Letter from the Editor
This month’s issue brings a great deal of news about our organization. To paraphrase Executive Director Tom Silveri’s excellent presentation at the May Symposium, “The state of the MTA is stronger than it has ever been.” The letters from Past President Phil Roth and newly inducted President Larry Berman describe some of the efforts which have led to our growth and strength over the past few years.
We also have a detailed report about the MTA Educational Foundation course being taught at the University of Richmond. The Foundation has been actively promoting technical analysis within the academic community for a number of years. For those interested in learning more about this organization, more details can be found at their web site, www.mtaeducationalfoundation.org. A redesign of the site is currently underway, so check back often for the latest information.
Three pages of Technically Speaking are devoted to the life and work of Ian Notley, who will be missed by all who had the pleasure of meeting him. Ian’s work is certainly important, and we are able to present a few examples. We also hope you’ll take the time to read the remarks of Ian McAvity and Karl Wagner. We received several other remembrances of Ian that we didn’t have room to print.
This space is not just to pay tribute to a life well lived. Ian inspired many during his career, and we hope that more will be inspired by reading about him. He embodied all that the MTA is – knowledge, innovation, friendship, and mentorship.
In Memoriam Ian Sydney Notley
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of long-time MTA Member and friend, Ian Sydney Notley. Our thoughts are with him and his family
Sincerely,
Mike Carr, CMT
Editor
What's Inside...
Turning Over the Reins: A Letter from Past President Phil Roth, CMT
by Phil Roth, CMTOn June 30 I completed my two-year term as President of the MTA. It was my third term as President, having served in 1989-1990 and in 1996- 1997. So I was President in the 1980’s, the 1990’s, and...
A Letter from Current President Larry Berman, CMT, CFA, CTA
by Larry M. Berman, CMT, CTA, CFADear Members and Affiliates, I am very excited to be your new MTA President. In my previous executive roles as Vice-President of the MTA, President of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts...
New MTA Chapter: Utah
by Edward Goettig, CMTWith the establishment of the Utah Chapter, those interested in the financial markets in our area can come together to discuss, debate, and learn secrets and insights to unlocking profitable trading....
Technical Analysis: An Academic Perspective, presented by Dr. Andrew W. Lo, Ph.D.
by Michael Carr, CMT & Andrew W. Lo, PhDAfter being presented the MTA Recognition Award, Dr. Lo spoke briefly about the way academia perceives technical analysis. In his opinion, the field of technical analysis is gaining respect. He...
Trading With Relatives: Presented by Charles D. Kirkpatrick, II, CMT
by Michael Carr, CMT & Charles D. KirkpatrickKirkpatrick spoke at the MTA Symposium after being recognized with the MTA Annual Service Award. He presented his stock selection technique as a complete methodology that could be implemented by any...
On the Campus
by Dr. John H. Earl, Jr, CFA, CLU, CHFC, ARM, CFP, CICIn the fall semester of 1996, the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond offered the first course in technical analysis at an accredited four-year university. (Similar to the debate...
MTA Profile: Ian Sydney Notley
This profile describes Ian Notley’s life and work in technical analysis. It was compiled by Clare White, CMT, Optionetics. com. Ian Sydney Notley — 2006 Annual Lifetime Achievement Award The work...
Reflections
by Ian McAvityWhat follows is a long personal reflection on how Ian got to be in North America that I pulled together this morning in reflecting on the loss of an old friend for some younger friends who did not...
Did You Happen To Really Know Ian Notley
by Karl Wagner, CMTDid you happen to really know Ian Notley.. I did. I served with Ian Notley on the Boards of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts and the International Federation of Technical Analysts. I think...
“What’s Hot” The MTA Library Announces...
Donations from Trader’s Library The MTA would like to thank Trader’s Library for its recent donations to the MTA Library. Trader’s Library has included the MTA on its mailing list of Review...
On June 30 I completed my two-year term as President of the MTA. It was my third term as President, having served in 1989-1990 and in 1996- 1997. So I was President in the 1980’s, the 1990’s, and the 2000’s. I plan to be available after 2010. I will remain on the Board in the position reserved for the immediate ex-President; it will be the start of my 24th year on the Board or as a Committee Chair. But who’s counting? My first official, non-presidential task is to congratulate the newly elected officers, Larry Berman as President, Dave Keller as Vice President, Craig Fullen as Treasurer, and Tim Snavely as Secretary. They have all served the MTA well in the past, most recently, Larry as Vice President, Dave as Regions Committee Chair, Craig as Audit Committee Chair, and Tim as Secretary and Seminar Chair. I also congratulate the newly elected Directors,
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Phil Roth, CMT
Philip J. Roth, who holds the Chartered Market Technician designation, was the Chief Technical Market Analyst at Miller Tabak + Co. from 2001 until April 2012. Phil was a Wall Street professional for 46 years, and has been in the industry for over half a century, having served...
A Letter from Current President Larry Berman, CMT, CFA, CTA
Dear Members and Affiliates, I am very excited to be your new MTA President. In my previous executive roles as Vice-President of the MTA, President of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and Vice-Chairman (Americas) of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), I have had the unique opportunity to gain a solid understanding of the global technical community and how it coexists. Many countries around the world have professional technical societies and strive to provide a forum to educate and network their members, and there are many others that have struggled. The MTA has the following stated mission: Attract and retain a membership of professionals devoting their efforts to using and expanding the field of technical analysis and sharing their body of knowledge with their fellow members. The MTA has had great success in the past few years of providing support for our membership around the world and continue to
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Larry M. Berman, CMT, CTA, CFA
Larry M. Berman appears weekly on BNN's Berman's Call where he blends fundamentals with expert technical analysis to help Bloomberg viewers uncover opportunities in the marketplace. He is a Co-Founder of ETF Capital Management and The Independent Investor Institute -- an...
With the establishment of the Utah Chapter, those interested in the financial markets in our area can come together to discuss, debate, and learn secrets and insights to unlocking profitable trading. As a new chapter, we want to further progression and awareness in the field of technical analysis. Our goals include increasing the number of members and associates in this area as well as enthusiasm for technical analysis. By following the MTA mission statement of “Attract, Establish, Educate,” we hope to meet these goals. In order to establish a stronger presence and a dynamic field of technical analysis in Utah, our chapter will be building various partnerships with financial institutions, businesses and local universities. These partnerships are vital and will help us to increase our numbers, attract a diverse group of investors, and increase public awareness in the importance of technical analysis. In my years of experience in the financial markets I
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Edward Goettig, CMT
Edward Goettig, CMT, started his financial career serving in different banking capacities. He received licenses in securities and has an extensive working trading knowledge in Currencies, Securities, Derivatives, Futures, Bonds, and Treasuries. He has worked for several years on...
After being presented the MTA Recognition Award, Dr. Lo spoke briefly about the way academia perceives technical analysis. In his opinion, the field of technical analysis is gaining respect. He recalled a time when he first started teaching and a colleague saw an issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine in his office. The colleague joked that Lo was reading financial pornography. More recent work, especially in the area of behavioral finance, has supported the theories of technical analysis. Yet, academics are still not embracing technicians. Lo attributes this to cultural differences and presented a stark example. We are all familiar with analysis that reads similar to, “The presence of clearly identified support and resistance levels, coupled with a one-third retracement parameter when prices lie between them, suggest the presence of strong buying and selling opportunities in the near-term.” This is clearly technical analysis. Lo shows this to his
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Michael Carr, CMT
Mike Carr, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is a full-time trader and contributing editor for Banyan Hill Publishing, a leading investment newsletter service. He is an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance and a contributor to various...

Andrew W. Lo, PhD
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1984. Before joining MIT’s finance faculty in 1988, he...
Kirkpatrick spoke at the MTA Symposium after being recognized with the MTA Annual Service Award. He presented his stock selection technique as a complete methodology that could be implemented by any investor. Kirkpatrick had managed stocks since the early 1980s using a technique that combined RS with strong earnings growth. He was looking at methods to reduce risk when he read James O’Shaughnessy’s book, What Works on Wall Street. Combining that work with his own, Kirkpatrick came up with a simple screen to identify stocks with the potential for future gains, which is summarize in Table 1. This technique was recognized with the Dow Award in 2001. The complete paper can be downloaded from the MTA web site Kirkpatrick’s Stock Selection CriteriaTable 1: Stocks meeting all of these tests are bought. Kirkpatrick immediately implemented this strategy and to prove its effectiveness, his results were reported in real-time rather than being obtained through
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Michael Carr, CMT
Mike Carr, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is a full-time trader and contributing editor for Banyan Hill Publishing, a leading investment newsletter service. He is an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance and a contributor to various...

Charles D. Kirkpatrick
Charles Kirkpatrick, who holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is the president of Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., and has been a featured speaker before such professional organizations as the New York Society of Security Analysts, Financial Analysts...
In the fall semester of 1996, the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond offered the first course in technical analysis at an accredited four-year university. (Similar to the debate between Plymouth, MA and Jamestown, VA where the first Europeans landed in America, there is the same debate over whether the first technical analysis course was at Golden Gate University or Richmond). The course was the result of several years of negotiations between the Finance Department and Mike Epstein, head of the Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation (MTAEF). Mike had long been an advocate of incorporating the study of technical analysis within the finance curriculum of business schools. Richard (Dick) Dickson, a technical analyst at Scott and String fellow in Richmond, organized and taught the first course. Dick brought in outside speakers to cover the specialized topic areas. Thirteen students were enrolled in the first class. One of the
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Dr. John H. Earl, Jr, CFA, CLU, CHFC, ARM, CFP, CIC
Chair, Department of Finance Robins School of Business University of Richmond Board member
This profile describes Ian Notley’s life and work in technical analysis. It was compiled by Clare White, CMT, Optionetics. com. Ian Sydney Notley — 2006 Annual Lifetime Achievement Award The work of Ian S. Notley is probably best known through publications from his highly regarded research company, Yelton Fiscal Inc. Mr. Notley provided market and sector analysis to financial institutions using a disciplined top-down approach studied with rotation and relative performance studies. He was an active member of both the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) and the Market Technician’s Association (MTA). In addition to being described as “a technician’s technician” when nominated, the most common theme encountered from those who knew the man is Mentor. Technical Analysis Background Ian Notley championed technical analysis of the financial markets in a career spanning 40 years. His specialty was long-term studies of secular and cyclical movements and their impact on money management style, and in particular, investment
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What follows is a long personal reflection on how Ian got to be in North America that I pulled together this morning in reflecting on the loss of an old friend for some younger friends who did not get to know him very well. Ian Notley – some lesser known background to a 35 year friendship. In 1973, I was writing Deliberations, the newsletter, for the institutional boutique, Draper Dobie & Co, in Toronto, where we had the first privately owned computer system dedicated to streaming stock exchange data. The Chairman of the firm, David Knight was an avid chartist, and fully supportive of anything in pursuit of data that Tony Lash and his crew could generate from those machines. Those machines provided the original stock quotes that appeared on Canadian cable TV for Rogers. It seems so simple now, but it was a Eureka moment back then to suggest that maybe prices
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Ian McAvity
Bio Coming
Below are two examples of Ian Notley’s work in the field of technical analysis.
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Did you happen to really know Ian Notley.. I did. I served with Ian Notley on the Boards of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts and the International Federation of Technical Analysts. I think that I did know him. He was a most stimulating personality and a marvelous lunching companion with his pleasant wit and marvelous recall of personal and world history. Ian has had 20 to 40 people as employees in his company over the years. Personally, I’ve never seen such employee loyalty in any company of any size in any industry. His employees absolutely venerated him. Their one goal was to serve Ian and to keep Ian happy. For several years I worked with Ian on a Relative Strength-to-the-market project, But that’s not what I want to write about. I want to tell you about accompanying Ian several times when he made one of his regular presentations to the staffs
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Karl Wagner, CMT
Bio Coming
Donations from Trader’s Library The MTA would like to thank Trader’s Library for its recent donations to the MTA Library. Trader’s Library has included the MTA on its mailing list of Review Copies for all of their newly released books. We will be posting all new book donations from Trader’s Library here. “Trading & Hedging with Agricultural Futures and Options” by James B. Bittman “Make Money Trading” by Jean Folger & Lee Leibfarth “Option Spreads Made Easy” by George Fontanills “Breakthrough Strategies for Predicting Any Market” by Jeff Greenblatt “Forex Simplified” by Marilyn Mc Donald “Trend Forecasting with Intermarket Analysis” by Louis B. Mendelsohn “Money-Making Candlestick Patterns” by Steve Palmquist “How to Select Stocks Using Technical Analysis” by Martin J. Pring “Option Trading Tactics” by Oliver L. Velez “Power Trading” by Oliver L. Velez “Swing Trading” by Oliver L. Velez “Naked Puts” by Ernie Zerenner & Michael Chupka The MTA would also like to thank David Aronson, Mike Carr and Lane Mendelsohn for their
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New Educational Content This Month
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December 6, 2023
Marrying Fundamental and Technical Analysis for Independent RIAs
Presenter(s): David Rath
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November 22, 2023
Utilizing Trend & Mean Reversion in Breadth Studies to Gauge Market Conditions
Presenter(s): Victor Riesco
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November 18, 2023
Beating the Bench
Presenter(s): Scott Brown, CMT