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1990
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JANUARY 1990 MYSTERY CHART
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Headed by a ruthless CEO renowned for his punishment of opposing short-sellers and backed by the
wiliest band of directors in Christendom, nothing else trades like this NYSE stock. This month's mystery
selection is a carefully selected chunk of 1989's action. If you haven't seen it, don 't despair. Even
knowledgeable traders touch this gingerly.
What stock is this? Did you make money here? Could you have made money? Explain in words and
pictures. Our advice: Forget fundamentals or technicals. Think of this as war.
Can you identify when and in what market this price formation o...
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Market Analyzer PLUS
AUTHOR: John SweeneyDATE: 1990
SIDEBAR: THE RULE OF ALTERNATION
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: SIDEBAR: OTHER CONTENDERS
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After Dow's Market Analyzer Plus and MetaStock Pro 2.0, two contenders remain: N2 and CompuTrac.
The all-time price leader at over $3,000 is CompuTrac-- the originator of this entire genus of software.
After a developmental slowdown several years ago, acquisition by Telerate has pumped new money and
new features into the program, and a recent revision included so many new items it almost overloaded
our comparison table. It'S the next package we have to review and the obvious question will be, "What
could possibly be worth that much money?"
N2 is unique in providing, albeit in a host o...
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: April Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Answers to April's Mystery Chart contest ("No chumps and Mystery Charts," Stocks & Commodities,
April 1990) were pretty terse, although contestants had no trouble identifying the weekly heating oil price
chart. The brevity may have been from the simplicity of the situation: a breakaway gap to the upside and
the approach to support on the downside. The question was: What next?...
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: December Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...We're the first to admit December's Mystery Chart (Figure 1) was tough. We threw in too few hints
and, since we used the Standard & Poor's index rather than the Dow, only four people came up with the
1982 stock market bottom, although thousands have begun their analyses from that turning point....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: First Mystery Charts Results
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...In our first Mystery Chart contest, we were fascinated with the variety of ways traders looked at the
same data. From pure chartcraft to Gann angles to spreads, readers hardly felt constrained in generating
ideas for trading. We've summarized some of the most interesting here....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: January Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Chumps don't trade Teledyne, which was January's Mystery Chart (Figure 1). Brokers should accept no
orders from anyone who isn't well-capitalized, well-connected or just as ornery as the other players. The
window in Figure 2 itself shows what has happened since Teledyne's summer 1989 runup and, for
perspective, Figure 3 is Teledyne'sThe weekly chart since 1986. The tumultuous action evident since last
summer shows that Teledyne's character has hardly changed....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: July Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...All entrants save one for the July Mystery Chart correctly identified COMEX gold (variously, June and
March) and most amazingly traded it correctly for the subsequent breakdown (Figure 1). Since the move
was so dramatic, heavy emphasis was placed showing how the action before the break led to the break....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: June Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Yes, I suppose I gave away the June chart when I said it was a currency spread ( Figure 1). On the
other hand, it turned out there were a lot of currency traders! Picking a winner this time was
tough. There were no wrong entries and the quality of the trading was strong....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: March Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Mystery Chart in your March issue is a daily soybean chart from about May 15, 1979, to June 23,
1980. The chart depicts a low in April 1980, which preceded a seven-month rise of more than $2.00 a
bushel. However, the moves in 1979 and 1980 were dwarfed by a 13-month decline (from November
1980 to December 1981), which carried beans down about $6.00 a bushel....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: May Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...For the May Mystery Chart (Figure 1), I contrasted theperformance of two blue-chips headed, I said, in
different directions despite their industry fundamentals. Which stocks were they and where would they be
in a year....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts Repetitive bottoming soybeans
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Mystery Charts S&C's "how-I-done-it" challenge
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...A true technician loves a challenge and the formation highlighted above presents one. First, tell us what
this is and when it occurred. Describe how it would have been traded by your discipline (charts,
regression, breakouts and so on). We will judge the entries for accuracy and coherence, in the first part,
and in consistency and success in the second part. The winner will receive a one-year subscription
extension to Stocks & Commodities plus the title of Certified Technical Genius!...
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Our November Mystery Chart is a world-class stock index, the richest in the world. I'm giving this broad
hint so you can readily load in the information necessary for your analysis, which will show us what we
would have done on August 3, 1990, when the subject approached support (Figure 1, parts A and B) at
the 29,000 level. Got that? 29,000!? We've included two Mystery Charts this time so that you can get a
better look at the index in question....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: November Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Picking the winner for our first Mystery Chart (November 1989) was tough, since we received several
great entries. But we had to choose, and finally, we settled on Greg Carnell's effective use of moving
averages, momentum and divergence. A close second was John Fortune's straightforward analysis
starting from the weekly charts and moving down to daily entry and exit signals. Both struck us as being
logical, internally consistent and realistic....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews MESA 3
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...When Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis (MESA) edged onto the trading scene several years ago,
we (favorably) evaluated it over our previous choice for cyclical analysis, Fourier analysis. MESA was
the first program that conveniently applied a better technique to price data in a manner that the average
trader could comprehend....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: Reviews MetaStock-Professional 2.0
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...EQUIS INTERNATIONAL
P.O. Box 26743
Salt Lake City, UT 84126
(801) 974-5115
Product: Advanced-level technical analysis and profitability testing package.
Equipment required: IBM PC/XT/ AT/PS2, 640K. Can use up to 1.8 MB of expanded memory
(EMS LIM 4.0). CGA, EGA with 256K graphic memory, VGA. Two 720K floppies minimum but
really needs a hard disk. Asynchronous communications adapter with Hayes modem or 100%
compatible. PC or MS DOS 3.1 or higher. One of 150 supported dot matrix, ink jet or laser printers.
You'll need about 900K disk space with sample data....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
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Stocks & Commodities V.8:14: September Mystery Charts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The winner for our September Mystery Chart (Orange Juice, Figure 1) was easy to determine: only two
sturdy souls made the necessary predictions, though many recounted their work on the historical data.
One person was right and one was wrong. Our newest Certified Technical Genius, whose work is below,
is Eddy Mark of Toronto, Ontario (Figures 3 through 6). The runner-up, Dennis Krull of Citicorp
Futures, Chicago, IL, had the direction right (south) but his entry would never have been hit in the
subsequent action (Figure 7)....
AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1990
Tracking Gold With Elliott and Gann
AUTHOR: K.H.K.H. Gin, SingaporeDATE: 1990