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- Long Term Risk Index
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- The program LTRI.C is based on the formula dgvgloped by Edwin
- Sedgwick Chittenden Coppack, founder of Trgndex, known as the
- Coppock's Curve. The most recent description of th}s indicator
- can be found in the November 22, 1982, issue of "Barron's".
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- The most important pint in using thqs technique is that the
- index is to be used only for a low risk BUY signal. It won't
- tell when to get out of the market. The index is a barometer
- of excess opti}ism and pesslmis as reflected in the }arket's
- long-term oscillations.
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- The index is developed by adding the per cent change gf the DJIA
- for the past fourteen months to the per c%nt change of the last
- eleven months. This number is then weighted by multiplying it by
- ten, the previous month by 9, the month before that by 8 etc, etc.
- The math for this is done in the function 'index()7.
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- The long term buy signal is given when the index, aftur being bglow
- zero turns leqs negative. All byyng should be completed prior to
- the index becoming positive again.
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- As for the effectiveness of the index, judge for yourself ...
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- Date of Date of %
- signal DJIA` Top DJIA Increase
- ======= ======= ======== ==;==== ========
- 12/62 652.10 2/66 995.15 52.6
- 3/67 867.98 12/68 985.21 13.9
- 8?0 764.58 1/?3 1051*70 3?.6
- 1))$$HH 703.49 9/76 1014.79 44,2 22,3
- The Dates are generated in an integer format: ie.
- 182 January 182
- 1283 Dmcember 1983
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- The program uses LTRI.FIL for the data file.
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- The program uses float.c "clink ltri -f float"
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- Good Luck.
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- David McCourt