Thomas P. Drinka

Magnum Opus

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them … into the impossible." Clarke's Second Law


Department of Agriculture

Western Illinois University








Prologue

Introduction:

The First Chapter of a Personal Quest.

Chapter 2:

WIU Profile® Software Prototype, Analysis of CBOT Corn and T-bonds.
Thomas P. Drinka, Dennis R. Peterson, Lori A. York, Susan M. Talkemeyer,
Joanna S. Drinka, and Steven E. Davis.

Chapter 3:

WIU Profile® Software Prototype, Analytic Characteristics.
Thomas P. Drinka, Dennis R. Peterson, Lori A. York, Susan M. Talkemeyer, Joanna S. Drinka, and Steven E. Davis.

Chapter 4:

Optimization/Backtest of CBOT Soybeans.
Thomas P. Drinka and Dennis R. Peterson.

Chapter 5:

The P-, C-, and R-algorithms.
Dennis R. Peterson and Thomas P. Drinka.

Chapter 6:

Alternative Time-frames for Trading-signal Confirmation in CME Live Hogs.
Thomas P. Drinka and Dennis R. Peterson.

Chapter 7:

Using the CBOT Grains and Soybean Complex to Alpha-test the Software Prototype.
Dennis R. Peterson and Thomas P. Drinka.

Chapter 8:

Using a Trading Account to Beta-test the Software Prototype.
Thomas P. Drinka and Dennis R. Peterson.

Chapter 9:

Growing a Trading Account.
Dennis R. Peterson and Thomas P. Drinka.

Chapter 10:

Value Area Support and Resistance.
Kevin D. Box, Dustin E. Hill, Paul R. Hunt, Jodi E. Lehmann, Joel F. Randolph, and Thomas P. Drinka.

Chapter 11:

Investment Club.
Thomas P. Drinka, Jodi E. Lehmann, Andrea G. Furniss, and Jennifer D. Waner.

Chapter 12:

Alpha Testing CBT Investment Club Futures Trading Algorithms.
Thomas P. Drinka, Jennifer D. Waner, Jodi E. Lehmann, and Andrea G. Furniss.

Chapter 13:

College of Business and Technology Investment Club Futures Group Protocol.

Chapter 14:

Confirmation of a 1992 Market Discovery.

Chapter 15:

Investigation of the PS Model.

Chapter 16:

Measured Risk

Chapter 17:

The Last Chapter of a Personal Quest: Measured Risk

Chapter 18:

The Last Chapter of a Personal Quest: Measured Risk, Part Two

Chapter 19:

The Last Chapter of a Personal Quest: Measured Risk, Part Three

Chapter 20:

The Last Chapter of a Personal Quest: Measured Risk, Part Four

Chapter 21:

Trade Management

Chapter 22:

The Development Of A Futures Trader
Thomas P. Drinka, Nathan A. Losey and Ryan P. Lauer.

Chapter 23:

New Indictator for CBOT's Market Profile
Thomas P. Drinka.

Epilogue




NOTE: In order to expedite availability of my research results, they were posted here beginning in 1993.

"Electronic publishing has revolutionized scientific communications, as discussed in Wired Science by Herb Brody in the October 96 of Technology Review. Our Public Policy e-Print initiative is intended to extend this revolution to the public policy community. Conventional hard-copy publications operate at a sedate and leisurely pace unsuited to the rapidly developing policy debates of contemporary society. Too often months pass between the submission of an article its appearance in print, and authors risk either being overtaken by events, or being reduced to broad generalities. Further delays are imposed by editorial review, and articles must often must wait their turn for publication as editors seek to maintain a consistent number of pages in each issue of their publication, regardless of the supply of worthy texts. Increasingly, hardcopy journals serve as archival records of past debates, rather than directly impacting the accelerating policy discourse. Federation of American Scientists, "Public Policy e-Prints", http://www.fas.org/eprint.htm.

For example, "Traditionally physicists have been innovators in methods of scholarly communication; they have used preprints for over thirty years. A preprint is a manuscript that may appear in a peer-reviewed journal and is typically the earliest form of publicly available research. The introduction of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's electronic archive of physics preprints (http://arxiv.org/) in 1991 created their electronic equivalent, the e-print (http://xxx.lanl.gov/). Physicists have become increasingly dependent upon the rapid and immediate access to e-prints afforded by arXiv.org. This is despite the dominance of peer-reviewed journal articles in scientific communication." The Coming of Age of E-Prints in the Literature of Physics, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 2001, http://www.istl.org/01-summer/refereed.html.

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