INDEX A Agricultural demand, as an indicator, 210 Alchemy of Finance, The (George Soros), 14 Aluminum, rate-of-change indicators, 136 ­137 American Petroleum Institute, 179 Anatomy of a Crash ( J.R. Levien), 14 Asian currencies, 64, 77, 86 ­87 Asian indexes, as indicators, 74, 76 Asian Tiger nations, 23 Associates' program, 22-23 Australian equity market, 77­78 B Bacon, Louis, 13, 19, 22 Bancor Unitas, 38 Band methodology, 258­259 Bank lending, reflation and, 75 Bank of Japan (BOJ), 48, 96, 168, 196 Bank of Korea, 196 Banking sector, 74 Bar charts versus line charts, 116 ­117 Bauman, Jennifer, 15 Bell, Craig, 6 Bell, Stanley B., 5 ­7, 111 Bernanke, Ben, 44, 170 Breakdown pivot, countertrend trading and, 252 Bretton Woods System, 37-38 Bullion: red flags for, 76 ­79, 93, 94 value of, 41 vehicles to monitor, 239­240 Bush administration, policies of, 205 Butter, 66 341