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For decades, even centuries, investors and traders have struggled to develop systems and strategies that would enhance their chances of success in the financial markets.  Some have developed methods based upon fundamental analysis such as value investing or discovering cyclical patterns that have an underlying fundamental basis for their existence.  Others have tried wave theory and other esoteric means to try to gain some form of understanding that would put them above the fray of the oft-frenzied market action.

Others have studied stock charts in order to uncover behavioral tendencies of the past in order to help them potentially understand future behavior.  This is what "Old School Charting" is all about.  Charting is partly based upon the idea that the emotional makeup of today's investor is essentially the same makeup of the investor of 10, 20, 50 or 100 years ago.  Human nature still carries the same desire for gain and lack of tolerance for loss today as in the past.  In other words, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the way people desire gain or avoid pain.  Hence, stock charts tend to look much the same today as they always have.

Consider this.  A chart is an historical record of price movements.  Those prices are moved up and down by human action and interaction with each other.  So, the chart of a record of price movements is also a graphical representation of human behavior.  It is a picture of the struggle between buyers and sellers.  This graphical representation will often reveal patterns that repeat over and over with largely the same eventual outcome as the result.  The value of charting is in finding these patterns and tendencies and exploiting them for their predictive powers.

Are charts infallible?  Absolutely not!  The best and most predictive patterns may only be 75-80% predictive.  Some may only provide an edge of 60%.  But, this is an edge that can lead to better decisions.

I do not rely upon computer generated indicators much at all.  These indicators are mostly  blind to the kinds of things that a good chartist is looking for.

By the way, I am not a professional trader or a professional financial adviser or anything of the sort.  I make no guarantee that anything discussed or revealed on this website will lead to gains.  In fact, all of this could lead to substantial loss.  There is nothing guaranteed in the markets other than surprises.  By profession I am a photographer.  By training I am a musician.  By choice and out of innate curiosity, I am a stock chartist.  Please enjoy what you find here.  Take it with your own wisdom and sense of sober judgment.  I believe that there is a lot to be learned here.  And, to give credit where credit is due, the majority of what is discussed in these pages was gleaned from the work of John MaGee and Robert Edwards, the authors of what many consider to be the best resources of charting ever to be found.

I want to thank my friends at Fastopia, a great online community of congenial traders, for their encouragement in setting this site up.  If you are looking for a forum for rational and flame-free discussions of stocks, economics and market driving news I highly recommend Fastopia.