Bill M. Williams (1932–2019) was an American trader and author of books on trading psychology,
technical analysis
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, and chaos theory in trading the
stock
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,
commodity
In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
The price of a co ...
, and
foreign exchange
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(Forex) markets. His study of stock market data led him to develop a number of technical analyses that identify trends in the financial markets. Indicators like Accelerator/Decelerator Oscillator,
Alligator indicator
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,
Awesome Oscillator
Awesome may refer to:
Music
* Awesome (band), a Seattle-based American band
* ''Awesome'' (The Temptations album) 2001
* ''Awesome'' (Marc Terenzi album), 2005
* "Awesome", a song by Veruca Salt from ''Eight Arms to Hold You''
* '' A'wesome ...
,
Fractals indicator
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,
Fractal technical indicator
Gator Oscillator
Gator is a slang word for alligator.
Gator may also refer to:
People nicknamed Gator
*Mike Greenwell (born 1963), American Major League Baseball player nicknamed "The Gator"
*Ron Guidry (born 1950), former Major League Baseball pitcher
* Gator ...
, and Market Facilitation Index The Market Facilitation Index (MFI) is the creation of Bill Williams. The indicator endeavors to establish the effectiveness of price movement by computing the price movement per volume unit. This is accomplished by subtracting the day's low from t ...
are popular today in Forex, stock, and other financial market
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s.
References
External links
profitunity.com/aboutus.htm
nbsp;— biographic sketch of Bill M. Williams, Ph.D., CTA
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American non-fiction writers
1932 births
2019 deaths