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One of the most rewarding and challenging things I have done in my 40-year trading career is teach elementary school students the basics of technical analysis and how to apply those basics in order to make money trading stocks. Each student comes to the trading class with a fairly clean slate: They don't know much, if anything, about the markets and they don't carry any of the emotional burdens of having to make “real” money to pay the rent or buy food. They soak up what I am willing to teach, which is a delight, but once they soak it… Continue reading

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I was asked earlier this year by several elementary schools to teach the basic of trading to their gifted students; one of the students happened to be my eleven-year-old son, Sean. The students competed in anational stock trading contest that ran from mid-January through late-April. The students could only be long stocks and each school had a team (since these were only the extremely gifted students at each school, the groups were small—three or four students per team, on average). I taught them a simple charting methodology (I called it “crayon drawing” because it was based on market structure and… Continue reading

I have had the honor of hosting this website and being able to present my charts, my thoughts, and my methodology since 1995. One of my earliest mentors, Dr. Alan Andrews, passed away in 1987, and his charting techniques quickly vanished from the mainstream. When I ended my relationship with what is now the trading arm of J.P. Morgan Chase in 1995, one of the first things I wanted to do was reintroduce his methodology to the general trading world. And though the Internet was growing rapidly, websites were still very rare; most people communicated via bulletin boards, and I… Continue reading

Good afternoon.

I am pleased to announce the next Basic Market Maps Seminar will be held Satueday, September 25th and we'll begin at 9 am AZ time [-7 GMT].

I am proud to announce Shane will be co-teaching this Basic Seminar, so it will have a slightly different and more diverse flavor-and one I am sure you will all enjoy.

We expect an Advanced Market Maps Seminar will follow about a month later.

There will be a DVD available for those that attend for a nominal fee, produced by our wonderful media guru, Carlos. Look for all the details in