From Execution Desks to Day-Trader Twitter: The Rise of VWAP
How a 1980s institutional benchmark became everyone's fair-value line
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Indicator history
The people, papers, and market practice behind widely used technical indicators.
Larry Williams: The Trader Who Turned $10k into a Million and Left Us %R
The 1966 indicator, the 1987 World Cup, and a very public career
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One Journalist, Decades of Work: The Real Story of Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō
How Goichi Hosoda hand-built a whole trading system before computers
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Joe Granville, the Showman Who Made OBV (and Moved Markets by Mail)
How a flamboyant newsletter writer put volume on the map in 1963
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True Range, True Story: Wilder's ATR and Why It Beat Plain High-Minus-Low
How a 1978 book fixed volatility measurement for gappy commodity markets
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Where the EMA Came From: Exponential Smoothing Escapes the Engineering Lab
From WWII fire-control to Navy inventory to a rocket scientist's stock charts
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George Lane, Divergence, and the %K/%D Legend That Won't Die
How a group of 1950s Chicago futures traders built the stochastic
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John Bollinger Trademarked His Own Indicator: The Story of the Bands
From a 1980s FNN broadcast to a registered trademark
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Gerald Appel and the Indicator That Ate Wall Street: A History of MACD
From Appel's late-1970s creation to Aspray's 1986 histogram
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Before Computers, People Averaged Prices by Hand — A Short History of the SMA
From 1901 economic statistics to Donchian's crossover systems
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How Welles Wilder Gave the World the RSI in 1978
The engineer-turned-trader behind the Relative Strength Index
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