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• ActiveTick.com

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ActiveTick is one of the newer up-and-coming challengers to the market data/charting/automated trading niche. The product offers many useful features that will appeal to a variety of budget-conscious stock and forex traders (intraday, swing, and position). Here's an overview of the main features....

AUTHOR: Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.DATE: AUG2012SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Adaptrade Builder 1.2

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...If you've been using TradeStation as a trading system development platform for a while and found yourself wondering how to expand your EasyLanguage (EL) skill sets in order to begin coding your own custom EL scripts, then you've probably considered using the services of an experienced EL programmer. While this can be a great way to have a trading system built for you in a short length of time, if the trading idea upon which the system is built is based on a flawed concept...

AUTHOR: Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.DATE: NOV2011SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Barrie Hetirachi's Five Point Pattern

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Five Point Pattern is part of the Wave59 drawing tools. This drawing tool was developed under the guidance of Barrie Hetirachi, who has 20-some years of experience with the markets....

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: JAN2012SUBJECT: Product Review

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• David Stendahl And Position Sizing

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...David Stendahl is the portfolio manager at Capitalogix, a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) firm specializing in systematic trading. He is also a leading industry expert, author, and speaker focused on the managed futures industry. He also co_created various performance analysis software packages, including Performance Summary Plus (now incorporated into TradeStation), Portfolio Evaluator, and Money Manager....

AUTHOR: J. Gopalakrishnan and B. FaberDATE: AUG2012SUBJECT: Interview

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• Ditto Trade

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Imagine a scenario where you open and fund a brokerage account, download one of its trading platforms, and then review the real-world trading track records of a group of high-performance traders and/or trading advisory services....

AUTHOR: Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.DATE: APR2013SUBJECT: Product review

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• Income-Generating Strategies With Brad Reinard

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Brad Reinard, who is editor-in-chief of Monthly Cash Thru Options LLC, has extensive experience in directional and nondirectional option trading strategies....

AUTHOR: J. Gopalakrishnan and B. FaberDATE: FEB2013SUBJECT: Interview

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• Interview: A Conversation With Brian Shannon

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Brian Shannon, CMT, has been involved with Wall Street for over three decades. He was lead trader and director of research at MarketWise Securities from 1999 to 2006, where his focus was providing technical analysis training and education to individuals. In 2010 he launched Alphatrends.net, providing stock trading education to traders and swing trading ideas to subscribers. STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributing writer Leslie Masonson interviewed him about his three decades of market experience, his technical trading approach focusing on VWAP and anchored VWAP, his approach to using charts that foc...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: JUL2023SUBJECT: Interview

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• Interview: A Conversation With Charles Kirk

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Charles E. Kirk is an independent, full-time ETF trader, and is the longtime publisher of The Kirk Report (www.kirkreport.org). The report started out as a popular blog in 2003, when Kirk began regularly posting about stocks, trading, investing, and the market, with an emphasis on education rather than recommendations or advice. Leslie Masonson interviewed Charles Kirk in January 2023 about his three decades of trading and investing, his philosophy on learning, and his experiences publishing his newsletter...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: MAR2023SUBJECT: Interview

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• Interview: A Conversation With Dennis Tilley

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Dennis Tilley has traded securities for over 25 years. Since 1999, he has been Director of Research and Chief Investment Officer at Merriman Wealth Management LLC, and is currently Director of Alternative Investments. He has extensive experience in asset class trading, portfolio management research, design, and implementation. Before joining Merriman, Tilley was a nationally recognized expert in the field of electric propulsion...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: JUL2021SUBJECT: Interview

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• Interview: A Conversation With John Ehlers

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...After four decades of providing products, services, and education to traders through his company, MESA Software, John F. Ehlers has announced his retirement. Ehlers, a Contributing Editor to STOCKS & COMMODITIES since nearly the magazine's launch, is a pioneer in the use of cycles and digital signal processing (DSP) technical analysis. Formerly, he was an engineering fellow for Raytheon. Kevin Davey interviewed him to discuss his trading and analysis approach, his thoughts on where quantitative financial analysis is heading, and his long and meaningful contribution to the fields of technical a...

AUTHOR: Kevin J. DaveyDATE: APR2023SUBJECT: Interview

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• Learning The Ropes With Stan Freifeld

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stan Freifeld traded options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange for his own account from 1994-2001. He was a market maker for options on several popular equities. As managing director of McMillan Analysis Corporate Services Division, he now teaches option trading and risk management. We spoke with him on December 6, 2013 about the trading floor, the greek variables, implied volatility, and how he approaches option trading today....

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: FEB2014SUBJECT: Interview

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• Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald Pair trading is a market-neutral trading strategy. But how do you find the right pair? Using neural networks, of course. Are you taking a second look at market-neutral trading systems in today's difficult markets? Pair trading is popular, but finding the right pair is more challenging. Neural networks offer an alternative to traditional pair-matching methods. The usual pair-trading strategies speculate on future convergence of a price spread between similar securities. Once a pair is identified, the customary rule is to buy one security and sel...

AUTHOR: Marge SheraldDATE: FEB2010SUBJECT: Neural Networks

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• Product Review: HGSI Investment Software

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Visual analytical software for evaluating 10,234 US securities and 178 industry groups (Bloomberg industry grouping), 1,577 ETFs/ETNs, and 580 closed-end funds...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: JUN2015SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product Review: JBL Risk Manager 9.0

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Standalone money, risk, and trade management software for stock traders that operates independent of any charting service, trading system, or brokerage platform...

AUTHOR: Barbara Star, Ph.D.DATE: JUL2015SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: NeuroShell Trader

AUTHOR: Technical Analysis, Inc.DATE: 1998SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product Review: NeuroShell Trader

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NeuroShell Trader (NT) is highly sophisticated software that is much more than just a way to utilize neural nets. NeuroShell Trader also deserves to be recognized for having well-designed interfaces that let the trader explore ideas with ease and speed....

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: SEP2011SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: NeuroShell Trader by David Penn

AUTHOR: David PennDATE: 2001SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: Neuroshell Trader 5 by Dennis D. Peterson

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: 2007SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: Neuroshell Trader Version 4.2 by Dennis D. Peterson

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: 2003SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: VantagePoint 7.0 by Phil Crosby, CFA

AUTHOR: Phil Crosby, CFADATE: 2007SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review: Wave59 by Dennis D. Peterson

AUTHOR: Dennis D. PetersonDATE: 2010SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product Review:CycleTrader V.5.0

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: 2000SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: 2020 Master Trader Program: Superperformance Workshop With Mark Minervini

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Over the past 37 years, Mark Minervini learned the keys to profitable trading by studying over 10,000 best-performing stock charts and developing hard-and-fast trading rules, all of which helped to catapult him from novice to supertrader...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: APR2021SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: ETFreplay.com

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...ETFreplay.com is an exceptional website that provides the analytical tools and backtesting capability for developing profitable exchange traded fund (ETF) trading and investing strategies....

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: DEC2011SUBJECT: Product Review

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Product review: Forexsmarttools.com

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: NOV2011SUBJECT: Product review

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• Product review: NeuroShell Trader Version 6.5

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NeuroShell's programming interface can get any trader started down a path of building trading systems quickly. The point-and-click interface for the various types of trading systems, indicators, and neural nets that can be created and debugged reduces the learning curve...

AUTHOR: Jason K. HutsonDATE: APR2018SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: NinjaTrader 8 Part 1

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...NinjaTrader has a dedicated following and for good reason. It is broker independent, the price is attractive, it supports a lot of datafeeds, and it's easy to use. For the benefit of its dedicated followers, NinjaTrader's new release NinjaTrader 8 (NT8) is an evolution of the previous generation. It looks similar to the previous version, which means you don't have to invest a lot of time to learn about its new features, but the technology used to develop it is more powerful than in the previous version, and this is something you'll notice once you start using the product...

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: FEB2017SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: NinjaTrader 8 Part 2

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Last month in part 1, I reviewed some of the many features of NinjaTrader 8 and ended by saying that this month I would cover the strategy development features and some of the advanced order-handling features. As mentioned in the first part, there are so many features available in NT8 that it's impossible to cover all its features in a review...

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: MAR2017SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: Phantom Trader

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Real-time charting, analysis, and commentary service...

AUTHOR: Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.DATE: FEB2014SUBJECT: Product review

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• Product review: TradeShark

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...TradeShark is a predictive trading tool from Market Technologies....

AUTHOR: Sunny HarrisDATE: AUG2014SUBJECT: Product review

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• Product review: VectorVest 7 Premium, Part 1

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading stocks has never been easier, more fun, or more affordable. But if new or experienced investors or traders learn the wrong approach instead of educating themselves, the results can be catastrophic mentally and financially. Platforms that offer good educational components and decision support can help, and that's what this review will focus on...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: NOV2021SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Product review: VectorVest 7 Premium, Part 2

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Last month in part 1 of my review of VectorVest 7 Premium, I focused on two of the three most important questions for traders and investors...

AUTHOR: Leslie N. MasonsonDATE: DEC2021SUBJECT: Product Review

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• Quick-Scan: Cracking The Money Code

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Anyone who has been trading the markets for a while is probably familiar with Larry Williams, the innovator and developer of numerous trading concepts and custom, proprietary indicators during a trading career spanning nearly a half century. As his website, www.ireallytrade.com, implies, he still really trades....

AUTHOR: Darrell JobmanDATE: NOV2013SUBJECT: Quick Scan

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Quick-Scans: Stock Trading Success by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

AUTHOR: Jayanthi GopalakrishnanDATE: 2007SUBJECT: Quick-Scans

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• The Composite Man's Bull Market Campaign

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Will the principles of 20th-century chartist Richard D. Wyckoff still work in today's markets? You might be surprised. Here's a reenactment of Wyckoff's original campaign as applied to the 2008-14 stock market....

AUTHOR: Hank Pruden, Bruce Fraser, and Roman BogomazovDATE: AUG2014SUBJECT: Charting

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• The Vortex Indicator by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Vortex Indicator by Etienne Botes and Douglas Siepman The search for a reliable technical indicator for trading a change in market direction seems to be a never-ending quest. Ideally, such an indicator should be on time; neither lagging the market nor too sensitive. The Vortex Indicator was developed as a new directional movement indicator, drawing inspiration in part from J. Welles Wilder's directional movement indicator. The result is a simple but effective indicator that can be used to develop intriguing trading ideas. After thoroughly researching technical tools, we concluded that t...

AUTHOR: Etienne Botes and Douglas SiepmanDATE: JAN2010SUBJECT: Trading Systems

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• VantagePoint 8.6

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...I love to try out new software, especially trading software. I like to open the box and start pushing all the buttons to see what happens. If the software designers are really good, the program will be...

AUTHOR: Sunny HarrisDATE: OCT2011SUBJECT: Quick-Scan