V.1:2 (25-25): Technical Analysis Information. by JACK K. HUTSON, EDITOR

Technical Analysis Information. by JACK K. HUTSON, EDITOR

INTRODUCTION

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our subscribers for their encouragement and support, and Tim Slater, of COMPU TRAC, who made it all possible. The initial set up of a magazine has proven to be an interesting experience, one that I am sure any masochist would enjoy. The idea first came to mind almost two years ago shortly after the first COMPU TRAC seminar (Feb. '81) in New Orleans. I did not attend the seminar, but did have an opportunity to listen to tapes of the conference. One of the members at the seminar brought up the idea of a User's Group that, I felt, had a great deal of merit. The single most appealing thing about a User's Group is the ability to focus and draw together each others' experiences and thus learn without actually doing. Of course there are limits to what one may learn from reading or listening to someone elses good or bad trading techniques, but these shared excursions into the past could just be enough to warn or signal one to be alert to possible pitfalls (as well as opportunities). In the first sample issue of "Technical Analysis" I wrote an article under the general category of 'past experiences'. This will be a regular feature titled "Anatomy of a Trade''. In "Anatomy of a Trade" we will publish a case history of a trade, winning or losing, describing the traders thought processes before, during and after. In this way we, as a group, will profit from others' knowledge.