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  • "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

AIQ/Stock Expert Version 2.51 by John Sweeney

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

C3KANSYS by John Sweeney

Compu/CHART by John Sweeney

  • 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 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

EPOCH by John Sweeney

Ensign IV by John Sweeney

Essex Eurotrader by John Sweeney

Essex Eurotrader by John Sweeney

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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: 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: David Vomund Of AIQ by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Opening Bell - David Vomund Of AIQ David Vomund of AIQ Systems wears a few hats, chief of which is his positions as chief analyst of artificial intelligence?based charting software developer AIQ Systems and the editor of AIQ's newsletter, The Ope

  • Interview: Gary B.Smith Of TheStreet.com by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.18:10 (80-95):Interview:Gary B.Smith Of TheStreet.com by John Sweeney Trader, author, and TV personality Gary B.Smith trades for a living and has done so since splitting with Sports Illustrated, where he covered pro golf. More prominently, Gary writes

  • Interview: Investing Champion Mark Cook by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...From Sun Up To Sun Down Interview: Investing Champion Mark Cook by John Sweeney Mark D. Cook first won fame as a trader in 1989 when he finished second in the US Investing Championship. By 1992, he had shifted to options and racked up large three-digit

  • Interview: J. Doyne Farmer by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: J. Doyne Farmer by John Sweeney The number of physicists and engineers who have dented their axes on market prediction is so vast that it led to the derisive term "quant." But who are these guys, and what are they up to? We tracked down one m

Interview: Jonathan Hoenig Of Capitalist Pig by John Sweeney and Bruce Faber

  • Interview: Leo Melamed by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On The Alliance Of Exchanges Leo Melamed As chief architect of financial futures, Melamed led the US futures industry from 1967 until his retirement from the CME in 1991. During this period, financial futures experienced unparalleled growth and became a

  • Interview: Matthew Andresen Of Island ECN by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Faster, Cheaper, Better? Matthew Andresen Of Island ECN Matthew Andresen has been serving as president of Island ECN  , Inc., since 1998. Since then, Andresen has spearheaded IslandÕs explosive growth and overseen its role in shaping the new electronic

  • Interview: Nassim N. Taleb by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Nassim N. Taleb by John Sweeney Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a quantitative trader operating at the intersection of theory and practice. Currently president and head trader at Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator in Greenwich, CT, and adju

Interview: Purely Technical: Hamilton Lewis by John Sweeney and Bruce Faber

  • Interview: Saitta! Kepler! Krauss! by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Institutional Investor (II) magazine recently named its All-America Fixed-Income Technical Analysis Team, STOCKS & COMMODITIES Contributing Editor Alex Saitta was in first place. We thought a roundtable interview of the top three would be not only a

  • Interview: Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line by David Penn and John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Disproving The Efficient Market Theory Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line For more than 50 years, Samuel Eisenstadt has been one of the major reasons for the phenomenal success of Value Line, Inc., developers of the Value Line Ranking System. Eisenstadt i

  • Interview: Technician Walter Deemer by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Grand Old Man Technician Walter Deemer Walt Deemer began his Wall Street career in 1963 as a Merrill Lynch research trainee. Since then, he has seen the ebb and flow of Wall Street through booms and busts, spending time with the Manhattan Fund in th

  • Interview: The Survivors by John Sweeney and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: The Survivors by John Sweeney and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan As goes the Nasdaq, so does the number of daytraders. Or so it seems. Those who continue to trade as if nothing changed are those who can call themselves, with confidence, traders. For

  • Interview: Tom Rietz Of Iowa Electronic Markets by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade The Future(s) Tom Rietz Of Iowa Electronic Markets Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) are real-money futures markets in which students and professionals trade contracts of everything from US politics to Federal Reserve monetary policy to computer retur

  • Interview: Victor B. Niederhoffer by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Music of the Markets - Victor B. Niederhoffer Trader, speculator, author, and more. The name may be familiar, but there's more to the man than just finance. Victor Niederhoffer has served as advisor to, and investor for, famed investor George Soros and

  • Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney Yale Hirsch is best known as the editor and publisher of The Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 33rd annual edition. He is a stock market historian and stock analyst who could probably tell you, w

  • Interview:Bob And Don Bright Of Bright Trading by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tales Of Professional Daytraders Bob And Don Bright Of Bright Trading Bored in retirement from exploiting the Standard & PoorÕs OEX options spreads, Bob Bright got back into trading in 1992 by forming Bright Trading with partner Edward Franco as an off-

  • Interview:Richard McCabe Of Merrill Lynch by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Richard McCabe Of Merrill Lynch The Technical Tradition Continues Continuing the technical tradition begun by Bob Farrell, Merrill Lynch chief market analyst Richard McCabe has been Mr.Technical Analysis at the world's largest brokerage since 1993, fol

  • MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney MMS -Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate 490 El Camino Real Belmont, CA 94002 (800)227-7304 (415)595-0610 Price: $145 per month on already installed Telerate

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  • Marshall wave theory by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Marshall wave theory by John Sweeney Yet another ""wave"" is being added to the futures lexicon: the Marshall Wave. Originated by John Marshall (Box 2302, Naples, FL33939 (813) 263-3114. Marshall Wave is a complicated system for trading futures in heavi

Mitronics IIC by John Sweeney

ModelWare Professional Version 2.0 by John Sweeney

N-Squared Stock & Futures Analyzer-XL N-Squared Market Analyzer-XL by John Sweeney

  • NOVICE SPECULATOR: An Anti-COMMODEX System by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE SPECULATOR: An Anti-COMMODEX System by John Sweeney One observation I made when starting technical analysis was that there were relatively few bits of data to work with: price, volume, and open interest for a given futures contract and its relate

  • NOVICE SPECULATOR: My First System by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE SPECULATOR: My First System by John Sweeney As a novice trader, newly equipped with a price monitor, personal computer, and a fresh reading of Kaufman's Commodity Trading Systems and Methods, I was looking for some steady money in day-trading. In

  • Novice Speculator by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Speculator by John Sweeney Bill Wyckoff suggested I write this--not personally, of course, since he's long out of print. He just noted in Wall Street Ventures and Adventures Through Forty Years that writing and publishing The Ticker was a terrific

  • Novice Speculator Trading Plan by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Novice Speculator Trading Plan by John Sweeney When all the waiting is done and a new trade is signaled I can at last, get to work. However, it's not to burn up the wires to Chicago -- it's paperwork that needs to be done, before the job even starts! Ac

Novice Speculator by John Sweeney

  • On Moving Averages by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been around forever, and it's a tried-and-true favorite. It's also the source of great frustration. How can anything end up as both? Here are the basics for using moving averages to identify the trend in the market. No technique is more frequently

  • On-Balance Volume by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The on-balance volume indicator is a technical tool that traders use to determine the trend of volume. Here are the basics. The interplay of price and volume is the combination that is most discussed in traditional technical analysis. In these discussio

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Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening Position by John Sweeney, Editor

Opening position by John Sweeney, Editor

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  • Parabolics by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at the parabolic trading system, with details on the way it works and how it's calculated. by John Sweeney Few books have produced as many indicators of lasting value as J. Welles Wilder's New Concepts in Technical Trading Sys-tems. From

Personal Hotline Version 6.6 by John Sweeney, Technical Editor

  • Philip Berber Of CyBerCorp by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brokerages: The Next Generation Philip Berber Of CyBerCorp Before Philip Berber formed CyBerCorp, a next-generation, electronic brokerage group providing real-time, direct-access trading, and Internet execution technology, he had already made a name fo

Product Review: @RISK Professional 4.0 by John Sweeney

Product Review: AIQ TradingExpert 2.5 by John Sweeney

Product Review: Aspen Graphics by John Sweeney

Product Review: BigEasy Investor by John Sweeney

Product Review: Black or White by John Sweeney

Product Review: Bull's-Eye Broker by John Sweeney

Product Review: DollarLink by John Sweeney

Product Review: Enhanced Chartist by John Sweeney

Product Review: First Alert by John Sweeney

Product Review: MATLAB For Windows by John Sweeney

Product Review: MESA by John Sweeney

Product Review: MINITAB by John Sweeney

Product Review: Market Dynamics by John Sweeney

Product Review: MetaStock Real Time 3.5 by T. Hartle and J. Sweeney

Product Review: N-Squared Analytic Software by John Sweeney

Product Review: N-Train by John Sweeney

Product Review: NAVA Patterns 2.0 by John Sweeney

Product Review: Option Pro by John Sweeney

Product Review: OptionStar by John Sweeney

Product Review: OptionVue IV by John Sweeney

Product Review: Personal Hotline by John Sweeney

Product Review: Power Analyzer by John Sweeney

Product Review: Pro Analyst by John Sweeney

Product Review: ProfitCenter by John Sweeney

Product Review: Proview by John Sweeney

Product Review: QuoteMaster Pro 1.63 by John Sweeney

Product Review: Stockomatic.com by John Sweeney

Product Review: TechniFilter Plus by John Sweeney

Product Review: Technical Ranking System by John Sweeney

Product Review: TeleChart 2000 by John Sweeney

Product Review: The Bollinger Band Trading System by John Sweeney

Product Review: The Equalizer 2.3 by John Sweeney

Product Review: TradeStation Pro by John Sweeney

Product Review: TraderBot.com by John Sweeney

Product Review: TradingExpert by John Sweeney

Product Review: UNX by John Sweeney

Product Review: Wealth-Lab.com by John Sweeney

Product Review: Windows On WallStreet by John Sweeney

Product Review: Wizetrade With eSignal And PC Quote by John Sweeney

  • Quantifying The Tried And True by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Quantifying The Tried And True by John Sweeney Some people think that my use of numbers indicates a lack of respect for traditional charting techniques. Quite the opposite is true. I've found over the years that what I've come up with generally confirms

Quick Scan: Best Test Simulated Trading by John Sweeney

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  • Returning To The Basics by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Returning To The Basics by John Sweeney Since November last year, I've gone through exploiting the trend-related activities -- trading the underlying trend, adding trades to the trend trades and reversing trades when wrong about the trend -- but there's t

  • Reversing For Dollars by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reversing For Dollars by John Sweeney Harebra ined ideas bein g a plentiful ite m in my daydreams, the idea tha t I mentione d in April's Settlement tha t I implement a n automa tic reversin g tra de at my maximum a dverse excursion ( MAE) stop point ha

  • Reversing Your Losses by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reversing Your Losses by John Sweeney Last month, Settlement closed with some incomplete work: the profit and loss charts for trades added onto the underlying system that was developed in the months prior. To finish the subject of evaluating add-on trad

Review Freebies! by John Sweeney

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  • SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney OUR APPROACH - Believe it or not, there is method to our madness in publishing articles. Two series of articles going on right now are laying the groundwork for much more rigorous technical systems. Clifford Sherry's a

  • SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney OUR APPROACH - Believe it or not, there is method to our madness in publishing articles. Two series of articles going on right now are laying the groundwork for much more rigorous technical systems. Clifford Sherry's a

  • SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney I must start off this issue with an apology. In the November 1986 issue, Frank Tarkany published evidence of non-randomness and serial dependence in Dow Jones prices. The Figure 7 we published, which estimated the tradi

  • SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SWEENEY AGONISTES by John Sweeney I must start off this issue with an apology. In the November 1986 issue, Frank Tarkany published evidence of non-randomness and serial dependence in Dow Jones prices. The Figure 7 we published, which estimated the tradi

  • Shelly Natenberg: trader and teacher by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shelly Natenberg: trader and teacher by John Sweeney Shelly Natenberg, a floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, is the author of Options Volatility & Pricing Strategies, Probus Publishing, Chicago, 118 North Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60606, (800) 426

  • Shifting To Another Dimension by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shifting To Another Dimension by John Sweeney I have spent the last several months tweaking a simple trading system to provide good profits with minimal drawdowns. The underlying idea (""Settlement,"" November 1991 through February 1992) isn't too compl

Spectrum by John Sweeney

  • Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney FEEDING FRENZY I opened my Journal today to find Kidder Peabody explaining ""What is a stock?"" on the editorial pages. My mother calls to find out if she should be going for ""higher returns in the market."" I've not

  • Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sweeney Agonistes by John Sweeney FEEDING FRENZY I opened my Journal today to find Kidder Peabody explaining ""What is a stock?"" on the editorial pages. My mother calls to find out if she should be going for ""higher returns in the market."" I've not

  • Sweeney Agonistes by Technical Analysis, Inc.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sweeney Agonistes by Technical Analysis, Inc. KNOW YOUR TIME-HORIZONS My Club 3000 buddies and subscribers often ask how I go about trading. The truth is I use only moving averages and RSI. These are both ""optimized"" with time-horizons approximating

TechniFilter Plus Version 6 by John Sweeney and Steven Notis

  • Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets by John Sweeney Author: John J. Murphy Publisher: New York Institute of Finance 70 Pine Street New York, NY 10270 (212) 344-2900 Price: $45 plus $2 shipping (U.S. only) Mr. Technician, John Murphy, has writt

Telescan Stock Evaluation Service by John Sweeney

  • Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney After two Sundays of dinking around (Settlement, STOCKS & COMMODITIES November and December 1991), I'd finally converted a chance idea to something with remotely promising prospects somet

  • The ADX by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...THE ADX The calculation of the average directional movement (ADX) indicator is built on the intuitive notion that a trend is a series of price ranges extending in a consistent direction. In sidebar Figure 1, example A, the second day's trading range is

  • The Baby Bulge Begins by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Baby Bulge Begins by John Sweeney Our Technical Editor opines about the demographic effect the baby boomer generation is having on the stock market. Is 38% of the value in the market unaccountable? What could explain such a discrepancy? Goldman, S

  • The Professional Option Trader's Manual by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Professional Option Trader's Manual by John Sweeney Author: David L. Caplan Publisher: Opportunities in Options P.O. Box 2126 Malibu, CA, 90265 Price: $70 (or $150 with a three-month subscription to Opportunities in Options) Despite its name, thi

  • The Relative Strength Index (RSI) by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, one of the most popular indicators found in most analytical software packages is explained. When the relative strength index (RSI) became popular in the 1980s, it was touted as the indicator that led every turn in the market. Indeed, for certain f

  • The Skimming Discussion Continues by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Skimming Discussion Continues by John Sweeney Remember the moving average ""skimming"" discussion that's gone on over the last several issues? I received another cogent letter describing the effect for a half-wave moving average. Amos Newcombe of Ma

  • The Volatility Edge by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing a profitable trading system is key, but the way that profits and losses vary can have an impact on your long-term success. In my previous article, I wrote that, other things being equal, a trading system with lower volatility would triumph ov

Thomas Donovan And Patrick Catania Of The CBOT by John Sweeney

Tradeplan Mitronix IIC by John Sweeney

  • Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney Last month in Settlement, I wrote briefly about some simple ideas for defining nontrending periods. Although exotic approaches are possible, simple things are easier to teach to computer packages. The program I'

  • Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Ranges With Moving Averages by John Sweeney Using simple moving averages may seem like a straightforward approach to trading, but there are subtle techniques that can improve performance. A few months ago, I pointed out that moving averages ar

  • Trading Simply: Minimizing Losses by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Simply: Minimizing Losses by John Sweeney Richard Dennis is said to have said, ""There's a lot less to trading than meets the eye."" If so, he was correct. I like to describe an approach that has nothing to do with entry or exit, but everything

  • Trading Tactics A livestock futures anthology by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Tactics A livestock futures anthology by John Sweeney Editor: Todd Lofton Publisher: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Agricultural Commodity Marketing 30 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 930-8213 (direct line to order the book) Price: $29.9

  • Trading The Deutschemark's Gaps by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading The Deutschemark's Gaps by John Sweeney Talk about humiliation! Looking at a Deutschemark chart, I figured I'd trade with the direction of any gap for short small gains. The evidence showed I was 180 degrees wrong! I asked my computer to look at

  • Using Maximum Adverse Excursions for stops by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Maximum Adverse Excursions for stops by John Sweeney So often the key to success is the reverse of what we initially perceive. Young basketball players are fascinated with the shot, never suspecting the game is won with fast feet. Traders focus on

  • Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.: Trader's Psychologist by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.: Trader's Psychologist by John Sweeney In purely technical terms, Van K. Tharp is a psychological researcher and counselor specializing in neurolinguistic programming. In the lay language of his clients, he's the specialist who helps

Volatility Breakout System Version 2 by John Sweeney

  • Volatility Of Returns by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility Of Returns by John Sweeney Designing a profitable trading system is key, but the way that profits and losses vary can have an impact on your long-term success. Here's why looking at how the returns deviate can help you design your own system.

WAVE WI$E Market Spreadsheet Version 6.0a by John Sweeney

Want to try something HOT!? by John Sweeney

  • Want to try something HOT!? by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CF-DM from J.C. Productions. By John Sweeney Some systems are so active it could give a guy a heart attack. J.C. Productions has put together one of the most active and breathtaking trading systems I've run across. Of course, I haven't seen everything i

  • What Is A Trend, Anyway? by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What Is A Trend, Anyway? by John Sweeney A reader reacting to the Settlement article in January on trading basics (Settlement, ""Trading simply: Minimizing losses,"" Stocks & COMMODITIES, January 1991) asked a key question: What is a trend? How do I ide

  • Where to Put Your Stops by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Where to Put Your Stops by John Sweeney Stops protecting an initial entry position are like forward passes in football: Three things can happen to you and only one of them is good! 1)You can be taken out of a strong adverse move early (That's good). 2

  • Winning on Wall Street by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Winning on Wall Street by John Sweeney Author: Martin Zweig Publisher: Warner Books 666 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10103 Price: $20 This is a good book. It has a very reasonable approach to trading the market, or even individual stocks. It's a compe






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