"I noticed that in advances as well as declines... prices were apt to show certain habits, so to speak. There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to
guide me. I was only fourteen, but after I had taken hundreds of observations in my mind I found myself testing their accuracy, comparing the behaviour of stocks to-day
with other days. It was not long before I was anticipating movements in prices. My only guide, as I say, was their past performances. I carried the "dope sheets" in my mind. I
looked for... prices to run on form. I had "clocked" them. You know what I mean... Another lesson I learned early is that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be
because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the... market to-day has happened before and will happen again."
"...I hope to prove that traditional approaches such as the economic indicator approach do not work. No consistent correlation exists
between the U.S. dollar and U.S. economic indicators, but conventional
wisdom says that the two move in lockstep. Why is this approach followed
so fervently if its foundation is rooted in falsities? The reason that markets move in identifiable patterns is probably the same reason that many
accept as gospel the conventional approaches to market analysis and trading that have marginally successful track records at best. That reason is
the propensity for humans to follow the crowd, especially in situations as
emotionally driven as trading. ...I think that I can share
with you a better (and cheaper) approach to analyzing and trading the FX
market, an approach that will give you an edge, if only because you are not
following the crowd." -- Jamie Saettele, Sentiment in the Forex Market.
Global Finance
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