Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis
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Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis - Forex Strategies ( PDFDrive )
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inTrodUCTion XXi ForeX trading using interMarket anaLysis i reCoUnTed HoW i goT inVolVed in commodity futures trading and computerized technical analysis in my 2000 book, Trend Forecasting with Technical Analysis: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Intermarket Analysis to Beat the Market. However, I believe that it is worth repeat- ing the highlights here because they address the convergence of the development of futures trading and trading software technology during the 1980s and 1990s that is now applied in today’s hot forex markets. I traded stocks and options for nearly a decade, using various technical analysis methods before I began day trading and position trading com- modities in the late 1970s while employed as a hospital administrator for Humana, one of the largest for-profit hospital management compa- nies in the United States at that time. A physician friend who traded gold futures provided the encouragement that moved me from equities into this new trading area. This was during the inflationary period when gold prices were building to a peak above $800 an ounce, so there was incredible market excitement surrounding commodities trading. At first I subscribed to weekly chart services, which had to be updated by hand during the week and required a very sharp pencil to draw my support and resistance lines, which in turn determined where I placed my stops. It was very annoying to anticipate the trend direc- tion correctly, only to miss out on a big move after being stopped out prematurely at a loss due to an ill-placed stop. With only a handheld calculator available to compute numbers in the years before microcomputers, I learned the underlying theories and mathematical equations for numerous technical indicators, such as moving averages, and devised mathematical shortcuts to expedite my daily calculations. I was quite excited when I brought home my first personal computer in the late 1970s. Soon I was teaching myself programming and writ- ing simple software programs to automate many of these calculations. t r a d e s e c r e t s XXii I quickly realized that the marriage of technical analysis with micro- computers would revolutionize financial market analysis and trad- ing. Although I had been hooked on financial markets and technical analysis for nearly a decade by then, it was the prospect of applying computing technology to technical analysis that crystallized the intel- lectual passion that I had long sought. In 1979 at the age of 31 and intent on pursuing this goal, I started a trading software company that was the predecessor to my current com- pany, Market Technologies, LLC. A year later, with my wife Illyce’s support and, more importantly, with her income, I left Humana to trade commodities full-time while continuing to develop trading software. My goal was to design technical analysis software that would do more than just speed up the analysis calculations that I had been doing by hand each evening with a calculator. I wanted to test and compare various trading strategies that I had created to identify the best ones and fore- cast the trend directions of the commodities markets that I traded. Working alone and at a feverish pace, I spent day and night for the next few years focused intently on my daily trading activities, researching more about the commodities markets, studying books and articles on technical analysis, examining every one of my winning and losing trades for patterns to incorporate into my trading strategies, and devel- oping trading software for the microcomputers that were just becoming fashionable among commodities traders. In 1983, after three years of full-time research and development in which I was basically operating as a one-man think tank, I released ProfitTaker Futures Trading software, which offered both automated strategy back-testing capabilities and optimization. It was hot! It even did back-testing on actual commodity contracts with a built-in “rollover” function that moved from an expiring contract into the next actively traded contract. This same year, I authored a series of articles XXiii ForeX trading using interMarket anaLysis on technical analysis software for Commodities magazine (now known as Futures) in which I introduced the concept of strategy back-testing and optimization for microcomputers and outlined the impact that this innovation would have on technical analysis and trading. I was encouraged in those early years by several prominent techni- cians and traders. Foremost among them was Darrell Jobman at Download 1.29 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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