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middle earth: Markets 6/15/09

This link will take you to a nightly blog by an astute Wyckoff traders with over 20 years' experience

[DbPhoenix]

Given that the last few posts (now moved) have taken a detour toward P&F, I'm moving them to the P&F thread so that the P&F posts are all in one place.

[Flojomojo]

Hey everyone,

as I believe ppl here are interested in obtaining the original course without paying for the full SMI course I want to tell you how to get your sample:

The Librarary of Congress has the 1931 as well as the 1937 typewritten, nonpublished The Richard D. Wyckoff Method of Trading and Investing in Stocks on microfilm and can pull it on paper for you.

Pricing for one of them with shipping to Europe is:
$ 14.00 set-up fee
$100.00 $.25 x 400 pages = $100.00
$ 45.00 shipping
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$159.00

I am getting my copy via:

Ms. Margaret Kieckhefer
Mail: mkie@loc.gov
Office of Business Enterprises
Library of Congress
+1 (202) 707-2590 (office phone)
+1 (202) 707-1771 (office fax)

Hope this is useful information for some of you.

Best regards,
Flojo

[DbPhoenix]

Thanks for your work. Ms. Kieckhefer may discover a new-found popularity.

Since it's only 400p, I assume the tape-reading course is not included? If not, this is not a tragedy. The Studies_in Tape Reading (or DayTrader's Bible) is fine.

[Flojomojo]

In the future you will be able to get a copy from me...and its even legal! Here's what Mararet wrote:

"The Wyckoff item is in the public domain. If you know of other people
who would like to have it, you or they are free to run it through a
photocopy machine, which will surely be cheaper than getting it from
me."

If someone is interested, drop me a msg....have not thought about the price, but it will be somewhere close to the almost nothing range.

[Ed: the pdf has now been uploaded to the thread here]

[DbPhoenix]

I've added Wyckoff's 18-month analysis of Anaconda to his analysis of the market here. The analysis is in the same vein and provides further insight into his process, though, obviously, this time with a stock rather than with the entire market.

I've also uploaded Sect. 9M, How a Campaign is Conducted. Take great care in making any assumptions while or after reading this section, much less coming to any conclusions. There are no shadowy figures lurking in the mist, waiting patiently to grab your wallet and throw you to the ground. Nor is there "smart" money nor "dumb" money, only traders trying to make a buck. The process described herein does, however, demonstrate just how people who know what they're doing do what they do.

[DbPhoenix]

I should also point out that what I've posted here is what I consider to be absolute minimum to engage the curiosity. Those who want to go on, have. Most find way too much here as it is, even if they explore only the stickies. This is not intended to be an extension course but a discussion forum. Screen time is at least as important, if not more so, than how much of the course one reads.

[deanz]

This is a tool I find very useful to study pictures of charts, like in forums or PDF documents, to see which volume bar belongs with which price bar, hence the reason I posted it in this section.

It is free, and I use a programmable button on my mouse to activate it.

http://www.mlin.net/CrossHair.shtml

It can use a lot of CPU time if you wave it around the screen a lot, but that is not what I enable it for :-)

From what I understand it not actually a mouse cursor but a picture of a cross with a clear background that is bigger than your screen dimensions, [something an actual mouse cursor can not do] hence the CPU usage while waving it around.

There is another program that will allow you to adjust how often the crosshair updates but it is shareware so I better not post a link, I'll just tell you it's called Exact Mouse 2.0

Dean.