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Interview | MAR 2026
Interview: The Beginnings Of Charting Software With Timothy Slater
One of the very first software products for financial charting and technical analysis was CompuTrac. Tim Slater, who dreamt up the idea for the product and then co-founded CompuTrac, Inc., offers some of his remembrances of how the groundbreaking software came to be. He also offers a few words about what he'd tell traders today. Following is some background and an encapsulation of a recent conversation with Slater
by Barbara Diamond
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