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
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
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Managing Risk With Options by Scott H. Fullman Ever get the feeling you're throwing good money after bad in your stock transactions? Ever feel your wallet getting lighter and lighter while it's still in your pocket because of what your stock's doing? Ev
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (352-358): Pattern Recognition and T-Bond Futures by Scott W. Barrie Pattern recognition is used to standardize and categorize market behavior into quantifiable market movements. After a collection of patterns have been identified, the market mo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pork Bellies And The COT Index by Scott W. Barrie When presented with sentiment data, you'll need to know when to follow the crowd or be a contrarian. In our continuing look at using the COT index to predict market direction for commodities, here's a st
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (19-25): Quasi-Seasonal Tendencies in Bond Futures by Scott Barrie Markets may have certain persistent characteristics. Here, a market analyst takes a close look at the Treasury bond futures markets to see if there are tradable patterns. Agricul
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (286): SIDEBAR: Filtering in Excel by Scott Barrie Here are the Excel 4.0 formulas to perform individual market filters. For our example, we'll use the December 1994 Treasury bond futures market (sidebar Figures 1 and 2) with a 1% filter. The sp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tracking Risk Premium Seasons In Soybeans Year after year, the Earth turns around its axis, producing trading opportunities you can exploit with technical tools. by Scott Barrie Seasonality and technical analysis can be a powerful combination. Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Smart Money by Scott Brown Should you develop a personal trading system, one that reflects your own personality? A belief persists among investors that a select group of traders have the inside edge. Some indicators, such as The Commitment Of Traders R
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Beta Coefficient by Scott S. Silver & Gary M. Wingens Over the course of the past two decades the investment community has become increasingly concerned with the notion of risk and its relationship to a portfolio of assets. Economists and statisti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The COT Index and Corn by Scott Barrie Here's a study on using the Commitments of Traders index as an indicator for trading the corn market. The clearing houses for futures exchanges list the current number of outstanding contracts as the open interes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Goldman Roll by Scott Barrie and Kevin Warner Does it affect the commodities markets? The Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is a world production?weighted index that measures commodity market returns. The quantity of each commodity in the index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Good trading is as much a state of mind as it is a set of procedures. Novice traders will find it hard to survive, let alone flourish, unless they learn to think and act in an appropriate manner. This means developing mental models and behavioral rules
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Monthly Eurodollars by Scott W. Barrie Traders tend to be more interested in trading short time frames than long ones, but a longer one can be of value as well. Here's a simple technical system based on monthly Eurodollar charts for entry and ex
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Soybean Spreads by Scott W. Barrie Here are the basics of trading a soybean commodity spread using a seasonal strategy. The price relationship between two or more given commodity contracts is known as a spread. Spread trading is the purchase o
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Wheat/Corn Spread: by Scott W. Barrie Here's a seasonally and statistically based intermarket spread trade. Within a short time, every futures trader learns strategies that go beyond the simple long or short position. In riding the learning
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Grain markets offer profit opportunities due to the seasonal nature of their planting, crop development and harvesting cycle. During certain times of the year, the price of the grain crops are especially vulnerable due to these seasonal tendencies. Here
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:07 (282-287): Using Filtered Waves for Trend Analysis by Scott Barrie Filtering is simply processing price data to remove extraneous, noisy, information. What's left after filtering can be considered to be the more important and perhaps tradable in
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Implied Volatility And Volume by Scott Castleman Construct a trend-following system that adjusts to current market conditions. Traditionally, technicians have relied on historical prices to analyze the market. They have created many different ind
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Writing Neutral Options Spreads by Scott Silver Most investment advisors, stockbrokers and the like give their clients investment advice such as ""Buy IBM stock, the market's going up,"" or ""There's a glut of oil on the market, sell Exxon,"" etc., etc.