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Announcing The Ian S. Notley Memorial Award on Cycle Research
In partnership with the MTA Educational Foundation (MTAEF), Jonathan Arter of Taniscott Capital announces the formation of The Ian S. Notley Memorial Award which will present a $2,500 prize awarded to that student who writes the winning paper addressing market and business cycles and the oscillations present in capital markets on a secular and cyclic basis. It is expected that first award will be in December 2010.
Jonathan will underwrite the first year’s award and will campaign to build a fund that will keep the prize endowed. The MTAEF qualifies as a charitable organization under IRS Section 501(c)(3), and contributions are tax deductible. Taniscott business manager, Bonnie Nakashian, will gladly assist you with questions as to how to participate, bonnie@taniscott.com For additional information, please download the Notley Award article in pdf format.
Bob Prechter joins the Advisory Panel
Robert Prechter, CMT is founder and President, Elliott Wave International, Gainesville, GA. He began his professional career in 1975 as a Technical Market Specialist with the Merrill Lynch Market Analysis Department in New York. He has been publishing The Elliott Wave Theorist since 1979. Prechter served as a member of the board of the Market Technicians Association for nine years and as the MTA’s President in 1990-1991. Read more
Ralph Acampora joins the Advisory Panel
Ralph Acampora, CMT is Managing Director, Alverita, LLC, New York. He was previously the New York Institute of Finance’s Director of Technical Analysis Studies. Ralph has taught at the institute for 37 years. He served as a member of the board of the Market Technicians Association and past president. Read more
University of Maine at Fort Kent – Web-Based Technical Analysis Course
University of Maine at Fort Kent is offering a web-based, credit course on technical analysis. The project has been jointly developed with the MTAEF under the direction of University of Maine professor, Leo Trudel, PhD and the Foundation's Charlie Kirkpatrick, CMT. It available at a college-credit level to anyone who has access to a computer. The course is offered three times a year. [Read more]
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER NEWS
Mike Carr, CMT recently taught at local colleges in Cheyenne, WY and frequently speaks to groups of individual investors. His articles, Time to Buy Gold?, A Rectangle in the Broad Market, Commitment of Traders Report Turns Bullish, appears in the November/December 2009 issue of Traders.com. In the January/February 2010 issue of Traders.com, he has written two articles: Stock Indexes Showing Declining Momentum on page 19 and Analyzing Crash on page 22. Both articles may be read by downloading the issue at traders.com
Julie Dahlquist, Ph.D. presented “The Apple-A-Day System: A Case for Teaching Trading System Design” (with C. Kirkpatrick and R. Bauer) at the Financial Education Association meeting, Bermuda; lectured to MBA students at St. Mary’s University and St. Mary’s Student Managed Fund, San Antonio, TX; article “Risk and Return: Lessons from Extreme Portfolios,” (with Richard Bauer and Dom Cho) published in the Southwest Business Administration Journal.
Bruce Kamich, CMT Bruce was the subject of an article on teaching technical analysis at Baruch College in the June 2009 issue Bloomberg Markets magazine - pages 158-160.
Charlie Kirkpatrick's, CMT latest book, Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell was released by FT Press. Charlie taught a technical analysis mini-course at Brandeis International Graduate School of Business, in conjunction with Professor Carol Osler. He is representing the Foundation (in conjunction with the online course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent) at the RISE (Redefining Investment Strategy Education) 10th annual conference at the University of Dayton in March.
Phil Roth, CMT Phil participated in a conference in at the Taj President Hotel in Mumbai, India in 2009. He was also a guest speaker at the CFA South Africa Investment Conference in Johannesburg also in 2009 - his presentation was webcast to South Africa from New York. He was a guest speaker at the October 2009 meeting of the New Orleans CFA society.
Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Ph.D The book she co-authored with Andrew Lo The Heretics of Finance: Conversations with the Leading Practitioners of Technical Analysis has been released by Bloomberg Press. She was mentioned in an interview with Andrew Lo by Stocks & Commodities magazine; the article, in PDF format, can be downloaded by clicking here. The book was also reviewed in the latest edition of the IFTA Journal, page 99. Jasmina moderated panels at the IMN conference in San Diego about new benchmarks for hedge funds and 130/30 funds. On September 24 she spoke at the Argyle Investment Forum (130/30 funds) and at the New York Society of Security Analysts on technical analysis.
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ADVISORY PANEL NEWS
Hank Pruden, Ph.D. Hank was a speaker at the October 2009 IFTA conference in Chicago. His speech was on his favorite subject - The Wyckoff Method Applied in 2009: A case study of the US stock market. He also wrote a moving tribute to our colleague, Mike Epstein, in the 2010 issue of the IFTA Journal, page 5.
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