Bill M. Williams (1932–2019) was an American trader and author of books on trading psychology,
technical analysis
In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for analysing and forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis use many of the sam ...
, 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 comm ...
, and
foreign exchange
The foreign exchange market (Forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies. This market determines foreign exchange rates for every currency. It includes all as ...
(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,
Awesome Oscillator,
Fractals indicator,
Fractal technical indicator
Gator Oscillator, and Market Facilitation Index 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