
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
We focus on the practical in this month’s newsletter. From trading psychology to trading tools and trading strategies, we have tried to provide you with new ideas that you can apply in the slow summer market. Of course, the slow summer market is probably a myth but we all need to find time to explore ideas and tools that might help us become better at what we do.
Trading seems to be the point where theory meets practice in technical analysis. Hopefully you will find the techniques and tools we highlight to be useful.
Although trading is often associated with short-term analysis, many traders analyze long-term data. In the long-term, stocks can move up or down just as they do in the short-term. SRC Stock Charts offer a long-term perspective on markets and we conclude this issue with a chart of Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index. The Nikkei ended May with a one-week loss of 15% but is up about 50% in the last year. Shortterm volatility can mask the relentless down trend that defines that market. Over the past 25 years, the Nikkei has lost an average of 2.8% a year.
Please email us with suggestions for other long-term charts to highlight the ups and downs of trading for a living. We can be reached at editor@mta.org.
Michael Carr
What's Inside...
HOW WILL THE NEXT FEW YEARS BE CHARACTERIZED? INFLATION, DEFLATION, OR BOTH?
by Robert Prechter, CMT & Martin J. Pring & Ron William, CFTeDuring the annual symposium of the Market Technicians Association, April 2013, two of the world’s most renowned veteran market technicians, Robert Prechter, CMT, President of Elliott Wave...
THE MENTAL EDGE IN TRADING
by Jason Williams & Keith Newcomb, CMT, CFP® & Michael Carr, CMTEditor’s note: Dr. Jason Williams was one of the speakers at the recent MTA Annual Symposium. His presentation was based on the research detailed in his book which is reviewed below. To view Dr....
A TECHNICAL GUIDE TO THE ISHARES DOW JONES U.S. ENERGY
by Jonathan BeckThis report takes a closer look at the U.S. Energy sector, via the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy ETF (Ticker: IYE). In recent days, IYE has quietly broken out of an ascending triangle pattern two and...
THE SMART MONEY
by Eric LeakeWhile equities have made new record highs this month High Yield Bonds have declined, a classic warning sign that has often led to multi-month declines. Does it matter when High Yield Bonds are not...
SCREENING FOR TRADING IDEAS
by Michael Carr, CMTMany traders use screens to generate trading ideas. A screen will generally be designed to scan a list of stocks, identifying the ones that meet certain criteria. For example, a screen might identify...
GEORGE LINDSAY’S AN AID TO TIMING
by Ed Carlson & Michael Carr, CMTEd Carlson has produced a video to explain a tool developed by George Lindsay and almost lost in the history of technical analysis. For those unfamiliar with Lindsay’s work, it is important to note...
ETF TRADING WITH BOLLINGER BANDS®
by Laurence Connors & Cesar Alvarez & Matt RadtkeIntroduction to Bollinger Bands® Bollinger Bands®, created by legendary money manager and researcher John Bollinger, are one of the most popular trading indicators in use today. Nearly all...
INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER GURKOVIC, CMT
by Christopher Gurkovic, CMT & Amber Hestla-BarnhartHow would you describe your job? I would describe the job as an opportunity to promote technical research and educate investors about the many ways in which talented people are successfully using our...
During the annual symposium of the Market Technicians Association, April 2013, two of the world’s most renowned veteran market technicians, Robert Prechter, CMT, President of Elliott Wave International and Martin Pring, Chairman of Pring Turner Capital, shared their key insights during a moderated panel discussion with Ron William, CMT, MSTA, Founder & Principal Market Strategist of RW Market Advisory, on one of today’s most widely debated questions about Inflation & Deflation pressures and how both risk scenarios would impact your investment decisions and portfolio returns. Please select link to review the full online video. Ron William: What is the best strategy to help preserve capital given your stances on either of the inflationary or deflationary pressures ahead? Martin Pring: Our firm (Pring Turner Capital) has just come out with a new ETF (The AdvisorShares Pring Turner Business Cycle ETF) (DBIZ) and I think that would be the place to go. In the past,
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Robert Prechter, CMT
Robert Prechter is CEO of Elliott Wave International, an independent market analysis firm. He is also Founder of Socionomics Institute. Robert has written 20 books on finance, beginning with Elliott Wave Principle in 1978, which predicted a 1920s-style stock market...

Martin J. Pring
Martin J. Pring is the president of Pring Research and Chairman of Pring Turner Capital Group (PTG), a money management and sub-advisory firm, located in Walnut Creek, CA. He is also the president of Pring.com, the research arm of PTG, which provides research to individuals and...

Ron William, CFTe
Ron William, CFTe, is a market strategist, educator/mentor and performance coach; with +20 years of experience, working for leading economic research & institutional firms; producing tactical research & trading strategies. He specializes in global, multi-asset, top-down...
Editor’s note: Dr. Jason Williams was one of the speakers at the recent MTA Annual Symposium. His presentation was based on the research detailed in his book which is reviewed below. To view Dr. Williams’ presentation, please visit http://symposium.mta.org Dr. Jason Williams presented findings from his research into the trader‘s mind at the MTA Symposium April 4th and 5th, 2013. In his book, The Mental Edge In Trading (McGraw-Hill, 2012), he leads readers on a deep dive exploring his findings, a recommended personality test of choice, and explains how to interpret the results to improve trading enjoyment and performance. This book is completely different from other studies and texts examining trader personality in three important ways. First, many of the previous studies have been written for academics by academics, offering limited use for practitioners. Second, previous studies often included self-selecting traders with varying degrees of success and failure, or a mix of bank
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Jason Williams
Jason A. Williams is a Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets. He has over 15 years of experience as an executive, board member and investor leading companies through start-up, change, accelerated growth and successful exits. Recognized as a disruptive innovator and dynamic...

Keith Newcomb, CMT, CFP®
Keith Newcomb, CMT, CFP®, is a portfolio manager responsible for stewardship of publicly traded equity, fixed income, commodity, and real estate mandates on behalf of clients of Full Life Financial LLC, the registered investment adviser firm he founded in 2002. He blends...

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...
This report takes a closer look at the U.S. Energy sector, via the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy ETF (Ticker: IYE). In recent days, IYE has quietly broken out of an ascending triangle pattern two and a half years in the making. From a portfolio perspective there have also be some developments worth noting. For example, the longer-term relative strength chart (vs. the S&P 500) appears to have found support at an historically significant level and the near-term relative strength chart substantiates that a bottom is in place. As a result, it appears that IYE is becoming a technical leadership sector ETF and investors/traders should look to take advantage of such a rotation. In addition to a brief technical analysis of this sector ETF as a whole, this report goes one step further as is delves into the technical outlook for its top 10 holdings or 63% of the entire fund. ENERGY –
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Jonathan Beck
Jonathan Beck brings over 10 years of buy/sell-side equity research experience to the table at J. Beck investments. He has previously spent more than half of his career working exclusively as a technical analyst on one of the most well respected technical analysis teams on Wall...
While equities have made new record highs this month High Yield Bonds have declined, a classic warning sign that has often led to multi-month declines. Does it matter when High Yield Bonds are not invited to the stock market party? We decided to quantify these divergences over the past several years. Here is what we found. There are a number of structural reasons why we call movements in the High Yield Bond asset class the “Smart Money”. A key reason is liquidity. High Yield Bonds are much less liquid than stocks. Bonds are still traded over the counter, dealer to dealer based on a wide variety of inputs such as inventory, credit risk and yield spreads. For these and other reasons High Yield Bonds tend to be much more of an institutional asset class, with few individual investors in the marketplace. Stocks on the other hand can be purchased by just about
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Eric Leake
Eric Leake is a Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer to Anchor Capital where he has served as Chief Investment Officer and portfolio manager for Anchor’s separate accounts since 1996. Eric is a member of the Market Technicians Association (MTA), American Association...
Many traders use screens to generate trading ideas. A screen will generally be designed to scan a list of stocks, identifying the ones that meet certain criteria. For example, a screen might identify all stocks with an RSI below 30 as potential buys. Without access to specialized trading software or proprietary screening software, the capability of screens that are widely available on the internet are usually limited to simple criteria like an oversold RSI. Long-term value investors can generally find tools that allow them to identify stocks with low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios or high dividend yields. Some sites, like FinViz.com, offer fundamental screens along with longer-term technical tools like the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. This site also screens for stocks completing chart patterns. Technicians may argue about whether or not the stocks identified by the screens actually meet the requirements of the pattern definition but it is an interesting capability.
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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...
Ed Carlson has produced a video to explain a tool developed by George Lindsay and almost lost in the history of technical analysis. For those unfamiliar with Lindsay’s work, it is important to note that Lindsay predicted market turning points months to years in advance. In this way, it is more similar to the work of Elliott than to a trend follower. While the techniques of both Elliott and Lindsay offer a degree of precision in the hands of a skilled analyst, Lindsay seems to be more objective. Broad market patterns need to be identified and smaller wave counts are not needed. This distinction should allow traders and analysts to enjoy more consistent results with Lindsay. As Louis Rukeyser told Lindsay during an appearance on Wall Street Week, “Your predictions are so specific and so long range, I think the remarkable thing is not that you’re sometimes wrong but that you’re
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Ed Carlson
Ed Carlson, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is the Chief Market Technician at Seattle Technical Advisors. He has close to 30 years of experience in the markets, and is a leading expert on George Lindsay's market timing methods. Seattle Technical...

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...
Introduction to Bollinger Bands® Bollinger Bands®, created by legendary money manager and researcher John Bollinger, are one of the most popular trading indicators in use today. Nearly all commercial charting applications include the ability to plot Bollinger Bands®, which allow traders to quickly assess how overbought or oversold a security is. While there has been an abundance of information published on how to trade with Bollinger Bands®, the majority is discretionary in nature rather than quantitative. Thus, the trader is left to interpret what the security’s price is doing relative to its Bands, and more importantly, what it is likely to do next. In contrast, the ETF Trading with Bollinger Bands® Strategy is a precise, quantified approach to Bollinger Bands® trading. It allows a trader to identify the entry and exit signals that have produced the best results over the past 7+ years. We will also show how different levels of intraday pullbacks
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Laurence Connors
Laurence Connors is Chairman of The Connors Group (TCG), and the principal executive officer of Connors Research LLC. TCG is a financial markets information company that publishes daily commentary and insight concerning the financial markets and has twice...

Cesar Alvarez
For the last six years, Cesar Alvaraz has written for his popular quant blog, Alvarez Quant Trading helping traders learn about the markets. He spent nine years as the Director of Research for Connors Research and TradingMarkets.com. Numerous strategies he created have been...

Matt Radtke
Matt Radtke is a developer at Arrow Electronics and has 25 years of software development experience in companies large and small, including Hewlett-Packard and Bell Northern Research. During his ten years with a Boulder, CO software firm, he rose from the position of...
How would you describe your job? I would describe the job as an opportunity to promote technical research and educate investors about the many ways in which talented people are successfully using our craft. When studying the markets I think it is important to keep an eye out for research that you could possibly learn from. It is my opinion that a Technician should constantly be expanding and tweaking their tool box of indicators. The market of stocks is constantly changing and evolving every day, and a good technician should adapt with it. There are many highly intelligent people out there that are constantly studying the markets, and something can be learned from everyone one of them. What led you to this opportunity? I found that there were a few unique problems facing technical analysis. First, there were many great authors spread out all over, without a good aggregator site for these ideas
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Christopher Gurkovic, CMT
Christopher Gurkovic, CMT, is an internal Market Strategist at ICAP/First Brokers Securities and earned an MBA from the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. These questions and answers are compiled by Amber Hestla-Barnhart, a writer specializing in...

Amber Hestla-Barnhart
Bio coming
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New Educational Content This Month
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September 13, 2023
Charting and Analysis in Today’s Equity Markets
Presenter(s): Anthony F. Esposito, CMT
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September 6, 2023
Market Trend Analysis
Presenter(s): Stephen W. Bigalow
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August 30, 2023
Two New Oscillators – Volume Zone and Price Zone
Presenter(s): David Steckler