Acknowledgments

First, I’d like to thank Kenneth L. Parkinson, Managing Director of TIS Consulting, for coming up with this book’s main title in about two seconds, after I mentioned the book’s focus. And I’d like to thank Jerry Douma, who read my last book and profited from its guidance. He phoned and encouraged me on numerous occasions to write another book to help investors with a step-by-step method to invest more wisely. I am happy to oblige, with this book being a result of his persistence. And a special thanks to Jim Boyd, Executive Editor, and Betsy Harris, Project Editor at Pearson Education Inc. (publishing as FT Press), whom I had the pleasure to work with, and the entire publishing team involved in reviewing and delivering the final product.

As you can imagine, researching and writing an in-depth book with many facts, tables, and charts is always challenging. That being the case, I would like to thank the following individuals, firms, and Web sites for their permission to use their information in this book:

Greg Morris, Chief Technical Analyst of Stadion Money Management, for writing the foreword

George Roberts, owner, Industry Monitors and High Growth Stock Investor, and www.highgrowthstock.com for the information on this software

Mark Blake, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of VectorVest Inc. and www.vectorvest.com for the information on the VectorVest Online software program

Nathan Davis, Founder, www.etftable.com, for use of the site’s ETF data on price and relative strength performance

Hugh Todd, Founder, www.etfscreen.com, for use of the site’s ETF data on price and relative strength performance

Jason Goepfert, President and CEO, Sundial Capital Research, and www.SentimenTrader.com for use of the AAII Investor Sentiment chart

Chip Anderson, President, www.stockcharts.com, for the use of numerous charts from his comprehensive Web site

Doug Short and his www.dshort.com for his excellent annotated charts

Sy Harding, Editor of StreetSmartReport.com for his work on the Best Six Months Strategy with the MACD Indicator and his exhibits

Michael Johnston, Cofounder and Senior Analyst, and www.etfdb.com for information on ETF market capitalization

Michael Burke, Vice President of Institutional Training, TradeStation, for the use of three stock price charts

www.indexindicators.com for the use of one of their charts

www.etfzone.com for data on ETF net assets

And of course, I want to thank those individuals who were kind enough to provide quotes for the book jacket, including Price Headley, Jeffrey Hirsch, Robert W. Colby, Nelson Freeburg, and Paul Merriman. Lastly, I take full responsibility for any inadvertent errors or omissions.