The Money Tree

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The book is the result of many years of working with Technical Analysis of world stock markets. The authors have evolved a systematic approach that can be used on any market or group of stocks, that is, what a computer man would call a rules-based expert system. This system indicates when to be invested and when to be in cash. It also indicates which stocks in the universe of stocks to be owned and which to avoid. It does not try to predict the future, but is more analogous to a set of traffic lights. When they are green you Go, and when they are red, you Stop.

These signals do not claim to be foolproof but they do have a very high probability of working. The system has a measurable edge, and it knows what that edge is. Finally there are some money management ideas that help convert a good set of buy and sell signals into a great portfolio performance. All together this is like having a tree in your own backyard that can slowly and steadily grow a crop of fruit each year in the form of money.

About Robin Griffiths, Rashpal Sohan

Robin Griffiths joined Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in Economics at Nottingham University. He went on to be a partner at WI Carr, the first British stock broker to have offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Part of this firm was acquired by Grieveson Grant, with whom Robin enjoyed a stay in Japan. In 1986 Robin joined James Capel, which was already owned by HSBC. He stayed there until normal retirement age, and during that period travelled all over the world to meet their extended client base. For the last six years of that employment Robin was resident in New York. Having left HSBC Investment Bank in 2002, Robin then joined Rathbones as Head of Global Investment Strategy, where he stayed until 2008. He is currently the Technical Strategist for Cazenove Capital and manages the Worldwide Absolute Return hedge fund. Robin has been a regular on CNN, CNBC, Reuters and Bloomberg TV. He is a committee member and former chairman of the international Federation of Technical Analysts, and former chairman, now fellow, of the British Society of Technical Analysts. A keen sailor, Robin has crossed the Atlantic five times, setting a new British record in 1984 with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. Rashpal Sohan graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a first class degree in Actuarial Science. He joined Rathbone in 2005 as an asset allocation analyst working with Robin Griffiths, the Head of Asset Allocation. He specialises in the use of quantitative techniques in the analysis of global markets, with particular emphasis on building models for system trading and investment purposes.

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