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The next Market Maps Basic Seminar will be held on Saturday, September 25th at 9 am AZ time [-7 GMT]. This will be a spcial Basic Seminar – For the first time, Shane will be presenting alongside me, so you'll be able to 'look through his eyes' as well as mine, as we work our way from the basic beginning material up to more advanced material. If you have never taken a Basic Seminar, you are missing a wonderful chance to build a solid foundation for your trading education

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

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

[Latest article by Tim]

A simple line can be the start of everything. In this presentation, I am going to begin a series of discussions about Action Reaction Lines and Diamonds®, a proprietary charting method I developed well over 20 years ago. Both have served me well in my own trading and this is one of the first times I have given any information publicly regarding the correct rules for using either technique–both are simple, yet powerful if you use solid money management. 

Let us begin this journey with a look towards physics.

Sir Isaac Newton is thought of as… Continue reading