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GETTING A FIX ON LOOKBACKS
Editor,
I would like to comment on the excellent article by E. Michael Poulos entitled ""Of trends and random
walks"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, February 1991). Mr. Poulos presents an extremely useful alternative
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I like your magazine, but...
Editor,
I like your magazine, but: month after month; graphs are misplaced, or mislabeled; formulas are not
clearly explained; misprints occur....
With so much time between issues, I think you should do bet
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GOING UP
Editor,
I have some doubts about the procedures explained in one of Arthur Merrill's recent columns, ""Testing
Indicators"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, May).
Mr. Merrill outlines a method of assessing the significance of an indicat
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Back to basics, swing trading rules, and smoo
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BALANCE OF MARKET POWER
Editor,
In "Balance Of Market
Power" (S&C, August
2001), author Igor
Livshin constructs an
oscillator based on
three types of rewards. But I think it
lacks one more type of reward: today's
open minus yesterday's close; that is,
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FAST FOURIER AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
Editor,
I am a student at The School of Business Economics, Aarhus, Denmark. Presently I am working on my
graduate report, which concerns the efficiency of the foreign exchange market. In order to dete
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HOW RELIABLE ARE CANDLESTICKS?
Editor,
First, I want to compliment
you on your excellent
magazine.
Next, I would like to
point out some faults in
"How Reliable Are Candlesticks?",
which appeared in the November 2002
issue of STOCKS & CO
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Detecting Flags Spreadsheet, Diversification,
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...PHASOR DISPLAYS
Editor,
I don't like to be negative, but I must
admit that John Ehlers's article in the
December 2000 S&C, "Phasor Displays,"
as usual, frustrates me. On a
scale of one to 10, I'd grade him, brilliance:
9, clarity of exposition: 1.
For e
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Adam Theory
Editor,
I refer you to the August 1988 issue and, in particular, to your review of J. Welles Wilder Jr.'s book on
The Adam Theory of Markets.
I would like to purchase the book, however I do not have an address. Could you pl
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DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL MOVING AVERAGES
Editor,
In ""Smoothing data with faster moving averages""(January 1994 STOCKS & COMMODITIES), author Patrick
Mulloy refers to the steps used to calculate the 26-week one-parameter double exponential
mo
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Questions on Smoothing
Editor,
I have recently become a subscriber to your magazine and also purchased back volumes of articles. I have
analyzed all articles pertaining to smoothing, and particularly to triple exponential average smooth
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REAL-TIME FAIR VALUE?
Editor,
In the July 1991 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES you published two letters concerning Jean-Olivier
Fraisse's December 1990 article, ""Clues to market direction with the S&P 500 premium."" Mr. Fraisse
noted in
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The editors of S&C invite readers to submit their opinions and information on subjects relating to technical analysis and this magazine. This column is our means of communication with our readers. This month: Excellent Magazine, Anatomy Of A Trade, Dylan
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Letters include comments and updates on the Trend Intensity Index, TRIX, the A/D Line, Elliott Waves and the center of gravity oscillator.
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LOOKBACK OR LENGTH?
Editor,
I have a question that deals with the formula listed on page 30 of the February 1991 issue. When
calculating the formula gives a lookback length of one through 20 days, is the average range based on the
curre
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor,
I just finished reading
L.A. Little's article "Price
And Volume Disconnect"
in the November 2010
issue of St o c kS & co mm o d i t i eS.
I have a general question I
was hoping he could answer for me. (I
loved the article, by the w
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Clear meThod
Editor,
It was with
great interest that I read Ron Black's article in the
September 2010 issue of your magazine,
"Getting Clear With Short-Term
Swings." The concept is simple and
signals are easy to follow (the best
start
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor,
Where can I find the results
of your Readers' Choice
Awards, which I saw a reference to at your website?
Ah m e t
The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards can be
found in our 2011 Bonus Issue, which was
mailed in February to all subscribers,
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Insider trading
Editor,
Your article in the June issue, ""If the boss only knew technical analysis,"" by Vincent Cosentino, caught
my eye for an obvious reason: We recently published a new book on legal insider trading, authored by the
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor, I am looking for more information on the market instrument function, which was described in an article by the same name in your December 2010 issue. Is this forecasting tool built into any trading software?
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From one author to another
Dear Dr. Anthony,
Congratulations on your excellent article on the alpha-beta trend following system (S&C, April 1989).
Three questions:
1. ML is the ""lag,"" or one-half of the moving average. Your default
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Fast Fourier Transforms
Editor,
I am a current user of the technical analysis software CompuTrac and have been recently introduced (two
months) to your theory on FFT (Fast Fourier Transform). However, I am puzzled by the fact that Fouri
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CLARIFICATION, NOT CRITICISM
Editor,
I was shocked to learn
that an S&C reader
interpreted my letter to the
editor in the February 2001
STOCKS & COMMODITIES
("Phasor Displays") as a
criticism of John Ehlers. I have so many
faults that I have a personal
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FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM
Editor,
The recent article "Fast Fourier Transform" by Amy Wu in the July 2002 STOCKS & COMMODITIES was an informative article. The last two sentences stated: "...many aspects, such as phase, are being discounted
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Volatility via Black-Scholes
Editor,
I have all the S&C magazines. In the July 1988 issue, ""Trading Clues from Options Volatility,"" David
Caplan says he uses a ""modified"" Black-Scholes model. Is this model defined in any of the back
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Editor,
After reading your Opening Position on index arbitrage (Stocks & Commodities, January 1990), a question that I've been unable to answer since program trading became a controversial topic came to mind again. Information available
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Editor,
This technical analysis business seems intriguing. Is the art and science of it developed and practiced by many? How long has TA been practiced?
MARK MCCLATCHEY, via e-mail
I credit Charles Dow with developing the first technic
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 19:7 (10-14): Letters To S&C
Editor,
I would like to know if there is any way to learn to read charts without indicators or systems -- just the open, close, high, low, and volume. and volume.
RICARDO AIVADO, via e-mail
In addition to the above letter
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VERTICAL HORIZONTAL FILTER
Editor,
First of all, congratulations on your magazine. I have read the article "Vertical Horizontal Filter" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, July 2000) and I would like to know how I can apply it in MetaStock. I used i
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THE UPS AND DOWNS OF IT
Editor,
I have some questions regarding ""Historical movement of the stock market"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES,
November 1991). Mr. Moody states that the data cover the quarterly periods from 1940 through June
1991. T
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Technical analysis software
Editor,
I have an Apple II/e with dual disk drive and an Epson printer, and am very interested in your software
for charting markets. However, I am very unfamiliar with the graphics tool kit and 5-inch disk f
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Suggestions for topics
Editor,
In your March 1989 issue you have an article by Steve Notis called ""Testing breakout systems."" It's
described as an S&P 500 system. My question is, will it work with bonds, gold, silver, etc? If it will,
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EISENSTADT INTERVIEW
Editor,
Thank you for the wonderful, clear-structured
interview with Samuel Eisenstadt of Value Line
in the May 2001 issue. Above all, two important keynotes stuck in my mind. These keynotes are excellent guidelines
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor, In your TradersÕ Tips section, you feature many providers, including eSignal, NinjaTrader, MetaStock, and so on.
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PARAMETRIC CONTROL AND SAMPLE SIZE
Editor,
""Stopping a system"" by John Sweeney (Settlement, December 1991) may have suggested a misleading
lesson to your readers. John introduced what appeared to be a very normal response concerning t
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Goaded
Editor,
I'd rather Stanley Kroll's program remained a well-kept secret, but Alexander Elder's condescending
review of Kroll's latest book (S&C, August 1988) has goaded me to speak out. Elder would have us
believe that Kroll ""struts"" and touts
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BALANCE OF MARKET POWER
Editor,
I read with interest the August 2001 article by
Igor Livshin on the balance of market power (BMP) and decided to implement the indicator. After some observation, it turns out that all the formulas for thi
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GANN FAN
Editor,
Great magazine -- keep it up! There are lots of Gann-based traders out there, so some Gann articles a bit more often might be appreciated by Gann folks. Best regards.
Deonarine Gopee
Miami, FL
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GANN-DO ATTITUDE
Editor,
January's article, ""The Gann Quarterly Chart,"" was the best article I have read in nine months. I can use it
for buying and selling mutual funds for long-term investing.
I would app
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Volume-Weighted MACD
Editor,
The article "Volume- Weighted Macd Histogram" by David Hawkins in the October 2009 issue is certainly well written and instructive. However, it fails to note that the Vwmacd was or
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Editor,
John Ehlers presented
a most interesting
discussion
of corona
charts ("Corona Charts," November
2008, STOCKS & COMMODITIES) and I
note that while the code for
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SVAPO (SHORT-TERM VOLUME AND
PRICE OSCILLATOR)
Editor,
I enjoyed Sylvain
Vervoort's article in the
November 2007 issue of
STOCKS & COMMODITIES
on the SVAPO indicator
("Short-Term Volume And Price
Oscillator").
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VALUABLE INFORMATION
Editor,
I just wanted to send you a note regarding S&C. I have been a subscriber for a while but haven't done a lot of reading of your magazine. However, while spending the holidays at my
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TRADERS' TIPS
Editor,
Thanks for putting out a great product
that brings us up to date on a lot of
trading issues. The articles are well
written and helpful.
I would like to see you include
TC2000 in your Trad
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TAXES AND TRADING
Editor,
I have been a subscriber to
STOCKS & COMMODITIES
for about two years now. I
find some of the articles
very useful and it's the only
magazine that I actually
keep in a library.
The po
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TWO TRADERS, TWO METHODS
Editor,
Just wanted to comment on a very interesting interview you conducted with Gavin Mok and Kevin Haygreen ("Two Traders, Two Methods," June 2009 S&C). I read many articles with trader profiles, and it is good to get insigh
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WEINSTEIN CONFUSION
Editor,
On page 46 of the February 2009 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, in the article "Weinstein's Theory Of Relativity" by Larry Swing, Swing alludes to Stan Weinstei
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ON THE BALANCE
Editor,
Hope I qualify as a new subscriber, although I am not a ""brand-new"" subscriber.
For the sake of balance, you might try countering those Ph.D. articles with an occasional piece by a hi
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STANDARD DEVIATION
Editor,
In the ""Relative volatility index"" sidebar on pages 64-65 of the June 1993 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, the
Excel spreadsheet gives the formulas for the up close volatility and down close volat
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ON-BALANCE VOLUME
Editor,
I enjoyed D.W. Davies' January 2004 article, "Daytrading With On-Balance Volume." As a point of reference, I need to point out that while Joe Granville (for whom I h
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SPREADSHEETS
Editor,
The April 2004 issue of S&C contained an article called "Trend Quality Indicator." I would like to see an update of this article in your magazine showing the formulas usi
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MARKET PROFILE
Editor,
A letter from Matt Thomson
in the May 2003 S&C
asks, "How do you determine
what the value area
for the next day is?" You
responded that the answer could be found
in earlier articles on
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COMMENTS
Editor,
In response to your editorial in the March issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I would like to offer a
few comments and suggestions.
I enjoy your magazine very much, but I think it could be impro
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KONDRATIEFF WAVE
Editor,
From the first issue of
STOCKS & COMMODITIES
I picked up a year
ago to the most recent
issue, I have never been
disappointed in the quality or content of
your publication.
In the Sept
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OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Editor,
The October 2002 issue
of STOCKS & COMMODITIES
finally
reached me here in New
Zealand. Congratulations
on the 20th year
of publishing S&C.
I remember meeting STOCKS & COMMODITIES
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INTERVIEW WITH GREG MORRIS
Editor,
Thanks for the interview with Greg Morris ("The Danger Zone With Gregory Morris," interview, September 2009 S&C). It especially hit home for me since I too was reading Zahor
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TRADING FOREX
Editor,
I enjoyed Koos van der Merwe's article on forex in the December 2009 Stocks & Commodities ("Trading Forex"). I was curious if he had any suggestions as to where I can get a good foundati
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CODE AND TRADERS' TIPS
Editor,
I read S&C every month. It's a good
magazine with good content and presentation.
The only problem I run into is with
the Traders' Tips section of your
website. When you include
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READERS' CHOICE AWARDS
Editor,
I sometimes see on the websites of some financial software a statement that they won a Readers' Choice Award from your magazine. I tried searching at your website, Traders.com,
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CANDLESTICKS REVISITED
Editor,
While I disagree with the importance placed on a
single tall white candlestick line in Stephen Bigalow's article in the February 200
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CLARIFICATION ON DOUBLE 7s STRATEGY
Editor,
In the January 2009 S&C article, "Three Rules, One Easy Way To Trade Etfs," Figure 2 shows point B and the caption refers to "a new, seven-day low at point B." Howe
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REVERSAL DATES
Editor,
I'm a regular reader of your
magazine and very much
look forward to it each
month. I rarely read the
Letters to S&C column, and I don't
think I've ever written a letter to any
editor, e
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ICHIMOKU CHARTS
Editor,
I am interested in using ichimoku charts.
Can you tell me of any charting services
that provide access to this type of chart?
KIRBY OWEN Yulee, FL
A check of our Traders' Resource da
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SOFTWARE ISSUE
Editor,
Can you tell me when your special issue comes out with the analyses on technical analysis software?
Louis Witte
Netherlands
Our 2010 Bonus Issue, which includes the 2010 Readers' Cho
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TRIX: TRIPLE EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING OSCILLATOR
Editor,
I am very interested in the indicator
called TRIX, which was first described
and presented by your publisher, Jack
Hutson, in his July/August 1983 article
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Where are we?
Editor,
I enjoy S&C and look forward to each new issue, including articles by guys getting off on esoteric
concepts that hardly anyone will ever bother with. Although I enjoy the theory, I do fi
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REGULARIZATION
Editor,
The concept of "Regularization" presented
in the July 2003 S&C seems to be
very new to the field of technical analysis
and is interesting because, it says, it
can solve the two main pro
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COPPOCK'S ORIGINAL FORMULA
Editor,
Regarding my article ""The Coppock guide"" in the March 1993 issue, astute technicians may have noticed
that the described formula varied somewhat from Coppock's original formula,
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GOLDEN RATIO
Editor,
In his article in the April 2009 S&C on the Fibonacci sequence and its "golden ratio" ("Fibonacci Tools"), Alexander Sabodin points out that the golden ratio is actually an irrational num
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OPTION CREDIT SPREADS
Editor,
I just read Sam Bhugaloo's article on
option credit spreads in the STOCKS &
COMMODITIES annual Bonus Issue. The
article was well written, easily understood,
and fascinating. I wo
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TRADING ON A MAC
Editor,
Do you ever provide Traders' Tips for Mac applications?
Dave Rich
Durango, CO
Our Traders' Tips section is made up by contributions from outside software developers (we don't write th
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S&C TRADERS' GLOSSARY
Editor,
Your magazine advises readers to "Log
onto our website at Traders.com for
our comprehensive Traders' Glossary." But where on earth did you hide it?
Why not put a link in an obvio
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FINDING THE DOMINANT CYCLE
Editor,
I found John Ehlers' article in the March
2008 S&C, "Measuring Cycle Periods,"
a very interesting way to adjust my indicators.
But I have a question: How do I
find out what
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This month's letters consist of one long letter discussing the construction and interpretation of linear regression models as explained IN Jack Karczewski's article ""Using multiple regression analysis,""
STOCK
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FUTURES LIQUIDITY
Editor,
I just received and enjoyed reading your magazine, STOCKS & COMMODITIES. In the February 2005 issue, on page 87, you list futures liquidity from
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MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD
Editor,
I am a 34-year-old Italian engineer. I am interested in the maximum entropy method as applied to the financial markets. I would implement this method in an Exce
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EMAIL SPAM
Editor,
I received a piece of spam
today that mentions your
magazine. I am contacting
you to enlist your aid in
battling such spam.
Inasmuch as I resent every uninvited
email contact such as this,
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Schwager on Schwager
Editor,
I always get a kick from seeing references to my articles (or interviews) in the ""Letters to S&C'' column.
It reminds me of the line about the suspense involved in watching the 1
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NETTING AN EXPERT SYSTEM
Editor,
Congratulations to Mark Fishman and Dean S. Barr for their description of a hybrid system for market
timing (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, August 1991). Their use of neural networks t
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DAYTRADING QQQ
Editor,
I found the article
"Daytrading QQQ" in
the March 2003 STOCKS
& COMMODITIES to be
quite misleading.
In the latter part of the article, author
Misha Sarkovich suggests taking advantage
o
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METASTOCK FORMULAS FOR TRENDLINE BREAKS
Editor,
Is there anywhere on the website to find
the code for trendline breaks in the
September 2007 issue? It seems like
I'm always entering the MetaStock formulas
by
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...VANTAGEPOINT REVIEW
Editor,
I have just purchased
VantagePoint software
and I noted with interest
your review by Phil
Crosby published earlier
this year ("VantagePoint 7.0," February
2007 S&C). In the review, he
states that he uses the system in conjunc
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TR&NDS TRAILING STOP TECHNIQUE
Editor,
I have read Sylvain Vervoort's article on Tr&nds ("Trailing Resistance &nd Support Stops") in the July 2009 Stocks & Commodities and found it very helpful.
John C.
KEE
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True Range, Reward/Risk, And Position Size
Editor,
In the May 2009 issue of S&C is an article by Alan Binder, "True Range, Reward/Risk, And Position Size." I have a question about the calculation of the value
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EFFECTS OF DEFLATION
Editor,
David Penn's excellent article on "Intermarket
Relationships" (July 2003 issue) included a review
of my earlier writings on the subject and a description of changing relationships
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SAMPLE INDICATOR VALUES
Editor,
I have a request. Would it be possible to include a set of sample data and expected indicator values when you provide the code for indicators? Perhaps you could post it at your
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TRADERS' TIPS ONLINE
Editor,
Is there a way I can get the Traders' Tips
from last month's magazine online?
STEVE STOYKA, via e-mail
Yes. Past Traders' Tips can be viewed
at our website at Traders.com. The cu
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METASTOCK CODE FOR
MOVING AVERAGE CROSSOVERS
Editor,
I am looking for the MetaStock code for
Dimitris Tsokakis' article, "Anticipating
Moving Average Crossovers" (February
2007 S&C). Your Traders' Tips
sectio
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LEAST SQUARE, MOST COOL
Editor,
""A regression-based oscillator"" by Patrick E. Lafferty (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, September) was very
good, and I would like to see many more articles by him. His trading method
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Edit Errors
Editor,
The articles in your magazine are usually so well written that they are interesting to read even though the
reader may not agree with the contents. The article written by William Eng was t
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...INDICATOR FOR AGRICOMMODITIES
Editor,
Can you help me determine the right
indicator to use on the CBOT corn, beans,
meal, and wheat markets? - MOHAMED ELSHAMY, via e-mail
There really is no "right" indicator to
use on the grain markets. However,
grain
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor,
The color-based system
presented by Edgar Kraut
in his July 2011 article
("A Color-Based System
For Short-Term Trading")
looked promising and simple. However,
using the Excel spreadsheet example
given in your Traders' Tips section
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Overbought/Oversold
Editor,
I read with interest the letter from George N. Bower on the Overbought/Oversold indicator, in which Mr.
Bower referred to the indicator's publication as a possible ""con"" on the reader, or the reader's sensi
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This month's letters include queries into fast Fourier
transforms (FFTs), information on where to get historical data and data downloading services, the futures liquidity column, candlestick formations, and portfolio management.
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Getting to know you
Editor,
I recently purchased the set of tapes from the TAG IX CompuTrac seminar held last September. I would
like to know more about your ""Technical Analysis Magazine"" and some of the articles from past issues,
in
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor,
In your recent interview
with Marcus Heitkoetter ("Short Swings In
Futures With Markus
Heitkoetter," May 2011),
I noticed that when he was discussing
the Bollinger Bands adjustment for the
moving average, he suggests lowering
the n
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MTA and CTA
Editor,
I wonder if you might publish the address, telephone number and name of a contact person at the Market
Technicians' Association?
Also, I learned recently that there is a program leading to qualification as a Certifi
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WAITING FOR THE FED
Editor,
Can you clarify a point
in the article "Waiting
For The Fed" by David
Penn, which was published
in August 2002
issue of STOCKS &
COMMODITIES? Does Mark Boucher's
system keep out of stocks if th
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Editor,
I'm so glad I subscribe to STOCKS & COMMODITIES. What great reading from great minds! I would like
to encourage Tushar Chande to write more articles describing his ideas. I enjoyed his past articles in
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THE X FILES
Editor,
In the March issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, you published a very enlightening article by Joe DiNapoli titled ""The X'd trade."" This was quite informative and a number of my friends have found this
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Editor,
I recently purchased one of your magazines and found the information contained in it rather complex and extensive. I do have some computer and stocks/commodities background, but here's my question: What kind of software is best f
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CANDLECODES AND BOLLINGER BANDS
Editor,
I liked very much Viktor
Likhovidov's use of
Bollinger Bands on an
indicator in "Light Up
Your Trading System
With CandleCode Trading" (STOCKS &
COMMODITIES, September 2001). Figure
5 on page 26 nicely demonstrat
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FILLING THE GAPS
Editor,
In ""Trading the Deutschemark's gaps"" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, June 1991), John Sweeney presented an
excellent model of explanatory research, going from ""what-if?"" to price-change and timing guidelines.
The rea
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TRADING PSYCHOLOGY REVISITED
Editor,
When I was first learning the trading business, a mentor once told me to pick a system, any system, and use it. The emphasis was appropriately placed, because actually implement
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Editor,
Excellent article by Jamie Theiss in the
May 2011 S&C. Nearly all my trades are
done by fading the gaps right after the
opening using one-minute candlesticks
plus a couple of indicators. Occasionally,
I will wait around after my exit a
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Readers sent in letters discussing on-balance volume, stochastic pop enhancement using RSI, the put/call oscillator, the Chaikin Money Flow, and adaptive trends and oscillators.
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MORE SYSTEM REVIEWS
Editor,
You have a great 'zine and I have been a subscriber for a long time.
One suggestion: Review more systems that are advertised in S&C. The good ones need to have their horns
blown, while some of the garbage out there needs to
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SOMETIMES SIMPLE IS BETTER
Editor,
First, I want to send you all my best compliments for the magazine and for all the articles you feature, which I read every month with great interest and attention, especial
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SHORT-PERIOD RSI
Editor,
Regarding the November 2007 S&C article
"Does The RSI Give You An Edge?"
by Larry Connors and Ashton Dorkins, I
am wondering if the short period RSI was
tested against the S&P 500 ind
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Not Ready for IBM
Editor,
Do you know of any program for MACD, either in the conventional form or modified form (Gregory
Morris, Stocks & Commodities, February 1987) that is available in BASIC for the IBM and
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CALCULATING MOVING AVERAGES
Editor,
Is there a program on the market that
calculates moving averages with
different filters and nothing else?
JOHAN RISBERG, via e-mail
The moving average itself is a low-pass
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INTERVIEWS ARE VALUABLE
Editor,
Thank you for the excellent interviews with Joseph Stowell, Justin Mamis and Robert Krausz (STOCKS &
COMMODITIES, July, August and September, respectively). They are correct wh
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More on the Computer-Assisted Investment Handbook
Editor,
Thanks for the Computer-Assisted Investment Handbook review in your June issue. However, there are
some factual errors that need correction:
1. It was
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S&C Computer Program
Editor,
Would you please spend a few minutes to reply to my inquiry as to what equipment I will need in order to
run the upcoming Stocks & Commodities programs for non-CompuTrac users? I
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POINT & FIGURE CHARTING ONLINE
Editor,
Regarding the letter in the January 2002
issue regarding point and figure
software, a good site for P&F is
PFscan.com. It's a UK company but
their software can also be u
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BETWEEN PRICE AND VOLUME
Editor,
I would like to thank Buff
Dormeier for his wellwritten
and insightful article,
"Between Price And
Volume" (July 2007). I have two questions for the author regarding
the volum
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METASTOCK CODE FOR
THE FRACTAL DIMENSION INDEX?
Editor,
I found Radha Panini's
articles, "From Nile To
NYSE" (February 2007
S&C) and "Trading Systems
And Fractals" (March 2007 S&C), very interesting. At your
w
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FRASER OUT
Editor,
We talked today regarding the citation of Fraser Financial Publications in the August issue of Stocks &
Commodities. This firm was stated as a source of books or pamphlets on the Wykcoff Me
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No Tar Brush
Editor,
I want to congratulate you on the recent improvement of your magazine. It is developing into a valuable
resource for technical analysts.
Your magazine's October 1986 issues carried a bro
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...LETTER FROM JOHN BOLLINGER
Editor,
The conventional interpretation of
Bollinger bands is not overbought at the
upper band and oversold at the lower
band, as the Tezels assert in "On using
volatility bands" (STOCKS & COMMODITIES,
October 1997).
Bolling
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...LETTERS TO S&C
OVERBOUGHT/OVERSOLD LIMITS
Editor,
I'm new to the markets, technical analysis and SuperCharts. I'm constantly agonizing over where to set my
overbought and oversold limits. What I would like to do is shift them up in a clearly definable
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: OCT 1995
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV 1995
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUN 1996
V14:7 Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V14:7 Letters to S&C - Technical Analysis, Inc.
SWING LINE CHARTS
Editor,
I would appreciate any information you have on swing line charts. Also, do you know of a charting system that shows this type of chart?
I'm not referring to oscillators but to
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL 1996
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: OCT 1997
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV 1997
V15:1: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C
Several readers wrote to S&C in response to Dennis Meyers's article, "The siren call of optimized trading
systems," in the October 1996 STOCKS & COMMODITIES, and Meyers himself wrote a lengthy respose to the various questions.
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JAN 1997
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: MAR 1997
V15:4: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Letters To S&C
S&C readers voice their opinions on the historical volatility debate, the Futures Liquidity column, Mark Douglas' interview, and trading options futures.
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: APR 1997
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: MAY 1997
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUN 1997
V15:7: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...POINT & FIGURE CHARTING
Editor,
Concerning Daryl Guppy's March 1997 article ("Building point & figure charts"), the one-box point & figure chart was
created incorrectly. When the reversal is one unit, you do not always move one column to the right. The
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL 1997
V15:8: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...PATTERN RECOGNITION
Editor,
I have read some of the articles by Thomas Bulkowski, particularly, "On rising wedges" and "Ascending and descending triangles." I found them very interesting and accurate. I'd like to see more of his articles in the future.
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: AUG 1997
V15:9: Letters to S&C
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...WEB FORUM ON TRADING?
Editor,
I'm a longtime subscriber to your magazine
and enjoy it very much, including
especially the reviews of products.
There is a related need that your Web
site could meet while it would be impractical
for a periodical. The prod
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: SEP 1997