Acknowledgments

In projects like this book, the Internet and one’s computer become your best friends. They provide information, complete complicated calculations, and remain alive 24 hours of the day. I am a night owl and prefer the quiet and calm of late nights and early mornings. I have a relatively small office at home that looks over the ocean during the day but could be anywhere at night. To me, this is the perfect work environment.

Working late at night means that email becomes the primary method of communication. Through such give and take over the wires, many people familiar with the work I was doing assisted me. They helped considerably in the book’s organization and application. Special thanks I owe to Tom McClellan (www.mcoscillator.com) and Jason Goepfert (www.sentimenttrader.com) for their willingness to provide their historical data. Tom also reviewed the manuscript for me and made numerous helpful suggestions and changes to my fractured prose. Also helpful were Investors Intelligence (www.investorsintelligence.com), the Economist magazine (www.economist.com), and the Commodities Research Bureau (www.crbtrader.com). While I didn’t use all their data, they were very willing to assist and were especially generous with their knowledge of economic statistics.