Acknowledgments

I’d like to express my sincerest thanks and gratitude to the thousands of brokers across the country who have believed in and followed my market work (in some cases for decades) and supported me so vociferously over the years in my capacity as their technical analyst. I don’t know if I could have survived in this business so long without that support! My answers to your seemingly countless number of stock and market questions were always, and will continue to be for anyone seeking them, based on what I would do in that very same situation with my own money. I have never veered from that principle, nor will I ever.

I’m also grateful for the opportunity to appear in the media, starting with the Financial News Network days where I met Ron Insana and Robert Metz. The opportunities I’ve had to bring my motivational brand of stock market analysis to a television and radio audience in the decades since has been more than I could have ever imagined. Thanks to the many media bookers, producers, camera folks, and anchors who helped make that possible. My hat’s also off to the makeup artists who had their work cut out for them trying to make my face television bearable. I don’t know how you did it. In fact, I think I’m responsible for the lion’s share of any of your overtime pay in that regard! I also want to thank Frank Fochetta for introducing me to the good folks at Skyhorse Publishing.

I’d especially like to thank legendary technical analyst Newton Zinder for hiring me at E. F. Hutton & Company in June 1982, giving me the opportunity to pursue my professional dream of working as a technical analyst. He’s as market savvy and humble as they come, and I’ll never be able to thank him sufficiently.

As for my dad, who passed away in 2003, I hope that all dads are as wise and supportive as he was in helping me pursue my passion—never leaning on me to go into his line of business and chatting with me regularly about my interests and encouraging me in their pursuit. Like so many of you who’ve lost your dads, we will sorely miss their guidance but can still follow their sage advice and pass it on. Special thanks and hugs to my mom Jean, who stayed up late many a night to type my stock market letter for bicycle delivery to my 17 clients at $3 per subscription back in the 1970s. And to my wife Carrie, the very best that humanity has to offer.

Lastly and sadly, I also want to dedicate this book to my friends, former coworkers, neighbors, and all the other fine folks who perished in the September 11, 2001 attack on our nation. I will do my best to serve as a good and moral reflection on our business in your collective memories. May you be blessed.