Society Of Market Technicians
The SMT Stock Focus Group meets monthly to discuss methods and tools used to select,
analyze and trade stocks and mutual funds. We are a focus group of the Society Of Market
Technicians, a non-profit educational organization dedicated
to the technical analysis of financial markets.
Society Of
Market Technicians (Washington DC Area) - This is the
main group. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each
month.
Stock
Group Special Interest Group - The Stock Focus Group
highlights stock picking, individual analysis techniques
and tools.
The Unruly Dog
- This is the web site Dennis Kranyak, an SMT member, former
Vector Vest user and now successful day trader. Dennis maintains
useful charts and statistics. I've found his site to be
very helpful and informative.
SMT Presentations
A Top-Down Value Oriented Trading Strategy (ppt)
November 3rd, 2005
This approach selects industry groups and subsequently stocks within these industry groups for trading or investing. The filtering criteria relies on valuation and fundementals (the "what" to trade) followed by the application of trading systems (the "when" to trade it). Equity curves and trading statistics provide additional information when selecting optimal trading systems.
Stock Focus Group Schedule
The SMT Stock Focus Group is a focus group of the Society
Of Market Technicians, a non-profit educational organization
dedicated to the technical analysis of financial markets.
The Stock Focus Group meets monthly to discuss methods and
tools used to select, analyze and trade stocks and mutual
funds.
The Stock Focus Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month
at the Pimmit Hills Library in Falls Church Virginia. If
the meeting date falls on a Federal holiday (or there is a scheduling conflict), we usually
reschedule for the following Tuesday. The meetings are conducted
in a round-table fashion, with each attendee giving his/her
views on their favorite topic. Meetings start at 7:00pm and close at 8:45pm or whenever they throw us out of the library.
2006 Schedule
Tuesday, Jan 17th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Feb 21st - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Mar 21st - Round-table Discussion
Monday, Apr 24th (4th Monday) - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, May 16th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Jun 20th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Jul 18th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Aug 15th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Sep 19th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Oct 17th - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Nov 21st - Round-table Discussion
Tuesday, Dec 19th - Round-table Discussion
The Pimmit Hills Library is located at 7584 Leesburg Pike
(rt 7), just inside the Capital Beltway in Tysons Corner.
See the following web site for more information about the
library:
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/branches/ty/default.htm
Group web site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smt_stockgroup/
Tools
SMT members use a diverse set of computer-based tools and approaches including Telescan, VectorVest, TC2000, Metastock, Ensign, Advanced GET, Optioninetics, Quotes Plus, AMIBroker and many many others. Here are the primary tools I currently use to analyze stocks and markets...
Quotes Plus
Quotes Plus is an EOD data source, charting and scanning package.
I use QP3 mostly for Stock Picker Pro, one of the included packages,
and the data source which includes comprehensive fundemental,
pricing and other securities data. There is also a QP3 plugin
for AMIBroker which means you can import QP data into AMIBroker
with no redundancy. Quotes Plus also provides a plugin for Excel
which is VERY useful to us Visual Basic programmers.
http://www.qp2.com/
http://www.quotes-plus.com/qpscans.htm
http://www.unrulydog.com/scans1.html
AMIBroker
AMI Broker is a charting and analysis program which provides
stock screening, charting, system creation, optimization and
backtesting capability. AMI Broker is available for download
over the web and the demo version is free. The fully featured
EOD version costs $129 with free updates for the next 5 major
releases. The Real-Time version costs $199. That's quite a bargain
compared to some other tools. I recommend joining the community
mailing list where AMI Broker's developer, Tomasz, provides
personal and timely support: AMIBroker is also included with
Quotes Plus.
http://www.amibroker.com/index.html
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