Acknowledgments

Many people deserve to be acknowledged at this time. Unfortunately, I am unable to thank everyone who has in some way contributed to this work. I would, however, like to single out the following people for particular appreciation.

I want to thank my family: My affectionate father and mother who have passed away, but whose eternal love is the source of all my endeavors; my wife Grace, for her unconditional love, understanding, and assistance; without her, there would be no AbleSys, no AbleTrend, nor this book; and my brother Victor, a fine artist, who financially supported me from age 11 to the completion of my undergraduate education.

I also want to show gratitude to all my teachers, both in China and in the United States. To those who helped me learn in school, I owe much of the technical skills and knowledge that became the foundation of this work: to the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz for the UC Regency Fellowship and other scholarships over six years that enabled me to start my new chapter of life in the United States; to Vic Schmidtmann, my first supervisor at work, who gave “Able” to this company’s name; to Patricia Sullivan, who helped Grace to study abroad in the United States in the early 1980s; to all the great people who worked and are working at AbleSys, especially the software development team—Yi Fan, Wilson Yang, Chris Szybalski, Kevin Copley, George Woodley et al.; because of them the AbleTrend software is made possible; to all those people who have helped me, I owe a great deal.

I wish to express my special appreciation to those who have participated in the creation of this book—to legendary trader and my teacher Larry Williams for his courage, guidance, and support; to Ellen Dickstein, for her careful and time-consuming editing and proofreading; to my son Jesse, for his input on the construction of this book and partial writing of it, and for his producing a CD of the STM course for this book; to Victor, my brother, for his deep understanding of Tao and for teaching me the Tao philosophy, and for his paintings and calligraphy that illustrate this book; again, to my wife, Grace, for her first proposal, structured ideas and outlines, and a great amount of writing, because of which we have this book; and to the great people at John Wiley & Sons, who made this book become a reality.

 

JOHN Z. WANG
March 2010