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• At The Close by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  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 this because I can't think of a better example of the behavior of the 50-day simple moving average (SMA). Note from the chart in Figure 1 how it acts as a resistance level. The average is sloping down, and on May 9, 2005 and the following day, prices hit that level and moved down. I have actually used this indicator for my long-term investments...

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: At The Close

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• Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc.

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (97): Books For Traders by Technical Analysis, Inc. The Automatic Millionaire Workbook (200 pages, $14.95 softcover, 2005, ISBN 0-7679-1948-3) by David Bach, published by Broadway Books. This workbook features the five questions that determine, with 90% certainty, if you will be an Automatic Millionaire, and charts and checklists for paying down debt while you save. There is one crucial step that guarantees your financial plan will succeed, as well as details on where to invest, what phone calls to make, and exactly what to say when automating your financial futur...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Books For Traders

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• Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (79): Explore Your Options by Tom Gentile Got a question about options? Tom Gentile is the chief options strategist at Optionetics (www.optionetics.com), an education and publishing firm dedicated to teaching investors how to minimize their risk while maximizing profits using options. To submit a question, post it to our website at http://Message-Boards.Traders.com. Answers will be posted there, and selected questions will appear in a future issue of S&C. LEAPS QUESTION Q: I know that there is a point in time when LEAPS turn into short-term options and change th...

AUTHOR: Tom GentileDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Explore Your Options

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Forex, Anyone? by Rudy Teseo

AUTHOR: Rudy TeseoDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Currency Central

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• Interview: Brett Steenbarger by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  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 psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Not only that, he is the author of The Psychology Of Trading and numerous articles in trading publications, many of which are archived on his website at www.brettsteenbarger.com. Steenbarger's writings on brief therapy have been featured in standard reference w...

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Interview

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• Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc.

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (10-15): Letters To S&C by Technical Analysis, Inc. 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. Is there something you would like to know more (or less) about? Tell us about it. Without a source of new ideas and subjects coming from our readers, this magazine would not exist. S&C MARKET PROFILE ARTICLES Editor, I am conducting research on every article you have published on Market Profile. Can you please help m...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Letters To S&C

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• Look Back Before You Leap by Richard Bergner

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Look to the past to predict the future: It's a new way to predict commodity price action as you study a chart. How can you find good trading opportunities? Imagine, if you will, all the ways you've read or heard about how to do so. But if you're aware of those opportunities, you can be sure that others are as well, thus lessening your chances of profiting from them. If you want a different way to identify good trading opportunities, why not examine a market's behavior in reverse? That's right -- look to the past to mark trends that have a good chance of materializing, as you step toward the fu...

AUTHOR: Richard BergnerDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Trading Techniques

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Opening Position by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Opening Position

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Q&A by Don Bright

AUTHOR: Don BrightDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Q&A

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• Rising And Falling Overnight Sessions by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D.

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (26-32): Rising And Falling Overnight Sessions by Anthony Trongone, Ph.D. Don't overlook how the performance of an individual stock affects the direction of an index-tracking stock or commodity. Here's an example using the NASDAQ 100. If history is any guide, knowing how and when individual companies perform within an index-tracking stock or commodity will help you identify profitable trading opportunities. Keeping track of the results could allow you to see a positive impact on your returns as the trading day comes to a close. To find out how this works, I foc...

AUTHOR: Anthony Trongone, Ph.D., CFP, CTADATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Trading Techniques

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• Sidebar: EasyLanguage Code for ProSuite 2001 by Massimiliano Scorpio

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (58-63): Sidebar: EasyLanguage Code for ProSuite 2001 by Massimiliano Scorpio FUNCTION msPattPos (Numeric Output) Input:Element(NumericSimple); value1=High[1]; value2=Low[1]; value3=(value1+value2)/2; value4=value1+AvgTrueRange(10)[1]; value5=value2-AvgTrueRange(10)[1]; If Element<value5 then msPattPos=0. . ....

AUTHOR: Massimiliano ScorpioDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Sidebar

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• Targeting Your Pattern by Massimiliano Scorpio

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (58-63): Targeting Your Pattern by Massimiliano Scorpio Two-bar patterns: How to select, reorganize, and trade them. Previously, my articles were focused on finding your favorite configurations using EasyLanguage (EL). I started using a very simple methodology (the reversal pattern) and then continued observing the relationship between the open and the close, respective to the previous bar (hot zones). In this article I use a more sophisticated approach to show a "complete" way to select, recognize, and come up with statistics on specific two-bar patterns. You w...

AUTHOR: Massimiliano ScorpioDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Chart Patterns

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• The Tape-Reading Edge by Thomas Carr, Ph.D.

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (16-24): The Tape-Reading Edge by Thomas Carr, Ph.D. Tape-reading skills are a product of your intuition. Here's how you can sharpen your intuitive power into a tremendous profit-making talent. First, it must be said that tape-reading is a kind of luxury, at least these days. It is not necessary to tape-read to be a successful trader; tape-reading gives you an extra edge -- an edge that takes your trading to the next stage of excellence. Sound tapereading skills are essential for getting the best possible entry, holding onto winning trades beyond your profit targ...

AUTHOR: Thomas Carr, Ph.D.DATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Virtually Speaking

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Traders' Resource: Newsletters And Publications by Technical Analysis, Inc.

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Traders' Resource

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• Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc.

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (80-85): Traders' Tips by Technical Analysis, Inc. Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software, all to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented in this issue. Massimiliano Scorpio's article, "Targeting Your Pattern," describes price bar patterns. Every price bar can be identified by its pattern. It can then be determined both how frequently a pattern occurs on a chart and how frequently the subsequent day closes higher than it did on the day on which the pattern occurr...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Traders' Tips

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• Websites For Traders: SeekingAlpha.com by David Penn

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:7 (36): Websites For Traders: SeekingAlpha.com by David Penn SEEKINGALPHA.COM One reason you don't tend to read too many restaurant reviews written while the reviewer is still sampling the cuisine is obvious: How can the reviewer provide a complete evaluation of the meal if he or she hasn't eaten the whole thing--appetizer to dessert? Something similar strikes me as I set out to introduce a fascinating new website called Seeking Alpha--or, more accurately, seekingalpha.com. While I haven't even come close to perusing all that this website has to offer in the way of n...

AUTHOR: David PennDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Websites For Traders

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Working Money: Is Value Investing Back In Vogue? by Clem Chambers

AUTHOR: Clem ChambersDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Working Money

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Working Money: May Price And Volume Be With You by Tim Ord

AUTHOR: Tim OrdDATE: JUL2005SUBJECT: Working Money