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Meet Our Newest Member - Dawn Bolton-Smith

by Australian Professional Technical Analysts APTA on April 3, 2013 0 Comments

The Management and Membership Committees of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts (APTA) are delighted to welcome onboard our newest member - the legendary Technical Analyst with 50 years of experience, Dawn Bolton-Smith.

After training as an accountant, in 1962 Dawn enrolled in a Technical Analysis course at the Mosman Evening College in Sydney. Her lecturer was the late Ian Notley, who later became a leading market analyst with offices in all of the major global financial centres.

Inspired by Notley's teachings and the text book, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Edwards and Magee, she became the first Technical Analyst to be employed in the Australian stock market. Around this time Dawn enjoyed an experience of a lifetime: perhaps the greatest boom and bust in the history of the Australian resources sector, with stocks like the notable nickel miner Poseidon, rising from 80 cents to $280 within the space of six months prior to a rapid demise.

Over the years, Dawn has achieved a reputation for her accurate market calls. In 1973 she predicted the 1974 share market crash to within four points of the bottom.

Dawn has a great passion for Technical Analysis and has always been ready to share her vast knowledge with fellow practitioners. For many years, she wrote a column for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper in Sydney and was the first chartist for The Bulletin magazine. From 1976 to 1978 she was the editor of the trading newsletter called Trendex. Dawn has told many a tale of her experiences in the financial services industry including an episode when she sold gold futures at US$840 before they opened the next day down US$220.

Over a long and prestigious career, she has given many presentations throughout Australia to beginners and seasoned professionals alike. She was a founding member and Vice President of Australia's first Technical Analysis association and is honoured with Life Member status of that organisation.

Dawn remains very active today in financial markets, writing a regular column and articles for Your Trading Edge magazine.

The Management Committee of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts (APTA) and APTA members, greatly respect the career of Dawn Bolton-Smith in Technical Analysis and feel honoured that Dawn has elected to become a member of our association.

Zweig-DiMenna Mourns Loss of Marty Zweig

by Australian Professional Technical Analysts APTA on February 19, 2013 0 Comments

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With great sadness, Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC announced the passing of Martin (“Marty”) E. Zweig earlier today.

Born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, Zweig was a legendary investor, prolific writer and iconic teacher. Having begun trading stocks as a teenager, Marty began his more formal career in the 1970s writing investment newsletters while he was a Professor of Finance. One of the most highly regarded investment newsletters in the country,

The Zweig Forecast was published for twenty-six years, from 1971-1997. Zweig’s investment picks regularly outperformed the market. The Zweig Forecast ranked number one for risk-adjusted returns during the 15 years it was monitored by Hulbert Financial Digest. Zweig is credited with original and important statistical market research, including the creation of the put/call ratio, a technical measure of investor sentiment that is now a common market indicator. Zweig’s creation of the put/call ratio was part of his ground breaking research for his Ph.D. in Finance. Zweig was also a frequent contributor to business magazines, including Barron’s.

Throughout the 1980s, Zweig was a regular guest on PBS’s Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser. During one such appearance in 1987, Zweig famously and accurately forecasted the October 1987 stock market crash. In 1992, he was voted into Wall $treet Week’s Hall of Fame. He authored two books on the financial markets, the best-selling “Winning on Wall Street,” (1986) and “Winning with New IRAs,” (1987).

In 1984, he and Joe DiMenna founded Zweig-DiMenna Partners, their first of several long/short hedge funds. Zweig-DiMenna Partners is one of the longest-running and most successful of the flexible long/short hedge funds. Zweig also created two closed-end funds traded on the New York Stock Exchange, featuring his investment philosophy - The Zweig Fund in 1986 and The Zweig Total Return Fund in 1988.

Said Joe DiMenna, “Marty became a mentor and close friend shortly after he hired me in 1977 while I was still in college. I had long read his investment newsletters, told him so in a letter, and soon afterwards found myself working with him side by side. He was a wonderful, kind and generous person and I will always be grateful for the opportunity to have been his friend and partner. Marty was one of a kind. He will be missed. On behalf of all the people at our firm, my deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his wife Barbara and his sons Zack and Alex.”

Martin Zweig graduated with a B.A. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He later received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Finance from Michigan State University. Martin Zweig was a member of the Undergraduate Executive Board of The Wharton School and active in a number of charities.

Zweig was an avid art and memorabilia collector. He was also an ardent salsa dancer, poker player, runner and student of baseball statistics.

He is survived by his wife Barbara and sons Zack and Alex.

There will be a celebration of his life with details to be announced.

Donations can be made to the Zweig Family Center for Living Donation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City or the American Cancer Society.

Contacts

Sard Verbinnen & Co

Cassandra Bujarski/Delia Cannan

212-687-8080

MTA to Ring Opening Bell at NYSE in the New Year

by Australian Professional Technical Analysts APTA on December 31, 2012 0 Comments

The APTA Management Committee wishes all members, affiliates and friends a happy and prosperous 2013.

2013 will be a milestone 40th year for APTA's global strategic partner, the Market Technicians Association (MTA)!

Over the past 40 years, the MTA has significantly achieved its goals of sharing the technical analysis body of knowledge, maintaining the highest standards of professional competence and ethics amongs technical analysts and educating the public and investment community of the value and universality of techncial analysis.

The APTA Management Committee congratulate the MTA on a great achievment and wish them continued success well beyond 2013.

In a first gesture of recognition and celebration, the MTA Board of Directors will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 3, 2013.

This year, the MTA will honor the founders and volunteer leaders who have helped build the Market Technicians Association from the ground up as well as the creators and users of technical analysis who have contributed so greatly to the discipline.The APTA Management Committee wishes all members, affiliates and friends a happy and prosperous 2013.

2013 will be a milestone 40th year for APTA's global strategic partner, the Market Technicians Association (MTA)!

Over the past 40 years, the MTA has significantly achieved its goals of sharing the technical analysis body of knowledge, maintaining the highest standards of professional competence and ethics amongs technical analysts and educating the public and investment community of the value and universality of techncial analysis.

The APTA Management Committee congratulate the MTA on a great achievment and wish them continued success well beyond 2013.

In a first gesture of recognition and celebration, the MTA Board of Directors will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 3, 2013.

This year, the MTA will honor the founders and volunteer leaders who have helped build the Market Technicians Association from the ground up as well as the creators and users of technical analysis who have contributed so greatly to the discipline.

DeMark Fibonacci Charts Embraced by Cohen Lure Investors

by Australian Professional Technical Analysts APTA on November 13, 2012 0 Comments

by Anthony Effinger and Katherine Burton at Bloomberg Markets Magazine

This Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE interview further highlights:

* The difference between Schwager's four Market Wizards books

* Markets have changed, but the typology of successful traders not

Past the two Bentleys in the driveway and beyond the pool and mini water park, the home theater and a sports bar hung with enough memorabilia to equip a basketball team, Tom DeMark has his office -- a dark, wood- paneled lair with six computer screens ... more

Opening range breakout: Past, present and future

by Australian Professional Technical Analysts APTA on November 7, 2012 0 Comments

From Futures Magazine

by MURRAY A. RUGGIERO JR.

Over the last quarter century, the opening range breakout has been one of the most powerful and successful trading tools. Not only did the analysis technique help Larry Williams turn $10,000 into more than $1 million in less than a year, but it achieved cult status with the work of Toby Crabel and his book, “Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout.” ... more

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Meet Our Newest Member - Dawn Bolton-Smith

Zweig-DiMenna Mourns Loss of Marty Zweig

MTA to Ring Opening Bell at NYSE in the New Year

DeMark Fibonacci Charts Embraced by Cohen Lure Investors

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