Kase on Technical Analysis Workbook. Kase Cynthia А.

of Trading Systems and Methods, 5th Edition

      Acknowledgments

      For many years, I've had the vision of producing a comprehensive educational video and workbook on my work in technical trading and forecasting. That vision of what now has become a legacy project has come to fruition.

      Certainly everyone I've ever met, served with, or worked with has contributed to getting me to this point. While I can't name them all, I'd like to personally thank the following people for their contributions to my inspiration and knowledge, and other help in bringing to fruition what now has become a legacy project.

      P. Dean Rogers, no longer my apprentice, but now my right-hand man, and his team at DRC Solutions, Inc. (dba Kase Call Center) particularly Dan Kase, who handled all the screenshots and indexing, and Carlos Sandoval, a great programmer, for their ongoing support, invaluable suggestions, editing, proofreading, and more.

      Harvey Budkofsky, whom I've known since I was a rookie trader at Chevron, my go-to broker on the corporate and institutional side for exchange-traded instruments, for his unflagging devotion and constant encouragement over what now has been a long career for both of us.

      A great lover of the markets, and former colleague at Kase, Mr. Clifford Wilson, Jr. for his loyal friendship, humor, weather reports, and math wizardry.

      The folks at Bloomberg – Tom Secunda, George Geyer, Eugene Sorenson, and Ernie Popke for having the faith in my work to carry Kase Bars and KaseSwing, and other Kase studies on the Bloomberg terminals; Steve Isaacson and Paul Ciana for encouraging me to publish under the Bloomberg Press imprint; to the Tech Brief and Oil Brief staffers; to Steve Vargas and Tom Schneider on the technical analysis team; and all my friends at the APP store, including Claudio Storelli, Rich Berk, and Jay Lee.

      Bill Cruz and Darla Tuttle, former executives of the “old” Omega Research platform on which I taught myself to program. Stan Dash of TradeStation, Omega's successor firm, and John Gromala along with all his staff at NinjaTrader for encouragement throughout the years and screenshot permissions.

      All those at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. who made the realization of Kase on Technical Analysis Workbook possible – Meg Freeborn, Evan Burton, Mary Daniello, and Paul Chen; at Trailhead Video, Lisa and John Ward, and Bruce Fraser; and to Maria Pappas of Create MMO who conscientiously kept my nose powdered (among other things) throughout the video shoot.

      My fellow market technicians, especially the late Mike Epstein who was my MTA sponsor, Perry Kaufman with whom I presented at a series of TAG conferences and from whom I learned much, and the late George Lane who, when I was a fledgling technician, always took my phone calls and patiently explained his seminar notes. Special thanks also to Wells Wilder, Richard Donchian, Bob Prechter, Steve Nison, Thomas Bulkowski, Joe DiNapoli, and Martin Pring for their thought-provoking and helpful work.

      About the Author

      Cynthia A. Kase, CMT, MFTA, is president of Kase and Company, Inc. CTA. She holds a BS from Lowell Tech (1973) and an ME from Northeastern (1977), both in chemical engineering, a field in which she worked for the first 10 years of her career, commencing in 1973. In 1980, she joined Standard Oil Company of California's corporate engineering department and three years later, as the new crude oil (CL) contract was being introduced and PCs just began to show up at the workplace, was transferred into the company's international oil trading arm, CIOC, where she traded both crude oil and refined products.

      In January 1990, Ms. Kase joined Chemical Bank as their first VP of Commodity Risk Management, trading over-the-counter derivatives and futures, and designing pricing models. In September 1991, she accepted a one-year consulting assignment with the Saudi Oil Ministry's Petronal, as Director Energy Risk Management and Trading.

      In September 1992, Ms. Kase founded Kase and Company, Inc., which provides energy trading and forecasting, hedging advisory services, and software solutions to corporate and institutional clients, as well as, for all markets, statistically-based, precision technical analysis studies and indicators and forecasting systems. Uniquely qualified as a cash market, derivatives, and futures trader, market technician, risk manager, and technical analysis software developer, since 1989 Kase has taught thousands of traders, aspiring traders, and technical analysts technical trading and forecasting.

      Kase's awards and honors include Winner “Best Commodity, Energy, and Power, Research and Strategy” Technical Analyst Awards 2014; Winner Best of the Best Award, “Relative Strength/Momentum,” Market Technicians' Association 1997; Finalist “Consultancy of the Year–West Coast, Southwest, Midcontinent, and Gulf Coast Regions,” Oil and Gas Awards 2013; Finalist “Best Specialist Research,” The Technical Analyst 2013; Finalist “Consultancy of the Year–Gulf Coast and North East Regions,” Oil and Gas Awards 2012; Finalist “Best Trading Software,” “Best Newsletter,” TraderPlanet STAR Awards 2012; Finalist “Best Commodity, Energy & Power Research & Strategy,” “Best Specialist Product,” The Technical Analyst 2012; Finalist “Best Commodity, Energy & Power Research & Strategy,” “Best Specialist Product,” The Technical Analyst 2011; Finalist “Technical Analyst of the Year” and “Best Specialist Research,” The Technical Analyst 2009; Top 50 Women Worldwide, “Vision,” Commodities Now Magazine 2002; and Key Women in Energy Americas, “Innovation/Creativity,” Bozell & Jacobs LLC 2004.