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• Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Candlestick Charts For Daytrading by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Does this sound familiar? The price of a stock is moving up. Feeling the adrenaline course through your body, you click the buy button. You watch in horror as the market tumbles, taking the stock with it. After all is said and done, you end up with a huge loss. Frustrated, you wonder what went wrong. The idea of daytrading tempts us all, considering how easy access is to high-speed Internet connections and direct-access brokers. However, there are substantial risks involved, and to protect yourself, you need to understand what is g...

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Trading Techniques

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• Interview: John C. Bogle Of Vanguard

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Interview: John C.Bogle Of Vanguard John C.Bogle, president of Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, founded The Vanguard Group, Inc., in 1974, after having been associated with a predecessor company since 1951. The Vanguard Group is one of the largest mutual fund organizations in the world, with more than 100 mutual funds with current assets totaling more than $550 billion. In 1975, Bogle founded Vanguard 500 Index Fund, currently the largest fund in the group. It was the first index mutual fund. Bogle is the author of two best-selling investment books. His third book, John Bogle On Inve...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Interview

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• Letters to S&C

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Letters to S&C 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....

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Letters To S&C

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• Nasdaq Advances -- Declines by Dennis D. Peterson

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Nasdaq Advances -- Declines by Dennis D. Peterson This market breadth indicator remains one of the most popular ways to gauge market movement. Market indices can rise on the backs of just a few stocks. This is especially true with the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, since both are weighted by market capitalization. Market breadth indicators that can picture the entire market help traders and investors identify market momentum. The three measures typically used to characterize the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) are advances ? decl...

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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• Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Optimizing With Hilbert Indicators by Roger Darley Adjusting your trading signals to account for what's actually happening in the market can mean a nice profit for you. If I knew what the optimum moving average length (or any other filter 's length) was on a daily basis, then my indicators and trading strategies could be optimized for what is actually happening in the market. John Ehlers's recent articles in the March and May 2000 issues of STOCKS & COMMODITIES concerning adaptive indicators for traders now make it possible to do just that --optimize trading strategies for what is actually ha...

AUTHOR: Roger DarleyDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: New Techniques

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• Options Or Stops? by Joe Luisi

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Options Or Stops? by Joe Luisi Options may cost less and give you more flexibility than outright stops. Here's how to choose between options and stops and some ways of using both throughout the life of the trade. Stops are essential, but they don't have to be orders to buy or sell stock or futures. Options are sometimes preferable to futures or stocks, due to their limited risk:if you own them, you can only lose the cost of the option. Here 's how to go about it. Once you take a futures position either buying or selling, you should place a stop to get you out of the market if your analysis ...

AUTHOR: Joe LuisiDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Options

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• Q&A by Don Bright

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Q&A by Don Bright Don Bright answers questions on how to create a Gann fan line, commodity options, and Smith indicator market timing....

AUTHOR: Don BrightDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Q&A

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• Traders' Resource: Hardware

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Resource: Hardware Hardware choices these days often boil down to getting the fastest processor and the most memory you can afford, together with a cable connection or another high-bandwidth connection for quotes. Dual processors aren't too much for some of the software that's available for traders. The new LCD screens are much easier on the eyes, so pay up for those. That said, the vendors listed here can supply you with some tweaks, such as customized trading setups and multiple-monitor setups. Regarding multiple monitors, you'll probably want to have Windows 98 or later installed...

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Traders' Resource

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• Traders' Tips

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Traders' Tips Here is this month's selection of Traders' Tips, contributed by various developers of technical analysis software to help readers more easily implement some of the strategies presented: EasyLanguage code for Hilbert Channel Breakout indicator, John Ehler's revised version of the Hilbert indicator for EasyLanguage code, EasyLanguage code for Brian Bell's article ""Normalization"", NeuroShell DayTrader Professional applied to ""Optimization With Hilbert Indicators"", and how to computer fixed length cycles using Wave Wi$e....

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Traders' Tips

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• Two-Day Price Patterns by Martin J. Pring

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Two-Day Price Patterns by Martin J. Pring Coming at the end of a trend, these two-day patterns are solid signals of a reversal. Here's the last of Pring's three articles on price patterns. Two-day price pattern formations, unlike others we have discussed, take just one or two days to complete and have a relatively short-term significance. I refer to them as "one-" or "two-day" patterns, but the wording could just as easily apply to weekly or monthly bars. I have even referred to this phenomenon on intraday charts as one-or two-bar price patterns, because that is what they are. In retrospect,...

AUTHOR: Martin J. PringDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Basic Techniques

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• Which Inflation Rate? by Alex Saitta and Yuxin Li

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Which Inflation Rate? by Alex Saitta and Yuxin Li So you're going to use an inflation rate to gauge the market you're interested in. Which one are you going to use? Which one fits your needs? Bond yields provide a fixed coupon or income. As the rate of inflation rises, the coupon's buying power declines; as the rate of inflation falls, more goods and services can be purchased with that fixed coupon. For this reason bond yields are strongly linked to the inflation rate, and the inflation rate is of paramount importance to bond investors. Which inflation rate, though? When talking about infla...

AUTHOR: Alex Saitta and Yuxin LiDATE: NOV2000SUBJECT: Intermarket Analysis