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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 Techn