This chart was featured in the August 2001 ChartWatchers newsletter. At the time, bottom picking on chat sites was running amok, a post-bubble time second only to late 2000 in knife catching follies:

This chart was show in the the Nov 2001 CWW newsletter. The core of my methods haven't changed much: Candles, Bollinger Bands, long 34 ema, Fibonacci, RSI, and of course, the Andrews "pitchfork". I was studying Williams %R at the time, but have since left it in favor of CCI and/or a MACD/Sto combo.

I started trading the SPX e-mini futures in 2001, at which point I pretty much discontinued analysis on the COMPQ/NDX and restricted my work to the SPX, along with a few other analyses of interest such as the EWJ (Japan iShares) and studies to guage reversals (OEX/SPX, Growth/Value, and SPX/VIX). One benefit of the SPX is the depth of experience I found in the e-mini trading community. I thank the many who graciously shared their knowledge, either by way of the members of websites like Avid or Crystal Ball, or the many public SPX traders who share samples of their work online. The ones who come to mind immediately are Larry Pesavento, whose work on patterns is core to my private trading, and Patrick Mikula, whose innovative work with Gann (and of late Andrews), have greatly motivated me to pursue these methods.