Martin “Buzzy” Schwartz is a celebrated independent trader. Schwartz graduated from Amherst College in 1967 and served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves from 1968-73. In 1970 he received an MBA from Columbia University. After working for several years as a financial analyst at E. F. Hutton, Swartz left the firm and bought a seat
Formerly a product manager for a meat-packing firm, Lucien Thomas Baldwin III started trading with $20,000 in 1982. With the US experiencing high inflation in the early 1980s treasury bonds became popular with both hedgers and speculators resulting in high trading volume. T-Bond Futures became Baldwin ‘s favourite instrument to trade, and he emerged as
Leo Melamed fled Nazi occupied Poland as a child with his family during World War II. After two years and a journey spanning three continents the family arrived safely in the United States. While studying law at John Marshall, Melamed worked as a runner for Merrill Lynch on the floor of the CME. He received
QStick is a technical indicator developed by Tushar Chande to help identify trends on a Japanese Candlestick chart. It is a moving average of the difference between the opening and closing prices of a security.
Displaced Moving Averages allow you to shift or center the moving average on a price chart. A trader specifies the length for one or more moving averages, then selects the number of intervals to displace the moving average. The underlying mathematics of a moving average ensures that it lags the actual price data. Centering the