To: koan who wrote (13867 ) 6/19/2006 2:20:01 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78422 ok I got it. All this naked whale eating brain power can be turned on something radical, boring, but on topic, and we get it right by the fish eating multitudes on the mountain. Mammon steak with righteous bbq sauce. --> Find a way to predict the gold price and/or one or two mining stocks. I plump for EVR SCM etc.. It should be easy. Suggestions are non linear regression. Fourier on a spreadsheet. (Excel -- push the fourier button). Wavelets. Historical trends. Elliot. Gann. Camarilla on different periods as if yesterday was one week or one month. Momentum crossing moving average, stochastics, MACD, accumulation-distribution, volume-price, key reversal in Trade Station (anyone got a copy?). I can furnish formulae for momentum-crossing its own moving average, momentum crossing price, price of gold in constant dollars, dollar index for 100 years, etc.. What would be interesting would be if one person would take Elliot, one Gann, one another method and do the number crunching. Some may hit on a good way of doing it and it would benefit all. Somebody should apply fundamentals rigorously, say tie POG to interest rate, and events.. or whatever. It is tied to oil a bit, with some lead-lag factor. Charts could be combined in a spread sheet like fourier and the lead lag factors figured. For instance interest rate, oil price, libor rate, CPI could be charted and the curves combined in some log formula so see if it matches gold's moves. There are charting methods where you can chart copper against gold, etc.. I think stockcharts has that. Or you could plug noon prices for two commodities into excel, do a formula in a column to add, subtract or factor the two columns in some way and chart the result. I have Camarilla, and I could program it for differing periods instead the the yesterday thing. All it is is a statistical variance applied to one price range, the previous day. eC<:-}