TASC November 99 - Detecting New Trends Early- Mass Index

["Laurent GITTLER" <lgittler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

List,

In TASC November Mag, there is an article on page 60 "Detecting New Trends
Early" dealing with
Mass Index and MFI.

My problem is from EOD data exported from TC2000, I do not find the same
entry point on April 98 as the author with the Mass Index on 25 days. As
Mass Index is computed using moving averages, I tried using data starting in
92, but the signal does not have the same pattern as in figure 1.

In the article, Steckler is using CGQ for Windows.

I was wondering if the problem come from the TC2000 Data or from a
difference in computing Mass Index between CGQ and Metastock (such as the
exponential weighting in the moving average).

Any feedback on that article ?

Thank you

Laurent GITTLER
lgittler@xxxxxxxxxxx