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
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
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
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
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
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 --
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (76-83): Interview: David Norman On Market Technology by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trading's come a long way since the days of the bucket shops, and now, technology and trading have become virtually inseparable. Here's someone who can tell us all
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (60-67, 80): Interview: David S. Nasser by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan David S. Nassar is many things: He is the founder and CEO of MarketWise Securities and MarketWise.com, a 20-year veteran trader, a New York Times best-sellin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: David Stendahl by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan David Stendahl is an author, a sometime contributor to STOCKS & COMMODITIES, and an authority in the field of portfolio construction and system design. He has lectured at numerous national and interna
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With The StockBandit's Jeff White by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Jeff White, founder and chief technical analyst of TheStockBandit.com, started trading the markets in 1998 and has since gained extensive experience in both stocks and op
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Daytrading With Toni Turner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Toni Turner is the best-selling author of A Beginner's Guide To Day Trading Online and A Beginner's Guide To Short-Term Trading. An investor/trader with 14 years' experience, she is a pop
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (58-63): Interview: Don Miller & The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Experience by J. Gopalakrishnan Don Miller toiled in the corporate world, wondering if there were more to life -- and then he discovered there was. He gave up the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Edgar Peters Talks About Chaos Theory by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan His work Chaos And Order In The Capital Markets ignited the imagination of traders and investors everywhere, and the way we viewed the markets changed. As PanAgora's chief inves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Elliot Wave Expers - Steven Hochberg & Peter Kendall Fibonacci numbers, fractal geometry, socionomics -- Ralph Nelson Elliott's wave theory was published 64 years ago, but he explored ideas that we still study today in physics, behavioral scie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (62-68): Interview: Floyd Upperman by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Floyd Upperman became interested in the futures market in the early 1990s after investing in stocks and stock options. While working in the high-tech world of se
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Forecasting Simplified, With Cynthia Kase by J. Gopalakrishnan Cynthia Kase, president of Kase and Co., Cta, is considered by many to be the energy market's premier technical analyst and hedging advisor. Educated as an engineer, she worked as
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: George Fontanills Of Optionetics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan You might assume that graduates of Harvard Business School know everything they need to know, but George Fontanills, cofounder of Optionetics, is an active trader and Harvard grad wh
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Gerald Appel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Gerald Appel is perhaps best known as the inventor of the MACD, the popular moving average convergence/divergence indicator. However, he is also the founder of Signalert, a registered investment advisor
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (48-54): Interview: Glen Ring And His View On Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan One of the nation's most respected market analysts with 34 years of experience in the commodity industry, Glen Ring brings a broad-based perspe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (72-76): Interview: Harry Boxer by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan With over 30 years of Wall Street investment and technical analysis experience, Harry Boxer is a widely syndicated and featured guest on many financial programs and
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (72-77): Interview: Helene Meisler of TheStreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If you've ever traded the overseas markets, you know how confusing the time difference can be. Now imagine being on the other end of the time difference. Technician H
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Ian Gordon by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If this recession seems like it's going on forever, Ian Gordon of The Long Wave Analyst newsletter will give you good news and bad news. First, the good news: It won't last forever. The bad news: It's goi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (50-56): Interview: In Synch With Steven Primo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Are you trading according to your trading personality? Steven Primo can give you a clue about that. A nearly 30-year Wall Street veteran, Primo is the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:11 (66-72): Interview: Jeffrey Hirsch, The Chronicler Of Change by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Like father, like son -- eventually. Jeffrey Hirsch is now the president of the Hirsch Organization, and editor-in-chief of The Stock Tr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (58-65): Interview: Jerry Toepke Of The Moore Research Center by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Watching the rhythm of the markets, and being able to anticipate market movement, can give the involved trader a boost. Jerry Toepke,
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Jim Dalton of DLC Profiles by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Author and former hedge fund manager James Dalton is a Market Profile believer, and he'd be the first to tell you that. A member of both the CBOT and the CBOE, he served as executive vice
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Bollinger Of Bollinger Bands Fame by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Unlike many technicians who start out with degrees in business, veteran analyst John Bollinger, the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, started out with a de
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Hill Of Futures Truth by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Think of all those trading systems you see advertised and hyped. Haven't you wondered whether they work? Of course you have. John Hill is the president and founder of Futures Truth magazin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: John Netto, On Trading And Inflection Points by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan John Netto is the president of One Shot -- One Kill Trading, LLC, and the author of the book One Shot -- One Kill Trading (McGraw-Hill). He is a principal in Triple Witch M
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (58-63): Interview: John Person by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan John Person is a 25-year veteran of the futures and options trading industry. Person started on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in 1979. He then ha
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (54-61): Interview: Ken Tower And The Future Of Electronic Trading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan A member and former president of the Market Technicians Association (MTA), Ken Tower is chief market strategist at CyberTrader, an
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (74-79): Interview: Larry Connors On How Markets Really Work by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Laurence Connors is chairman and chief executive officer of TradingMarkets.com, a financial markets information company he founded in 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:1 (66-72): Interview: Larry Levin Has Those Traders' Secrets by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Larry Levin is the president of Secrets of Traders, a commodity trading educational firm dedicated to helping traders succeed in the futur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (62-68): Interview: Lee Lowell by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Having spent six years as an option market maker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Mt. Vernon Research commodities trading expert Lee Lowell is one of
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (62-67): Interview: Leo Zamansky Of RINA Systems by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan RINA Systems founder Leo Zamansky has more than 20 years of experience in managing large software development projects, creating modeling and optim
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (52-57): Interview: Michael W. Covel by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The author of Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions In Up Or Down Markets and a researcher of the most successful trend-following investment managers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (62-67): Interview: Michael "Trader Mike" Seneadza: From Swing Trading to Daytrading by J. Gopalakrishnan Atlanta, GA?based independent stock trader Michael Seneadza received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engine
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Oliver Velez Of Pristine.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Oliver L. Velez is the chairman and cofounder of Pristine.com, a leading online educational portal for active, self-directed traders. He is also the chief editor of the site's flagship p
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Options Volatility With Lawrence McMillan by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Lawrence McMillan's interest in the options business started in 1973, when the first listed option started trading. He has written two best-selling books on options, includi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Paul Hickey & Justin Walters of Bespoke by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan It's a classic situation: Young bucks learn all they can from the seasoned veteran, and once they have, it's time for them to move on, to put their own stamp on the horizon. I
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (56-63): Interview: Raghee Horner by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Raghee Horner is a trader, teacher, and author, with more than 15 years' experience in the markets. She is a highly sought-after educator and has taught her brand
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (68-75): Interview: Rick Ackerman Of Rick's Picks by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Rick Ackerman started out as a newspaperman before he found his calling as a trader. How often does that happen? Not very! He went from journalism
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Risky Positions With Keith Fitschen Of TradeSystem, Inc. by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Keith Fitschen has been developing technical trading systems for the futures markets for 20 years, actively trading his systems. His initial research was on t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Robert W. Colby is senior investment strategist at TradingEducation.com and RobertWColby.com. He is also a consultant to institutional and private investors and traders, providing custom research services and trading systems tailored to clients' objectiv
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As founder and Ceo of Rockwell Trading, Markus Heitkoetter has shared his trading methods and ideas with more than 300,000 traders in over 196 countries. Heitkoetter started trading stocks 19 years ago, using point & figure charts from numbers pub
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (66-73): Interview: Short-Term Trader Jeff Cooper by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Few people have succeeded in trading the way Jeff Cooper has. His first book, Hit And Run Trading, is often referred to as the bible of the short-t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Steve Nison by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Want to know something about candlestick charting? Steve Nison can tell you. He was the first to bring Japanese candlestick charting methods to Western trading nearly 20 years ago. He is a leading author
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Teresa Lo Of trendVue.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Teresa Lo, founder and chief market strategist of the trendVUE.com educational financial website, worked in the stock brokerage business for more than a decade at Canada's largest independe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Terry Bedford of Bedford & Associates by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Technician Terry Bedford, president of the Bedford & Associates Research Group, CNBC commentator, and MSN Money columnist, developed an interest in the market early on: at the a
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: The Survivors by John Sweeney and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan As goes the Nasdaq, so does the number of daytraders. Or so it seems. Those who continue to trade as if nothing changed are those who can call themselves, with confidence, traders. For
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (46-54): Interview: Thomas Bulkowski by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trader and chart-pattern expert Thomas N. Bulkowski, former hardware and software engineer and current Contributing Writer for Technical Analysis of STOCKS & CO
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (68-74): Interview: Tim Wood Of Cycles News & Views by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Tim W. Wood is editor and publisher of Cycles News & Views, which provides technically based research and analysis on the stock market, gold, bon
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Communities On The Web: Doug Fairclough by J. Gopalakrishnan Doug Fairclough was in the midst of a two-year stint as database guru at HotWired, the pioneering website of Wired magazine, when he became aware of the possibilities of the Internet t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (64-71): Interview: Trading Diverences With Ashwani Gujral by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Ashwani Gujral first got acquainted with technical analysis when he was studying for his master's degree in business administration in the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading Futures With Charles LeBeau by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Charles LeBeau, who has been trading stocks and futures for more than 40 years (20 years of which was with E.F. Hutton & Co.), is a noted author, lecturer, and system developer an
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan Cornelius Luca is an author and international consultant in foreign exchange and technical analysis. Luca has spent his entire professional life in international finance, an
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan Philip Gotthelf, the publisher of the COMMODEX System, the oldest daily futures trading system published, and Commodity Futures Forecast Service, which has been in existence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Victor Sperandeo by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan He's seen the good times, he's seen the bad times. A trader and money manager, Victor Sperandeo has 38 years' experience in Wall Street. He has managed money and traded for institutional accounts an
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Is The Future Of Trading? by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan At The Start Of Our 20th Year, We Ask: What Is The Future Of Trading? The trading exchanges have been going through various changes lately, shifting from member-sponsored entities to for-profi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jared Woodard of Condor Options by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber Knowing how the market moves isn't particularly important, Jared Woodard, our interview subject of the month, explains. Woodard, the principal of Condor Options, has more than a decade of
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Juggling Dynamite With Danielle Park by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber With more than 18 years of professional consulting experience, Danielle Park is an attorney as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (Cfa) and finance author. Park is a regular guest
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kagi Charts by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan If you've ever seen a reference to this particular form of candlestick charting and wondered what they were, you can find out here. The financial markets exist because of the complementary relationship between bul
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking Forward With Jeff Parent by J. Gopalakrishnan Jeff Parent has been providing wealth management services to his high net worth clients since 1992. From many years of experience, he has become proficient in portfolio management techniques and has
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Exotics The Liquidity Data Bank In this followup to last month 's article on Market Profile,we go beyond Market Profile to determine price movements.Here 's a look at the Liquidity Data Bank,which helps traders detect price movements earl
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Ticker's Karl Denninger by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber Karl Denninger tells you like it is. He is the former Ceo of McsNet, a regional Chicago-area networking and Internet company that operated from 1987 to 1998. McsNet offered several "firsts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martin Pring and The Relevance Of Price Trends by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Faber Martin J. Pring entered the financial markets in 1969 and has grown to become a leader in the global investment community. In 1981 he founded Pring Research and began pr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As Ken Calhoun says in the St o c kS & co m m o d i t i eS interview of the month (which starts on page 46), you have to be slow to get in but quick to get out. You will get an idea of how much time you need to commit to the markets if you really w
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The trading systems presented in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities are tested ones, which you can easily implement into the trading software you use. Even if you choose to copy and paste the code via our Traders' Tips section (available at ou
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hats off to Ibm's Watson supercomputer for its victory on the TV show Jeopardy! I was interested in finding out if Watson would prevail, but I had reservations about watching the show just because I didn't want to find out that a computer's trivia knowle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this playing field of uncertainty, whether you trade equities, options, currencies, bonds, or futures, you need a method to assist you in making objective decisions so you can justify risking money on a trade. You are not going to put money into
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So often, options are something that you can take or leave, but sometimes they catch your interest and never let go. That seems to have been the case with Roy Radziszewski, the product manager of option products for TradeStation Securities, who began
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When it comes to trading, there are only a few things you can control. These include the size of your positions, your entry, and your exit. When you are trying to trade in a fast-moving market, you must make decisions about your position size, entr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Quant and Consultant Ernest P. Chan by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber If you're a trader who wants to design your own strategies but would like some guidance, here's someone who's right up your alley. Ernest Chan is a quantitative trader and consultant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In addition to selecting an equity, exchange traded fund (Etf), index, option, currency pair, futures contract, and so on to trade at any given time, at times you may want to select a portfolio of tradables that give you the desired results. Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Single-Stock Futures by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan How can you take advantage of them? To find out, we asked OneChicago and Nasdaq LIFFE, the two exchanges expected to launch this hot new product, a few questions. Here's what they had to say. Why has it t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speed Resistance Lines by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Need to determine support and resistance? Try this. It is not unusual to come across situations in which you see a market trending and think it may be too late to get in. To check, you wait for a pullb
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking The Tech Sector Apart -- Technically by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The recent downfall in technology stocks came as a shock to some traders. Here's how you could have protected your profits. You would find that a picture is truly worth a thousand wo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber As chief technical analyst for Stadion Money Management, Gregory Morris educates institutional and individual clients on the merits of technical analysis, and it is why Stadion utiliz
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Before there was TradeStation, before there was MetaStock and eSignal, there was CompuTrac, one of the first technical analysis software programs ever written for a personal computer. The software could process technical analysis on stocks, futures, and
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade The Dow Minis by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Risky, yes. Worth a try? Definitely. or those who find comfort in trading equities, the thought of trading futures may be intimidating. And who wouldn't be nervous when competing against the pit traders, w
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading And Teaching: Tom Busby by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber Tom Busby's long career in the markets started as a broker then money manager with some of the world's largest wire houses. He then moved into the private sector and started traini
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Options With Anthony Saliba by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan & Bruce Faber Anthony J. Saliba began his career trading equity options as an independent market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1979. Over the next decade, he gained e
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The MACD You can trade Gerald Appel's moving average convergence/ divergence profitably in relatively flat markets. Here's how. The moving average convergence/ divergence (MACD) is a momentum oscillator developed by Gerald Appel in the early 19
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two Traders, Two Methods by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The idea of daytrading has captured the attention of many market enthusiasts, but it's not an easy path to riches. It takes years to master, a tremendous amount of patience, and consistency in your res
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Vertical Horizontal Filter by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan This filter can tell you whether a market is going through a trending or congestion phase, and whether you should use trend-following indicators if the markets are trending or congestion-phase indica
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At Mercy Of The Sun Waiting For Market Time Traders use everything under the sun -- and even the sun itself -- to time their trades. by Jayant Sathe and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Traders pay a great deal of attention to the trading activity seen during the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: OptionSites.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trying to find good options-related sites on the Internet is -- as I discovered -- a time-consuming task. Site after site contained nothing but proprietary information with testimonials and promis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: StockPicker.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.STOCKPICKR.COM How many websites can you visit in one day? As many as you have time for, I suppose, but the human brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb at any given ti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Website Review: eMiniZ.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan eMINIZ.com Back in September 2006, we reviewed www.eminiz.com, a website developed by John F. Ehlers. Since then there have been several additions and enhancements that make it worth looking at again
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders Chart Ex by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHART-EX.COM Lisa Erdmier, president and cofounder of the Chart-Ex website, which displays free commodity charts, developed a data visualization tool that displays volume at price in a unique
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (27): Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.EMINIZ.COM Want to sit at home and trade for a few hours and then spend the rest of your time enjoying life? Who wouldn't want to? My guess is that if you didn't hav
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.DECISIONPOINT.COM If there's one website to visit that has just about every chart you need, it has to be DecisionPoint.com. Within minutes of logging on to this site (Figure 1), all I did was look at
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ADVFN.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.ADVFN.COM Advanced Financial Network (ADVFN.com), a website that caters to traders of the UK and European markets, has many features worth looking into. The eurocentricity of this site is e
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ChartPattern.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHARTPATTERN.COM Dan Zanger is well known in the trading community, and for good reason. Zanger, who uses chart patterns to find highvolatility stocks, is often quoted in popular fin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ChartPatterns.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan CHARTPATTERNS.COM The URL itself sends visions of triangles, flags, wedges, rectangles, and head & shoulder patterns dancing through your head. But do you really know what these pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: DailyMarkets.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan DAILYMARKETS.COM Most traders start their day browsing through market-relevant news headlines to get an idea of what they can expect in the trading day. Dailymarkets.com is one site that
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: DerivativesModels.com and CME.com by J. Gopalakrishnan DERIVATIVESMODELS.COM When it comes to derivatives, one topic that frequently pops up is models. This includes terminology such as Black- Scholes, binomial, trinomial, geometr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (69): Websites For Traders: FXstreet.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan FXSTREET.COM "Take the challenge: Test your forex knowledge" -- the headline was enough to tempt me to take a closer look at www.FXstreet.com. A click on that link took me to a
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: ForexFactory.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.FOREXFACTORY.COM Gone are the days when the foreign exchange market, the world's largest over-the-counter market, is restricted to banks, hedge funds, and other large financial insti
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (81): Websites For Traders: FuturesExaminer.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan FUTURESEXAMINER.COM "What's the best trading system out there?" Many of you have called the editorial staff at STOCKS & COMMODITIES to ask this que
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (106): Websites For Traders: MarketEdge.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan MARKETEDGE.COM Wouldn't we all like to have an edge on the market? When I first glanced at this website, I initially thought it was a site dedicated to
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Marketsim.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan MARKETSIM.COM Readers have expressed an interest in websites that simulate trading. Fortunately, I've stumbled upon one that seems to focus on just that. Although you can see everything the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: OptionsXpress.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan OPTIONSXPRESS.COM With online trading as popular as it is, many traders may find it tempting to place trades without doing their homework. This is partly because of the lack of websites
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Pitnews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan PITNEWS.COM Commodities traders need to be knowledgeable about the fundamentals behind their trading. For example, grain traders need to know the production cycle of specific crops: planting
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:7 (90): Websites For Traders: Portals.WallStreetTape.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Portals.WallStreetTape.com -- as you may have guessed -- is a portal, but something that financial market junkies will benefit from. It is not a
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: StockAlerts.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan STOCKALERTS.COM It's no surprise that this website is all about stock alerts. But given that just about every site that has something to do with the financial markets usually provides som
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TMitchell.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TMITCHELL.COM "Learn to read the markets like a newspaper," Todd Mitchell of Trading Concepts likes to say to his students. How does he teach them to do this? You can find out through his h
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (87): Websites For Traders: Technical AnalysisSite.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TECHNICALANALYSISSITE.COM There couldn't be a more appropriate domain name for a site dedicated to technical analysis, and when a dedicated t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TheHighTowerReport.com by J. Gopalakrishnan THEHIGHTOWERREPORT.COM The blog of parent site The Hightower Report (futures-research.com), an independent research firm, thehightowerreport.com is a comprehensive news site devoted to t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TheTechnicalTrader.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan THETECHTRADER.COM The first question that may go through your head when you visit The Technical Trader homepage is, "Just who is Harry?" The name "Harry Boxer" will probably not ri
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TitanTrading.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TITANTRADING.COM Where is the market going in the next few days? We would all like to know, and the new online market commentary service from Titan Trading Analytics may help us get an id
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Trade-Ideas.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TRADE-IDEAS.COM Looking for trading ideas? Maybe www.Trade-Ideas.com can help. A look at the updating intraday chart on the homepage and the window displaying alerts will give you a good
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: TradeStationWorld.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan TradeStation has certainly made a name for itself in the world of technical analysis. To further enhance its presence, now the company has created an online community where users fro
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (36): Websites For Traders: TradeTheNews.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.TRADETHENEWS.COM News moves the markets, and it's in the best interest of every trader to keep abreast of the financial news. Because of this, most
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (92): Websites For Traders: TraderMike.net by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.TRADERMIKE.NET At a time when reading weblogs is fast becoming a ritual, it's no surprise that the number of technical analysis blogs is on the rise.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: Wellinvested.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WELLINVESTED.COM Even with the plethora of technical analysis?related websites available and new ones popping up, it is difficult to find gems. One that I found very impressive is wellin
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (86): Websites For Traders: alphatrends.blogspot.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan One of the blogs I read on a regular basis, equityinvestmentideas.blogspot.com, had a posting where author Yaser Anwar listed all the blogs and
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WWW.BONDSONLINE.COM by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan With the stock markets plunging, and widely expected to continue on down, perhaps it's not a bad time to think about putting your investments in safer, more conservative instruments such as fixedincome secu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (68): Websites For Traders: www.BreakoutWatch.com byJayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.BREAKOUTWATCH.COM When it comes to trading, breakouts have always attracted attention. This is because they are always associated with making q
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: www.ChartWare.de by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.CHARTWARE.DE In my quest to identify websites focused on technical analysis, I stumbled upon www.chartware.de. This site, hosted in Germany, lets viewers read the site either in Germ
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Websites For Traders: www.LitWick.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.LITWICK.COM For all you candlestick enthusiasts, here's a site that has everything you need to know about candlesticks. Yes, it has charts -- candlestick charts powered by Prophet Fina
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (68-69): Websites For Traders: www.advfn.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan WWW.ADVFN.COM When I brought up the home page of Advanced Financial Network (www.advfn.com), it was evident that several features had been added to it
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (78): Websites For Traders: www.collective2.com by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan "I think I've found the Holy Grail!" This statement is enough to catch any trader's attention, but really, as a trader, how many times have you heard
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What You Need To Know About Gaps by Joe Luisi and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Have you ever wondered what gaps are and why they occur? Here are the various types, examples - and an answer. Ever had an open position at the close one day, only to find that a