V.15:10 (453-460): Analysis in Action: Tushar Chande by Thom Hartle

Tushar S. Chande is a familiar name to regular Stocks & Commodities readers, as he's contributed any number of solid, well-researched and thoughtful technical articles over the years and has been a Contributing Editor for the past few. His background, like so many others, wasn't financial when he started out; he started out as an engineer before being bit by the trading bug before eventually ending up as a Commodity Trading Advisor in Chicago. Having evolved into a money manager, Chande has keen insight into trading system development. To conduct this interview, S&C Editor Thom Hartle and Chande exchanged a series of questions and answers via E-mail in late July 1997. What follows is the result. By Thom Hartle

Tell us something about your background. I’ve traveled the scenic route to where I am today, from application-driven research & development at General Electric in Schenectady, NY, to working in the shadow of the Chicago Board of Trade. In Chicago, I joined forces with two partners of a highly successful options trading firm to create Tuscarora Capital Management, a Commodity Trading Advisor. With stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania along the way, right? That’s right. When I was busy obtaining nine patents for laser-fiber transmission, I never imagined my quantitative background would find fertile soil in commodity trading. Along the way, I became a quant in financial engineering, acquired a master’s in business administration, wrote two books, de-veloped a software package and learned to trade. I also had the good fortune to work with Stanley Kroll, a master featured in John Train’s Money Masters. It’s been an enjoyable journey through a panorama of price charts and test results.