By Peter Steidlmayer, Ted Hearne 1994 Abstract / Introduction: In the past several decades, a fundamental change has taken place in the commodities markets. The industry has expanded the application of the futures concept to more products and derivatives such as options and indexes, and consequently, the influx of capital […]
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Overview Interest rates play a key role in the general business cycle and the financial markets. When interest rates change, or interest rate expectations change, the effects are far-reaching. When rates rise, consumers spend less which causes retail sales to slow, which leads to reduced corporate profits, a declining stock […]
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This tutorial written and reproduced with permission from Peter Ponzo Once upon a time, a British government bureaucrat named Harold Edwin Hurst studied 800 years of records of the Nile’s flooding. He noticed that there was a tendency for a high flood year to be followed by another high flood […]
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Overview The Herrick Payoff Index is designed to show the amount of money flowing into or out of a futures contract. The Index uses open interest during its calculations, therefore, the security being analyzed must contain open interest. The Herrick Payoff Index was developed by John Herrick. Interpretation When the […]
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By Ticker & Investment Digest, Vol 5, No 2 December 1909 Abstract / Introduction: Sometime ago the attention of this magazine was attracted to certain long pull stock market predictions which were being made by William D. Gann. In a large number of cases Mr. Gann gave us in advance […]
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