SAMT Journal Spring 2016

The year started with 2 shocks: first, markets corrected sharply to the downside just to recover as unexpected as they collapsed. Then, in March, the highly regarded Ian McAvity suddenly passed away, leaving colleagues of the industry in shock. Read what his colleagues have to say about him in a tribute (page 8).

As with every Journal, we feature articles of industry experts about technical analysis. We hear from Professor Hank Pruden on how using the right brain can play an essential role in the thinking mode of chart readers and technical analysts on page 16.

Learn how to develop a moving average cross over system and what to look out for, Charles D. Kirkpatrick II will tell you on page 22. If you develop a trading system, don’t forget the drawdown you can occur. An idea how to prevent that is described by Alberto Vivanti on page 32.

Technical Analysis and quantitative[…]