My heartfelt thanks to Jean and Ken

My heartfelt thanks to Jean and Kenneth Wentworth who encouraged and
supported my market efforts.
Also a special thanks goes to Jan Arps—my mentor,business partner, and
friend—who encouraged me to document my discoveries and place a
high value on them.
I especially thank Peter Seitel whose clarity of thinking helped me confront
the most pertinent ideas in this book. In addition, I thank Janice Fain
Dean, Cheryl Morden, Mary Leonard, Gordon Rothrock, Bill Fix, and
David Wentworth,who helped in the editing process.A special thanks also
goes to Rich Doyle,who was always there to listen and support me in whatever
I did.
I would also like to thank my publishing attorney,Nina Graybill, as well as
Chris Myers and Jean Eske at Marketplace Books for making the publishing
process a smooth and easy one. Also, I would like to thank proofreader
Joan E.Gordon and book designer Mary Ann Stavros-Lanning for such
excellent work.
In addition, a special thanks for making the stock market come alive goes
to William O’Neil, who founded Investor’s Business Daily and wrote How
to Make Money in Stocks.Mr.O’Neil, you are a great light to the investment
world.
Thanks also to all my market teachers who took the time to write down
their ideas—Ted Warren, Nicolas Darvas, Jesse Livermore, Robert Edwards,
John Magee,Benjamin Graham,David Dodd,Gustave Le Bon,Bernard
Baruch, Peter Lynch,Martin Zweig,Martin Pring, Gerald Loeb, Stan
Weinstein, Victor Sperandeo, and especially to W.D. Gann, whose ideas
truly made float analysis possible.