The Modern Classic: Where the ATR-Based SuperTrend Came From
Olivier Seban's 2009 volatility-aware trend filter
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Indicator history
The people, papers, and market practice behind widely used technical indicators.
Marc Chaikin, Round Two: How CMF Refined Money-Flow Analysis
A volume-obsessed analyst and his family of money-flow tools
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Richard Donchian, the Turtles, and the Highest-High/Lowest-Low That Made History
The father of trend following and the breakout that trained novices to riches
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The Oldest Trick in Momentum: A Short History of Rate of Change
Why ROC has no single inventor — and shows up inside everything
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A 13th-Century Monk Walks into a Trading Floor: The History of Fib Levels
From Liber Abaci to Ralph Nelson Elliott's waves
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Bill Williams and the Psychology-of-Chaos School That Gave Us the AO
A psychologist-trader, chaos theory, and a five-dimensional system
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Stop and Reverse: Wilder's Parabolic SAR and the Trend-Following Era
Another 1978 Wilder invention, built as a self-tightening trailing stop
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Chester Keltner, Linda Raschke, and How the Keltner Channel Evolved
From a 1960 ten-day rule to the modern ATR-based channel
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Donald Lambert's 1980 Invention: Why CCI Is Named After Commodities
A mathematician, Commodities magazine, and a cyclical-trend tool
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Welles Wilder's Big 1978 Book: How ADX (and Half Your Indicators) Were Born
The Directional Movement System from New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems
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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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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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