Technically Speaking

Letter from the Executive DirectorTom Silveri

As a result of the accumulated customer survey information and discussion with our membership, we realize that the education a person can receive on the field of technical analysis is one of the key benefits for members joining the MTA. Today, one can retrieve technical analysis information from hundreds of different sources (individual web-sites, books, courseware, etc.) but rarely is technical analysis information available in a single, interactive, and organized space for easy access by the technical analysis user.

Over the last year, the MTA has been quietly developing a segment of our existing and populating it with baseline technical analysis information. It is envisioned that this site will be "The" repository for current and interactive technical analysis information. The website will be open to the general public for certain baseline information but further, enhanced information/applications will be accessible only to members/affiliates. We are calling this addition to our website the MTA Knowledge Base (KB), and it will be accessible through our existing MTA.org website.  

The MTA Knowledge Base will importantly have:

  • Baseline technical analysis information on everything from market theories, to chart types/chart analysis techniques to trading systems.

  • A capacity for anyone to add to the Knowledge Base (KB) database of information (after editorial review) so it is hoped this database will stay the most current and the best information out in the marketspace today. As such, we do not plan on waiting until the KB is 100% completed. Once 80% “there,” we suspect our members and other contributors will tell us where to go and how to get there.

  • A “blog” capacity so that individuals can commence interactions on specific TA information and latest interpretations of data.

The KB will be structured into “domains” that will look at first blush similar to the MTA Body of Knowledge (General Principles, Charts, Trend and Momentum, Trading Systems, etc.) but will then branch off into other areas/materials into several subsections. We have designed several ways to access the data (outlines, advanced search capacities, etc.) to make accumulating this data easy and efficient.

It is on its way…….We are making final changes to the 80% site and expect to put out the KB, along with tutorials, within the next month. We will be demonstrating the KB at our Symposium in May.

Sincerely,

Tom Silveri