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
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
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
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
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Howard Bandy has degrees in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. He completed master's and doctoral studies and research in modeling, simulation, and statistics, and he performed some of the early work in artificial intelligence. He h
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price Changes During Non-Trading Hours by George R. Arrington and Howard E. Arrington One frustrating aspect of trading commodities is the price changes that occur during non-trading hours. It is difficult enough to make a profit when markets are open a
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of NYSI/DJI by Howard Waxenberg There is a great amount of technical analysis that is done intraday by number crunching computers that are connected to online databases. For the majority of investors and money managers that do not hav
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of the Dow 20 Bond Index by Howard Waxenberg Over the years, the correlation between moves in the bond market and moves in the stock market has been tremendous. In the last several years, we have repeatedly seen the condition where bo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis of volume by Howard K. Waxenberg You don't need a computer for volume studies; the analysis presented here can be done with a calculator and The Wall Street Journal. This article provides an outline of technical tools derived from vol