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  • 2005 Issues

    February 2005  (.HTML)  (.DOC)  (.PDF)

  • Position Trading or Day Trading? Finding The Approach That Works For You

    2004 Issues

    January 2005  (.HTML)  (.DOC)  (.PDF)
  • Learn To Earn With Unfair Advantage
  • Tech Talk

    December 2004  (.HTML)  (.DOC)  (.PDF)
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Prediction or Coincidence? Successful Trading Systems Require Logical Conclusions
  • Tech Talk
  • New One-Button Update Partners
  • Breaking News: Additions to the Commodity Database

    November 2004- Topics for November 2004
  • De-Mystifying Analysis Code With Unfair Advantage's® "AnyLanguage"
  • Tech Talk

    October 2004- Topics for October 2004
  • Hurricane Season at CSI
  • Tech Talk
  • Button, Button — Who’s Got the Button?

    September 2004- Topics for September 2004
  • Eight Great Dog Day Activities
  • Tech Talk
  • Important Notice About Intraday Updates

    August 2004- Topics for August 2004
  • Market Statistics Supplement

    July 2004- Topics for July 2004
  • CSI Market Data Software - A Compatibility Breakthrough!
  • Tech Talk

    June 2004- Topics for June 2004
  • Should CSI Add Real-Time Analysis Services?
  • Valuable Indexes Now Available
  • Tech Talk

    May 2004- Topics for May 2004
  • Seeking Wisdom In Intermarket Correlation Reports
  • Tech Talk

    April 2004- Topics for April 2004
  • A Historical Account of the World’s Premier Data Repository
  • Notice of Price Increase For Stock, Mutual Fund And LME Data
  • Tech Talk

    March 2004- Topics for March 2004
  • Accelerating Data Distribution with Unfair Advantage®
  • Tech Talk

    February 2004- Topics for February 2004
  • How Knowledge and a Depth of Intermarket Data Can Translate Into Profits
  • New Web-Based Service
  • Tech Talk

    January 2004- Topics for January 2004
  • Extracting Knowledge From Data
  • Tech Talk

    2003 Issues

    December 2003- Topics for December 2003
  • Holiday Schedule
  • An Unfair Advantage® Guided Tour
  • Tech Talk

    Novemeber 2003- Topics for Novemeber 2003
  • Holiday Schedule
  • SEC Grants Nasdaq Undue Rule Change — Investor Access to Data Threatened
  • Dow Jones Turning Point Chart
  • Tech Talk

    October 2003- Topics for October 2003
  • A Military Approach to Tracking Down Profits and Using Computers to Enhance the Art of Analysis
  • Tech Talk

    September 2003- Topics for September 2003
  • Tracking Your Investments With Position Manager
  • Unfair Advantage is Getting A New Look!
  • Tech Talk

    August 2003- Topics for August 2003
  • Holiday Schedule
  • The CSI Database on CD-ROM
  • CD History or Unfair Advantage - Which is right for you?
  • Tech Talk

    July 2003- Topics for July 2003
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Building Your Knowledge Base
  • Tech Talk

    June 2003- Topics for June 2003
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Expanded Focus Delays PDI (An Update)
  • Who Owns Perpetual Contract® Data?
  • Tech Talk

    May 2003- Topics for May 2003
  • Tips for Unfair Advantage® Users
  • Tech Talk
  • New Markets for VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software

    April 2003- Topics for April 2003
  • This Season's Changes at CSI
  • Tech Talk

    March 2003- Topics for March 2003
  • Exploring Development Opportunities for Profit
  • Notice about Government Data
  • Notice to Options Users
  • Tech Talk

    February 2003- Topics for February 2003
  • Stock Fundamentals Help Secure Your Advantage
  • Tech Talk

    January 2003- Topics for January 2003
  • Déjà vu? The Return of PDI
  • Tech Talk

    2002 Issues

    December 2002- Topics for December 2002
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Making Futures Markets Look Like Stocks
  • Tech Talk

    November 2002- Topics for November 2002
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Tracking Your Market Holdings Minute-by-Minute Throughout the Trading Day

    October 2002- Topics for October 2002
  • Prove Your Trading Methods to Balance Risk and Reap Rewards
  • Position Manager

    September 2002 - Topics for September 2002
  • HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  • New Internet Service Choices… Are You Enjoying The Faster Connections?
  • Position Manager Delayed
  • Transitioning to CSI’s New Pricing Policies

    August 2002 - Topics for August 2002
  • HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  • How Futures Information Can Help to Lower Stock Investment Risk
  • Position Manager Coming Soon to UA

    July 2002 - Topics for July 2002
  • HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  • Trading for a Living and Keeping the Profits

    June 2002 - Topics for June 2002
  • HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  • Basic Rules for Building a High-Performance Trading System
  • A Chance Encounter
  • More on Trading Systems

    May 2002 - Topics for May:
  • HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  • MarketScannerT Tutorial: Using the Emerging Market Study
  • Single Stock Futures are Coming!
  • Aberration: An Unconventional Find

    Apr 2002 - Topics for April:
  • Does OPEC Really Control the Price of Oil?
  • Point of View on VantagePoint

    Mar 2002 - Topics for March:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Assessing the Economic Effects of U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • More on Spread Strategies

    Feb 2002 - Topics for February:
  • Viewing Tomorrow's Newspaper Today
  • Important Notice About Mutual Fund Data

    Jan 2002 - Topics for January:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Profiting from CSI's Data Processing Laboratory
  • A New Cache of Currencies

    2001 Issues

    Dec 2001 - Thirty Months of CSI Technical Journals

    Nov 2001 - Examining Seasonal Tendencies To Uncover Clues in Historical Data Reserves

    Oct 2001 - Topics for October:
  • Pearl Harbor Revisited?
  • Unfair Advantage's Adjustments in Action
  • Compatible Software Profile: Elliottician

    Sept 2001 - Topics for September:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Using Options to Take the Sting Out of a Down Market

    Aug 2001 - Topics for August:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • CSI's Formula For Data Perfection

    July 2001 - Topics for July:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Computed Contracts Get Real
  • Latest version of our standard back adjuster software

    June 2001 - Topics for June:
  • Important Notice
  • Unfair Advantage Outpaces the Rest
  • Attention Delta Graphics Users

    May 2001 - Topics for May:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Stock Futures: Investing with a 21st Century Twist
  • Database Enhancements

    Apr 2001 - Topics for April:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • A Comparison: Futures vs. Stocks in a Volatile Market

    Mar 2001 - Topics for March:
  • A User's Guide to Unfair Advantage® v. 2.3
  • Summary of UA's Economic Database

    Feb 2001 - Engaging Unfair Advantage's® MarketScannerT to Find Solid Trading Opportunities

    Jan 2001 - Topics for January:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Adding the PerlT Language to Your Set of Programming Tools

    2000 Issues

    Dec 2000 - Topics for December:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Detecting Emerging Market Opportunities in Stocks and Futures With MarketScanner

    Nov 2000 - Topics for November:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • TSPE Tutorial

    Oct 2000 - Defining The Trading Day on U.S. Security Exchanges

    Sept 2000 - Topics for September:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Decimalization of the U.S stock markets
  • In Search of a Sure Thing

    August 2000 - Topics for August:
  • Optimization, Verification, Certification and other Perils
  • A Message from UA Developer Steven Davis
  • COT Survey Update

    July 2000 - Topics for July:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • CSI Users Perform Custom Studies with UA's Stock ScannerT
  • Sample Programs In Perl
  • Government Survey Seeks Input on COT Data

    June 2000 - Topics for June:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Low Margins and Improved Tools Fuel Futures Speculation
  • Become a CSI Business Associate and earn substantial referral fees
  • Stock Scanner T v.2.2 Coming in July
  • Uncovering Market Secrets with VantagePoint

    May 2000 - Topics for May:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • The Quick Route to UA Charting (A Navigational Guide)
  • Searching for Data in all the Right Places
  • Commitment of Traders Data Feed is Here!
  • Attention QuickTrieve Users - The Adjust File Is Gone!

    April 2000 - Topics for April:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Breaking Out of the Mold for Better Trading
  • A CSI Customer Reveals Omega's "UnfairBurdens"
  • Notice of Price Change for UA World Futures Data
  • Quickly Charting Thousands of Stocks with UA
  • Automatic E-Mail Invoicing and Technical Journals Now Available

    Mar 2000 - Topics for March:
  • Unfair Advantage Update
  • Advice for Business partners
  • CSI's Data Services
  • Recognizing Formula Research

    Feb 2000 - Topics for February:
  • Note from the Editor
  • Screening Equities with UA Stock ScannerT
  • TSPE: Goal Selection and Chart Interpretation
  • Delta Society Software in the Spotlight
  • Y2K Compliance Status Report

    Jan 2000 - Topics for January:
  • Studying the Anatomy and the Dangers of TradeStation®
  • Unfair Advantage® for the 21st Century

    1999 Issues

    Dec 1999 - Topics for December:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Beyond 2000i and Trading System Certification

    Nov 1999 - Topics for November:
  • Holiday Schedule
  • Revisiting CSI’s Trading System Performance Evaluator
  • Using CSI Data with Omega's RadarScreen
  • We're Ready for 6% T. Bonds and Notes

    Oct 1999 - Why Clean Data is a Mandatory Pre-Analysis Step

    Sept 1999 - The Impact and Influence of the Federal Reserve System on the U.S. Economy-1999

    August 1999- Capturing Intermarket Trading Opportunities

    July 1999- The MultiMarket AnalyzerT: Stretching, Unstretching and Leading the Way!

    June 1999- Topics for June:
  • Perpetual Contract Data

    May 1999- Topics for May:
  • Snapshots From the Turn of the Century
  • IPE Data Available Early Again!
  • More Comprehensive Overseas Coverage

    April 1999- Topics for April:
  • Correlation is the Key to UA's New Studies: Part 1 of 2
  • The Beneficial Side Effects of Adding Stocks To UA

    March 1999- Topics for March:
  • Coping in the Information Age
  • Data Release Schedule
  • IPE and LSE Update
  • CSIMillennium (CSIM) Format with CSI Y2K Extensions

    February 1999- Topics for February:
  • The Truth About Data
  • Soaring Stock Market Calls for CSI Format Change

    January 1999- Various Topics for January:
  • IPE Brent Crude Data Mirrors NYMEX Light Crude
  • Concerned Users of the MetaStock® Format
  • S&C;'s Winner is Software Developers' Choice
  • Holiday Schedule
    1998 Issues

    December 1998- Wrapping Up 1998

    November 1998- The Forthcoming European Monetary Unit and How Its Introduction Impacts CSI Data Users

    October 1998- Exploring CSI's Fact Sheets and other Jargon (Part 2)

    September 1998- Exploring CSI's Fact Sheets and other Jargon (Part 1)

    August 1998- Reviewing the contents of prior Technical Journals

    June 1998- Proportional Back Adjusting and its Comparative Advantages.

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    May 1998- Using Unfair Advantage to Analyze Corn Seasonality.
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  • April 1998- Validating Trading System Performance.
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  • March 1998- Unfair Advantage's New Back Adjuster
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  • February 1998- In Search of Greener Pastures
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  • January 1998- The Importance of Detrending Historical Series Before Simulating Past Performance
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  • 1997 Issues

    Summer 1997- Computed Contracts: Their Meaning, Purpose, and Application
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  • December 1997- UA's Seasonal Study Uncovers Stock Market Seasonality - Recent Weakness Predicted
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  • November 1997- Preparing for the Year 2000: The Expression of Dates Beyond 1999
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  • October 1997- Unfair Advantage and CME Lead the Way to Internet Analysis and Investing
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  • September 1997- CSI' Global Database Brings International Markets Into View
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  • August 1997- When a Format Isin't a Format
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  • July 1997- Computed Contracts: Their Meaning, Purpose, and Application
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  • June 1997- Let History be Your Guide to the Future
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  • May 1997- Exploring Trade-Offs in Your Trading
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  • April 1997- Understanding Your Data for Better Trading
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  • March 1997- The Fundamentals of Data for Technical Analysis
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  • February 1997- Market Data: Not Just Silicone Bytes, But Gemstones In The Rough
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  • January 1997- Optimal Portfolio Selection and Weighting - An Achievable Task
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  • 1996 Issues

    December 1996- To Stop or Not to Stop? A Question Every Trader Must Answer
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  • November 1996- Out of Range Settlement Prices - Our Answer to an Overlooked Problem
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  • October 1996- Time Series Transformations
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  • September 1996 - Not yet Available


    August 1996- Out of Range Settlement Prices - Our Answer to an Overlooked Problem
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    May 1996- Not yet Available


    April 1996- An Official Guide to Trading System Design (A Practical Procedure for Mining Market Profits)
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  • March 1996- The Fundamental Value of Seasonal Data
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  • February 1996- Choosing Casual Inputs to Feed Your Trading Model
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  • 1995 Issues




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