One of the great aspects of our new Certified ChartWatchers exam is that we get feedback as to which questions people are struggling with.  Clearly, those are the questions that point to aspects of Technical Investing that we need to do a better job educating people about. For example, one of the questions that many people are struggling with asks about the Key Assumptions of Technical Analysis.  Those are the three things that you must verify are true before you can apply standard chart and/or indicator analysis to a particular chart.  Here they are: 1.) High Read More 

Today we are pleased to announce that our "Inspect" tool now uses HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash! The HTML5 version of the Inspector has the following advantages: It loads much faster  It is more responsive, especially on slower devices There is no pause or screen flash while the new Inspector is starting. It doesn't require the Adobe Flash plug-in to be installed It works fine with ad blocking plug-ins that restricting Flash advertisements It works on most mobile devices including iPads and iPhones! The only downside to this migration is the same Read More 

This week I'm attending the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) conference in San Francisco.  The conference started with a great presentation from Richard Arms.  Many of you may recognize his name.  Richard is probably most known for inventing the Arms Index (a.k.a. $TRIN). Richard has made several other important contributions to technical analysis as well however including popularizing EquiVolume charts.  Those are the charts that show price movements as boxes whose height is equal to the stock's daily range and whose width is proportional to the Read More