, but what about after you're in the trade? Here are different techniques for making a graceful -- and profitable -- exit. Previous
Exits: The Forgotten Component by Roy M. Sidewitz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exits: The Forgotten Component by Roy M. Sidewitz In many ways, a consistently successful exit strategy is more difficult to implement than an entry strategy. Often, entry points are so emphasized that exits, which may be even more critical to overall
Exorcise fear of a depression by Charles Bebber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exorcise fear of a depression by Charles Bebber Not surprisingly, economic reports in the weeks following the stock market's Black Monday bristled with references to pessimism, alarm and failure of confidence. Contemporary economic thought has long take
Experience And Dollar-Risk Tolerance Levels by Daryl Guppy
Expiration Month And Strike Price For Options by Robert M. Peevey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Expiration Month And Strike Price For Options by Robert M. Peevey It never hurts to brush up on the basics, we always say, and so here are the basics of options as well as an analysis of the correct option expiration month and strike price to achieve ma
Exploiting Positions With Money Management by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exploiting Positions With Money Management Here's a trading technique for stops, including money management guidelines. ven in a bull market, there is a feeling of triumph when a trade goes our way. When this happens, the novice trader feels that gettin
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile CREDIT AND DEBIT SPREADS What are some money management tips for credit and debit spreads? Specifically, when should I get out if a spread goes against me? --Bob Great question. By purchasing or selling spreads, you'
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile CRUDE AWAKENING Crude oil keeps moving to record highs, but I don't think it can stay above $100 a barrel for much longer. However, I don't trade commodities or futures. Do I have any other options if I think crude i
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile EUROPEAN VERSUS AMERICAN At the end of your November 2003 column, you referred to the Europeanstyle settlement, saying that you could sell options without the risk of unexpected early assignment. Could you please exp
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile DOUBLING DOWN ON OPTIONS Does doubling down on a losing options position by purchasing more and thus lowering the breakeven point work the same as it does with stocks? Thank you. -- Fiorenzo Primavori, Genoa, Italy Y
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile TRADING PLAN I bought five Xyz October 160?170 call spreads for $1.79. Here's my trading plan: Buy Xyz October 160?170 calls spread for $1.79 Max loss: $1.79 Max risk: $1.79 Max reward: $8.29 Ratio: 4.6 to 1 Stop-lo
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile NOT GETTING FILLED I live in Europe and I often place my orders outside of US market hours. I almost always use limit orders between the bid and ask. For example, I tried to buy a call option the other day, but I did
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how to minimize their risk while maximiz
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile VIEWS ON VOLATILITY Is it important to look at the volatility chart of an option that you would like to buy or sell? And if you are trying to determine whether volatility is high or low before you buy an option? Opt
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile SEASONALITY I know seasonality is an important factor in the commodities markets. Is there any way to play seasonality in the stock market? Can you give an example? Important seasonal patterns exist, not just in the
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (56): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile RSVP FOR A CHEAPER STRADDLE? I like the idea of positioning with long straddles, but when it comes to pulling the trigger, I'm having problems executing. More often than not, the spreads that look the most attractive
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (79): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If I'm trying to manage option position risk to reduce my maximum loss exposure, is it better to tie a stop-loss to the market price of the options or the underlying stock? Managed stops can be a good tool as they act as an extra layer of port
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile LEAPING INTO CALENDAR SPREADS? I see some Leap options are not that expensive given the amount of time they've got -- about two years. There are 23 months you can sell against it. That's got to be a good trade. Where
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (71): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile DEBIT AND CREDIT What's the difference between a debit spread and a credit spread? When investors buy or sell options, the transaction is either a debit or a credit. Of course, since an option contract is an agreem
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (34): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile COVERED CALLS If I write a covered call for a stock I bought at 30.50, am I allowed to place a stop-loss price, say, 27.00, to protect it from further decline? What happens if the stop-loss price is triggered? Altho
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (101): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (32): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile VOLATILITY How do I figure out which strategies are best to implement when the volatility of the market changes so drastically from one season to the next? Fortunately for option traders, volatility is your friend,
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (89): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile STRADDLES How do straddles make money? If the call moves up, doesn't the put lose just as much? Straddles are a "delta-neutral" strategy. Since straddles are composed of both an at-the-money put and ca
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile VOLATILITY RISK A stock I like has been trending higher, and I was considering a credit spread expiring in May. However, the earnings report is due May 7 and I can't determine whether this volatility rush will negati
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (63): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile I've often heard traders and analysts make statements along the lines of such and such move is being priced into a stock in front of a key event with regards to its options. What is this and how is it calculated? Gr
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (35): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (86): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile AVOIDING ASSIGNMENT Suppose I use a spread by selling a 50 call and buying a 55 call. If the stock starts approaching 50, at what price should I buy back the 50 call to avoid assig
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile GAMMA SCALPING A VERTICAL? What do you think about hedging directional risk of a vertical spread with stock? That's an interesting question, but one without a "one size fits all" answer. Hedging delta risk and pos
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (43): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile DIVIDENDS AND OPTIONS PRICES How does a company's dividend affect the option price? -- Newman The dividend can be an important influence on a stock option's price. Obviously, if the company pays no dividend, it makes
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile ""SPLITTING"" HEADACHE Can you please explain how a 3-for-2 stock split affects the pricing of options? I saw a split of this type and couldn't get my head around the math. Great question. Before we jump into this
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (45): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (41): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicatedmto teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile BUTTERFLY SPREADS Would you be so kind to explain what exactly a butterfly spread is? Thanks -- Simon A butterfly spread is a sideways market strategy using all calls or puts, and is designed to profit from a stock t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (43): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile UNDERSTANDING OPTION SYMBOLS I know stock symbols usually have threeor four-letter symbols. Why do options have five-letter symbols? Stocks can have one-, two-, three-, four-, or even five-letter symbols. For exampl
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE I have a put credit spread on a stock where the sold leg is out-of-the-money and the bought leg is deep in-the-money. I have already bought back the sold leg and the bought leg is left to be
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile CALENDAR SPREAD QUESTIONS I have developed some indicators that give a fairly accurate picture of when a trend is over. In other words, when signal comes, I'm about 70% sure that the trend will either reverse or go f
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile FOCUSED ON THE FINANCIALS The recent problems at the brokerage firms has me concerned about wider credit problems. Is there a way to protect my portfolio from future volatility in the banks and brokerage sector? Good
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (65): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile FIGHTING INFLATION Commodity prices are surging. With the Federal Reserve lowering rates aggressively, I am now more worried than ever about the risk of inflation. Is there a way to trade inflation directly, like an
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A CaLL on VoLatiLitY I'm new to options and having some difficulty. Despite the broader market having more or less trended higher since September 2010, I've found my purchased calls, which I make sure aren't expensive in their relative historical
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (38): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile BUYING VS. SELLING What's the difference between buying an option and selling one? Buyers of options have rights, and sellers have obligations. The buyer of a call has the right to buy the underlying security at an a
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (73): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile STOCK OPTIONS AND SPLITS I was wondering what happens to stock options when the underlying stock splits. Does the call's strike price go down? An example would really help me out -- James Kramer When the underlying i
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile OPTIONS SYMBOLS What do the various letters signify in an options symbol? -- Name Withheld The letters in an option symbol designate the underlying instrument, whether it is a put or call, the expiration date, and th
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile AULD LANG VIX What happened to the "old" VIX? Can I still use that index to measure volatility? Absolutely. The old VIX (the CBOE's market volatility index) used a series of options from the Standard & Poor's 100 in
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (57): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile OPTIONS AND SHORT-TERM PRICE MOVES I've been working on a system that works well in predicting the moves in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over one to two weeks. It is a purely technical system. I have been
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (86): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile SIZING UP A STRADDLE BUY I was looking at a particular stock for a possible straddle. The company is expected to release earnings in 10 days. Suppose I intend to purchase options that have 50 days left until expirati
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TECHNICAL OR FUNDAMENTAL? Q: Which is a better form of analysis to use when trading options, technical or fundamental? A: Talk about a loaded question! Well, when trading options, the fact is that the life of an option is limited to the terms of the co
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile SELLING TO BUY I've heard the term "selling to buy" when discussing put options. I am not sure what it means and when to apply it in my trading. If you are selling to buy, you are selling or writing options and are
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile RATIO BACKSPREAD Could you please explain what a ratio backspread is? --David BJ A ratio backspread is a delta-neutral strategy that is directional in nature, and allows the trader to enter the position with a zero d
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (62): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (42): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (65): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile CALENDAR SPREADS Q: I'm having a hard time understanding exactly how a calendar spread creates profit. Can you explain this technique in language that I can easily understand? A: A
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile COLLAR CONFUSION I read some messages from other traders about collars and I'm confused. My understanding is these were a bearish strategy, but above all they're for insurance on your stock. What I don't understand i
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (47): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile MEchanics of a Dividend Play In early August, Intel (Intc) saw huge contract volume in a handful of deep in-the-money calls. The largest activity occurred in the August 16 and 17 calls with more than 200,000 contracts
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile THE COLLAR VS. THE BULL CALL SPREAD I know that owning shares of stock and a put option are equivalent to simply holding a call option. If so, then the collar should represent the equivalent of the bull call spread.
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (76): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how to minimize their risk
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile CALENDAR STRATEGY How dependent is a calendar strategy on sideways movement? A sideways-moving market is important, but not as important as the volatility of the options that are being used to create the calendar sp
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I've noticed many stocks see their strongest or weakest price levels in afterhours or premarket trade immediately following an earnings release. With the stock's listed options not open during those sessions, it seems an investor with a long call, i
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile OPTION SPREADS I was told that to lower my risk in buying calls or puts, I could spread them. What does this mean? To spread an option means to buy a call or put and sell one simultaneously to hedge it, either in th
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile FLEX OPTIONS What are FLEX options?--A.M. Flexible exchange (FLEX) options are totally customizable equity and index options that you can create under certain requirements. They allow traders complete flexibility to
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (73): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (49): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile VOLATILITY INDEX Tom, I have heard of using the volatility index (VIX) as a way of predicting overall market movement. Can you explain this to me, along with some ideas on how to trade the VIX in the markets? -- Fred
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile COVERED CALL STRATEGIES With the market at yearly lows and the volatility of most options at yearly highs, I think covered calls would make a great strategy. I know you don't like to do them because of the high risk,
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile SHORT STOCK RISK IN CALL CALENDAR Sears Holding (Shld) was brought to my attention after Barron's profiled the shares as being overvalued. Looking at the premiums, I noticed a distinct skew between the calls and puts
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can I adjust a profitable long butterfly prior to expiration and if so, how? Would it amount to being a smart approach for this type of spread?
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (74): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (61): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile VOLATILITY What exactly is volatility and how is it used to trade options? -- S.L. Volatility is simply the rate of change in a stock, index, or futures contract over a specific period of time. There are two types th
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (51): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A smarter Call to sell? With a long call, what would be the best time to sell? I know that directionally, the higher a stock goes up the more the call stands to profit as it goes further in-themoney. But if a call went from out-of-the money to
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile BUY-WRITES? A report in Baron's said now was a good time for ""buy-writes"" and said the trade was buying stock and selling calls. This sounds like covered calls. Is there a difference and, if not, do you think it
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (37): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how t
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile COVERED CALLS FOR PROTECTION I am concerned about the markets going forward and want to know if there is any way of protecting my stock portfolio using options instead of liquidating my position. I have heard of cove
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile PUTS DON'T MAKE MONEY WHEN STOCK FALLS I am trying to understand why I did not make any money on a put option. I am hoping you can shed some light. On October 23, 2008, I bought an Xyz put option with the 15 strike p
Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile PORTFOLIO PROTECTION I have a longer-term portfolio of stocks that I'd like to protect against any repeat performances of 2008 into March 2009. How can this be done with options? That's a good question, but the ans
Exploring the Science of Technical Analysis: Thomas R. DeMark by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Thomas R. DeMark by Thom Hartle Thomas R. DeMark has been called ""the ultimate indicator and systems guy"" with the publication of his well-received book, The New Science of Technical Analysis. Who is he and what has he done that deserves su
Exponentially Smoothed Moving Averages by Donald R. Lambert
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exponentially Smoothed Moving Averages by Donald R. Lambert If you were to do a survey of all the many trading systems that are in common usage, it is very likely that two calculation methods would be found to be leading the pack by a great margin. They
Expore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (40): Expore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how to
Extremes Analysis Of Interest Rates And Stock by Mark C. Snead
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Extremes Analysis Of Interest Rates And Stock by Mark C. Snead This former investment broker explains the relationship between declining interest rates and the lagged effect on the stock market. Interest rate changes exert a powerful influence on stoc
FIBONACCI FORECAST EXAMPLES by Tucker J. Emmett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...FIBONACCI FORECAST EXAMPLES by Tucker J. Emmett I have a system that I use, with great success, for making short and long term predictions for various segments of the futures market. Recently, I have been asked repeatedly for more descriptive informatio
FILTER PRICE DATA: Moving Averages vs. Exponential Moving Averages by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...FILTER PRICE DATA: Moving Averages vs. Exponential Moving Averages by Jack K. Hutson In the process of collecting stock or commodity time series data, such as daily closes, we lose a significant quantity of information. We are examining a single point (
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FOURlER ANALYSIS! IN A NUTSHELL FASTER and BETTER by Anthony Warren Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...FOURlER ANALYSIS! IN A NUTSHELL FASTER and BETTER by Anthony Warren Ph.D. For those individuals who are currently using Fourier Spectrum analysis, this article describes some techniques that make the analysis easier to perform and the spectral plots eas
FXEducator's Ed Ponsi by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...FXEducator's Ed Ponsi by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber As an experienced professional trader, Ed Ponsi, the president of FXEducator.com, has advised hedge funds, institutional traders, and individuals of all levels of skill and experience. He has ma
Facelift for an Old Favorite by Gregory L. Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Facelift for an Old Favorite by Gregory L. Morris ""There are many ways in which the Relative Strength Index can be adjusted and redefined."" Technical analysts who have not heard of J. Welles Wilder, Jr., and more specifically, his Relative Strength I
Fast Fourier Transform by ANTHONY WARREN, PH.D./STAFF WRITER
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fast Fourier Transform EDITOR'S NOTE: To improve program readability the subroutine listed here has been enhanced by a BASIC language list formatter. We hope that this will prove helpful. The assignment statement 'LET' and indentations are not required
Fast Fourier Transformation by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fast Fourier Transformation by Amy Wu For a long time, Fourier transforms were used mostly by engineers. Transforms were used to study sound waves, frequency vibrations, and other repetitive occurrences. Since then, Fourier transforms have been applied
Fault-prone options traders by Jerry Kopf
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Fear And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fear And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt Fear limits your focus, and this is particularly true in trading. In this, her third article for Stocks & Commodities on trading psychology, Ruth Roosevelt, director of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, explores fear in
Fear of Success by Ari Kiev, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fear Of Success by Ari Kiev, MD This psychiatrist, who teaches strategies for successful trading, discusses the identification and management of the fear of success. Success takes conscious commitment to a future result without any certainty or guarant
Fears of the trader by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fears of the trader by Ron Jaenisch In order to eliminate fear from trading it may be useful to have an understanding of what it is and how we generate it. Fear is actually a form of excitement and the only physiological difference between fear and exci
Fibonacci And Gann Projections by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (28-34): Fibonacci And Gann Projections by Dennis D. Peterson It's time to have a little fun and see what a day-at-a-time replay can reveal in terms of future projections. In 2002, I wrote an article in Working Money about
Fibonacci Based Forecasts by Tucker J. Emmett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci Based Forecasts by Tucker J. Emmett In previous Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine articles about Fibonacci Forecasting I have dealt at length with the proper application of the Fibonacci mathematical series to the futures mar
Fibonacci In Time And Price by David Knox Barker
Fibonacci Tools by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci Tools by Alexander Sabondin Here's a look at the numbers behind the Fibonacci sequence and how it can be applied to your charts. The sequence of the Fibonacci numbers is considered to have been discovered by Leo-nardo of Pisa, better known as
Fibonacci profit objectives by Joe DiNapoli
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci profit objectives by Joe DiNapoli Anyone who has been involved in the market for long has probably heard about Fibonacci numbers and ratios. We know they somehow mysteriously affect the market; however, most of us resist trying to understand h
Fibonacci, Elliott And Volatility by Paul G. Williams
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci, Elliott And Volatility by Paul G. Williams Suppose we could chart volatility just as we chart conventional prices. Then we could use Elliott wave analysis, Fibonacci characteristics and cycle techniques to forecast greater or lesser volatilit
Fibonacci-Based Fractal Form And Elliott Waves by Robert R. Prechter Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci-Based Fractal Form And Elliott Waves by Robert R. Prechter Jr. The stock market is a tapestry of mathematical relations governed by Fibonacci number ratios. Here's a look at how you can apply Elliott waves to find these ratios, from a master E
Fibonnacci Cycles by TUCKER J. EMMETT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonnacci Cycles by TUCKER J. EMMETT The growth in popularity of my own technical application of the Fibonnacci mathematical series to the futures markets the past ten years has been fairly remarkable, considering the amount of homework and trading dis
Fidelity's Philip Erlanger by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fidelity's Philip Erlanger by Thom Hartle Fidelity Management and Research Co.'s senior technical analyst Philip Erlanger is a major force behind one of the most successful managed-fund companies in the country. He arrived at technical analysis in a rou
Filtering Breakouts by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Filtering Breakouts by Adam White Which is more effective as a signal filter, the average directional movement index (A DX), the indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder to measure market trend intensity, or the unsmoothed version, the directional index
Filtering Trades With A Moving Average Slope by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Filtering Trades With A Moving Average Slope by Adam White Moving averages are attractive because they simply and reliably execute the ""cut your losses and let your profits run"" strategy. Moving averages also have drawbacks, however, in that they disc
Filters For Neural Net Trading Models by Steve Helme
Financial Futures by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Financial Futures by John Sweeney When you're on top, don't believe it. There's nothing like winning to upset your equilibrium. You can win--and still lose. This article is a blow-by-blow account of two trades that were unrelated but, through me, manage
Financial Volume Index And Volume Analysis by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Financial Volume Index And Volume Analysis by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T. In technical analysis, the study of volume is one of the most overlooked and underrated disciplines. In the general study of the supply and demand of markets, only two pieces of data
Financial Volume Index by Patrick Cifaldi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Financial Volume Index by Patrick Cifaldi In 1979, the analysis of trading volume was done mainly by hand. Joseph Granville was the foremost researcher and his books and friendship gave me the tools to start my work. The basic work was tedious and long,
Find Those Market Tops by David Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Find Those Market Tops by David Hawkins When is a rally just a rally, and when is it the end of a bear market? The long-term bear market that started in the year 2000 has been punctuated by several intermediate-term rallies, each of which, so far, has
Find your optimal f by Ralph Vince
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Find your optimal f by Ralph Vince As a computer programmer for Larry Williams, winner of the 1987 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading, I have had the opportunity to analyze many good trading systems. Even the best systems, however, suffer from an
Finding Cycles In Time Series Data by A. Bruce Johnson, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding Cycles In Time Series Data by A. Bruce Johnson, Ph.D. To improve the process of removing trend from stock market prices to see underlying cyclic movement, I have combined triangular moving averages with the moving average convergence/divergence
Finding Key Reversals by Massimiliano Scorpio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding Key Reversals by Massimiliano Scorpio Running this statistical test before creating a system can prove to be helpful. After spending several years analyzing traditional indicators and developing moving averages and oscillator-based systems, I h
Finding Out About Fractals by Clem Chambers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding Out About Fractals by Clem Chambers How are fractals related to the financial markets? Fractals hold a powerful mystique, but few truly understand what a fractal is and how it relates to the market. To most, a fractal is a fantastically beautif
Finding Value Statistically: Geraldine Weiss of Investment Quality Trends by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Geraldine Weiss of Investment Quality Trends by Thom Hartle Have you ever wondered about how to find real value in the markets? Well, this may be the solution to your problem. Geraldine Weiss started the Investment Quality Trends newsletter i
Finding patterns in random data by Nelson Weiderman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding patterns in random data by Nelson Weiderman, Ph.D. Since the advent of the personal computer, a great deal of time has been devoted to finding tradeable patterns in stock and commodity data. The idea is that patterns found in historical data are
Finding reliable trading strategies (revisited) by Thomas P. Drinka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding reliable trading strategies (revisited) by Thomas P. Drinka With the proliferation of microcomputers and analytical software, speculators and commercial traders routinely conduct research to evaluate the potential performance of trading strategi
Finding reliable trading strategies by Steve Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding reliable trading strategies by Steve Kille Developing a trading strategy over historical data has become common practice among traders in recent years. The proliferation of micro-computers in our industry has spurred the trend to the point where
Fine Tuning Oscillators by Ed Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fine Tuning Oscillators by Ed Downs The conventional wisdom in technical trading systems implies that for a trading system to be reliable, it should work across all markets and all time frames. Here are some potential reasons why it's difficult to find
Fine-Tuning Your Money Management System by Bennett A. McDowell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fine-Tuning Your Money Management System by Bennett A. McDowell Acknowledge the risks in trading the markets by making sure your money management system is sound. When you hear of someone making a huge killing in the market on a relatively small tradin
Fine-tuning the demand index by Thomas E. Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fine-tuning the demand index by Thomas E. Aspray The Demand Index, which utilizes price and volume, calculates the buying pressure and selling pressure exerted on prices. These can be used to create an oscillator to identify accumulation or distribution
Finishing DMI calculations Part 9 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finishing DMI calculations Part 9 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. Having completed the lengthiest formulas that J. Welles Wilder developed in his Directional Movement Index (DMI) system, in this issue we'll complete the calculations for the basic DMI system. Futu
Finite Impulse Response Filter by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D. with JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finite Impulse Response Filter by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D. with JACK K. HUTSON Figure 1 and 2 show a comparison of computer output using Fourier analysis Power and then Amplitude plots. It can be seen that the Power Spectrum plot, which is Amplitude square
First Citizen Of Technical Analysis: Arthur Merrill by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...First Citizen Of Technical Analysis: Arthur Merrill by Thom Hartle Arthur A. Merrill, currently of Merrill Analysis and Analysis Press and previously of Technical Trends, drew his first bar chart in 1930. His first, earliest calculations were made on sl
First through the even by Grant Noble
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...First through the even by Grant Noble A few years ago I had the privilege of working with a former specialist, a broker's broker, on the New York Stock Exchange. He told me how fellow specialists borrowed unlimited funds at 4%, how they used ""inside da
First-Hour Breakout System by Malcolm McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...First-Hour Breakout System by Malcolm McNutt Here's a mechanical trading system for the Standard & Poor's 500 futures market. New traders are often advised to find a method or technique with which to trade and then refine the method down to a set of r
Fitting a Trendline by Least Squares by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fitting A Trendline By Least Squares by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Usually, trendlines are drawn through tops or bottoms. They are also drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye (Figure 1). A straight line through the center
Fitting a Trendline by Least Squares by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fitting A Trendline By Least Squares by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Usually, trendlines are drawn through tops or bottoms. They are also drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye (Figure 1). A straight line through the center
Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill Trendlines usually are drawn through tops or bottoms. They also are drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye (Figure 1). A straight line through the center of a pri
Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill Trendlines usually are drawn through tops or bottoms. They also are drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye (Figure 1). A straight line through the center of a pri
Fitting your "social style" into trading by Herbert Friedman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fitting your ""social style"" into trading by Herbert Friedman, Ph.D. When it comes to investing, each of us must develop his or her own methodology and manner of approaching the markets. To a large degree, our ability to do this determines our investme
Five Steps To A Winning Trading System by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Five Steps To A Winning Trading System by Matt Blackman Whether you use your own system or someone else's, a big part of the development of any trading strategy is testing to see how well it works. Here we go through the step-by-step process of how to t
Fixed Fractional Forex Variants by Goncalo Moreira
Fixing The Flaws In Fixed-Fractional Position Sizing by Christian B. Smart, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fixing The Flaws In Fixed-Fractional Position Sizing by Christian B. Smart, PhD Fixed-fractional position sizing is a time-tested method for money management, but in the long run, it will never achieve system expectancy. Here's how you can fix this flaw
Flaws in the roulette wheel by Curtis McKallip, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Flaws in the roulette wheel by Curtis McKallip, Jr. Few games of chance are perfectly random. To the extent they are NOT, profit may be made by betting on those states which occur with greater than random frequency and against those which occur with les
Flexible Candlesticks by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Flexible Candlesticks by Viktor Likhovidov In the November 1999 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, Viktor Likhovidov introduced a method by which candlesticks, a subjective charting technique, could be used to develop objective, quantitative values -- values that cou
Flexible Market Forecast by Michael Kahn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It is important to be flexible in your market forecasts, as this walk through some recent trends in various markets indicate. That repetitive price patterns exist is one of the foundations of technical analysis. The reasoning is that repetitive pattern
Float Analysis by Steve Woods and Jan Arps
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Float Analysis by Steve Woods and Jan Arps Here's a close look at the turnover of a stock's float, based on an idea from the works of W.D. Gann, that reveals some dramatic patterns and expands the definition of a base or consolidation zone. The floati
Floor Talk by William Eng
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Floor Talk by William Eng I started my trading career at the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange more years ago than I care to remember, or at this time, more years than I can remember. I learned a lot of lessons while trading there. One lesson I learned, and
Flowing With The Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Flowing With The Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Imagine yourself flowing down a river, only you don't know that you are. You do, however, notice that when you move in one direction, with the flow of the river, you move rapidly. When you move in another
Follow That Trend by Michael Covel and Justin Vandergrift
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (32-36): Follow That Trend by Michael Covel and Justin Vandergrift Even if you are a trend-follower, you still have to be a systematic trader. Here's why you still have to manage drawdowns when the market is not trending. A
Following The Crowd After A One-Day Correction by A. Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA
For The US Dollar, New Climate, Same Weakness by Darrell Jobman
Forcing Optimization by Vincenzo Sciarretta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forcing Optimization by Vincenzo Sciarretta Sooner or later, most system-oriented traders backtest a mechanical system and get a positive result - and then have it perform poorly in real-life situations. What gives? Sooner or later, most system-orient
Forecasting Commodity Prices Using ARIMA by ERIC WEISS, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting Commodity Prices Using ARIMA by ERIC WEISS, Ph.D. Back in December 1981, J. Louis Anon wrote an article in Commodities called ""Catch Short Term Profits using ARIMA'' and touched off a minor revolution in forecasting commodity and stock opti
Forecasting Futures Movement by In Gyu Koh and Sung Soon Lee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting Futures Movement by In Gyu Koh and Sung Soon Lee A Daytrading Method Second To None Forecasting Futures Movement Is it possible to chase two rabbits at once? This intraday technique combines direction of price movement and timing of your en
Forecasting Market Turns Using Static And Dynamic Cycles by Brad Swancoat and Ed Kasanjian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting Market Turns Using Static And Dynamic Cycles by Brad Swancoat and Ed Kasanjian Who hasn't heard of Fibonacci ratios by now, but to actually use them in predicting market turns? Here, two software developers give novice and veteran technician
Forecasting Singular Spectrum Analysis by S. Drogobetskii and V. Smolynsky
Forecasting T-Bill Rates With A Neural Net by Milam Aiken
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting T-Bill Rates With A Neural Net by Milam Aiken Have you ever wondered how accurate the consensus estimates of interest rates were from the top US economists? How about how accurate those economists are in comparison with neural net technology
Forecasting Tomorrow's Trading Day by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting Tomorrow's Trading Day by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. Using linear regression as a crystal ball for forecasting the market? After all, if you were to be able to determine tomorrow's high, low and close for trend changes and placement of stop poi
Forecasting With Maximum Entropy by Jack K. Hutson and Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting With Maximum Entropy by Jack K. Hutson and Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. The most obvious ability that stock or commodity buyers and sellers wish for is foresight. If there was a method or technique that we could use to predict what tomorrow will
Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis The terms ""overbought"" and ""oversold"" are often used to discuss market conditions. However, as anyone who has placed a short trade simply on the basis that the market
Foreign Exchange As The Trader's Alternative by Mark Galant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Foreign Exchange As The Trader's Alternative by Mark Galant Trading opportunities in the forex market deserve serious consideration as a diversification strategy for your portfolio. While online equities and futures trading have enjoyed exponential gro
Forex Entry by Gareth Burgess
Forex Focus by Brent Donnelly
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (12-14): Forex Focus by Brent Donnelly Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Darrel Jobman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (16-18): Forex Focus by Darrel Jobman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (14-16): Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman Can The US Dollar Hang On? To answer that question, you need to read this analysis of the greenback. How many times have people buried the US dollar for one reason or another, only to see the dollar bounce back? The dolla
Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (12-16): Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (14-18): Forex Focus by Darrell Jobman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Grace Cheng
Forex Focus by Ian Copsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (16-23): Forex Focus by Ian Copsey Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is
Forex Focus by James Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus by James Chen Support & Resistance Precision In Forex Currency markets tend to follow support & resistance levels. Use those levels to identify entries and exits, and to apply risk management. Many foreign exchange traders rely on the accu
Forex Focus by John Forman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (14-17): Forex Focus by John Forman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that i
Forex Focus by Kathy Lien
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (32): Forex Focus by Kathy Lien Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is gl
Forex Focus by Kathy Lien
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (46-47): Forex Focus by Kathy Lien Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is
Forex Focus by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (16-20): Forex Focus by Matt Blackman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (10-12): Forex Focus by Matt Blackman Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus by Patrick Nouvion
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus by Patrick Nouvion Backtesting And Forex Does backtesting produce valid results for foreign exchange trading? Here's a study that answers this question. For many years, backtesting and simulations have been banished from my toolbox. I only
Forex Focus by Todd Gordon, CMT
Forex Focus by Vikram Murarka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (30-32): Forex Focus by Vikram Murarka Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that
Forex Focus: Allied Currencies by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Allied Currencies by Alexander Sabodin When trading, who or what can be your ally? Working in the financial markets as a trader can be fascinating, considering it gives you the opportunity to earn money and do so independently. You can tra
Forex Focus: An MACD Trading System by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: An MACD Trading System by Alexander Sabodin This simple trading system was applied successfully to forex pairs using the moving average convergence/divergence. See if it'll work for you. Today, we see advertisements of different automatic
Forex Focus: Bearish P&F Formations by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (34-38): Forex Focus: Bearish P&F Formations by Cornelius Luca Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a h
Forex Focus: Currency Congestions by Brian Twomey
Forex Focus: Determining The End Of The Trend by Jody Samuels
Forex Focus: Do You Analyze Your Trades? by P. S. Nouvion
Forex Focus: Fundamentals Or Technicals? by Boris Schlossberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Fundamentals Or Technicals? by Boris Schlossberg When two are better than one: Power up your forex trading by combining fundamental and technical analyses. Arguments between technical and fundamental traders often become fanatically intens
Forex Focus: Gann And Forex by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (12-16): Forex Focus: Gann And Forex by Cornelius Luca Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly li
Forex Focus: Hedging Against A Bear Market by Matthew Caruso
Forex Focus: Is Gold A Hedge Against A Falling Dollar? by John L. Momsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (14-18): Forex Focus: Is Gold A Hedge Against A Falling Dollar? by John L. Momsen Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and
Forex Focus: Let The Technicals Do The Talking by Jared Martinez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Let The Technicals Do The Talking by Jared Martinez Interpreting charts is an art as well as a science, which is why you need to map out all the different scenarios that can take place once you place a trade. Here's one chart interpretation
Forex Focus: Major FX: Dollar, Euro, Pound by Shyam G. Devani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (16-20): Forex Focus: Major FX: Dollar, Euro, Pound by Shyam G. Devani Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institution
Forex Focus: Making Sense Of Currency Movements by Grace Cheng
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Making Sense Of Currency Movements by Grace Cheng With currency movements so randomized, how could you possibly know when to enter and exit trades? One of the most frequently asked questions among forex traders is certainly this: What on e
Forex Focus: New President, New Trend For The Dollar? by Brent Donnelly
Forex Focus: Point & Figure For Forex by James Chen, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Point & Figure For Forex by James Chen, CTA Here's an age-old charting technique that you can use effectively in the foreign exchange markets. To trade using point & figure charts is to trade based on pure price action. One of the best-kep
Forex Focus: Profiting From The Gartley by Todd Gordon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (14-18): Forex Focus: Profiting From The Gartley by Todd Gordon Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a
Forex Focus: Recycle Your Data by Patrick S. Nouvion
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (14-17): Forex Focus: Recycle Your Data by Patrick S. Nouvion Access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. You can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a hi
Forex Focus: Spotting Trend Reversals by Cornelius Luca
Forex Focus: Surviving The Trappings Of Trends by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Surviving The Trappings Of Trends by Cornelius Luca Faced with a choppy trend? Here's how to analyze a trend and identify some realistic opportunities. AH! the dream and promise of trends! Traders rightfully seek and try to follow them. Ho
Forex Focus: Targeting Price And Time With Gann by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: Targeting Price And Time With Gann by Cornelius Luca Want to improve your trading performance? Here's a look at some of W.D. Gann's methods. Stocks and commodities trader William Delbert Gann (1878?1955) made fortunes before, during, and a
Forex Focus: The Alligator Indicator by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Focus: The Alligator Indicator by Alexander Sabodin Here's a trading system you can apply to trending markets such as the currencies. There is a moving average?based trading system that I have found works best in trending markets, with its main i
Forex Focus: The Intraday Trade by Alexander Sabodin
Forex Focus: The RSI Miracle by Hadi Seyedinajad
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (12-13): Forex Focus: The RSI Miracle by Hadi Seyedinajad If we had to choose just one indicator to tradethe financial markets, it would be J. Welles Wilder's RSI. It does everything you expect from an indicator. It's an ov
Forex Focus: The Trend Determining Method by Aleksey Yudin
Forex Focus: The US Dollar And Precious Metals by Donald W. Pendergast Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Playing the US dollar versus the precious metals market dynamic is one of the highest-probability trading games around. This is especially significant at major trend reversals. Will the significant support area near 76.00 even hold, much less act a
Forex Focus: Which Currency Pairs Should I Trade? by Grace Cheng
Forex Trading Platforms And The Real World by Chris Melendez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (52-58): Forex Trading Platforms And The Real World by Chris Melendez Here are some of the properties and pitfalls of online retail trading platforms versus the institutional foreign exchange execution systems. Today's foreign exchange markets
Forex Trends And Pairs by James Chen
Forex Volatility Patterns by Ken Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forex Volatility Patterns by Ken Calhoun Want to catch 40 to 100 pips in each trade? Here's how you can find those entry and exit signals to make your forex trading a success. Capturing volatile breakouts and reversals in currency pair trades has long
Forex, Anyone? by Rudy Teseo
Form And Pattern As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Form And Pattern As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner Pattern recognition has been the topic of much technical literature. From the Elliott wave theory to Edwards and Magee, traders have been told that some fairly well-defined chart patterns indicate the m
Forward Contracts Vs Spot Currency by Brian Twomey
Forward Testing by Martha Stokes, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forward Testing by Martha Stokes, CMT A Solution To Backtesting A simple technique, it can reveal the true profit or loss capabilities of a trading system. Backtesting has been popular among traders for many years. The concept is that you take a set n
Four Common Errors In Testing Trading Systems by Thomas A. Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four Common Errors In Testing Trading Systems by Thomas A. Meyers The author of The Technical Analysis Course debuts as a Stocks & Commodities writer with this article. Here, Thomas Meyers explains that mistakes made in systems testing can make the diff
Four Decades with Joe Ross by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Four Decades With Joe Ross by Thom Hartle Planning ahead, being mentally tough, being physically fit and knowing why you're doing what you do is very important. Don't just throw yourself at the market. You go in when it's the right time to go
Four Measures Of Market Volatility by Frederic Ruffy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four Measures Of Market Volatility by Frederic Ruffy How do you read the CBOE's new measures of volatility? Find out here. The CBOE volatility index (VIX) was last modified in September 2003. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) reconstructed the
Four-Year Cycles by James G. Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four-Year Cycles by James G. Arnold I developed the ""form"" of a long-term up/down cycle of the stock market, as shown in Figure 1a. This form shows that all market trends continue to excess. The up market phase drives prices far above value and the do
Fourier Analyses by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fourier Analyses by John Sweeney One of the fascinating ideas that came up early in STOCKS & COMMODITIES' days was the Fourier analyses applied to stock and commodity data by Anthony Warren and Jack Hutson (see Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES
Fourier Spectral Analysis by William T. Taylor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fourier Spectral Analysis by William T. Taylor Introduction Because many commodity and stock prices appear to exhibit some cyclical movement, it is important for the trader who relies on this characteristic feature to recognize these cycles and adjust
Fourier Transform For Traders by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (24-34): Fourier Transform For Traders by John F. Ehlers When market conditions are variable, adapting to them becomes a challenge. Here's how you can use a dominant cycle to tune the relevant indicators so you don't have to
Fourier Transforms As An Aid To Decision-Making by Alok Srivastava
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (56-59, 63): Fourier Transforms As An Aid To Decision-Making by Alok Srivastava Interested in improving the performance of your indicators? It may be worth your while to gain an understanding of Fourier transforms, frequency
Fractal Adaptive Moving Averages by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (81-82): Fractal Adaptive Moving Averages by John F. Ehlers We all want to eliminate bad whipsaw trades. Here's a weapon you can add to your arsenal of technical indicators for just that purpose. The objective of using fil
Fractal Analysis by James R. Williamson Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (36-39): Fractal Analysis by James R. Williamson Jr. Can the complex behavior of the stock market really be reduced to something simple? This article will demonstrate that, over the last 30 to 40 years, the seemingly comple
Frank Gretz of Shields & Company by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Frank Gretz of Shields & Company by Thom Hartle Frank Gretz wears many hats for Shields & Company - technician, broker, money manager and market letter writer (not to mention appearing on CNBC in his capacity as a technical analyst) - but he also undert
Fresh Start by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fresh Start by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Start off the New Year on the right foot. The past several years have been disastrous for many traders. Even concerted attempts by disciplined traders to follow their own trading rules have failed to produce profi
Frictional Costs In Futures Trading by Jesse Wolff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Frictional Costs In Futures Trading by Jesse Wolff If we could trade in a perfect, cost-free world, there would be many more systems that would exhibit profitable return profiles. But we don't. So what can we do about frictional costs? The futures mark
From Nile to NYSE by Radha Panini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (44-48): From Nile to NYSE by Radha Panini Here's an analysis of the profitability of an indicator based on the Hurst exponent. In researching and developing trading systems, we came across an indicator based on fractal con
From WW III To Bear Market Lead By RNG
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is this the beginning of global meltdown? And, will RNG lead the way?
Full Service by Moses Sanchez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Full Service by Moses Sanchez It's nice to have a hand to hold when you are confused about the market. The way many traders do when they are starting out, I went to a "free" workshop on options and trading when I first got interested in the markets. On
Fund managers' performance by Arthur Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fund managers' performance by Arthur Merrill, C.M.T. Should we monitor the actions of mutual fund managers? They are paid a salary to do a better job of investing than the common man. While some managers may not live up to expectations, on the average,
Fundamental Analysis 101 by Rudy Teseo
Fundamentally Technical by Phil Doyle
Fundamentals behind technical analysis by Curtis McKallip Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fundamentals behind technical analysis by Curtis McKallip Jr. Would you believe you are doing fundamental analysis without knowing it when you use technical indicators? No, not GNP, PPP, GPD, J-curves or deflators. That stuff is for government policy ma
Further Analysis of Triple Exponential Smoothing by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D./Technical Analysis staff w
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Further Analysis of Triple Exponential Smoothing by ANTHONY WARREN, Ph.D./Technical Analysis staff writer In the July issue of Technical Analysis, J. Hutson presented a method of using triple exponential smoothing (TRIX) as a trading oscillator and supp
Futues For You by Carley Garner
Futures According To Trend Tendency by E. Michael Poulos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures According To Trend Tendency by E. Michael Poulos Not all markets have the same tendency to trend. E. Michael Poulos uses his February 1991 STOCK & COMMODITIES article, ""Of trends and random walks,"" on the random walk index, which separates tre
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner WHAT SHOULD WE BE LOOKING FOR? The new year is the time in which many traders rethink their strategy and circumstances. What are some pointers on what we should be looking for in a futures and options broker? First, le
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner AS AN INDEPENDENT TRADER I am currently trading with my own money on futures (commodities, indexes, interest rates, currencies, for about 10 years) and would like to start trading with larger accounts. My performance ov
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I want to speculate in silver, but I don't have the margin or the risk tolerance for futures. Is there a better way?
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner SPLITTING THE BID? Option traders often talk about "splitting the bid" or "midpoint"; what are they referring to? All markets, whether we are talking about cars, houses, groceries, stocks, currencies, futures, or optio
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner FULL SERVICE OR SELF SERVICE? Should I use a full-service futures and option broker or trade for myself online? This is a decision that is often made with little research or thought but has the potential to have the bi
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner VIX FUTURES How can I trade Vix futures? On March 26, 2004, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) listed a futures contract with its volatility index (Vix), often referred to as the fear index, as the underlying as
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner BUTTERFLY VS. CONDOR What is the difference between an iron butterfly and a condor? Before examining the discrepancies between these strategies along with their advantages and disadvantages, let me note that option ter
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner FUTURES VS. FOREX What are the advantages of trading currency futures as opposed to forex? The popularity of foreign exchange (spot currency) trading has exploded, thanks to low margins, seemingly low transaction costs,
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner OPTIONS OR FUTURES? Should I be trading commodity options or commodity futures? This is a difficult question to answer because it is a decision that traders must make based on their tolerance for risk, their personalit
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner CALCULATING With Treasury futures at or near an all-time high, I would like to begin trading options on bond and note futures but I am having difficulty calculating profit, loss, and risk. Figuring in Treasury options
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner ON SPREADS What is a futures spread? The terminology involved in futures spread trading often seems like a foreign language. This can cause those who aren't familiar with the practice to misinterpret the vocabulary. De
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Daytrading seems to provide traders with less risk than position trading because there is no overnight exposure. How do you feel about the strategy?
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner As a futures trader, should I place stop orders in the electronic overnight markets or only in the day session? This is a personal preference and the decision should be made independently for each market. Several years
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner SPREAD, SCENARIOS, AND STRATEGIES My broker seems to use the term "spread" to describe several scenarios and strategies, and sometimes it can be difficult to follow. Can you explain the different uses and definitions?
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WHAT DO GAP TRADERS WANT? What exactly are gap traders looking for? For those unfamiliar with gap trading, a price gap occurs when there is a significant difference in the closing price of the previous session relative to the opening price of
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner WHY TRADE FUTURES? Many beginning commodity traders are migrants from the world of stock trading, but before making the transition they often ask why they should trade futures. The answer is simple, but the decision to
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner With margins at or near all-time highs, how should a small speculator approach commodity trading? Very carefully. The futures exchanges have effectively doubled, even tripled, if not more, the margin required to hold ma
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why are there dramatic differences in the way the yen is quoted in the futures market relative to the foreign exchange market?
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner STOCK INDEX FUTURES VS EQUITY INDEX PRODUCTS Are there advantages to trading stock index futures over equity index products such as Spdrs or individual stocks? There are many more participants in the equity markets th
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner CURRENCY FUTURES VS FOREX What are the advantages of trading currency futures as opposed to foreign exchange? If you recall from the April 2010 column, we discussed the implications of government regulation, dealing d
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner COMMODITIES AND RECESSIONS Is it safe to invest in commodities during an economic recession? Given the economic turmoil we are experiencing, I have been asked this question often. Before I answer, there are a few point
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Carley Garner CONTANGO! In futures industry language, what does "contango" mean? Commentators often use contango in reference to the commodity markets because it sounds exciting. The true meaning of the word is less than thrilling;
Futures For You by Carley Garner
Futures For You by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TOOLS, TOOLS, TOOLS What are your thoughts on some of the geometrical technical analysis tools such as Fibonacci rulers, Elliott wave theory, and Gann fans? Geometric charting tools, sometimes referred to as advanced charting tools, require
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (57): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (74): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil BE A MANAGER I'm just getting started in the commodity futures markets. In your opinion, what is the most important thing focus on as I begin trading? Like holiday shoppers looking for that perfect gift, most beginning inv
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (54-55): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to y
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil DON'T BE A SORE LOSER I've been trading futures for a while now, and I've followed all of the standard advice about doing my research and setting up a trading plan. However, I've found it difficult to sit by when the marke
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (62-93): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to yo
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (54): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (43): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (57): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil Rookie mistakes: This month, we'll look at a pair of common questions that many new traders come across when they first wade into the commodity markets. HOW MANY MARKETS AT ONCE? I'm ready to start trading futures, and wh
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (61): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (98): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (69): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil WORKING THE SYSTEM Do you believe the claim that some system marketers use that their system works across all time frames and all types of futures (emini indexes, grains, softs, energies, and so forth)? Have you ever seen
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil TECHNICALITIES It doesn't seem like you can trade commodities without at least some knowledge of technical analysis. What are some of the more popular technical indicators to incorporate into my research? There's no quest
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (72-73): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to y
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (71): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futures For You by Dan O'Neil GOING SOFT What are "soft" commodities and where do they trade? Also known as the "food and fiber" category or the "tropical softs," this market sector is composed of five products traded primarily at the New York Board o
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (81): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (202-23): Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to
Futuresweb.com by David Penn
Futurs For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Futurs For You by Dan O'Neil MARGIN FOR ERROR After years of trading stocks exclusively, I've recently started trading futures. Unfortunately, I also just received my first margin call. While I was able to get through it without too much difficulty thi
Fuzzy Expert Systems by J.F. Derry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fuzzy Expert Systems by J.F. Derry Expert systems give the technical analyst a potent set of tools to dissect trading and investment problems in short order. For traders and investors alike, the real problem with both technical and fundamental methods
GANN by CURTIS ARNOLD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...GANN by CURTIS ARNOLD The system I am going to demonstrate is based on some of W.D. Gann's works. For those of you who are not familiar with Gann, he was a legendary stock and commodity trader who purportedly made over 50 million dollars in the markets
GOLD SWINGS REVISITED by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...GOLD SWINGS REVISITED by Jesse H. Thompson Review In the March 83 issue of TA, in an article entitled ""Gold: Bull or Bear Market?"", a simple yet very effective trend tool, the swing chart, was used to analyze the greater trend of gold. The monthly sw
Gail Dudack Of S.G. Warburg by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gail Dudack Of S.G. Warburg by Thom Hartle S.G. Warburg senior vice president, head of market strategy and technical analyst Gail Dudack, C.M.T., is no newcomer to technical analysis or the world of Wall Street; she began her career at Pershing & Co. (n
GainsKeeper.com by Sean Moore
Gambler's Paradox by Clifford J. Sherry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gambler's Paradox by Clifford J. Sherry If you know the price of a commodity today, can you predict the price tomorrow? A week from tomorrow? A month from tomorrow? Can you predict whether the price will increase or decrease and by how much? The answer
Gann And The Time Factor by Koos van der Merwe
Gann Lines and Angles by Robert Pardo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann Lines and Angles by Robert Pardo ""Integrated use of Gann Lines and Angles... appreciably enhances the accuracy of the identification and verification of potential turning points."" INTRODUCTION Gann Lines and Gann Angles are technical charting m
Gann Swings And Intraday Trading by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann Swings And Intraday Trading Swing trading is one of the oldest technical methods in technical trading literature. Even though it's little used these days, this classic technique is hardly outmoded and can be useful in trading today's volatile stock
Gann Weekly Swing Chart by Jerry Favors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann Weekly Swing Chart by Jerry Favors Newsletter publisher Jerry Favors presents another Gann method, this time the weekly swing chart, as a timing tool with which to track individual stocks. One of the methods that W.D. Gann used to determine and t
Gann analysis on point and figure charts by Douglas Arend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann analysis on point and figure charts by Douglas Arend Of the many analytical techniques attributed to W.D. Gann, perhaps none is more widely followed than the so-called geometric angles. Although applied generally to historical and intraday bar char
Gann made easy by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gann made easy by Hans Hannula, Ph.D. Author: Bill McLaren with Mathew J. Foreman Publisher: Gann Theory Publishing Co. 10290 Rosewood Overland Park, KS 66204 (913) 491-5411. 155 pages, hardbound 60-page manual of charts $180 If you ever wanted
Ganntrader I by George M. Edwards, Jr.
Ganntrader I by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
Gap Fill And Go by Jamie Theiss
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at two trades using a strategy you can use almost every day. I'm going to show you two trades using a bread & butter strategy you can use almost every day to capture profits from the stock market. As you can see from Figures 1 and 2,
Gap watching by Joe Van Nice
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gap watching by Joe Van Nice There's nothing on a chart that isn't laden with significance for a technical trader. Price ticks and volume bars jump off the chart at your eye, but they're just the beginning. Even gaps, the blank spaces left when prices
Gaps by Thom Hartle and Melanie F. Bowman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gaps by Thom Hartle and Melanie F. Bowman Occasionally, trading leaps over a range of prices to reach a new level, leaving a blank space in the price chart. If these spaces are wider than the usual 1/8- to 1/2-point difference in bids, they imply that s
Gauging Gaps by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gauging Gaps by Thomas Bulkowski Should you trade the gap? Here are some gap performance numbers to help you decide. Suppose you've been following a chart pattern. Say prices gap upward, piercing the trendline in a breakout. Do you buy the stock, expec
Gauging Mobility with Price Distributions by Mel Widner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NEW TECHNIQUES Gauging Mobility With Price Distributions The price distribution function, which analyzes the distribution of prices over a lookback period, is useful for predicting price mobility. Here's a new method called the mobility oscillator that
Generalship for consistent profits by Vincent Cosentino
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Generalship for consistent profits by Vincent Cosentino. Rodney Dangerfield would have loved it. After the July 7, 1986 record drop of 61.87 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, articles appeared crediting technicians with everything from making
Genetic Algorithms and Rule-Based Systems by J.O. Katz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Genetic Algorithms and Rule-Based Systems by J.O. Katz This trader and consultant uses a genetic algorithm to discover the best rules and parameters for a trading system. Previously, I demonstrated that simple two-rule systems could be profitable. I u
Gerald Appel, With Systems and Forecasts by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gerald Appel, With Systems and Forecasts by Thom Hartle Gerald Appel, a well-known name in the annals of technical analysis, not only publishes the Systems and Forecasts newsletter, he is also a money manager with $200 million under management. But he m
Get That Edge In Your Trading by Clem Chambers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (58-61): Get That Edge In Your Trading by Clem Chambers When knowing the bid and ask is not enough, electronic order books like NASDAQ TotalView can give retail traders the tools to succeed. There is no such thing as too mu
Getting Clear With Short-Term Swings by Ron Black
Getting Started With Options Using Protected Positions by J. Demkovich and E. Theriot
Getting Started With Options by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Getting Started With Options Rather than shying away from the complexity of options, stick with some simple basics in exploiting them. You can start paper-trading options despite their daunting reputation for complexity. If you succeed on paper, you'll
Getting To Know Options With Dan Passarelli by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Getting To Know Options With Dan Passarelli by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber If you want to learn more about options, here's a trader who might be able to help you. Dan Passarelli is the author of the book Trading Option Greeks and president of Market Ta
Gilbert Raff: From Medicine To Money Management by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gilbert Raff: From Medicine To Money Management by Thom Hartle Stocks & Commodities readers have suggested that we interview someone who did not start his or her career in the financial community but was successful enough in the markets to change career
Global Analyst Mitzi Wilson Carletti by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Global Analyst Mitzi Wilson Carletti by Thom Hartle Senior research analyst Mitzi Wilson Carletti joined Frank Russell Company as a research analyst in 1988 from Merrill Lynch. Carletti researches, monitors and evaluates international money managers as
Going Long vs. Going Short by Zvi Benyamini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Going Long vs. Going Short by Zvi Benyamini There's a world of difference between uptrends and downtrends. Here's a look at different setups and how you can use them to succeed in long and short positions. When I first began selling short a few years b
Going Vertical by Don A. Singletary
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Going Vertical by Don A. Singletary If you're trading options, here's a management tool that can offer you less risk. Ever sell out of a trade too early because it ran against you, only to have the market turn the instant you sold? Or maybe your stops
Gold And The Business Cycle by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold And The Business Cycle by Martin J. Pring Well-known market analyst Martin Pring takes a look at the relationship between the price of gold and the business cycle. Why do major swings in the price of gold occur? Over the years, many views have be
Gold And The CRB Index by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold And The CRB Index by John J. Murphy John Murphy, the leading proponent of intermarket analysis, closes the current circle of tradable interrelationships by examining how gold and the CRB index interact. The gold market plays a key role in intermar
Gold And The Corrective Phase by Gary S. Wagner
Gold And The DJIA by Richard C. Forest
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold And The DJIA by Richard C. Forest Gold has its own cycles. How best to interpret them? STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Richard Forest illustrates that gold cycles can be best understood when analyzed and compared to the DOW Jones Industrial Aver
Gold And The New Technical Triad by Gary S. Wagner
Gold And The U.S. Dollar by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold And The U.S. Dollar by John J. Murphy Last month, intermarket analyst and veteran technician John Murphy explored the relationship between interest rates and the U.S. dollar. This month, he progresses to the interrelationship between the U.S. dolla
Gold Bounce Halted By Pitchfork Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index was enjoying an upleg until it ran into overhead resistance best shown on a pitchfork chart.
Gold Hiccup or Reversal? by Donald W. Pendergast Jr.
Gold Outperforming Crude By Wide Margin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Though each of these inflation-sensitive commodities has fallen from their respective highs, gold is outperforming crude oil by a wide margin.
Gold Stocks by RICHARD J. MATURI
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold Stocks by RICHARD J. MATURI Can the average investor successfully participate in the gold market without knowing the intricacies of commodity trading, and without having to deal with the problems associated with owning precious metals? The answer i
Gold: Bull or Bear Market? by JESSE H. THOMPSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold: Bull or Bear Market? by JESSE H. THOMPSON How to use a monthly swing chart to determine major trend. Before you attempt to answer the question, it is imperative to first define which trend you consider to be the greater trend. For in the crosscur
Good Trix by JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Good Trix by JACK K. HUTSON A few years ago I decided to explore the possibility of using a small computer to take some of the drudgery out of trading. The endless hours of maintaining and experimenting with chart and numerical aids to transaction timin
Goodman Wave Theory by Michael Duane Archer
Gopalakrishnan Range Index by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Should you be trading pork bellies or AT&T? How can you tell what you should be trading, besides painful experience? This might give you a clue. Anyone who has ever observed the markets over time can tell you that some markets are erratic, while some ar
Group Relative Strength Analysis by Jaime V. Behar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Group Relative Strength Analysis by Jaime V. Behar This equity trader and computer consultant presents an intriguing use of statistical analysis to measure the performance of stock groups for the purposes of asset allocation. To even the most casual of
Guided By Seasonal Indexes by Darin Newsom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guided By Seasonal Indexes by Darin Newsom Seasonal indexes can offer insight into possible price targets. Here's how. We've all done it. Whether you are a banker, lawyer, trader, or analyst, we have all caught ourselves staring wistfully out the offic
Guided By Seasonal Indexes by Darin Newsom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guided By Seasonal Indexes by Darin Newsom Seasonal indexes can offer insight into possible price targets. Here's how. We've all done it. Whether you are a banker, lawyer, trader, or analyst, we have all caught ourselves staring wistfully out the offic
Guidelines For Price Objectives by E.M.S. Flynn and Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guidelines For Price Objectives by F.M.S. Flynn and Thom Hartle Trends come and trends go. That much, at least, is a given. An important question arises about those trends, however: How far will a move go, and can we project how far it will? Price moves
Guidelines For Risk Management by George R. Arrington
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guidelines For Risk Management by George R. Arrington Risk control is an essential part of trading successfully. Effective risk management requires not only the careful monitoring of risk exposure, but a strategy to minimize losses as well . Understandi
Guidelines With Support And Resistance by Richard L. Evans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Guidelines With Support And Resistance by Richard L. Evans Given the explosive growth of the financial markets, with all the derivative products and the increased complexity of trading strategies, all aided by the evolution of computers, some exotic for
HAL 40-Day Cycle Low By Mid-November?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Halliburton, Inc., enjoyed a solid rise from late June until mid-September 2012, but the second stage of a proportional correction is already under way.
Half-day trading techniques Part 3 by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Half-day trading techniques Part 3 by Kent Calhoun In volatile markets, profits increase with the price range, but so does the risk. In strong trending markets, traders will be more profitable not using profit exit points described in the September issu
Handling Market Reactions by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Handling Market Reactions by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK All markets exhibiting prolonged price trends invariably have reactions against the trend. These reactions can be of short or long duration and can retrace small or large portions of the preceding swing. T
Hardcard offspring by Howard Falk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hardcard offspring by Howard Falk About a year and a half ago the Hardcard appeared on the personal computer marketplace and quickly became a very popular item. Hardcard is a 10 million byte hard disk that plugs into one of the expansion slots (normally
Harnessing The (Mis)Behavior Of Markets by Rick Martinelli
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (21-30): Harnessing The (Mis)Behavior Of Markets by Rick Martinelli Do market prices vary due to large numbers of random effects such as the whims of individual traders? In 1900, Louis Bachelier was awarded a doctorate from
Has Volatility Lost Its Edge? by Mark G. Levey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Has Volatility Lost Its Edge? by Mark G.Levey Does volatility still offer the same advantage it once did in trading the Standard &PoorÕs 500 index? HereÕs a followup to previous STOCKS & COMMODITIES articles. From a statistical standpoint, assuming an
Head & Shoulders Failure by Kenny Gilliland
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head & Shoulders Failure by Kenny Gilliland How can you effectively trade one of the most recognizable chart patterns? Imagine this scenario: You are reviewing the charts of stocks that recently declined when a pattern jumps out at you from the screen
Head & Shoulders by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head & Shoulders by Alexander Sabodin Here's a look at a familiar reversal pattern, the head & shoulders pattern. IN this installment of the price model series, we will look at a well-known trend reversal model, the head & shoulders pattern. In part 1
Head and Shoulders: An Introduction to Reversal Patterns by Timothy A. Maguire
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Head and Shoulders: An Introduction to Reversal Patterns by Timothy A. Maguire ""A picture is worth a thousand words""- Chinese proverb. The first thing a novice to the stock market would likely notice about individual security prices is that they are
Healthy Markets Led By Growth Stocks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative strength can help spot sustained bullish and bearish moves in stocks.
Hedging Market Corrections Using SPY Puts by Matthew J. Stander
Hedging With Spreads by Bradley J. Horn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hedging With Spreads by Bradley J. Horn A risk manager may prefer the flexibility and limited risk of a call or put strategy. The trader, however, may feel that the premium costs associated with outright option positions are too expensive. These cash fl
Henry Pruden of Golden State University by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Henry Pruden, who heads up Golden Gate University's Institute of Technical Market Analysis, mixes the classic technical methods with the new and promising ones. S&C spoke with him to find out what he has to say about technical analysis making inroads on
Hidden Divergence by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Divergence, which is a term that technicians use when two or more averages or indices fail to show confirming trends, is one of the mainstays of technical analysis. Here's a new way to use oscillators and divergence as well as methods to locate entry lev
Hidden Rewards Of Cycles by Mohab Nabil, MSTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hidden Rewards Of Cycles by Mohab Nabil, MSTA Head and shoulders patterns appear frequently in price charts. By using simple cyclical analysis you can forecast not only the price target, but also when that price will be reached. Making a profit in the
Hidden Risks Of Debit Spread by Alex Mendoza
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hidden Risks Of Debit Spread by Alex Mendoza Understand all your risks when you trade. Strategies that seem harmless could end up costing you. Debit spreads are a favorite strategy among experienced options traders who understand the need to hedge risk
High Volatililty And Market Turns by William Brower, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does an increase in volatility indicate a market top? This historical look offers some insights. Back in 1994, it was exciting for traders watching the Standard & Poor's 500 index to get a true range day of four full points or better. These days, that s
High-Probability Point And Figure by Joe Demkovich
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics And Tactics Of A Western Classic High-Probability Point And Figure If you want buy and sell signals from a charting system, point and figure charting may be for you. by Joe Demkovich When you purchase stock in a company, you must make two de
Highs & Tight Flags by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:12 (38-42): Highs & Tight Flags by Thomas Bulkowski Does the high & tight flag work as well as some say? Find out here. I have spent 30 years playing the markets. During that time, I have written several books including two
Hilbert Indicators Tell You When To Trade by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hilbert Indicators Tell You When To Trade by John Ehlers On Lag, Signal Processing, And The Hilbert Transform Here's one way to control moving average lag, using a little math and a little-known algorithm called the Hilbert transform to come up with in
Hines ratio by Ray Hines
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hines ratio by Ray Hines In 1982, I found the best way to design an indicator that stays with a trend until it has run its course is to isolate the factors that correlate highest with the price trend and monitor their intensity. The relative intensity
Historical Movement Of The Stock Market by Michael J. Moody, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Historical Movement Of The Stock Market by Michael J. Moody, C.M.T. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. --Franklin P. Jones Perspective is critical for participants in the financial markets. Unfortunately, one's perspe
Historical Patterns In The Long-Term Stock Market by James G. Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Historical Patterns In The Long-Term Stock Market by James G. Arnold Stock markets have been around a long time, and historically, markets demonstrate some well-defined patterns. At some levels of averaging, one is even tempted to call the long-term mar
Holding Overnight Positions by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D.
Holt-Winter Channel: taking the formula one step beyond by Ichu Cheng
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Holt-Winter Channel: taking the formula one step beyond by Ichu Cheng October 19,1987 witnessed the biggest one-day drop in stock prices in history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 616 points or 26% in a single day. The drop caught most inv
Home, Home On The Range by Andrew Tomlinson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (70-73): Home, Home On The Range by Andrew Tomlinson Price ranges are used in signaling both reversals and breakouts. Looking at how stochastics perform in breakouts sheds light on several key characteristics of the indicato
How Accurate Is Sentiment? by William Lansburg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Accurate Is Sentiment? by William Lansburg Of all the tools that technicians use in trying to predict the future of the stock market, one of the most common is the sentiment index. Basically, the theory behind the sentiment index holds that it is be
How Accurate Is The A/D Line? by Lawrence G. McMillan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Accurate Is The A/D Line? by Lawrence G. McMillan Maybe not as accurate as you think. Here's one way to get more realistic results. For much of 2001 -- especially the first eight months of the year -- market technicians were often quoted as saying th
How Do You Make A Trading Decision by Simon Vine
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Do You Make A Trading Decision by Simon Vine What goes into making a decision about a trade? Whenever you make a trading decision, you base your choices on particular outlooks regarding market developments. Although a predicted scenario at a specif
How Does Rule 431 Affect Daytraders? by Paul Carlson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Does Rule 431 Affect Daytraders? by Paul Carlson Like me, many of you may have been concerned when you received letters from your brokers describing the new minimum margin requirements of $25,000 for pattern daytraders. In those letters, your broker
How Effective Are Rectangles? by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (16-26): How Effective Are Rectangles? by Markos Katsanos It's one of the oldest patterns in technical analysis, but how reliable is it? By statistically evaluating the performance of rectangle formations, we can derive a ne
How Fit Are You For Trading? by Ned Gandevani, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Fit Are You For Trading? by Ned Gandevani, Ph.D. Reach your full potential as a trader by understanding your psychological makeup. Trading psychology plays an instrumental role in successful trading. Traders who are successful realize they are not
How Good Is Your Data? by Sunny Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is all data equal? If truth be told, I never gave it much thought. I have been using one vendor nearly exclusively for about 20 years. My fills are good enough. My closing prices seem to match what I see on television or find online. As long as t
How Good is The Dow Theory? PART I by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Good is The Dow Theory? PART I by Bill Dunbar An excellent article on the Dow Theory appeared in the December 1984 issue of this magazine, written by Timothy A. Maguire. The present article may be looked on as an extension of that one but since Magu
How Good is The Dow Theory? Part II by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Good is The Dow Theory? Part II by Bill Dunbar I had just sat down at my desk in Advanced Design when Cliff walked In. ""Ya hear the news?"" he asked. ""What news?"" ""The rails confirmed yesterday!"" He announced it like he expected me to stand
How Great Traders Go Bad by John A. Sarkett
How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal Sometimes, the most puzzling of trading questions can be answered with the simplest of technical methods. Here, two such methods are combined for trading: Tushar Chande's variable indexed dynamic
How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal Here's a statistical view of the stock market using the Standard & Poor's 500 as the basis for analysis, and a collection of fundamental influences. Assessing whether the overall market is pric
How I Stopped Holding And Learned To Love The Death Cross by Greg Gazurian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How I Stopped Holding And Learned To Love The Death Cross by Greg Gazurian Check out this exit strategy, which may be what you need when a specific stock or market is weakening or bearish, compared to the (classic but not necessarily desirable) buy & ho
How Important Is A Turning Point? by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Important Is A Turning Point? by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. So, naturalists observe a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. --Jonathan Swift So goes the market. Waves withi
How Many Options Actually Expire Worthless? by Lawrence G. McMillan
How Much Money Should You Allocate? by Torbjorn Iwarson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Much Money Should You Allocate? by Torbjorn Iwarson If this question is niggling at you, consider how risk-averse you are. That may give you the answer you're looking for. Trying to figure out how much money you should allocate to your trading is a
How Random Is Random? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Random Is Random? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Some fundamentalists and most technicians would probably agree that tick-to-tick or maybe even day-to-day price changes aren't completely random. Most fundamentalists would argue that price changes over
How Random Is The Dow by Tony Baker and William Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Random Is The Dow by Tony Baker and William Arnold This study looks at the market fluctuations of the DJIA to determine if there is any consistency in the markets. One of the best-known, universally reliable characteristics of the financial markets
How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett How well protected are your stocks and options in your brokerage account? Two classic Zen koans and one modern riddle you may never have considered: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Does a dog h
How Smooth Is Your Data Smoother? by Patrick E. Lafferty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Smooth Is Your Data Smoother? Traders use moving averages to remove random fluctuations from price data. Some moving averages work better than others. Take a look. In 1995, I wrote an article for STOCKS & COMMODITIES presenting some of the properties
How The Pros Use Average Directional Index by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How The Pros Use Average Directional Index Here's how technicians Charles LeBeau, Paul Rabbitt, and Linda Bradford Raschke integrate the average directional index into their trading plans. How would you like to look over the shoulders of professional t
How To Enhance A Trading Strategy On Gold Futures By Using An AI-Based Volatility Predictor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's how you can apply the benefits of machine learning to a traditional trading system with the help of some Python libraries
How To Get In With The Trend ... by Bryan Strain
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Get In With The Trend And Out At The End by Bryan Strain Need a simple trend-following system to get you right with the market? Take a look at this. ""Good indicators must have an easily explainable, fundamental reason for working,"" trader and
How To Use Tick, Tiki, TRIN For Day Trading by Terry O'Brian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Use Tick, Tiki, TRIN For Daytrading by Terry O 'Brian These three indicators can be important guides in implementing trading strategies. Could they help you? The tick, the tiki, and the trading index (TRIN) -- indicators that are for the most par
How W.D. Gann tipped me on R.H. Macy by Hans Hannula
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How W.D. Gann tipped me on R.H. Macy by Hans Hannula A lot of people have heard of W.D. Gann's work on angles of support and resistance, but not much on his other works. I would like to tell you a story about how some things he said in Successful Stock
How Your Stories Shape You by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (68-72): How Your Stories Shape You by Adrienne Laris Toghraie The stories you tell reflect your worldview -- and they can help you succeed. We all have stories that chronicle our lives. At first glance, these stories seem h
How interest Rates Affect Stock Prices by Mark C. Snead
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How lnterest Rates Affect Stock Prices by Mark C. Snead The basic theoretical relationship between changes in long-term interest rates and stock prices is inverse. Falling interest rates signal rising stock prices, while inversely, rising interest rates
How to be wrong and still profit by David L. Caplan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to be wrong and still profit by David L. Caplan Why bother learning and using professional option strategies? Why spend the time and energy to learn how and when to use options and option strategies when, in trading futures, all you have to do is us
How to evaluate a commodity trading system by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to evaluate a commodity trading system by Kent Calhoun The percentage of profitable trades, the average profitable trade, the average losing trade, the maximum consecutive losing trades, the average profit per closed trade, the largest winning and l
How to spot takeover candidates by Norman S. Wei
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to spot takeover candidates by Norman S. Wei The shares of Celanese Corp. were trading at 218-1/2 at the close of Oct. 31. They shot up to a high of 247-1/2 on Nov. 3 and closed at 242-1/2--an increase of $24 per share! Integrated Software's stock j
How to use Maximum Entropy by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to use Maximum Entropy by John F. Ehlers MESA is an acronym for Maximum Entropy Spectrum Analysis, a forecasting method that filters the ""noise"" from time series data and can uncover useful cycles. The advantages of the maximum entropy method over
How useful are stochastics for trading? by Jack D. Schwager and Norman Strahm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How useful are stochastics for trading? by Jack D. Schwager and Norman Strahm In the current popular trading systems terminology, a stochastic refers to a measure of the placement of the current price within a recent range. If the current price is near
Hurst's Cyclic Analysis by David Hickson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This crash course on an almost-forgotten theory could shed some light on how you can trade consistently and profitably. In the 1970s, an American engineer named J.M. Hurst published a thesis about why financial markets move the way they do. His expoun
IBM, Cubed by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...IBM, Cubed Here's a look at what's involved in developing a trend-following indicator for trading IBM. In a previous article, I showed how the application of a curve generatedbyathird-degreepoly-nomial could be used to develop a system to buy and sell
IES-Invest.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
IVolatility.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Ichimoku Charts by Ken Muranaka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Mountain Man Is Back, This Time In Computerized Trading Rooms Ichimoku Charts by Ken Muranaka A Japanese charting technique developed early in the 20th century is enjoying renewed popularity. Invented before World War II by a Tokyo newspaper write
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Charts by Nicole Elliott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Charts by Nicole Elliott Here's another charting method that's been around for decades, and yet can be brand-new to most Western audiences. Ichimoku kinko hyo is a method of technical analysis that has been around since before World
Identifying And Timing With The Special K, Part 2 by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (28-35): Identifying And Timing With The Special K, Part 2 by Martin J. Pring In part 1, you were introduced to the Special K indicator and its application on the weekly and daily charts. In part 2, we will show you how Spe
Identifying Bearish Chart Patterns (I) by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Bearish Chart Patterns (I) by Thomas N. Bulkowski Bearish chart patterns form at the top of a bear market. What do they look like? Since March 2003, the market has been trending upward. As I write this in August 2003, I'm starting to see be
Identifying Bearish Chart Patterns (II) by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Bearish Chart Patterns (II) by Thomas N. Bulkowski Here's the second and final installment about bearish chart patterns. S omeone I know once made the bold statement that there is a chart pattern for any trend that ends. I don't know if tha
Identifying Crucial Support And Resistance Levels by Ned Gandevani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Crucial Support And Resistance Levels One tenet of technical analysis is the concept of support and resistance. In it, markets stop declining, thereby establishing a support level. A resistance level is set when a rally completes its rise. S
Identifying Cup Formations Early by Giorgos Siligardos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a simple mechanical recognition method for identifying possible emerging cup formations. In my article "Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle)," which appeared in the February 2006 Stocks & Commodities, I introduced a simple mechanica
Identifying Market Reversals by Jim White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Market Reversals by Jim White Here's a specific technique warning about coming reversals and the steps to apply the methodology. Back in the November 2008 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I pointed out how you could reduce risk and increase t
Identifying Market Trends by Jack Karczewski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Market Trends by Jack Karczewski The trend of the market is key to most every technical approach available. But the market doesn't always trend. Here's how to use a statistical tool for determining if the market is in a trend. Traders spen
Identifying Patterns by Dennis D. Peterson
Identifying Powerful Breakouts Early by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Identifying Powerful Breakouts Early by Tushar S. Chande High-powered breakouts occur with a strong surge of momentum in the direction of the price change. Such breakouts may be short-lived, however, occurring toward the latter stages
Identifying Significant Chart Formations by Daniel L. Chesler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before computers became commonplace, technical traders spent most of their time studying their charts, looking for consolidation and reversal patterns. Today, many traders have moved away from using classic chart patterns to methods based on quantifiable
Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle) by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (36-42): Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle) by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. Here's a mechanical identification formula for the rounding bottom, one of the most rewarding formations for traders. The rounding botto
Identifying Trades With The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Trades With The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury What is the option premium ratio? Simply, the option premium ratio is the ratio of price premiums on puts relative to price premiums on calls. It covers all listed equity options.
Identifying Trading Opportunities by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Trading Opportunities by Thom Hartle One of the most important aspects of any trade is timing the entry. Perhaps surprisingly, daily and weekly analysis can be instrumental in planning an entry for long-term trades. Here's an overview on how
Identifying Trends With The KST Indicator by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Trends With The KST Indicator by Martin J. Pring The direction of price is influenced by different time cycles. Important market turns occur when a number of these cycles are changing direction. The KST indicator is an oscillator designed to
Identifying Trends with Volume Analysis by Stephen J. Klinger, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a new twist on volume analysis, with a volume-based indicator for identifying meaningful trends. Technicians recognize the importance of volume analysis and its application to price movement as requisite to any serious examination of stocks and m
If At First You Don't Succeed by John Clayburg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If At First You Don't Succeed by John Clayburg Systems you create don't always work quite right at first. And when you revise them, your "improvements" don't necessarily help. It's what you ordered ? but not what you wanted. What to do? For those who us
If Beta Doesn't Work, What Does? by William G.S. Brown, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If Beta Doesn't Work, What Does? by William G.S. Brown, Ph.D. Beta not doing it for you? Try the price regression line. Conventional wisdom says that a stock (or stock fund) having a beta close to 1.0 will follow the market. Is that true? This piece of
If the boss only knew technical analysis by Vincent Cosentino
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If the boss only knew technical analysis by Vincent Cosentino When a company official, director or a large stockholder buys stock in the company, this has to be a sign that green grass and blue skies are ahead. After all, who knows the company better th
Implied economic forecasts by Dan DiBartolomeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Implied economic forecasts by Dan DiBartolomeo Investors rely on a variety of methodologies in constructing their portfolios. Some investors would classify themselves as fundamentally oriented, while others use technical analysis. Relatively few would c
Improve Your System With The Profitability Rule by Michael Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improve Your System With The Profitability Rule by Michael Harris What are the capabilities and limitations of your trading system or investment strategy? You can ensure your system or strategy has a high probability of meeting your profit objectives by
Improve Your Trading System With Speed by Gomu Vetrivel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (28): Improve Your Trading System With Speed by Gomu Vetrivel Constantly improving your trading system is the best way to improve the performance of your trading system. But what's speed got to do with it? Speed has a lot
Improving The Win-Loss Ratio With The Relative Strength Index by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improving The Win-Loss Ratio With The Relative Strength Index by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a refresher on the relative strength index, and how to improve your win-loss ratio. Technical analysts can be divided into two basic camps -- those who rely on cha
Improving Trading Systems By Counting Events
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's a simple concept that you may not have thought of. Find out how to implement it
In Shock by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In Shock by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Trading is unique in that the uncertainty of the markets brings to bear an unusual stress level. What should you do if your trading suddenly turns south, or worse, a tragic event occurs? Recently, I was in an automo
In The Volume Zone by Walid Khalil and David Steckler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at the volume zone oscillator, which can be applied to trending and nontrending markets. Find out how it can be used to trade the Djia, Spy, and gold.
In This Issue by Jack K Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by Jack K. Hutson, Publisher
In This Issue by John Sweeney
In This Issue by John Sweeney
In This Issue by John Sweeney, Associate Editor
In This Issue by John Sweeney, Associate Editor
In This Issue by John Sweeney, Editor
In This Issue by John Sweeney, Editor
In This Issue by John Sweeney,Editor
In search of the cause of cycles by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In search of the cause of cycles by Hans Hannula, Ph.D. People have, for centuries, noticed cycles in many things, including the stock market. My own interest in cycles and their application to the market began in the early 1970s, when I read Dewey and
In this Issue by John Sweeney, Associate Editor
In this issue by John Sweeney, Associate Editor
Increasing OBV reliability with stock index futures by Gerald Appel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Increasing OBV reliability with stock index futures by Gerald Appel Traders have used volume pattern recognition techniques in an attempt to forecast price movement probably for as long as records regarding trading volume have been maintained. As a gen
Increasing Return With Covered Calls by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Increasing Return With Covered Calls by Joe Demkovich and Eugene Theriot Worried about how exposed you are to price fluctuation in your options position? Don't be. Here's how you can retain flexibility by using covered-call options. One of the most co
Index Of Chart Sentiment by Viktor Likhovidov
Index Rotation With Exchange-Traded Funds by David Vomund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (36-38, 45): Index Rotation With Exchange-Traded Funds by David Vomund Which will perform best, large-cap stocks or small-cap stocks? Will value stocks outperform growth stocks or will growth outperform value? If you watch
Individual stocks and MACD by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Individual stocks and MACD by Thomas Aspray The Moving Average Convergence-Divergence method ? specifically MACD-Histogram (MACD-H) and MACD-Momentum (MACD-Mo) ? can be used to identify turning points in the commodity markets (See Stocks & Commodities,
Inherent Return In Futures Markets by Charles R. Lightner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Inherent Return In Futures Markets There has been a long-running controversy about the source of returns to futures market investors. With that in mind, consider new data in support of the theory that there is an inherent return to the noncommercial inv
Inside day patterns in the S&P by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Inside day patterns in the S&P by Toby Crabel Computer studies suggest that inside days-- where the high is lower than the previous ! day's high and the low is higher than the previous day's low-- provide very reliable t entries in the S&P 500 futures mar
Int.: How To Get Started In Electronic Day Trading: David Nassar by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Get Started In Electronic Day Trading: David S. Nassar Each day, more and more traders are using computers for the direct buying and selling of stocks. Is there a difference among the myriad services available? We went to David Nassar, author of
Int: Which Option Strategy Should You Use? Guy Cohen Tells You by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (52-56): Int: Which Option Strategy Should You Use? Guy Cohen Tells You by J. Gopalakrishnan Guy Cohen, creator of the OptionEasy software and author of the books ""Options Made Easy"" and ""The Bible Of Options Strategies,"
Integrated Systems Approach To Technical Commodity Analysis by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Integrated Systems Approach To Technical Commodity Analysis by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK when I first became interested in commodity markets, it was my great fortune to read the works of and speak with several of the most lucid teachers of market science and s
Interest Rates And The U.S. Dollar by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interest Rates And The U.S. Dollar by John J. Murphy Veteran technician and leading proponent of intermarket analysis John Murphy continues to delve into the interrelationships between markets, this time between interest rates and the U.S. dollar. Prev
Interest Rates and Stock Returns by Marck C. Snead
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERMARKET ANALYSIS Interest Rates And Stock Returns by Mark C. Snead Stocks perform best when interest rates are declining, but rate levels can make a difference. Here's how. Interest rates can be a dependable component of a stock market forecasti
Intermarket Analysis And The Deutschemark by Richard Forest
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Analysis And The Deutschemark by Richard Forest Richard Forest, a two-time Traders' Challenge winner, becomes a S TOCKS & COMMODITIES author with this monograph on how intermarket analysis -- that is, analyzing elements across more than one m
Intermarket Review by David Penn
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (122, 110): Intermarket Review by David Penn The Intermarket Review looks at the China Fund (CHN), Thai Fund (TTF), India Fund (IFN), and Malaysia Fund (MF). The China Fund (CHN) is a closed-end fund under the advisement of Asia Direct Capital
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (84-85): Intermarket Review by David Penn This month's reviews are for: Internet Holdrs Trust (HHH), GSTI Software Index ($GSO), Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index ($SOX), and the Telecommunications Holders Tru
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (NYSE) FINANCIAL INDEX ($NFA) The NYSE financial index consists of more than 900 banks, brokerage houses, savings and loan institutions, insurance companies, and other financial corporations.
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn ? MSCI SINGAPORE INDEX FUND ? MSCI HONG KONG INDEX FUND ? MSCI MALAYSIA INDEX FUND ? MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (82-83): Intermarket Review by David Penn GOLDMAN SACHS COMMODITIES INDEX The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) is a world production?weighted index of commodity prices based on the average quantity of production for the last five years of
Intermarket Review by David Penn
Intermarket Review by David Penn
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (66-67): Intermarket Review by David Penn How do you spell "inflation"? O-I-L? How about long-term interest rates, such as those attached to the 10-year US Treasury note? If you are a supply-side economist of the Jude Wanni
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn THE AMEX GOLD BUGS INDEX ($HUI) The AMEX Gold BUGS (basket of unhedged gold stocks) index represents shares of gold mining and production companies that do not engage in hedging their gold beyond 11?12 years. The index
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn - JAPANESE YEN - CANADIAN DOLLAR - BRITISH POUND - AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (72-73): Intermarket Review by David Penn HOLDRS, or Holding Company Depositary Receipts, are exchange-traded products created by Merrill Lynch & Co. that allow individual investors and institutions to own a basket of commo
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn BRAZIL FUND (BZF) The Brazil Fund is a closed-end fund traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The fund is advised by Deutsche Investment Management (Americas) Inc., and has been in existence since April 1988. With total
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (56-57): Intermarket Review by David Penn TURKISH INVESTMENT FUND (TKF) The Turkish Investment Fund (TKF) is a closed-end fund under the advisement of Morgan Stanley Investment Advisors. Traded on the New York Stock Exchang
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn GOLDMAN SACHS COMMODITIES INDEX The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) is a world production?weighted index of commodity prices based on the average quantity of production for the last five years of available data. I
Intermarket Review by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermarket Review by David Penn EURO Originally poised to be both rival and complement to the US dollar in the world of foreign exchange, the euro's miserable start in 1999 has become a stunning bull market by 2004. The euro is the currency of the 12
Intermarket Review by David Penn
Intermarket Review: Goldman Sachs by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (52-53): Intermarket Review: Goldman Sachs by David Penn GOLDMAN SACHS COMMODITIES INDEX (GSCI) SUBGROUP--PRECIOUS METALS ($GPX) The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) is a world-production weighted index of commodity pr
Internal Market Momentum by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Internal Market Momentum by Martin J. Pring Breadth momentum analysis takes momentum analysis, traditionally gleaned from price and volume, a step further by examining a particular market in closer detail. Market analyst Martin Pring delves into three c
Interview Henry Hank Pruden: What The Future Holds by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview Henry Hank Pruden: What The Future Holds by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Hank, why don't you start by telling us how you got interested in the Wyckoff method. What attracted me to the Wyckoff method can be summarized under my notions of Wyckoff th
Interview Howard Abell of Innergame Partners by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview Howard Abell of Innergame Partners by Thom Hartle With nearly 30 years' experience as a trader and broker in the commodities pits, money manager and author Howard Abell has the bead on what it takes to trade. Abell, co-author with Bob Kopell o
Interview Richard Mogey by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets ebb and flow, rise and fall, come and go in short, they appear to be cyclical. To learn more about using cycles, there is probably no better source than Richard Mogey, the executive director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. Stocks & Com
Interview The World Of Commodities With Carley Garner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview The World Of Commodities With Carley Garner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Alaron broker and analyst Carley Garner has been involved with the markets for years and is actively educating traders through web content and online seminars at CommodityT
Interview: A Man Of Many Talents: Dan Gramza by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: A Man Of Many Talents: Dan Gramza by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Is there anything Dan Gramza hasn't done? He's president of Gramza Capital Management and DMG Advisors, LLC. He is an author, trader, analyst, consultant to domestic and internation
Interview: Alan Farley Of HARD Right Edge by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Alan Farley Of HARD Right Edge by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan What are the big differences between swing trading and momentum trading? Alan Farley can tell you. Farley is a private trader and the publisher of HARD Right Edge (www.HARDRightEdge.co
Interview: Alan Knuckman of GlobalTec by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (54-60): Interview: Alan Knuckman of GlobalTec by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Alan Knuckman currently serves as the president and developer of GlobalTec's Commodity Explorer product line. In this capacity, he oversees all aspect
Interview: An Interview With Jake Bernstein by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: An Interview With Jake Bernstein by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Cycles expert Jake Bernstein's analytical eye has seen the tide of the markets ebb and flow for more than 30 years. Many of the long-term social, political, and economic forecasts Be
Interview: Barbara Rockefeller by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (56-61): Interview: Barbara Rockefeller by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Barbara Rockefeller of Rockefeller Treasury Services is an international economist, author, newsletter publisher, and trader specializing in foreign exchang
Interview: Bernie Schaeffer by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Bernie Schaeffer by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Bernie Schaeffer, chairman of Schaeffer's Investment Research, is also the editor of Bernie Schaeffer's Option Advisor. The Market Technicians Association awarded him its Best of the Best award in s
Interview: Bill Meridian And Those Long-Term Cycles by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (48-53): Interview: Bill Meridian And Those Long-Term Cycles by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Cycles theorist Bill Meridian began on Wall Street in a most conventional way, as a fundamental analyst at the Value Line Investment Sur
Interview: Bo Yoder by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Bo Yoder by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Bo Yoder is a professional trader, author, and consultant to the financial industry on matters of trading and risk management. He is a frequent contributor to domestic and international trading publications
Interview: Bob Farrell by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Bob Farrell by John Sweeney Probably no one has seen the big picture of technical analysis' growth and increasing legitimacy quite the way that Bob Farrell, a fixture at bellwether brokerage Merrill Lynch for nearly half a century, has. He se
Interview: Bob Pelletier Of CSI Data by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (40-45): Interview: Bob Pelletier Of CSI Data by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Not many current traders can remember a time when commodities weren't a driving force in the markets, but Robert Pelletier, president of CSI, can. Pel
Interview: Brandon Wendell and Trading Around The World by J. Gopalakrishnan and B.Faber
Interview: Brett Steenbarger by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (68-75): Interview: Brett Steenbarger by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan No matter how you look at it, Brett N. Steenbarger keeps busy; he is director of trader development of Kingstree Trading and clinical associate professor of ps
Interview: Cari Lynn: Life On The Trading Floor by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (56-59): Interview: Cari Lynn: Life On The Trading Floor by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Cari Lynn is a Chicago-based journalist and the author of ""Leg The Spread: A Woman's Adventures Inside The Trillion-Dollar Boys' Club Of Co
Interview: Carol Osler by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Carol Osler by John Sweeney Hidden away in the Federal Reserve System are entire departments of economists researching nearly every aspect of US business. In late 2000, we picked up hints of an economist who had actually taken on the definiti
Interview: Charles D. Kirk of TheKirkReport.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Charles D. Kirk of TheKirkReport.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Minnesota-based Charles E. Kirk is an individual investor who has been investing and trading stocks for more than 12 years and who currently trades stocks for a living in additio
Interview: Chart Patterns, Trading, and Dan Zanger by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Chart Patterns, Trading, and Dan Zanger by Matt Blackman Trader Dan Zanger of Chartpattern.com first hit the media spotlight in December 2000 when he was featured in a Fortune article. The article, entitled "My Stocks Are Up 10,000%!" discuss
Interview: Christopher Neely Of The Federal Reserve by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once in a while, we hear something coming out of the Federal Reserve we just don't expect. In this case, we heard about a technical analysis?receptive individual -- an economist, to boot! Christopher Neely is a research officer with the Federal Reserve Ba
Interview: Chuck Dukas Of TRENDadvisor.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (62-66): Interview: Chuck Dukas Of TRENDadvisor.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Chuck Dukas is principal in a hedge fund and president of TRENDadvisor.com, a website that provides trading recommendations and educational and t
Interview: Classic Swing Trading With Linda Bradford Raschke by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Classic Swing Trading With Linda Bradford Raschke by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber Hers is a name that you've probably heard or read any number of times if you've been interested in or involved in technical analysis for very long. Linda B
Interview: Crosscurrent's Keith Raphael by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (54-63): Interview: Crosscurrent's Keith Raphael by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Keith Raphael, president of Crosscurrents Investment Advisory, served as principal of the Taylor-Raphael Group commodities trading firm of the New
Interview: David Landry Of TradingMarkets.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: David Landry Of TradingMarkets.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Ever heard of "grandma money management"? If not, ask David Landry, a sometime Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor, to explain. Landry is a cofounder and directo
Interview: David Norman On Market Technology by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (76-83): Interview: David Norman On Market Technology by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trading's come a long way since the days of the bucket shops, and now, technology and trading have become virtually inseparable. Here's someone who can tell us all
Interview: David S. Nasser by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (60-67, 80): Interview: David S. Nasser by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan David S. Nassar is many things: He is the founder and CEO of MarketWise Securities and MarketWise.com, a 20-year veteran trader, a New York Times best-sellin
Interview: David Stendahl by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: David Stendahl by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan David Stendahl is an author, a sometime contributor to STOCKS & COMMODITIES, and an authority in the field of portfolio construction and system design. He has lectured at numerous national and interna
Interview: David Vomund Of AIQ by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Opening Bell - David Vomund Of AIQ David Vomund of AIQ Systems wears a few hats, chief of which is his positions as chief analyst of artificial intelligence?based charting software developer AIQ Systems and the editor of AIQ's newsletter, The Ope
Interview: Daytrading With The StockBandit's Jeff White by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With The StockBandit's Jeff White by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Jeff White, founder and chief technical analyst of TheStockBandit.com, started trading the markets in 1998 and has since gained extensive experience in both stocks and op
Interview: Daytrading With Toni Turner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With Toni Turner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Toni Turner is the best-selling author of A Beginner's Guide To Day Trading Online and A Beginner's Guide To Short-Term Trading. An investor/trader with 14 years' experience, she is a pop
Interview: Don Miller & The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Experience by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (58-63): Interview: Don Miller & The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Experience by J. Gopalakrishnan Don Miller toiled in the corporate world, wondering if there were more to life -- and then he discovered there was. He gave up the
Interview: Doug Fabian Of Fabian Investment Resources by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Keeping Investing Simple Doug Fabian Of Fabian Investment ResourcesFor mutual fund investors, one of the bestknown newsletters is Fabian Investment Resources, previously known as Telephone Switch Newsletter. It was begun by financial planner Dick Fabian,
Interview: Edgar Peters Talks About Chaos Theory by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Edgar Peters Talks About Chaos Theory by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan His work Chaos And Order In The Capital Markets ignited the imagination of traders and investors everywhere, and the way we viewed the markets changed. As PanAgora's chief inves
Interview: Elliott Wave Experts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan and Dennis Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Elliot Wave Expers - Steven Hochberg & Peter Kendall Fibonacci numbers, fractal geometry, socionomics -- Ralph Nelson Elliott's wave theory was published 64 years ago, but he explored ideas that we still study today in physics, behavioral scie
Interview: Floyd Upperman by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (62-68): Interview: Floyd Upperman by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Floyd Upperman became interested in the futures market in the early 1990s after investing in stocks and stock options. While working in the high-tech world of se
Interview: Forecasting Simplified, With Cynthia Kase by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Forecasting Simplified, With Cynthia Kase by J. Gopalakrishnan Cynthia Kase, president of Kase and Co., Cta, is considered by many to be the energy market's premier technical analyst and hedging advisor. Educated as an engineer, she worked as
Interview: From The Pit To The PC: Lewis J. Borsellino by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...From The Pit To The PC Lewis J. Borsellino The current, never-before-seen bull market in stocks has led to tremendous growth in trading the Standard & Poor's 500 futures pits. One top S&P trader, Lewis Borsellino, has been a runner, a clerk, a broker, a
Interview: Gary B.Smith Of TheStreet.com by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.18:10 (80-95):Interview:Gary B.Smith Of TheStreet.com by John Sweeney Trader, author, and TV personality Gary B.Smith trades for a living and has done so since splitting with Sports Illustrated, where he covered pro golf. More prominently, Gary writes
Interview: Gary Kaltbaum by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: George Fontanills Of Optionetics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: George Fontanills Of Optionetics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan You might assume that graduates of Harvard Business School know everything they need to know, but George Fontanills, cofounder of Optionetics, is an active trader and Harvard grad wh
Interview: Gerald Appel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Gerald Appel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Gerald Appel is perhaps best known as the inventor of the MACD, the popular moving average convergence/divergence indicator. However, he is also the founder of Signalert, a registered investment advisor
Interview: Glen Ring And His View On Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (48-54): Interview: Glen Ring And His View On Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan One of the nation's most respected market analysts with 34 years of experience in the commodity industry, Glen Ring brings a broad-based perspe
Interview: Harry Boxer by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (72-76): Interview: Harry Boxer by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan With over 30 years of Wall Street investment and technical analysis experience, Harry Boxer is a widely syndicated and featured guest on many financial programs and
Interview: Helene Meisler of TheStreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (72-77): Interview: Helene Meisler of TheStreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If you've ever traded the overseas markets, you know how confusing the time difference can be. Now imagine being on the other end of the time difference. Technician H
Interview: Ian Gordon by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Ian Gordon by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If this recession seems like it's going on forever, Ian Gordon of The Long Wave Analyst newsletter will give you good news and bad news. First, the good news: It won't last forever. The bad news: It's goi
Interview: In Synch With Steven Primo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (50-56): Interview: In Synch With Steven Primo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Are you trading according to your trading personality? Steven Primo can give you a clue about that. A nearly 30-year Wall Street veteran, Primo is the
Interview: Investing Champion Mark Cook by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...From Sun Up To Sun Down Interview: Investing Champion Mark Cook by John Sweeney Mark D. Cook first won fame as a trader in 1989 when he finished second in the US Investing Championship. By 1992, he had shifted to options and racked up large three-digit
Interview: J. Doyne Farmer by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: J. Doyne Farmer by John Sweeney The number of physicists and engineers who have dented their axes on market prediction is so vast that it led to the derisive term "quant." But who are these guys, and what are they up to? We tracked down one m
Interview: Jeffrey Hirsch, The Chronicler Of Change by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (66-72): Interview: Jeffrey Hirsch, The Chronicler Of Change by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Like father, like son -- eventually. Jeffrey Hirsch is now the president of the Hirsch Organization, and editor-in-chief of The Stock Tr
Interview: Jeffrey Owen Katz by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: Jerry Toepke Of The Moore Research Center by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (58-65): Interview: Jerry Toepke Of The Moore Research Center by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Watching the rhythm of the markets, and being able to anticipate market movement, can give the involved trader a boost. Jerry Toepke,
Interview: Jim Dalton of DLC Profiles by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Jim Dalton of DLC Profiles by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Author and former hedge fund manager James Dalton is a Market Profile believer, and he'd be the first to tell you that. A member of both the CBOT and the CBOE, he served as executive vice
Interview: John Bollinger Of Bollinger Bands Fame by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Bollinger Of Bollinger Bands Fame by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Unlike many technicians who start out with degrees in business, veteran analyst John Bollinger, the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, started out with a de
Interview: John Clayburg by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: John Hill Of Futures Truth by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Hill Of Futures Truth by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Think of all those trading systems you see advertised and hyped. Haven't you wondered whether they work? Of course you have. John Hill is the president and founder of Futures Truth magazin
Interview: John Netto, On Trading And Inflection Points by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Netto, On Trading And Inflection Points by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan John Netto is the president of One Shot -- One Kill Trading, LLC, and the author of the book One Shot -- One Kill Trading (McGraw-Hill). He is a principal in Triple Witch M
Interview: John Person by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (58-63): Interview: John Person by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan John Person is a 25-year veteran of the futures and options trading industry. Person started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in 1979. He then ha
Interview: John Sosnowy of SIMCO by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Sosnowy of SIMCO by Thom Hartle There seems to be a connection between engineering and investing. Like Jack Hutson, the publisher of Stocks & Commodities, John Sosnowy of the Sosnowy Investment Management Co. (SIMCO), Cameron, TX, was an
Interview: Jonathan Hoenig Of Capitalist Pig by John Sweeney and Bruce Faber
Interview: Ken Tower And The Future Of Electronic Trading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (54-61): Interview: Ken Tower And The Future Of Electronic Trading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan A member and former president of the Market Technicians Association (MTA), Ken Tower is chief market strategist at CyberTrader, an
Interview: Kevin Haggerty by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Guide To Conquering The Trading Markets - Kevin Haggerty Kevin Haggerty's career on Wall Street covers nearly 25 years and numerous responsibilities ranging from senior vice president and manager of equity trading at Fidelity Capital Markets to servin
Interview: Lane Mendelsohn Of TradingEducation.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: Larry Connors On How Markets Really Work by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (74-79): Interview: Larry Connors On How Markets Really Work by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Laurence Connors is chairman and chief executive officer of TradingMarkets.com, a financial markets information company he founded in 1
Interview: Larry Levin Has Those Traders' Secrets by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (66-72): Interview: Larry Levin Has Those Traders' Secrets by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Larry Levin is the president of Secrets of Traders, a commodity trading educational firm dedicated to helping traders succeed in the futur
Interview: Lee Lowell by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (62-68): Interview: Lee Lowell by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Having spent six years as an option market maker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Mt. Vernon Research commodities trading expert Lee Lowell is one of
Interview: Leo Melamed by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Alliance Of Exchanges Leo Melamed As chief architect of financial futures, Melamed led the US futures industry from 1967 until his retirement from the CME in 1991. During this period, financial futures experienced unparalleled growth and became a
Interview: Leo Zamansky Of RINA Systems by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (62-67): Interview: Leo Zamansky Of RINA Systems by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan RINA Systems founder Leo Zamansky has more than 20 years of experience in managing large software development projects, creating modeling and optim
Interview: Managing Money & Risk: Robert Deel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: Matthew Andresen Of Island ECN by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Faster, Cheaper, Better? Matthew Andresen Of Island ECN Matthew Andresen has been serving as president of Island ECN , Inc., since 1998. Since then, Andresen has spearheaded IslandÕs explosive growth and overseen its role in shaping the new electronic
Interview: Michael W. Covel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (52-57): Interview: Michael W. Covel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The author of Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions In Up Or Down Markets and a researcher of the most successful trend-following investment managers
Interview: Michael "Trader Mike" Seneadza: From Swing Trading to Daytrading by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (62-67): Interview: Michael "Trader Mike" Seneadza: From Swing Trading to Daytrading by J. Gopalakrishnan Atlanta, GA?based independent stock trader Michael Seneadza received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engine
Interview: Moe Ansari Of Compak Trading by Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Following The Road Map Of The Market - Moe Ansari Of Compak Trading Discipline and determination are key to succeeding as a trader, or anything else, for that matter. Moe Ansari of Compak Trading started off his college years as an architecture major be
Interview: Money Manager Laurence A. Connors by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Money Manager Laurence Connors by Thom Hartle What makes a trader a winner? It's hard to say. Professional trader Laurence A. Connors, who is the co-author of ""Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager"" and the president of money managers
Interview: Nassim N. Taleb by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Nassim N. Taleb by John Sweeney Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a quantitative trader operating at the intersection of theory and practice. Currently president and head trader at Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator in Greenwich, CT, and adju
Interview: Oliver Velez Of Pristine.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Oliver Velez Of Pristine.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Oliver L. Velez is the chairman and cofounder of Pristine.com, a leading online educational portal for active, self-directed traders. He is also the chief editor of the site's flagship p
Interview: Options Volatility With Lawrence McMillan by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Options Volatility With Lawrence McMillan by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Lawrence McMillan's interest in the options business started in 1973, when the first listed option started trading. He has written two best-selling books on options, includi
Interview: Paul Hickey & Justin Walters of Bespoke by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Paul Hickey & Justin Walters of Bespoke by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan It's a classic situation: Young bucks learn all they can from the seasoned veteran, and once they have, it's time for them to move on, to put their own stamp on the horizon. I
Interview: Purely Technical: Hamilton Lewis by John Sweeney and Bruce Faber
Interview: Raghee Horner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (56-63): Interview: Raghee Horner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Raghee Horner is a trader, teacher, and author, with more than 15 years' experience in the markets. She is a highly sought-after educator and has taught her brand
Interview: Richard Dennis by Art Collins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (46-53): Interview: Richard Dennis by Art Collins Perhaps no one in the world of commodity trading has more lore attached to him than the legendary Richard Dennis, the founder, along with William Eckhardt, of the original Tu
Interview: Rick Ackerman Of Rick's Picks by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (68-75): Interview: Rick Ackerman Of Rick's Picks by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Rick Ackerman started out as a newspaperman before he found his calling as a trader. How often does that happen? Not very! He went from journalism
Interview: Risky Positions With Keith Fitschen Of TradeSystem, Inc. by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Risky Positions With Keith Fitschen Of TradeSystem, Inc. by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Keith Fitschen has been developing technical trading systems for the futures markets for 20 years, actively trading his systems. His initial research was on t
Interview: Robert W. Colby, CMT by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Robert W. Colby is senior investment strategist at TradingEducation.com and RobertWColby.com. He is also a consultant to institutional and private investors and traders, providing custom research services and trading systems tailored to clients' objectiv
Interview: Saitta! Kepler! Krauss! by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Institutional Investor (II) magazine recently named its All-America Fixed-Income Technical Analysis Team, STOCKS & COMMODITIES Contributing Editor Alex Saitta was in first place. We thought a roundtable interview of the top three would be not only a
Interview: Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line by David Penn and John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Disproving The Efficient Market Theory Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line For more than 50 years, Samuel Eisenstadt has been one of the major reasons for the phenomenal success of Value Line, Inc., developers of the Value Line Ranking System. Eisenstadt i
Interview: Short Swings In Futures With Markus Heitkoetter by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As founder and Ceo of Rockwell Trading, Markus Heitkoetter has shared his trading methods and ideas with more than 300,000 traders in over 196 countries. Heitkoetter started trading stocks 19 years ago, using point & figure charts from numbers pub
Interview: Short-Term Trader Jeff Cooper by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (66-73): Interview: Short-Term Trader Jeff Cooper by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Few people have succeeded in trading the way Jeff Cooper has. His first book, Hit And Run Trading, is often referred to as the bible of the short-t
Interview: Speaking of Seasonals with Steve Moore of Moore Research Center by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Speaking of Seasonals with Steve Moore of Moore Research Center by Thom Hartle The concept of seasonality is certainly not new. ""To every thing there is a season,"" Ecclesiastes and, more recently, the 1960s rock group The Birds said. And of
Interview: Steve Nison by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Steve Nison by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Want to know something about candlestick charting? Steve Nison can tell you. He was the first to bring Japanese candlestick charting methods to Western trading nearly 20 years ago. He is a leading author
Interview: Suri Duddella Notes by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
Interview: Tales From The Front: Robert Zellner by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tales From The Front: Robert Zellner Robert Zellner, whose career has ranged from academic to institutional trader to business manager before settling on full-time private trader, started off with his sights aimed on academia, despite a grandfather who
Interview: Technician Walter Deemer by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Grand Old Man Technician Walter Deemer Walt Deemer began his Wall Street career in 1963 as a Merrill Lynch research trainee. Since then, he has seen the ebb and flow of Wall Street through booms and busts, spending time with the Manhattan Fund in th
Interview: Teresa Lo Of trendVue.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Teresa Lo Of trendVue.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Teresa Lo, founder and chief market strategist of the trendVUE.com educational financial website, worked in the stock brokerage business for more than a decade at Canada's largest independe
Interview: Terry Bedford of Bedford & Associates by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Terry Bedford of Bedford & Associates by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Technician Terry Bedford, president of the Bedford & Associates Research Group, CNBC commentator, and MSN Money columnist, developed an interest in the market early on: at the a
Interview: The Holy Grail Of Trading Is Within Us All: Van K. Tharp by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Holy Grail Of Trading Is Within Us All: Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Psychologist and trading coach Van K. Tharp is the president of the International Institute of Trading Mastery, Inc. He has spent the last 15 years working with more than 4,000 traders, and
Interview: The Nature Of The Market Is Change: Bruce Kamich by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nature Of The Market Is Change: Bruce Kamich Technicians follow numerous markets, and some specialize in specific areas, such as equities or fixed income. With the Treasury bond yields recently hitting lows that were unthinkable by most only a few y
Interview: The Survivors by John Sweeney and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: The Survivors by John Sweeney and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan As goes the Nasdaq, so does the number of daytraders. Or so it seems. Those who continue to trade as if nothing changed are those who can call themselves, with confidence, traders. For
Interview: Thomas Bulkowski by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (46-54): Interview: Thomas Bulkowski by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trader and chart-pattern expert Thomas N. Bulkowski, former hardware and software engineer and current Contributing Writer for Technical Analysis of STOCKS & CO
Interview: Tim Wood Of Cycles News & Views by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (68-74): Interview: Tim Wood Of Cycles News & Views by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Tim W. Wood is editor and publisher of Cycles News & Views, which provides technically based research and analysis on the stock market, gold, bon
Interview: Tom Rietz Of Iowa Electronic Markets by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade The Future(s) Tom Rietz Of Iowa Electronic Markets Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) are real-money futures markets in which students and professionals trade contracts of everything from US politics to Federal Reserve monetary policy to computer retur
Interview: Trading Communities On The Web: Doug Fairclough by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Communities On The Web: Doug Fairclough by J. Gopalakrishnan Doug Fairclough was in the midst of a two-year stint as database guru at HotWired, the pioneering website of Wired magazine, when he became aware of the possibilities of the Internet t
Interview: Trading Diverences With Ashwani Gujral by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (64-71): Interview: Trading Diverences With Ashwani Gujral by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Ashwani Gujral first got acquainted with technical analysis when he was studying for his master's degree in business administration in the
Interview: Trading Forex With Jamie Saettele by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Interview: Trading Futures With Charles LeBeau by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading Futures With Charles LeBeau by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Charles LeBeau, who has been trading stocks and futures for more than 40 years (20 years of which was with E.F. Hutton & Co.), is a noted author, lecturer, and system developer an
Interview: Trading Success As A Point Of Reference: Ari Kiev, M.D. by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Success As A Point Of Reference: Ari Kiev, M.D. Ari Kiev started out working with suicidal patients before going on to work with athletes and now as a trader's coach. He is a management consult-ant to several trading firms and is the author of n
Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan Cornelius Luca is an author and international consultant in foreign exchange and technical analysis. Luca has spent his entire professional life in international finance, an
Interview: Understanding Intermarket Analysis With John J. Murphy by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding Intermarket Analysis With John J. Murphy by Matt Blackman John Murphy has become a household name in the technical analysis community. And how could he not? He was the technical analyst for CNBC for seven years, and is the cofou
Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan Philip Gotthelf, the publisher of the COMMODEX System, the oldest daily futures trading system published, and Commodity Futures Forecast Service, which has been in existence
Interview: Vetting The Market: Price Headley by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Interview: Victor B. Niederhoffer by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Music of the Markets - Victor B. Niederhoffer Trader, speculator, author, and more. The name may be familiar, but there's more to the man than just finance. Victor Niederhoffer has served as advisor to, and investor for, famed investor George Soros and
Interview: Victor Sperandeo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Victor Sperandeo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan He's seen the good times, he's seen the bad times. A trader and money manager, Victor Sperandeo has 38 years' experience in Wall Street. He has managed money and traded for institutional accounts an
Interview: What Is The Future Of Trading? by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Is The Future Of Trading? by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan At The Start Of Our 20th Year, We Ask: What Is The Future Of Trading? The trading exchanges have been going through various changes lately, shifting from member-sponsored entities to for-profi
Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney Yale Hirsch is best known as the editor and publisher of The Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 33rd annual edition. He is a stock market historian and stock analyst who could probably tell you, w
Interview:Bob And Don Bright Of Bright Trading by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tales Of Professional Daytraders Bob And Don Bright Of Bright Trading Bored in retirement from exploiting the Standard & PoorÕs OEX options spreads, Bob Bright got back into trading in 1992 by forming Bright Trading with partner Edward Franco as an off-
Interview:Richard McCabe Of Merrill Lynch by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Richard McCabe Of Merrill Lynch The Technical Tradition Continues Continuing the technical tradition begun by Bob Farrell, Merrill Lynch chief market analyst Richard McCabe has been Mr.Technical Analysis at the world's largest brokerage since 1993, fol
Into the Pit by Joseph Wilson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Into the Pit by Joseph Wilson In December 1985, I was approved for membership to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. I obtained a membership to the Index and Options Market, which gave me the right to trade the S&P 500 futures. Let me digress for a moment.
Intrabar Execution Tools by Suri Duddella
Intraday Market Forecasting by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (34-37): Intraday Market Forecasting by Lee Leibfarth How do you find high-probability daytrading setups fast? Successful daytraders must have the ability to react as soon as favorable conditions in the market develop. Bein
Intraday Short-Term Trading Tactics by Ron Walker
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intraday Short-Term Trading Tactics by Ron Walker Enter and exit trades the right way based on familiar chart patterns. wing trading prospects occur when price patterns form. Even though traders might be familiar with many chart patterns, they may not
Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intraday swings with wave charts: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 12 by Jack K. Hutson The serious follower of Wyckoff, a trader who embraces the entire scope and intricate details of this methodology, has not completed his or her analytic ars
Intraday trading techniques by John W. Labuszewski and John E. Nyhoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intraday trading techniques by John W. Labuszewski and John E. Nyhoff Many analysts find that the charting techniques that they rely on for inter-day trading are somewhat less useful on an intraday basis. As a result, these analysts often rely on other
Introducing The Modidor Spread by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introducing The Modidor Spread by Jay Kaeppel Here's a strategy that involves modifications to the standard iron condor spread. The world of option trading is an ever-evolving one. While the basic strategies have been around for a long time, the search
Introduction to macros Part 3 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introduction to macros Part 3 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. In the previous column, I discussed the advantages of using Lotus 1-2-3 in the management of an indicator as complex as the Directional Movement Index (DMI). In this column and hereafter, we shall move
Introduction to spread investing Part 1 by Frank Taucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introduction to spread investing Part 1 by Frank Taucher Most commodity traders are aware of the lower risk and margin requirements that traditional spread trading offers vs. outright long or short positions. Many even have a favorite spread or two that
Introductions by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Introductions by Arthur A. Merrill Stocks tend to fly together, rising in bull markets and declining in bear markets. For this reason, analysts have been searching many years for indicators of the future of the overall stock market. It isn't easy to fi
Investigating chart patterns using Markov analysis by Curtis McKallip, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investigating chart patterns using Markov analysis by Curtis McKallip, Jr. Most traders, at one time or another, have utilized elementary price patterns such as trendlines, triangles, gaps, and flags. The identifying characteristics and measuring proper
Investment Candles by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which candlesticks work best as reversal or continuation patterns? Find out here. Investment-grade candlesticks work as reversal or continuation patterns at least two-thirds of the time (66%), and they are plentiful. By "plentiful," I mean that I so
Investment Software Benefits by Gerald Frankel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investment Software Benefits by Gerald Frankel Is there a computer system for the professional technical analyst? In this article, we will take a candid look at a typical technical analyst's experiences with computers and software. Finding a computer s
Investment VS Trading In Covered Call Writing by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the investment approach, shares of stock are viewed as rental property and calls are written to generate additional income from what is expected to be a longer-term stock investment. The trading approach involves executing buy/writes based o
Investor/RT 6.1.5 by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Iron Butterfly And Condor Slices by Tony Saliba and Joe Corona
Is Dow Theory Sending Us A Warning? by Michael D. Sheimo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is Dow Theory Sending Us A Warning? by Michael D. Sheimo Michael Sheimo, best known for books such as Dow Theory Redux and Stock Market Rules, tackles the age-old question of whether the Dow theory is still valid and if it is, is it really sending us a
Is Gold Still a Barometer by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the gold market still an indicator of other trends? Here's a look at the past relationships of gold to the dollar, the Consumer Price Index and the CRB. Analysts often cite intermarket relationships when touting a market's prospects. An analyst migh
Is Overnight Trading A New Way To Daytrade? by Thomas K. Carr, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (22-30): Is Overnight Trading A New Way To Daytrade? by Thomas K. Carr, Ph.D. Is the pattern daytrading regulation an obstacle to your daytrading? There may be a way around it. On September 28, 2001, the Securities and Exch
Is The DJIA A Defective Indicator? by Max Bader, M.D., M.P.H.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is The DJIA A Defective Indicator? by Max Bader, M.D., M.P.H. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is the most popular and commonly quoted of the stock market averages used to measure market activity. This is due mainly to its long history as a marke
Is The Stock Market Random? by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is The Stock Market Random? by Bill Dunbar Professor Aikinheit of the Economics Department strokes the bottom of his mustache up out of the way, tips his martini glass and drains the last precious drops. ""Have another?"" Joe Grubber licks his upper li
Is Wrong Ever Right? by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Following a strategy is key to success in the markets, but what if you make deliberately wrong decisions and still make money? Here are some ways to avoid this form of self sabotage. If traders are going to succeed over the long haul, they must follow t
It Ain't Over Till. . . Well, You Know by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (78-80): It Ain't Over Till. . . Well, You Know by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Are you looking for a way to revive your passion for trading after a long, hot, summer? A visit to the ballpark before baseball season is over may d
It 's What You Keep That Counts by Ted Tesser, CPA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's What You Keep That Counts by Ted Tesser,CPA Trader status, which has always been one of the hottest but least understood topics whenever taxes are discussed, has always left market participants confused. Here's a certified public accountant who al
It's All In The Family: Sherman, Marian And Tom McClellan by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: It's All In The Family: Sherman,Marian And Tom McClellan by Thom Hartle The McClellan oscillator and the summation index are two popular technical indicators that have been around for more than 25 years, and in fact, the daily values are broa
It's In The Sentiment by Ajay Jani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (28-31): It's In The Sentiment by Ajay Jani Here's a quantitative sentiment index based on trading behavior of the Rydex Sector Funds. With all the debate surrounding the effectiveness of market timing, often the underlying
James B. Stack, Big Sky Investor by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: James B. Stack, Big Sky Investor by Thom Hartle Thomas Wolfe was wrong: You can go home again. Frank Russell did it when he returned to Tacoma, WA, after he established his well-regarded investment firm in New York, and James Stack did it whe
Japanese Stocks: Potential Calamity Or Business As Usual? by Eric L. Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Japanese Stocks: Potential Calamity Or Business As Usual? by Eric L. Sharp Market calamities can be interesting, profitable and even fun to watch. We've had a few of our own in the U.S., with the savings and loan debacle and the junk bond market hijinks
Jared Woodard of Condor Options by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jared Woodard of Condor Options by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber Knowing how the market moves isn't particularly important, Jared Woodard, our interview subject of the month, explains. Woodard, the principal of Condor Options, has more than a decade of
Jay Kaeppel On Trading Futures, Options, Gold, Sectors by J. Gopalakrishnan and B.R. Faber
Jim Owen On Professional Investment Managers by Mike Takano
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jim Owen On Professional Investment Managers by Mike Takano Jim Owen is managing director of NWQ Investment Management Co. and author of The Prudent Investor, published by Probus Publishing Co. He is co-founder and executive vice president of the Invest
John Bollinger Of Bollinger Capital Management by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John Bollinger Of Bollinger Capital Management by Thom Hartle John Bollinger, C.F.A., C.M.T., former market analyst for CNBC/FNN, president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, author of the ""Capital Growth Letter"" a market letter for the aver
John Bollinger and Group Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Bollinger and Group Analysis by Thom Hartle John Bollinger, who is best known for his work on trading bands, also has other accomplishments to his credit as money manager, publisher and market analyst. Of late he's been looking at some n
John McGinley of Technical Trends by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John McGinley of Technical Trends by Thom Hartle The Technical Trends newsletter, originally published by technician Arthur Merrill, presents statistical analysis of the stocks and futures market in graphic form. STOCKS & COMMODITIES Editor Thom Hartle
John Murphy: Intermarket Analyst by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John Murphy: Intermarket Analyst by Thom Hartle When you think of classic textbooks on technical analysis, John J. Murphy's Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets comes to mind. Murphy, who is also the resident technical analyst for cable television'
Join The Band by Marco Alves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Join The Band by Marco Alves Apply this method to moving average crossovers to get rid of the lag and the false signals. One of the first indicators that any technical analysis novice studies is the moving average crossover. Moving averages (MAs) smoot
Jokes Of (Trading) Wisdom by Giorgos E. Siligardos, PhD
Josh DiPietro and The Reality Of Daytrading by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Juggling Dynamite With Danielle Park by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Juggling Dynamite With Danielle Park by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber With more than 18 years of professional consulting experience, Danielle Park is an attorney as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (Cfa) and finance author. Park is a regular guest
Jump Into The Net by Ron Berlin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Want to do some research on the Internet but don't know where to start? Well, you're in luck. Here are some techniques currently available for finding investment information online, using search engines to navigate the Internet. By Ron Berlin The Intern
June, 1984 Gold: Studies in Price Action by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...June, 1984 Gold: Studies in Price Action by Jesse H. Thompson The recent March trend reversal, as represented by the activity of the June 1984 Gold contract, is an excellent study of the interaction of price with natural resistance levels, as well as il
KST And Relative Strength by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...KST And Relative Strength by Martin J. Pring In previous articles, technician and author Martin Pring has analyzed the KST indicator, an oscillator designed to identify market turns based on time cycles. This month, he explains how to use the KST in gau
KST Revisited by Christopher Narcouzi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...KST Revisited by Christopher Narcouzi You know there's a trend out there -- but is it too late to get in on it? Here's a look at Martin J. Pring's KST indicator, which can give valuable trading insight into trend maturity. Bull and bear markets go throu
Kagi Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kagi Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If you've ever seen a reference to this particular form of candlestick charting and wondered what they were, you can find out here. The financial markets exist because of the complementary relationship between bul
Keeping A Trading Journal by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Keeping A Trading Journal by Thom Hartle Success in trading the markets does not come overnight. It is probable that the novice who profits early and easily in his trading career will view the gains as the easiest money he or she ever made. It is also v
Keltner Channel by Stuart Evens
Key reversal days by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Key reversal days by Peter Aan Note the differences in this bearish pattern, however. Pattern A requires only a lower close than the previous day and does not require that the previous day's low be penetrated. Pattern B does require such a penetration,
Kondratieff Wave Comeback by Koos van der Merwe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kondratieff Wave Comeback by Koos van der Merwe Will 2010 mark the end of the current recession? Use the Kondratieff wave to find out. IN my November 2008 Stocks & Commodities article, I concluded that "the US and world economies are headed for recess
Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder Author: Stanley Kroll Publisher: Dow Jones-Irwin 1818 Ridge Road Homewood, IL 60430 Contents: 203 pages, hardbound Price: $29.95 Stanley Kroll is reputed to have taken seven-figure profits o
LANE'S STOCHASTICS by George C. Lane, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...LANE'S STOCHASTICS by George C. Lane, M.D. In 1954, I was fortunate to join Investment Educators as a ""gopher"". I carried luggage, ran the projector, made charts and took attendance for the owner, Ralph Dystant, and for the technical ""guru"", Roy Lar
LEADING INDICATORS FROM FOURIER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS by William T. Taylor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...LEADING INDICATORS FROM FOURIER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS by William T. Taylor The purpose of this article is to expand upon my previous work July 1984 Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine) into an area not normally discussed as part of Spectral
Laps And Gaps To Get Your Edge by Larry Connors and Ashton Dorkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Laps And Gaps To Get Your Edge by Larry Connors and Ashton Dorkins When a stock gaps higher at the open on bullish news, will that lead to even higher prices? When a stock gaps higher at the open on bullish news, will that lead to even higher prices? T
Large block transactions by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Large block transactions by Arthur Merrill Here is an indicator that reveals the direction of enthusiasm of the big operators. Are they reaching for stock, even at higher prices? Or, on the other hand are they eager to unload, even at lower prices? The
Las Vegas Or Los Nasdaq? by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (18-29): Las Vegas Or Los Nasdaq? by Markos Katsanos Have you ever seen a low-priced stock in your watchlist go up by more than 50% in a day and wished that it had been in your portfolio list instead? Here's a method for pic
Lattice Trees by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lattice Trees by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. The lattice approach to option pricing is used to build a tree, so to speak, of futures prices. The price tree can be recomputed intraday to update the expected price range. These dynamic trees can be used for ri
Leader Of The MACD by Giorgos Siligardos
Leading By Transports
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While both the Dow industrials and the transports have broken out above downtrend lines, it is the transportation average that is leading the fight to best the June highs.
Leading Indices At Bull Market Peaks by Tim Hayes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leading Indices At Bull Market Peaks by Tim Hayes So which indices do you think most reliably lead the market? To find out, STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Tim Hayes, who was also interviewed in the August 1991 issue, examined 14 indicators for their m
Leading Price Patterns by Christopher Narcouzi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leading Price Patterns by Christopher Narcouzi Cut your losses and increase your profits dramatically by using these techniques. Oscillators provide buy and sell signals, but sometimes they can get you in late or get you out late. Signals generated by
Leading indicators with momentum by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leading indicators with momentum by John Ehlers Newcomers to technical trading are often confused by terminology. Oscillators don't oscillate and stochastics have nothing to do with random variables. Neither does momentum describe the force required to
Learning Through Trial and Error: Mark Boucher by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learning Through Trial And Error - Mark Boucher I started off totally technically based, opposite from what investors normally start off with. When I started, there was a lot more material on technical analysis than I could find on fundamental analysis.
Least-Squares Data Smoothing by Harold A. Kreamer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Least-Squares Data Smoothing by Harold A. Kreamer Superimposed on and often indistinguishable from daily market data trends are seemingly random fluctuations, known as noise. An analyst wants to remove as much noise from data as possible without degradi
Left brain/right brain, reality and trading the markets by R.E. McMaster, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Left brain/right brain, reality and trading the markets by R.E. McMaster, Jr. The starting point for success in trading the markets profitably is to perceive market reality accurately. While this may sound obvious enough, most traders enter the marketpl
Leo Fasciocco: Investor's Business Daily by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leo Fasciocco: Investor's Business, Daily by Thom Hartle Investor' s Business Daily columnist Leo Fasciocco came by his expertise in the market the way STOCK & COMMODITIES has always emphasized -- research, research, research. As a financial journalist f
Less Stress With The JM Internal Band by Koos van der Merwe
Let Options Pay For Your Stops by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Let Options Pay For Your Stops by Joe Luisi Want to get into positions with good risk-return ratios and firm boundaries of gain and loss? Look no further: Here's a technique for having it all -- or most of it, anyway. You know you should use stops, but
Let The Indicator Fit The Market by Martha Stokes, CMT
Letter to Jake by Stuart J. Pahn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letter to Jake by Stuart J. Pahn Dear Jake, You asked me to explain some of the main factors I consider when making a trade. Let me use my most recent trade as an example. As the attached equity run shows, I sold short a contract of June Comex gold on M
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. TAXES AND TRADING Editor, I have been a subscriber to STOCKS & COMMODITIES for about two years now. I find some of the articles very useful and it's the only magazine that I actually keep in a library. The po
Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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)
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
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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,"" STOCK
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. WEINSTEIN CONFUSION Editor, On page 46 of the February 2009 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, in the article "Weinstein's Theory Of Relativity" by Larry Swing, Swing alludes to Stan Weinstei
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. ICHIMOKU CHARTS Editor, I am interested in using ichimoku charts. Can you tell me of any charting services that provide access to this type of chart? KIRBY OWEN Yulee, FL A check of our Traders' Resource da
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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
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. Volume-Weighted MACD Editor, The article "Volume- Weighted Macd Histogram" by David Hawkins in the October 2009 issue is certainly well written and instructive. However, it fails to note that the Vwmacd was or
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (68-70): Letting Go Of Resentment by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Each trading day brings with it an array of emotions, both positive and negative. Here's how you can get a grip on your negative emotions. If there is one thing t
Leverage And Commodities by J.M. Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leverage And Commodities by J.M. Malley Malley explains how to determine the appropriate amount of leverage for commodity trading. A winning trading system is a worthy goal, but there's the question of how much to put on in a trade or, equivalently, h
Leverage and Equities by J.M. Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leverage and Equities by J.M. Malley Here's how to find the appropriate leverage for stock trading and researching leverage with a simulated portfolio. Deep discount brokerages are competing actively for customers, reducing commissions drastically and
Life Cycle Model Of Crowd Behavior by Henry O. Pruden, Ph.D.
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
Life On Hold by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Life On Hold by Adrienne Laris Toghraie If you have put your trading on hold, you undoubtedly have a compelling reason. To support your case for being stuck, you can find countless others who will nod in agreement and understanding as they wait to tell
Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov Market sentiment has traditionally been associated with subjectivity. Here's a method that not only adds a quantitative bent to measuring market sentiment, but can also be applied
Limited Risk - High Leverage Potential by Richard J. Maturi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Limited Risk - High Leverage Potential by Richard J. Maturi Interested in an investment opportunity with known limited risk and high leverage profit potential? Then silver options may be right for you. Many investors shy away from gold and silver invest
Linking Point & Figure And Bar Charts by Robert Busby, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (30-35): Linking Point & Figure And Bar Charts by Robert Busby, Ph.D. Ever thought of combining these two chart pattern techniques? Find out how. Point & figure is one of the oldest western techniques of charting, tracing i
Liquidity Data Bank: Big promises, small deliveries by Thomas K Bonen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Liquidity Data Bank: Big promises, small deliveries by Thomas K. Bonen In 1984, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) introduced the revolutionary Liquidity Data Bank (LDB) to the general public. It was a truly unique venture intended to open up the exchang
Liquidity Of The Biofuels Market by Rick Kment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Liquidity Of The Biofuels Market by Rick Kment The ethanol futures contract is relatively young, but the market has tremendous growth potential. Here's why. Since the early 1970s, the ethanol and biofuels industry has witnessed rapid and unprecedented
Listen to the market by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Listen to the market by Thom Hartle Technical analysis encompasses a myriad of approaches and, in the face of the trend toward high-tech, I admit to being less of a computer system trader and more of a traditional chartist. I actually prefer to state th
LiveWire by Jim Rader
Living the Dream: Trader Gary Smith by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Living The Dream: Trader Gary Smith I always dreamed of trading for a living and I finally have achieved that, but never in the way I had imagined. I always envisioned myself as one of these Jesse Livermore-tape reader types, but it's been very differen
Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones There are two fools in every market. One asks too little, one asks too much. -- Old Russian proverb The search for value in markets is a never-ending quest, since value changes with underlying
Log Spirals In The Stock Market by William T. Erman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Log Spirals In The Stock Market by William T. Erman The basic mathematical characteristic of the log spiral is that even while increasing or decreasing in size, the log spiral remains constant. This is also true for rectangular spirals, the parameters
Logarithmic Point & Figure Charting by William G.S. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (288-291): Logarithmic Point & Figure Charting by William G.S. Brown Traditional point & figure charting is one of the oldest methods known in technical analysis. The technique is unique because it only records the direction and change in price
Logarithmic Point & Figure by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Logarithmic Point & Figure by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. In the June 1991 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I described how a turning point could be measured by filtering out minor market moves. The same filtering technique can be used to correct the failings of the
Logarithmic point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Logarithmic point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo During the early development of technical analysis, almost all types of graphing methods used the arithmetic values of prices for charting. Not so long ago, it became a common practice to constru
Long-Term Commodity Trades by Andre Zupans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Paper And Pencil, For Cotton Long-Term Commodity Trades by Andre Zupans Large commodity firms, commercial producers, and mature speculators know that capturing huge moves in commodity markets may take years. HereÕs that technique, demonstrated n
Long-Term Fibonacci Support and Resistance by Kevin W. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a historical review of the major swings in the stock market and the Fibonacci relationships. According to long-term FibonacciÝ support and resistance levels in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), we are approaching a notable resistance leve
Long-Term Trading With Swiss Francs by Andre Zupans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Paper And Pencil (Hey, It Still Works!) Long-Term Trading With Swiss Francs Didn't you love that little cotton trade we showed you back in May 2000? Want to try again with Swiss francs? Here's your chance. by Andre Zupans In the May 2000 STOCKS
Look Back Before You Leap by Richard Bergner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Look to the past to predict the future: It's a new way to predict commodity price action as you study a chart. How can you find good trading opportunities? Imagine, if you will, all the ways you've read or heard about how to do so. But if you're aware o
Looking At 10-Year Stock Price Patterns by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking At 10-Year Stock Price Patterns by Lewis Carl Mokrasch, Ph.D. Many temporal cycles have some influence on the stock and commodity markets. One, the decennial pattern, receives more attention near the beginning and end of decades. Studying stock
Looking At Momentum With TRIX by Ed Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking At Momentum With TRIX by Ed Downs The TRIX oscillator has unique properties that make it ideal for identifying direction of trend as well as cyclical entry points. Last month, Ed Downs showed us how various oscillators can be tuned to the person
Looking At Other Markets by Gail Mercer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking At Other Markets by Gail Mercer Most new traders gravitate to the S&P mini because of its average price range. But here's a look at daily price movement in the currency futures vs. that of the S&P 500. Which one has larger price movements? any
Looking At The Market With Auction Market Analysis by Tom Alexander
Looking For Inefficiently Priced Stocks by Thomas K. Lloyd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking For Inefficiently Priced Stocks by Thomas K. Lloyd The story is the same everywhere: Find the inefficiency and take advantage of it. This author presents some ideas on how to recognize market inefficiencies by analyzing stock charts and making u
Looking Forward With Jeff Parent by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking Forward With Jeff Parent by J. Gopalakrishnan Jeff Parent has been providing wealth management services to his high net worth clients since 1992. From many years of experience, he has become proficient in portfolio management techniques and has
Looking Forward With Yesterday's Action by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CTA, CFP
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you determine how prices will move after looking at yesterday's price action? This analysis measures price movement on the S&P 500 Sp d r exchange traded fund for the next three days.
Loops: static and dynamic Part 7 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Loops: static and dynamic Part 7 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. This month, we develop a loop to manage the calculation of the trading range (TR 1) used in J. Welles Wilder's Directional Movement Index (DMI) system. The previous columns developed the formula for
Low-Risk Trades Using Cup-With-Handle by Dale Glaspie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Low-Risk Trades Using Cup-With-Handle by Dale Glaspie Here's how a popular pattern can present trading opportunities in a bear market. The year 2008 marked the beginning of one of the worst economic crises of our country's history. But just like all ot
Lunar Cycles and Trading by J. O Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lunar Cycles and Trading by J. O Katz, Ph.D. This month, this Contributing Writer looks at using lunar cycles as the basis of a trading system. In my previous two articles, I focused on cycles -- rhythmic oscillations that occur with a certain periodic
MACD and Trendlines by Danish Kapur
MACD momentum Part 1 by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MACD momentum Part 1 by Thomas Aspray In the fall of 1986, I completed work on a new indicator: the MACD Histogram/Momentum. As many of you are already aware, the MACD, or Convergence/Divergence, is an excellent indicator, but its signals often lag when
MACD momentum Part 2 by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MACD momentum Part 2 by Thomas Aspray Last month I looked at how the MACD Momentum (MACD-Mo) and MACD Histogram (MACD-H) were excellent intermediate indicators for stocks as well as commodities. I also use the MACD-Mo and MACD-H on daily data, but the r
MESA Adaptive Moving Averages by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MESA Adaptive Moving Averages by John F. Ehlers What if you combined the power of maximum entropy spectral analysis with the Hilbert transform's ability to discern phase change? The MESA adaptive moving average (MAMA) adapts to price movement in a new
MIDAS And Intraday Charts by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MIDAS And Intraday Charts by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins In this third and final part of this series, we will look at how to apply the TB-F algorithm to intraday charts. by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins Like Midas, which is an acronym for market i
MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney MMS -Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate 490 El Camino Real Belmont, CA 94002 (800)227-7304 (415)595-0610 Price: $145 per month on already installed Telerate
MadScan by Dennis D. Peterson
Make The Trend Your Friend In Forex by Kenneth Agostino and Brian Dolan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (14-20): Make The Trend Your Friend In Forex by Kenneth Agostino and Brian Dolan So you didn't see that last headline-grabbing market move coming? Here are some techniques you can use to make sure you'll be prepared next time. Of the many marke
Making A Good System Great by Donald W. Pendergast Jr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once you have a trading system, you still need to evaluate it. You can apply optimization strategies to increase profitability, reduce drawdowns, and enhance the stability of your system.
Making Cents Of Throwbacks And Pullbacks by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making Cents Of Throwbacks And Pullbacks by Thomas Bulkowski What are they and how can we use them? Find out what they are and how they perform. When I started investing more than 20 years ago, I thought technical analysis was nothing more than mysteri
Making Money With Chaos by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., RSA, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making Money With Chaos by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., RSA, CTA An order indeed exists in the market, as W.D. Gann and, more recently, J. Welles Wilder have claimed. But the order is not as perfect as some have made it out to be, simply because the market obey
Making Sense Of Fractals by Erik Long
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making Sense Of Fractals by Erik Long What is chaos? Here's a tool you can use to trade on the cutting edge of chaos and fractal theory. haos is evident just about everywhere: in lightning, weather patterns, earthquakes, and financial markets, to name
Making The Most Of A Trend With The Disparity Index by Dan Valcu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making The Most Of A Trend With The Disparity Index by Dan Valcu In volatile markets, it's difficult to forecast the formation of peaks and troughs. The disparity index is an indicator that helps you squeeze the best out of a trend whether you are tradi
Making spreadsheets part of your trading system Part I by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making spreadsheets part of your trading system Part I by Jim Summers, Ph.D. This column will be all about using Lotus 1-2-3, Release 2.0 as a trading tool. Given the number of programs written for technical analysis fundamental analysis, and portfolio
Making the Titanic Fly by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Making the Titanic Fly by Dennis Meyers The Titanic syndrome is a stock market timing system built on various stock market indicators. As with all trading systems, additional refinements are possible on the original. Here, then, is one trader's double s
Malfunctioning Computers: Who Pays? by Clifford Sherry, Ph. D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Malfunctioning Computers: Who Pays? by Clifford Sherry, Ph. D. You have just decided to purchase a new computer, peripheral (disc drive, printer, etc.) or software package (program). How should you proceed? First, you should stop and do some careful thi
Manage Your Money, Or Someone Else Will by Ray Johns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Manage Your Money, Or Someone Else Will by Ray Johns You can stop that from happening, and here's how. Many traders, especially those new to the markets, tend to overlook a simple yet important premise when it comes to their trading: specifically, that
Managed Futures and Commodity Trading Advisors by Martin Hiemstra
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are managed futures for you? Mysterious for many investors, they nonetheless fill a particular need and are no riskier than traditional equity investments. Dealing with a professional commodity trading advisor (CTA) can certainly help sort through the co
Managing Dynamic Portfolios by Kevin Morgan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (46-56): Managing Dynamic Portfolios by Kevin Morgan Here's how to build an automated trading system that reselects its preferred trading symbols on a recurring basis. Computerized trading system development and execution p
Managing Emotions And Money by Robert J. Hamilton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing Emotions And Money by Robert J. Hamilton The pitfalls of trading are well known to investors as well as traders. As perils go, the star performers by far and away are hope, fear and greed. The mavens of trading theory agree that avoiding these
Managing Risk With Options by Scott H. Fullman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing Risk With Options by Scott H. Fullman Ever get the feeling you're throwing good money after bad in your stock transactions? Ever feel your wallet getting lighter and lighter while it's still in your pocket because of what your stock's doing? Ev
Managing the Future with Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing The Future With Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo The stock market has been trending higher for a record period, and a correction is long overdue. What can you do to stay in the game, besides reduce your risk? Consider diversifying your asset
Mark Douglas And The Disciplined Trader by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Mark Douglas And The Disciplined Trader by Thom Hartle The best teacher is experience, and from his experiences as a trader and a broker, Mark Douglas, consultant with his own firm, Trading Behavior Dynamics, and author of The Disciplined Tra
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
Market Blueprints by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Blueprints by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer A method or system for trading can be likened to a building in that its viability depends on its foundation and structure. Ideally the cornerstones of this building will be purpose,
Market Breadth or Beta by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Breadth Or Beta? Breadth and beta both start with "b," but what else do they have in common? Maybe a way to help make trading decisions. by Dennis D. Peterson Market breadth is a measure of market momentum. When momentum is positive and increas
Market Breadth: Volume by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Market Health Market Breadth: Volume Of all the market breadth measures to determine the overall health of the market, volume is perhaps one of the most difficult to use. by Dennis D. Peterson It only takes a few stocks to push major indice
Market Forecasting Model: ARIMA by Albert E. Parish Jr., Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Forecasting Model: ARIMA by Albert E. Parish Jr., Ph.D. Numerous statistical and time series techniques have been adapted for use in modeling futures prices series by using the microcomputer. One such model is the AutoRegressive Integrated Moving
Market Fuel And Technical Analysis by D. Earl Essig
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Fuel And Technical Analysis by D. Earl Essig When traders hunt for the Holy Grail of commodity trading in futures and options, obvious clues to market direction are often overlooked. One such oversight generally occurs in analyzing price patterns
Market Maker by John Sweeney
Market Phase And Chart Formation by Chuck Dukas
Market Prediction Through Fractal Geometry by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Prediction Through Fractal Geometry by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D. Few have heard of fractal geometry and fewer still know how to use it. But it is a powerful tool with which to analyze nonlinear systems and is the main alternative for analyzing sy
Market Profile Basics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Market Profile Exotics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Exotics The Liquidity Data Bank In this followup to last month 's article on Market Profile,we go beyond Market Profile to determine price movements.Here 's a look at the Liquidity Data Bank,which helps traders detect price movements earl
Market Profile Part 2 by Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Part 2 by Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt The market is composed of time, price and volume. Each day, the market--in attempting to facilitate trade--develops a price range delineated by the daily high and low and a Value Area w
Market Profile Part 5 by Thomas P. Drinka, Stephen M. Ptasienski and Robby L. Humes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Part 5 by Thomas P. Drinka, Stephen M. Ptasienski and Robby L. Humes To make the information from the Chicago Board of Trade's Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank reports more useful to traders, we have tabulated time-and-sales as well
Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt Following more than four years of development by J. Peter Steidlmayer and the Chicago Board of Trade, the CBOT Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank went online in 1985. Wi
Market Profile and trends Part 3 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and trends Part 3 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt The key to market opportunity is knowing when current market price diverges from value and being able to judge whether price will move to value or value to price. A divergence
Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank: A procedural outline by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank: A procedural outline by Donald L. Jones The Chicago Board of Trade's Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank report is an unparalleled source of market- generated information. Each price traded during the day is identified
Market Reactivity by Al Gietzen
Market Reactivity by Al Gietzen
Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (50-54): Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen The ability to pick up on and properly interpret minute signals in the market dictates the distinction between success and failure. Here's how implied vola
Market Thrust by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Thrust by Tushar S. Chande An abundance of articles and letters concerning the Arms index, or the trading index (TRIN), during the past year was one proof of its popularity. The articles were concerned with both the uses and limitations of the Ar
Market Ticker's Karl Denninger by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Ticker's Karl Denninger by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber Karl Denninger tells you like it is. He is the former Ceo of McsNet, a regional Chicago-area networking and Internet company that operated from 1987 to 1998. McsNet offered several "firsts
Market Timing System Version 2.6 by Vicki Parker Lee
Market Timing and Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Timing and Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny When to buy and what? Those are the questions that have plagued market participants the world over. Here's a proposal on how to use candlesticks to time the market. To be successf
Market Topology by Nicolas Vandewalle, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Topology by Nicolas Vandewalle, Ph.D. Stock W affects stock X, which in turn affects stock Y, which drives stock Z. How do you work out all the interconnectivity? By using a market tree. No single indicator seems to represent the global (or loca
Market Trend And Midas by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Trend And Midas by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins Here's an in-depth look at an indicator that is part of Midas, the well-known market data analysis system. In this, the first of a three-part series, we will look at the formula used to calculate
Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord The tick index is a little-known indicator that can be used to indicate short-term stock market reversals and provide trend confirmation. Short-term traders should consider using the tic
Market Vane Transformations by Kenneth L. Kinkopf Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Vane Transformations by Kenneth L. Kinkopf Jr. The sentiment readings of the Market Vane service is a poll taken daily from futures trading advisors indicating the percentage that are bullish at that moment. Ironically, market consensus is used a
Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch Action/Reaction lines are a charting technique developed in the early 1900s by Roger Babson, who founded the Babson Business Institute in Massachusetts and believed Newton's laws of gravity affecte
Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill Analyst Abraham Cohen, many years ago, began to tabulate the opinions of stock market analysts. He watched scores of market letters (including my own!) and each week put them in three piles: bullish, bearish and
Market profile Part 4 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market profile Part 4 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt Previously, we considered the manner in which the market utilizes price probes and rotation during the trading day to promote trade. Depending on the response of other-time-frame traders
Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson The reasoning behind Richard D. Wyckoff''s classic method of chart analysis is simple and straightforward: when demand for a stock exceeds supply, prices rise; when supply is great
Market trends in composite averages Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 3 by Jack K. Hutson.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market trends in composite averages Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 3 by Jack K. Hutson. By looking at Vertical Line charts of composite averages using Wyckoff analysis, you can learn where the market is taking your individual and group stock pick
Markets Don't Trend, They Burst by K.D. Angle
Markov Chains by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markov Chains by George R. Arrington, Ph.D. A Markov chain, the concept of which was developed in 1906 by Russian mathematician A.A. Markov, is a mathematical tool that traders might use to predict future price changes on the basis of past price changes
Marshall wave theory by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Marshall wave theory by John Sweeney Yet another ""wave"" is being added to the futures lexicon: the Marshall Wave. Originated by John Marshall (Box 2302, Naples, FL33939 (813) 263-3114. Marshall Wave is a complicated system for trading futures in heavi
Martin Bedick and Andrew Abraham by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
Martin Pring and The Relevance Of Price Trends by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martin Pring and The Relevance Of Price Trends by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber Martin J. Pring entered the financial markets in 1969 and has grown to become a leader in the global investment community. In 1981 he founded Pring Research and began pr
Martin Zweig Of The Zweig Forecast by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martin Zweig Of The Zweig Forecast by Thom Hartle Martin Zweig may be a familiar name to you, and that would not be surprising, considering how many different hats he wears: one as editor of The Zweig Forecast newsletter, one as chairman of the Zweig Fu
Martingale money management by Robert Pelletier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martingale money management by Robert Pelletier An age-old method used by professional gamblers may be useful to the active trader as a means of money management. A martingale, according to Webster's dictionary, is a scheme for doubling your bet size fo
Martingales by James William Ferguson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martingales by James William Ferguson It was the first time I had ever been in Las Vegas, the first time I'd played a Martingale, and my eyes had been riveted to the flashing roulette wheel for more than three hours. Finally, hearing the whispers behind
Mary Pugh of Pugh Capital Management by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mary Pugh of Pugh Capital Management by Thom Hartle The year 1994 will be known for the debacle in the derivatives markets. But what are these instruments that seem to have left a number of money managers holding the proverbial bag? To answer this quest
Master Chartist by Robert Bukowski
Master Chartist by Steve Notis
Master oscillator by William Mason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Master oscillator by William Mason Is it possible to produce an overall market entry or exit signal based on several indicators/indices? In answering this intriguing question, I asked myself, ""What do I look at and look for as my first quick estimate o
Matching Money Management With Trade Risk by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Matching Money Management With Trade Risk by Daryl Guppy Manage your trades using technical analysis by identifying risk points as well as setting profit objectives. This Australia-based author shares some of his favorite techniques. Most of us think
Mathematica Version 2.0 by Tushar Chande, Ph.D.
Mathematician's Viewpoint. by ANTHONY WARREN PH.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mathematician's Viewpoint. by ANTHONY WARREN PH.D. In this initial article the author will describe his viewpoint on technical analysis and the value of computer based algorithms for enhancing one's chances of success in stock or commodity trading. We w
Maximizing Bond Fund Profits by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Maximizing Bond Fund Profits by Jay Kaeppel A new indicator based on Barron's Gold Mining Index is introduced for timing bond mutual funds. The proliferation in bond mutual funds in recent years has created both good news and bad news for investors. T
Maximizing The Mini by Mike Paulenoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (16-20): Maximizing The Mini by Mike Paulenoff Here's a look at a successful short-term trade on the e-mini contract. One morning in June, with the Standard & Poor's 500 riding a nearly four week uptrend, a friend of mine
Maximizing profits with stop orders: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 11 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Maximizing profits with stop orders: The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 11 by Jack K. Hutson No matter what technical system you use, the first rule of successful trading and investing is: Cut your losses short. No one believed more firmly in thi
Maximum Entropy Optimization by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. and Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Maximum Entropy Optimization by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. and Jack K. Hutson The Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) is a promising new system for short-term Spectrum Analysis and trend forecasting. In this article we discuss the process of obtaining an optimal
Measuring An Indicator's Forecasting Ability by George R. Arrington
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring An Indicator's Forecasting Ability by George R. Arrington Indicators are used to forecast a market. Traders have their favorite indicators. How can a trader determine whether an indicator leads the market? How can we tell whether one indicator
Measuring Cycle Periods by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring Cycle Periods by John F. Ehlers Measuring cycle periods allows you to adjust your indicators so they adapt to current market conditions. Here's how. IF you want to make your indicators and strategies adaptive to current market conditions, you
Measuring Flags And Pennants by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (22-31): Measuring Flags And Pennants by Markos Katsanos This new statistically derived formula can help you estimate price targets more accurately. Flags and pennants are my favorite formations, and I have used them in my
Measuring Linkage by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring Linkage by Thom Hartle Seasoned traders know that relationships exist between markets. In theory, if fundamentals move one market in one direction, then another market may also move in the same direction or show a propensity to move in the opp
Measuring Risk by Dick Stoken
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are two common ways to measure performance: the standard deviation of returns and the Sharpe ratio. Here's a third way. How do we measure risk? In the financial industry, the generally accepted method is the standard deviation of returns. A low st
Measuring Risk by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (20-26): Measuring Risk by Lee Leibfarth The most important concept in building a profitable trading system is to protect your capital. Here's a look at some of the techniques you can apply to measure your risks. Would you
Measuring System Performance by Lars N. Kestner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Measuring System Performance Want to improve the evaluation of your trading systems? Here's a new performance measure that uses some statistics to measure profitability through time. by Lars N. Kestner Starting with an idea and de
Measuring The Markets With Pivots by Austin Passamonte
Measuring Volatility by Jean-Olivier Fraisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring Volatility by Jean-Olivier Fraisse Are financial markets becoming more and more volatile? Can they still attract the small investor, even with such impressive fluctuations in daily prices? Is program trading a source of additional volatility?
Measuring the Move by Michael Kahn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chartists often use techniques to set profit objectives as well as determine their risk points in putting on a trade. Here, then, are some guidelines for your own trading. When a market breaks out of a technical trading pattern, traders need to correctl
Mechanical Trading System and the Art of . . . by Marcello Cattaneo Adorno
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders following mechanical systems can see situations that may affect mechanically based signals. Here's how to include technical signals outside your basic trading signal. What makes it more difficult still is that often the intuitive hunch not to f
Mechanical Trading System and the Art of . . . by Marcello Cattaneo Adorno
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders following mechanical systems can see situations that may affect mechanically based signals. Here's how to include technical signals outside your basic trading signal. What makes it more difficult still is that often the intuitive hunch not to f
Mechanically Recognizing Triangular Formations by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (24-38): Mechanically Recognizing Triangular Formations by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. Patterns such as triangles, pennants, and wedges (hereafter referred to as triangular formations, or TF) are some of the first things to which an aspiring chart
Median Line Market Analysis by Thomas E. French
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Median Line Market Analysis by Thomas E. French The Median Line (ML) method of market analysis was first developed by Professor Alan Hall Andrews, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineering graduate. The Median Line technique of geometric
Member Trading by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Member Trading by Arthur A. Merrill Once a week, but two weeks late, the New York and American stock exchanges report some interesting figures. You will find them in Barron's or The Wall Street Journal : Total volume and total short sales; Specialist
Member and public short selling by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Member and public short selling by Arthur A. Merrill Total short sales figures, published by the New York and American stock exchanges, are a useful set of figures for gauging market moods. Total short sales figures are reported in The Wall Street Journ
Member/Odd Lot Trading by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Member/Odd Lot Trading by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT Stock exchange members, the group that makes up the member trading statistics, should be more knowledgeable than the rest of us, the great ""public."" The members should be smart money -- at least, they sh
Merrill Directional Patterns by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Merrill Directional Patterns by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Can we get clues to price performance from the swings of prices in the last hours of the preceding day? If we ignore volume and the amount of change, the direction of the swings of prices can be
Merrill MW Waves by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Merrill MW Waves by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Suppose prices have been moving in a certain way. What are the probabilities for future prices? You must look to the past for similar situations. How similar must the past situation be? If you ask your comp
MetaStock Professional 3.0 by Jack Karczewski
MetaStock Professional by Steve Notis
MetaTrends by R.G. Boomers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MetaTrends by R.G. Boomers Many of the tools of technical analysis are based on an interval of time. The question that always gets asked concerning such tools is, "What is the best interval?" So Just when you thought you'd seen everything in charting, a
Metaphors For Trading by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Metaphors For Trading by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt The metaphors we use in our lives can be powerful emotional symbols, and how we view the market is reflected in those metaphors. Change those metaphors and develop a more successful attitude. Here's how.
Michael Sheimo On Dow Theory by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Michael Sheimo On Dow Theory by Thom Hartle Take a look around: Technology is changing the face of trading and investing before your very eyes. Computers, information acquisition and trading are all getting faster and faster, sometimes at bre
Midlife Trading by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Perhaps you've reached a point of success in your trading when suddenly you lose interest. Why? "Nothing's wrong. I'm doing fine. Really." Jon responded to my questions in such a way that his answers were encouraging -- but if everything was fine, why w
Mind Control by Michael Bois, CFA, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (54-57): Mind Control by Michael Bois, CFA, CTA The psychology of trading has always been a struggle. Perhaps the techniques here could provide a solution. Not long ago, I interviewed a Standard & Poor's floor trader from t
Minimize Risk By Trading Within A Range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking at 60-minute data for Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL) shows that the past month and a half have been a volatile period. Exhaustive selling during the middle of April created short-term support at $109 per share. By looking at these past support areas
Missing The 10 Best Days by Richard Ahrens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Missing The 10 Best Days by Richard Ahrens Would missing the 10 best days in the last 20 years have a negative impact on your portfolio? One of the standard arguments against attempting to time the market says that if you missed the 10 best days in the
Mitronics IIC by John Sweeney
ModelWare Professional Version 2.0 by John Sweeney
Modeling The Market = Building Trading Strategies by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (20-26): Modeling The Market = Building Trading Strategies by John F. Ehlers The correct model can form the foundation for comprehensive trading strategies. Modeling the market is important because you can build comprehensi
Modeling The Stock Market by Paul T. Holliday
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling The Stock Market by Paul T. Holliday The price/earnings ratio works perfectly well-- for stocks. But, Paul Holliday points out, it doesn't work for stock indices such as the DJIA or the Standard & Poor's 500, where the effective interest rate wo
Modeling the Markets with Nelson Freeburg by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW - Modeling the Markets with Nelson Freeburg by Thom Hartle I never could claim that I was a very good technical trader using conventional chart patterns. This absence of positive results in my own trading, combined with my academic background
Modeling the markets with Bezier curves by Mark Angel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling the markets with Bezier curves by Mark Angel The Bezier curve, also known as a B-curve, is a mathematical construct for tracing a smooth path between a series of key support and resistance points. B-curves, which were created as an industrial e
Modeling with pattern recognition decision rules by Ted C. Earle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling with pattern recognition decision rules by Ted C. Earle Empirical decision rules can help you recognize patterns in price actions. Earle provides detailed buy and sell rules along with examples using data on gold price changes over time. Most
Modern Hedging For Everyone by DR. BASIL VENITIS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modern Hedging For Everyone. by DR. BASIL VENITIS The business world is entering a new period full of excitement, which one day might well be called the Era of Hedging. When this period matures, everyone in the free enterprise system will probably be di
Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci In an effort to improve on the traditional risk and return characteristics available from investment opportunities, academic researchers developed Modern Portfol
Modified Volume-Price Trend Indicator by David G. Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modified Volume-Price Trend Indicator by David G. Hawkins Looking for an edge? Use this indicator to detect what the insiders are doing while they are doing it. Using only price and volume data, technicians try to discern what the "smart money" is doi
Modifying the Parabolic Stop and Reversal by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modifying the Parabolic Stop and Reversal by Dennis Meyers The parabolic stop and reversal indicator is a popular trading tool, but it's subject to false signals. Here's how it can be modified to improve its performance. The parabolic stop and reversa
Modifying the Volatility Index by S. Jack Karczewski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modifying the Volatility Index by S. Jack Karczewski Here's the scoop on the volatility index as an analytical tool for identifying extremes in market sentiment. Every trader and investor recognizes that the stock market has some degree of volatility
Momentum And Divergence by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why Do Divergences Need To Be Confirmed By Price? Momentum And Divergence Trading momentum requires several levels of perception. Take a look at its divergence with price. by Martin J. Pring It is a fact that the term momentum is a generic one encompa
Momentum And Relative Strength Index by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum And Relative Strength Index Last month, we examined the theory of price momentum. This time, we'll look at two common and popular indicators based on this theory, and how they can be used to enter and exit a market. ""Momentum oscillator" is a
Momentum And The S&P 500 by Michael Oliver and Gary Esayian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum And The S&P 500 by Michael Oliver and Gary Esayian As applied to market action, momentum is generally confined to some limited role such as measuring the relationship between moving averages. But momentum can be much more. Michael Oliver and
Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (78-79): Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas Here's an article we originally published 23 years ago, two years after Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES broke ground, proving that, yes, cycles are e
Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas The techniques used for stock and commodity analysis range from the naively simple to the stunningly complex. Some are based on sound mathematical and philosophical principles while others border on
Momentum Trading Using Fourier/WAMI Optimization by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum Trading Using Fourier/Wami Optimization by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. Technical analysis and the use of indicators may lend itself to well-defined rules for trading, but most traders develop their methods into more of an art form. Here, a longtim
Momentum by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum Trend-following methods and indicators have drawbacks: One, they indicate a change in trend after the fact, thereby missing a significant portion of the initial move. Two, markets spend a lot of time not in trends, but in trading ranges -- and u
Money Management Indicators by Michael R. Bryant, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money Management Indicators by Michael R. Bryant, Ph.D. Keeping track of your system's performance will alert you to changes in market behavior. T raditional market indicators are typically based on price. Moving averages, for example, are calculated u
Money Management Matrix by Peter Nilsson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (70-71, 73): Money Management Matrix by Peter Nilsson Whether you're a systems trader or a discretionary trader, here's a systematic money management technique you can apply. Being a discretionary trader in stocks as oppos
Money Management Using Simulation And Chaos by Bob Pelletier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money Management Using Simulation And Chaos by Bob Pelletier Here's how to determine your trading system's minimum capital requirements and discover how market exposure should be modified to maximize profits without increasing risk. Bob Pelletier explai
Money Supply And The Leading Economic Indicators by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money Supply And The Leading Economic Indicators by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. This longtime Stocks & Commodities contributor and author discusses the relationship between the money supply and the composite index of leading economic indicators. The Nati
Money flow analysis by Steven B. Goldstein and Michael N. Kahn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money flow analysis by Steven B. Goldstein and Michael N. Kahn In 1976, Joe Granville documented several theories of stock market price and volume movements in Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit. The book explained
Money supply (M2): A leading economic indicator by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money supply (M2): A leading economic indicator by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. I want to show you an analytical technique that you can use to estimate the probability of future price increases or decreases. I'll use the money supply figures (M2) from 1948
Monitoring Equity For Market Analysis by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Monitoring Equity For Market Analysis by Joe Luisi STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Joe Luisi presents a strategy for using a graph of your profits and losses to pick either trend-following or a trading range trading system. It is well known -- or it sh
More Mileage From Margin by John Summa
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (48-50): More Mileage From Margin by John Summa Looking for ways to get more from your margin? Try this. As an option writer, which by definition produces limited profit scenarios, I am particularly concerned about finding ways to lower my cost
More Responsive Moving Averages by Joe Sharp,Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...More Responsive Moving Averages by Joe Sharp,Ph.D. Traders are resigned to moving averages being behind the price action,but that needn't always be the case. Here's an algebraic technique to make your averages more responsive to price movement - and a
More trend detection by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...More trend detection by Arthur A. Merill Last month I described four methods of trend detection: eyeball, filtered waves, zigzags and support/resistance levels. Here are seven more: Moving average This indicator is rather limited when you consider the
Most active STOCKS by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Most active STOCKS by Arthur Merrill The 15 most active issues on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are listed daily in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and weekly in Barron's. Are these statistics helpful? The average price statistic c
Moving Average Computations, Made Easier by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Average Computations, Made Easier by John F. Ehlers Presenting programming tricks to simplify coding indicators and strategies. A simple moving average of length N is computed by adding N values and dividing the sum by N. The process is repeated
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) by Thom Hartle The moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) method was developed by Gerald Appel as a technique to signal trend changes and indicate trend direction. The procedure uses the difference betw
Moving Average Crossovers Part II, by Dimitris Tsokakis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (26-34): Moving Average Crossovers Part II, by Dimitris Tsokakis In the first part, we examined how to overcome the lagging tendency of the moving average crossover. In part II, we look at trading opportunities presented by
Moving Average Crossovers by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Average Crossovers by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT Are moving average crossovers more effective than other indicators? More specifically, how about moving average crossovers applied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average? S&C contributor Arthur Merrill de
Moving Average Myths by Jason S. Glazier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Average Myths by Jason S. Glazier There is a myth that commonly used averaging and smoothing techniques require different times to calculate. The simple, step-weighted and exponentially smoothed moving averages are the most commonly used for tech
Moving Averages And The Slingshot Effect by Bo Yoder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Averages And The Slingshot Effect by Bo Yoder Watch the bulls and bears battle for supremacy to determine market direction. Moving averages (MAs) are among the simplest and most effective tools in any trader's arsenal. They offer moving areas of
Moving Averages with Resistance and Support by Dennis L. Tilley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages are a popular way to signal trends. Combine moving averages and the classic chart analysis of support and resistance for trading mutual funds. Most simple moving average systems require one or two additional confirmation signals to avoi
Moving Averages, First Principles by Brian J. Millard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Averages, First Principles By Brian J. Millard Don't quite understand moving averages, but think that you could benefit from using them? Here's how to understand and apply moving averages to identifying trends in stocks. Of all the technical in
Moving Averages: Long On Talk, Short On Action by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D.
Moving Window Spectral Method: Price Forecasting With Cycles by A.D. Ridley, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Window--Spectral Method: Price Forecasting With Cycles by A.D. Ridley, Ph.D. I would-like to introduce a new method of stock market forecasting with a practical application. The Moving Window-Spectral (MWS) method [1] takes advantage of the cyclic
Moving averages Part 1 by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages Part 1 by John Ehlers Averages have long been recognized as the best estimator of a random variable. Traders use moving averages as trading signals or as components of trading systems, but the moving average characteristics are seldom de
Moving averages Part 2 Ehlers Leading Indicator (ELI) by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages Part 2 Ehlers Leading Indicator (ELI) by John Ehlers Most technical indicators use a moving average of some kind, and this usually dooms the indicator to lag price. Some indicators use momentum, or rate of change, to generate a leading f
Moving averages and smoothing filters by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages and smoothing filters by John Ehlers Moving averages are perhaps the single most widely used technical trading tool. While averages are important tools, let's face it--we don't need computers to calculate them. Traders were using moving a
Moving averages made simple by Heidi Schmidt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages made simple by Heidi Schmidt Once a beginning chartist successfully learns trend identification and channel drawing (Stocks & Commodities, January 1988), moving averages are often the next technical tool to master. Moving averages may be
Moving the dollar by Eric Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving the dollar by Eric Sharp There's no doubt about it. The U.S. dollar isn't just an important trading vehicle in itself, but its price changes have major effects that ripple into many other markets. In essence, it's a ""dog"" with a tail that wags
MrSwing.com by Amy Wu
Multiple Time Frame Trading Using Swing Channels by Robert Krausz, MH, BCHE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Multiple Time Frame Using Swing Robert Krausz, who was featured in Jack Schwager's New Market Wizards, follows up his previous article on the new Gann swing chartist with a detailed presentation on using channels for setting up trading opportunities. In
Multiple-Indicator Techniques For Index Funds by Andrew Abraham
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Multiple-Indicator Techniques For Index Funds Traders expect uncertainty in the markets; it comes with the territory of trading. But with the Standard & Poor's 500 hitting new highs after a gut-wrenching decline, is there more uncertainty today? Here's
Multiple-Length Stochastics by Stuart Meibuhr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Multiple-Length Stochastics by Stuart Meibuhr Plotting different indicators together and combining their analyses is a popular analytical method for timing trades. But how about using one indicator and varying its parameters? Stuart Meibuhr takes stocha
Mutated Variables Volatility And A New Market Paradigm by Walter T. Downs, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutated Variables Volatility And A New Market Paradigm by Walter T. Downs, Ph.D. Markets move through phases during which volatility fluctuates. Here's how to measure the shifts in volatility and then use that data as a filter for a trading system. Ma
Mutual Funds As Stock Index Proxies by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual Funds As Stock Index Proxies by Joe Duarte Both mutual funds and stock indices such as the Standard & Poor's 500 are collections of stocks, but the}e is a major difference between them. A mutual fund manager changes the stocks in his collection o
Mutual fund point & figure by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual fund point & figure by Charles Idol The idea of applying point and figure (P&F) chart analysis to mutual funds causes some conceptual distress to P&F purists. P&F has no theory, but the basic concept says that the chart patterns are caused by the
Mutual fund timing by Fay H. Dworkin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual fund timing by Fay H. Dworkin, Ph.D. It's like a musical instrument: you have to learn to play it,"" says Hubert Cafritz about his trading strategy for managing a portfolio of mutual funds. The system has been used for three years by Cafritz, a
Mutual fund trading strategy by Stan Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual fund trading strategy by Stan Jones It has always struck me that the typical technical analysis software package doesn't answer the right question. It plots technical indicators on the same screen with prices so the user can pick the one or the c
Mutual funds by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual funds by Bill Dunbar A basic look at mutual funds: who they are for, how to choose one, why and when to switch. Also included are several sources of information to use to get specifics when deciding on a mutual fund. In the past, critics of the
My Kondratieff Wave by Koos van der Merwe
My One and Only Stock Market Recommendation by MERTON A. HILL
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...My One and Only Stock Market Recommendation by MERTON A. HILL My interest in the stock market developed some 40 years ago. My first purchase was 100 shares of Budd Manufacturing (builders of railroad cars and heavy machinery -- Budd has since been acquir
My Trading Strategy, Revised by Leonardo Jafet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...My Trading Strategy, Revised by Leonardo Jafet Here's a methodology for developing and testing a rules-based system, improved from the original. Since my article in the June 2009 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I have worked on some improvements for my
N-Squared Stock & Futures Analyzer-XL N-Squared Market Analyzer-XL by John Sweeney
N2 Stock Analyzer by John Kepka
NOVICE SPECULATOR: An Anti-COMMODEX System by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE SPECULATOR: An Anti-COMMODEX System by John Sweeney One observation I made when starting technical analysis was that there were relatively few bits of data to work with: price, volume, and open interest for a given futures contract and its relate
NOVICE SPECULATOR: My First System by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE SPECULATOR: My First System by John Sweeney As a novice trader, newly equipped with a price monitor, personal computer, and a fresh reading of Kaufman's Commodity Trading Systems and Methods, I was looking for some steady money in day-trading. In
NYSE Bullish Percent As An S&P Indicator by Thomas J. Dorsey
NYSE Tick Index and Candlesticks by Tim Ord
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NYSE Tick Index and Candlesticks by Tim Ord The tick index may appear to be one of the simplest of market indicators, but it also offers insight into market psychology. As a stand-alone indicator, the tick index has its place in the technician's toolbox
NYSE technical indicators: diagnosing market bottoms by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NYSE technical indicators: diagnosing market bottoms by Thomas Aspray By definition, significant market bottoms or tops seem to catch the majority by surprise, especially the fundamentalists. When an important low is formed, I try to review the many tec
Nasdaq Advances -- Declines by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Nasdaq Advances -- Declines by Dennis D. Peterson This market breadth indicator remains one of the most popular ways to gauge market movement. Market indices can rise on the backs of just a few stocks. This is especially true with the Standard & Poor's
Nearest Neighbor Prediction by Hans Uhlig, Ph.D.
Negative Volume Divergence Index by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Negative Volume Divergence Index by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. The Market Technicians Association has selected the late Paul Dysart for their 1990 annual award ""for outstanding contribution to the field for technical analysis."" Analyst Jim Alphier, in
Neural Net Input Optimization by Kyle M. Druey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Net Input Optimization by Kyle M. Druey Here's an article based on the author's own research of neural networks and personal experience developing neural net trading models. These findings are more from the practical/user-oriented framework rathe
Neural Nets In Technical Analysis by Yin Lung Shih
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Nets In Technical Analysis by Yin Lung Shih The technical analysis of price data requires a mix of mathematical technique, experience and intuition. Anyone with a background in high school math can understand, or at least calculate, the mathemati
Neural Network Development For Financial Forecasting by Lou Mendelsohn
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 a
Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald Pair trading is a market-neutral trading strategy. But how do you find the right pair? Using neural networks, of course. Are you taking a second look at market-neutral trading systems in today's difficult ma
Neural Networks With Learning Disabilities by Connie Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Networks With Learning Disabilities by Connie Brown Neural networks are systems that use architecture similar to the brain as a means to analyze data and find hidden relationships. A neural network is well suited for the task of pattern recogniti
Neural Networks by Wolf von Rönik
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural Networks by Wolf von Rönik Think neural networks are too difficult a concept to learn? They're not. Take a look. In a broad sense, neural nets are computer models that attempt to mimic the "wetware" or actual physiological structure and function
Neural networks: A trading perspective by Carol H. Halquist & George F. Schmoll, II
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neural networks: A trading perspective by Carol H. Halquist & George F. Schmoll, III Neural networks and neural network simulators are used in signal processing, expert systems, modeling and forecasting. They may be used to solve complex, well-defined p
Neuro-Linguistic Programmer Charles Faulkner by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Neuro-Linguistic Programmer Charles Faulkner by Thom Hartle Whether you interpret the acronym NLP as Neuro-Linguistic Programming or natural learning process, the cognitive process of trading is what Charles Faulkner, of Chicago-based Mental Edge Tradin
Neutral Options Strategies by David L. Caplan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an overview of using options as a technique to take advantage of unique situations in the futures markets. By David L. Caplan How can you take advantage of the same principles of success that the most profitable corporations in the world, the cas
New Dimensions In Market Charts by Salvatore J. Chiappone, DDS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like the markets, technical analysis evolves. This article details the construction and use of bar-chart types beginning with a short review of older forms -- bar charts, candlesticks and Equivolume -- and a presentation of two new forms, flagbars and time
New Highs and New Lows by Tim Hayes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INDICATORS New Highs And New Lows The number of new highs and new lows is a classic stock market indicator, and here are ways that this market statistic can be modified to build a number of market indicators. By Tim Hayes, CMT Market breadth and the
New Market Wizard Robert Krausz by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW Trading with the Conscious and Subconscious Minds: New Market Wizard Robert Krausz by Thom Hartle Robert Krausz, who was featured in Jack Schwager's The New Market Wizards, is many things: He is a trader, a student of the market, and a practi
New Tricks With the Dogs of the Dow by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."The Dogs of the Dow," a popular strategy based on purchasing the highest-yielding stocks each year, is reviewed here using a longer lookback period than originally used, as well as detailed analyses of the risks and rewards. On Beating the Dow, Michael
New high and new low indicators by Mike Burk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...New high and new low indicators by Mike Burk I use new high and new low indicators to help define cycles. My new high and new low indicators, which I developed with a computer and represent graphically, are exponential moving averages of the daily new h
New highs/new lows by Arthur A. Merrill, C. M. T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...New highs/new lows by Arthur A. Merrill, C. M. T. Each day the number of stocks making new highs and the number making new lows are reported in the financial press. Are these statistics useful? To find out whether they were, I constructed an index of ne
Night trading: the impact on technical charts by Heidi Schmidt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Night trading: the impact on technical charts by Heidi Schmidt The new night trading session at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is causing worry among technical chartists. Should technical analysts adopt the new child at first sight and incorporate th
Nison Candle Scanner by Barbara Star, PhD
Noise And Time Series by Clem Chambers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (78-81): Noise And Time Series by Clem Chambers Does signal processing help in determining future price movements? After reading this, you may be tempted to explore further. I t's an unhappy fact that thousands of people c
Nonlinear Ehlers Filters by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What If Linear Filters Won't Work For Your Tradable? Nonlinear Ehlers Filters Linear filters like moving averages are great for slow, "stationary" data. Unfortunately, prices aren't slow or stationary. By John Ehlers The most common filters that trade
Nonlinearity, Chaos Theory and the DJIA by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Nonlinearity, Chaos Theory and the DJIA by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D. Here's a fresh look on using nonlinear systems and chaos theory to understand the markets. Concepts deriving from nonlinear systems and chaos theory have begun to be applied to unders
Normalization by Brian R.Bell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Normalization by Brian R.Bell Sometimes it can be hard to understand all those twitchy indicators on your trading screen. Here's how most of them generate useful signals with normalization,which is the process of removing the dependency of something on
Novice Speculator by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Speculator by John Sweeney Bill Wyckoff suggested I write this--not personally, of course, since he's long out of print. He just noted in Wall Street Ventures and Adventures Through Forty Years that writing and publishing The Ticker was a terrific
Novice Speculator Trading Plan by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Speculator Trading Plan by John Sweeney When all the waiting is done and a new trade is signaled I can at last, get to work. However, it's not to burn up the wires to Chicago -- it's paperwork that needs to be done, before the job even starts! Ac
Novice Speculator by John Sweeney
Novice Trader's Notebook by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Trader's Notebook by Amy Wu ON-BALANCE VOLUME First developed by Joe Granville and published in his text New Strategy Of Daily Stock Market Timing For Maximum Profits, on-balance volume (OBV) is a momentum indicator that relates volume to price
Novice Trader's Notebook by EMS Flynn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Trader's Notebook by EMS Flynn One-Day Reversals One-day reversals occur when a tradable instrument in a trend sustains a sharp price spike and then reverses, ending in a marked rise or drop. This formation, which is considered to be a potential
Novice Trader's Notebook by EMS Flynn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Trader's Notebook by EMS Flynn Wedge Formation Wedges are similar to triangles, but differ in that with triangles, there is always one boundary line that remains flat; wedges are characterized by both boundary lines being at a slant. Wedges shou
Novice Trader's Notebook: Bollinger Bands by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Trader's Notebook: Bollinger Bands by Amy Wu BOLLINGER BANDS Bollinger Bands were created by market technician John Bollinger. They are a branch of envelope analysis and use standard deviations in calculation instead of a fixed percentage. Bolli
Novice Trader's Notebook: Momentum by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (74): Novice Trader's Notebook: Momentum by Amy Wu MOMENTUM The momentum indicator was first presented in J. Welles Wilder's ""New Concepts In Trading Systems"" and has since become a popular technical tool. Price momentum
OEX And The Thrust Oscillator by Stuart Meibuhr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...OEX And The Thrust Oscillator by Stuart Meibuhr STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Stuart Meibuhr suggests using advance-decline data for trading the OEX contract. Is it feasible? Meibuhr explains. The four items of data that describe the advances and de
OEX Options Expiration Trading Patterns by David K. Moy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...STATISTICS Oex Options Expiration Trading Patterns by David K. Moy There's a statistically significant bias in the weekly trading of the Standard & Poor's 100 index, in that the week that options expire is noticeably stronger than the week that follows
OVR - a new indicator by Fred Purifoy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...OVR - a new indicator by Fred Purifoy On-balance volume (OBV) has two generally recognized goals: to serve as a filter for trending and non-trending markets, and to anticipate reversals by divergence from the price trend. (OBV, recall, is the cumulative
Objectivity In Elliott Wave-Based Trading by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Objectivity In Elliott Wave-Based Trading by D.W. Davies There's no doubt about it. Elliott wave analysis can thoroughly confuse the uninitiated due to all the choices at potential turning points in markets. Only the correct wave label will be verified
Of Gold And Bonds, Gold Is The Leader by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Of Gold And Bonds, Gold Is The Leader by Alex Saitta Does gold lead the bond market, or is it the other way around? Previously, we uncovered strong coincidental relationships between gold and the dollar, inflation, bonds and the CRB index. As bond trad
Of Trends And Random Walks by E. Michael Poulos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Of Trends And Random Walks by E. Michael Poulos M y distrust of the current crop of technical indicators that use fixed-length lookback intervals, with no attempt to use a price-time model, motivated me to do some research into the subject. For example,
Old Trendlines to Predict Future Movements by Cory Mitchell, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Read The Future By Looking Back, Old Trendlines to Predict Future Movements by Cory Mitchell, CMT Can you extend old trendlines into time and use them to anticipate future price movements? Trendlines are well known to most traders, but most traders don
On Building Point & Figure Charts by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Building Point & Figure Charts by Daryl Guppy Point & figure charting is one of the classic techniques of technical analysis. Here's a refresher look at the basics. Point and figure (P&F) charting concentrates on price and its changes by eliminatin
On Composite Sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Composite Sentiment by James P. Martin Despite all the powerful technical tools available, even the savviest technicians are susceptible to emotion and on occasion succumb to psychological influences that prevent them from taking appropriate action,
On Developing Trading Systems by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Developing Trading Systems by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.,with Donna L. McCormick This neural network developer details steps in developing a trading system using advanced technology. STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers have one thing in common: We have all t
On Index Funds by Stephen Littauer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Index Funds by Stephen Littauer Do mutual funds underperform the market? Statistics would indicate so. Index funds may better suit investor needs. Most mutual funds underperform the market. Over the past 10 years, CDA/Wiesenberger Mutual Funds Updat
On Moving Averages by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been around forever, and it's a tried-and-true favorite. It's also the source of great frustration. How can anything end up as both? Here are the basics for using moving averages to identify the trend in the market. No technique is more frequently
On Option Theta by Lawrence D. Cavanagh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Option Theta by Lawrence D. Cavanagh Options traders use various measurements to calculate an option's risk, the calculations of which are denoted by Greek letters. One example is theta, which is the measure of how much an option's price decreases fo
On Profit-Taking by Perry J. Kaufman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Profit-Taking by Perry J. Kaufman Taking a profit should be so easy, but it never seems to be. Why is that? Veteran market analyst Perry Kaufman explains the whys and hows and also explains how profit-taking has advantages over straight trend-followi
On Range Trading by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Range Trading by Joe Luisi Markets move from trading ranges to trends and back into trading ranges. Presented here are methods to identify the trading opportunities based on identifying trading ranges. Each time you look at a chart, you probably see
On Rising Wedges by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Rising Wedges by Thomas Bulkowski As your stock rises and sector rotation becomes more pronounced, it's wise to be alert to a chart formation called a rising wedge. Rising wedges can get you out at the top before your stock tumbles. Here's a refreshe
On Symmetrical Triangles by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Symmetrical Triangles by Thomas Bulkowski You might have seen triangle formations and wondered what they were all about. You might have been caught on the losing side of a descending triangle and wondered what happened. For those of you who've wonder
On Synergy and Strategy: Tom Bierovic Of Synergy Futures by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Synergy and Strategy: Tom Bierovic Of Synergy Futures by Thom Hartle Thomas Bierovic is president of Synergy Futures, a research, trading, and education company. He also writes Synergy Fax, a daily advisory service for futures traders, and he wrote t
On System Development Part 1 by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On System Development Part 1 by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Here's one for the first-time developer of a trading system, or someone who's thinking about developing a system. Here are the basic steps this author took to develop a system for the stock market. Suc
On System Development; Part 2 by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On System Development Part 2 by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Last month, this author introduced the initial steps that someone, novice or veteran, should take when developing a stock market system. This time, he explains the final steps. Last time, I posited that
On The Battlefield by Mike Burk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Battlefield by Mike Burk In Elliott wave theory, the A, B and C waves refer to the reaction following the initial decline from a cycle top: The A wave is the initial decline, the B wave is a slight advance after the initial decline and the C wave
On The Bull Market Of the Century: Louise Yamada by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bull market of the end of the 20th century has been going on for some time now. How did this happen, and how much longer is it going to last? To get some answers, we turned to Louise Yamada of Salomon Smith Barney, whose recent book, Market Magic: Ri
On The Precipice Of The Nearest Dollar Increment by A. Trongone, Phd, CFP, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Precipice Of The Nearest Dollar Increment by A. Trongone, Phd, CFP, CTA In a bear market, any piece of information that will give traders a slight edge in performance is always welcome. Here's how a stock performs when it is trading in the vicini
On Trendlines, Money Flow Index And The Elliott Wave by Brian D. Green
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Trendlines, Money Flow Index And The Elliott Wave by Brian D. Green Here's an example of wave and indicator analysis using the money flow index, trendlines and Elliott wave. One of the most valuable lessons I have learned over the years is to appro
On Using Stops by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 14:1 (45-49): On Using Stops by Joe Luisi Stop orders are used to manage risk and to enter and exit positions. But what are some of the methods you can use to do so? For a look at the basics plus some of the finer points, read on. Say your favorite
On Using Volatility Bands by Ahmet Tezel, Ph.D., and Suzan Koknar-Tezel, M.S.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We've all seen a stock break out of its trading range and trend to new levels. The initial surge will appear as a sudden increase in activity, pushing the price higher. The higher prices often reach levels that indicate the stock is temporarily overbough
On the Aerodynamic Trader: Constance Brown by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On the Aerodynamic Trader: Constance Brown by Thom Hartle Aerodynamic may seem like a peculiar description for a trader, considering what the word brings to mind at first glance: smooth and sleek, streamlined to minimize resistance. And yet, think about
On the Fundamentals of Technical Analysis Andrew Lo by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Sloan School of Management, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering and founder of Sloan's Track in Financial Engineering, is a radi
On the Intuitive Trader: Robert Koppel by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Phenomenology and existentialism and trading? Oh, my! Nothing in Robert Koppel's background as a philosophy academic could have given the slightest clue that he would end up as a floor trader for 17 years before giving that up for yet another career usin
On the Principle of Parsimony: James O'Shaughnessy by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On the Principle of Parsimony James O'Shaughnessy by Thom Hartle I wanted to understand why certain stocks went up and why others went down. I went looking for literature that would explain what I could see happening in the marketplace. I found that a l
On tips and tipsters by Vincent Cosentino
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On tips and tipsters by Vincent Cosentino Charles Schwab, of discount brokerage fame, was quoted as saying: ""I don't give (stock) tips."" While Mr. Schwab may not, it seems just about everybody else does. Turn on your TV, pick up the local newspaper, g
On-Balance Volume And The Dow Jones Utility Index by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On-Balance Volume And The Dow Jones Utility Index by Daniel E. Downing Between Thursday, October 19, 1990, and Monday, October 22, 1990, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained more than 127 points. More important than the points gained in the DJ
On-Balance Volume Indicator by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Group Relative Strength Analysis by Jaime V. Behar Of all the factors in trading that technicians learn to analyze, surely price and volume are the first two. Here, the basics behind this classic technical tool are explained. To even the most casual o
On-Balance Volume by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The on-balance volume indicator is a technical tool that traders use to determine the trend of volume. Here are the basics. The interplay of price and volume is the combination that is most discussed in traditional technical analysis. In these discussio
On-Balance Volume by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On-Balance Volume by Stuart Evens What do technicians look at in order to qualify the significance of a trend? One key element is volume, in that high volume in a trend indicates that large players may be involved. The theory goes that large traders are
On-Line Data Addiction by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On-Line Data Addiction by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. One of the most useful tools for the modern trader is the on-line quote monitor, which gives the trader a minute-by-minute picture of what is going on in the market. It allows the trader to position a trade
On-balance volume by Tom Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On-balance volume by Tom Aspray On-balance volume or OBV is one of the early technical tools developed by the well-known market analyst, Joe Granville. With the advent of new, and supposedly more sophisticated technical tools, it is used less often. Man
One Approach To Trading Bonds by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One Approach To Trading Bonds by Thom Hartle During the course of trading, the technician strives to enhance profitability by developing a consistent approach. Success in trading, as in any profession or practicing any skill, comes from the school of ha
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As Ken Calhoun says in the St o c kS & co m m o d i t i eS interview of the month (which starts on page 46), you have to be slow to get in but quick to get out. You will get an idea of how much time you need to commit to the markets if you really w
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The trading systems presented in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities are tested ones, which you can easily implement into the trading software you use. Even if you choose to copy and paste the code via our Traders' Tips section (available at ou
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hats off to Ibm's Watson supercomputer for its victory on the TV show Jeopardy! I was interested in finding out if Watson would prevail, but I had reservations about watching the show just because I didn't want to find out that a computer's trivia knowle
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this playing field of uncertainty, whether you trade equities, options, currencies, bonds, or futures, you need a method to assist you in making objective decisions so you can justify risking money on a trade. You are not going to put money into
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Opening Range Breakout Part 3 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening Range Breakout Part 3 by Toby Crabel In the opening range breakout technique, the heralds of an upcoming trend day are often inside days, narrow range days and hook days (see Stocks & Commodities, September and October 1988). I also have run acr
Opening Range Breakout Part 6 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening Range Breakout Part 6 by Toby Crabel Two price chart patterns -- the inside day (ID) and the four-day narrowing range (NR 4) -- have proven to be reliable predecessors of trending action that can be profitably traded with an opening range breakout
Opening Range Breakout Part 7 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening Range Breakout Part 7 by Toby Crabel Bear hook is a day in which the open is below the previous day's low and the close is above the previous day's close with a narrow range relative to the previous day (Figure 1). As implied by the name, there
Opening Range Breakout Part 8 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening Range Breakout Part 8 by Toby Crabel The bull hook pattern, as suggested by its name, is a bullish indication and, in most cases, will be followed by a price move to the upside on the day or days following the hook. However, as you will see from
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Opening range breakout Part 4 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening range breakout Part 4 by Toby Crabel Opening range breakout is a trade in which entry is taken at a predetermined amount above or below the opening range. I've set this predetermined amount (the ""stretch"") through observation. (See Stocks & Co
Opening range breakout Part 5 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening range breakout Part 5 by Toby A. Crabel A trade taken at a predetermined amount above or below the opening price of a given day is called an opening range breakout (ORB).A narrow range four pattern (NR 4) is a day with a daily range that is narr
Opening range breakout: early entry Part 2 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Opening range breakout: early entry Part 2 by Toby Crabel Early entry is defined as a large price movement in one direction within the first five minutes after the open of the daily session. A study of early entry is essentially a study of price action,
Optimal Detrending by John F.Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimal Detrending Did you know that a detrended signal, combined with an optimum smoothing filter, can produce an extremely responsive oscillator-type indicator that catches every cyclic turn as it happens? It's true! Here are the details. All pulse ec
Optimal Window Length For Forecasting by A. Denis Ridley, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimal Window Length For Forecasting by A. Denis Ridley, Ph.D. As a rule, the financial markets are complex and difficult to analyze, due to multiple cyclical elements present in the related data. The moving window spectral (Mws) method of analysis and
Optimal parameter selection by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimal parameter selection by Kent Calhoun The success or failure of any trading system hinges on the choice of its parameters. General wisdom holds that optimal parameters are variables that produce the highest cumulative profits on completed trades.
Optimizing Momentum by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing Momentum by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D. Longtime readers may remember the body of written work from Stocks & Commodities contributor Anthony W. Warren during the early days of this magazine, in particular Fourier transform and triple exponential
Optimizing Portfolios Using Value At Risk by Luis Ballesca-Loyo
Optimizing RSI with cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing RSI with cycles by John F. Ehlers A look at Wilder's Relative Strength Index oscillator and an optimization using cycles. Also included is a BASIC computer program which follows the author's optimization processes. As an engineer I have ofte
Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley Adjusting your trading signals to account for what's actually happening in the market can mean a nice profit for you. If I knew what the optimum moving average length (or any other filter 's length) wa
Optimizing directional movement with cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing directional movement with cycles by John F. Ehlers Directional Movement, an approach which weighs the daily difference between highs and the difference between lows, can be optimized by applying cycle concepts. Ehlers explains the process and
Optimizing moving averages by Charles J. McGuinness
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing moving averages by Charles J. McGuinness One of the first techniques you'll come across in almost any book on technical analysis is moving averages. Moving averages are amazingly handy in predicting the movement of securities. By themselves,
Optimizing the Maximum Entropy Method by Anthony W. Warren, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimizing the Maximum Entropy Method by Anthony W. Warren, PhD This article is the second in a series on the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) and its use in technical analysis for short data length spectrum estimation and short term forecasting. In the fir
Optimum Detrending by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Optimum Detrending by John F. Ehlers Look at any price chart, and you'll find that markets move up and down even while in a trend . Removing the trend can help identify short-term turning points. Frequent STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor John Ehlers pre
Optimum Predictive Filters by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V13:06: (247-251):Optimum Predictive Filters by John F. Ehlers The optimum predictive filter is the difference between a technical indicator, such as the relative strength indicator or stochastics, and its exponential moving average. Here, we describe i
Option Credit Spreads On Commodities by Sam Bhugaloo
Option Credit Spreads by Lee Lowell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Limited Risk With Limited Profit Option Credit Spreads Selling options is usually a good idea. Here's a tactic to do it. by Lee Lowell Option trading all comes down to probability of profit. Statistically, option sellers always have a better chance of
Option Dynamics by Dennis Peterson
Option Evaluator by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
Option Strategies With Roy Radziszewski by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So often, options are something that you can take or leave, but sometimes they catch your interest and never let go. That seems to have been the case with Roy Radziszewski, the product manager of option products for TradeStation Securities, who began
Option Strategies and Neural Networks by Thomas B. Rubino Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Option Strategies and Neural Networks by Thomas B. Rubino Jr. Confidence intervals are a statistical tool that describes the accuracy of a prediction, while neural networks provide predictions. This article combines the two to define the risk in a trade
Option Valuation Model by Steve Barr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Option Valuation Model by Steve Barr Radix Research Limited 1652 Mount Batten Pl. Victoria, B.C., Canada V8S 5J9 (604)592-5308. Product: Stock options evaluation program. Price: $250 Canadian. Equipment: IBM PC/XT/AT Have you ever bought a cheap
Option premiums by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Option premiums by Arthur Merrill Can we derive useful information about the future direction of the stock market from option statistics? I've found one item of data that has a good prediction record--the ratio of the premium on puts to the premium on ca
Option shooters vs. spreaders by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Option shooters vs. spreaders by Jerry Kopf Option market timers and option relationship traders occupy major places in the spectrum of call and put investors. Timers or ""shooters"" go for the ""home run"" by simply buying premium (i.e., going long a p
OptionStar SS by David Penn
Options Arbitrage by Jesse Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (58-60): Options Arbitrage by Jesse Chen What is arbitrage? Is it really for you? Of all the option analysis strategies, arbitrage trades seem to be one of the most intriguing and elusive strategies. Arbitrage is defined as
Options In Trading Ranges by David L. Caplan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options In Trading Ranges by David L. Caplan Options have a natural appeal due to the limited risk aspect for the options buyer, but there is a tradeoff: Because of the time decay factor, options lose value. However, as David Caplan, publisher of the Op
Options On Futures by John Jay Norris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options On Futures by John "Jay" Norris Here's how to identify the appropriate underlying conditions and timing for option strategies. The first two things industry insiders will tell you about options on futures is that more than 80% of them expire wo
Options Or Stops? by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options Or Stops? by Joe Luisi Options may cost less and give you more flexibility than outright stops. Here's how to choose between options and stops and some ways of using both throughout the life of the trade. Stops are essential, but they don't hav
Options Spread Psychology by Steven P. Schinke, Ph.D
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING PSYCHOLOGY Options Spread Psychology by Steven P. Schinke, Ph.D. Choosing an options spread strategy depends in part on individual psychology about market conditions. By understanding how emotions affect behavior, traders can add precision to
Options Strategist Lawrence G. McMillan by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW: Options As A Strategic Investment I pretty much determined that it was hard to predict stock prices, and of course, back in 1973 and 1974, it was a bear market. Options were a good vehicle for me to work with because of their advantages, like
Options ratios for sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options ratios for sentiment by James P. Martin As options activity on equity indices and commodity futures has soared in the past few years, more and more market analysts have relied on options ratios as indicators of market sentiment and contrary opin
Options-80A by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
Options: Let price come to you by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options: Let price come to you by Jerry Kopf The average retail trader's first option transaction is often profitable--but rarely do rookie option traders know the actual reason behind their profits. Call it beginner's luck. If they win at first, they th
Options: The Missing Link by Martha Stokes, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Options: The Missing Link by Martha Stokes, CMT What's the link between an option and a stock? growing numbers year after year. The Options Industry Council offers excellent free education on options, and there are good option courses out there. The lu
Options? Let's get real by Ana Maria Wilson
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Overbought and oversold indicator by Thom Hartle
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Overcoming Addictions by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, MNLP
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Overcoming Bias by Gary Norden
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (62-63): Overcoming Bias by Gary Norden Trading biases may be affecting your decision-making abilities. Being aware of them can help you overcome them. It has always amazed me how, in a business in which we essentially have
Overcoming Resistance by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
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Overcoming Trader's Block by Hal Masover
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Overcoming Trading Trauma by Ruth Roosevelt
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Overhauling Market Breadth by Jacobus R. van den Brink
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Overlooked Trading Opportunities by David L. Caplan
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Overnight Trading by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Overnight Trading by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D. Trading that occurs after the regular trading session can dictate future action. Here's how you take advantage of this information. Many readers wrote to me about my article in the January 2004 STOCKS & COMM
P/E Ratio Reliability by High Stokely and Ken Stewart
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PR: Bollinger On Bollinger Bands: The Seminar by David Penn
Pacific Stock Exchange Technology Index by Jerome M. Lederman, Eng.Sc.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This professional options investor examines the performance of the Pacific Stock Exchange Technology Index compared with other market indices as a speculative and hedging tool. By Jerome M. Lederman, Eng.Sc.D. Introduced in 1982, the Pacific Stock Excha
Pairs Trading by Stephane Reverre
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exploiting Closely Related Stocks Pairs Trading Some relationships in the stock market make for very profitable trades. by Stephane Reverre The arbitrage of Royal Dutch (RD) and Shell (SC) is a popular one on Wall Street because it is a classic exampl
Parabolic stop/reversal by Peter Aan
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Parabolics by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at the parabolic trading system, with details on the way it works and how it's calculated. by John Sweeney Few books have produced as many indicators of lasting value as J. Welles Wilder's New Concepts in Technical Trading Sys-tems. From
Parallel Listings And True Price Value by Daryl Guppy and Chen Jing
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Parameter Optimization by Roger Altman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Parameter Optimization by Roger Altman, Ph.D. Optimizing the parameters of mechanical trading systems to improve performance is a common technique, but does such a procedure improve system profitability? Is there evidence that optimization will lead us
Part 1 Assessing risk on Wall Street A philosophy of investing by Thomas A. Rorro
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Part 2 Succeeding with options by Leonard Yates
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Part II. Implementation Using Alpha-Beta Filtering A trend following method for all seasons by Antho
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Pattern Recognition And Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
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Pattern Recognition In Time Series by Rick Martinelli
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Pattern Recognition and T-Bond Futures by Scott W. Barrie
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Pattern Recognition, Price And The RSI by John Knaggs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pattern Recognition, Price And The RSI by John Knaggs Here's how to combine price and relative strength index patterns for trading signals. Patterns can be found between price formations and such mathematical trading tools as the relative strength ind
Patterns that detect stock market reversals by Bill Ohama and Melanie Bowman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns that detect stock market reversals by Bill Ohama and Melanie Bowman Full-speed ahead on its maiden voyage and presumably protected against disaster, the Titanic sank in the chilly North Atlantic Ocean, shattered by an undetected iceberg. In the
Paul Merriman On Mutual Fund Timing by Thom Hartle
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Paul Rabbitt: The Statistical Scholar Of OpCo by Thom Hartle
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Pay More, Profit More by Vikram Murarka
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Payoff index by Thomas E. Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Payoff index by Thomas E. Aspray In my market analysis, I find the action of the open interest can be very important. Granted in the financial futures it occasionally gives misleading signals, but these are the exception rather than the rule. I use two
Peak performance in volatile markets Part 2 by Susan Arenson and Neal Weintraub
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Peak performance in volatile markets, Part 1 by Neal Weintraub and Susan Arenson
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Peaking of a grand supercycle by Robert J. Prechter Jr.
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Peaks And Troughs by Martin J.Pring
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Percent Difference Oscillator by Darryl W. Maddox
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Perennial Mutual Funds: Staying With Winners by Palmer Wright, Ph.D.
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Perry Kaufman On Market Analysis by Thom Hartle
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Persistent Option Volatility by Roger Ison, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (14-20): Persistent Option Volatility by Roger Ison, Ph.D. Do you really understand what your options model is doing? Let's find out. If you trade options, you know that mathematical option models are essential tools and, g
Personal Computer Hardware IBM Micro computer by Jack K. Hutson
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Personal Hotline Version 6.6 by John Sweeney, Technical Editor
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Peter Hackstedde: profile of a winning trader by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Peter Hackstedde: profile of a winning trader by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. It was two o'clock on a Friday afternoon. I found myself having lunch with Peter Hackstedde in the Turf Club at Santa Anita race track. I had just finished two articles on compulsive t
Peter Mauthe Of Core Asset Management by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Value Of Valuation Peter Mauthe Of Core Asset Management Money management is simply a process of identifying what to own and when. While there are a number of ways to do so, one unique way is the work of Core Asset Management's Peter Mauthe. STOCKS
Phase Change Index by M.H. Pee
Phase Transitions by Christopher K. Smith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Phase Transitions by Christopher K. Smith Here's a concept to visually compare an indicator's historical profitability over a range of parameters simultaneously with the indicator's current standing, allowing the trader to identify those trading signals
Phase shifts in the 40.68-month cycle by Gary Zin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Phase shifts in the 40.68-month cycle by Gary Zin, Ph.D. Phase shifts plague every cycle technician. Phase shifts, or apparent phase shifts, are often present when a high or low of a cycle is expected but doesn't occur. Sometimes, if neither a cycle hig
Phasor Displays by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Phasor Displays by John F. Ehlers A high-tech display pinpoints anomalies and trading opportunities in price behavior. Remember that famous glass of water? The one that optimists see as half full and pessimists see as half empty? An engineer, however,
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brokerages: The Next Generation Philip Berber Of CyBerCorp Before Philip Berber formed CyBerCorp, a next-generation, electronic brokerage group providing real-time, direct-access trading, and Internet execution technology, he had already made a name fo
Philip Roth of Dean Witter by Thom Hartle
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Physiology And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Physiology And Trading by Ruth Roosevelt Developing a winning attitude for trading may be easier than you think if you start with some basic physical adjustments to the way you relate to your workstation. In this month's article on trading psychology, R
Picking Out Your Trading Trend by Martin J.Pring
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Pivot Points by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Placing Stop-Loss Orders by Curtis Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Placing Stop-Loss Orders by Curtis Arnold Unsuccessful small speculators tend to waste time and money trying to reinvent the wheel rather than using what has proved to work in the past: Trade with the trend, cut losses short and let profits run. Here, S
Plan To Win by Richard Ahrens
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Planetary analysis by Bill Meridian
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Playing TRIX: The Triple Exponential Smoothing Oscillator by Joe Luisi
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Playing The Index Market by Tom Gentile
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Playing The Yield Curve by Jay Kaeppel
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Playing copper by Eric L. Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Playing copper by Eric L. Sharp Perhaps the best way to succeed in futures trading is to pick up early on major trends and stay with them for all they're worth. Copper went into a major bull market in early 1987, almost tripling in value from the start
Playing the "somewhats" by Len Yate
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Playing the ""somewhats"" by Len Yates Tired of waiting for the market to do something significant and you want to steer clear of naked writing? This article describes a way to play what I call the ""somewhats"" -- times when you expect the market to go
Playing the opening range breakout Part 1 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Playing the opening range breakout Part 1 by Toby Crabel Opening range breakout is one of the most important indicators of daily market direction that a trader can utilize. An opening range breakout (ORB) is a trade taken at a predetermined amount abov
Plotting Trendlines by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Drawing trendlines may seem simple, but there is a right way and a wrong way to plotting trendlines. With so many different indicators, oscillators, and moving averages making up the science of technical analysis, it is easy to forget about the basics.
Plurality by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Plurality by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Plurality: Now there's an indicator that has been around for at least half a century. Analyst James Alphier claims it was invented by technical analyst pioneer Paul Dysart, who published a piece on the subject at l
Point & Figure & Forex by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (72-74): Point & Figure & Forex by Cornelius Luca Why are point & figure charts well suited for the 24-hour trading arena in foreign exchange? Typically, the majority of currency traders keep their eyes glued on bar and can
Point & Figure Box Sizes by Thomas McGraw
Point & Figure Charting by David Penn
Point & Figure Charting by Gary Van Powell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Point & Figure Charting by Gary Van Powell Point and figure charting, a technique for following stocks and commodities, may be simplistic but still offers the keys to success: trend identification, price objectives and money management, all of which
Point & Figure Relative Strength by Michael J. Moody and Harold B. Parker
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Point & Figure Relative Strength by Michael J. Moody and Harold B. Parker STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributors Michael J. Moody and Harold B. Parker suggest using point and figure and relative strength as a way to identify strong and weak stocks. It has o
Point and figure analysis and projection Part 2 by Charles Idol
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Point and figure charts: an overview by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Point and figure charts: an overview by Charles Idol The popularity of the personal computer has given rise to a bewildering number of charting techniques. In addition to a profusion of moving averages of one kind or another, we have linear regressions,
Point and figure: Analysis and projection Part 2 by Charles Idol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Point and figure: Analysis and projection Part 2 by Charles Idol The fundamental pattern in point and figure charting -- the congestion area -- occurs after a substantial rise or fall in the price of a stock as the investment community adjusts to the new
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 nu
Points of Force in Price and Time by Olesksandr Salivon
Polarized Fractal Efficiency by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
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Pork Bellies and the COT Index by Scott W. Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pork Bellies And The COT Index by Scott W. Barrie When presented with sentiment data, you'll need to know when to follow the crowd or be a contrarian. In our continuing look at using the COT index to predict market direction for commodities, here's a st
Position Sizing For Optimal Results by Bo Yoder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Position Sizing For Optimal Results by Bo Yoder Carefully choosing position sizes can lead to consistent returns. Position sizing is a facet of trading that is often misunderstood and has the potential to dramatically affect your returns. After all the
Position Sizing With Monte Carlo Simulation by Michael R. Bryant, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Need to know how much to put on your next trade? You can figure it out with 95% reliability using this simulation technique. Consider this: Jane and Joe started trading the same Standard & Poor's 500 futures trading system at the same time. They each be
Position Trading The S&P by Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Position Trading The S&P by Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D. Use linear regression to predict short-term trend changes of the Standard & Poor's 500. Psychologically speaking, bar chart lows represent the lowest price that sellers are willing to take for a secur
Post-Breakout Patterns by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Post-Breakout Patterns by David Penn Look for these patterns to determine if breakouts continue. I n technical analysis, one of the benefits of focusing on chart patterns is that practice trains the eye to spot emerging chart patterns. This may enable
Post-Bubble Problems by David Vomund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Post-Bubble Problems by David Vomund Identifying these post-bubble problems will help you make appropriate adjustments to your trading system. For the markets, these are extraordinary times. In the last five years we've experienced the largest equity b
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 ma
Predict, Identify, And Trade Future Market Swings by John Crane
Predicting Major Market Moves by Gregory N. Hight
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Major Market Moves by Gregory N. Hight Here's a statistical method that compares the movement of the Standard & Poor's 500 index with the changes of interest rates. In addition, the author explains statistical tests that help validate the rel
Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads The Kalman filter is a two-stage algorithm that assumes there is a smooth trendline within the data that represents the true value of the market before being perturbed by market
Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter, Pt 2 by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter, Pt 2 by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads Can the Kalman filter be used to predict future price movement? In this second part of this series we answer this question. Previously, we discussed the Kalman filter and
Predicting Prices With Support And Resistance by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Prices With Support And Resistance by Thomas N. Bulkowski Support and resistance are important chart patterns. Read this to find out why. I consider support and resistance (SAR) the most important chart patterns. Why? By finding SAR, you can
Predicting The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predict The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill Take a look at the relationship between changes in earnings per share for each year and the performance of the market for the following year. Is there a correlation? One of Benjamin Graham
Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Joe trades Standard & Poor's 500 contracts, and at the moment he is in a quandary. He looks at a chart of the market and wonders what he should do. The market looks as though it's in a
Predicting The Shape Of A Cycle Bottom by Michael R. Burk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting The Shape Of A Cycle Bottom by Michael R. Burk I define a cycle as what happens between peaks in my New Low Indicator. Since the beginning of 1978 there have been 24 complete cycles averaging a little over 120 trading days, or 24 weeks. Cycl
Predicting The VIX By Reordering Data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In recent years, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has increased in importance and use as an indicator of market direction. This article demonstrates how the direction of tomorrow's change in the VIX might be determined by restructuring readily available m
Predicting Turning Points With Cobweb Theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D.
Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder Does each market have an underlying order that makes it predictable? The answer is yes. That order makes a riskless trading strategy possible. The Delta phenomenon shows the underly
Prediction by Index by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Prediction by Index by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. The Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators is a summary measure designed to indicate changes in the direction of aggregrate economic activity. The Index measures the average behavior of a group of
Prediction by Index by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Prediction by Index by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. The Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators is a summary measure designed to indicate changes in the direction of aggregrate economic activity. The Index measures the average behavior of a group of
Premarket Prediction by Victoria Wang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Premarket Prediction by Victoria Wang Can premarket activity be a powerful predictor as to how underlying stocks will perform during regular market hours? Will this knowledge be advantageous to traders? Premarket activity refers to stocks that undergo
Premier Stochastic Oscillator by Lee Leibfarth
Preprocessing Data And Fast Fourier Transform by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Preprocessing Data And Fast Fourier Transform by Thom Hartle Preprocessing data is a popular buzzterm today, but what is it and why do we do it? Well, here's an explanation of data preprocessing and a tutorial on using fast Fourier transforms (Fft). Fft
Preprocessing Data For Neural Networks by Lou Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Preprocessing Data For Neural Networks by Lou Mendelsohn Today's global markets demand new analytical tools for survival and profit as prevailing methods of analysis lose their luster. Here, Stocks & Commodities contributor Lou Mendelsohn explains how a
Presidential Parties and the Stock Market by Dave Dorgan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Presidential Parties And The Stock Market by Dave Dorgan Is there a relationship between the Presidential party in power and the subsequent performance of the stock market? Before you take a guess, here are the facts. Conventional wisdom would have one
Preventing Trader Burnout by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING PSYCHOLOGY Preventing Trader Burnout by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Do you ever feel too tired to go on trading? Do you feel as though you're losing the mental energy to even think about trading? You may be suffering from burnout. Here are some hin
Price + Volume = Price Movement by Tim Ord
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Price As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner A complete approach to trading requires the trader to analyze the market from all perspectives. The three important dimensions of market activity are time, price and pattern. If a trader does not include all three
Price Changes During Non-Trading Hours by George R. Arrington and Howard E. Arrington
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Changes During Non-Trading Hours by George R. Arrington and Howard E. Arrington One frustrating aspect of trading commodities is the price changes that occur during non-trading hours. It is difficult enough to make a profit when markets are open a
Price Patterns, Part I by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Patterns, Part I by Martin J.Pring This veteran market analyst takes a look at the principles of price formation, one of the basics of technical analysis. In my recent articles, I have covered many basics of technical analysis, ranging from peak
Price Patterns, Part II by Martin J.Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Patterns, Part II by Martin J.Pring This veteran market analyst takes a look at the patterns of price formation. Last time, I covered the basics of chart patterns using rectangles as an example. This time, I will expand on the subject by taking a
Price Persistency by Gordon Gustafson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Persistency by Gordon Gustafson Interested in measuring a short-term trend? Here's an indicator you can use. For years, academics have made the case that price movement is random: future price changes are unrelated to past price changes. Although
Price Vs. Speed by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Vs. Speed by Don Bright Here's a look at the order handling of the New York Stock Exchange versus over-the-counter equities. Over the last few months, I've been following the discussion, and even controversy, surrounding the best way to handle eq
Price path: a new volatility measure by Joanne Hill, Ph.D. and Matthew Celebuski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price path: a new volatility measure by Joanne Hill, Ph.D. and Matthew Celebuski Many trading strategies rely on market levels or changes in those levels for allocation among asset classes. In an option replication program, such as portfolio insurance,
Price pattern studies Part 1 by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price pattern studies Part 1 by Toby Crabel Do prices tend to move consistently in one direction from open to close, given the previous day's price pattern, and do these patterns of intraday bias lend themselves to profitable trading systems? To answer
Price patterns in soybeans by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price patterns in soybeans by Toby Crabel In my search to determine whether price patterns signal the next day's market direction, I have tested all combinations of four closing prices followed by either a higher or lower open the day after the last clo
Price projections on point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price projections on point and figure charts by Luis Ballesca Loyo One of the great advantages of point and figure (P&F) charting is its well-defined features: price formations, buy and sell signals, trendlines and price projections. The P&F method est
Price reactions within a trend by Bill McLaren
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price reactions within a trend by Bill McLaren I have, in the past decade, taught trading techniques to many students. Recently, most of my students have entered the markets after purchasing a personal computer and a technical analysis software package.
Price, Action and Resistance by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price, Action and Resistance by Jesse H. Thompson Origin, History and Recent Price Action We can not obtain a full account of the ""present position"" (price potential), of any given stock or commodity without a review of its recent price origins, pric
Price-Volume Rank by Anthony J. Macek
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price-Volume Rank by Anthony J. Macek Imagine receiving a warning when the market was likely to collapse or being alerted when one of your favorite stocks was about to rally. What if these signals came from analysis that was simple enough to do without
Price/Dividends Ratio Revisited by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price/Dividends Ratio Revisited by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. In 1988 Merrill showed that the price/dividends ratio was useful in calling the 1987 crash. What's the outlook today? In the October 1988 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I described the useful
Price/Earnings Ratios by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price/Earnings Ratios by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Here's a look at an old fundamental analysis favorite and what it can do for the technical analyst. For many years I have monitored the performance of a group of 30 to 50 stocks that have been exhibiti
Price/Oscillator Divergences by W. Lawson McWhorter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price/Oscillator Divergences By W. Lawson McWhorter Have Dow theory divergences always fascinated you? Well, you're in luck. Here's a primer on observing divergence between indicators and prices to generate trading signals. Divergence, or the nonconfir
Price/Volume Cross-Correlations in the DJIA by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price/Volume Cross-Correlations in the DJIA by Frank Tarkany This article examines the use of a Price Percent Filter (PPF) on daily Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closing prices from January 2, 1897 to January 2, 1987. Price changes from the filter
Price/dividends ratio by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price/dividends ratio by Arthur Merrill An indicator that was shouting warnings before the stock market crash last year was the price/dividends ratio. This indicator is a measure of expensiveness. It reports the current price of enough stock to yield $1
Price: The Ultimate Indicator? by Roger Altman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price: The Ultimate Indicator? by Roger Altman What does it take to make consistent profits trading commodities? Roger Altman theorizes that like support and resistance levels in stock charts, historical floor and ceiling prices in commodities can be us
Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani Fundamental to the branch of applied economics that I call Market Structure Analysis are three principles which I modestly call ""the Pisani Principles."" These elementary principles, certainly known to mer
Proactive vs. Reactive Trading by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Proactive Vs. Reactive Trading by Adrienne Laris Toghraie There are many different styles used by individual traders, some proactive, some reactive. Either can work and either can fail. Here's why. One of the reasons why so few traders succeed has to
Probability of Investment Ruin by Sherwin Kalt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Probability of Investment Ruin by Sherwin Kalt When a client opens a managed account with as commodity trading advisor, the general practice is to specify a percentage loss at which the account will be closed. The natural question then arises as to what
Product Reveiw MetaSwing by Dennis D. Peterson
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MetaSwing is available as a set of TradeStation EasyLanguage and workspace files or as a MetaStock plug-in. MetaSwing uses historical price volatility as the basis for building indicators. The previous review of MetaSwing was for version 3.5, while
Product Review: MultiCharts 2 by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
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Product Review: NASDAQ TotalView by Matt Blackman
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Professional Stock Trading by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is It For You? Professional Stock Trading What it is, what it is not, and how to make the leap! by Don Bright The term professional is sorely overused these days. What does it really mean? When it comes to stock trading, the answer is actually quite s
Profit Locking And The Relative Price Channel by Leon Wilson
Profit Stalker II by Hans Hannula
Profit With High Relative Strength Mutual Funds by Gerald Gardner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit With High Relative Strength Mutual Funds by Gerald Gardner This timing method will maximize profit and reduce drawdown. Correlation of equity funds phenomena manifests itself in many stock data series. For this study, I explored the correlation
Profit mapping by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit mapping by John Ehlers Optimization has been attacked by many technicians -- and rightfully so -- because peaking profit is virtually the same as curve fitting to back data. Used in this fashion, optimization can produce startling track records and
ProfitTaker by William Taylor
Profitability of selected technical indicators by Steven L. Kille and Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profitability of selected technical indicators by Steven L. Kille and Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D In previous issues of this magazine, we have reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, Williams' %R, and Wilder's Relative Strength Index to C
Profitability of selected technical indicators by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In previous issues, these authors reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, Williams' %R, Wilder's Relative Strength Index (RSI), and Wilder's Directional Movement Indicator (DMI) to Chicago Board of Trade corn and long-term U.S. Treasu
Profitability of selected technical indicators by Thomas R Drinka, Steven L. Kille, Eugene Mueller.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profitability of selected technical indicators by Thomas R Drinka, Steven L. Kille, Eugene R. Mueller The objectives of this paper are to review five popular technical indicators, summarize the capability of microcomputer programs developed jointly in t
Profitability of selected technical indicators: Silver by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profitability of selected technical indicators: Silver by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille In previous issues of this magazine, we reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, %R, and Relative Strength Index (RSI) to Chicago Board of
Profitability of selected technical indicators: U.S. T-Bond futures by Steven L. Kille and Thomas P.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profitability of selected technical indicators: U.S. T-Bond futures by Steven L. Kille and Thomas P. Drinka In the December 1985 issue of this magazine, we reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, %R, and Relative Strength (RSI) to fi
Profiting From Convergence by Ira G. Kawaller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profiting From Convergence by Ira G. Kawaller Here are three ways to capitalize on the property of convergence -- the fact that futures prices and spot prices will necessarily come together at the futures expiration. The same concept can be applied to ma
Profiting From The Tick Indicator by James Kellndorfer
Profiting from the Z-Score by Mike DeAmicis-Roberts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profiting from the Z-Score by Mike DeAmicis-Roberts What is the Z-score? You can use it to identify the types of winning and losing streaks in a trading system. Once the nature of the streaks are determined, then you can use different money management a
Profits, Pitfalls, Patience by Donald W. Pendergast Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profits, Pitfalls, Patience by Donald W. Pendergast Jr. Plan your trade, trade your plan. Here's what can happen when a trader plunges into a position without following a trading blueprint. God really watches over children and fools, then I must have b
Programming For Technical Analysis Part 3 by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Programming For Technical Analysis Part 3 by Steve Notis In the last two installments of this column I wrote about Microsoft QuickBASIC being my choice as the best language for a beginner to learn for technical analysis, and I presented a routine to rea
Programming for a global perspective by Charles Milmoe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Programming for a global perspective by Charles Milmoe Today's global economy requires a global perspective. In March, when Drs. Pons and Fleischmann's cold fusion announcement directed my attention to palladium, I used the improved capabilities of toda
Programming for speed Part 5 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Programming for speed Part 5 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. The past several columns discussed macros and led you through some elementary programming to show how to develop one of the indicators used in J. Welles Wilder's Directional Movement Index (DMI) system.
Programming the true range in Wilder's DMI system Part 4 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Programming the true range in Wilder's DMI system Part 4 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. The March column described the fundamentals of macros. The February column detailed some major points about Wilder's DMI and the system based on it. This time the action gets
Projected Fibonacci Targets by Mohab Nabil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Projected Fibonacci Targets by Mohab Nabil Here's a new technique for determining price targets after a breakout from a previous price swing. Fibonacci analysis, which is employed by practitioners of various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics, and
Projecting Price And Time With Gann Fans And Angles by Koos van der Merwe
Promising The Result by Ari Kiev, M.D.
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Prospecting With Gold Mutual Funds by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Prospecting With Gold Mutual Funds by Jay Kaeppel Gold. In the past, it inspired rushes and revolutions, passion and poetry, but in recent times gold mutual funds have been distinctly lackluster. The emotion that the precious metal inspired may have dwi
Protecting Yourself in Tough Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Protecting Yourself in Tough Markets by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Things may be going great for you now, but what happens when the tide turns and you face hard times in the market? Here's how to protect yourself. Recently, I encountered a man who was close
Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysis by Charles E. Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysts As you develop your analytical skills, you probably pick a favorite market to study. So depending on the market, you could come to different conclusions about the value of different techniques of analysis. With th
Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysts, Part 2 by Charles E. Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysts - Part 2 Last time, we examined the idea of using pseudo securities, based on artificial data with known properties, to map the characteristics of various indicators. We then applied this concept to the time doma
Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysts, Part 3 by Charles E. Miller
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo Securities For Technical Analysts Part 3 The first two parts of this three-part series examined the theory, generation technique, and time series application of rectilinear pseudo securities. In this, the conclusion, the same theory is applied to
Pseudo Stocks by Mark Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo Stocks by Mark Harris The stocks charted in Figure 1 look for all the world like typical charts you might find in a chartbook. I have added a few uptrend and downtrend lines and shown how 52 (in the upper chart) seems to provide long-term resista
Pseudo-Stock Specialist by Mark Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo-Stock Specialist by Mark Harris In ""Pseudo Stocks,"" STOCKS & COMMODITIES, December 1990, I showed some stock charts from a random number generator resembling real life to an astonishing degree and some simple rules for price transitions. Now, I
Public/member short selling by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Public/member short selling by Arthur Merrill The statistics on shorting by professionals and by the public can be combined into revealing and successful indicators. The basic figures are published, two weeks late, in Barron's and The Wall Street Journa
Pump Up The Volume by Todd Krueger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pump Up The Volume by Todd Krueger Here's how you can use Wyckoff volume analysis to trade the forex markets. IT is a nearly universal belief among forex traders that volume analysis techniques cannot be utilized in their market analysis. This belief
Put Volume Indicator by John Bollinger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Put Volume Indicator by John Bollinger Although it has been mined for many years, one of the richest veins in technical analysis remains the sentiment area. Here, money manager and market analyst John Bollinger discusses one such indicator. The essenti
Put-Call Ratios by Lawrence G. McMillan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DERIVATIVES Put-Call Ratios by Lawrence G. McMillan This measure of market sentiment uses options trading volume to measure crowd psychology. Here's one use of the ratio. The ratio of put option volume to call option volume is the major sentiment ind
Put-call sentiment indicator by Robert R. Prechter and David A. Allman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Put-call sentiment indicator by Robert R. Prechter and David A. Allman Put/call ratios based on volume and dollar value have been widely used by technicians (see ""Option premiums,"" Stocks & Commodities, December 1989). A third approach has been substa
Put/Call Parity by Alex Mendoza
Put/Call Ratio Oscillator To Pinpoint Market Conditions by John Summa
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Put/Call Ratio Oscillator To Pinpoint Market Conditions by John Summa Who says the put/call ratio doesn't work anymore? Here's an oscillator that's great for pinpointing intermediate market tops and bottoms. What's the ideal time to write an option?
Puts and Covered Calls For Newbies by Moses Sanchez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Puts and Covered Calls For Newbies by Moses Sanchez Options are complex vehicles but useful for conservative traders who want to purchase their favorite high-yielding dividend stock without having a large downside risk. Here's how you can trade options
Putting A Stop To It by David Garrard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A greater focus on your exit strategy and less on your entry may make a big difference in your overall trading results. Investors and traders alike devote a considerable amount of time focusing on what investments to make and what tools to use to m
Q&A by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (31, 87): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright CONVERSIONS I'm new to options trading. Would you explain what a conversion is? -- Kelly, Cincinnati "Conversion" means the buying of puts and selling of calls at the same price, and also buying the underlying stock at the same time.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SEASONAL STOCKS Are you aware of any actual study on seasonal tendencies among stock sectors? I've heard the general market "sell in May and go away" and "buy tech stocks in the fall and sell in the spring" clichés, but I wonder what
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright Don Bright answers questions on trading journals, and deep-discount brokers.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright PAIRS TRADING I read your article and your Q&A section in STOCKS & COMMODITIES this month. In both, you referred to "pair trading." When I read that it was a strategy used successfully by your niece, I was intrigued. Would you please
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright PENNY ENVELOPE When enveloping intraday using the New York open book, would it make sense to place a bid (say, 200 shares) a penny above a really big bidder (20,000- plus shares) and offer a penny or so below a really big offer, in ho
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I have a bad habit of getting into trends too late. I try to keep an eye on stocks with strong correlation to the Standard & Poor's 500 with no outstanding news on them about earnings and so on. The indicators I mainly use are the S&P 500 and the futures
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...LIQUIDITY, REST, AND ROUTING I see you have been posting about your firm's new approach to order routing that is saving or making your traders a lot of money. I remember you used to say "take liquidity on the NySe (or NaSd a q) and rest or le
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading, an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions on choosing stocks, moving average offset, following the index, and trading in decimals.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (43): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright LEADING INDICATORS Every trader I have asked tells me to look at the leading indicators before trading. A friend told me he watches Intel [INTC] to see the direction of the overall market. Is this a good indicator? What do your trader
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright NEWBIE QUESTIONS I started trading recently just to get my feet wet, but there are a few things that confuse me: 1. How do you know the total number of shares available for a particular stock? What determines the number of shares a c
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TAPE READING ON THE INTERNET? I am a Chinese student who graduated from university four months ago. Now I have a daytrading job. I concentrate on the NYSE stock market and my trading style is scalping. So tape reading is very importan
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright IMBALANCES I've been watching end-of-day (Eod) imbalances to see what effect they may have on price and I can't find any pattern. Do market-on-close (Moc) imbalances mean anything? I read recently on Yahoo that in theory, a large buy
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (55): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (47): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright MONEY MANAGEMENT OF OPTION SPREADS What are some money management tips for credit and debit spreads? Specifically, when should I get out when a spread goes against me? -- Bob Maclaurin When you have a pure option spread in place, each
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright POSITION SIZING IN STOCK TRADING How do you position size in your stock trading? I buy strong stocks above the intraday breakout with close stops. My problem is I feel that my initial price is important, and once I add shares, it chan
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (40): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING NEWS STOCKS Since oil has been in the news lately, does that mean that XON and other oil companies are newsies and would not be good to trade? Or does the news have to be about the company directly before you would want to not trade it? -- J.L.,
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (19): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright BREAKOUT/BREAKDOWN I've been analyzing breakouts from consolidation and wanted to get your feedback about the viability of a strategy I was considering. I posted this on an Internet thread a while back and got no response, leading me
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright STOCKS OVER OPTIONS AND FUTURES? I've noticed over the years of reading your column in Stocks & Commodities that you and your firm focus on equities. I have limited capital and have been trying to learn options and futures for the lev
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TRADING NEWS There are a couple of news scenarios for which I would like your input. If a stock you play regularly has announced earnings since the last trading session, will you play it on the opening? If so, do you adjust the envelo
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright READING THE TAPE You often mention "reading the tape" in your articles. What do you mean by that? Please explain. Also, what trading software do you recommend? Thanks for your help. -- Moses Mannaa, via e-mail Reading the tape is prob
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (43): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright FROM DON: TRADERS' PERSONALITIES Recently, I was asked about new traders' success. So often people think about all the technical information available and fail to appreciate one of the most important aspects of becoming a successful t
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading, an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don, I have a question about order routing that perhaps you can help me with. I trade with a respectable brokerage that caters to active traders. I've noticed in the last few months that I have been charged fees referring to "routing," "rerouting,"
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (72): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TRADING IN FLAT MARKETS First off, I read your column every month in STOCKS & COMMODITIES, and I like how you answer questions directly without fluff. How do professional traders deal with a relatively flat market such as the one we h
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (59): Q&A by Don Bright ARBITRAGE With regard to arbitrage, I think I understand the reasons why someone trading from a retail account cannot realistically (or should I say consistently) capture arbitrage opportunities. Based on what I can gath
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (71): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright OPENING ORDERS I have a question about stocks with news out pre-opening. Some say to avoid any stocks with news out; others say it depends what the news is. Regarding, say, earnings guidance announcements, I've seen times when a stock
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright MARKET ORDERS I rarely trade listed issues. But I feel that exposure to this marketplace would be advantageous to my trading over the long term. Perhaps you could shed some light on just how the system works. I know the uptick rules --
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TRADING PREPARATION Do you prepare for the day, or do you simply start trading? I've heard you mention that you respond to the market, but is that always enough? -- JS That's a good question, and sometimes I wonder if it's ever "enoug
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (19): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (74): Q&A by Don Bright Q: Why are you so sure you will be on the same side as the specialist when using envelope orders? Would you please explain the basics about how you select your stocks (criteria)? When do you enter a trade (and when do you
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hi Don, I have seen many traders who post the Ny s e close imbalances in US dollars just after they have been released. Do you have any idea where they are getting this information? There must be a website out there posting them in real time.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I know a guy who has been trading his own money for a few years now. He daytrades commodities/futures with claims of 4% a month with return on investment (Ro i) equaling 48% a year! With margin he can make twice that, he says. I'm confused be
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading, an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. NYSE VERSUS NASDAQ 100 I have been reading and enjoying your Q&
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright OPENING-ONLY ORDERS I've been following the opening-only orders strategy very closely, and I have a question. I'm a futures trader and somewhat unfamiliar with the practical aspects of trading listed. I watched around 13 opens this mo
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (25): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright BEFORE THE OPEN Don, I was wondering if you could answer this. I have heard that there is a data source that tells you the estimated opening of NYSE stocks before the open. Have you heard this? Thanks. -- Sky123987 I've not heard of a
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright MARKET MAKERS AND SYMBOLS First, I want to thank you for your efforts in educating new traders. I've reviewed some of the information available at the NYSE and Nasdaq websites. There's a ton of material to learn from, but I still have
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (34): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (14-15): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright DIRECT NOT SO DIRECT? I've heard that my direct-access broker actually routes my trades through the firm. Can that be right? How is that direct access? -- TCmac I get this question a lot. Your order needs to go through the brokerage f
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright FILLING ORDERS I have found your Q&A column to be the most helpful feature of STOCKS & COMMODITIES since I subscribed, and I look forward to it every month. Hopefully with your experience and knowledge you will be able to answer my que
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...END-OF-DAY CLOSE IMBALANCES Mr. Bright, I attended one of your classes last year and found it very helpful. One of the things you taught was how to read and respond to end-of-day market close imbalances. If I recall, you said these imbalances
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...EXIT SIGNALS I always believe that entry signals for trading are not so important compared with exit signals. Both "cut your loss" and "ride your profit" strategies are exit signals. What's a good strategy in terms of profit-taking signals? What criteri
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright DIVIDEND PLAY Do you know the exact time when dividend ownership is recorded? Is it at the close? For example, MO (Altria Group, Inc.) trades ex-dividend. Say the dividend tomorrow will be 64 cents. Could someone buy at the close, sel
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TRADING DISCIPLINE I am a new proprietary trader about seven months in. I have started moving up the learning curve, but my biggest problem is discipline. I have great entries and I feel I have developed an intuition for when somethin
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright NOT SUPER-FANCY Maybe Don or somebody else can tell me how to calculate S&P futures. I remember back in the early 1990s, one guy at the quote terminal would calculate it by having a Standard & Poor's 500 call and put option quote with
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (57-58): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submit a question, pos
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright ABOUT THE PREMIUM INDEX I am from Argentina and I work in a proprietary firm. I have some questions about the premium index. First, is the premium Standard & Poor's 500 futures ? S&P 500 cash index or is S&P 500 futures ? S&P 500 cash
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (27): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reversing The NegativeEffects Mr. Bright, thanks for your column, I read it every month, it really helps. A while back I read about how some of your traders have taken advantage of what seemed to be a negative situation. High-frequency and sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (3): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submi
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright NOW IF Can someone tell me if all the assets of a company were worth $1 million and the total number of shares available for the full amount of the company were 100,000 (each share being $10) and regardless of the revenue, the company
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (74): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright NO STOP-LOSSES IN OPENING-ONLY STRATEGIES? I have heard you say that you don't like using stop-loss orders when you trade the opening-only strategy. Why is that? Most "experts" preach that you must use stops. Can you shed some light o
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (53): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SPECIALISTS Assuming specialists make money and trading with them provides an edge, how do you feel about jumping in when the specialist is getting steamrolled? What tricks are in the specialist's playbook for a situation like that? I
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SHORTING A SPREAD/PAIR Don, could you explain what it means to short a spread/pair? If a spread X-Y (where X is the long position and Y is the short position) is determined to be overbought and due for a pullback, the spread could be
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading, an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. INDEX ARBITRAGE Don, I have enjoyed your commentaries in STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Can an individual buy a
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright ON PIVOT POINTS AND DAYTRADING Is there any relationship between pivot points and daytrading? I believe there is, but I do not know what it is. Could you give me some help?--robinxing We use the pivot points of the futures in our entr
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright EXITING TRADES I've been trading for about a year. I've started using a combination of gray boxes, which keeps me focused and disciplined. My entries have been consistently profitable and timed well, but my exits have not been becaus
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright MESQUITE RETREAT Hello, STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers! Bright Trading recently held one of our retreats for our traders in Mesquite, NV. We had approximately 70 attendees, including some "non-Bright" traders, who seemed to find the wee
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright BASIC SKILLS FOR DAYTRADERS Don, since you think (pure) daytrading is a limited style, then how do other daytraders make profits? Could you tell me some basic trading methods or skills for daytraders?-- Anonymous I'm not against daytr
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (82): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SUBPENNIES AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING Don, I read your recent column about subpennies and high-frequency trading (S&C, March 2010). How have you and your traders adapted your order routing in the last few months? Good question. For t
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MIDPOINT TRADING WITH PENNIES Hey, Don, I had a quick question for you about midpoint trading. Not sure if you know the exact answer, but figured was worth a shot asking you. I have a buddy who trades Citigroup actively -- he just trades to mak
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (87): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (20): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To sub
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright REVERSE CONVERSION In an article in STOCKS & COMMODITIES, a practice called "reverse conversion" was mentioned in relation to writing options. Would you expand on this? -- Adrian A reverse conversion, or "reversal," is simply a trade
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright LEVEL II TRADING I have been trading Level II for about three years now and did well until about a year ago. I know the market has changed considerably, but my main concern is the quotes themselves. Has something changed that I am una
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (21): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submi
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (44): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright IMPROVING A TRADING SYSTEM Don, what you think about a simple system like a moving average crossover system? I've played with different combinations (50/200, 30/100, and so on) in different markets (NASDAQ, Standard & Poor's 500, and
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (42): Q&A by Don Bright OTHER OPENING STRATEGIES? Are there similar strategies to the opening-only strategy for the close of the market each day? Anyone care to share the idea behind them or give me a place to research if
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright OPENING FAIR VALUE I'm interested in what information or data is needed to calculate opening fair value for stocks, and how the calculations are made. Any help would be appreciated -- Matthew Murray We use the fair value (FV) number o
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (62): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...ARBITRAGE What is the difference between agency trading and market making? Also, is it possible to arb a large-cap Canadian stock such as Nortel (NT) for price discrepancies between the New York (NYSE) and the Toronto stock exchanges (TSE), or the Nasda
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright TRADING AT THE CLOSE My interest was piqued after reading your response in the July 2003 S&C detailing the REDIPlus order imbalances and how they can be used to trade at the close. Could you please go into a little more detail on how
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright BULLETS Do you know where I could find more information about the "bullet" options strategy involving married puts? Thank you -- Matt Bridier Married puts or "bullets" are simply contracts entered into between a trader, his firm, and
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright READING THE TAPE I've just finished reading some of your articles in STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Once again you illuminate topics that were unknown to me. I'm a novice trader in a proprietary program down on Wall Street, and I have been run
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (80): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (44): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submit a question, post your question t
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (92): Q&A by Don Bright SINCE YOU ASKED Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To subm
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (26): Q&A by Don Bright Confused about some aspect of trading? Professional trader Don Bright of Bright Trading (www.stocktrading.com), an equity trading corporation, answers a few of your questions. To submit a question, po
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NEW TO OPTIONS I am new to options, although I have been trading stocks for several years. Does the technical analysis I use in stocks also apply to options? Do I need to change anything (such as the parameters of MACDÝ, RSIÝ, and DMIÝ) to adapt to the
Q&A by Don Bright
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright Don Bright answers questions on how to create a Gann fan line, commodity options, and Smith indicator market timing.
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Q&A by Don Bright
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Q&A by Don Bright
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QA by Don Bright
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Quantifying pain via drawdown size by Richard Harrison
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Random walk prices by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Are your trades based on skill or luck? Sherry's simple ""Skill Score"" will show you how to determine whether your decisions are based on your trading prowess or the luck of the draw. A recent article b
Range Breakout Trading in Treasury Bonds by Alex Saitta
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Rate of Change by Martin J. Pring
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Ratio accumulators by William Mason
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (24-39): Readers' Choice Awards 2006 by Technical Analysis, Inc. We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2006 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ba
Readers' Choice Awards 2007 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Readers' Choice Awards 2007 by Technical Analysis, Inc. We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine 2007 Readers' Choice Awards (RCA). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related t
Readers' Choice Awards 2010 by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Readers' Choice Awards by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Readers' Choice Awards by Technical Analysis, Inc. We are pleased to present the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine 2009 Readers' Choice Awards (Rca). Each year, we put before our readers a ballot of products and services related to tec
Reading between the lines by John Navarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reading between the lines by John Navarte Charting oscillators is one of the most powerful technical analysis tools available for the private and professional investor. In this article, we will consider two standard oscillator constructions. The first h
Reading indicator charts by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reading indicator charts by Arthur A. Merrill In the preceding column, I discussed the smoothing of indicator data. When you have tamed the wild fluctuations, how do you translate the result into a forecast? How do you read the chart? There are several
Real Life: Shearson's Jeffrey Weiss by Thom Hartle
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Real world technical analysis by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Real world technical analysis by Kent Calhoun Simplicity and common sense trading methods summarize my approach to technical analysis. The purpose of this article is to educate traders to view price action from a more creative perspective, starting with
Real-World Option Pricing by Lawrence D. Cavanagh
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Recovery and Preparing to Trade by Ari Kiev, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (34-36): Recovery and Preparing to Trade by Ari Kiev, M.D. Keeping a level head is key to enhancing your success as a trader. In this article, this consultant, who teaches psychological breakthrough strategies, discusses how to relinquish the emo
Redefining Volatility And Position Risk by C.A. Kase, C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Redefining Volatility And Position Risk by C.A. Kase, C.T.A. A method on looking at the volatility of intraday price bars using a stop system called the ""dev-stop."" Volatility is the key to understanding market behavior. Volatility is the change in p
Reduce Volatiltiy by Mark Wolfinger
Reducing profit variability from technical trading systems by Milton S. Boyd and B. Wade Brorsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reducing profit variability from technical trading systems by Milton S. Boyd and B. Wade Brorsen Some technical traders spend a sizable portion of their time searching for the perfect trading system or the ""optimal"" parameters, hoping the newly discov
Refining chart analysis Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 10 by Jack K. Hutson
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Refining the Relative Volatility Index by Donald Dorsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Refining The Relative Volatility Index by Donald Dorsey The relative volatility index was designed to measure the direction of volatilty. Since it was first introduced, however, its developer has not simply rested on his laurels; her
Regressions in hard commodities by L. R. James
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Regressions in hard commodities by L. R. James The possibilities for precious metals price rises are present, but so are the possibilities for their decline. The bond market and the Federal Reserve give every indication of being intolerant of anything m
Regularization by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Regularization by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D. In the lexicon of technical analysis, terms such as moving averages and least-squares regressions are commonly understood. But what about regularization? Despite their potential, regularization techniques are poo
Relative Dividend Yield And Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Dividend Yield And Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle To trade the stock market effectively, you need a plan to pick out the stock that could outperform others. Here's an example of a plan for trading that uses a stock's relative yield to the br
Relative Momentum Index: Modifying RSI by Roger Altman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Momentum Index: Modifying RSI by Roger Altman Overbought/oversold indicators are popular among traders for identifying market turns. The relative strength index (RSI) is one such popular indicator. Here, Roger Altman presents his work on modify
Relative Performance Charting by Phil Doyle
Relative Strength Index by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Strength Index by Peter Aan Rules and Formulas: The formula for computing the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is well-known and computerized by dozens of commercial software packages. Briefly, to compute a 14-day RSI, you must first collect 14 d
Relative Strength Investing by Robert L. Hand Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Strength Investing by Robert L. Hand Jr. Many believe that the stock market is rigged and the average small investor has no chance against the institutional investors. In reality, the stock market gives the individual investor more opportunity
Relative Strength by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Strength by Martin J. Pring What to short and what to buy -- you should always know the choices the market's giving you. Relative strength measures the relationship between two securities. By security, I am referring to any freely traded entity
Relative Vigor Index by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative Vigor Index by John F. Ehlers Here's an old concept brought to light using modern filters to make it a practical, useful indicator. Since the inception of STOCKS & COMMODITIES (happy 20th anniversary year!), there have been several development
Relevance III by Herbert R. Sorock
Repair Strategies With Options by Kevin Lund and Tom Gentile
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Replicharts by Zack Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chart Patterns That Repeat Replicharts by Zack Hill Certain chart formations can forecast major trading activity. Take a look. Answer me this. If we can accept that established patterns occur in cloud formations, crowd psychology, and criminal behavio
Resistance by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Resistance by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Prices, like everything else move along the line of least resistance. They will do whatever comes easiest therefore they will go up if there is less resistance to an advance than to a decline and vice versa. --Edw
Restrictive Trading Systems by Anthony Trongone
Retail Trading Myths by Don Bright
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (38-43): Retracement Analysis Beyond The Horizonal by Cornelius Luca If you are a currency trader, then you need to know your trends. Here's how you can monitor the health of a trend in the currency markets. Currencies may
Returning To The Basics by John Sweeney
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Revamping mediocre buy-write strategies by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Revamping mediocre buy-write strategies by Jerry Kopf Stockbrokers usually introduce the average retail investor to option trading with a simplistic buy-write I strategy. Buy the stock and sell (write) a call option against it. The mechanics are straigh
Revenge and Loss by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
Reversal Formations: Predictive Power? by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do classic chart formations such as the head-and-shoulders or the double-bottom/double-top hold up to close scrutiny? Here's a look. A few years ago, I read a Federal Reserve Bank report entitled "Head-and-shoulders: Not just a flaky pattern." The auth
Reversal Patterns by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reversal Patterns by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle Market prices, as one well-worn adage points out, are trapped in a two-dimensional world with little directional leeway. They are either climbing up, dropping down or moving sideways. And, the fact
Reversals In Weekly Stock Returns by A. Tezel, PhD, and R. Sharma, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reversals In Weekly Stock Returns by A. Tezel, PhD, and R. Sharma, PhD Nasdaq stocks provide the highest net returns from a long strategy after a week of declining returns and declining highs and lows. Stock prices with strong momentum during the prio
Reverse Divergences and Momentum by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An oscillator's failure to confirm the higher high or the lower low of the market is a red flag to most technical traders. Is there a message when the price diverges from the indicator? This veteran technician thinks there is. Technical analysts are con
Reverse Engineering RSI (ll) by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
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Reverse Engineering RSI by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
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Reverse Martingales by James William Ferguson
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Reversing For Dollars by John Sweeney
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Reversing Your Losses by John Sweeney
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Revery: Computerized Stock Market Trading by Henry S. Patricoff
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Review Freebies! by John Sweeney
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Riding The Kondratieff Wave by Tim Elrod
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Riding the Beast by Jean Dilling
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Right On Target by Richard W. Arms Jr.
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Risk Assessment For Security Analysis by Lloyd Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Risk Assessment For Security Analysis by Lloyd Silver Assessing the risk in a security is an essential part of the investment process. Here, then, are the advantages and disadvantages of two common risk measures: variance and beta. Further, Lloyd Silv
Risk Management In The Real World by Ajay Jani
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An explanation of Figure 2 from the article ""Analysis of a Winning Trade.""
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc.
SIDEBAR: THE CANDLESTICK METHOD by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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Second Chance Options by Barbara Star
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Second Hour Index by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Second Hour Index by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. In 1983 I noted an indicator developed by analyst Stan Weinstein: the last hour indicator. Changes in prices in the last hour seemed to be useful in forecasting the future. Having an hourly data bank extend
Secondaries by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Secondaries by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT If the owner of a large block wants to sell without generating a big price decline, he sometimes enlists the help of an underwriter. This type of sale is called a secondary offering. The underwriter uses his skills
Secular And Cyclical Cycles by Moses Sanchez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Secular And Cyclical Cycles by Moses Sanchez Secular and cyclical cycles are common, but what do they really mean? The terms secular and cyclical are tossed around by business news pundits on a daily basis. A search on either topic does give some expl
Secure Fractional Money Management by L. Zamansky, Ph.D., and D. Stendahl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Secure Fractional Money Management by Leo J. Zamansky, Ph.D., and David C. Stendahl Here's how to find a new fractional value of capital to invest in every trade to maximize returns subject to a constraint on drawdown, using a variation of the optimal f
Selecting And Interpreting Leading Indicators by Roger Pilloton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting And Interpreting Leading Indicators by Roger Pilloton Adjusting for the weaknesses of leading indicators so that you are able to select, interpret, and check their reliability. Leading indicators play a major role in economic and stock marke
Selecting Stocks For A Portfolio by Donald Stewart and Kenneth Stewart
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting Stocks For A Portfolio by Donald Stewart and Kenneth Stewart As redundant as it may sound, following the stock market is in reality following a market of stocks. And surveying a market of stocks can present a challenge. The brothers Stewart, u
Selecting The Best Futures Price Series For Computer Testing by Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting The Best Futures Price Series For Computer Testing by Jack Schwager One problem that traders studying commodity markets face is the fact that individual futures contracts have price characteristics that are not continuous with other contracts
Selecting Top Performers by Jongseon Kim
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (14-20): Selecting Top Performers by Jongseon Kim Too often we enter a trade only to find that the stock price just isn't going anywhere. Here's how you can avoid falling into this trap. When should you trade and when shou
Selecting the best individual stocks Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 9 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting the best individual stocks Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 9 by Jack K. Hutson Our discussion of Wyckoff's analytical methods have so far concentrated on deductive reasoning to reach investment or trading conclusions. We first determined
Sell Using Stops by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (28-32): Sell Using Stops by Thomas Bulkowski The use of stops separates the professional trader from the amateur investor. It doesn't matter what price you paid for a stock. What matters most is what you sell it for. Do yo
Selling Stock With Investor Relations by Carolyn Kott Washburne
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selling Stock With Investor Relations by Carolyn Kott Washburne A veteran stock broker took aside a new trainee to give him some advice. ""There is an old saying in this business,"" said the veteran. ""When the president of a company wants to buy you lu
Selling Vertical Credit Spreads by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The options trader has available many different strategies, virtually to suit every need and intent. Here's how to use the credit spread strategy. by Jay Kaeppel Most of the money made in options trading is made by those who write options rather than b
Sentiment And Trendlines For Bond Fund Trading by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sentiment And Trendlines For Bond Fund Trading by Joe Duarte The Hines ratio, a key sentiment indicator, is designed to help traders pinpoint emotional extremes in the bond market. Here, the Hines ratio is combined with Barron's Bond Bullish Consensus,
Serial Correlation Of One Rank by Norman J. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Serial Correlation Of One Rank by Norman J. Brown The one rank mutual fund switching technique is further enhanced using correlation. In two earlier articles, I demonstrated that the "one rank" (OR) switching technique depends on a low-value (less than
Serving a trading apprenticeship The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 13 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Serving a trading apprenticeship The Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 13 by Jack K. Hutson Anyone studying the stock market intends to remove themselves from the ranks of the public that dabbles with luck as their foremost rule of operation. A true
Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (46-56): Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo Knowing when and where classic chart patterns tend to form is as important as identifying the patterns themselves. Here's how one trader uses a combination of indicators and simpl
Setting Stops And Taking Profits With Maximum Excurson by Sergei Dobrovolsky
Setting Strike Price Probability At Expiration by David White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (56-59): Setting Strike Price Probability At Expiration by David White Here's one way you can increase your odds for a short-term play. Nassim Taleb's exceptional book, Fooled By Randomness, helped me finally gain the prop
Setting stops: A new approach by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Setting stops -- a new approach by John Ehlers The cliche in golf is ""drive for show, but putt for dough."" The analogy in technical trading is that the ability to pick entry points is highly focused, but scant attention is paid to how to exit a trade.
She flashes signals from the pit at CBT by Phyllis Brock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...She flashes signals from the pit at CBT by Phyllis Brock At precisely 8:00 a.m. Central Time a buzzer sounds and the financial floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT) bursts into life. Runners scurry about carrying messages between traders, brokers an
Shelly Natenberg: trader and teacher by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shelly Natenberg: trader and teacher by John Sweeney Shelly Natenberg, a floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, is the author of Options Volatility & Pricing Strategies, Probus Publishing, Chicago, 118 North Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60606, (800) 426
Shifting To Another Dimension by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shifting To Another Dimension by John Sweeney I have spent the last several months tweaking a simple trading system to provide good profits with minimal drawdowns. The underlying idea (""Settlement,"" November 1991 through February 1992) isn't too compl
Short Interest by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short Interest by Arthur A. Merrill Short interest ? the sale of borrowed stock ? is one of the most useful tools of the technician. Short sales are made by pessimists, who expect prices to fall. If prices fall, the short seller can buy shares at a lowe
Short-Term Gap Trading by Jay Kaeppel
Short-Term Profits With Gap Trading by Glaister Welsh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Profits With Gap Trading by Glaister Welsh Mispriced stocks are often caused by gaps, which you can take advantage of by applying a strategy that generates above-average returns while reducing your risk. Check it out. A convergence trading s
Short-Term Trading With SVAPO by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Trading With SVAPO by Sylavain Vervoort The trading rules I will discuss here are based on an eight-bar shortterm volume and price oscillator (SVAPO) period with a 1/1,000 minimum price change and with an upper standard deviation channel at 1
Short-Term Trend Trading by Russell Rhoads, CFA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Trend Trading by Russell Rhoads, CFA This basic system can be traded profitably on a short-term basis. Some of the most basic systems can be the most effective means of making money in the futures markets. In this article I will demonstr
Short-Term Volume And Price Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Short-Term Volume And Price Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort Using the turning points in the oscillator gives profitable trades. Come look. Before telling you about the construction and application of the short-term volume and price oscillator (SVAPO) I
Shorting Moving Average Pullbacks by Steve Palmquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (42-47): Shorting Moving Average Pullbacks by Steve Palmquist Do you have a trading system that works well during declining markets? You can add the moving average short system to your toolbox. A successful trader must have
Should I Trade Today? by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Should I Trade Today? by Adrienne Laris Toghraie If youÕre not at your best when youÕre trading the markets, youÕre putting yourself at a disadvantage. Make sure youÕre up to the challenge. Should I trade today? If you answered this question honestly
Should Investing Increase Your Capital Or Protect It? by Omar Bassal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Should Investing Increase Your Capital Or Protect It? by Omar Bassal Preserving capital in today's markets brings up questions you may not have considered. What is the most important goal of investing? This question is not as simple as it seems; more o
Should You Trade Futures? by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (337-341): Should You Trade Futures? by Jay Kaeppel Here's some helpful advice to novices who are considering trading commodity futures. This should give you some idea of what's involved. And whether you should. Each year, many individuals ta
Shrinking From Opportunity by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shrinking From Opportunity by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Stretch your comfort zone of predictable patterns and look for your shot at the gold ring. Opportunity is all around us. True, occasionally it is a challenge to locate it, when conditions have chang
Sidebar: About Renko charts and box sizes by Robert Busby, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (30-35): Sidebar: About Renko charts and box sizes by Robert Busby, Ph.D. Here's an amusing technical phenomenon. The P&F data is computed using a box reversal of one and is then manipulated into four columns in the followin
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 o
Sidebar: Constructing a PAC chart by François Bertrand
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (46-50): Sidebar: Constructing a PAC chart by François Bertrand CONSTRUCTING A PAC CHART Here are the steps: 1. Create a "price grid" where each row in the grid represents a range of prices. Then identify the range of boxe
Sidebar: Defining The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Defining The Commodity Channel Index by D.W. Davies Presented here are the ins and outs of the commodity channel index, as defined by creator Donald Lambert and modified by the author. The commodity channel index (CCI) can be calculated using
Sidebar: Divergence LRS indicator in MetaStock by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Divergence LRS indicator in MetaStock by Markos Katsanos DIVERGENCE LRS INDICATOR IN METASTOCK This indicator is plotted in the article's Figure 3 for FMXI.
Sidebar: Durbin Watson statistic by Ron McEwan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (60): Sidebar: Durbin Watson statistic by Ron McEwan The Durbin Watson statistic is a test that looks for first-order autocorrelation in the residuals of a time-series regression. The residual for time period t is compared w
Sidebar: EDS code for MAS system by Steve Palmquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (42-47): Sidebar: EDS code for MAS system by Steve Palmquist EDS CODE FOR MAS SYSTEM (for use in AIQ Systems' TradingExpert Pro program) ! Look for stocks in a downtrend LowerCloses if HiVal([close],5) < LoVal([close],20
Sidebar: EasyLanguage Code for ProSuite 2001 by Massimiliano Scorpio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (58-63): Sidebar: EasyLanguage Code for ProSuite 2001 by Massimiliano Scorpio FUNCTION msPattPos (Numeric Output) Input:Element(NumericSimple); value1=High[1]; value2=Low[1]; value3=(value1+value2)/2; value4=value1+AvgT
Sidebar: EasyLanguage for Vetrivel systems by Gomu Vetrivel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (28): Sidebar: EasyLanguage for Vetrivel systems by Gomu Vetrivel Base System var:x(0); x=absvalue(c-c[1]); if c>average(c,10) and c[1]<average(c,10)[1] then buy at c; if c<average(c,10) and c[1]>average(c,10)[
Sidebar: Emerging market study by Robert Pelletier
Sidebar: Excel codes for trend trigger factor by M.H. Pee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (28-36): Sidebar: Excel codes for trend trigger factor by M.H. Pee EXCEL CODES FOR TREND TRIGGER FACTOR The Excel spreadsheet in sidebar Figure 1 shows all the required calculations for the 15-day trend trigger factor (TTF
Sidebar: FRAMA EasyLanguage code by John F. Ehlers
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Sidebar: Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (86): Sidebar: Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill Trendlines usually are drawn through tops or bottoms. They also are drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye. A straigh
Sidebar: Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (86): Sidebar: Fitting a trendline by least squares by Arthur A. Merrill Trendlines usually are drawn through tops or bottoms. They also are drawn through the center of prices by a lagged moving average or by eye. A straigh
Sidebar: Leverage And Commodities by J.M. Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Leverage And Commodities by J.M. Malley Calculating leverage and simulated trading spreadsheets using a Microsoft Excel 4.0 spreadsheet for calculating L and simulating trading.
Sidebar: MOMA and Excel by Stephan Bisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (22-27): Sidebar: MOMA and Excel by Stephan Bisse Simple moving averages are great tools for filtering out noise from time series, but all they can do is show where a time series has been. The only way that a moving average
Sidebar: MetaStock Code For TPR Explorations by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (24-38): Sidebar: MetaStock Code For TPR Explorations by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. METASTOCK CODE FOR TPR EXPLORATIONS Use the code below as a filter to identify TFs that last up to 60 trading days and produce retracements of no more than 50%.
Sidebar: MetaStock Code and Penny Stock Breakout System by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (18-29): Sidebar: MetaStock Code and Penny Stock Breakout System by Markos Katsanos This sidebar contains the MetaStock Code and Penney Stock code for Markos Katsanos' penny stock breakout system. The majority of the stocks
Sidebar: MetaStock Codes: System Test, Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (48-57): Sidebar: MetaStock Codes: System Test, Flags & Pennants by Markos Katsanos This sidebar contains: METASTOCK CODE: SYSTEM TEST, FLAGS & PENNANTS METASTOCK CODE FOR VFI FORMULA, and METASTOCK EXPLORATION FOR FLAG
Sidebar: MetaStock code for VFI by Markos Katsanos
Sidebar: MetaStock formulas for Darvas technique by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (16-22): Sidebar: MetaStock formulas for Darvas technique by Daryl Guppy METASTOCK FORMULAS FOR DARVAS TECHNIQUE A MetaStock expert advisor developed by technician Matthew Ford implementing the modified Darvas technique was
Sidebar: MetaStock user formulas for UCI by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (28-35): Sidebar: MetaStock user formulas for UCI by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D. METASTOCK USER FORMULAS FOR UCI Volatility (Sigom%) yom:=100*(C-Ref(Mov(C,25,S),12))/ Ref(Mov(C,25,S),12); avyom:=Sum(yom,50)/50; varyom:=Sum(yom*yo
Sidebar: Neoticker code and trading system to calculate AIM by L. Chan & L. Lin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Neoticker code and trading system to calculate AIM by L. Chan & L. Lin - NEOTICKER CODE TO CALCULATE AIM - NEOTICKER TRADING SYSTEM WITH ADVANCE ISSUES MOMENTUM
Sidebar: Phase Change Index by M.H. Pee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:5 (34-35): Sidebar: Excel codes for PCI by M.H. Pee EXCEL CODES FOR PCI In this section, I will provide the Excel codes for the 35-day PCI. Sidebar Figure 1 (following page) shows all the required calculations for the 35-day P
Sidebar: Predicting turning points with cobweb theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Predicting turning points with cobweb theory by Chris Satchwell, Ph.D. - PREDICTING TURNING POINTS WITH COBWEB THEORY
Sidebar: RAJ rules with TradeStation by Xavier Maria Raj
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (50-52): Sidebar: RAJ rules with TradeStation by Xavier Maria Raj D1 = Current Day D2 = Next Day H1 = High of Current Day. . .
Sidebar: Runs tests, Z score by Norman J. Brown
Sidebar: Select your own comfort zone by Rene Koch, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Select your own comfort zone by Rene Koch, Ph.D. SELECT YOUR COMFORT ZONE
Sidebar: Setups by Ashwani Gujral
Sidebar: Swiss Army Knife EasyLangague Code by John F. Ehlers
Sidebar: TechniFilter Plus formula by Jacob Singer
Sidebar: The Elliott Wave by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (43): Sidebar: The Elliott Wave by Thom Hartle 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
Sidebar: The geometry of chart patterns by Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (50-52): Sidebar: The geometry of chart patterns by Teresa Lo Pattern recognition is made simple using the swing lines of the classic swing indicator. Together with PowerSwing bars (not shown), the indicators act as visual aids, and basic geomet
Sidebar: Trading And The Emotional Boomerang by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sidebar: Trading And The Emotional Boomerang by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Negative boomerang and Mr. Hyde evaluation.
Sidebar: VOMOMA by Stephen Bisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (38-41): Sidebar: VOMOMA by Stephen Bisse Simple moving averages (SMA) are great tools for filtering out noise from time series, but all they can do is show where a time series has been. The only way in which a moving averag
Sidebar: Volatility entry advisor for MetaStock by Jim Berg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (14-20): Sidebar: Volatility entry advisor for MetaStock by Jim Berg MetaStock code for Jim Berg's Volatility entry advisor.
Sidebar: eSignal code for Breakout Colored Price Bars by Barbara Star, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (44-51): Sidebar: eSignal code for Breakout Colored Price Bars by Barbara Star, PhD
Sidebar: eSignal code for Directional Breakout Indicator by Barbara Star, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (44-51): Sidebar: eSignal code for Directional Breakout Indicator by Barbara Star, PhD
Sidebars: Mathematical formulas, and MetaStock code by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
Sidebars: Price Distribution Functions and Mobility Oscillator by Mel Widner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 14:2 (55-62): Sidebars: Price Distribution Functions and Mobility Oscillator by Mel Widner, Ph.D. PDFs are computed using a Microsoft Excel 5.0 spreadsheet. The first step is compute the price range and divide the range into intervals. The maximum hi
Sidestepping Risk In Gold Futures by Anthony Trongone, PhD
Signal Processing Basics by Glenn A. Barlis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Signal Processing Basics by Glenn A. Barlis This is the second of a series of articles that examine stock price analysis using the mathematical methods of signal processing. Here you will learn about tools for detecting trends and smoothing them. In t
Signal Processing Basics by Glenn Barlis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Signal Processing Basics by Glenn Barlis This is the first of a series of articles that examine stock price analysis using the mathematical methods of signal processing. These concepts will enable you to better understand popular indicators and incorpor
Signal Processing Basics, Part 3 by Glenn A. Barlis
Signaling Change with Projection Bands by Mel Widner, Ph.D
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (275-281): Signaling Change with Projection Bands by Mel Widner, Ph.D Projection bands, a new method using trading bands, projects market data forward along the data trend with the maxima and minima of the projections defining the band. The meth
Simple moving average crossover by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Simple moving average crossover by Peter Aan Editor's note:In this issue, Peter Aan reports on the first of his tests of different trading systems. He begins with probably the most widely known trading system. General Description: Trend following, alw
Simulating Trading Portfolios by Ajay Jani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Simulating Trading Portfolios by Ajay Jani Trading commodities? Here are the steps to testing a trading system used for a portfolio of commodities. This article also discusses portfolio-level simulations, variable shift testing and money management. A
Single-Stock Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Single-Stock Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan How can you take advantage of them? To find out, we asked OneChicago and Nasdaq LIFFE, the two exchanges expected to launch this hot new product, a few questions. Here's what they had to say. Why has it t
Single-Stock Futures by Thomas L. Busby
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Single-Stock Futures by Thomas L. Busby Here's what every trader should know about them. Just recently, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) has lifted the 18- year-old ban on single-stock futures. While we have yet to see just how th
Singular Spectrum Analysis Of Price Movement In Forex by Sergiy Drogobetskii
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (24-27): Singular Spectrum Analysis Of Price Movement In Forex by Sergiy Drogobetskii Looking for new information about price movements? Singular spectrum analysis may shed some light. Finding an analytical method to reduc
Singular Spectrum Analysis: Part II by Sergiy Drogobetskii
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (44-48): Singular Spectrum Analysis: Part II by Sergiy Drogobetskii Here's another look at applying singular spectrum analysis to the foreign exchange markets. In my last article, I discussed some of the variables that mak
Situational Trading by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Situational Trading by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA How do you know the markets are beginning to recover? D uring periods of downslides, many cautious investors remain on the sidelines until signs of recovery emerge. Fortunately, trading activity c
Sizing A Futures Trading Account by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sizing A Futures Trading Account by Jay Kaeppel While most traders start out working on a trading system, they forget that the amount of starting capital is equally important. Here are some guidelines to consider. Novice traders focus their attention o
Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett Here's a look at how an option trader started small and graduated to trading "more size." True to his name, option trader Tony Sizemore trades "more size" than most. After a long career in mortgage lending, which i
Skill or luck? by Clifford J Sherry Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Skill or luck? by Clifford J Sherry Ph.D. Dr. Sherry examines the statistical concepts of randomness and independence as they affect prices in the markets. He outlines a method of determining whether or not prices are random and/or independent by using
Slippage Cost Of A Large Technical Trader by Thomas V. Greer, B. Wade Brorsen and Shi-Miin Liu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Slippage Cost Of A Large Technical Trader by Thomas V. Greer, B. Wade Brorsen and Shi-Miin Liu If traders rely on technical trading systems, they need to know the size of slippage, which is the difference between estimated transaction costs and actual t
Smart Money by Scott Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smart Money by Scott Brown Should you develop a personal trading system, one that reflects your own personality? A belief persists among investors that a select group of traders have the inside edge. Some indicators, such as The Commitment Of Traders R
Smart Stops by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smart Stops by Tushar S. Chande Setting stops is a fine art, whether you trade one contract or a thousand. The challenge in setting stops is to participate in long moves without getting shaken out of the trade by market volatility. A variable-index dyna
Smoothing Data With Faster Moving Averages by Patrick G. Mulloy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing Data With Faster Moving Averages By Patrick G. Mulloy Has the lag time of moving averages ever irritated you? Well, there is a way around it: a modified statistical version of exponential smoothing with less lag time than the standard exponent
Smoothing Data With Less Lag by Patrick G. Mulloy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing Data With Less Lag by Patrick G. Mulloy Last time, Mulloy discussed basic moving averages, introduced a new filter called DEMA1 and demonstrated a method with which to utilize exponential moving averages. Mulloy also explained how this new fil
Smoothing Techniques For More Accurate Signals by Tim Tillson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing Techniques For More Accurate Signals by Tim Tillson More sophisticated smoothing techniques can be used to determine market trend. Better trend recognition can lead to more accurate trading signals. Here's how. After studying his first stock
Smoothing The Bollinger %b by Sylvain Vervoort
Smoothing The Bollinger %b by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smoothing The Bollinger %b by Sylvain Vervoort This variation of the popular Bollinger %b indicator gives clear turning points that will help traders identify entry and exit points while prices are moving between the Bollinger bands. By now, everybody
Smoothing The Ride With Moving Averages by Edward Donie
So Why Do You Need Money Management? B. McDowell Tells You by J. Gopalkrishnan and B. Faber
Software Review by Herbert R. Sorock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Software Review by Herbert R. Sorock CHART TRADER PLUS ? Investor's Toolkit, Ltd. 7441 W Archer Avenue Summit, IL 60501 (312) 496-0305 Price: IBM version . . . . . . $299.95 Apple version . . . . . $249.95 Demo(either) . . . . . .$ 19.95 Summar
Software Review by John F. Kepka
Solving The Portfolio Puzzle by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Solving The Portfolio Puzzle by Tushar S. Chande Stocks & Commodities Contributing Editor Tushar Chande presents guidelines for designing a stock portfolio. Here's my question to all those superb stock traders out there: How many stocks should you hav
Some Rules To Invest By
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Originally published in Technical Analysis of STOCKS &amp; COMMODITIES, our companion magazine, as "Some Rules To Trade By," this article, filled with common sense and down-to-earth advice, can be applied to investors as well as the traders
Some Rules To Trade By by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some Rules To Trade By by Daryl Guppy A good trader will have a trading plan. Here are some guidelines for setting up your own trading rules. In a raging bull market, it is easy to forget that markets make us pay for our mistakes. In a bull market, th
Some Rules To Trade By by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some Rules To Trade By by Daryl Guppy A good trader will have a trading plan. Here are some guidelines for setting up your own trading rules. In a raging bull market, it is easy to forget that markets make us pay for our mistakes. In a bull market, th
Something Darvas, Something New by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (16-22): Something Darvas, Something New by Daryl Guppy In the May 2005 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, Daryl Guppy discussed classic Darvas-style trading. Here, he modifies the technique to fit modern-day markets, given that markets
Sound Off: A case for rising energy prices by Joseph Holleman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sound Off: A case for rising energy prices by Joseph Holleman Editor's Note: Mr Holleman was bold enough to write this in mid-June 1985 for our December issue. Whether correct or not, we feel an example of the thinking behind taking an actual position i
Sound Systems by Robert Pelletier and Sabrina Carle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (30-35): Sound Systems by Robert Pelletier and Sabrina Carle Too often, trading systems are based on coincidence rather than on sound scientific or mathematical principles. Here's how you can create a trading system based on
Spectral Forecasting And The Financial Markets by Denis Ridley, Ph.D..
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spectral Forecasting And The Financial Markets by Denis Ridley, PhD. Ever considered spectral wave analysis to determine cycles in the stock market? Denis Ridley tells you how. As a rule, the financial markets are not easy to forecast. While forecast
Spectrum by John Sweeney
Speculating in vertical spreads by Bradley J. Horn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speculating in vertical spreads by Bradley J. Horn Many gasoline traders are familiar with the fundamentals of spread trading with New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) energy futures. Far fewer, however, are able to recognize opportunities in option spr
Speculation Philosophies by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speculation Philosophies by Jesse H. Thompson ""A great thorough-going man does not confine himself to one school, but combines many schools, as well as reads and listens to the arguments of many predecessors, thereby slowly forming a style of his own..
Speculative indicators by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Heavy speculation is a sign of a dangerous market-- one that is riding for a fall. I believe I was the first to suggest, in a 1963 radio interview, that the volume of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) could be used as a measure of the degree of speculati
Speed Resistance Lines by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speed Resistance Lines by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Need to determine support and resistance? Try this. It is not unusual to come across situations in which you see a market trending and think it may be too late to get in. To check, you wait for a pullb
Speeding up the oscillator by Grady Garrett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speeding up the oscillator by Grady Garrett In 1986, I began a study of Standard & Poor's 100-stock Index (OEX) in search of a reliable mechanical trading indicator. This was a volatile time for the OEX-- the bull market was getting its second wind and I
Spherical Wave Filters by Richard Johnson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spherical Wave Filters by Richard Johnson Why do Elliott wave patterns develop in price data? This may be the reason. OF all the geometric forms, the sphere is the simplest. On a two-dimensional plane, the sphere is displayed as a circle or ellipse. Th
Spike Up The Volume by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (30-37): Spike Up The Volume by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. A long spike appearing in the volume histogram usually catches your attention. But how do these spikes in volume really affect indicators and prices? Volume can be c
Spike protection by John McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spike protection by John McCormick You've just spent four hours perfecting the spreadsheet that conveys an idea which blossomed full-blown in your imagination at 1 a.m. You know that you would never again be able to duplicate this perfect means of analy
Split Synthetic Stock Positions by Roger Ison, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Split Synthetic Stock Positions by Roger Ison, Ph.D. Use this flexible but little-known strategy to buy stock inexpensively, deploy cash more effectively, and diversify your portfolio. Suppose that a stock you follow, Abcd Inc. [ABCD], has just taken a
Spotting Price Reversals With The VIX by John Zachary
Spread Analysis And A Look At Unknown Fundamentals by Darin Newsom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (42-46): Spread Analysis And A Look At Unknown Fundamentals by Darin Newsom How do you know what the underlying fundamental situation is when the supply and demand factors remain unknown? Basically, commodity market analys
Spread Investing Tools of the trade part 2 by Frank Taucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread Investing Tools of the trade part 2 by Frank Taucher In part one, I discussed some of the pitfalls of traditional studies on the seasonality of spreading and how I attempted to correct them in my spread trading. The objective of the program is to
Spread Prices As A Leading Indicator by Curtis McKallip Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread Prices As A Leading Indicator by Curtis McKallip Jr. Commodities that are deliverable today trade at a different price than the very same commodity to be delivered in the future. This price differential is called a spread. Spreads exist because
Spread Trading to Reduce Risk by L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread Trading to Reduce Risk by L.A. Little What are spread trades, how do they work, and how can we use them? The spread trading strategy receives too little attention even though a well-designed spread can offer excellent profit potential while dec
Spread investing - Advanced concepts Part 3 by Frank Taucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread investing - Advanced concepts Part 3 by Frank Taucher In the previous installment of this series, I discussed the two tools I use in my seasonal spread investment program to locate trades that are profitable, reliable and consistent. The objectiv
Spread investing Part 4 by Frank Taucher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread investing Part 4 by Frank Taucher What if you have no interest in trading spreads, but prefer to trade outright commodity contracts? Could you use the same principles developed in the spread investing program laid out in this series of articles a
Spread trading the CRB Index by John J. Murphy and David J. Hirschfeld
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread trading the CRB Index by John J. Murphy and David J. Hirschfeld This article really has two aspects. The first is to introduce the concept of relative strength analysis to commodity markets utilizing CRB Index futures. The second aspect is to sho
Spreadsheets - a universal technical analysis program? by Stuart G. Meibuhr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spreadsheets - a universal technical analysis program? by Stuart G. Meibuhr A spreadsheet is often the first computer program people buy after getting a computer. Spreadsheets are merely electronic pieces of paper divided into rows and columns, the inte
Spying the black hole by Carl Wyman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spying the black hole by Carl Wyman The stock market spiraled into a black hole on October 19, 1987, hurting investors and destroying many put writers. For most traders the plunge was an incredible concepts which could have warned a trader of a potentia
Squashing Functions by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Squashing Functions by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Here's one way to mathematically transform data from one scale to another while maintaining the information content. Those who use neural nets to model equity markets to develop a trading strategy probab
Squelch Those Whipsaws by John F.Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Squelch Those Whipsaws by John F.Ehlers What's real price movement and what's just noise? Figuring out the difference is vital, and here's an objective measure to help you out. Hey, good buddy! Ever operate a citizens' band (CB) radio? If you haven't,
Stage Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stage Analysis by Thom Hartle Funds are invested in markets for various reasons. A high return on investment capital, of course, is the ultimate goal. Investment decisions, however, often are made with only limited amounts of careful thinking behind the
Standard Error Bands by Jon Anderson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Standard Error Bands by Jon Anderson Here's a new technique for placing trading bands around the price action of your favorite market. This technique shows how to recognize low-volatility situations and aid in forecasting trend direction. There was a
Starting A Technical Analysis Group by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Starting A Technical Analysis Group by Barbara Star, Ph.D. While the perfect trading system may be elusive, sharing information with others is very attainable. One way to do so is to become part of a technical analysis group. Technical analysts constan
Statistically Analyzing Volume by William M. Goodman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistically Analyzing Volume by William M. Goodman, Ph.D. Is an increase in the activity of a stock a meaningful indication of the direction of price? To answer this question, you can use statistical methods and most any spreadsheet to analyze the rel
Statistically Positioned Trend Channels by Bob McCullough
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistically Positioned Trend Channels by Bob McCullough Trend channels are a method by which to identify the outer boundaries of a trend. A number of methods are based on the technician's judgment to identify the components of a trend channel. Here's
Statistics And Trading Behavior by Ari Kiev and Ken Grant
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
Statistics Of Chaotic Markets by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For those of us who have had ""chaotic"" days - when everything was topsy-turvy and nothing went the way it should have - maybe the problem isn't in those days; maybe it's in what we expect. - by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A. Have you ever had a truly cha
Stay In Phase by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stay In Phase by John F. Ehlers This cycles software specialist discusses an indicator based on cyclical analysis. A cycle is one market characteristic that can be scientifically measured. Although they can be measured, they are still maddening because
Staying with the markets by Eric L. Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Staying with the markets by Eric L. Sharp Experience is a great teacher, but she charges such horrendous fees. Traders in both the cash and futures markets know that better than anyone. Anything that increases your insight into directions and targets fo
Step Up To Trade At The NYMEX by Victoria Woolley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Step Up To Trade At The NYMEX by Victoria Woolley How do you get to be a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange? Like Broadway, it's practice, practice, practice. Ever wonder what the training process is for new options traders, how their per
Step up to the window by Alan Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Step up to the window by Alan Hanson As a newly-licensed floor broker handling orders for a major Chicago commodity broker, I enjoyed expressing my own market theories and opinions to the older members of the exchange. My ideas were important to me, but
Stephen Leeb Of Personal Finance And The Big Picture by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Stephen Leeb Of Personal Finance And The Big Picture by Thom Hartle If a diverse educational background ever lent itself to analyzing the markets, surely that of Personal Finance and The Big Picture newsletters editor Stephen Leeb would do so
Steve Nison On Candlestick Charting by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Steve Nison On Candlestick Charting by Thom Hartle Thanks to Steve Nison of Merrill Lynch, the Japanese candlestick formation method has become international. Nison's first article on the candlestick formation in December 1989 triggered a flood of inter
Steve Nison's Candle Charting Essentials And Beyond by Sean M. Moore
Steve Shellans of MoniResearch Newsletter by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Computers have managed to insinuate themselves into our lives these days, but not many of us remember the early days. MoniResearch Newsletter publisher Steve Shellans was a pioneer of sorts in the industry; he started to work with computers in earnest 40
Steve Shobin Of Merrill Lynch by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Steve Shobin Of Merrill Lynch by Thom Hartle I'd first like to start off with some information about your background and how you first became interested in technical analysis. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966 as an English literatu
Steven C. Leuthold: Fundamentally Technical by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Steven C. Leuthold: Fundamentally Technical Institutional investment strategist and researcher Steve Leuthold brings almost 30 years of investment experience to his positions as chairman of the Leuthold Group, an investment research organization, and cha
Stochastic Momentum by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastic Momentum by William Blau A new twist on the venerable stochastic formula was presented in a January 1991 article, ""Double-smoothed stochastics,"" written by William Blau. Here, Blau expounds on stochastic double smoothing in a somewhat dif
Stochastic RSI And Dynamic Momentum Index by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastic RSI And Dynamic Momentum Index by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll Here, a relative strength index (RSI) tutorial clarifies the basics of the time-honored indicator. The tutorial also introduces new variants that STOCKS & COMMODITIES contribut
Stochastic oscillator by Mike Takano
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastic oscillator by Mike Takano 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 accumu
Stochastics Indicators And Trading by David Lundgren
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastics Indicators And Trading by David Lundgren Here, first-time STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor David Lundgren reminds us that the stochastics indicator is just a guide to understanding the trend for trading. Stochastics, or any technical indica
Stochastics Of Earnings Yields by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastics Of Earnings Yields by Mark Vakkur, M.D. By combining technicals and fundamentals, you can make a realistic analysis of the market. Pure stock market technicians ignore fundamentals. To them, the chart tells the whole story, while the fundam
Stochastics and long-term trends by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastics and long-term trends by Thom Hartle The price of the bond futures market reacts to changing fundamentals that are global in nature and very complicated--Foreign Central banks' policy on the exchange rate for the dollar, the rate of money supp
Stochastics by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastics As originally introduced by George Lane, the classic stochastic oscillator is not a normalized relative strength indicator, like most other momentum oscillators. However, it does use closing price in its calculation, but in a way slightly di
Stochastics by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stochastics by Thom Hartle During the late 1950s, George C. Lane was actively involved with researching different types of oscillators to use as trading indicators. The name of each indicator was simply a letter from the alphabet, such as %A. The resear
Stock Beta Coefficient by Scott S. Silver & Gary M. Wingens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Beta Coefficient by Scott S. Silver & Gary M. Wingens Over the course of the past two decades the investment community has become increasingly concerned with the notion of risk and its relationship to a portfolio of assets. Economists and statisti
Stock Insurance Policy by Sylvain Vervoort
Stock Market Business Cycle by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Business Cycle by Bill Dunbar Bottom fishing should be peaceful. If you're a bottom fisherman you like to recline in an open boat in the cool of the morning or sit with your back against a mossy bank in the gathering dusk and watch the leav
Stock Market Double-Header? by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Double-Header? by Bill Dunbar On the long side it's easy to make money in stocks at the beginning of a well-defined bull market. If you pick your issues by throwing darts or consulting your astrologer, or even listening to your investment a
Stock Market Déjà Vu? by K.D. Angle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The more things change, the more they remain the same. This money manager compares today's economic situation with the 1920s and finds some interesting parallels. As computers continue to dictate many of the trading decisions of the 1990s in both the s
Stock Market Risk: A Monthly Look by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Risk: A Monthly Look by John Kean Have you ever wanted to know what the actual statistics of the month-to-month risk in the stock market are? This article looks at the question and formulates a possible reason. Most stock market analysis f
Stock Selection by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Selection by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. How does a veteran technician like Arthur Merrill select stocks for investment? He explains that it's not the simplest of methods and it does require research and work, but the results, he notes, are worth it
Stock Splits: Boon Or Bust? by Michael D. Sheimo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Splits: Boon Or Bust? by Michael D. Sheimo Even the most sophisticated market participants are tempted to buy a stock that has been announced to split two for one. They, of all investors, should know better, because not all stock splits turn out t
Stock hedge portfolios: A strategy for all seasons by Larry Christy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock hedge portfolios: A strategy for all seasons by Larry Christy If you're looking for a conservative way to make substantial profits in any kind of market environment, you may want to consider common stock hedge portfolios. By balancing an equal amo
Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel The level and trend of interest rates has a tremendous influence over what types of investments investors choose to put their money into. Generally, when interest rates are low and/or falling, inves
Stock timing to the discount rates by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock timing to the discount rates by Jay Kaeppel The course and direction of interest rates have long had a direct and often profound effect on the course of stock prices. When interest rates are rising, investors tend to turn away from the stock marke
StockCharts.com/charts/carpet.html by Dennis D. Peterson
Stocks & Commodities V. 14:11: Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (77) : Futures For You by Dan O'Neil
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (77) : Futures For You by Dan O'Neil INSIDE THE FUTURES WORLD Want to learn how the futures markets really work? Dan O'Neil, a principal at online futures and forex broker XPRESSTRADE (www.xpresstrade.com), responds to your
Stocks & Commodities V. 25:10 (92) Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? Cocktail Economics: Discovering Investment Truths From Everyday Conversations ? The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2007 ? Secrets Of The Trading Pros: Techniques & Tips That Pros Use To Beat The Markets ? The C
Stocks & Commodities V. 25:10 82-89) Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? TRADECISION: ACCUMULATED RANGE RATIO INDICATOR Editor's note: Code for Tradecision is already included in Dima Vonko article in this issue, "Tandem Studies On Market Movement." The code in Improvian language
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:1 (51) Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile DOLLAR BOUNCE The US dollar has performed miserably against the euro in recent years. I think it's overdone, but I have heard that some analysts say the euro could move all the way up to 1.50. If so, I think the doll
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:1 (52-57) A Structured Approach To Option Trading by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Structured Approach To Option Trading by Jay Kaeppel This is the first in a series of articles about option trading with the PROVEST option trading method. The PROVEST method is not a trading system. Rather, it utilizes a series of criteria that can a
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:1 (58-64) More Than A Trading System With Adrienne Toghraie by Jayanthi G
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...More Than A Trading System With Adrienne Toghraie by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Adrienne Laris Toghraie is an internationally recognized authority in the field of human development and a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for the fin
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:3 (24-32) Buying Straddles by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buying Straddles by Jay Kaeppel In this, the third article of the series, the strategy of buying a straddle is discussed, which gives option traders an opportunity not available to others. AS discussed in the first article in this series, there are sev
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:4 (32-38) Bull Put Spreads by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bull Put Spreads by Jay Kaeppel In part 4 of this series, you'll find out more about the bull put spread strategy. AS discussed in the first article in this series, several key factors should be considered in determining the best option trading strateg
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:5 (58-61) Reducing Risk With Delta-Vega Hedging by Seongjin Cho & Ingyu K
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reducing Risk With Delta-Vega Hedging by Seongjin Cho & Ingyu Koh Predicting market movements with options can be profitable but risky -- here's how to make it safer. The size of the option market has increased significantly, thanks to high leverage. Ma
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:5 (67) Q&A by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Q&A by Don Bright MARKET ON CLOSE What significance does the 3:40 pm ending order imbalances entail for daytrading? Also, can you recommend any books that will expound on the subject? Thank you in advance. -- Marcus MOC imbalances are fundamental to al
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:5 (92) Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? A Beginner's Guide To Charting Financial Markets ? Hedge Fund Due Diligence ? Make Money Trading ? Mastering Trading Stress ? The Rookie's Guide To Options ? Technical Analysis Tools ? Trade Your Way
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:6 (20-24) Profit With ETFs by Gerald Gardner and Trent Gardner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profit With ETFs by Gerald Gardner and Trent Gardner Here's a timing method you can use to trade exchange traded funds. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are ideal candidates with which to explore the timing of investments. More than 400 ETFs are tradable a
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:6 (26-30) The Overlooked But Profitable Volume by Cory Mitchell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Overlooked But Profitable Volume by Cory Mitchell It's ubiquitous, easy to use, and can lead to outstanding results. The number of stock shares that change hands over a given length of time is one of the most significant pieces of information we ha
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:8 (92) Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:8 (98, 97) At The Close by Sarp Cercioglu
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:9 (66-67) Product Review: QuoteMachine by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Stocks & Commodities V. 26:9 (68-70) Product Review: Zignals.com by Dennis D. Peterson
Stocks According To Trend Tendency by Stuart Meibuhr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks According To Trend Tendency by Stuart Meibuhr Many times, a question asked of STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers will more than likely find an answer -- and more than an answer, further questions. Such was the article that E. Michael Poulos presented ea
Stocks Yield To Bonds by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks Yield To Bonds by Tushar S. Chande A stock's price may be considered a mechanism to adjust its dividend yield. In the short run, the dollar amount of the dividend is fixed, and so stock prices change to accommodate changes in bond yields. Lags oc
Stocks above moving averages by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks above moving averages by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT The percentage of stocks above their moving averages has been tracked for a number of years by Investor's Intelligence, a weekly report that includes the number of New York Stock Exchange issues abo
Stocks, Interest Rates And The MACD by Kent Perkers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks, Interest Rates And The MACD by Kent Perkers The notion that markets are interlinked is gaining widespread acceptance. However, the technique of timing trades in one market based on the price direction of another market still requires further fin
Stockscores.com by Dennis D. Peterson
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 opportuni
Stopping Points in Trading by Ari Kiev, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (342-344): Stopping Points in Trading by Ari Kiev, MD This psychiatrist, who teaches strategies for trading success, discusses the identification and management of psychological stopping points that can limit your success as a trader. It happ
Straddles, Strangles And Spreads by Richard M. Koff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Straddles, Strangles And Spreads by Richard M. Koff Here's a primer for the new trader who wants to move beyond simple buy-and-hold strategies. Options provide such a bewildering variety of risky and complicated investment choices that most small inve
Strategies For Daytrading by Jacob Singer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strategies For Daytrading by Jacob Singer These strategies could improve your daytrading. Trading strategies that fall under the definition of daytrading can be confusing, because there are really three types of daytrading: intraday trading, end-of-day
Strategies For Overcoming Fear by Adrienne Laris Toghraie,
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strategies For Overcoming Fear by Adrienne Laris Toghraie How many times has fear blocked your way, whether in trading or otherwise? Worse still, did you know it? Neuro-linguistic programmer Adrienne Toghraie explains how you may be sabotaging your own
Strategies For Single-Stock Futures by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strategies For Single-Stock Futures by Don Bright With single-stock futures ready to make an entry into the markets, you need to be armed with the right strategies. I 'm often asked what the traits are that successful stock traders have in common, and
Streamline Your Trading Routine by Dave Mabe
Strength Figure by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strength Figure by Alex Saitta Here's an indicator that captures the amount and the distance of price thrusts. Technicians measure the strength of a market trend by examining trading volume, open interest, or price momentum. Most who choose momentum gr
Strength-Rated Candlestick Patterns by Mitch E. Mulhall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strength-Rated Candlestick Patterns by Mitch E. Mulhall Perfectly formed candlestick patterns are not common. By ordering the criteria for a candlestick pattern from most important to least important, you can rate pattern strength by the number of crite
Stress and Trading Success by Ari Kiev, M.D., J.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stress and Trading Success by Ari Kiev, M.D., J.D. First-time STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Ari Kiev, who is president of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute, discusses the role that stress plays in trading success and failure. Stress is a natu
Students select a winning portfolio by Michael Scott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Students select a winning portfolio by Michael Scott Can high school seniors on a college prep track outperform leading investment advisors and mutual fund managers? Based on the following evidence, the answer must be an unqualified ""yes."" The underly
Studying Price Behavior by Michael Daley
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
Studying Risk Behavior by Ari Kiev, M.D.
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
Succeeding with options part 1 by Leonard Yates
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Succeeding with options part 1 by Leonard Yates An option is one of the most flexible forms of contractual agreements ever developed. Options may be used to take advantage of almost any type of market scenario one can imagine. There are option strategie
Successfully trading currency options by Thomas J. Dorsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Successfully trading currency options by Thomas J. Dorsey Many people equate the options market with gambling in a Las Vegas casino. Many investors do experience losses trading options, but their losses are usually due to both an abuse of leverage and l
Summed Rate Of Change (KST) by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Summed Rate Of Change (KST) by Martin J. Pring In the August Stocks & Commodities, noted technician Martin Pring presented smoothed rate of change indicators as a method to identify both the trend and reversals of trend in the markets. He pointed out th
Sunspots and Market Activity by J. Katz, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is increased sunspot activity a precursor to market volatility? As any amateur radio operator can tell you, one of the major influences on long-distance radio transmissions is sunspots, which appear to the observer as, literally, dark spots on the surfa
Support & Resistance Axioms by David G. Ondercin, Phd
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support & Resistance Axioms by David G. Ondercin, Phd Here are seven axioms for the practical application of support and resistance levels to your trading. Support and resistance are of central importance to all traders and a necessary starting point f
Support And Resistance Levels by John J. Kosar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support And Resistance Levels by John J. Kosar With the advent of personal computers and charting software, support and resistance levels and their value as a technical tool have been overshadowed by sophisticated indicators. Nonetheless, support and re
Support And Resistance by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support And Resistance by Stuart Evens Support and resistance are basic tools used by traders to identify key reversal areas. Here's a look at the basics of support and resistance levels and how to determine which levels might be important in the futur
Support and Resistance with the Andrews Pitchfork by Barbara Star
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support And Resistance With The Andrews Pitchfork by Barbara Star, Ph.D Here's a charting technique that's available in most of today's popular software. If you're not familiar with it, here are some tips to using it. If you are familiar with it, it's t
Surfing The Linear Regression Curve . . . by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Surfing The Linear Regression Curve With Bond Futures by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Linear regression, a statistical technique that fits a straight line to data points, can also be a proxy for a market trend. Here's a trading system that uses the measured per
Surfing Your Position With Wave Stops by E. Labunsky and T. Hamilton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Surfing Your Position With Wave Stops by E. Labunsky and T. Hamilton When is a good time and place to exit a position? Whether inspired by Ralph Nelson Elliott's works or by just a casual observation of a price chart, you can't help but notice how pr
Survival Of The Fittest by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Survival Of The Fittest by Don Bright What do we do now? A new era in the market has dawned, and we have to figure out how best to adapt to it. Take a look around. The market bubble has burst, and we must learn how to adapt to the new era of trading th
Survival of the fittest by Philip Gotthelf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Survival of the fittest by Philip Gotthelf With the proper tools and right attitude, the ""Crash of '87"" represented one of the greatest profit opportunities in history. A single short S&P 500 futures position could have delivered an amazing $60,000-- w
Survival strategies for exchanges by Dr. Robert A. Wood
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Survival strategies for exchanges by Dr. Robert A. Wood The rate of change in the structure of capital markets appears to be accelerating. Some forces affecting change are the evolution of futures and options markets, computerized trading which permits
Surviving The Test of Time With J. Welles Wilder by Brian Twomey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Surviving The Test of Time With J. Welles Wilder by Brian Twomey J. Welles Wilder is an author, market technician, and inventor of indicators and trading systems that have become classics over time. Without Wilder's contributions to technical analysis,
Sustaining The Trader's Momentum by Ari Kiev, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This psychiatrist, who teaches strategies for successful trading, explores various strategies for overcoming obstacles to continued success. by Ari Kiev, M.D. It's not uncommon for traders to blow up after successful runs just as they're about to reach
Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney FEEDING FRENZY I opened my Journal today to find Kidder Peabody explaining ""What is a stock?"" on the editorial pages. My mother calls to find out if she should be going for ""higher returns in the market."" I've not
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
Swing Charts by J.R. Davis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Swing Charts by J.R. Davis A profitable trade has two dimensions: time and space (which, for our purposes, will be known as price change). A trade that occurs in a few seconds is extremely difficult to cash in unless you are directly on the floor. On th
Swing Expectations by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Swing Expectations by Arthur A. Merrill Market moves are plagued by the ""noise"" of short-term vibrations. I've found it useful to clean up the moves by using a simple 5% filter for the market averages and a 10% filter for individual stocks. All swings
Swing Trading With Swing Charts by Teresa Lo
Swingin' With The Trade With Toni Hansen by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
Swiss Army Knife Indicator by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (28-31, 50-53): Swiss Army Knife Indicator by John F. Ehlers You've probably never heard of this indicator, but it has all the common functions such as smoothing and momentum generation. Find out why it's going to be your ne
Swiss Franc Fall Signaled By COT Data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The weekly Commitment of Traders report provided by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission can sometimes be useful to help spot trading opportunities.
Synthetic Swing Trading by Carley Garner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (44-50): Synthetic Swing Trading by Carley Garner Trading successfully means being aware of support & resistance levels. Here are some examples to help you understand the world of option trading. Because markets tend to tr
Synthetically Speaking by Paul J. Kluskowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (16-20): Synthetically Speaking by Paul J. Kluskowski How do you transform your premium from debit to credit? Think synthetic positions. Ask anyone in the know and they will tell you that the risk/reward profile of a long o
System Optimization And Money Management by L. Zamansky, Ph.D., and M. Stolz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...System Optimization And Money Management Most traders focus on optimizing the trading system rules and ignore money management rules until after the system rules have been established. Here's why you should test both sets of rules simultaneously. Moder
System Optimization Techniques by David S. Nicol
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...System Optimization Techniques by David S. Nicol What is system optimization and is it good or bad? It's a little of both, system designers will tell you. David Nicol explains the whys and wherefores. System optimization is a controversial subject amon
System Rankings by John Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...System Rankings by John Hill Futures Truth Company has updated its table on the performance of publicity available trading systems. Results are shown for the six months from August 1, 1987 to December 31, 1988. Similar tables covering the most recent 12
System Writer Plus by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
TEM Cattle System by Bruce Babcock, Jr.
THE INSIDE MAN by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...THE INSIDE MAN by Bill Dunbar Inside Broker: Listen now, Charley, that stock moved up 5/8 yesterday and 1/2 the day before! You better grab it before it gets outa reach. Charley: Do ya really think I should? I haven't even plotted the price ranges over
TRIX Is For Traders by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRIX Is For Traders by David Penn This momentum indicator keeps you in trends for as long as you like. A drawback of moving average? based indicators has always been the lag: Moving averages often provide buy and sell signals long after much of a big m
TRIX: Triple Exponential Smoothing Oscillator by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRIX: Triple Exponential Smoothing Oscillator by Jack K. Hutson Relating the use of Fourier spectrum analysis to stock or commodity data filter selection has been the subject of a number of articles in Technical Analysis. In particular, Warren uses Four
Tactical Trading Revisited by Roger Altman, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical Trading Revisited by Roger Altman, Ph.D. How would the Martingale trading technique work with a trading system that does not assume that the market is a random walk but instead relies on its own system parameters to determine stop-loss points,
Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan When used as an allocator, the Market Forecaster program, produced by William Finnegan Associates, Inc., may produce higher profits than a simple buy-and-hold strategy and at less ris
Tactical stock trading by Hugh L. Logan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical stock trading by Hugh L. Logan Peter Eliason's stock trading technique (""Tactical stock trading,"" Stocks & Commodities, March 1989 and ""Volatility analysis and simulation used in tactical trading,"" Stocks & Commodities, July 1989) sounded s
Tactical stock trading by Peter Eliason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical stock trading by Peter Eliason We have all heard that there is no solution to predicting the market because price movement is a random walk. The statement is partially right and partially wrong. Price movement may be random, but there is an exa
Take A Look At The Dow by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Take A Look At The Dow by Daniel E. Downing In the past, one of the first requirements of being a technical analyst was a promise of sorts to ignore the price action of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A technician had to focus on the action of more br
Taking Stock of Commodity Trading Methods by DR. BASIL VENITIS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking Stock of Commodity Trading Methods by DR. BASIL VENITIS Fundamental Analysis Fundamental Analysis is price analysis based on basic economic, political, and ecological factors. These factors include supply and demand, seasonal cycles, weather, go
Taking The Tech Sector Apart --Technically by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking The Tech Sector Apart -- Technically by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The recent downfall in technology stocks came as a shock to some traders. Here's how you could have protected your profits. You would find that a picture is truly worth a thousand wo
Talking With "Trader Vic'' Sperandeo by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Talking With ""Trader Vic"" Sperandeo Victor Sperandeo, money manager, economist and co-author of the popular Trader Vic: Secrets of a Wall Street Master and author of a second book due out this winter, is more than just a successful trader. A trading an
Talking With "Turtle" Russell Sands by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Talking With ""Turtle"" Russell Sands by Thom Hartle We talked with ""turtle"" Russell Sands about the importance of risk management, following the trend and understanding crowd behavior. How did you end up becoming one of the turtles? Believe it or n
Taming The Volatility Beast by Kevin Lund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taming The Volatility Beast by Kevin Lund Take advantage of volatility and play those options. If you've traded options for any length of time, you've probably experienced the following scenario: You spot a stock that seems to have some good swings. Af
Taming the indicators by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taming the indicators by Arthur A. Merrill An indicator is often difficult to read because of its wild fluctuations. It may appear optimistic and then dive into bearish territory. Then it might reverse again and turn bullish. Frustrating! A wild indica
Tandem Studies On Market Movement by Dima Vonko
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tandem Studies On Market Movement by Dima Vonk Here's a tool that analyzes the structure of the market and anticipates market developments for the immediate future. Market movements are often referred to as trends, sideways movements, and consolidation
Tape Reading And Daytrading Stock Index Futures by Gary Smith
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tape Reading And Daytrading Stock Index Futures by Gary Smith Tape reading isn't terribly complicated. In Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin LeFèvre said it best: "This matter of tape reading is not so complicated as it appears. Of course you need
Targeting Your Pattern by Massimiliano Scorpio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (58-63): Targeting Your Pattern by Massimiliano Scorpio Two-bar patterns: How to select, reorganize, and trade them. Previously, my articles were focused on finding your favorite configurations using EasyLanguage (EL). I st
Teacher, Trader Still Teaching: Joseph Stowell by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (304-310): Teacher, Trader Still Teaching: Joseph Stowell by Thom Hartle Many STOCKS & COMMODITIES readers dream of trading for a living; they fantasize about giving up their humdrum day-to-day job and focusing on the opportunities in leveraged
TechniFilter Plus Version 6 by John Sweeney and Steven Notis
Technical Analysis Adapts and Thrives by M. Carr and A. Hestla
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Professions are built on a body of knowledge and an underlying rationale that explains the reasons behind the knowledge. Technical analysis is a professional undertaking, but little has been written about its foundational principles.
Technical Analysis Information. by JACK K. HUTSON, EDITOR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Analysis Information. by JACK K. HUTSON, EDITOR INTRODUCTION We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our subscribers for their encouragement and support, and Tim Slater, of COMPU TRAC, who made it all possible. The initial set
Technical Analysis by JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Analysis by JACK K. HUTSON Thank you for your very kind and in some cases flattering response to the ""Reader Service Form"" published in Technical Analysis July 1983 issue. Feedback from you, our readers, helps guide both our growing staff an
Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets by John Sweeney Author: John J. Murphy Publisher: New York Institute of Finance 70 Pine Street New York, NY 10270 (212) 344-2900 Price: $45 plus $2 shipping (U.S. only) Mr. Technician, John Murphy, has writt
Technical Index measures market breadth by William Mason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Index measures market breadth by William Mason There are numerous driving forces in the stock market such as inflation, interest rates, earnings, trade deficit, fear and greed. The final output from the driving forces behind the stock market a
Technical Studies And The Primary Cycle by Raymond A. Merriman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Studies And The Primary Cycle Cycle analysis offers the opportunity to identify windows of potential market bottoms and tops. Technical indicators can be used to time entries and exits in the stock at key points in the cycle. How well does thi
Technical analysis of NYSI/DJI by Howard Waxenberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of NYSI/DJI by Howard Waxenberg There is a great amount of technical analysis that is done intraday by number crunching computers that are connected to online databases. For the majority of investors and money managers that do not hav
Technical analysis of industry groups by Richard K. Carlin, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of industry groups by Richard K. Carlin, Ph.D. Stock market analysis is usually done in one of two ways: either on the market itself to predict whether stocks as a group are in an uptrend or downtrend, or on individual stocks to disco
Technical analysis of the Dow 20 Bond Index by Howard Waxenberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of the Dow 20 Bond Index by Howard Waxenberg Over the years, the correlation between moves in the bond market and moves in the stock market has been tremendous. In the last several years, we have repeatedly seen the condition where bo
Technical analysis of volume by Howard K. Waxenberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of volume by Howard K. Waxenberg You don't need a computer for volume studies; the analysis presented here can be done with a calculator and The Wall Street Journal. This article provides an outline of technical tools derived from vol
Technically Trading The Yen With Money Management by Timothy L. Krehbiel, Thomas P. Drinka, and Gise
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technically Trading The Yen With Money Management By Timothy L. Krebiel, Thomas P. Drinka, Gisele F. Hamm Any good trading methodology includes selecting the best indicators for a tradeable and applying money management techniques to hold on to profits.
Technically trading the ¥en by Thomas P. Drinka, Timothy L. Krehbiel, Stephen Ptasienski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technically trading the ¥en by Thomas P. Drinka, Timothy L. Krehbiel, Stephen Ptasienski Speculators and commercial hedgers who trade currency futures often use technical analysis to determine trading signals. We statistically tested 34 of these indicat
Technician 5.0 by Steve Notis
Telescan Stock Evaluation Service by John Sweeney
Testing Exit Strategies by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Exit Strategies by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Everyone's looking for entry trading signals, but what about after you're in the trade? Last time, Katz and McCormick looked at different techniques for making a graceful -- and
Testing Indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Analysts consult scores of indicators to get clues for the future. At any given instant, however, some of the indicators are bullish and some are bearish. They are never unanimous. Which should we believe?
Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent Here's how you can evaluate how effective your trading system is. ot unlike new pharmaceutical drugs, buy and sell signals must be put through rigorous tests to determine their usefulness. Only when signals prove
Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney After two Sundays of dinking around (Settlement, STOCKS & COMMODITIES November and December 1991), I'd finally converted a chance idea to something with remotely promising prospects somet
Testing breakout systems by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing breakout systems by Steve Notis Breakout or volatility systems comprise a large portion of the current glut of publicly offered trading systems. Many of these systems sell for $3,000 or more. For that price you usually get a nice software packag
The 10% Swing Filter by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 10% Swing Filter by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Price filters identify trends while eliminating noise below a certain percentage change. Here's a trading method using a 10% price filter for the S&P 500 stock index. Although trend-following systems work well
The 2/20-Day EMA Breakout System by David S. Landry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 2/20-Day EMA Breakout System by David S. Landry Moving average systems seek to capture meaningful trends. Here's a modified exponential moving average system that uses pattern recognition as a filter for entry rules. Technical approaches to tradin
The 21st Century Technician by Henry "Hank" Pruden, PhD
The 28% Rule by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 28% Rule by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. A bear market is interrupted by rallies, which cheer the spirits but are then followed by a resumption of the bear market. Finally, one of the rallies turns out to be the first upswing of a new bull market, and
The 350 Swing Trade by Barbara Star, PhD.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 350 Swing Trade by Barbara Star, PhD. This indicator can help you identify the beginning and end of a price swing. When markets exhibit greater and greater volatility, traders move away from longer-term trading methods with their potentially dev
The 4% Indicator Revisited by Michael J. Collins
The 4% Model: Using The Value Line Composite by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 4% Model: Using The Value Line Composite by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T. Looking for an indicator that doesn't predict huge booms or busts, but tells you what the safest course of action is? Here it is. For this model, all you need is the Value Line Index.
The 40-Week Cycle In The Stock Market by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 40-Week Cycle In The Stock Market by Jay Kaeppel Is the market truly random? Some phenomena related to the stock market would not be expected to exist if the market truly were random. There has been much debate in the investment community regarding
The 40.68-month stock price cycle by Gertrude Shirk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 40.68-month stock price cycle by Gertrude Shirk Of the thousands of possible rhythmic cycles in hundreds of subjects that the Foundation for the Study of Cycles has studied over the years, one we have reported on repeatedly since November 1951 is th
The 42/49/55 day reaction technique by Chuck Carpino
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 42/49/55 day reaction technique by Chuck Carpino The 42/49/55 day reaction technique is a trading method I have used for years to buy a stock or index. Although the signal is infrequent, its reliability for a substantial profit is extremely high. In
The ADX by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...THE ADX The calculation of the average directional movement (ADX) indicator is built on the intuitive notion that a trend is a series of price ranges extending in a consistent direction. In sidebar Figure 1, example A, the second day's trading range is
The ADX by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...THE ADX The calculation of the average directional movement (ADX) indicator is built on the intuitive notion that a trend is a series of price ranges extending in a consistent direction. In sidebar Figure 1, example A, the second day's trading range is
The Accumulative Swing Index by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Accumulative Swing Index by Bruce R. Faber Here's an indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder that determines the true direction of the market by comparing today's trading range with yesterday's activity. Each day a market has an opening, high, low
The Adam theory of markets by Lesley B. Orr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Adam theory of markets by Lesley B. Orr Author: J. Welles Wilder Jr. Publisher: Cavida Ltd., N.C. The Adam Theory of Markets by J. Welles Wilder Jr. is a book about ""making profits trading...any freely traded markets anywhere in the world."" It s
The Advance-Decline Line Redux by Robert Kinsman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (29-33): The Advance-Decline Line Redux by Robert Kinsman The advance-decline line is an ongoing sum of the difference between the number of stocks closing higher minus the number of stocks closing lower each day. Here's a primer on how to use a
The Advance-Decline, New-High, New-Low Market System by D. Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:2 (69-75): The Advance-Decline, New-High, New-Low Market System by Dennis Meyers Try combining popular technical stock market indicators - the advance-decline line, the number of stocks making new highs and the number of stocks making new lows - to
The Advance/Decline Line by Mike Burk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Advance/Decline Line by Mike Burk The advance/decline line, used with the volume percentage ratio and the new high/new low indicator, two indicators I've developed, helps me distinguish cycles in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and other ind
The Andrews Line by Ron Jaenisch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Andrews Line by Ron Jaenisch Here's a charting method to determine market trend and identify reversal points to set up trading opportunities. When Alan Hall Andrews taught investors how to use what is now referred to as the Andrews pitchfork charti
The Angle Of Ascent by Martha Stokes, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Angle Of Ascent by Martha Stokes, CMT Understanding the concept of the angle of ascent will help you make strong entries and protect your profits. Successful traders know that technical analysis skills require an understanding of buy signals and in
The Arms Index by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Arms Index by Bruce R. Faber Here's the scoop on the Arms index, a stock market indicator that incorporates the number of advancing and declining stocks with the advancing and declining volume. The index is widely used as an indication of overbought
The Auction Market Theory by Donald Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Auction Market Theory by Donald Jones Thanks to the Internet, even when you are far removed from the floor of the exchange, you can still hear what the market is saying. At some point, every trader benefits from a surprisingly fast, good trade. Whe
The Automated Daytrader by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (22-28): The Automated Daytrader by Lee Leibfarth Here's how daytraders can use different levels of trade automation. Technology has played a vital role in allowing retail traders to compete in markets where, traditionally,
The Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) by Thom Hartle Directional movement, according to technician J. Welles Wilder, is one of the most interesting aspects of market analysis. Markets clearly move from trending periods to trading ranges, but dete
The Average Peak Excursion by Chris Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (42-46): The Average Peak Excursion by Chris Young With a multitude of stocks to choose from, how do you know which ones are the best to trade, and how do you determine the best time frame to trade them? As traders, your ob
The Baby Bulge Begins by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Baby Bulge Begins by John Sweeney Our Technical Editor opines about the demographic effect the baby boomer generation is having on the stock market. Is 38% of the value in the market unaccountable? What could explain such a discrepancy? Goldman, S
The Bad, The Good, And The Profitable by John L. Momsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bad, The Good, And The Profitable by John L. Momsen Here's why you have to research your trades as thoroughly as possible. In February 2003, I received an intriguing email from one of my friends. He said he had discovered a nearly perfect, 94% prof
The Bandpass Indicator by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bandpass Indicator by John F. Ehlers Here's an indicator that can be adjusted to be a leading indicator of market reversals based on the cycles in the price data, presented by a longtime S&C contributor. The bandpass indicator is an oscillator-typ
The Basics Of Developing A Neural Trading System by Lou Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Developing A Neural Trading System by Lou Mendelsohn As traders begin to experiment with and apply artificial neural systems to financial forecasting, there are pitfalls to avoid in the design and training of these systems so this new tech
The Basics Of Managing Money by Robert P. Rotella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Managing Money by Robert P. Rotella A trader can score that one big win, but it's all for naught if he can't hold onto his profits. Money management is the step both before and after trading, the study of risk and reward and how best to ut
The Basics Of Moving Averages by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Moving Averages by George R. Arrington, Ph.D. Moving averages are one of the most common technical tools that technicians, both veteran and novice, may take advantage of. But for those novices, the concept may be somewhat confusing. What i
The Basics of Managing Money by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why is money management one of the first items that profes-sional traders stress? Why would you think? Here's an overview of risk and several simple mechanical approaches to money management. Preserving capital is essential to a trader's long-term survi
The Beginning Trader by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (40-44): The Beginning Trader by Thomas Bulkowski Here are some tips to help a beginning trader become profitable. You may be approaching retirement and want to supplement your income or earn enough money to afford the ris
The Benefits of Diversification by Lars N. Kestner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Benefits of Diversification by Lars N. Kestner The question of how to increase returns while decreasing risk has fascinated investors for decades; after all, the goal is of trading or investing is to maximize return per unit of risk accepted. Here's
The Big Hitters by Dr. Alexander Elder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Big Hitters by Dr. Alexander Elder Author: Kevin Koy Publisher: Intermarket Publishing 401 S. La Salle Chicago, IL 60605 Price: $26.95 ""The rich are different from you and me,"" wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald during the Roaring Twenties. At that time
The Bollinger Band And Trend by John Forman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bollinger Band And Trend by John Forman Here are ways to use Bollinger Bands to judge the trending tendency of markets, using the distance between the upper and lower bands. Never be afraid to look at an old technical indicator in a new way. In my
The Bond Futures Noise Channel-2 Breakout System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bond Futures Noise Channel-2 Breakout System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Here's how to develop a system using a filter to remove the random price movement and identify the trend of the Treasury bond market.
The Bounce Trade by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bounce Trade by Thomas Bulkowski A double bounce following a long decline spells a trading opportunity. Find out why. I 'm not sure exactly how I happened upon this chart pattern. I noticed that after a long, perhaps straight-line decline, stocks o
The British Pound, Cubed by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Currency markets are popular with trend-followers because of the tendency for currency markets to follow long-term trends. Here's how to smooth out the trend and recognize the major turns. The British pound (BP) is a major currency traded worldwide by
The Broadening Formation And The Bond Market by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Broadening Formation And The Bond Market by Thom Hartle Trading the bond futures market offers opportunity to the skilled chartist because a diversity of price patterns occurs over time. In reality, chart patterns are accumulation, distribution, con
The Bump-And-Run Reversal by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Bump-And-Run Reversal by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a new chart pattern that suggests when to take profits before a trend change begins. Included is a review of past performance. Isn't it strange how an idea occurs? Being hit by a falling apple led Si
The Business Of Trading by Don Bright
The Butterfly Setup by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pinpoint This Pattern The Butterfly Setup There's more than one way to use harmonic patterns to find likely buy/sell candidates. by Rudy Teseo If you've looked for Gartley patterns while scrolling through your charts, it's more than likely that you've
The CCI Trade by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The CCI Trade by Thomas Bulkowski It's not when you buy but when you sell that counts. These two trades used the commodity channel index as a sell signal. Many traders will tell you it's easy to buy a stock but difficult to sell. When you sell determin
The COT Index and Corn by Scott Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The COT Index and Corn by Scott Barrie Here's a study on using the Commitments of Traders index as an indicator for trading the corn market. The clearing houses for futures exchanges list the current number of outstanding contracts as the open interes
The CRB Index/Bond Ratio by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The CRB Index/Bond Ratio by John J. Murphy Veteran technician John J. Murphy, whose trailblazing work on technical analysis and intermarket analysis are classics of the field, has delved into how bonds and commodities are interrelated and then how bonds
The Call Me "Mini E" by Afshin Taghechian
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (92-95): The Call Me "Mini E" by Afshin Taghechian Well, actually, it's e-mini, and this article has nothing to do with Dr. Evil. You might find it informative anyway, especially if you're looking for a new instrument to trade. Since March 2000
The Cash Cow by Carley Garner with Paul Brittain
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (24-27): The Cash Cow by Carley Garner with Paul Brittain Here's a look at a side of short option trading that you cannot ignore. On the surface, selling options for the sole purpose of premium collection appears irrational
The Center Of Gravity Oscillator by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Center Of Gravity Oscillator by John F. Ehlers Here's an indicator that identifies every major turning point without much lag. This new oscillator is unique in that it is smoothed and has essentially zero lag. The smoothing enables clear identifica
The Channel Breakout System by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Channel Breakout System by Mark Vakkur, M.D. This is one of the simplest and oldest trading techniques, where trades are initiated based on price exceeding a given historical level. Here's how the channel breakout system works using the Value Line i
The Chartist by Edwin Polokoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Cautionary Tale The Chartist Charts don't lie, just in case you needed a reminder. by Edwin Polokoff I shall never forget George. When I first met him, he was a man in his late 50s, somewhat paunchy, of medium height, dark hair streaked with gray, si
The Cole Method For Trading Stocks by Alan Friedman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Cole Method For Trading Stocks by Alan Friedman Is there a code that is used by insiders to alert each other as to which stock will move and to what price? As far-fetched as it seems, the late Roger Cole discovered such a code in the earlier part of
The Commitment Of Traders Report by Jon Anderson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Commitment Of Traders Report by Jon Anderson The numbers reveal plenty about market participation. There are two basic ways to analyze the futures market: technically and fundamentally. Many traders have a purely technical approach, with total disr
The Commitment To Trading by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Commitment To Trading by Adrienne Laris Toghraie How far would you go to succeed in your trading? Commitment and achievement go hand in hand but they must be balanced. Top traders know, either instinctively or as a result of experience, that all a
The Commodity Channel Index Revisited by Jeanette Schwarz Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commodity Channel Index Revisited by Jeanette Schwarz Young Traders use technical tools in different ways at different times. Here, then, is one trader's idea on how to use this technical tool to identify major market trends. Technical tools continue t
The Commodity Channel Index by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Commodity Channel Index by Barbara Star, PhD. A technical analytical standard that's often misunderstood, the Commodity Channel Index, which was developed by technician/programmer Donald Lambert more than a decade ago, offers a broad range of tradin
The Common (But Useful) RSI by Herbert S. Hall, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Common (But Useful) RSI by Herbert S. Hall, C.M.T. The relative strength index (RSI) is one of today's most popular indicators and is available in virtually every technical analysis software package sold. While the RSI indicator has become so common
The CompuTracâ Corvusâ Hard Disk by JOHN ROSENSTOCK
The Compulsive Trader Part 1 by Van K Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Compulsive Trader Part 1 by Van K Tharp, Ph.D. Compulsiveness is perhaps the most serious of all trading problems. I have evaluated psychological profiles on thousands of commodity and option traders. Despite the fact that about 50% of the traders I
The Concept Of Equivalence by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Concept Of Equivalence by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. Try this to avoid using two indicators that are equivalent. Let me present an objective, mathematical way to determine when two indicators are equivalent with respect to divergence. Knowing when t
The Continuous Lead Contract by Frank Suler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Continuous Lead Contract by Frank Suler A trading champion shares one of the tools he uses to analyze the markets. Since the introduction of the spreadsheet, I've used its abilities in the continuing search for a profit-making trading system. In th
The Coppock Curve by Elliott Middleton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Coppock Curve by Elliott Middleton The Coppock formula was introduced in Barron's in 1962, devised by a San Antonio, TX-based technician named Edwin Sedgwick Coppock. Since then, the Coppock oscillator has been adopted and adapted by technicians aro
The Coppock Guide by Tim Hayes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Coppock Guide by Tim Hayes One of the best megaphones of market action is the Coppock guide, a long-term price momentum indicator that effectively filters out short-term and intermediate-term market swings to issue a clear message on the market's un
The Critical Eye Of Laszlo Birinyi by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Critical Eye Of Laszlo Birinyi by Thom Hartle Laszlo Birinyi of Birinyi Associates is a most unusual technician, one who is critical of most technical methods. Birinyi, a former director of Salomon Brothers, is currently head of his own market resea
The Crude Mini Cometh by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (78-82): The Crude Mini Cometh by David Penn Minis? Energies? For the little guy, trading energy futures just got easier. What were you doing in the autumn of 1990? Well, if you were a futures trader, and it was sometime in late August or early
The Cumulative Market Thrust Line by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Cumulative Market Thrust Line by Tushar S. Chande, PhD. STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Tushar Chande originally introduced the concept of market thrust in August 1992 as a method by which to overcome the limitations of the Arms index. Since then,
The Cup-with-Handle Pattern by Gregory Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Cup-with-Handle Pattern by Gregory Kuhn Most technically based traders become familiar with the classic chart patterns because those patterns give the trader visual evidence of the demand/supply balance of a stock. Interpreting the chart accurately
The DJIA And The Stock Index Futures Cycle by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The DJIA And The Stock Index Futures Cycle by Christopher Cadbury Do phases of the three-month futures cycle usually coincide with periods of greatest weakness or periods of substantial strength in the stock market? This American Stock Exchange trader d
The Damping Index by Curtis McKallip Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Damping Index by Curtis McKallip Jr. Variety is the spice of life -- except when you're trying to optimize a trading system. This new indicator identifies those places on the price graph where highs and lows are getting closer and closer together, an
The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber As chief technical analyst for Stadion Money Management, Gregory Morris educates institutional and individual clients on the merits of technical analysis, and it is why Stadion utiliz
The Dead Cat Bounce by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dead Cat Bounce If you trade stocks long enough, you might have an event take your stock down 25% to 70% in a single session. Then the situation gets grim. Here's a review of the dead cat bounce chart pattern and a strategy to minimize any additiona
The Decomposition Method by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (22-29): The Decomposition Method by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. You never know what you might find by studying high, low, and closing prices separately. In this article, I will introduce the decomposition method of price information, and show ho
The Defensive Trader by Adrienne Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Defensive Trader by Adrienne Toghraie Not trading as well as you would like to? Can you take some constructive criticism? No? Sid had a problem with his trading that was losing him money. Instead of waiting for the buy signal from his system, Sid w
The Development Of A Futures Trader by Thomas Drinka, Nathan Losey, and Ryan Lauer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (34-38): The Development Of A Futures Trader by Thomas Drinka, Nathan Losey, and Ryan Lauer Here's a look at the trading methodology implemented by two futures traders. By using Market Profile, they successfully traded the
The Discerning Trader: Linda Bradford Raschke by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Discerning Trader: Linda Bradford Raschke by Thom Hartle Contrary to popular opinion, dreams can come true. For every trader who's wished that he or she could just stay home and trade, there's one trader who succeeded in doing so. Linda Bradford Ras
The Discrete Fourier Transform Illusion by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TheDiscreteFourier Transform Illusion by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. The Fourier transform is a mathematical technique for analyzing data to determine cyclical component. Take a close look. The Fourier transform is a mathematical technique named after mathema
The Double Calendar Spread by Jay Kaeppel
The DownLoader 2.0 by Steve Notis
The Dynamics Of Candlestick Patterns by Shijoong Sung
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (46-49): The Dynamics Of Candlestick Patterns by Shijoong Sung Candlestick patterns have been used for centuries, but given that they have received so much attention among technical analysts, can they still be used in the c
The Eight-Year Presidential Election Pattern by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Eight-Year Presidential Election Pattern by Adam White That seasonal patterns exist cannot be denied. But there may be patterns within those patterns, depending on how you look at them. The four-year Presidential cycle is a prime example or are we o
The Elapsed Time Calculator by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Elapsed Time Calculator by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Veteran technician Arthur Merrill explains how to derive the number of days, actual or calendar, between two dates using a simple table and some elementary steps. Do you need to know the number o
The Electric Utility Bond Market Indicator by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (11-18): The Electric Utility Bond Market Indicator by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. There's a close relationship between the performance of the electric utilities stock index and the bond market. Technicians use this relationship to forecast the directio
The Emotional Volatility Trap by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are some simple guidelines for avoiding volatile emotional swings due to the stresses of trading. By Adrienne Laris Toghraie Traders are placed under unique stresses, making them particularly susceptible to emotional swings, and as a result, they m
The End Of The Trend by Cornelius Luca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (14-18): The End Of The Trend by Cornelius Luca You're riding along with the trend, watching your returns consistently increase. You know it's not going to go on forever? but how do you know when it'll end? As much as we l
The End Point Moving Average by Patrick E. Lafferty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INDICATORS The End Point Moving Average by Patrick E. Lafferty Moving averages have been used for decades to smooth out the noise in the prices of tradables. Here's an entry in the category, one that may provide a more accurate representation of market
The End-Of-The-Month Effect by Ben Warwick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The End-Of-The-Month Effect by Ben Warwick Back-testing has radically changed the way traders view the markets. Although no one has yet found the Holy Grail of trading, the ultimate goal remains the same: to create a system that consistently yields prof
The Endpoint Fast Fourier Transform System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Endpoint Fast Fourier Transform System Last time, we explored the Fourier transform, a mathematical technique for analyzing data to determine cyclical component. This time, we use the fast Fourier transform as a trend determinant for a model for tra
The Essence Of Dow Theory: Confirmation And Divergence by Richard L. Evans
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Essence Of Dow Theory: Confirmation And Divergence by Richard L. Evans The Dow theory tenet that the Dow Jones Industrials and Dow Jones Transports must ""confirm"" one another is listed perfunctorily in most Dow theory discussions, but confirmation
The Essence of Market Profits by Victor Sperandeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Essence of Market Profits by Victor Sperandeo The key to making money in the markets is having the major trends at your back. This well-known money manager points to the importance of looking at the big picture. Popular beliefs about investment pr
The Euro's True Colors by Walter Bressert and Doug Schaff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Euro's True Colors by Walter Bressert and Doug Schaff How do you analyze the Euro, a currency that sprang to life with no price history? How do you analyze a full-fledged currency that came into being overnight? Despite its literal lack of price h
The Euro's Weekly Cycles by Walter Bressert and Doug Schaff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Euro's Weekly Cycles As a followup to last month's introduction to the newborn European currency, here's what may happen to the Euro. n January 4, 1999, the 40odd years of planning and 10 years of political and economic work paid off as the Euro bega
The Expanding Triangle by Kit Webster
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Expanding Triangle by Kit Webster Classic chart analysis and Elliott wave theory both consider the expanding or broadening triangle chart pattern to be a reversal of a long-term trend, and further, that such an event may be occurring in the Dow Jone
The Expiration Trade by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this world of algorithmic trading, how can an independent trader stand a chance? Here's one way you can trade options to get an edge in the markets. We have all heard that 70% to 80% of all options expire worthless. Many of us have purchased op
The FX Daily Conundrum by Kristian Kerr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The FX Daily Conundrum by Kristian Kerr Hours And Days - The FX Daily Conundrum In a 24-hour market, what is the best time frame to use when looking at charts? The rising popularity of foreign exchange trading over the past few years has been impressi
The Failed Trade by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Failed Trade by Thomas Bulkowski Sometimes a trade doesn't work out the way you hoped it would, but you can always learn from your mistakes if you take the time to review your trades. Take a lesson from this failed trade. After I began trading in t
The Financial Volume Index Expanded For The l990s by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Financial Volume Index Expanded For The l990s by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T. The financial volume index, which was first introduced by Patrick Cifaldi in the pages of STOCKS & COMMODITIES in 1989, takes on and uses the study of volume, surprisingly unde
The Folding Rule by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Folding Rule by Viktor Likhovidov How about a simple charting technique to ride the wave and get off in a timely manner? Here's a reversal pattern I frequently observe on hourly charts of currencies and sometimes use in trading. I call it the foldi
The Force Index by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Force Index by John A. Sarkett Here's a little-known indicator that combines price change and volume to create a short-term and an intermediate-term trading tool. Like ocean waves, prices have an ebb and a flow. Once in a while, however, a huge sh
The Forex Gambit by Walter T. Downs
The Four Lines Trading System by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Four Lines Trading System by Viktor Likhovidov Here's a simple, reliable, universal system for trading the markets. The creation of a personal trading system requires a personal understanding of the nature of the markets and the peculiarities of ma
The Fundamentals of Sector Rotation by Paul and Carole Huebott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Fundamentals of Sector Rotation by Paul and Carole Huebott Maintaining an optimized portfolio of strong blue-chip stocks is one way to invest. Here are the basics of how stock groups move through a typical business cycle. Our new Dow strategy, des
The Funnel Formation by ORY J. CANAL
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Funnel Formation by ORY J. CANAL The Funnel formation is a technical analysis tool that you may find very useful in analyzing stocks. To begin this discussion of the Funnel, let's locate one on a chart. For this we will use the chart in the back of
The GMI Bond Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The GMI Bond Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. This S&C Contributing Editor details a trading system for predicting Treasury bond yields that uses Barron's Gold Mining Index (GMI) to signal changes. He compares the performance of the trading system
The Gann Method by John J. Blasic
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gann Method by John J. Blasic W.D. Gann's trading methodologies are not always easy to define or to analyze, which is a pity, since they can be applied to everyday trading principles across many different markets when interpreted correctly . John Bl
The Gann Quarterly Chart by Jerry Favors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gann Quarterly Chart by Jerry Favors Longtime newsletter publisher Jerry Favors introduces a long-term indicator called the Gann quarterly chart, which will signal a turn up from bear market lows when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rallies
The Gann Quarterly Revisited by David C. Reif
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gann Quarterly Revisited by David C. Reif The Gann quarterly chart, a trend-following indicator like other range breakout techniques, was previously described by Jerry Favors in the January STOCKS & COMMODITIES. Most trend-following indicators give
The Gann Quarterly Swing Chart And Trend Duration by Jerry Favors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gann Quarterly Swing Chart And Trend Duration by Jerry Favors The Gann quarterly swing chart - which is a trend-following indicator and not a trading system as presented in the August Stocks & Commodities - is best used as a compliment with other an
The Gartley Setup by Rudy Teseo
The German Mark Noise Channel Breakout System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The German Mark Noise Channel Breakout System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Interested in a trend-following method for currency markets? Currency markets generally exhibit the strongest tendency to trend, a key feature for trend-followers. Here's a method tha
The Global Trend: Mark Boucher by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When S&C first spoke to hedge fund manager Mark Boucher in 1996, he shared some of his techniques for analyzing the economy, picking stocks, and money management. See what he says this time. Refresh our memories with a bit of your history. Sure. I sta
The Gold and Silver Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gold And Silver Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Building on his previous Gmi system article, this Contributing Editor develops a system using the Philadelphia Stock Exchange daily gold and silver stock index to trade a long-term government
The Goldman Roll by Scott Barrie and Kevin Warner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Goldman Roll by Scott Barrie and Kevin Warner Does it affect the commodities markets? The Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is a world production?weighted index that measures commodity market returns. The quantity of each commodity in the index
The Gravity Of Trading by Adrienne Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (18-21): The Gravity Of Trading by Adrienne Toghraie Make money in the markets? and keep it. Do you want to make money in the markets and learn how to keep it? Then learn to appreciate gravity. There is an oftencited corre
The Happy Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Happy Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie What does happiness have to do with being a successful trader? Nothing, it seems. In fact, for most traders, successful trading and happiness may actually be in perpetual conflict. Over the years, I have wor
The Haurlan Index by Paul E. Carroll
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Haurlan index, which was originated by the Trade Levels, Inc., advisory service, has received comparatively little attention unfortunate, as it has proved to be effective in signaling tops and bottoms. By Paul E. Carroll The number of advancing and
The Head and Shoulders Formation by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Head and Shoulders Formation by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Technical analysis as it is applied today to the anticipation and projection of impending price movement of stocks or futures markets might be broken down into three m
The Head-and-Shoulders Formation by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Head-and-Shoulders Formation by Thomas Bulkowski I was doing research in the public library when a staffer asked me if I could help an elderly lady find a chart of TWA [TWA]. The investment materials are sparse at the library and the periodicals th
The Highs And Lows Of Trading by Edward Robert Florez
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Highs And Lows Of Trading by Edward Robert Florez Here's a war story that illustrates some mistakes that all traders have made at one time or another -- and should keep in mind.. The best-laid plans and analysis can become catastrophically skewed w
The Historical Dow by Carl Sundquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Historical Dow by Carl Sundquist Recently, The Wall Street Journal completed 94 years of continuous publication of the Dow Jones Industrial and Railroad (now Transportation) averages. Quite a record. Charles Dow, the first editor and founder of The
The Hourly Liquidity Data Bank As A Tool For Day Traders by Donald L. Jones & C. Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Hourly Liquidity Data Bank As A Tool For Day Traders by Donald L. Jones & C. Young How hourly data from the Chicago Board of Trade's Liquidity Data Bank can help day traders manage their positions. A typical day trader takes a position and then wa
The Importance of Stop Orders by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Importance of Stop Orders by Patrick Cifaldi, C.M.T. Some traders view stop orders as an affront to their analytical skills, but they shouldn't. Here are some simple guidelines on using stop orders and saving yourself some painful and costly lessons
The Inflation Indicator by John A. Lohman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Inflation Indicator by John A. Lohman Former Amex trader John Lohman delves into an inflation indicator that leads the Consumer Price Index (CPI) by about six months. In 1992, technician John J. Murphy wrote a series of articles in STOCKS & COMMOD
The Inflation/Deflation Phases Of The Stock Market Cycle by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Inflation/Deflation Phases Of The Stock Market Cycle by Martin J. Pring Veteran analyst Martin J. Pring explains how the commonly known four-year stock market cycle actually contains lesser- known inflation/deflation phases, the knowledge of which w
The Instantaneous Trendline by John F. Ehlers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Instantaneous Trendline by John F. Ehlers, Ph.D. Is it possible to have an instantaneous trendline? To say that a trendline is "instantaneous" may be presumptuous, but because you can compute a continuous trendline with modern technology and thus a
The Insync Index by Norm North
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Insync Index by Norm North Here's a method to graphically display the signal status for a group of indicators as well as an algorithm for generating a consensus indicator that shows when these indicators are in sync. The methods described can be use
The Internal Dynamics of TRIN by Jack Rusin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Internal Dynamics of TRIN by Jack Rusin Consider four simplified trading days on the New York Stock Exchange: Day 1: 1000 issues advance, 100 decline, with 1,000,000 shares up volume and 100,000 shares down volume. TRIN = (1000/100)/(1,000,000 /100
The Intra Day Analyst A Report by TIMOTHY C. SLATER/President, Intra Day Analyst Company
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Intra Day Analyst -- A Report by TIMOTHY C. SLATER/President, Intra Day Analyst Company The last version of The Intra Day Analyst has been in the field for five months. During this time, it has undergone several revisions responding to users requests
The Inverse Fisher Transform by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Inverse Fisher Transform by John F. Ehlers How often have you been indecisive about entering or exiting a trade? Here's one way to get a clear indication. The purpose of technical indicators is to help time your decisions to buy or sell. Ideally, t
The Inverted Yield Curve by Kathy Lien
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (20-24): The Inverted Yield Curve by Kathy Lien An inverted yield curve has implications in regards to the US dollar and the economy. Will they both suffer? The potential of a yield curve inversion has been a major topic in
The Investor Preference Index by Cyril V. Smith Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This indicator, a long-term stock market investment tool, compares the performance of the S&P 500 to the New York Stock Exchange index to measure sentiment. The theory is that investors have a preference for certain types of invest-ments, blue chips vers
The Iron Condor by Jesse Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Iron Condor by Jesse Chen Being neutral on the market is different from being unsure. Here's a strategy to take advantage of your view. Neutral options are a sound strategy in options trading. They combine a balanced risk and reward ratio with a hi
The JSA Moving Average by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The JSA Moving Average by George R. Arrington, Ph.D. Presenting the JSA, a unique moving average that could provide an early warning that other technical indicators may have an impending signal. In addition, comparing the JSA with other moving averages
The January Barometer: Myth And Reality by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The January Barometer: Myth And Reality by Jay Kaeppel Some claim the January Barometer is a great forecasting tool, while others say it is totally without value. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between. First, let's define exactly what the Janua
The Joy Of Trading with Statistics by Ben Warwick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Joy Of Trading with Statistics by Ben Warwick For many of you who have traded in the past, the title of this article may take you by surprise. How can trading be work of joy? Only when you are winning, obviously, but there's more to it than that. Sy
The Kelly Hotline by Bob Bukowski
The Keys To Technical Conditions by James S. Gould, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Keys To Technical Conditions by James S. Gould, Ph.D. In the beginning, before personal computers routinely made trading decisions, there were traders who were able to decipher the language of the markets and earn trading profits. Today, traders hav
The Keys To Trend-Following by Donald W. Pendergast Jr.
The Knight-Ridder CRB Index by Raymond T. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...STATISTICS The Knight-Ridder Crb Index The Knight-Ridder-Commodity Research Bureau Index - the CRB to you and me - has been updated to reflect today's commodity markets. Here's an explanation of the changes to this industry barometer. by Raymond T. M
The Language of Money by Walter T. Downs, PhD
The Lightning Spread And Other Strategies by Jesse Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (54-55): The Lightning Spread And Other Strategies by Jesse Chen Here are some strategies you can apply by combining two or more options. Options spreads are essentially the combination of two or more options. There are six
The Lindsay A-D Indicator by Jerry Favors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Lindsay A-D Indicator by Jerry Favors The advance-decline line is handy for picking market tops, but lead time is a recurring problem, you say? Favors suggests this variation as an alternative to overcome that bothersome predicament. Most stude nts
The Link Between Bollinger Bands & The Commodity Channel Index by N. Harrington
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (32-38): The Link Between Bollinger Bands & The Commodity Channel Index by N. Harrington Bollinger Bands and the commodity channel index (CCI) have been employed independently, in conjunction with other indicators, and with
The Link Between Bonds And Commodities by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Link Between Bonds And Commodities by John J. Murphy Like a set of tumbling dominoes, intermarket analysis is based on the theory that one instrument affected will in turn affect another. Technical pioneer John Murphy, best known for his trailblazin
The Link Between Bonds And Stocks by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Link Between Bonds And Stocks by John J. Murphy Intermarket analysis is based on the premise that all markets are linked. Last month, technical trailblazer John J. Murphy explored the inverse interrelationship between commodity and bond prices; this
The Livermore System by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Livermore System by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Livermore is one of those names you might hear floating around among the chatter and ticks inside the local brokerage office. Or maybe you will catch a reference to him in some ob
The Logarithmic Scale. by JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Logarithmic Scale. by JACK K. HUTSON Semi-Logarithmic (ratio, proportion or percentage paper) graphic rulings are used when the analyst wants to compare percentage price changes rather than absolute price changes. By plotting the logarithm of price
The Logic Of Pivot Trading by Jim White
The Lone Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Lone Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie The stresses built into the profession of trading isolates traders from their natural emotional supports. Here are some ways to ensure those pressures don't reach a boiling point. If you were to make a movie o
The MACD Indicator Revisited by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The MACD Indicator Revisited by John F. Ehlers The moving average convergence-divergence (or MACD, as it is familiarly known), one of the more popular technical indicators, was invented by technician Gerald Appel to trade the 26-week and 13-week cycles
The MACD Momentum Oscillator by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The MACD Momentum Oscillator by Barbara Star, Ph.D. The moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) is one of the most popular indicators around. Here, Barbara Star reviews and updates ways to use it. At present, virtually every charting software pac
The MACD Profit Alert by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) is a momentum indicator, and here, it's combined with pattern recognition to help you identify exit points for your system. It takes more than a good entry strategy to trade profitably. Many traders have
The MEGAN Ratio by Oscar Cagigas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (19-22): The MEGAN Ratio by Oscar Cagigas Which system will generate more return? Here's a metric that will help you answer that question. Many metrics can evaluate the performance of trading systems. These include net pro
The MIDAS Touch, Part 1 by Andrew Coles, PhD
The MIDAS Touch, Part 2 by Andrew Coles, PhD
The Magic Of Time Value by Jesse Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Magic Of Time Value by Jesse Chen With this simple method you can sort through various option spreads and find the best conversion spread. Too often in the world of option analysis, simple indicators are overlooked for more advanced mathematical mo
The Market Direction Indicator Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers by DONALD R. LAMBERT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Market Direction Indicator Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers by DONALD R. LAMBERT Over the years, trading methods have evolved from the very simple (such as the CHANGCHENG BANFA or ""Great Wall Method,"" which dates back to the Orient of the 17
The Market Facilitation Index Update: 1/89 to 3/90 by Charles F. Wright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Market Facilitation Index Update: 1/89 to 3/90 by Charles F. Wright I have noticed through the years that when a technique is disclosed in the popular press you can count on it to stop working for some time after the disclosure. You can speculate as
The Market Facilitation Index by Gary Hoover
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Market Facilitation Index by Gary Hoover Here's how trader Gary Hoover uses the Market Facilitation Index for day trading. Applying technical analysis to developing trading signals begins with the investigation of price movement and often incorpor
The Market Facilitation Index by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume, one of the key elements in technical analysis, is used to analyze the power behind a trend. Heavy volume days may indicate a strong trend, while light volume days could indicate the lack of a trend. Here's a method to connect volume and price mov
The Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan
The Market Forecaster by Thomas R. Sewell
The Market Instrument Function by A. Ershov and A. Gerasimov
The Market Wizard of Interviews: Jack Schwager by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Market Wizard of Interviews: Jack Schwager by Thom Hartle Jack Schwager, director of futures research for Prudential Securities, coprincipal of Wizard Trading and author of Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards and A Complete Guide to the Futures
The Market's Second Chance by Donald Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (28-34): The Market's Second Chance by Donald Jones In my STOCKS & COMMODITIES articles on auction market analysis (see suggested reading), I gave examples of making trades with value-based information. Implicitly, these we
The Mass Index by Donald Dorsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Mass Index by Donald Dorsey Range oscillation, not often covered by students of technical analysis, delves into repetitive market patterns during which the daily trading range narrows and widens. Examining this pattern, Donald Dorsey explains, allow
The Maximum Favorable Excursion Strategy by D. Stendahl and L. Zamansky
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Maximum Favorable Excursion Strategy by David C. Stendahl and Leo J. Zamansky Maximum favorable excursion (MFE) is the peak profit that a trade earns before the trade is closed out. Reviewing the performance of a trading system allows us to measure
The McClellan Oscillator by Richard Mogey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The McClellan Oscillator by Richard Mogey The earliest chartists used price data to evaluate markets and found that market prices continually move from overbought to oversold and back again as if they were oscillating about an invisible, neutral line. T
The McGinley Dynamic by Brian Twomey
The Midpoint Oscillator by Tushar Chande, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's an indicator based on the concept used in %K and %R. The Midpoint Oscillator by Tushar Chande, Ph.D. I would like to share one of my own indicators based on the same underlying concept used in the popular stochastics (%K) and Williams' %R overbo
The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Here's a novel way of using the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) histogram to generate buy and sell signals for stock and mutual fund traders. Not only that, included is a simple
The Moving Trend by William Rafter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Moving Trend by William Rafter Here's a look at a nonlagged filter that can be used as a forecasting tool. Data smoothing has long been likened to taking the first generation of allergy medication. The medication relieved the symptoms, but slowed y
The Nature of Price Resistance by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nature of Price Resistance by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Most of us involved with speculative markets often are so preoccupied with ""effect"", or price activity, that we ignore ""cause."" But an understanding of cause can cla
The Nature of Risk: Justin Mamis and the Meaning of Life by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (359-365): The Nature of Risk: Justin Mamis and the Meaning of Life by Thom Hartle Looking back on decades of market activity can give anyone a certain perspective, and Justin Mamis, who writes the Mamis Letter, a newsletter for Hancock Institut
The Neural Network Financial Wizards by Steve Ward and Marge Sherald
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Neural Network Financial Wizards by Steve Ward and Marge Sherald What techniques do some of today's money managers using neural nets use? Here's a glimpse. In these days of more and more ways of applying neural networks, financial experts using neu
The New Dow Strategy in 1996-97 by Paul and Carole Huebotter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The New Dow Strategy in 1996-97 by Paul and Carole Huebotter The Dow dividend strategy - or, more idiomatically, the ""dogs of the Dow"" - has garnered a lot of attention lately. It, or one of its variations, has been the subject of at least five full-l
The New Gann Swing Chartist by Robert Krausz, MH, BCHE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The New Gann Swing Chartist by Robert Krausz, MH, BCHE This is more than an article that teaches technical analysis. It's also a story about how one professional trader, a New Market Wizard, came into possession of a rare technical method, and the steps
The New Ticker-Tape by CHARLES F. KRINKE
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The New Ticker-Tape by CHARLES F. KRINKE THERE IS ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE MARKET AND IT IS NOT THE BULL SIDE OR THE BEAR SIDE, BUT THE RIGHT SIDE. --JESSE LIVERMORE These words from one of the world's great traders are even more appropriate today as we ha
The New Volatility Futures by Larry McMillan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The New Volatility Futures by Larry McMillan They just might be the stock owner's delight. The CBOE has created a new futures exchange (the CBOE Futures Exchange, or CFE) to trade volatility products. Its first and only product at this time is futures
The Next Discount Rate Change by Steven M. Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a review of the changes in the discount rate, and the implications for investors. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913, modified by the banking acts of 1933 and 1935, created the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States. The resp
The Night/Daymares Of Traders by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Night/Daymares Of Traders Your mind doesn't shut down when you go to sleep. Sometimes, the trading from the daytime can stay with you into the dreamtime. Here are ways to cope with trading nightmares. If trading is a high-stakes game of skill, psyc
The Option Premium Ratio And The DJIA by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Option Premium Ratio And The DJIA by Christopher Cadbury The discussion on the option premium ratio continues, with more examples on forecasting short-term movements in the DJIA. Previously, I introduced the option premium ratio, which is the rati
The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Option Premium Ratio by Christopher Cadbury Christopher Cadbury, member of the American Stock Exchange and book author, explains a sentiment indicator generated from the equity options market that identifies trading opportunities in the stock market
The Out Of The Money Butterfly Spread by Jay Kaeppel
The Overlay Profile For Current Market Analysis Part 2 by Donald Jones and Christopher Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Overlay Profile For Current Market Analysis Part 2 by Donald Jones and Christopher Young Perhaps the best way to learn how to apply long-term overlays to trading is by example. Normally, the trader follows the overlay until an equilibrium time perio
The Parabolic Trading System by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Parabolic Trading System by Thom Hartle Traders are always searching for methods with which to manage risk through the use of stop-loss orders. One method that has been proposed for determining stops is by using a mechanical formula based on the par
The Path Less Traded by Scott Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Good trading is as much a state of mind as it is a set of procedures. Novice traders will find it hard to survive, let alone flourish, unless they learn to think and act in an appropriate manner. This means developing mental models and behavioral rules
The Perfect Trader by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D., and Jennifer Benson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Perfect Trader by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D., and Jennifer Benson What is a perfect trader and is such a condition desirable? Does such a creature exist? Psychologist Van K. Tharp of Investment Psychology Consulting says not and further, you're far more li
The Phase Method: 1998 by Christopher L. Cagan, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Phase Method: 1998 by Christopher L. Cagan, Ph.D. Here's a unique technique to understand the cycles prevalent in the markets. The broad movement of the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), tends to rise and fall o
The Pivot Detector Oscillator, Simplified by Giorgos Siligardos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Pivot Detector Oscillator, Simplified by Giorgos Siligardos See how you can use a simplified version of the Pid oscillator to improve your timing by leaps and bounds. A coherent unification model for trend indicators and oscillators is to technical
The Pivot Point For Trading by William I. Greenspan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Pivot Point For Trading by William I. Greenspan Want to know what the pros use in trading? Well, you're in luck. William Greenspan, the founder of the Commodity Boot Camp and a Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor trader, explains how he uses the pivot
The Power Of Implied Volatility by Sam Bhugaloo
The Power of Knowledge: James O'Shaughessy by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Money manager and author James O'Shaughnessy is best known for the astute research presented in his books. We spoke to him about what the individual investor should focus on. So how did you start out, anyway? I started out like everyone else, wanting t
The Presidential Election Cycle by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Presidential Election Cycle by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. It's an election year again. What does history say about them ? This famous technician tells you that what you've heard about Presidential election years may very well be true. An election ye
The Price Oscillator by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Price Oscillator by Bruce R. Faber What is this indicator and how can it be used? For neophytes to learn and seasoned traders who want to refresh their memories, check this out. The price oscillator. Don't let the fancy name throw you. Simply, this
The Principle Of Contraction/Expansion by Toby Crabel, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Principle Of Contraction/Expansion by Toby Crabel, CTA I define the principle of contraction/expansion as the market phenomenon of change from a period of rest to a period of movement back to a period of rest. This interaction between the phases of
The Pring Money Flow Indicator by Martin Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Pring Money Flow Indicator by Martin Pring Interest rates often lead the stock market. Here's a technique to compare the yield on three-month commercial paper to the Standard & Poor's 500, creating an indicator for the stock market. Over the past
The Professional Option Trader's Manual by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Professional Option Trader's Manual by John Sweeney Author: David L. Caplan Publisher: Opportunities in Options P.O. Box 2126 Malibu, CA, 90265 Price: $70 (or $150 with a three-month subscription to Opportunities in Options) Despite its name, thi
The Profit's In The Details by Bryan Babcock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Profit's In The Details by Bryan Babcock Minimize the effects of greed with the trader profit equilibrium equation. For many traders, success always remains just around the corner, just a step away. All too often traders allow one bad trade to ruin
The Pseudo Trader by Mark Harris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Pseudo Trader by Mark Harris How can you model stocks without stocks? By using random numbers to drive the simulation. In previous articles (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, December 1990 and January 1991), first I demonstrated the modeling of stock charts usi
The Psychology Of David Ryan by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Psychology Of David Ryan by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. David Ryan won the U.S. Investing Championships three years in a row. I first interviewed David in May 1988 and again in August 1989. Q: What makes you successful as opposed to the average trader? A:
The Psychology of the Decision Bee by JESSE H. THOMPSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Psychology of the Decision Bee by JESSE H. THOMPSON A round the market ""hives"" buzz the forever listless market observers, the ""bees"". The hedgers, scalpers, brokers, analysts, traders, speculators, you and I. Within the general category of thes
The Quest For Reliable Crossovers by Sylvania Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Quest For Reliable Crossovers by Sylvania Vervoort Moving average crossovers should be reliable and they need to have minimal lag. Here's a technique to achieve it. Generally, it's a contradiction to have a smooth reliable moving average crossover
The RSI Smoothed by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The RSI Smoothed by John F. Ehlers Here's how you can enhance the performance of the RSI. Smoothing an indicator usually means a tradeoff between the amount of smoothing you desire and the amount of lag you can stand. In this article I will show you ho
The Range Indicator by Jack L. Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:06: (238-242): The Range Indicator by Jack L. Weinberg Here's a new indicator based on the change in a day's trading range as evidence of the start of a new trend in a market. Markets tend to trade in relatively tight price ranges most of the ti
The Rate Of Change Indicator by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Rate Of Change Indicator by Bruce R. Faber The rate of change is an indicator that measures the pace at which price is changing. Tracking the rate of the change of price can confirm trends and forewarn of market reversals. Here, then, are some guide
The Ratio Of Inflation Rates And Currency Trends by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:06: (252-254): The Ratio Of Inflation Rates And Currency Trends by John Kean Exchange rates fluctuate on a second to second basis, but the long-term trends can be understood by using an indicator based on the ratio of inflation rates. The case in p
The Real Advance Decline Line by Frank Barbera Jr., C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Real Advance Decline Line by Frank Barbera Jr., C.M.T. Each day, stock market analysts calculate the number of stocks closing up versus the number of stocks closing down, resulting in the advance-decline line. This simple arithmetic exercise can hel
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, one of the most popular indicators found in most analytical software packages is explained. When the relative strength index (RSI) became popular in the 1980s, it was touted as the indicator that led every turn in the market. Indeed, for certain f
The Relative Strength Index by Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Relative Strength Index by Bruce Faber Here's a primer on the relative strength index, which helps identify market reversals and trends. The relative strength index (RSI), which was created by J. Welles Wilder, was first presented in his New Conce
The Relative Strength Index by J. Welles Wilder, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Relative Strength Index by J. Welles Wilder, Jr. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a tool which can add a new dimension to chart interpretation when plotted in conjunction with a daily bar chart. Some of these interpretative factors are: Tops an
The Relative Strength Ratio-MACD Crossover by Gilbert Raff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Relative Strength Ratio-Macd Crossover by Gilbert Raff Here's an indicator to identify positive and negative trading signals for stocks and mutual funds. The heart of the indicator involves applying an oscillator to the relative strength line. Tradi
The Relative Volatility Index by Donald Dorsey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Relative Volatility Index by Donald Dorsey This author modifies the basic relative strength index to measure volatility instead of daily net price change to generate trading signals. Technicians are often tempted to use one set of indicators to con
The Rubber Band Effect by Alexander Elder, MD
The Rucker Park Of Capitalism by Jonathan Hoenig
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Rucker Park Of Capitalism by Jonathan Hoenig A venerable part of the traders' world is threatened, but its tricks and techniques will live on. The best players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) have all played in Manhattan's Rucker Park,
The Russell Reconstitution: Plan For 2008 by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Russell Reconstitution: Plan For 2008 by Don Bright Are there still profit-making opportunities in the Russell 2000? Find out here. There has been a lot of discussion about the "Russell reconstitution" and whether there would still be a good profit
The S&P 500 Seasonal Day Trade by William Brower, C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 Seasonal Day Trade by William Brower, C.T.A. Is there a particular day of the week within a month that offers the most opportunity? Here's a trading system based on the best days of the week for trading Standard & Poor's 500 futures. Much
The SOQ And The S&P 500 Settlement by Thomas Cronin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The SOQ And The S&P 500 Settlement by Thomas Cronin R J. O'Brien research director and market letter writer Thomas Cronin marks his first appearance in STOCKS & COMMODITIES with some trade possibilities in options based on the difference between the clo
The Scoring Trade by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Scoring Trade by Thomas Bulkowski Here's a scoring system for symmetrical triangles that helps predict performance. How do you make money in a bear market without selling short? By picking winners. How do you gain the experience necessary to pick w
The Search For Your Trading Style by Donald Pendergast
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Search For Your Trading Style by Donald Pendergast Here's a simple trading method you can apply if you trade with a longer-term outlook. I hope my recent article, "Crash Course For Novice Traders," caused you to reflect on the critical decisions
The Seasonal Cycle by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Seasonal Cycle by Hans Hannula, Ph.D. I use natural cycles to help me trade stocks and commodities profitably. One of the most obvious and powerful of nature's cycles is the cycle of the seasons. Its effect is obvious not only in commodities, but in
The Seduction of Leverage by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Seduction of Leverage by Jesse H. Thompson ""Leverage 'o Leverage. Ye siren of the speculative sea..."" --Anon. Rule: Do Not Overtrade! I must have bumped into this time worn dictrum a thousand times before I began to understand more fully the imp
The Self-Adjusting RSI by David Sepiashvili
The Short-Range Oscillator and the DJIA by Christopher Cadbury
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES The Short-Range Oscillator And The DJIA by Christopher Cadbury Oscillators come in many shapes and forms. Here, one unique oscillator is analyzed to determine patterns and the results in the stock market after a particular pattern
The Simple ABC Correction by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (52-55): The Simple ABC Correction by Thomas N. Bulkowski This chart pattern reliably signals an extended move up. Take a look. An old joke says that if an investor buys land in an earthquake zone, it will be his own fault.
The Siren Call of Optimized Trading Systems by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Siren Call Of Optimized Trading Systems by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Today's software for trading systems can take you down some dangerous paths. Here's how to avoid one mistake. With the advent of today's high-performance desktop computers and software
The Skimming Discussion Continues by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Skimming Discussion Continues by John Sweeney Remember the moving average ""skimming"" discussion that's gone on over the last several issues? I received another cogent letter describing the effect for a half-wave moving average. Amos Newcombe of Ma
The Spearman Indicator For Technical Analysis by Dan Valcu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This indicator is a very old statistical tool that even to this day helps determine trend strength and turning points. Here's how to apply it to your trading. Technical analysis can be considered both a science and an art; patterns and chart rea
The Special K, Part1 by Martin J. Pring
The Stochastic Oscillator by Amy Wu
The Stochastic Oscillator by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stochastic oscillator is one of the more popular indica-tors available on today's software. This technical tool tells you where the current closing price is relative to the recent range of the market. Here are some techniques for using this classic i
The Stock Market and Seasonality by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Stock Market and Seasonality by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T. Is there a message that can be gleaned from the performance of the stock market during the 1996 election year? There may be. In 1990, this writer discussed the seasonal movement of the stock mark
The Stock Market, The Calendar, And You by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Stock Market, The Calendar, And You by Jay Kaeppel What's more important -- what you buy or when you buy it? Seasonality in the market has long been a welldocumented phenomenon. A detailed look at the stock market will lead you to conclude that ther
The Stock/Bond Yield Gap by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Stock/Bond Yield Gap by Jay Kaeppel STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Jay Kaeppel presents an indicator using the yield for high-grade corporate bonds and the yield for the DJIA to predict the stock market. Investors have often wondered if some si
The Strength Of Support And Resistance by Christopher Narcouzi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Strength Of Support And Resistance by Christopher Narcouzi Measuring Overhead Supply Here's how to quantify support and resistance so you can get a good idea ahead of time whether they will hold up when tested. Stocks run up and down between suppo
The Summer Rally: Fact Or Fiction? by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Summer Rally: Fact Or Fiction? by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. The ""summer rally"" appears in some years and is completely absent in others. Does it deserve its name? I've consulted the record back to 1885 and find that there is a good case for a bull
The System Behind The System by Merlin Jeffries
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (68-70): The System Behind The System by Merlin Jeffries Tired of finding systems that worked well in the past but are deficient in predicting the future? Back when I was a novice system developer, I would get excited by ev
The Systematic Trader: Richard Saidenberg by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Systematic Trader - Richard Saidenberg How many times have you heard that developing your own rules and following them is the way to trade? By now, probably plenty. It's not just idle speculation, either; Richard Saidenberg, a Commodities Trading Ad
The TD Range Expansion Index (TD REI): by Thomas DeMark
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The TD Range Expansion Index (TD REI) by Thomas DeMark Here, the author of The New Science of Technical Analysis and the brand-new New Market Timing Techniques explains how to use the TD REI and the TD Price Oscillator Qualifier. Throughout my 26-yea
The TEM Trading Systems and how it all began by William Cruz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The TEM Trading Systems and how it all began by William Cruz The last thing on my mind when I started trading futures in the mid-1970s was developing and marketing a trading system. In fact, if someone had told me back then that I'd be trading full-time
The Tactical Trader by Walter T. Downs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Tactical Trader by Walter T. Downs Trading can be compared to the game of chess -- a good player wins by implementing a tactical strategy that entails sacrifices when the sacrifice is justified. Here, a professional trader presents some tactical tra
The Tape-Reading Edge by Thomas Carr, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (16-24): The Tape-Reading Edge by Thomas Carr, Ph.D. Tape-reading skills are a product of your intuition. Here's how you can sharpen your intuitive power into a tremendous profit-making talent. First, it must be said that
The Technical Basis Of Risk-Reward Analysis by Victor Sperandeo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Technical Basis Of Risk-Reward Analysis by Victor Sperandeo Author and money manager Victor Sperandeo offers details on his investment approach in this excerpt from his latest work, Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation. Here, Speran
The Technical Song of Bernadette Murphy by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Technical Song of Bernadette Murphy by Thom Hartle ""The investor is in conflit, right now, because we've had the tremendous advance of consumer stocks throughout the 1980s. What we have is this battle: Should you be following capital goods? Or shou
The Theory Of Runs by Robert P. Rotella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Theory Of Runs by Robert P. Rotella Are you the kind of trader who assumes that everything will go your way, only to be hit with a string of disastrous losses? Or are you the kind of trader who assumes that the worst scenario is the most likely one,
The Third Dimension Of Option Trading by Don A. Singletary
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Third Dimension Of Option Trading by Don A. Singletary Here's how you can profit from trading volatility. Sometimes when you purchase an option, you might see the underlying futures contract move in your favor, perhaps enough to overcome the time d
The Third Wave by Mircea Dologa, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (64-67, 76): The Third Wave by Mircea Dologa, M.D. Does the crowd always behave the same way? According to Elliott wave theory, they do, and this is what forms the basis of the impulse pattern of five waves. Here's part 1 of
The Thorn At The Bottom by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Thorn At The Bottom by Alexander Sabodin Here's a reversal pattern that occurs frequently but is difficult to discern during its formation. The thorn pattern is encountered quite frequently, but it is difficult to discern while it is being formed
The Time Price Oscillator by Tushar S. Chande
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Time Price Oscillator by Tushar S. Chande Technical indicators, and oscillators in particular, measure the behavior of price relative to time. For example, the rate of change oscillator calculates the percentage change in price over a set period. That
The Titans Of Technical Analysis by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Titans Of Technical Analysis by David Penn A not-so-random walk through the history of charting the markets. Many years ago, a poet friend who was editing a collection of contemporary verse noted to me that "about half the working poets in America
The Tools Of The Trade by Martha Stokes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (68-70): The Tools Of The Trade by Martha Stokes Here's an overview of the array of tools you need in order to trade successfully. Every professional knows that the right tools are essential to success. A carpenter wouldn'
The Trader and the Internet by Suzanne Withers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trader and the Internet by Suzanne Withers, Ph.D. By now, much has been written about the Internet, the international computer users' network. But details have not been as forthcoming. How can Internet help traders and investors? The profitable us
The Trader's Commitment by Ari Kiev, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you willing to explore the ramifications of your trading? Trading in terms of your objectives is a key to enhancing your success as a trader. Here's how to use your goals to develop powerful trading strategies. By Ari Kiev, M.D. The dictionary defin
The Trader's Reason vs. Emotion by Terry S. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trader's Reason vs. Emotion by Terry S. Brown In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Victor Sperandeo had a brilliant track record day trading stocks, commodities and especially the Standard & Poor's 500 and NYFE futures. He had an idea. ""I was trading
The Traders' Psyche: Tom Basso by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Traders' Psyche: Tom Basso by Thom Hartle Why do traders trade? Is it for the potential profit? Is for the love of the hunt? Or is it simply for the challenge? Jack Schwager, who interviewed Tom Basso, president of Trendstat, for his book The New Ma
The Trading Plan by Cory Mitchell
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trading Plan by Cory Mitchell When creating a trading plan, you have to take into account all the possible contingencies. Here are the steps you should go through when designing your game plan. Atrading plan is your carefully thought-out and tested
The Trading Plan by John Jay Norris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trading Plan by John "Jay" Norris We all know that creating a trading plan is the first step in trading. Find out how one futures trader creates a plan and follows it. Combining analytics and execution is not new for individuals or professional ent
The Trading Saboteur by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trading Saboteur by Adrienne Laris Toghraie STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Adrienne Toghraie discusses how traders may not realize they are sabotaging their own success. Here's how to change that behavior. Adam's roller-coaster wins and losses fo
The Trend Is Your Friend by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Trend Is Your Friend by Alexander Sabodin In this, the first part of a price model series, we look at trends. The fundamentals of technical analysis have been discussed to great lengths in the past. This includes topics such as support, resistance
The Trin-5 by Jerry Favors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The TRIN-5 by Jerry Favors Whether you know it as the trading index (TRIN) or the Arms index, this particular indicator has inspired variations ranging from an issue/volume-weighted long-term index to this, a short-term trading indicator based on a five
The Truth About Trendlines by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Truth About Trendlines by Thomas Bulkowski Many of the rumors about trendlines are true. Find out what the facts are here. Is it true that the longer a trendline is, the more significant it becomes? The answer is yes, but this in turn raises other
The Truth About Volatility by Jim Berg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (14-20): The Truth About Volatility by Jim Berg Many indicators can help identify volatility. But can you use them to target specific price areas for entry signals, trailing stops, and profit-taking opportunities? Typically
The Turbo A/D, NH Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Turbo A/D, NH, NL Market System This Contributing Editor has looked into using the internal market statistics to generate stock market trading signals. Here, he upgrades one of his previously published market timing systems and discusses optimizatio
The US Dollar Index For Spot Forex by Joseph James Gelet
The Ulcer Index by Gary H. Elsner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Ulcer Index by Gary H. Elsner, Ph.D. A good risk index can be useful in the selection of stocks, funds, and trading systems. Here, then, is the ulcer index, why it is superior to the standard deviation statistic, and how it can be used in a variety
The Ultimate Oscillator by Larry Williams
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Ultimate Oscillator by Larry Williams There is nothing more intriguing to the beginning commodity or stock trader than the discovery of oscillators. At first, oscillators appear to be the perfect trading tool because so often they give excellent buy
The Unfinished System by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:2 (65-68): The Unfinished System by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Do you spend all your time trying to develop the perfect system instead of taking the plunge with a simple system? Is avoiding risk no matter what the cost at the heart of your problem? Ta
The Utility Average Stock Market Indicator by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (321-328): The Utility Average Stock Market Indicator by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Here's a new indicator for trading the Standard & Poor's 500 index, based on the relative performance of the Dow Jones Utilities Average to the S&P. Trading rules and
The Volatility Edge by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing a profitable trading system is key, but the way that profits and losses vary can have an impact on your long-term success. In my previous article, I wrote that, other things being equal, a trading system with lower volatility would triumph ov
The Volatility Index by David C. Stendahl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Volatility Index by David C. Stendahl David Stendahl explains the volatility index (VIX), which measures volatility based on the implied values of eight Standard & Poor's 100 (OEX) options from which the weighted volatility index is derived when com
The Volatility Stop System by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Volatility Stop System Here's a step-by-step through the development of a robust trading system for capturing major market moves. Volatility systems have a long and honored history in technical trading. Here, I'll show you a simple, robust version
The Volcanic Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Volcanic Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Your temper can torpedo your profitability. Find out if itÕs a problem and how to handle it. When a trader buries his or her emotions because he does not know how to express himself appropriately, these e
The Volume Indicators by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Volume Indicators by Bruce R. Faber In spite of its importance, much less is written about volume than about price. Here's an introduction on the subject for the novices and a refresher for the veterans. To technical analysis, volume is as importan
The Volume Oscillator by Martin Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Volume Oscillator by Martin Pring Price and volume is important for technical analysis of markets. Here's how noted author and technician Martin Pring presents two of his favorite ways of looking at volume. Most technical indicators we deal with
The Vortex Indicator by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Vortex Indicator by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman The search for a reliable technical indicator for trading a change in market direction seems to be a never-ending quest. Ideally, such an indicator should be on time; neither lagging the market n
The Wall Street Week index by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Wall Street Week index by Arthur A. Merrill Every six months I have been checking the accuracy of more than 40 indicators over a span of several years. On the last test, the indicator that came out on top was the Wall Street Week Technical Market In
The Warrior's Discipline Of Trading by Richard D. McCall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Warrior's Discipline Of Trading by Richard D. McCall This occupational psychologist and a master of martial arts compares the disciplines that traders need in order to trade effectively with the disciplines of the samurai. When was the last time yo
The Whole Brain Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (313-314): The Whole Brain Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Does the part of the brain that influences you the most affect how you trade? The founder of Trading on Target explains the importance of using skills that are built on both intuitive
The Will Rogers Theory Of Point & Figure Trading by J. Adam Hewison
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Will Rogers Theory Of Point & Figure Trading by J. Adam Hewison When I first started trading, moving averages were pretty much the epitome of high-tech computer analysis. Since then, we have seen the birth of computerized studies for Gann, Fibonacci
The Wilson Relative Price Channel by Leon Wilson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (48-52): The Wilson Relative Price Channel by Leon Wilson Several indicators quantify the relationship between price action and strength. Here's one adapted from the relative strength index. For technical analysis to adapt
The Wounded Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (62-64): The Wounded Trader by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Don't let your past affect your present performance in the markets. The business of trading forces you to face the psychological baggage that you carry. It also makes y
The Wyckoff method Trading and Investing in Stocks by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Wyckoff method Trading and Investing in Stocks by Jack K. Hutson The first in a series of articles which outline the Richard D. Wyckoff method of trading stocks. This method provides a foundation for analyzing the fundamental relationships between t
The X'd Trade by Joe DiNapoli
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The X'd Trade by Joe DiNapoli What you see is not necessarily what you get. What you see for prices on your computer screen may not be what's really going on in the commodity pits. Some prices that appear on your screen may even be canceled. How's that?
The Yen, Recursed by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combine the exponential moving average with a trend estimate to identify changes in the direction of the market. The Japanese yen (JY) is a major currency traded worldwide by corporations, institutions, banks, commodity funds and futures traders. The y
The Zigzag Trend Indicator by Spyros Raftopoulos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Zigzag Trend Indicator by Spyros Raftopoulos Zigzag is a powerful noise filter, but it's not without its problems. Here's a technique that incorporates the power of zigzag into a more valid and tradable indicator. The popularity and usefulness of
The advanced chartist by John F. Kepka
The algebra of inequalities by Donald D. Bump, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The algebra of inequalities by Donald D. Bump, Ph.D. Many technical systems, simple and complex, come down to a decision based on inequality. For example, ""If the 10-day moving average for today is greater than that of yesterday, go (or remain) long.""
The average maturity of money market funds and Eurodollar futures by Glenn Mancher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The average maturity of money market funds and Eurodollar futures by Glenn Mancher The high interest rate environment of the early 1980s resulted in great swings in the average maturity of money market funds (Figure 1). As the yield on short-term instru
The best trading indicator- the media by Grant Noble
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The best trading indicator- the media by Grant Noble Anyone who has studied technical analysis knows that what has been written about it stems from a limited number of approaches. Most of the books, systems and seminars on the market boil down to 12
The c-Test by William Eckhardt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The c-Test by William Eckhardt We all know that thorough testing is the only way to determine whether a particular trading system or indicator is viable. William Eckhardt, the mathematician whose conversation with Richard Dennis helped bring about the T
The compulsive trader Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The compulsive trader Part 2 by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. ""When water passes over your head, it makes no difference if it does so by an inch or afoot. You're drowning. You don't want to admit that it is easier to get out of a $100,000 debt than a million dol
The danger in profits by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The danger in profits by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Have you ever wondered why you can paper trade successfully, but fail miserably when real money is at stake? The reason is simple. The trader who concentrates on profits will have difficulty winning, as will
The electronic bulletin board comes of financial age by Marshall Rens and Federico L. Brown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The electronic bulletin board comes of financial age by Marshall Rens and Federico L. Brown If you've never explored one, computer bulletin boards must seem b-o-r-i-n-g -- a bunch of hacker nerds earnestly arguing via their personal computers the merits
The handbook for no-load fund investors by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The handbook for no-load fund investors by Bill Dunbar This book is up-to-date and effective in almost all respects. I'd say it's well worth the money to anyone interested in mutual funds. Also, if there is an investor left among us who still thinks he
The last wild ride of the gold bears is upon us by Joseph Holleman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The last wild ride of the gold bears is upon us by Joseph Holleman Holleman, a CTA and CPO, offers his opinions on where gold prices may be headed. These predictions demonstrate how positions in the market are developed and show the factors that shape a
The loss trap by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The loss trap by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Do you remember playing with a toy called the Chinese Finger Trap when you were a child? This toy is a woven straw cylinder with an opening at each end just large enough for a finger. Once you insert a finger in each
The n-method by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The n-method by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Are large increases or decreases in the price of a given stock or commodity evenly distributed throughout the trading day? The trading week? The trading month? Or are there detectable patterns in these price cha
The optimization of a trading program by Robert C. Pelletier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The optimization of a trading program by Robert C. Pelletier Many people have purchased software which gives the opportunity to test various parameter combinations to achieve the maximum profit results. For example, a system which may use three moving a
The overlay profile for current market analysis by Donald L. Jones and Christopher J. Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The overlay profile for current market analysis by Donald L. Jones and Christopher J. Young Market analysis seeks to determine the condition of the market because the trader who knows whether a market is trending, bracketing or in transition is better a
The relative strength quality factor by Donald Jones and Tod Stromquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relative strength quality factor by Donald Jones and Tod Stromquist The relative strength index (RSI), as popularized by J. Welles Wilder in his book and later by a chart service, is possibly the most widely used technical indicator in futures tradi
The secret of trading success: COMMITMENT by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The secret of trading success: COMMITMENT by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Jack had a successful business, but he wanted to be a trader. Still, he wasn't willing to give up his annual $75,000 salary until he was certain he could be successful as a trader. So, he
The secrets to stock option success by Patrick D. Bosold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The secrets to stock option success by Patrick D. Bosold Author: Kenneth R. Trester Publisher: Institute for Options Research, Inc., P.O. Box 12340 Reno, NV 89510 (800) 334-0854, Ext. 840 Contents: Ten cassette tapes, 270 page manual, Future Value
The seven best brokers in America by Norm Zadeh, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The seven best brokers in America by Norm Zadeh, Ph.D. The vast majority of brokers do not make their own investment decisions. When they phone a client with a recommendation, it is that of the firm, not their own. Out of roughly 65,000 brokers, perhaps
The trade facilitation factor by Donald L. Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The trade facilitation factor by Donald L. Jones A cardinal rule for traders using the Chicago Board of Trade's daily Liquidity Data Bank report is to avoid markets that are not ""facilitating"" trade. Over a period of days, such markets are characteriz
The tragic neglect of the old masters by James Alphier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The tragic neglect of the old masters by James Alphier I still become physically queasy when I recall my shock and surprise as I read a short article written by James Dines some years ago. In it, he related how he had asked an assemblage of Market Techn
The value of optimization by Louis P. Lukac and B. Wade Brorsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The value of optimization by Louis P. Lukac and B. Wade Brorsen Optimization based on historical data is used widely in the futures industry to determine the most profitable parameter sets for a trading system. The underlying premise is that if some par
Theft? Commodity Floor Brokers by Allen D. Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Theft? Commodity Floor Brokers by Allen D. Hanson Questionable trading practices in the Securities business became very evident to me during my years as product manager for a major corporation and later as a licensed floor broker. In those days, I owne
Then and Now with Tim Slater by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before there was TradeStation, before there was MetaStock and eSignal, there was CompuTrac, one of the first technical analysis software programs ever written for a personal computer. The software could process technical analysis on stocks, futures, and
Thomas Donovan And Patrick Catania Of The CBOT by John Sweeney
Those Losses that the Trader Creates by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Those Losses That The Trader Creates by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Traders may move from periods of success to periods of loss, but the losses may be created by the trader and not the markets. Here are some guidelines to identifying this problem and how to
Three Common Tools, One Protocol by Charles K. Langford
Three Market Timing Strategies by Daniel J. Traub
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three Market Timing Strategies by Daniel J. Traub Does market timing work? It depends on how you measure the results, according to this market timer. Here are three simple market timing strategies to help you understand the basics of market timing. Mar
Three Myths About Trading A Small Commodity Account by K.D. Angle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three Myths About Trading A Small Commodity Account by K.D. Angle The New Timing Device editor Kelly Angle disputes some common notions about trading commodities if you have a small commodity account. What are they? In talking with thousands of clients
Three Rules, One Easy Way To Trade ETFs by Larry Conners and David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three Rules, One Easy Way To Trade ETFs by Larry Conners and David Penn Here's a short-term trading strategy to trade exchange traded funds. A famous trader once remarked that he could publish the secrets to his winning trading strategy in the newspape
Three Traders by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three Traders by Don Bright What makes them successful? What makes them fail? Here's how these three made it through the good times and the bad. When things are good, we often forget what the bad times were like until they hit again. When the bad times
Three Trend Trading Techniques by Rob Booker
Three-Bar Inside Bar Pattern by Johnan Prathap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This trading strategy uses an inside bar as a three-bar pattern for long and short positions. Find out how it performed on gold, silver, and crude oil contracts. Whether you look at an intraday, daily, weekly, or monthly chart you will, without
Three-Line Break Reversal Signals by William Arnold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This charting technique is a simple but effective technique for determining the direction of the trend as well as changes in the trend. With volatility in the stock market increasing, many new and elaborate methods have been developed to predict market
Threshold Trading Revisited by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Threshold Trading Revisited by Rudy Teseo An introduction for newcomers or a refresher for old-timers: Here are a couple of tools we sometimes forget to use. In trading jargon, the "threshold" refers to the presignal area of overbought/oversold indicat
Through the Years: Jim Yates Of Dyr Associates by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Through the Years: Jim Yates Of Dyr Associates by Thom Hartle As an options market analyst with a quarter century in the securities business, Jim Yates takes us back to when the listed options markets first began. Yates is president of DYR Associates, a
Tim Hayes: Running With The Trend by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tim Hayes: Running With The Trend by Thom Hartle Ned Davis Research strategist Tim Hayes spoke with S&C about the firm's approach and emphasis on models and trend-sensitive indicators. Ned Davis Research uses a three-part market model, among others. ST
Time And Indicator Design by Gilbert Raff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time And Indicator Design by Gilbert Raff Can indicators be improved upon by looking at them using different time frames to smooth and combine? STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Gilbert Raff proposes yes. Take a look. Here's an aspect of indicator desig
Time And Money Charts by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time And Money Charts by Stuart Belknap, Ph.D. Interested in a universal price display? This might be the ticket. Whether you use indicators, automated setup and signal rules, or any other method, before opening or closing positions you probably read c
Time As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner As a rule, most trading methodologies, or ""systems,"" simply approach market activity from a price perspective. But such an approach is incomplete; such an analysis of market activity is one-dimensional without th
Time Of Daily High And Low by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time Of Daily High And Low by Arthur A. Merill, C.M.T. Does the time of the high for the day and the time of the low give a clue to the performance of the market on the next day? For example, suppose that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) high po
Time Series Forecasting: ARMAX by Thomas H. Lincoln
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time Series Forecasting: ARMAX by Thomas H. Lincoln As an avid reader of stock market books and newspapers, I have observed the overwhelming number of graphic illustrations of economic and market indicators. Oftentimes some indicators are contradicted b
Time and Options Probabilities by John A. Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For traders who want to use options to hedge their long positions, here are the formulas for calculating the prob-abilities. What's the probability that Intel [INTC] will be above 110 at a certain point? Three months from now, six months, a year? If you
Time, price and pattern by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time, price and pattern by Robert Miner This article is taken from the notes of my trading log for a closed and open trade in the platinum market. My trading plan is three-dimensional. I look for coincidences of time, price and pattern in market activit
Timing Stock Buys with an Oscillator by Richard Goedde
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing Stock Buys With An Oscillator by Richard Goedde Use this oscillator to calculate buy points for a stock in an upward trend. Oscillators are most useful when prices fluctuate up and down within a horizontal or flat channel (two parallel lines tha
Timing The Bond Market With Elliott And Fibonacci by Roger Farley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing The Bond Market With Elliott And Fibonacci by Roger Farley Fibonacci ratio analysis offers the Treasury bond trader an excellent long-term picture of the market. A rudimentary understanding of the Elliott wave theory and Fibonacci retracements al
Timing The Market With COTS by Alex Roslin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (34-37): Timing The Market With COTS by Alex Roslin Who says you can't time trades using the Commitments of Traders reports? This COTS-based mechanical system beat the NASDAQ by 728 percentage points -- with only one trade ne
Timing The Move by Lorne W. Rae
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing The Move by Lorne W. Rae All traders want to know in advance how long a price trend will last. Try predicting it with this technique. A note in Robert Edwards and John Magee's Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends states, "Volume is of the utmost i
Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley Building on a February 1990 article by Jay Kaeppel, ""Formula Research"" report editor Nelson Freeburg and engineer/investor Charles Skelley introduce a stock m
Timing a Stock Using the Regression Oscillator by Richard Goedde
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Timing a Stock Using the Regression Oscillator by Richard Goedde Numerous techniques for timing transactions are available to the technical trader. One popular method uses the difference between the market trend and the price. Market timing strategies c
Tiny Chart Patterns: Stinkers Or Stalwarts? by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (44-48): Tiny Chart Patterns: Stinkers Or Stalwarts? by Thomas N. Bulkowski Recognizing tiny chart patterns may be all the edge you need to make a killing in the market, but do they work? In two prior articles, I discussed
Tips & Tricks For Trading Commodities by Carley Garner
To Forecast or To Follow by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...To Forecast or To Follow by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer Browsing the ads of Barron's Financial Weekly or Commodities magazine can be mesmerizing. Financial gurus, ""new discoveries"" and ""wonder"" systems abound. Too much skeptici
To Trade of Not to Trade (or how I done it) by JACK K. HUTSON, EDITOR
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...To Trade or Not to Trade (or how I done it) by JACK K. HUTSON The format of sharing trading experiences is an easy way for Technical Analysis Group members, as well as others, to tell how they used chart work and technical analysis in the day to day tra
Today's K-Wave and Beyond by Koos van der Merwe, CFP
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trying to make sense of the markets is always a challenge. Here's an updated look at the Kondratieff wave after 2010. When Nikolai Kondratieff developed his wave theory, he had never heard of technical analysis. He had also never met Ralph Ell
Tom McClellan And The Oscillators by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber
Tony Tabell: Technical Torch by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tony Tabell: Technical Torch by Thom Hartle Tony Tabell has carried the family tradition of technical analysis through the years, given to him from his father, technician Edmund Tabell, and his great uncle, Richard D. Wyckoff, long before most professio
Top 10 Trading Habits by Jody Samuels
Top Down Investing with S&P's Sam Stovall by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INTERVIEW Top Down Investing with S&P's Sam Stovall Some wander onto Wall Street by mistake, while others seem destined to find their way there. Sam Stovall is a member of Standard & Poor's Investment Policy Committee, editor of S&P's Industry Reports
Top-Performing Reversal Candles by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Top-Performing Reversal Candles by Thomas Bulkowski Three candle patterns outperform all others. Can you guess which ones? During research for my latest book, Encyclopedia Of Candlestick Charts, I explored the world of candlesticks and found which ones
Tops And Bottoms by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tops And Bottoms by Alexander Sabodin How do you know if the market has formed a top or a bottom? Here we look at the double-top and double-bottom patterns that occur frequently in the markets. by Alexander Sabodin When head & shoulders, double-top/b
Tracking profits: accounting software by Mike Takano
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tracking profits: accounting software by Mike Takano Choosing the ""best"" accounting software package is a difficult task. Given different circumstances and user abilities, one package may suit your needs better than another. Nevertheless, I liked Mono
Tradable price patterns by Kent Calhoun
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tradeable price patterns by Kent Calhoun What if you knew tomorrow had an 85% probability of closing higher. Do you think it w w would be possible to find a way to make money? Such patterns do exist in the markets all the time, but go unnoticed because
Trade Against The Gap by Stephane Reverre
Trade Crude Now by John L. Momsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade Crude Now by John L. Momsen Don't brush aside a straightforward futures trade just because you think it's too risky. Try combining seasonals with options -- you might be pleasantly surprised. A simple option spread combined with a seasonal trade c
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 (se
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
Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel In the July 1999 Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I wrote about one of the systems I use to trade Fidelity Select sector funds. That system was referred to as the relative strength system (
Trade System Evaluation by Donald W. Pendergast Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade System Evaluation by Donald W. Pendergast Jr. Here we evaluate a simple trading system that will enable you to simulate the results of realistic trading with a portfolio of stocks. Evaluating your trading system performance before you put real mo
Trade The Chart, Not The System by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D., CFP, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (44-47): Trade The Chart, Not The System by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D., CFP, CTA This is why you need to constantly monitor the performance of your trading system. Changing economic conditions can affect the performance of any
Trade The Dow Minis by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade The Dow Minis by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Risky, yes. Worth a try? Definitely. or those who find comfort in trading equities, the thought of trading futures may be intimidating. And who wouldn't be nervous when competing against the pit traders, w
Trade The Opening's Reaction by Perry R. Stevens, MD, MBA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Early Bird Does Get The Worm Trade The Opening's Reaction Here's a simple, profitable trade you can make during the opening 30 minutes of the market. by Perry R. Stevens, MD, MBA The first 15 to 30 minutes after the stock market opens are usually t
Trade The Price Swings by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade The Price Swings by Barbara Star, Ph.D. You can use this method to identify shortterm price reversals. n the futures markets, timing is critical. The ability to recognize price shifts quickly is not only a desirable trait; it is a crucial trading
Trade With Moving Averages by Colin Alexander
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade With Moving Averages by Colin Alexander Behold the moving average. Everyone takes it for granted without really thinking about it. But Colin Alexander, publisher of the Wellspring newsletter and hotline, thinks we should take a closer look. Movin
Trade like a cheetah by Hans Hannula, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade like a cheetah by Hans Hannula, Ph.D. The cheetah: an endangered species who's survived against the odds. It has survived by using a simple set of two rules: be faster than anyone else, and be smarter than anyone else. Sound like a good trading p
Tradeplan Mitronix IIC by John Sweeney
Trader Equilibrium by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (78-79): Trader Equilibrium by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt To handle the volatility in the markets, you must maintain balance within yourself. Like life itself, trading is about balance. The markets are in constant motion, and in order to handle the
Trader, Know Thyself by Ray Johns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trader, Know Thyself by Ray Johns Want to become a successful trader? Then it's important to understand how your mind works. by Ray Johns IN trading, when something goes wrong and you lose money, nine times out of 10 it's nobody's fault but your own.
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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 al
Traders Resource: Brokerages For Traders by Techincal Analysis, Inc.
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
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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 fore
Traders Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 variat
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. ? METASTOCK: TRADING TRENDLINE BREAKS For the MetaStock code to implement the techniques discussed in Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, "Trading Trendline Breaks, Part 2," see the sidebar in the article
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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
Traders Tips' by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders Tips' by Technical Analysis, Inc. Editor's note: Most of this month's collection of Traders' Tips are based on Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, "Building A Trading Template." Other contributions are on a topic of the software developer
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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
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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 expectation
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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 c
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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
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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 i
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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 STOCK
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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
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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.
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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 th
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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 fo
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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 advancin
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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
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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, Inve
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (79-85, 96-97): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's Traders' Tips are based on Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue, "Building Automatic Trendlines." Some template code is provided by the author in t
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 articl
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's Traders' Tips are based on Barbara Star's article in this issue, "The 350 Swing Trade." Code for eSignal to implement Star's 350 swing indicator and related techniques can be found in the sidebars
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (77-86): 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 str
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (81-88): 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 stra
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 c
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 in
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Most of this month's Traders' Tips are based on John Ehlers and Ric Way's article in this issue, "Empirical Mode Decomposition." Others may be on a topic of the contributor's choosing. EasyLanguage code to impl
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
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 standa
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. This month's Traders' Tips are mainly based on Sylvain Vervoort's article in this issue, "Trailing Resistance &nd Support Stops." Others are on a topic of the contributors' choosing. Code for MetaStock to imple
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Editor's note: This month's Traders' Tips are based on Leon Wilson's article in this issue, "Profit Locking And The Relative Price Channel." Code written for BullCharts and MetaStock is already provided in the a
Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (76-84): 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 stra
Trading & scalping techniques by John Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading & scalping techniques by John Hill Scalping techniques for off-floor traders abound. Here I'll present some that I've found worthy over many years of trading. I do not claim many original thoughts in this. I gratefully appreciate the work of man
Trading A Stock Using Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading A Stock Using Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle The search goes on for key indicators to help traders find profitable opportunities in the market. Here, Stocks & Commodities Editor Thom Hartle provides an example of a recent trade in a stock bas
Trading And Control: Walter Bressert by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading And Control: Walter Bressert by Thom Hartle For commodity and futures traders, the technique of using cycles as a trading strategy will undoubtedly bring to mind trader and analyst Walter Bressert. Bressert, who has been in the trading industry
Trading And Gambling by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading And Gambling by Ruth Roosevelt Gambling is an ancient behavior. Humans have wagered on the outcomes of chance events since prehistoric times. Ruth Roosevelt, director of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, explains how trading and gambling have cer
Trading And Poker Parallels by Don Bright with Darren Clifford
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (44-45): Trading And Poker Parallels by Don Bright with Darren Clifford Risk? Yes. Reward? Of course. But the similarities go deeper. A couple of months ago, I was asked about the similarities between stock trading and what
Trading And Teaching: Tom Busby by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading And Teaching: Tom Busby by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber Tom Busby's long career in the markets started as a broker then money manager with some of the world's largest wire houses. He then moved into the private sector and started traini
Trading And The Emotional Boomerang by Adrienne L. Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...rading And The Emotional Boomerang by Adrienne L. Toghraie How are your emotions affecting your trading? They don't, you say? But they do. Even though you may not be aware of it, your emotions are always influencing your trading. Since we are forever in
Trading And The Senses by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading And The Senses by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Successful trading requires a mind balanced between intellect and intuition. Here are some ideas toward developing a balanced mental approach to trading. One of the Market Wizards once told me that he
Trading Andrews Lines by John W. Chandler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Andrews Lines by John W. Chandler If you've ever wanted to know how to use the Andrews pitchfork technique, movement to movement, this should help you. About 20 years ago, I first learned about the work of Alan Andrews and his pitchfork chartin
Trading As Teamwork by Franz-J. Buskamp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading As Teamwork by Franz-J. Buskamp If you were to ask Chicago trader Joseph Ritchie whether he sees himself as an individual trader or a team member, his reaction would probably be a tired smile. After all, he is a member of one of the most success
Trading Automated Spot Forex Systems by Joseph James Gelet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Automated Spot Forex Systems by Joseph James Gelet Want to trade spot forex? With proper risk controls, this method can be used like options to take a position in the market. Options offer traders a unique way to take a position in the market
Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney Last month in Settlement, I wrote briefly about some simple ideas for defining nontrending periods. Although exotic approaches are possible, simple things are easier to teach to computer packages. The program I'
Trading Bond And Currency Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Bond And Currency Funds by Joe Duarte Today's broad selection of different types of mutual funds allows traders to allocate assets based on personal expectations of changes in the stock market, interest rates and currencies. S&C contributor and
Trading Bond Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Bond Funds by Joe Duarte Bond funds have become popular investment vehicles for income-oriented investors. The bond market, however, is often much more responsive to news events, especially in times of high government deficits and international
Trading By Tape-Reading by Adam Wasserman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading By Tape-Reading by Adam Wasserman The foundation of all trading systems, indicators, and chart patterns is the battle of the tape. If you master that, it can make all the difference in your trading. Regarded as one of the first-ever successful
Trading By Tape-Reading by Adam Wasserman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading By Tape-Reading by Adam Wasserman The foundation of all trading systems, indicators, and chart patterns is the battle of the tape. If you master that, it can make all the difference in your trading. Regarded as one of the first-ever successful
Trading By The Numbers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many traders are happy to backtest their trading systems, but how often do they study the statistics behind their trading setups prior to implementing a strategy? Here's a look at how taking this step can help determine whether it's worth developing a tr
Trading Chaos In Today's Market by J.Williams-Lara and Marcus Lara
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Chaos In Today's Market by J.Williams-Lara and Marcus Lara Trading the volatility of today's markets has created a huge learning experience and a new way to navigate profitably through constant change. A holistic approach to trading may give you
Trading Companies With Split Personalities by Anthony Trongone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the regular trading session gains momentum, is the market more likely to produce additional gains? Here's how the companies in the QQ Q Q perform during regular trading sessions versus overnight trading sessions. Although seven years have p
Trading Currencies Using Multiple Time Frames by Kathy Lien and Patrick Dyess
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (60-65): Trading Currencies Using Multiple Time Frames by Kathy Lien and Patrick Dyess When trading currencies, it's best to get the big picture first and then use a shorter time frame to select entries and exits. With $1.
Trading Currency Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Currency Mutual Funds by Joe Duarte Want to broaden your investment horizon? Using subjects covered in his previous S TOCKS & COMMODITIES articles in November 1991 and January 1992, Joe Duarte explains how by combining a simple index/moving aver
Trading Decisively by Bruce C. Kramer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Decisively by Bruce C. Kramer What do you think are the most important mental skills for trading profitably? Compare your response with what a professional trader believes. I became interested in and began to read the literature pertaining to t
Trading Flat Base Breakouts by Bill Pritchard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (46-49): Trading Flat Base Breakouts by Bill Pritchard Here's a look at a simple stock-trading strategy that combines fundamentals and technicals. The flat base breakout pattern (FBB) is a stock market classic, a time-teste
Trading Forex Gold And Silver by Gary S. Wagner
Trading Forex by Koos van der Merwe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Forex by Koos van der Merwe So you want to trade the foreign exchange market, do you? Have you really thought this through? IF trading forex is what you really want to do, then the first thing is for you to decide how you want to trade. Do you
Trading Forex, Technically by Koos van der Merwe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Forex, Technically by Koos van der Merwe In this, the second part of the series, we look at how to apply pure technical analysis to trade the forex markets. IN my last article, I explained how important it was to keep abreast of the news when t
Trading Fuzzy Patterns by Marge Sherald
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Fuzzy Patterns by Marge Sherald Here's how you can apply fuzzy logic and increase your profits. Ask around and you'll discover that every trader has a chart pattern he or she swears by, one that will indicate what the next big move in the marke
Trading Hesitation by Ruth Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Hesitation by Ruth Roosevelt At one time or another, traders may second-guess their own methods and fail to follow their strategies to disastrous results. The founder of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center explains how to return to consistent perfor
Trading IBM Intraday by Dennis Meyers, PhD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading IBM Intraday by Dennis Meyers, PhD Here's how to develop a trading system that measures the real price dynamics of the market. The fading memory polynomial was first introduced in one of my previous articles, titled "The Yen Recursed." In that
Trading In A Sideways Market by Anthony Trongone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (22-27): Trading In A Sideways Market by Anthony Trongone When the markets are trading in a narrow range, you are likely to become susceptible to emotional trading. But if you follow the emerging patterns of a sideways mark
Trading In Restrictive Intraday Price Ranges by A. Trongone, Ph.D., CFP, CTA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (34-36): Trading In Restrictive Intraday Price Ranges by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D., CFP, CTA When the commodity markets are moving in a narrow price range, are there any trading opportunities? Discover how you can find them a
Trading In Tempo With TRIX by Jongseon Kim
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading In Tempo With TRIX by Jongseon Kim Make entry and exit decisions using TRIX. For profitable trading, deciding when to buy and when to sell is one piece of the puzzle. But another, perhaps more important piece is deciding when to trade and when
Trading In The 21st Century by Tom Busby
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading In The 21st Century by Tom Busby Equipment, education, and method -- three necessities for successful trading. It wasn't so long ago that it was very important to buy stocks with dividends and only sell on an annual basis. Then in the early 1980
Trading In The Forex Trenches by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading In The Forex Trenches by Matt Blackman Foreign exchange markets offer great liquidity, are less prone to being pushed around by major market players, and adhere to technical trading rules more closely than equity markets. So why aren't they more
Trading In The Middle Zone by Anthony Trongone
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (32-36): Trading In The Middle Zone by Anthony Trongone Having trouble trading at the start of the day? This strategy will help you find your trading spot. There are many articles about entering the market at the open; the
Trading In Your IRA by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (22-24): Trading In Your IRA by John Ehlers This concept lets you trade your IRA with performance that can beat the index dramatically. Trading in your individual retirement account (IRA) usually means selecting which mutua
Trading Indexes With The Hull Moving Average by Max Gardner
Trading International Funds by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading International Funds by Joe Duarte How do you participate in the price movement of the international stock markets using an overseas mutual fund? The 1990s have become the true decade of market globalization as the world's governments and major
Trading Limit Markets by Douglas Arend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Limit Markets by Douglas Arend In an effort to maintain orderly markets in commodity futures, many exchanges impose daily trading limits. If prices rise above or fall below the previous session's close by a certain amount, further movement in th
Trading Markets With Stochastics by Louis M. Lupo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Markets With Stochastics by Louis M. Lupo There are many systems for trading these days, some of them good, some not. Here's a reliable pattern for trading markets using stochastic. Of the computerized trading systems and discretionary systems
Trading Medium-Term Divergences by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Medium-Term Divergences by Sylvain Vervoort Detect medium-term divergences by using the zero-lagging exponential moving average, support and resistance lines, and trendlines. When a stock price and an oscillator move in the same direction it's
Trading Momentum: Overbought And Oversold Levels by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This veteran trader and market analyst starts a new series, this time discussing the basics of momentum trading. Momentum measures the velocity of a price move and is a generic term that describes the oscillators plotted under the price series of many c
Trading Monthly Eurodollars by Scott W. Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Monthly Eurodollars by Scott W. Barrie Traders tend to be more interested in trading short time frames than long ones, but a longer one can be of value as well. Here's a simple technical system based on monthly Eurodollar charts for entry and ex
Trading Moving Average Pullbacks by Steve Palmquist
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (16-20): Trading Moving Average Pullbacks by Steve Palmquist Many traders have found success in trading pullbacks. But even a popular system needs to incorporate risk management. Every evening, I look over a dozen different
Trading Multiple Time Frames by Gene Carey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Multiple Time Frames by Gene Carey Waiting until the end of the day for a trading signal may be an unnecessary delay for your trading system. How can we get around it? Here's one trader's method of improving a system by using more than one time
Trading Munibond Funds with Munibond Futures by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Munibond Funds With Munibonds Futures by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Designing a trading system is simply establishing a set of rules and back-testing them in the market. And there are different approaches and different markets to trade. Here's one exa
Trading Options With Anthony Saliba by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Options With Anthony Saliba by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber Anthony J. Saliba began his career trading equity options as an independent market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1979. Over the next decade, he gained e
Trading Options With Bollinger Bands And The Dual CCI by D.W. Davies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Options With Bollinger Bands And The Dual CCI by D.W. Davies Combining two classic indicators, the commodity channel index (CCI) and Bollinger bands, can be a potent timing tool for options trading. This author was inspired by John Bollinger's a
Trading Out Of A Slump by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Out Of A Slump by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Anyone who's traded a while can tell you that finding yourself in a slump from time to time is inevitable. But a slump shouldn't be a crippling hurdle; here, Toghraie explains how to climb out of that pi
Trading Planetary Eclipses by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Planetary Eclipses by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A. Stock market lore has long been filled with claims that planetary motion affects stock and commodity prices. As most market students who pursue this topic find out, however, many rules and explan
Trading Range Bars by Suri Duddella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (28-34): Trading Range Bars by Suri Duddella There are different ways to chart price movements. Here we look at range bars and how they help identify the underlying trend. Bar charts, candlestick charts, and line charts are
Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney Using simple moving averages may seem like a straightforward approach to trading, but there are subtle techniques that can improve performance. A few months ago, I pointed out that moving averages ar
Trading Renko Charts by Suri Duddella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Renko Charts by Suri Duddella This charting technique can be used to display trends that may not be that obvious in a bar or candlestick chart. Renko charts were invented by Japanese traders hundreds of years ago and named for renga, a Japanese
Trading Sector Funds Using Statistics by John P. Twardy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (82-88): Trading Sector Funds Using Statistics by John P. Twardy Ever thought of trading sector funds? Here's a method that'll give you an edge on the market. Sector fund analysis and trading always seem to require tools o
Trading Simply: Minimizing Losses by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Simply: Minimizing Losses by John Sweeney Richard Dennis is said to have said, ""There's a lot less to trading than meets the eye."" If so, he was correct. I like to describe an approach that has nothing to do with entry or exit, but everything
Trading Soybean Spreads by Scott W. Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Soybean Spreads by Scott W. Barrie Here are the basics of trading a soybean commodity spread using a seasonal strategy. The price relationship between two or more given commodity contracts is known as a spread. Spread trading is the purchase o
Trading Spreads by Thomas Cronin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Spreads by Thomas Cronin The price relationship between delivery months of a futures contract or between different futures contracts often change. And of course, where there is change opportunity arises for traders. Here, STOCKS & COMMODITIES au
Trading Stochastic Pops by David Steckler
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Stochastic Pops by David Steckler You can identify breakouts using stochastic pops. What are they, anyway? Many equity traders strive to identify stocks that are ready to break out and begin a sustained price move up. The difficulty lies in ide
Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey O. Katz, Ph.D., with D.L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Stocks With A Cyclical System by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., with Donna L. McCormick There may be a tradable pattern in individual stocks and indices. Read about one way to systematically look for and track this cycle. More than a decade ago, w
Trading Systems And Fractals by Radha Panini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (36-42): Trading Systems And Fractals by Radha Panini In the second part of this series, we look at the application of fractals to a few well-known trading systems. There have been many applications of fractal methods to tr
Trading Systems Defined by Martha Stokes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (16-22): Trading Systems Defined by Martha Stokes What is your trading style? Here's an overview of different types of trading systems that can be applied to different markets. To succeed as a trader, you must understand ho
Trading T-Bonds and Currencies by George Panagakis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading T-Bonds And Currencies by George Panagakis Are you looking for a trading system that's elementary by design, yet effective for trading using entry and exit rules? Were you also thinking that it should be based on weekly charts? Well, you've foun
Trading T-bonds with Equivolume by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading T-bonds with Equivolume by Thom Hartle A technician attempts to identify areas of price where supply or demand will affect the value of an item. If your method correctly responds to or forecasts the demand or supply entering the market, you may
Trading Tactics A livestock futures anthology by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Tactics A livestock futures anthology by John Sweeney Editor: Todd Lofton Publisher: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Agricultural Commodity Marketing 30 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 930-8213 (direct line to order the book) Price: $29.9
Trading The Aussie by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Aussie by Markos Katsanos This system exploits the traditionally strong correlation between the Australian dollar and commodities. The Australian dollar, along with the Canadian dollar, the New Zealand dollar, and the South African rand, is
Trading The Cup & Handle by Larry Swing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Cup & Handle by Larry Swing Guidelines For A New Classic...Cup & handle patterns may be tricky to identify. But if you follow these guidelines you will be able to identify them more easily and accurately. Although it didn't come from the tr
Trading The Deutschemark's Gaps by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Deutschemark's Gaps by John Sweeney Talk about humiliation! Looking at a Deutschemark chart, I figured I'd trade with the direction of any gap for short small gains. The evidence showed I was 180 degrees wrong! I asked my computer to look at
Trading The E-Mini by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The E-Mini by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Here's a technique you can use to trade the e-mini futures intraday. In my April 1999 article, "The Discrete Fourier Transform Illusion," I demonstrated the misuses of the mathematical technique called the Fou
Trading The Eclipse Cycle by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Eclipse Cycle by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A. The ancients saw eclipses of the sun and moon as something mysterious and magical. The high priest of the day controlled the masses by telling them: ""Look out, there is an eclipse coming. Do as I
Trading The Electronic Futures Market by Charles M. Steiner
Trading The Elliott Wave by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Elliott Wave by Rudy Teseo Setting up Elliott wave projections on a spreadsheet can help you make your trading decisions. So far we have covered wave theory (part I), wave patterns (part II), and channels (part III). It will be helpful to h
Trading The Equity Curve by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Equity Curve by Joe Luisi Technical analysis is typically applied to prices to determine the trend and changes in the trend. Now consider applying the same concept to analyzing your equity curve to determine those times when your equity may
Trading The Forex Wave by Raghee Horner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (19-24): Trading The Forex Wave by Raghee Horner Chart patterns are powerful tools and it is important to identify them by finding their building blocks. Here's how. Only after I embraced market cycles did I truly begin to
Trading The Opening Gap by Stephane Reverre
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Opening Gap by Stephane Reverre Is it possible to profitably trade a gap opening from the previous close? Here's one trader's test of that idea using Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stocks as the subjects. Profitably buying an openi
Trading The Ratio Of The RSI by Russell Rhoads
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Ratio Of The Rsi by Russell Rhoads Here's a method for trading the spread between the Swiss franc and the Deutschemark. The technique involves using the ratio of the relative strength index (RSI) of each currency to identify trading points.
Trading The Regression Channel by Gilbert Raff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Regression Channel by Gilbert Raff Every trader has had the experience of selling a stock or commodity too soon during a rapid price reversal, only to realize in retrospect that this was a consolidation within a trend. Or just the opposite:
Trading The Russell 2000 Emini by Austin Passamonte
Trading The S&P With A Neural Network by Jeremy G. Konstenius
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The S&P With A Neural Network by Jeremy G. Konstenius Here's an example of the steps that one trader took to use a neural network to trade the stock market index futures. Today's technical traders have the opportunity to use sophisticated meth
Trading The Santa Claus Rally by Michael D. Sheimo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Santa Claus Rally by Michael D. Sheimo 'Tis the season to be jolly and make a profit. What could be finer? Michael Sheimo explores the whys and wherefores of this seasonal phenomenon. Holiday rallies in the stock market are a fact of life.
Trading The Trend In Wave 3 by Mircea Dologa, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (56-61): Trading The Trend In Wave 3 by Mircea Dologa, MD Here's a refresher course on techniques you can use to trade wave 3, in part 2 of three. When trading wave 3, any number of methods could be used, so many that it's
Trading The Turtle System On Currencies by Guy Brys, Anja Struyf, and Luc Van Hof
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Turtle System On Currencies by Guy Brys, Anja Struyf, and Luc Van Hof The system was developed two decades ago on the basis of a bet, but since then, it's been a proven winner. The Turtle system was developed on daily data but it has some pr
Trading The Yen by Linda Satterfield
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do you feel frustrated sometimes in your trading and wish you could get a blow-by-blow of what someone else is doing? Well, here's Linda Satterfield to take Stocks & Commodities readers through a series of trades she executed in the September 1994 yen fu
Trading Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal by Hans Hannula, Ph.D., C.T.A. W.D. Gann once remarked some people would not be able to make money even if they had tomorrow's Wall Street Journal, just because they would be held hostage to fear. In October 1987,
Trading Tradeoffs With Risk Vs. Reward by Norman J. Brown
Trading Trendline Breaks (Part 1) by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Trendline Breaks (Part 1) by Sylvain Vervoot One of the best trading methods in technical analysis is the application of trendline breaks. Find out why. am convinced that one of the best trading methods using technical analysis is the app
Trading Trendline Breaks by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Trendline Breaks - PT 2 by Sylvain Vervoort Trendlines are common technical analysis charting tools, but there are a number of ways to implement them in your trading. Here's an in-depth look at trendlines. Previously, I discussed how trendlines
Trading Trendline Breaks, Part 3 by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Trendline Breaks, Part 3 by Sylvain Vervoort Previously, I discussed how trendlines are plotted and how they can be used. This time, I am going to show you Abercombie & Fitch Co. (ANF). The numbers here represent the labels on the chart displaye
Trading Trends With The Bollinger Bands Z-Test by Jacinta Chan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (46-52): Trading Trends With The Bollinger Bands Z-Test by Jacinta Chan Standard deviation bands are helpful in determining trends. Here, the author develops a trading system based on this idea that yields high returns with
Trading Uncertainty by Amy Wu
Trading Volatility by Russell Rhoads, CFA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking A Position On A Measure Of Fear, Trading Volatility by Russell Rhoads, CFA The Cboe Volatility Index has been used as a measure of fear in the market, but there's more to it than that. Find out how you can use the Vix to take a position when you
Trading Vs. Buy & Hold by Glenn A. Barlis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Vs. Buy & Hold by Glenn A. Barlis Here's a look at the profit potential of trading compared with buy & hold. Numerous strategies for accumulating wealth through stock investments have held prominence over the years. Conventional wisdom used to
Trading Wave 3 by Mircea Dologa, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (42-44): Trading Wave 3 by Mircea Dologa, MD Trading wave 3 could prove to be the most profitable of all waves in Elliott wave analysis. Here's an example. In my previous two articles, I discussed various techniques you cou
Trading With An Adaptive Price Zone by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (28-31): Trading With An Adaptive Price Zone by Lee Leibfarth When the markets are moving sideways, it is difficult to identify the turning points. Here's one indicator that can help you do that. Traders are always looking
Trading With Open Interest by John Boere
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With Open Interest by John Boere Analyzing the open interest of equities can provide insight into the direction of the market. Find out why the expiration price is being manipulated, how it can be calculated, and how you can trade it. Open inte
Trading With The Directional Ratio by John Jay Norris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With The Directional Ratio by John "Jay" Norris Whether you trade long term, short term, or intermediate term, you need to know the direction of the trend. Here's a simple way to find out. If you are an active trader, or if you manage traders,
Trading With The Heikin-Ashi Candlestick Oscillator by Sylvain Vervoort
Trading With The True Strength Index by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With The True Strength Index by William Blau The true strength index, which was introduced late last year in these pages, may be considered to be a cross between a relative strength indicator and a moving average convergence/divergence indicator
Trading With Volume Profile by Sam Whitehill
Trading Within The Cup by Rick Martinelli and Barry Hyman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Within The Cup by Rick Martinelli and Barry Hyman The classic approach to trading the cup-with-handle pattern is buying on a pullback during an uptrend before price breaks out. But what about traders who prefer to begin taking a position in a st
Trading Without Limits by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Self-discipline is the key to success in any field. Traders especially need to maintain discipline to manage themselves during good times and bad. Here are some of the key issues on how to keep yourself in line. The list of personal qualities required t
Trading close-to-close patterns by Toby Crabel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading close-to-close patterns by Toby Crabel Do the relationships between day-to-day closing prices predict the next day's price moves and, if so, is it possible to isolate these profitable chart patterns and incorporate them as entry signals in a lar
Trading clues from options volatility by Dave Caplan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading clues from options volatility by Dave Caplan The significance of volatility is overlooked and underestimated by most traders in the options area. This includes both the effect of volatility on the premium cost of an option when purchased, and th
Trading commodity spreads mechanically by Louis P. Lukac & B. Wade Brorsen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading commodity spreads mechanically by Louis P. Lukac & B. Wade Brorsen Using a mechanical rule to trade a futures market is not new--countless mechanical methods exist with the general purpose of creating a profit while eliminating the human factor f
Trading five-wave reversals Part 2 by Dan A. Dimock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading five-wave reversals Part 2 by Dan A. Dimock In ""Trading five-wave reversals"" (Stocks & Commodities, January 1990), I examined the one place in the market cycle where optimal entry into a win-win situation can occur: at the end of any wave C th
Trading five-wave reversals by Dan Akin Dimock
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading five-wave reversals by Dan Akin Dimock Where is the best place to enter a trading or longer-term investment position within the entire five waves up/three waves down cycle of any market? How is the starting point recognized before the action beg
Trading in the Moment by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading in the Moment by Adrienne Laris Toghraie You don't have choices regarding the past, but you do have choices regarding your future. Here are some ideas about how you can change your perception of the future. When a trader lets his imagination t
Trading options volatility by Andrew J. Sterge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading options volatility by Andrew J. Sterge Options are much more than a hedging vehicle or leveraged way of participating in spot or futures markets. Indeed, options create strategies that did not exist before in trading an option's underlying instr
Trading options volatility by John Nelson and Stephen Kreis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading options volatility by John Nelson and Stephen Kreis The objective in trading options is generally a rather straightforward one--buy the premiums low and sell them high. For many traders there is no need to make ""option action"" any more complica
Trading primary markets by Allen D. Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading primary markets by Allen D. Hanson Few traders understand the difference between primary futures markets and those that are often called ""secondary"" markets. Sometimes it is not easy to tell the difference between them. As a new futures contra
Trading the Eurodollar by George Panagakis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading the Eurodollar by George Panagakis Trading methods don't have to be complex; indeed, they can be very simple. Here's one that will help you trade Eurodollars. When I was working in the futures industry, I spent most of my free time analyzing t
Trading the MACD by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The MACD You can trade Gerald Appel's moving average convergence/ divergence profitably in relatively flat markets. Here's how. The moving average convergence/ divergence (MACD) is a momentum oscillator developed by Gerald Appel in the early 19
Trading the Trend by Andrew Abraham
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a volatility indicator, presented with simple trend rules for trading various markets. New traders quickly become familar with two adages: "The trend is your friend," and "Let your profits run and cut your losses." Many of us, however, have lear
Trading the Wheat/Corn Spread by Scott W. Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Wheat/Corn Spread: by Scott W. Barrie Here's a seasonally and statistically based intermarket spread trade. Within a short time, every futures trader learns strategies that go beyond the simple long or short position. In riding the learning
Trading threshold by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading threshold by John Ehlers In radar, signal-to-noise ratio is used to measure the quality of target detection. In trading, this simple concept can be used to hit our profit targets better. We can improve our trading profitability if trading decisi
Trading volatility by Andrew Sterge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading volatility by Andrew Sterge In the winter and spring of 1989, I made a series of Eurodollar options trades which show the logic of ""trading volatility."" This sort of trading is the bread and butter of many institutional traders, that is to say
Trading windows for technical indicators by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading windows for technical indicators by Frank Tarkany In a number of articles over the past three years, Stocks & Commodities' authors have developed evidence that changes in securities prices are generated by a process that is random, stationary an
Trading with Elliott Wave and Gann by David Lamarr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Elliott Wave and Gann by David Lamarr Wave confusion. This is the best way to describe my introduction to the Elliott Wave Principle more than four years ago. I read the books, started keeping an hourly chart updated by hand and had reasona
Trading with Gann lines by David Lamarr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Gann lines by David Lamarr Gann lines, although only a small part of W. D. Gann's methods, provide an effective, straightforward way of determining support and resistance areas and times when to expect a change in trend. They can be thought
Trading with Steidlmayer by Ellen C. Williams
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading with Steidlmayer by Ellen C. Williams Talking with J. Peter Steidlmayer about the commodities markets is different than talking with any other trader in the game. Bonds, soybeans, grains and currencies are metaphors that define Steidlmayer's wa
Trading with a Variable Position Size by Tom O'Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading With A Variable Position Size by Tom O'Malley Once a position has been put on, some traders will hold it at a constant size throughout the life of the trade, while other traders will vary the size. Which is better? Once a trade has been initiat
Trading with the Cup-with-Handle by Gregory Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (292-297): Trading with the Cup-with-Handle by Gregory Kuhn Here are some more nuances for trading stocks based on the charting pattern called the cup-with-handle pattern introduced by William O'Neil. How much would you pay for a trading syst
Trading, Profitability and Leverage by J.M. Malley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading, Profitability and Leverage by J.M. Malley Leverage is a key factor in trading, but few traders understand its importance. Here, Malley concludes his work on the subject. Modern financial theory proceeds by developing an explicit model and der
Trading, Time Frames, And Trends by B.C. Low
Traditional chart analysis: A neglected tool? by Thomas Aspray
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traditional chart analysis: A neglected tool? by Thomas Aspray With the virtual explosion of computerized technical analysis over the past few years, some basic methods of analysis are often forgotten or at least neglected. I confess that I have even co
Trailing Resistance And Support Stops by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trailing Resistance And Support Stops by Sylvain Vervoort In this, the final part of a three-part series, we will look at a short-term trailing stop that moves close to the price action. The different trailing stops I discussed in parts 1 and 2 allow f
Training Neural Networks by Lou Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Training Neural Networks by Lou Mendelsohn The application of neural networks to financial forecasting has quickly become a hot topic in today's globalized trading environment. With extensive technical, intermarket and fundamental data available for ana
Transforming Trader Self-Talk by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Transforming Trader Self-Talk by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Traders can talk themselves into disastrous losing scenarios. Here are the steps to avoid the problem. Self-talk controls your trading destiny. Self-talk is that inner voice that interprets what
Treasury Bond Put Options As An Intermarket Gauge by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Treasury Bond Put Options As An Intermarket Gauge by Joe Duarte Here, ""Wall Street Detective"" editor Joe Duarte discusses using the Hines ratio, a sentiment indicator based on options activity, on the Treasury bond futures market as a trading tool for
Treasury Bond Yields and the S&P 500 by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interest rates have long been tied to movement in the stock market. Here's how to test trading rules for the stock market based on a six-month moving average of the 30-year Treasury bond yield, showing us when it may and may not be profitable to invest i
Treasury Bond Yields: A Neural Net Analysis Approach by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Treasury Bond Yields: A Neural Net Analysis Approach by John Kean In this article, STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor John Kean uses a neural network to look for predictable patterns between Treasury bond yields and two of the driving forces behind the bo
Treasury Bonds And Gold by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Treasury Bonds And Gold by Alex Saitta Intermarket analysis, the comparison of price relationships between two different markets, is a valuable tool for traders and investors. Regular news reports often account for one market's trend for the day as rea
Trend Alert! With The CCI by Martin Boot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend Alert! With The CCI by Martin Boot The trend is your friend -- or is it? How do you know when a trend has turned against you? There are only so many indicators that can alert you. Among them, one of the most helpful is the commodity channel index
Trend And Volatility by Jesse Chen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend And Volatility by Jesse Chen This combination can help you determine your optimum spread strategy. In options trading, you often either become attached to a few spread strategies or end up gambling on individual calls or puts. Unfortunately, no r
Trend Continuation Factor by M.H. Pee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend Continuation Factor by M.H. Pee Yes, trends are important: They help you make money and they help you recover your losses. Because trends are an important component of the market, it is imperative you can detect them. However, it's not enough to
Trend Detection Index by M.H. Pee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend Detection Index by M.H. Pee Can you tell when a trend's begun and when it's ended? You can with this. The trend detection index (TDI) is used to detect when a trend has begun and when it has come to an end. The TDI can be used as a stand-alone in
Trend Exhaustion Index by Clifford L. Creel, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a price trend changes direction, it is sometimes difficult to predict whether that change is just a small correction or the start of a major trend change. I use a simple indicator, which I call the trend exhaustion index (TEI), to help interpret suc
Trend Identification By Price And Time Filtering
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Minimize the impact of random price movements by using this concise, combined price-and-time filter to identify trends, along with some unique ways to display it all on a chart
Trend Intensity Index by M.H. Pee
Trend Trigger Factor by M.H. Pee
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (28-36): Trend Trigger Factor by M.H. Pee Whether you're trading short term or long term, the only way to make money in the market is to position yourself in the direction of the trend. The markets are mostly random, but t
Trend detection by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend detection by Arthur Merrill The trend of prices is itself an indicator of the future, since trends tend to continue. In a bull market, the major trend is upward. Since most stocks ride with the trend, it's a good idea to buy and hold stocks in a b
Trend of the trend by Gregory L. Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend of the trend by Gregory L. Morris Most indicators of trend are taken for granted even though many times they are used successfully by stock and commodity traders. It has been my experience that blindly following canned indicators can lead you into
Trend-Following And The Interest Carry Trade by Russell Sands
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend-Following And The Interest Carry Trade by Russell Sands Here's a look at how the Turtle system can be combined with forex trading. Forex trading has been around quite a while, and so has the Turtle system. But it has only been in the last year or
Trend-Following The Corn/Wheat Spread by Scott W. Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Grain markets offer profit opportunities due to the seasonal nature of their planting, crop development and harvesting cycle. During certain times of the year, the price of the grain crops are especially vulnerable due to these seasonal tendencies. Here
Trend-Following With The ADX by Martin Boot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend-Following With The ADX by Martin Boot Have you ever been interested in a system, but weren't quite sure how it worked? Here's a simple and robust trend-following system using the ADX, with only one entry condition and one exit condition. To desi
Trend-Quality Indicator by David Sepiashvili
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (14-20): Trend-Quality Indicator by David Sepiashvili Having trouble detecting trends, or estimating their duration when you do spot one? This indicator comes to the rescue. Trend detection and estimation is one of the most
TrendVUE.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TrendVUE.com by David Penn TRENDVUE.COM "Get yourself a mentor." Of all the advice that professional traders give aspiring traders, that suggestion must be the most daunting piece of wisdom to translate into action. After all, not unlike an aspiring ar
Trending on a Historical Basis by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (345-347): Trending on a Historical Basis by Alex Saitta The question is as old as technical analysis itself: Does the market trend? Here's a method to determine the degree to which markets trend historically. In addition, there's a comparison o
Trendline Basics by Martin Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trendline Basics by Martin Pring The trend of prices is the feature that is most sought after in technical analysis, yet surprisingly simple constructs can get you right with the market. Here, veteran trader and analyst Martin Pring takes you through th
Trendline Tips And Tricks by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trendline Tips And Tricks by Sylvain Vervoort How do you capture those medium- to longer-term moves when trying to enter and exit trades quickly? Daydreaming about trading? Get in a trade early and close to the low point; stay in as long as needed an
Trendlines as a Technical Tool by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE TRADER Trendlines As A Technical Tool Applying trendlines to charts is a classic form of analysis. Here are some of the basics of using this tool. by Joe Luisi Trendlines, which are one of the most basic techniques in chart analysis, are line
Trendlines by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trendlines by Bruce R. Faber How do you use trendlines? It's one of the most basic tools of investment analysis, yet it's not explained as clearly as it might. If you're just starting out, here's the scoop. Or if you're an old pro, here's a refresher.
Trendlines by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trendlines by Melanie F. Bowman and Thom Hartle Trendlines are those lines drawn on charts to assist the technician in analyzing a market. A trendline drawn below rising prices is known as a demand, or oversold, line, while a trendline drawn above decli
Trends And Moving Averages by Robert Nikifork
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How do you choose which length and type of moving average to use for chart analysis? Take a look. One commonly used technical indicator is the moving average (MA), which is plotted as a line connecting the average of closing prices over a lookback peri
Trends and price channels by Heidi Schmidt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trends and price channels by Heidi Schmidt For the beginner, it is important to know that technical analysis is based on the belief that current market prices are related to prices that occurred previously. In other words, technical analysis is the oppo
Triangles And Trends by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Triangles And T ends Building positions is an essential exploitation of a successful trade, and triangle formations can be key to doing so. The classic technical trader relies upon various chart formations for determining market tops, bottoms, and cons
Triangles by David Vomund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Triangles by David Vomund Stock prices tend to move in trends. When an existing trend ends, a classic technical pattern known as a triangle often develops. Here's how to make use of this pattern in the stock market. When an existing trend is in the proc
Triangles: Reversal Or Continuation by Stuart Evens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Triangles: Reversal Or Continuation by Stuart Evens Look at most any book on the subject of technical analysis, and you'll come across triangles. These formations are usually one of the first chart patterns that novice technicians study, and it deserve
Triggering Your Trading Signal by Benjamin L. Cotton
True Price Value by Daryl Guppy and Chen Jing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...True Price Value by Daryl Guppy and Chen Jing What is more important in determining market behavior and market pricing, fair value based on fundamentals or the market value created by psychological trading behavior? The classic economic and market mode
True Range, Reward/Risk, And Position Size by Alan M. Binder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...True Range, Reward/Risk, And Position Size by Alan M. Binder This method uses the concept of value at risk and true range to determine a reward to risk ratio and position size for trading stocks. The process has been reduced to two Excel spreadsheets f
True Strength Index by William Blau
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...True Stength Index by William Blau Price momentum oscillators are popular tools for traders because the nature of these technical tools is to signal trend changes, something every trader wants to know. The ideal indicator would alert the trader to a cha
Truth In Futures: John Hill by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Truth In Futures: John Hill John Hill started out in the business of trading commodities in a most remarkable way when he managed to run $1,000 up to $80,000 in a matter of three months - and then managed to lose all but $5,000 in a single day. Some tra
Tuning Intraday Strategies by Lee Leibfarth
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (64-67): Tuning Intraday Strategies by Lee Leibfarth Developing a daytrading strategy that is consistent across all markets is impossible. But here are some things to keep in mind when assessing your daytrading strategy. Th
Turbocharge It! by Marge Sherald
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (48-51): Turbocharge It! by Marge Sherald Tired of spending too much time in front of your computer? Here's how you can cut that time and fine-tune your indicators and trading rules. As a trader, you know the process of dev
Turning Trading Weaknesses into Strengths by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Turning Trading Weaknesses Into Strengths by Adrienne Laris Toghraie The founder of Trading on Target explains how to identify your trading weaknesses and turn them into strengths. What is your greatest weakness? What if you were to transform your gre
Tweak Those Spreads by Phillips Wiegand Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tweak Those Spreads by Phillips Wiegand Jr. Is it possible to trade in any environment? Here are the basics of the calendar spread and how it can be used to trade the more volatile securities. It's no secret: Trying to gauge short-term market moves is
Tweaking The T3 Trading System by Steve Burns
Two Filtered Indicators by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two Filtered Indicators by Daniel E. Downing By filtering two indicators, my firm and I discovered the Friday tick indicator and the last hour/ first hour indicator. These new indicators have shown an interesting relationship to the equity markets over
Two Moving Function Hybrids by William Rafter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (16-22): Two Moving Function Hybrids by William Rafter Find out how to use these smooth and timely indicators. In analyzing the markets, we frequently findourselves looking at data that is not quite adequate for our needs.
Two Traders, Two Methods by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two Traders, Two Methods by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The idea of daytrading has captured the attention of many market enthusiasts, but it's not an easy path to riches. It takes years to master, a tremendous amount of patience, and consistency in your res
Two-Day Price Patterns by Martin J. Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two-Day Price Patterns by Martin J. Pring Coming at the end of a trend, these two-day patterns are solid signals of a reversal. Here's the last of Pring's three articles on price patterns. Two-day price pattern formations, unlike others we have discuss
Two-Point Problem Of The Rate Of Change by Martti Luoma and Jussi Nikkinen
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (26-30): Two-Point Problem Of The Rate Of Change by Martti Luoma and Jussi Nikkinen Here's a look at a modified version of the rate of change indicator, free of its detracting problem. The rate of change indicator (ROC), on
U.S. Treasury auctions and technical analysis by Gerald S. Celaya
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...U.S. Treasury auctions and technical analysis by Gerald S. Celaya The auction process in the Treasury bond market creates a problem for technical analysts--the newly auctioned issue has none of the historical price data needed for technical analysis and
UDPrice Change Indicator by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (298-303): UDPrice Change Indicator by Dennis Meyers This indicator expresses buy and sell signals based on user-defined percentage changes in a market. The UD% price change indicator is compared with a simple moving average crossover and two di
Unchanged stocks by Charles A. Jaffe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unchanged stocks by Charles A. Jaffe Investors and the media focus on the winners and losers in the stock market. Issues that stand still are not only boring, but their inactivity is seldom a signal for anything. Or is it? Last summer, Anthony W. Tabell
Uncommon Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Uncommon Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski Some bullish chart patterns are rare, and some are simply not well known. Read this to find out about both. A few months ago, I received e-mail from someone asking about identification techniques for chart pa
Uncovering Value in an Oversold Stock by Tamalyn V. Crutchfield
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This trader walks us through one of her trades, detailing the indicators she used and the decisions she made. The age-old philosophies of "Buy, low, sell high" and "Buy cheap, sell rich" are the investing approaches every investor strives toward. Unfor
Understanding Exponential Moving Averages by Raymond Rothschild
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Understanding Exponential Moving Averages by Raymond Rothschild Do you ever find yourself thinking that maybe you ought to try using the exponential moving average but find yourself intimidated into paralysis? Don't be. Let Raymond Rothschild be your gu
Understanding Market Profile Part 6 by Thomas P. Drinka and Stephen M. Ptasienski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Understanding Market Profile Part 6 by Thomas P. Drinka and Stephen M. Ptasienski Range extensions are the intraday price moves that hold good profit potential. Many current trading systems use them although they are typically called opening range brea
Understanding Market Structure by Paolo Pezzutti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (30-37): Understanding Market Structure by Paolo Pezzutti Understanding the market before placing your trade can make a huge difference to your trading performance. Different financial markets have different behaviors. This
Understanding Randomness Exercises For Statisticians by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Understanding Randomness Exercises For Statisticians by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. Author: David Salsburg Publisher: Marcel Dekker, NY, 1983 If you are an investor, whether you believe in the efficient market hypothesis or not, it important for you to
Understanding cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Understanding cycles by John F. Ehlers Introduction The first thing we must recognize is that cycle analysis doesn't always work for profitable investment strategy. This is no great surprise, because cycles must be present in the data history for any a
Unraveling The Mystery Of Stock Prices by Boris G. Zinchenko
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unraveling The Mystery Of Stock Prices by Boris G. Zinchenko Here's a simple method you can apply to interpret financial charts. It uses classical statistics as well as a number of simple chart indicators, which may help you better understand classical
Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Updating Option Ratios With Market Sentiment by James P. Martin Is it true that market sentiment indicators no longer work? That's the word from many traders and market timing advisors in the past several months. They say that so many ""pseudo contraria
Use The CBOE's Options Analysis Calculator -- Gratis by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Use The CBOE's Options Analysis Calculator -- Gratis by Rudy Teseo Here's how to use the free option calculator offered by the Chicago Board Options Exchange to set up your positions. Option strategy diagrams are the standards used in the industry to re
Using A Constant False Alarm Rate In Trading by John Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using A Constant False Alarm Rate In Trading by John Ehlers Modern information theory has existed for the last half century or so. This theory has been responsible for man significant scientific advances, including recovery of photograph taken in deep s
Using A Constant Investment Size For Stock Trading Systems by Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using A Constant Investment Size For Stock Trading Systems by Jack Schwager The highest high to the lowest low in the price history of an individual stock can vary tremendously, especially when stock splits occur. This large range of price history can d
Using A Moving Average System by Lars N. Kestner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using A Moving Average System by Lars N. Kestner Moving averages was one of the first trading methods used by technicians. Here are the basics to using a moving average system. The process of developing a trading system consists of three steps. First,
Using Barrier Stops In Exit Strategies by J. Katz, Ph.D., and D. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Barrier Stops In Exit Strategies by J. Katz, Ph.D., and D. McCormick A simple technical method for exiting a trade is the break of a trendline on a chart. This article measures the performance of using this strategy as an exit rule. In recent ar
Using Binary Options In Forex by Dan Cook
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Binary Options In Forex by Dan Cook Managing risk and proper stop placement may be the most difficult aspects of currency trading to master. Here's how you can use binary options to take advantage of the opportunities that volatility creates while
Using Bollinger Bands by John Bollinger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Bollinger Bands by John Bollinger Trading bands, which are lines plotted in and around the price structure to form an envelope, are the action of prices near the edges of the envelope that we are interested in. It's not the newest of ideas, but as
Using Calls To Create Synthetic Leverage by Matthew J. Stander
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (62-66): Using Calls To Create Synthetic Leverage by Matthew J. Stander Before you take the plunge and buy a call option, you should consider whether you know everything you can about doing so. Traders frequently buy call o
Using Candlesticks And Oscillators by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Candlesticks And Oscillators by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Blending East with West, candlesticks with Western trading techniques and using the computer to boot: Combine candlesticks with oscillators. Candlestick charting has come a lo
Using Expert Commentary by Mark Vakkur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Expert Commentary by Mark Vakkur One of the most neglected features of TradeStation is the ability to create and modify a study's Expert Commentary. And you don't have to be an expert to use it; if you can create a study, you can create expert com
Using Filtered Waves for Trend Analysis by Scott Barrie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (282-287): Using Filtered Waves for Trend Analysis by Scott Barrie Filtering is simply processing price data to remove extraneous, noisy, information. What's left after filtering can be considered to be the more important and perhaps tradable in
Using Financial Message-Boards by Clem Chambers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:13 (46-48): Using Financial Message-Boards by Clem Chambers Extract information and trends from the pools of information available on message boards. Market pricing is all about information flow. One of the tenets of efficien
Using Fourier by JACK K. HUTSON
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Fourier by JACK K. HUTSON Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) (pronounced ""fooryay'') was a French mathematician and inventor of Fourier analysis. His work helped show the way to expressing periodic curves or functions by a sum of sines and cosines. These
Using Futures And Options to Reshape Portfolio Risk by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Futures And Options to Reshape Portfolio Risk by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Portfolio management at its simplest is finding the highest possible return while limiting the risk involved. Because economic conditions constantly change, keeping to t
Using Fuzzy Logic in Expert Systems by James F. Derry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Fuzzy Logic in Expert Systems by James F. Derry Stock market followers assess the market environment with numerous technical indicators. For the most part, these indicators are rarely definitively bullish or bearish. It is rare that an indicator c
Using Implied Volatility And Volume by Scott Castleman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Implied Volatility And Volume by Scott Castleman Construct a trend-following system that adjusts to current market conditions. Traditionally, technicians have relied on historical prices to analyze the market. They have created many different ind
Using Indicators In Trading Ranges And Trends by Bruce C. Kramer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Indicators In Trading Ranges And Trends by Bruce C. Kramer Traders use indicators for generating buy and sell signals in a market. But what indicators should you use and when? Here's one private trader's technique for recognizing trends and tradin
Using Initial And Trailing Stops by Sylvain Vervoort
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Initial And Trailing Stops by Sylvain Vervoort In this first of a three-part series, we will look at initial stop methods and compare trailing-stop strategies starting with a fixed-percentage trailing stop. Most people have no problem buying a s
Using MMI to trade OEX by Dan Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using MMI to trade OEX by Dan Downing My firm uses an indicator derived from the Major Market Index (MMI) Stock Index Future to trade options on Standard & Poor's 100 Stock Index (OEX). The indicator is used to determine when the MMI future is in very o
Using Maximum Adverse Excursions for stops by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Maximum Adverse Excursions for stops by John Sweeney So often the key to success is the reverse of what we initially perceive. Young basketball players are fascinated with the shot, never suspecting the game is won with fast feet. Traders focus on
Using Money Flow To Stay With The Trend by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (40-51): Using Money Flow To Stay With The Trend by Markos Katsanos Avoid impending disasters and stay on the right side of the trend with the volume flow indicator. In their classic Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends, Robert Edwards and John M
Using Multiple Moving Averages by Daryl Guppy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Multiple Moving Averages by Daryl Guppy Moving averages, familiar to every technical trader, are used by most technicians to identify important trends. Here's a unique twist on using multiple moving averages as an early warning of trend reversals.
Using Multiple Regression Analysis by Jack Karczewski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Multiple Regression Analysis by Jack Karczewski Happily, today's spreadsheets enable traders and investors to measure the relationships between any times series of data. In this article, a linear regression technique is explained for analyzing the
Using Neural Nets For Intermarket Analysis by John Kean
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Neural Nets For Intermarket Analysis by John Kean Changes in Treasury bill yields, Treasury bond yields, gold and the U.S. dollar affect the stock market in subtle but predictable ways. These are complex and challenging relationships to decipher -
Using Neural Nets In Market Analysis by Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can neural networks aid traders? By Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick Neural networks are the newest form of artificial intelligence technology to make its way into market analysis. Neural networks, also referred to as neural nets, mimic
Using Neural Networks For Financial Forecasting by Lou Mendelsohn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Neural Networks For Financial Forecasting by Lou Mendelsohn With this offering, STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Lou Mendelsohn concludes his examination of neural networks for financial forecasting in today's globalized trading environment. Here,
Using Noise by Ron Black
Using Normal Distribution For Writing Options by Mark Vakkur, MD
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can you go about selecting the best strike price for writing an option? Perhaps no branch of knowledge has been as abused or misunderstood as statistics. Yet, without some grounding in basic statistical concepts, our ability to trade profitably is l
Using Options In Risk Management by Robert J. Hamilton
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Options In Risk Management by Robert J. Hamilton Before options were available, the primary vehicle used for risk management was the stop-loss order. Stop-loss orders allow a certain degree of risk management, but they don't allow the user to abso
Using Options In Takeover Situations by Lawrence G. McMillan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Options In Takeover Situations by Lawrence G. McMillan Sometimes, a takeover situation can be as absorbing as watching a professional tennis match or reading an exciting thriller. Can you take advantage of the situation as an observer? Well-known
Using Oscillators With On-Balance Volume by Carl F.Ehrlich
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Oscillators With On-Balance Volume by Carl F.Ehrlich On-balance volume, which was developed by technician Joe Granville in the 1960s, was the first technical study to project market price movement using volume. In the following decades, other tech
Using Percentage-Based Back-Adjusted Data by Enrico Donner, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A continuous data series for remodeling a futures trading system can be created in a number of ways. Here's a new method that uses a percentage-based back-adjusted technique to ensure that profits and losses from a trading system are equivalent over time
Using Probability Stops In Trading by Nauzer Balsara, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Probability Stops In Trading by Nauzer Balsara, Ph.D. Does controlling losses by using predetermined stop-loss points help? To find out, Nauzer Balsara selected randomly moving average crossover systems and ascertained the best stop-loss points to
Using ProfitTaker by Terry Apple
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using ProfitTaker by Terry Apple Currently, numerous software packages are available that employ optimization to create technical models for futures trading. Every day I receive calls from traders around the country who are considering buying one of the
Using Relative P/E Ratios And Technical Analysis by Peter Desnoyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Relative P/E Ratios And Technical Analysis by Peter Desnoyers Here's why you should track both fundamentals and technicals for trading stocks. The financial storm arrived in New York on October 19, 1987, following a volatile week in the markets.
Using Spread Orders To Roll Forward by Csaba Radnoty
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Spread Orders To Roll Forward by Csaba Radnoty Most futures contracts have a delivery mechanism that involves the exchange of physicals for cash. Understandably, few traders want to deal with the delivery process. To liquidate positions nearing de
Using Stops To Your Advantage by William I. Greenspan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Stops To Your Advantage by William I. Greenspan Ever feel as though the locals on the floor of the exchange that you trade seem to know where you place your stop-loss orders? Professional traders know where stop-loss orders are, not because someon
Using Technical Performance Measures by Sidney I. Gravitz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Technical Performance Measures by Sidney I. Gravitz Today's spreadsheets offer investors the ability to develop customized economic and investment monitors. Here's one take on the use of a spreadsheet for managing money. I f you invest, you may f
Using The Arms Index In Intraday Applications by Richard W. Arms Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using The Arms Index In Intraday Applications by Richard W. Arms Jr. A few weeks ago, I received a call from an analyst who had read a number of my recent articles in STOCKS & COMMODITIES and had an interesting question. ""I've developed a new index to
Using The Emini S&P 500 To Trade Options by Tom Busby
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using The Emini S&P 500 To Trade Options by Tom Busby Here's a technique one veteran S&P futures trader uses to trade options. I rarely come across a trader who has not traded options at one time or another. Option strategies come in many shapes and f
Using The Euro To Trade Gold by Anthony Trongone
Using The Fisher Transform by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using The Fisher Transform by John F. Ehlers Looking for better trading results? This indicator shows you how to identify price reversals in a timely manner. he common assumption is that prices have a Gaussian, or normal, probability density function (
Using The Heikin-Ashi Technique by Dan Valcu
Using The Simple Moving Average by Martin J.Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using The Simple Moving Average by Martin J.Pring Moving averages are the mainstay of technical analysis, and at the heart of moving averages is the perennially useful simple moving average. It can help smooth out random fluctuations in the financial ma
Using The Tick In A Short-Term Indicator by Daniel E. Downing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using The Tick In A Short-Term Indicator by Daniel E. Downing The tick index, the net difference of the number of stocks last traded on an uptick from those last traded on a downtick, is a well-known indicator, but it's got a problem. The raw number res
Using Trailing Stops In Exit Strategies by J. Katz, Ph.D., and D. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Trailing Stops In Exit Strategies by J. Katz, Ph.D., and D. McCormick Last issue, we saw a demonstration of how an exit strategy can affect the performance of a trading system. This time, we will discover how to measure the impact of exiting the m
Using Value and Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (332-336): Using Value and Technical Analysis by Thom Hartle There are various ways to select what stocks to trade. Here's a method that combines fundamental value and technical analysis as a way to select a stock, and a real-world trading situa
Using Visual Imagery in Trading by Ari Kiev, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Visual Imagery in Trading by Ari Kiev, M.D. This psychiatrist, who conducts seminars on the psychology of trading, discusses the use of visual imagery to maximize trading results. Experience is governed by thoughts, especially those that occur wi
Using Volume To Detect Shifts In Power by Vadim Gimelfarb
Using a Covered-Call Options Strategy by Lawrence Serven
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using a Covered-Call Options Strategy by Lawrence Serven What can investors do to overcome adverse market conditions? You could try using a covered call strategy. This strategic planner and analyst recounts a series of trades he executed using a covered
Using basic statistics for stops by Robert W. Hull, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using basic statistics for stops by Robert W. Hull, Jr. The primary purpose of this article is to use basic statistics to measure the degree of price volatility that can occur on a daily basis in the copper market. These measures can then be used to pla
Using stochastics by Cynthia Keel and Heidi Schmidt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using stochastics by Cynthia Keel and Heidi Schmidt The use of stochastics, particularly in the futures markets, has become a necessary part of the trader's daily strategy. Although application of stochastics is simple to understand, adaptations of the
Utilities And Bonds by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Utilities And Bonds by John J. Murphy Of all the interrelationships between markets, one that has been taken for granted for decades is the relationship between the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Dow Jones Transportation Average. John Murphy, vete
Utilities And Stocks by John J. Murphy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Utilities And Stocks by John J. Murphy Last month, this technical trailblazer examined how utilities and bonds were interconnected. This month, John J. Murphy analyzes how utilities in turn affect stocks. My article on utilities and bonds examined the
V.10:9 SIDEBAR: Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Calculating the KST by Technical Analysis, Inc. KST formulas for short, intermediate, and long term daily or weekly data.
V.14:11.Ascending and Descending Triangles by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ascending And Descending Triangles by Thomas Bulkowski Last issue, symmetrical triangles and the ways to trade with this particular chart formation were the topic at hand. This month, we present two more variations of the triangle, the ascending and des
V.14:3 Developing a Trading System by Greg Morris
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE TRADER Developing A Trading System On the road to using technical analysis for trading, developing a trading system is a logical step to take along the way. Here are some guidelines to develop a basic system. by Greg Morris Beginners in the a
V.14:6 (241-243) Seasonality And The S&P 500 by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking at the seasonality of the stock market from different viewpoints can give you new insight into an old concept. Here's a look at the best and worst months in which to invest as well as some suggested investing guidelines. By Mark Vakkur, M.D. One
V.14:6 (253-257) The Derivative Moving Average by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a strategic variation of the tried-and-true simple moving average that uses a moving average for entry signals and the trend analysis index for exit signals. By Adam White To get that all-important edge over other market participants, the creativ
V.14:6 (262-264) Employment As A Bond Market Forecast by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How good a barometer is the monthly US employment report for the bond market? One analyst decided to find out. By Alex Saitta The US employment report that the federal government releases on a monthly basis contains an assortment of data on many differe
V.14:6(248-252) The High, Tight Flag by Greg Kuhn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...During a strong trend, a stock will still spend some time in a consolidation period before the next run. Here's a chart pattern that can be found during a consolidation of a strong stock. By Greg Kuhn In most cases, when a stock skyrockets 40%, 50% or e
V.14:6(265-270) Enhancing On-Balance And Negative Volume - by Phillip C. Holt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a new technique that can be used to identify when on-balance volume or negative volume is indicating something notable about the direction of the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index. If your objective is to keep the bear away from the door, th
V.14:6(271-278: Jim Bianco Of Arbor Trading by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There is no shortage of market analysts in this world, but as Jim Bianco, the director of research for Arbor Trading, can tell you, if you want to make a difference you have to look at things with a different vantage point. Bianco's career in the markets
V.14:7 (294-297) Three Turns On The Pivot Point by William Greenspan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:7 (294-297) Three Turns On The Pivot Point by William Greenspan This floor trader updates his previous article on the pivot point technique with additional insight on how he uses the method for day trading S&P futures. Several years ago, I wrote a
V.14:7 (311-316) Trading Index Spreads by Richard Halford
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are a number of different stock index futures, such as the Value Line index and the S&P 500, with similar characteristics which can be traded as spreads. Here are some basic methods. Trading futures spreads is a strategy used by professional trade
V.15:1 (11-19) A Daily A-D New High-New Low Market System by Dennis Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Daily A-D New High-New Low Market System by Dennis Meyers Here's a new system using daily statistics to issue buy and sell signals for the stock market. In the February 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I presented a stock market timing system called the A
V.15:11 (477-482) Using Fibonacci Ratios and Momentum by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't buy it here, but wait for a pullback. Are you familiar with that piece of sage advice? Or what about ""I would wait and sell on a bounce""? What does this really mean? Where and when do you act? Here's one technique for calculating retracement leve
V.15:11 (488- 496) The T-Bond Futures & Stock Market Breadth System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market timers develop models to decide when to be in the stock market and when to be out. These models can be based on theories that range from simple technical analysis to complex econometric models. With that in mind, here's a timing model based on the
V.15:11 (505-509) Cycle Measurements by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The author of Mesa and Trading Cycles and developer of the MESA software series presents why you should dynamically adjust your indicators due to the change in market cycles. There's no doubt about it: Market cycles can be difficult to identify. But if
V.15:11 (510-515) Interview Bernie Schaeffer by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bernie Schaeffer, president of the Investment Research Institute, is best known as the senior editor of The Option Advisor, the largest-circulation options newsletter in the US. He is also senior editor of Fund Profit Alert and Schaeffer's Research Revie
V.15:11 (516-521) The Weekly Reversal by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's a weekly reversal and how does it work? Here's a refresher on this intriguing formation. Maybe you've felt it. Every once in a while, you feel really good. You begin to believe that you know everything there is to know about a subject. You know
V.15:3 (122-124) Scenario Trading by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Scenario Trading by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt Traders can get caught up in a scenario in which they believe the market will unfold. Becoming a neutral observer may be the best strategy. Scenario trading is trading in accordance with a dominant idea or st
V.17:11 (85-92) Coding Candlesticks by Victor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Coding Candlesticks by Victor Likhovidov Japanese candlestick charting is a popular method with which to visualize market price dynamics. Usually, candlestick charting is used in concert with other indicators to gauge market activity, but as a quantitat
V.9:12 (482-485) SIDEBAR: Explaining r by Jim Bianco, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...EXPLAINING r Correlation analysis measures the degree of relationship between two variables. The correlation coefficient r is one popular statistical index for this purpose. The values for r range between +1 to -1; a +1 reading indicates that the two va
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
VIX and the Lemming Effect by John Zachary
Valentine's Day Gift By CMCSA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The gap up brings a twist in the bearish story of CMCSA. A previous gap down was filled and the stock is more likely to enter the uptrend.
Validating Elliott wave counts by H. Ralph Cripps
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Validating Elliott wave counts by H. Ralph Cripps The practice of Elliott Wave anal ysis allows for alternative wave counts, and it is critical to differentiate among the various choices. Prioritizing is best accomplished with a confirming filter--which
Value At Risk And Technical Analysis by Luis Ballesca-Loyo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Value At Risk And Technical Analysis This method uses market volatility and the concept of value at risk to help determine meaningful stop-loss prices and position limits for trading securities. Many traders and investors apply security analysis techni
Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.: Trader's Psychologist by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.: Trader's Psychologist by John Sweeney In purely technical terms, Van K. Tharp is a psychological researcher and counselor specializing in neurolinguistic programming. In the lay language of his clients, he's the specialist who helps
Variable Cycle Lengths And Intraday Candlestick Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Variable Cycle Lengths And Intraday Candlestick Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Trading methods often use different length filters for generating trades, both entries and exits. The most common filters are moving averages with differen
Variable sensitivity stochastics by William Mason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Variable sensitivity stochastics by William Mason In this article, I am presenting elementary Statistical Analysis of Stocks and Indices (SASI) in an index, three new indicators (SASITOP, SASIBOT and sigma limits) plus variable-sensitivity stochastics b
Variable-Interval Moving Averages by R.G. Boomers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Variable-Interval Moving Averages by R.G. Boomers Time is the most difficult variable to capture in an indicator. Here's a way to have a responsive, adjustable-length moving average without a lot of high-level math. Simple moving averages are, perhaps,
VectorVest RealTime by Barbara Star
Velocity of the S&P 500 by Robert A. Wood
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Velocity of the S&P 500 by Robert A. Wood Structural changes in security markets resulting from the introduction of derivative instruments, namely options and futures, have been the focus of extensive study in recent years. More recently, the introducti
Vertical Horizontal Filter by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Vertical Horizontal Filter by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan This filter can tell you whether a market is going through a trending or congestion phase, and whether you should use trend-following indicators if the markets are trending or congestion-phase indica
Visiting MOMA by Stephan Bisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (22-27): Visiting MOMA by Stephan Bisse Give your moving averages a head start with move-adjusted moving averages. The most popular of all technical indicators may be the moving average. The backbone of many trading systems
Visualize Price Movement by François Bertrand
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (46-50): Visualize Price Movement by François Bertrand Detecting the strength and direction of investor sentiment at an early stage is critical for successful trading. Here's an inventive, profit-generating type of charting
Volatility And Trading by Jean-Olivier Fraisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility And Trading by Jean-Olivier Fraisse Volatility describes how fast and how much prices change. The larger a security's volatility, the wider its potential price move in a given amount of time. When measured consistently over time, a security's
Volatility Breakout System Version 2 by John Sweeney
Volatility Is Dominant Theme In Stocks by Michael Carr, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility Is Dominant Theme In Stocks by Michael Carr, CMT The market may be setting up for a period of consolidation. From a technical perspective, the biggest factor in the markets is volatility (Figure 1). Since the large down move in autumn 2008,
Volatility Of Returns by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility Of Returns by John Sweeney Designing a profitable trading system is key, but the way that profits and losses vary can have an impact on your long-term success. Here's why looking at how the returns deviate can help you design your own system.
Volatility analysis and simulation used in tactical trading Part 2 by Peter Eliason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility analysis and simulation used in tactical trading Part 2 by Peter Eliason The tactical trading algorithm, as explained in the March 1989 issue of Stocks & Commodities, is made up of two components: the manipulation of a numerical series to det
Volatility analysis in tactical stock trading by Peter Eliason
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility analysis in tactical stock trading by Peter Eliason Every stock, average and index has its own characteristic volatility range that holds the signals of impending price change. The challenge in technical analysis is to recognize and decipher
Volatility by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Does the degree of volatility in the stock market give us any clue to the future of the market? I tested day-to-day volatility and found that it does have a good forecasting record. I took the percent change of t
Volatility skews by Andrew Sterge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility skews by Andrew Sterge It is inevitable that relative mispricings occur among many different options on a single underlying instrument. It is possible to exploit these mispricings using the Black-Scholes theory of option valuation, despite ri
Volatility system by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility system by Peter Aan Rules: The volatility system uses a close-only reversing stop that is activated only on the close and trails behind the most favorable close attained in the trade. Volatility determines how closely the stop will trail the
Volatility, Bollinger Bands, And The Yen by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (38-41): Volatility, Bollinger Bands, And The Yen by Matt Blackman Combine volatility with your favorite trading signal, and your trade will become a whole lot easier. Here's an example using the yen. Traders are taught fro
Volume Basics by Martin J.Pring
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume Basics by Martin J.Pring How is volume used in technical analysis and what can it tell us? Most of the indicators used in technical analysis are based on pricing data. We either use the prices themselves, a statistical manipulation of the prices
Volume Called the Market by R. Stuart Thomson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume Called the Market by R. Stuart Thomson By going back to October 1986 we can better understand the market explosion that occurred in January 1987, thanks to our cumulative volume (CV) charts. (See ""Cumulative Volume"" in the June 1986 issue of St
Volume Divergence by Hal Masover
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (22-28): Volume Divergence by Hal Masover Divergence in volume and price give clues to future price movement. One of the first things I learned about trading was to search for divergences. Briefly, divergence simply refers
Volume Flow Indicator Performance by Markos Katsanos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume Flow Indicator Performance by Markos Katsanos Find out how well the volume flow indicator performs in this, the second of a two-part series on the VFI. Last month, I introduced a long-term money flow indicator I call the volume flow indicator (V
Volume Shapes And Chart Patterns by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (36-39): Volume Shapes And Chart Patterns by Thomas N. Bulkowski Do volume shapes predict postbreakout performance from chart patterns? In the second edition of my Encyclopedia Of Chart Patterns, I introduced a concept that
Volume Variations by Barbara Star, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume Variations by Barbara Star, Ph.D. This month, Barbara Star uses a 1986 STOCKS & COMMODITIES article by Howard Waxenberg titled ""Technical analysis of volume"" as a basis for a tutorial on volume-based indicators. volume offers a view of the int
Volume analysis Part 1 by John C. Lawlor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume analysis Part 1 by John C. Lawlor Historically, volume has had only modest use as a technical analysis factor, even though volume, or the magnitude of volume, is a most respected market force. Every day, the 15 most active stocks are listed--a sub
Volume as a proxy for time by Robert Pisani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume as a proxy for time There are numerous ways to display the market information contained in Market Structure charts. The standard format consists of three parts (Figure 1): the Market Structure Histogram on the left side of the chart, volume at ea
Volume indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. The activity of the market, its volume, has long been of interest to investors and traders. I have a copy of the first book on stock market technique, ABC of Stock Speculation, written by S. A. Nelson in 19
Volume indices by Arthur Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume indices by Arthur Merrill The ARMS Index, in the years since Richard Arms Jr. originated and described it in the August 7, 1967 issue of Barron's, has been called MKDS by Bunker Ramo, STKS by ADP, TRIN by Quotron and the Short Term Trading Index.
Volume percentage ratio by Mike Burk
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume percentage ratio by Mike Burk Volume is best used as a confirming indicator for general market trends and, in developing stock market indicators, I've found a trio of volume calculations that work well in anticipating cycle tops and bottoms. My b
Volume, The Forgotten Oscillator by Martha Stokes, CMT
Volume-Weighted Average Price by George Reyna
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For Support And Resistance Volume-Weighted Average Price Here's how to use VWAP with the Midas indicators. by George Reyna Successful traders know how important it is to evaluate volume before taking a position in the market. This concept has been much
Volume-Weighted Average Pricing by Michael Tanksley, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume-Weighted Average Pricing by Michael Tanksley, Ph.D. What price should you aim to beat in your trades? Here's what the pros use. J. Welles Wilder once said, "Somewhere amidst the maze of open, high, low, and close prices is a phantom line that is
Volume-Weighted MACD Histogram by David Hawkins
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume-Weighted MACD Histogram by David Hawkins Find out how the performance of the Macd improves by volume-weighting it. MY goal was to make the Macd-histogram (Macdh) perform better by volume weighting it. It uses three exponential moving averages.
Volume-adjusted moving averages by Richard W. Arms Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume-adjusted moving averages by Richard W. Arms Jr. A moving average line is just that. It smoothes price over time, reducing erratic, shorter-term swings to a smoother, more comprehensible line. Any changes in the parameters of the moving average li
Volume-weighted RSI: money flow by Gene Quong and Avrum Soudack
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume-weighted RSI: money flow by Gene Quong and Avrum Soudack The Relative Strength Index (RSI) by J. Welles Wilder Jr. is one of the most popular technical indicators. RSI is included in most of the technical analysis software available today. Anyone
WAD trades ABX by Joseph Barics
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WAD trades ABX by Joseph Barics Williams' on-balance volume, or ""WAD,"" takes each day's W, where W = [Close - Yesterday's Close/ High - low] Volume, and adds it to a cumulative total. (Note: when available, open replaces yesterday's close.) Therefore,
WAVE WI$E Market Spreadsheet Version 6.0a by John Sweeney
WHAT TEXTBOOKS NEVER TELL YOU by Jesse H. Thompson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WHAT TEXTBOOKS NEVER TELL YOU by Jesse H. Thompson Post Pattern Activity Most texts on market form or activity describe certain price patterns that occur with great frequency; these texts also define the implications of these price patterns and their p
WHY I BECAME A JUNKMAN by Bill Dunbar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WHY I BECAME A JUNKMAN by Bill Dunbar IN THE BEGINNING My wife hurled the folder into the air, scattering it all over the family room. ""Take your damn stocks!"" she screamed. ""I'll never look at another one again!"" Promises, promises. I stomped ou
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WTI Order Flow Weekly: A Double-Top Confirmed By Order Flow Sees Price Discovery Lower
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the sell-side price discovery and development of support for Monday, April 15, 2019. Market structure and order flow provide insight
Waiting For Market Time by Jayant Sathe and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At Mercy Of The Sun Waiting For Market Time Traders use everything under the sun -- and even the sun itself -- to time their trades. by Jayant Sathe and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Traders pay a great deal of attention to the trading activity seen during the
Waiting For The Fed by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Waiting For The Fed by David Penn How are monetary-based stock market timing models holding up in the Age of the Bear Market? One of the most powerful tools for analyzing the financial markets is an understanding of the Austrian School of economics. W
Walk Forward With the Xau Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Walk Forward With the Xau Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. The system developer has various optimization techniques to choose from. Here, Contributing Editor Dennis Meyers updates his previous work using the walk-forward optimization method. P
Walk-Forward Testing by Jack L. Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (48-53): Walk-Forward Testing by Jack L. Weinberg Here's how you can use walk-forward testing as a tool to compare trading systems and gain insight into comparing the future performance of systems. Recent advances in tradi
Wallstreetreality.com by Jayanythi Gopalakrishnan
Want to try something HOT!? by John Sweeney
Want to try something HOT!? by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CF-DM from J.C. Productions. By John Sweeney Some systems are so active it could give a guy a heart attack. J.C. Productions has put together one of the most active and breathtaking trading systems I've run across. Of course, I haven't seen everything i
War Stories from Commodex by Philip Gotthelf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...War Stories from Commodex by Philip Gotthelf Unforgiving is a word frequently used to describe both markets and subscribers to stock or commodity advisory services. When we in the advisory business make profits, it is never enough. When we experience lo
Warehousing Data For Better Trading Systems by Joseph M. Fisher, M.D.,Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Warehousing Data For Better Trading Systems by Joseph M. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Technically based trading systems are generally back-tested with tens to hundreds of entry signals. Here's a method to develop robust trading systems using more than 2.5 milli
Warren Buffett by James Maccaro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Warren Buffett Legendary value investor Warren Buffett sat out the stock market bubble. Today, he's sitting prettier than ever. by James Maccaro It is well known that Warren Buffett has been very successful in the markets. He amassed his fortune from
Watch The Commercials by Sam Bhugaloo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (24-32): Watch The Commercials by Sam Bhugaloo The Commitments Of Traders report has long been used among futures traders. Here's why you should follow the commercials and how you can incorporate the information into your t
Watch the Fed! by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Watch the Fed! by Arthur A. Merrill The actions of the Federal Reserve are vitally important to investors and speculators. When the Fed tightens the money supply, interest rates rise, bonds and stocks fall. The reverse occurs when the Fed eases the supp
Watching DJIA Breakouts by Mark Vakkur, M.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Catching DJIA Breakouts by Mark Vakkur, M.D. Buying breakouts in the Dow Jones Industrial Average works well - but there are caveats. If the trend is your friend, the simplest way to use that idea is to buy only those markets that are breaking out to n
Wave Market Analysis Part I by Bryce T. Gilmore
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wave Market Analysis Part I by Bryce T. Gilmore As Perry J. Kaufman says in his book Commodity Trading Systems and Methods: ""Speculation is a sophisticated business, and to be successful at it you must make it your business. To compete with a professio
Wave market analysis Part 2 by Bryce T. Gilmore
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wave market analysis Part 2 by Bryce T. Gilmore In part one of this article (February 1988), we examined four turning points--[W], [X], [Y] and [Z]--in the trend of Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange Sugar-World #11 contract. We looked at time cycles and re
Weather And The AG Markets by Joseph S. D'Aleo and Todd Crawford
Website For Traders: optionMONSTER by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (58-59): Website For Traders: optionMONSTER by David Penn OPTIONMONSTER.COM It is always interesting to see a new website that sets out to be a one-stop shop for market news and analysis. There are already more than a few s
Website Review: OptionSites.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: OptionSites.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trying to find good options-related sites on the Internet is -- as I discovered -- a time-consuming task. Site after site contained nothing but proprietary information with testimonials and promis
Website Review: StockPicker.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: StockPicker.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.STOCKPICKR.COM How many websites can you visit in one day? As many as you have time for, I suppose, but the human brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb at any given ti
Website Review: eMiniZ.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: eMiniZ.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan eMINIZ.com Back in September 2006, we reviewed www.eminiz.com, a website developed by John F. Ehlers. Since then there have been several additions and enhancements that make it worth looking at again
Websites For Traders Chart Ex by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders Chart Ex by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHART-EX.COM Lisa Erdmier, president and cofounder of the Chart-Ex website, which displays free commodity charts, developed a data visualization tool that displays volume at price in a unique
Websites For Traders DailyFX.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders DailyFX.com by David Penn DAILYFX.COM In writing about the rise of foreign exchange trading among everyday retail traders, a frequent lament has been the lack of quality news, analysis, and information resources. Although the curren
Websites For Traders by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders by David Penn ORIGINALTURTLES.ORG Earlier last year, I completed a website review of TurtleTrader.com (Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, April 2003). Given the mystery that still surrounds the now-legendary trading experi
Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (27): Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.EMINIZ.COM Want to sit at home and trade for a few hours and then spend the rest of your time enjoying life? Who wouldn't want to? My guess is that if you didn't hav
Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.DECISIONPOINT.COM If there's one website to visit that has just about every chart you need, it has to be DecisionPoint.com. Within minutes of logging on to this site (Figure 1), all I did was look at
Websites For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. WWW.TRADERPLANET.COM With social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter gaining so much popularity, I have no doubt that one dedicated to traders and investors could do the same. TraderPlanet.co
Websites For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. NEWSIMPACT.COM NewsImpact.com is a website devoted to foreign exchange. It has two major components: alerts that can be sent to your cell phone, and SpikeCharts. The alerts, which are sent as Sms messag
Websites For Traders: 3DStockCharts.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: 3DStockCharts.com by David Penn 3DSTOCKCHARTS.COM At a time when the electronic communications networksÝ (or ECNs) industry seems to be in the midst of rapid consolidation, the arrival of 3DStockCharts.com makes perfect sense. 3DS
Websites For Traders: 888Options.com by Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: 888Options.com by Bruce Faber 888OPTIONS.COM This site could have been named "AllAboutOptions.com" or "Everything-You-Wanted-To-Know-About-Options-But-Were-Afraid-To-Ask.com," but it would have been more difficult to find a phone
Websites For Traders: ADVFN.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ADVFN.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.ADVFN.COM Advanced Financial Network (ADVFN.com), a website that caters to traders of the UK and European markets, has many features worth looking into. The eurocentricity of this site is e
Websites For Traders: BearMarketCentral.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: BearMarketCentral.com by David Penn BEARMARKETCENTRAL.COM For all the carnage wrought upon the financial markets after three years of equity losses, stock market bears remain a provincial lot. Sure, every now and then a cautious o
Websites For Traders: BusinessTalkRadio.net by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (79): Websites For Traders: BusinessTalkRadio.net by David Penn BUSINESSTALKRADIO.NET Some websites of most interest to investors, speculators, and traders are veritable Meccas of valuable information in and of themselves.
Websites For Traders: CANSLIM.net by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (99-100): Websites For Traders: CANSLIM.net by David Penn CANSLIM.NET When veteran traders and stockpickers are asked, "How do I get started in the stock market?" many point to one book: William O'Neil's classic, ""How To M
Websites For Traders: CandlestickShop.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (102-103): Websites For Traders: CandlestickShop.com by David Penn CANDLESTICKSHOP.COM It must be entertaining to technical analysts who have used candlestick charts for years to learn of the almost mystical regard that so
Websites For Traders: ChartPattern.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ChartPattern.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHARTPATTERN.COM Dan Zanger is well known in the trading community, and for good reason. Zanger, who uses chart patterns to find highvolatility stocks, is often quoted in popular fin
Websites For Traders: ChartPatterns.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ChartPatterns.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan CHARTPATTERNS.COM The URL itself sends visions of triangles, flags, wedges, rectangles, and head & shoulder patterns dancing through your head. But do you really know what these pattern
Websites For Traders: ChartWatchCentral.com by David Penn
Websites For Traders: ConsensusTraders.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ConsensusTraders.com by David Penn CONSENSUSTRADERS.COM Who hasn't wondered at one point or another if you could take all of the stocks, indexes, and averages out there and run them past all the various indicators and oscillators
Websites For Traders: Crimsonmind.com by Jayanthi Gopalkrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Crimsonmind.com by Jayanthi Gopalkrishnan Unusual activity in the option markets can reveal a ton of information about the markets. Crimsonmind.com is one site that provides this type of information, along with other option-related
Websites For Traders: DailyFX by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Websites For Traders: DailyMarkets.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: DailyMarkets.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan DAILYMARKETS.COM Most traders start their day browsing through market-relevant news headlines to get an idea of what they can expect in the trading day. Dailymarkets.com is one site that
Websites For Traders: DayTradingCoach.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: DayTradingCoach.com by David Penn DAYTRADINGCOACH.COM Which recommendation haunts fledgling traders the most? Is it the notion of having to raise tens of thousands of dollars in starting capital? Is it the thought of having to spe
Websites For Traders: DerivativesModels.com and CME.com by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: DerivativesModels.com and CME.com by J. Gopalakrishnan DERIVATIVESMODELS.COM When it comes to derivatives, one topic that frequently pops up is models. This includes terminology such as Black- Scholes, binomial, trinomial, geometr
Websites For Traders: ETFConnect.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (74-75, 86): Websites For Traders: ETFConnect.com by David Penn For a while, market observers were convinced that exchange traded funds (ETFs) would demolish the market for mutual funds. It was only a few years ago that mai
Websites For Traders: FXstreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (69): Websites For Traders: FXstreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan FXSTREET.COM "Take the challenge: Test your forex knowledge" -- the headline was enough to tempt me to take a closer look at www.FXstreet.com. A click on that link took me to a
Websites For Traders: FXtrek.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: FXtrek.com by David Penn FXtrek.com bills itself as a "one stop for foreign exchange traders," and for those who consider themselves just a step or two away from real-life forex trading, it's a stop worth making. Little more than a
Websites For Traders: FinancialSense.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: FinancialSense.com by David Penn FINANCIALSENSE.COM Who is Jim Puplava? Among other things, Puplava is the man behind Financial Sense Online, a website that serves as a gateway to Puplava's investment advisory and money managemen
Websites For Traders: Forex-City.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Forex-City.com by David Penn FOREX-CITY.COM Forex and foreign exchange trading have been the "in" thing among many traders over the past few years. Some of this is certainly due to initiatives on the part of forex trading brokerag
Websites For Traders: ForexFactory by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ForexFactory by David Penn FOREXFACTORY.COM Until convinced otherwise, I still contend that the message-board is the greatest product of the Internet revolution. Inasmuch as the Internet is about connectivity, what could be more
Websites For Traders: ForexFactory.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ForexFactory.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.FOREXFACTORY.COM Gone are the days when the foreign exchange market, the world's largest over-the-counter market, is restricted to banks, hedge funds, and other large financial insti
Websites For Traders: FuturesBuzz.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (92-93): Websites For Traders: FuturesBuzz.com by David Penn FUTURESBUZZ.COM Perhaps there will never come a day when mainstream information and news about the futures and commodities markets will rival the information and
Websites For Traders: FuturesExaminer.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (81): Websites For Traders: FuturesExaminer.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan FUTURESEXAMINER.COM "What's the best trading system out there?" Many of you have called the editorial staff at STOCKS & COMMODITIES to ask this que
Websites For Traders: FuturesKnowledge.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: FuturesKnowledge.com by David Penn FUTURESKNOWLEDGE.COM Are you interested in finding a futures broker? How about scoring some solid analysis of the markets? Quotes and charts? Are you curious about forex trading, electronic tradin
Websites For Traders: FuturesRef.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: FuturesRef.com by David Penn FUTURESREF.COM Was there anything cooler in the financial world in the 1970s than being a futures trader? Rampant inflation fueled manias in commodities from soybeans in 1973 and sugar in 1974 to orang
Websites For Traders: GoldMoney.com by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (90-91): Websites For Traders: GoldMoney.com by Bruce R. Faber GOLDMONEY.COM There are two basic kinds of money: commodity-backed money and faith-based money. Commodity-backed currency can be exchanged on demand for the commodity that backs it.
Websites For Traders: InvestAvenue.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: InvestAvenue.com by David Penn Full disclosure: I browse Invest Avenue.com -- a financial website with insights from a variety of fundamentally and technically oriented money managers and analysts -- every day. As in every single day
Websites For Traders: Kitco.com by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Kitco.com by Bruce R. Faber KITCO.COM All that glitters isn't gold, but Kitco.com definitely is. If you want information on gold or most other precious metals, Kitco.com is a good place to start. It would be nice if there were sit
Websites For Traders: MadMoneyRecap.com by David Penn
Websites For Traders: MaoXian by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (75, 78): Websites For Traders: MaoXian by David Penn MAOXIAN.COM Come for the economic insights and financial analysis. Stay for the jpegs of Chinese hotties? I first came across MaoXian.com after spending a little time at
Websites For Traders: MarketEdge.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (106): Websites For Traders: MarketEdge.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan MARKETEDGE.COM Wouldn't we all like to have an edge on the market? When I first glanced at this website, I initially thought it was a site dedicated to
Websites For Traders: MarketVolume.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (86-88): Websites For Traders: MarketVolume.com by David Penn In the secular trinity of technical analysis ("the Price, the Volume, and the Passage of Time"), volume is included for good reason. While there can be no market without price, there
Websites For Traders: Marketscreen.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Marketscreen.com by David Penn MARKETSCREEN.COM It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive stock screener than the one provided by www.MarketScreen.com. Many screens are available online that provide a staggering array of fun
Websites For Traders: Marketsim.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Marketsim.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan MARKETSIM.COM Readers have expressed an interest in websites that simulate trading. Fortunately, I've stumbled upon one that seems to focus on just that. Although you can see everything the
Websites For Traders: MoneyTec by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: MoneyTec by David Penn MONEYTEC.COM The Internet revolution has brought many opportunities to the desktops and personal digital assistants of traders and investors of all types -- from novices looking for better ways to limit their
Websites For Traders: MrSwing.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (68-69): Websites For Traders: MrSwing.com by David Penn MRSWING.COM Do you swing? Whether you are a novice or a veteran trend trader who has discovered that your need for immediate gratification (also known as "ringing the register") is greate
Websites For Traders: News Traders Can Use by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (74-75): Websites For Traders: News Traders Can Use by David Penn www.tradersaudio.com www.needtoknownews.com A subscriber recently emailed me about trading groups. He had been trading for only a short time, with the goal
Websites For Traders: Optionetics.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Websites For Traders: OptionsXpress.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: OptionsXpress.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan OPTIONSXPRESS.COM With online trading as popular as it is, many traders may find it tempting to place trades without doing their homework. This is partly because of the lack of websites
Websites For Traders: PaperTradeFutures.com by David Penn
Websites For Traders: Pinksheets.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (57): Websites For Traders: Pinksheets.com by David Penn PINKSHEETS.COM Many is the successful broker who, although currently trading blue chips, got his or her start patrolling the market for over-the-counter stocks known
Websites For Traders: Pitnews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Pitnews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan PITNEWS.COM Commodities traders need to be knowledgeable about the fundamentals behind their trading. For example, grain traders need to know the production cycle of specific crops: planting
Websites For Traders: Portals.WallStreetTape.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:7 (90): Websites For Traders: Portals.WallStreetTape.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Portals.WallStreetTape.com -- as you may have guessed -- is a portal, but something that financial market junkies will benefit from. It is not a
Websites For Traders: PowerOptions WeBlog by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (88): Websites For Traders: PowerOptions WeBlog by David Penn POWEROPTIONS WEBLOG Consider this website review a heads up. PowerOptions WeBlog (http://blog. poweropt.com) is geared toward options trading and education, but
Websites For Traders: PowerSwings.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (122-123): Websites For Traders: PowerSwings.com by David Penn POWERSWINGS.COM Will a massive post-election bull market in stocks do for financial weblogs what the US Presidential election season did for political blogs? I
Websites For Traders: Prophet Patterns In Prophet.net by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (89-90): Websites For Traders: Prophet Patterns In Prophet.net by David Penn There is an irony in trying to introduce Prophet Patterns, which is one of the newer modules in Prophet.net -- aka the "complete technical analysis
Websites For Traders: PrudentBear.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (56-57): Websites For Traders: PrudentBear.com by David Penn You know the routine from, ahem, Red State comedian Jeff Foxworthy? The one-liner intro that he has managed to parlay into a successful career as a stand-up comic:
Websites For Traders: SafeHaven.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (32-33): Websites For Traders: SafeHaven.com by David Penn SAFEHAVEN.COM In a world only recently removed from cast-in-stone expectations of double-digit returns on invested income, the idea of a website dedicated to the "p
Websites For Traders: SectorUpdates.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (75): Websites For Traders: SectorUpdates.com by David Penn As a trader, do your eyes light up or glaze over when the subject shifts to market sectors? For most fundamentally oriented traders, my guess would be the former ra
Websites For Traders: SeekingAlpha.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (36): Websites For Traders: SeekingAlpha.com by David Penn SEEKINGALPHA.COM One reason you don't tend to read too many restaurant reviews written while the reviewer is still sampling the cuisine is obvious: How can the revi
Websites For Traders: SelectSectors.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Websites For Traders: SiliconInvestor.com by David Penn
Websites For Traders: StockAlerts.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: StockAlerts.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan STOCKALERTS.COM It's no surprise that this website is all about stock alerts. But given that just about every site that has something to do with the financial markets usually provides som
Websites For Traders: StockConsultant.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: StockConsultant.com by David Penn STOCKCONSULTANT.COM How much information do you really want to know about the stocks you are thinking about trading and investing? This was the first reaction I had when I typed Yahoo's stock symb
Websites For Traders: StockFetcher.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: StockFetcher.com by David Penn STOCKFETCHER.COM One of the fascinating things about the technology sector implosion has been the movement by many technology product manufacturers to load more and more features into and onto a give
Websites For Traders: TMitchell.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TMitchell.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TMITCHELL.COM "Learn to read the markets like a newspaper," Todd Mitchell of Trading Concepts likes to say to his students. How does he teach them to do this? You can find out through his h
Websites For Traders: Technical AnalysisSite.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (87): Websites For Traders: Technical AnalysisSite.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TECHNICALANALYSISSITE.COM There couldn't be a more appropriate domain name for a site dedicated to technical analysis, and when a dedicated t
Websites For Traders: The Big Picture by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (96-98): Websites For Traders: The Big Picture by David Penn THE BIG PICTURE http://bigpicture.typepad.com Think Jim Cramer is the only former hedge-fund gunner turned media star who's got a flair for language? ""Last wee
Websites For Traders: The KirkReport.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (72, 93): Websites For Traders: The KirkReport.com by David Penn THEKIRKREPORT.COM I have no idea who in the world Charles E. Kirk is. But after only a few months of peeking in on his website/blog, TheKirkReport.com, I'm so
Websites For Traders: The-Privateer.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: The-Privateer.com by David Penn THE-PRIVATEER.COM If investing is a journey, then Bill Buckler -- editor and publisher of the newsletter The Privateer -- is more than happy to be your captain. As Buckler announces in his on-site bio
Websites For Traders: TheBullionDesk.com by Bruce R. Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TheBullionDesk.com by Bruce R. Faber' THEBULLIONDESK.COM Ross Norman, Dominic Hall, and John Fairley, three former members of the London Bullion Market, founded The Bullion Desk (TBD) in October 1999. They wanted TBD to be the "de
Websites For Traders: TheHighTowerReport.com by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TheHighTowerReport.com by J. Gopalakrishnan THEHIGHTOWERREPORT.COM The blog of parent site The Hightower Report (futures-research.com), an independent research firm, thehightowerreport.com is a comprehensive news site devoted to t
Websites For Traders: TheLongWaveAnalyst.ca by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (58-59): Websites For Traders: TheLongWaveAnalyst.ca by David Penn THELONGWAVEANALYST.CA Writing in his best-selling book, Conquer The Crash, Elliott wave theoretician Robert Prechter said this about analyst Ian Gordon: I
Websites For Traders: TheTechnicalTrader.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TheTechnicalTrader.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan THETECHTRADER.COM The first question that may go through your head when you visit The Technical Trader homepage is, "Just who is Harry?" The name "Harry Boxer" will probably not ri
Websites For Traders: Thomson I-Watch by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (66-67): Websites For Traders: Thomson I-Watch by David Penn Could someone explain to me why a website as helpful as Thomson IWatch can't have a more straightforward URL? Such is the world of mergers and acquisitions, e-com
Websites For Traders: TidalWaveTrader.com by Technical Analysis, Inc.
Websites For Traders: TitanTrading.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TitanTrading.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TITANTRADING.COM Where is the market going in the next few days? We would all like to know, and the new online market commentary service from Titan Trading Analytics may help us get an id
Websites For Traders: Tom Brown's Bankstocks.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (96-97): Websites For Traders: Tom Brown's Bankstocks.com by David Penn I first began paying attention to bank stocks as a group after doing an interview with Cassandra Tororian, the former sell-side bank stock analyst who f
Websites For Traders: Trade-Ideas.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Trade-Ideas.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TRADE-IDEAS.COM Looking for trading ideas? Maybe www.Trade-Ideas.com can help. A look at the updating intraday chart on the homepage and the window displaying alerts will give you a good
Websites For Traders: Trade2Win.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (72-74): Websites For Traders: Trade2Win.com by David Penn TRADE2WIN.COM In Jack Schwager's interview with Linda Bradford Raschke in The New Market Wizards, Market Wizard Raschke says this in response to a question about t
Websites For Traders: TradeStationWorld.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TradeStationWorld.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TradeStation has certainly made a name for itself in the world of technical analysis. To further enhance its presence, now the company has created an online community where users fro
Websites For Traders: TradeTheNews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (36): Websites For Traders: TradeTheNews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.TRADETHENEWS.COM News moves the markets, and it's in the best interest of every trader to keep abreast of the financial news. Because of this, most
Websites For Traders: TraderMentors.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (103): Websites For Traders: TraderMentors.com by David Penn TRADERMENTORS.COM When Marty Schwartz decided he wanted to move from being a trader who was "always going tapioca" to someone who traded for a living, he and his
Websites For Traders: TraderMike.net by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (92): Websites For Traders: TraderMike.net by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.TRADERMIKE.NET At a time when reading weblogs is fast becoming a ritual, it's no surprise that the number of technical analysis blogs is on the rise.
Websites For Traders: TraderTim.blogspot.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (72-73): Websites For Traders: TraderTim.blogspot.com by David Penn Technical analysis and stock charts with Tim Knight The charts, the whole charts, and nothing but the charts. That is the unequivocal effect of reading th
Websites For Traders: TradingMarkets.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (75-77): Websites For Traders: TradingMarkets.com by David Penn TRADINGMARKETS.COM Very early in his book How Markets Really Work, author, trader, and TradingMarkets.com founder Larry Connors pays tribute to the writing of
Websites For Traders: TurtleTrader.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TurtleTrader.com by David Penn TURTLETRADER.COM If there is a Holy Grail of trading (a colossal "if" in the minds of many), then it most likely consists less of trading systems and more of a set of processes, procedures, and prece
Websites For Traders: WallStreetCity.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (84): Websites For Traders: WallStreetCity.com by David Penn WALLSTREETCITY.COM One of the blessings of being a market technician is listening to fundamental analysts fire off explanations for events that technicians had anticipated for days. S
Websites For Traders: Wellinvested.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Wellinvested.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WELLINVESTED.COM Even with the plethora of technical analysis?related websites available and new ones popping up, it is difficult to find gems. One that I found very impressive is wellin
Websites For Traders: alphatrends.blogspot.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (86): Websites For Traders: alphatrends.blogspot.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan One of the blogs I read on a regular basis, equityinvestmentideas.blogspot.com, had a posting where author Yaser Anwar listed all the blogs and
Websites For Traders: fmcenter.org by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (13-15): Websites For Traders: fmcenter.org by David Penn FMCENTER.ORG For some, the Federal Reserve Board, its operations, and intentions are shrouded in mystery, if not paranoia and conspiracy theory. One regular advertis
Websites For Traders: www.BondsOnline.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WWW.BONDSONLINE.COM by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan With the stock markets plunging, and widely expected to continue on down, perhaps it's not a bad time to think about putting your investments in safer, more conservative instruments such as fixedincome secu
Websites For Traders: www.ChartWare.de by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: www.ChartWare.de by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHARTWARE.DE In my quest to identify websites focused on technical analysis, I stumbled upon www.chartware.de. This site, hosted in Germany, lets viewers read the site either in Germ
Websites For Traders: www.FreeMoneyFinance.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (60-61): Websites For Traders: www.FreeMoneyFinance.com by David Penn WWW.FREEMONEYFINANCE.COM Who was it who said that common wisdom was not so common? I was reading some reviews of a book published some 90-years ago title
Websites For Traders: www.IPOHome.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (62-64, 86): Websites For Traders: www.IPOHome.com by David Penn IPO Home by Renaissance Capital For a few years back in the late 1990s, saying "IPO" around a group of anxious investors was like shouting "Pull!" at a skeet
Websites For Traders: www.LitWick.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: www.LitWick.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.LITWICK.COM For all you candlestick enthusiasts, here's a site that has everything you need to know about candlesticks. Yes, it has charts -- candlestick charts powered by Prophet Fina
Websites For Traders: www.Moneynet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Websites For Traders: www.TimerTrac.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (63-64): Websites For Traders: www.TimerTrac.com by David Penn WWW.TIMERTRAC.COM Investment newsletter writers have Mark Hulbert and his digest; the followers of market folklore, arcana, and shibboleths have Yale Hirsch and
Websites For Traders: www.TradingTheCharts.com by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (67, 97): Websites For Traders: www.TradingTheCharts.com by David Penn What's in a message-board? Well, if that message-board is TradingTheCharts.com, then the answer is "A boon for technical traders," that's what. Increasi
Websites For Traders: www.advfn.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (68-69): Websites For Traders: www.advfn.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.ADVFN.COM When I brought up the home page of Advanced Financial Network (www.advfn.com), it was evident that several features had been added to it
Websites For Traders: www.collective2.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (78): Websites For Traders: www.collective2.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan "I think I've found the Holy Grail!" This statement is enough to catch any trader's attention, but really, as a trader, how many times have you heard
Websites: Angrybear.blogspot.com and Kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com by D. Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (63-64): Websites: Angrybear.blogspot.com and Kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com by D. Penn A staple of public television -- and cable news, before it blew up in the Bush era -- dueling commentators from the political left and
Weekly McClellan Oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weekly McClellan Oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill, CMT In the September 1989 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, Richard Mogey described and interpreted the McClellan Oscillator. It's based on daily data. My data bank has been developed
Weekly high/low moving average by Peter Aan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weekly high/low moving average by Peter Aan Most moving averages of price are based on the closing price (see ""Simple moving average crossover,"" Stocks & Commodities, June 1989), but the weekly variation computes moving averages of the weekly highs an
Weekly price and volume by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weekly price and volume by Frank Tarkany The daily DJIA closing price and NYSE total volume from January 2, 1897 to December 31, 1985 were used to construct a weekly data series. The week's closing price and total volume contained 4,623 data pairs, abou
Weekly price cycles: evidence of auto-correlation by Frank Tarkany
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weekly price cycles: evidence of auto-correlation by Frank Tarkany This article is a continuation of my article last month which examined Dow Jones Industrial Average weekly closing price data for price auto-correlation and cross-correlation with total
Weight + Volume + Move-Adjusted Moving Average: It's WEVOMO! by S. Bisse
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:4 (32-35): Weight + Volume + Move-Adjusted Moving Average: It's WEVOMO! by Stephan Bisse Moving averages: I use 'em, you use 'em, we all use 'em, but can they really tell you anything about the future direction of a time serie
Weighted Moving Averages by Thomas Hutchinson and Peter G. Zhang, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weighted Moving Averages by Thomas Hutchinson and Peter G. Zhang, PhD. The moving average is well known and much used in the field of technical analysis, but it also has a flaw: its lack of flexibility. But it need not be fatal. First-time STOCKS & COMM
What Can Market Cycles Tell Us? by Tim W. Wood, CPA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Secrets Of Cycles And What They Can Reveal What Can Market Cycles Tell Us? by Tim W. Wood, CPA Everything in nature moves in cycles -- the solar system, the migration of geese, sleep patterns. Of more immediate interest to traders are cycles in the a
What Can Neural Networks Do For You? by Dima Vonko
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (60-61): What Can Neural Networks Do For You? by Dima Vonko Neural networks can multiply your profits -- if you know how to use them. Neural networks can be created to generate profits. You may think you need vast computer
What Can You Expect, Mathematically? by Stephen Massel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at how mathematical expectation allows for an apples-to-apples comparison of trading systems or strategies regardless of type or style, as well as allowing the tracking of your own trading record. A huge number of different trading
What Else Does It Do? by STEVE ROSS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Else Does It Do? by STEVE ROSS More and more people are investing in personal computers. But personal computers are often purchased with only one or two real applications in mind. Many personal computer owners are not programmers, and have no inten
What Is A Trend, Anyway? by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Is A Trend, Anyway? by John Sweeney A reader reacting to the Settlement article in January on trading basics (Settlement, ""Trading simply: Minimizing losses,"" Stocks & COMMODITIES, January 1991) asked a key question: What is a trend? How do I ide
What Is Risk? by Gary Anderson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Is Risk? by Gary Anderson There are many ways to view risk. Some measurements treat risk and reward alike; if a stock is outperforming the market to the upside, there is an implicit expectation that the stock may also outperform the market to the d
What It Takes To Survive by Adrienne Toghraie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (26-31): What It Takes To Survive by Adrienne Toghraie As a trader, you need to be a winner and you also need to be a survivor. Here's why. No matter how good a trader is, he will experience a shattering loss some time in h
What K-wave? by Jeff Walker
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What K-wave? by Jeff Walker Cycles -- in things as varied as locusts, sunspots and pig iron production -- are an undeniable part of the universe. The reality of Nicolai Kondratieff's 54-year cycle is rather less certain. A cycle is a more-or-less regular
What Market Timing Is - And Isn't by Paul A. Merriman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Market Timing Is -- And Isn't Market timing is supposed to be great at reducing your risk while letting you profit in the bull moves, but is it all it's cracked up to be? This market timer discusses the pros and cons. Market timing -- and market tim
What Powers Chart Patterns? by Thomas N. Bulkowski
What Time Frame Is Right For You? by Thomas Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (44-47): What Time Frame Is Right For You? by Thomas Bulkowski Finding the right time frame for your trading may make life easier for you -- and your trading successes more sustainable. A trader I'll call Jennifer made big b
What Works, What Doesn't In Stock Market History by Mark Vakkur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Works, What Doesn't In Stock Market History by Mark Vakkur Using Summary Statistics, In Over 60 Years And here for your education and edification, Standard & Poor's 500 summary statistics from January 1945 to May 2007! Some factors are strongly co
What You Don't Know About Candlesticks by Thomas N. Bulkowski
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In writing my latest book, Encyclopedia Of Candlestick Charts, I made some startling discoveries. I used more than 4.7 million candle lines (price bars) for the research with data going back as far as the 1980s in hundreds of stocks, but not all
What You Need To Know About Gaps by Joe Luisi and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What You Need To Know About Gaps by Joe Luisi and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Have you ever wondered what gaps are and why they occur? Here are the various types, examples - and an answer. Ever had an open position at the close one day, only to find that a
What is the Impact of the S&P 500? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is the Impact of the S&P 500? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D. What impact does the variability of the market have on the price behavior of an individual stock? Technicians often use the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index as a model for the market when
What volume is it? by Richard W. Arms, Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What volume is it? by Richard W. Arms, Jr. Markets often seem unpredictable and erratic. They give the impression of being disorganized because they do not always behave as we think they should. We live by clocks and schedules, yet all too often prices
What's The Difference by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (28-29): What's The Difference by John F. Ehlers What's the difference between the median and the average? It's what drives this new adaptive smoothing filter. Remember back in school when your teacher asked you what the di
What's Your Trading Price? by Alexander Sabodin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's Your Trading Price? by Alexander Sabodin The most important element of a trading system is managing risk. Here's how you can understand the risks of the forex market and other financial markets. Novice traders tend to think of trading as a uniqu
What's Your Trading Style? by Martha Stokes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's Your Trading Style? by Martha Stokes Find out which trading style will work for you. There is considerable confusion among traders as to the difference between a strategy, a trading style, and a trading system. A trading style is not a strategy
When Should You Sell That Stock? by Michael B. Patterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Should You Sell That Stock? by Michael B. Patterson It's one of the toughest and loneliest decisions for an investor to make. When it comes to buying a stock, there's no shortage of advice, both useful and otherwise. Virtually every investment mag
When To Trade With Cycles by John F. Ehlers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (32-34): When To Trade With Cycles by John F. Ehlers When should you trade the cycle mode in a market and when should you trade the trend mode? Find out with this indicator. In theory, trading with cycles is easy -- just buy
Where Is The Weakest Link? by Damir Smitlener
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (42-45): Where Is The Weakest Link? by Damir Smitlener With the year coming to a close, it's a good time to revisit your trading system. Here are a few things to consider that you may never have thought of. Varied and vari
Where Will The Markets Open? by Ihor Vysotskyy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Where Will The Markets Open? by Ihor Vysotskyy Here's how you can use fair value to determine where the market will open. Turn on CNBC before the market opens and you will see the S&P futures quotes. How important are they? If you are an experienced tr
Where to Put Your Stops by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Where to Put Your Stops by John Sweeney Stops protecting an initial entry position are like forward passes in football: Three things can happen to you and only one of them is good! 1)You can be taken out of a strong adverse move early (That's good). 2
Which Inflation Rate? by Alex Saitta and Yuxin Li
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which Inflation Rate? by Alex Saitta and Yuxin Li So you're going to use an inflation rate to gauge the market you're interested in. Which one are you going to use? Which one fits your needs? Bond yields provide a fixed coupon or income. As the rate of
Which Money Manager? by Charles Milmoe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which Money Manager? by Charles Milmoe None can answer the question absolutely, but there is a method of determining if your money manager has even a chance of making money for you next year. It requires a small amount of high school math and a desire t
Which Strike Is Best? by Ihor Vysotskyy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which Strike Is Best? by Ihor Vysotskyy Here's a method for selecting advantageous options. Purchasing call options is often considered to be the simplest strategy when it comes to trading options. The method is based on the assumption that when the pr
Which Volatility Measure? by Gordon Gustafson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which Volatility Measure? by Gordon Gustafson Is it true? Is average true range, an approximation, superior to standard deviation, the most beloved of quants, as a measure of volatility? Many traders use some measure of volatility to generate signals i
Which Way For The Forex Carry Trade? by Brian Twomey
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Which Way For The Forex Carry Trade? by Brian Twomey Apply this very popular trading strategy to 2009 trades. The foreign exchange carry trade has been a popular trading strategy for the past 10 years due to growing economies and rising interest rates.
Whipsaws, Linear Trends and Simple Moving Averages by Robert Wayman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TRADING TECHNIQUES Whipsaws, Linear Trends And Simple Moving Averages by Robert Wayman How does whipsaw magnitude affect a simple moving average system? Here's a common solution for the problems of the SMA. Previously, we looked at cycles and found
Who said greed is dead? by Ana Marie Wilson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Who said greed is dead? by Ana Marie Wilson For the past two years I have been a dedicated student of the stock market and a voracious reader of a great number of financial publications. I was determined to become a thoroughly sophisticated investor and
Why Position Trade? by Martha Stokes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (54-56): Why Position Trade? by Martha Stokes Position trading offers some good opportunities for current market conditions. Here's how you can benefit. When the stock market is dominated by short-term traders, the position
Wilder's Directional Movement Index System Part 2 by Jim Summers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wilder's Directional Movement Index System Part 2 by Jim Summers, Ph.D. As I noted in the last issue, I need both a charting program and Lotus 1-2-3 to trade with discipline and confidence, along with maintaining my emotional health. My first major prog
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 analy
Will The Real XAU Volume Please Stand Up? by James Kellndorfer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (56-61): Will The Real XAU Volume Please Stand Up? by James Kellndorfer There's more to volume than meets the eye. One of the questions facing technical analysts today is deciding which dataset to use. This dilemma, which recently exposed the ug
William Byers Of Bear Stearns by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...William Byers Of Bear Stearns by Thom Hartle William Byers, director of commodities futures research and a managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co., has been in the investment business since 1972. In addition to his administrative functions relating to
Windows of opportunity by Douglas Arend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Windows of opportunity by Douglas Arend Entering a commodities position typically is a two-step process. First, a decision must be made on the expected direction of the market. This is the set-up. Next, some method for timing the entry is required. I'll
Winning Percentage Of A Trading System by Oscar G. Cagigas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning Percentage Of A Trading System by Oscar G. Cagigas The winning percentage is a critical statistic that can influence the speed at which your capital grows. Find out how you can apply it to your trading system. When developing a trading system,
Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning With Failure by Christopher Narcouzi Believe it or not, you can take advantage of failed patterns and profit handsomely. Have you ever bought a stock after it broke through the resistance line, only to see the price drop a few days later? Have
Winning in the Futures Market (Three ways to beat the system) by Allen D. Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning in the Futures Market (Three ways to beat the system) by Allen D. Hanson There are very few successful futures traders. Most winners tend to give back their earnings and many of the people that try the commodity futures markets never really get
Winning on Wall Street by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning on Wall Street by John Sweeney Author: Martin Zweig Publisher: Warner Books 666 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10103 Price: $20 This is a good book. It has a very reasonable approach to trading the market, or even individual stocks. It's a compe
Winning parameters for customized MACD by John A. Narvarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning parameters for customized MACD by John A. Narvarte A common frustration with strategy testing is that it is not easy to find a profitable trading system, particularly if you include brokerage fees. Even with a strategy that has worked for you in
Winning under stress: the fight-flight reaction by Van K. Tharp, PhD.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning under stress: the fight-flight reaction by Van K. Tharp, PhD. In primitive times, basic survival was man's most potent source of stress. Life or death, quite literally, hung in the balance of everyday decisions and one way early man learned to c
Wizards: minds over markets by Van K. Tharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wizards: minds over markets by Van K. Tharp Jack Schwager, commodity trader and confessed system skeptic, has been a familiar name in commodity trading for a number of years. His 1984 book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Market, laid out most tested te
Working Money Forex Rules by Brian Twomey
Working Money Trading Channels by Chaitali Mohile
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money Trading Channels by Chaitali Mohile A wise trader will continuously analyze new trading strategies in different market situations. The year 2008 began on a depressing note and the global economy entered a recessionary period as the market
Working Money: $10 Price Tags On $5 Shirts by Bruce Faber
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: $10 Price Tags On $5 Shirts by Bruce Faber Beware of the rampant ripoffs in retail! "Put the $10 price tags on the $5 shirts and we'll mark them down to $7 for the sale." That was the caption on a cartoon I saw in a magazine about 50 yea
Working Money: 1-2-3 Trend Reversals by David Penn
Working Money: 10 Challenges Facing A Market Rebound by Matt Blackman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: 10 Challenges Facing A Market Rebound by Matt Blackman Can technical traders safely ignore these 10 fundamental obstacles? Most traders agree that fundamental investors would be well advised to use charts to help make better decisions, e
Working Money: A Collapse Or A Bubble? by Thomas Maskell
Working Money: A Developing Depression by Robert R. Prechter and Peter Kendall
Working Money: A Five-Step Market Portfolio by Andy Hicks
Working Money: A Formal Education In Trading by Karen Wasserman
Working Money: A Full Cuppa JOE by Alexander Elder, MD
Working Money: A Gem In The Junk Pile by Alexander Elder, MD
Working Money: A Short Guide To Exchange-Traded Funds by Paolo Pezzutti
Working Money: A Taste Of The Big MACD by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: A Taste Of The Big MACD by Amy Wu Indicators like the moving average convergence/divergence help you confirm signals and decrease risk when buying and selling securities. Invented by Gerald Appel in the 1970s, the MACD has become a staple
Working Money: ADX: An Indicator And Trading System by Ashwani Gujral
Working Money: Adding ETFs To Your Portfolio by John Devcic
Working Money: Adjusting Indicators For Entry And Exit by Dennis D. Peterson
Working Money: Alternative Energy by Paolo Pezzutti
Working Money: America's Huge, Ugly Twins by Bruce R. Faber
Working Money: Anatomy of A Candlestick by Clive Lambert
Working Money: Applying Technical Analysis In Nonliquid Markets by Alexander Nikolov
Working Money: Are You Trading On Borrowed Time? by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Automated Trading by John Devcic
Working Money: Average True Range by Sharon Yamanaka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Average True Range by Sharon Yamanaka Average or extraordinary, "true range" is often referred to in stocks and commodities trading. But what is it? T rader, author, and technician J. Welles Wilder developed average true range (ATR) in t
Working Money: BOSO by David Penn
Working Money: Bear Market Bottoms by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Bear Market Bottoms by David Penn Can history help us recognize the end of the bear market before it arrives? The rally in equities during October 2002 appeared like a land bird spotted by a sailor lost at sea. In some respects, give
Working Money: Bear Market Rallies by David Penn
Working Money: Bear-Baiting & The Dogs Of The Dow by David Penn
Working Money: Bearish Confirmations by David Penn
Working Money: Beat The Markets With McNeel And Lynch by James Maccaro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Beat The Markets With McNeel And Lynch by James Maccaro Two viewpoints, both resulting in spectacular gains. W. McNeel was one of the leading writers about the stock market during the boom years of the 1920s. From 1912 to 1922, he was th
Working Money: Becoming a Successful Forex Trader by Leslie vanWinkle
Working Money: Bid/Ask And Order Execution by John Devcic
Working Money: Bollinger Bands Vs. Trading Bands by John Devcic
Working Money: Bond. Long Bond. by David Penn
Working Money: Bottom-Fishing by John Devcic
Working Money: Bottoms, Breakouts, And Bear Patterns by David Penn
Working Money: Bracket Orders by Roberto Chahin
Working Money: Breakouts, Pullbacks, And Gaming The 2B by David Penn
Working Money: Bubblenomics 101 by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Builders, Lenders: Next In The Falling Knife Saga by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Building A Better Breakout by David Penn
Working Money: Bull And Bear Market Analysts by James Maccaro
Working Money: Buy American by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buy American? by David Penn What You Don't Know About Investing Overseas According to Kornitzer Capital Management's Tom Laming, some of the best international investments come from US companies. Confused? Read on. ""Over there ... over there ..."" In
Working Money: Buy High, Sell Low by Edwin Polokoff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Buy High, Sell Low by Edwin Polokoff Nothing changes. Everything changes. Too many research departments, too many money managers, too many stock market "experts" do not perform up to expected standards. My disillusionment began when I wa
Working Money: Buying The Lows, Selling The Highs by David Penn
Working Money: CAN SLIM II: The Gold At The End Of The Rainbow by S. Yamanaka
Working Money: Can Beta Help You Battle Volatility? by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Can Beta Help You Battle Volatility? by David Penn Of all the enemies of capital appreciation, stock price volatility is one of the most immediate. Can beta help you know when your stock or portfolio volatility is out of control? Traditi
Working Money: Candlestick Filtering by Ashwani Gujral
Working Money: Candlestick Profits by Stephen W. Bigalow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Candlestick Profits by Stephen W. Bigalow A charting technique from long ago can help you make a tidy profit. Although candlestick charting has been a part of the US trading Acommunity for decades, only recently has interest picked up in
Working Money: Candlesticks 101: Doji by Margaret Austin
Working Money: Candlesticks And The J-Hook by Stephen W. Bigalow
Working Money: Candlesticks And Trendlines by Ashwani Gujral
Working Money: Candlesticks For The Wise by Chaitali Mohile
Working Money: Channel Trade Win by Alexander Elder, MD
Working Money: Chart Reading Basics by John Devcic
Working Money: Charting Cramer: NYX, AAPL, And CSCO by David Penn
Working Money: Charting Options by David Penn
Working Money: Check The Fine Print by Bruce R. Faber
Working Money: Choosing The Right Forex Broker? by John Devcic
Working Money: Choosing The Right Hardware by John Devcic
Working Money: Combining Candlesticks And Trendlines by Ashwani Gujral
Working Money: Commodity Channel Index by Amy Wu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Commodity Channel Index by Amy Wu How can you tell when a new trend is beginning? The consensus is that the markets have hit a bottom and are starting to show signs of recovery. To find out whether this is true, you can apply the commodi
Working Money: Confirmation Comeback? by David Penn
Working Money: Confirmation Destination by David Penn
Working Money: Confirming Averages by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Confirming Averages by David Penn DOW THEORY What happens when the Dow industrials go where the transports fear to tread? One of the original tenets of Dow theory, and one of the most misunderstood, is the notion that the averages must c
Working Money: Confirming Bear Markets by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Confirming Bear Markets by David Penn In a down market,the only question as important as "How low will we go?" is "Will we know when we're there?" While many technical analysts have relegated Dow theory to that same attic in which the ol
Working Money: Confirming Divergences by David Penn
Working Money: Connors' Undeniables And Candlestick Clarity by David Penn
Working Money: Continuation Triangles With Fibonacci Targets by J. Mark Kinoff
Working Money: Copper: Recessions, Cycles, And Spin by David Penn
Working Money: Corrective Rising Wedges by Arthur Hill
Working Money: Counting Elliott Waves, Part 1 by Rudy Teseo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Counting Elliott Waves, Part 1 by Rudy Teseo In this four-part tutorial you'll learn about the theory and applications of the Elliott wave. In part I, you'll learn about projections. This tutorial, while by no means a definitive text on Elliott wave (E
Working Money: Counting On Consumers by David Penn
Working Money: Crash Course For Novice Traders by Donald Pendergast
Working Money: Crosses, Candlesticks, And Q-Stick by David Penn
Working Money: Customized Portfolio Diversification by Robert Lewis and Rena Gelb
Working Money: Daytrading With The NYSE Tick Indicator by Larry Swing
Working Money: Dial "D" For Divergences by David Penn
Working Money: Dividends and Premiums, Oh My! by Teresa Fernandez
Working Money: Do P/E Ratios Really Matter? by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Do The Math The RSI Way by Ron Walker
Working Money: Do You Need Volume To Move Stocks Higher? by Michael Carr
Working Money: Dojis And Gaps by Stephen Bigalow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Dojis And Gaps by Stephen Bigalow Power up your profits by combining these formations. Traders who use the candlestick technique say to take notice when a doji appears. The doji is one of the most revealing signals in candlestick analysi
Working Money: Don't Fight The Candlesticks by Stephen Bigalow
Working Money: Dr. Reversal And Mr. Support by David Penn
Working Money: Driving Miss Dollar by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Driving Miss Dollar by David Penn What does the decline in the dollar say about stocks? Consider the two "dollars" in Figure 1. The first "dollar" represents a retail chain that sells a variety of products at a price of $1.00 or less. Th
Working Money: Eight Steps To Successful Trader Tax Filing by Jim Forrester, CPA
Working Money: Elliott Wave 2005 by David Penn
Working Money: Elliott Waves In C by David Penn
Working Money: Even In A Bear Market, Opportunity Abounds by Austin Passamonte
Working Money: Fifth Of A Fifth by David Penn
Working Money: Finding Tradable Stocks by Jacob Singer
Working Money: Follow The Market Herd With Elliott Wave by Ryan Henry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does this sound familiar? You spend countless hours analyzing a company's financial strength, market position, and industry potential. You decide that everything is on the up and up, and that the company deserves a place in your investment
Working Money: Following The Money: ETFs And Your Portfolio by Jim Ulland
Working Money: Forecasting With Elliott Wave Theory by Eric Morgan
Working Money: Forex At A Glance by John Devcic
Working Money: Forex Risk Management by Rudy Teseo
Working Money: Forming A Dow Line by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Forming A Dow Line by David Penn Whether you are buying or selling, believe it or not, it's good to wait in line. One of the most common aspects of chart reading, the notion of buying or selling breakouts from congestion, has its roots i
Working Money: From Plain Vanilla To Exotic: So Many Options by Clem Chambers
Working Money: Fundamentals & Technicals, Together Again by Vikram Murarka
Working Money: Gann Can Cycle by Aaron Lynch
Working Money: Gann's 50% Rule by Dennis Peterson
Working Money: Get The "CAN" in CAN SLIM by Sharon Yamanaka
Working Money: Gibson's Paradox by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gibson's Paradox by David Penn Can an old gold-standard truism tell us anything about stocks and bonds today? One of the more helpful tenets of intermarket technical analysis has been the rediscovery of the leading relationship between stocks and bonds
Working Money: Going Forward Using Stock Screeners by Sharon Yamanaka
Working Money: Gold and Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner
Working Money: Gold by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Gold by David Penn From gold bugs and gold standards to massive derivative speculation, the yellow metal is back. All that glitters is not gold, goes the saying. But as far as investors are concerned, gold seems to be the only asset clas
Working Money: Good Stop, Bad Stop: Chandelier Exits by Sharon Yamanaka
Working Money: Grow And Protect: A Retirement Strategy by Allen Rehert
Working Money: Hazardous To Your Wealth by Mike Carr
Working Money: Heavy (Precious) Metals by Jeff Dufour
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Heavy (Precious) Metals by Jeff Dufour The whys, whens, and hows of investing in gold and other precious metals. After a long lapse from the consciousness of the investing public, gold is glittering again. Earlier in 2002, the price of g
Working Money: Hi-Yo, Silver! A Wave! by Bruce R. Faber
Working Money: Houston, We Have A Technical Problem by Nick Porcella
Working Money: How Dow Theory Works by Andrew Hetherington
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: How Dow Theory Works by Andrew Hetherington The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is an index of the price fluctuations and volume for 30 bluechip equities. The DJIA's companion index is the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA), whic
Working Money: How I Won My Gold by Alexander Elder, MD
Working Money: How Reliable Are Candlesticks? by Giovanni Maiani
Working Money: Hurricaneomics: Weathering Today's Financial Storm by Darrell Jobman
Working Money: In Search Of The Trendilator by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Intermarket Relationships by David Penn
Working Money: Interview: Laura Granger by David Penn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Interview: Laura Granger by David Penn How The Small Survive Laura Granger Of Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund When the going gets tough, do the small get growing? That's how Laura Granger, portfolio manager of OppenheimerFunds' new Eme
Working Money: Interview: William J. O'Neil by David Penn
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Working Money: Investing In Africa by Paolo Pezzutti
Working Money: Investing Momentum by John Devcic
Working Money: Is Value Investing Back In Vogue? by Clem Chambers
Working Money: Island Trader by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Kings of Commodities by David Penn
Working Money: LRS + R-Squared The 95% Solution by Rudy Teseo
Working Money: Learning The Technimental Three-Step by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Less Is More by Mark Phillips
Working Money: Liquidity And Growth by David Penn
Working Money: Little Steps = Big Returns by Paul Merriman
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Little Steps = Big Returns by Paul Merriman Increase your profits by investing in specific sectors of the market. Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is frequently given advice. In the investment world, this adage is about the risk of
Working Money: Market Indicators: Useful Tools by James A. Maccaro
Working Money: Market Timing With Candlesticks by Steve Bigalow
Working Money: Match Your Method To The Market by Steve Palmquist
Working Money: May Price And Volume Be With You by Tim Ord
Working Money: Merryle Stanley Rukeyser, by James A. Maccaro
Working Money: Midterm Miracles by David Penn
Working Money: Mining For Maximum Shine by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Monster Profit, Monster Slip by Alexander Elder, MD
Working Money: Moving Average Trios by David Penn
Working Money: Moving Averages by Dennis Peterson
Working Money: Multiple Indicators II by Dennis D. Peterson
Working Money: Oil Service Stocks Play Catch-up by Arthur Hill
Working Money: On Oil: Reversals, Candlesticks, And Gaps by Chris Manuell
Working Money: One Of My 10 Biggest Financial Mistakes by Brad Burch
Working Money: Options Calculator by Dennis D. Peterson
Working Money: Paper Money And Its Promises by David Penn
Working Money: Pivot Points, Stop-Losses, & Buy-Stops by Rudy Teseo
Working Money: Playing The Gold Game by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Postitive Volume Index by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Postitive Volume Index by Dennis D. Peterson Is the primary market trend up or down? Writing about the positive volume index (PVI) takes me back to when I first started trying to understand the markets. I joined four stock clubs, search
Working Money: Preferred Stocks by John Devcic
Working Money: Price And Volume Disconnect by L.A. Little
Working Money: Professional Designations In Finance by K. Wasserman
Working Money: Profiting In A Stage III Market by Melvin Pasternak
Working Money: Proper Diversification by John Devcic
Working Money: Property Sector Yin And Yang by Matt Blackman
Working Money: Recognizing Elliott Wave Patterns by Rudy Teseo
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Working Money: Regular or Mini? by John Devcic
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse by Rudy Teseo If you hate being out of the market, you should take a look at this system. The parabolic time/price system indicator was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Often referred to as paraboli
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Working Money: Tax Breaks On Investment Expenses by Paul C. Adair
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Working Money: That '70s Show by David Penn
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Working Money: The 50-50 Strategy by Charles B. Schaap
Working Money: The Andrews Pitchfork Vs. Speed Resistance Lines by S. Yamanaka
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: The Andrews Pitchfork Vs. Speed Resistance Lines by S. Yamanaka Can you ever have too much support? One of the pitfalls of using technical analysis to gauge stock movement is that it often depends on whether a stock is trending. In the e
Working Money: The Belthold Signal by Stephen W. Bigalow
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Working Money: The Godfather Rules Of Trading by David Penn
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Working Money: The January Effect by John Devcic
Working Money: The Lazy Man's Guide To Long-Term Investing by R.M. Sidewitz
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Working Money: The Market Thrivor's Secret Weapon by Matt Blackman
Working Money: The Morning Star by Steve Bigalow
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Those Ubiquitous Fibonacci Ratios by Rudy Teseo How do I use thee? Let me count the ways. What do nature, astronomy, and the stock market have in common? They have something in common you may have heard of, but never really known what it
Working Money: To Catch A Falling Knife... by Matt Blackman
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Working Money: Trading And "Moneyball" by John A. Sarkett
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Working Money: Trading DI+/- by David Penn
Working Money: Trading For Targets by Danish Kapur
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Working Money: Trading Market Conditions by Steve Palmquist
Working Money: Trading Secrets Of The Consistent Losers by Roy M. Sidewitz, Ph.D
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Working Money: Trading The QQQ by Don Miller
Working Money: Trading With Trendlines by David Penn
Working Money: Trendlines And Consolidations by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Trendlines And Consolidations by Dennis D. Peterson Here's a technique that produces more accurate trendlines. Drawing trendlines correctly is more challenging than many traders realize. The rule is that the more peaks and valleys you co
Working Money: Trends And The 4% Solution by David Penn
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Working Money: Using Breakdowns by Len Yates
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Using Breakdowns by Len Yates Breakdowns are handy patterns to keep an eye on when you're trading. Pattern trading is one of the most interesting ways to trade the markets. And one of the most reliable patterns to trade is a breakdown, w
Working Money: Using Intermarket Analysis With Exchange Traded Funds by M. Blackman
Working Money: Using Relative Strength by Steve Watkins
Working Money: Volume Speaks Volumes by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Volume Speaks Volumes by Dennis D. Peterson Sometimes the market roars and at other times it's quiet. Paying attention to these volume fluctuations can make a difference in your pocketbook. Suppose someone offered you something you wante
Working Money: Volume-Weighted Moving Averages And The P&F by Paul Fell
Working Money: Waiting For Breakouts by David Penn
Working Money: What Are Insiders Telling Us? by Matt Blackman
Working Money: What Are Pivots? by Dennis D. Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: What Are Pivots? by Dennis D. Peterson More than just an alternative to indicators, pivots can be used to better understand market behavior. The appearance of pivots on a chart suggests the market has made a decision about price action.
Working Money: What's In A Trend? by David Penn
Working Money: When And Where To Take Profits by Larry Swing
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WorkingMoney: Insiders by David Penn
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Wyckoff Part 7: Coordinating vertical and figure charts for more effective forecasting by Jack K. Hu
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Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 4 Understanding group stock behavior by Jack K. Hutson
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Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 6 Figure charts by Jack K Hutson
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Wyckoff: Identifying Opportunities by Craig F. Schroeder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wyckoff: Identifying Opportunities by Craig F. Schroeder Completing the first two steps of the Wyckoff method provides the investor or speculator with information that is essential for success. At this point, he or she knows whether to consider establis
Wyckoff: Relative Strength And Weakness by Craig Schroeder
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Wyckoff: Timing Your Commitments by Craig F. Schroeder
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yield Spread Tunnels Fixed income investors have an array of instruments in which to invest. They can choose from an assortment of maturities as well as credit quality. Here's a simple technique with which to identify opportunities in the fixed-income ma
You And Money by Adrienne Laris Toghraie
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Your Crash Potential by Wolf von Ronik
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Zen and Emotional Control by Richard D. McCall
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Zigzag Targets by William Cringan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Zigzag Targets by William Cringan Isolate large or small price moves to suit your type of trading. The zigzag indicator presents major price moves by connecting peaks and troughs with straight lines. By controlling the minimum that prices must reverse
Zigzag Validity by Spyros Raftopoulos
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