Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Gary Edwin Anderson is a principal od Anderson & Leo, providing stock market consulting and advisory services to an international clientele of professional asset managers, including banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, and financial advisors. A well-known technical analyst, Anderson won the 2003 Charles H. Dow Award from the Market Technicians Association for his paper on feedback loops in the stock market, Anderson’s work has been featured in Barron’s, and he has been published in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. In addition, he publishes a weekly commentary, Equity Portfolio Manager, and is the primary author of Trader’s Boot Camp (tradersbootcamp.com), an online educational services.
The Janus Factor vii
Introduction xiii
Acknowledgments xv
CHAPTER 1 Foundations 1
Serendipity 2
The Data Set 5
Reasons and Causes 6
Befuddled 7
Which Way Is Up? 9
CHAPTER 2 The Assignment 13
Measuring Risk: Offense and Defense 14
Picturing Offense and Defense 17
The Benchmark Equivalence Line (BEL) 19
The Trend of Relative Performance 22
CHAPTER 3 Feedback and Capital Flow 27
Feedback 28
Feedback and Capital Flow 31
Calculating Relative Strength 37
The Relative Strength Spread 39
Trend Followers and Contrarians 41
CHAPTER 4 The Janus Factor 45
Structure and Entropy 46
Confidence 47
Is the Market Predictable? 48
Balancing Acts and Paradigm Shifts 54
CHAPTER 5 Seasons of Success 57
The Venturi Effect 58
The Relative Strength Spread and the Performance Spread 61
Group Studies 68
CHAPTER 6 Why Jesse Went Broke 71
The Cotton King 74
1911-1914 75
The Final Years 80
CHAPTER 7 Sheep Dogs and Other Contrarians 83
The Sheep Dog Effect 85
A Contrarian Hedge? 87
The Contrarian Rebound 88
The Contrarian Collapse 92
CHAPTER 8 Situational Awareness 99
Bielema's Choice 101
The Bet 106
Let Us Calculate! 109
CHAPTER 9 The Direction of Momentum 115
Relative Momentum 117
Relative Momentum versus Relative Strength 123
CHAPTER 10 Long Strategies 127
The Critical Moving Average 127
The DOM Strategy 129
Contrarian Threats 130
A Defensive Long Strategy 133
It's a Bull Market, You Know 135
CHAPTER 11 The Complete Strategy 137
Combined Long and Short Strategies 139
The Model Portfolio 141
Execution 143
Appendix 149
About the Author 163
Index 165
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.