Article Archive For
APR2011
Books For Traders
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Books For Traders
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Empowering Traders To Trade Commodities by Gail Mercer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...With more and more products being added
to the marketplace, how do you decide what to
trade? Here's a look at what you should
consider before trading the commodities.
New traders are often overwhelmed at the
number of different instruments they could
trade. Should they trade stocks, indexes,
exchange traded funds (Et fs), spot forex, o
currencies? What are the market
hours? What are the tick values?
What is the slippage for any given
instrument? What is a good profit
target for the market they choose?
What stop should they use? So
many questions to ask and so
many...
AUTHOR: Gail MercerDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Trading Commodities
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Engineering Look At Cycles by Arthur Zernov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Do cycles exist in markets? Here's a look at the markets from a different angle -- one that will help you realize that there is a harmony among cycles, events, and market behavior.
The existence of cycles in stocks and commodities prices is considered to be an acceptable and rarely debated topic. While preparing for the Chartered Market Technician (Cmt) tests, I became interested in this subject and decided not to take their existence for granted but to investigate it myself. In this article I will attempt to answer the ultimate question: Do cycles exist?...
AUTHOR: Arthur ZernovDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Cycles
AUTHOR: Tom GentileDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Explore Your Options
AUTHOR: Carley GarnerDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Futures For You
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Hurst's Cyclic Analysis by David Hickson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This crash course on an almost-forgotten theory could shed some light on how you can trade consistently and profitably.
In the 1970s, an American engineer named J.M. Hurst published a thesis about why financial markets move the way they do. His expounded theory was the result of many years of research, and it became known as Hurst's cyclic theory. Hurst claimed a 90% success rate trading on the basis of his theory, and yet his work has remained largely undiscovered and often misunderstood....
AUTHOR: David HicksonDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Classic Techniques
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Identifying Cup Formations Early by Giorgos Siligardos
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Here's a simple mechanical recognition method for identifying possible emerging cup formations.
In my article "Identifying The Cup (With Or Without The Handle)," which appeared in the February 2006 Stocks & Commodities, I introduced a simple mechanical algorithmic method for identifying cup formations (also known as rounding bottoms) in their late phase. The core part of the algorithm was based on the idea of using a virtual grid on the chart. Since then, I have been asked by technical analysts to provide an algorithm for identifying possible cup formations in their early phase. This time I...
AUTHOR: Giorgos E. Siligardos, Ph.D.DATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Chart Patterns
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Letters To S&C
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,
and which will continue to be mailed out
throughout the year to new subscribers.
The Readers' Choice Awards are based
on the results of an online poll asking
subscribers to vote for their favorite
products and services.--Editor...
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Letters To S&C
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Opening Position by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
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 knowledge was better than mine. Do the results of this game have any implications of which way the world is heading? In this situation you have Watson, which uses a computer processor to analyze all possible outcomes, versus humans, who use their instincts to try to come up with possible outcomes. And the computer wins.
I think the main reason behin...
AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Opening Position
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Product Review: MetaSwing 4 by Dennis Peterson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...MetaSwing is available as a set of
TradeStation EasyLanguage
and workspace files or as a
MetaStock plug-in. MetaSwing uses
historical price volatility as the basis for
building indicators. The previous review
of MetaSwing was for version 3.5, while
this review covers version 4....
AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Product Review
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Product Review: NinjaTrader 7 by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
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, entry, and exit very
quickly. To prepare yourself to do that,
you need to come up with various scenarios to
tackle different market conditions.
Judging by the features available in
NinjaTrader 7 (NT7), I assume the developers
created this product with trade
management as its focus. The product
has a very rich set of features aimed at
maki...
AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Product Review
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Product Review: WSJ iPad App by Wallace Wang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For many Wall Streeters, reading
The Wall Street Journal has
always been important for keeping
track of the latest financial news. In
an age where real-time stock quotes are
available over the Internet and financial
news stories change every few minutes,
however, the idea of relying on a physical
newspaper feels more and more antiquated
every day. Fortunately, you can
avoid the drawbacks of carrying around
a physical newspaper and still enjoy the
editorial content of the Journal through
the company's free iPad app....
AUTHOR: Wallace WangDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Product Review
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Q&A by Don Bright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...I have a bad habit of getting into trends too late. I try to keep an eye on stocks with strong correlation to the Standard & Poor's 500 with no outstanding news on them about earnings and so on. The indicators I mainly use are the S&P 500 and the futures tick chart. I also refer to the duck list frequently and look for at least five of the seven ducks to line up in addition to the other indicators.
I also try to watch for resistance, but I still seem to take a position right before the stock changes direction. What am I doing wrong?...
AUTHOR: Don BrightDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Q&A
AUTHOR: M. Carr and A. HestlaDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Traders' Notebook
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Then and Now with Tim Slater by J. Gopalakrishnan & B. Faber
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 fixed-income products. Tim Slater, the founder of CompuTrac Inc., wanted to chart his stocks, but discovered he didn't have the patience. He found someone who did -- and even he was surprised at what happened after that. In 1979 CompuTrac the company built the first set of software to do technical analysis online, real-time, presaging the coming...
AUTHOR: J. Gopalakrishnan and B. FaberDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Interview
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Today's K-Wave and Beyond by Koos van der Merwe, CFP
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trying to make sense of the markets is always
a challenge. Here's an updated look at the
Kondratieff wave after 2010.
When Nikolai Kondratieff developed his
wave theory, he had never heard of technical analysis.
He had also never met
Ralph Elliott of Elliott wave theory fame,
a man who lived in the same generation
that he did, a man who expressed in a book he had
written about Latin America: "There is a reason for
everything and it is one's duty
to discover it....
AUTHOR: Koos van der MerweDATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Cycles
Traders' Resource - Mutual Funds
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Traders' Resource
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Traders' Tips - Identifying Cup Formations Early
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For this month's Traders' Tips, the focus
is Giorgos Siligardos' article in this issue,
"Identifying Cup Formations Early." One additional
Traders' Tip is contributed for Peter
Konner's article in the January 2011 issue of
S&C, "Combining Rsi with Rsi."
Code for MetaStock is already provided in
Siligardos' article....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: APR2011SUBJECT: Traders' Tips