WALL STREET
UNCUT
Unconventional Interviews with Giants of Technical Analysis
Edited by Dave Allman
Wall Street Uncut, a series of critically acclaimed interviews that were conducted from March 1999 to August 2000, goes where most on Wall Street wouldn’t dare — past the numbers and into the minds of some of the financial industry’s best, brightest and most original thinkers.
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Earl Hadady is a pioneering market analyst whose work reshapes how traders think about contrary opinion, especially in futures markets. As editor of The Contrary Opinion Letter, Hadady draws a critical distinction between sentiment extremes in stocks—where ownership is elastic—and futures markets, where there must be one contract short for every contract long. His research emphasizes the utility of commitment-of-traders data, positioning imbalances, and the structural differences between asset classes long before these ideas become mainstream. In current markets—where crowding, leverage, and positioning data are central to risk management—Hadady’s insights offer a disciplined way to identify when consensus has gone too far and vulnerability is highest.
Evelyn Browning-Garriss is a historical climatologist who has spent more than 30 years as a business consultant explaining the impact of changing climate on economic and social trends. She has authored or co-authored seven books on the effects of climate change on water supplies, agriculture, business, and terrorism. She is best known for writing The Browning Newsletter, which her father, Iben Browning, started. Many of the themes she discusses—warmer Atlantic waters fueling stronger hurricanes, shifting El Niño/La Niña patterns, wildfire risk in the American West, and the vulnerability of coastal real estate—are already unfolding with increasing force.
Vic Sperandeo, widely known as Trader Vic, is a financial commentator and commodities expert, particularly in the energy and metals sectors. He has written four books: Trader Vic: Methods of a Wall Street Master; Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation; Trader Vic on Commodities: What’s Unknown, Misunderstood, and Too Good to Be True; and Crashmaker: A Federal Affaire.
Joe Granville is a flamboyant, highly visible technical analyst, author, and lecturer whose career spans five decades. He publishes The Granville Market Letter, which he has written since the early 1960s, and is widely known for his showmanship, for popularizing the use of the 200-day moving average, and for developing On-Balance Volume (OBV). A charismatic speaker and frequent television guest, Granville combines conviction with theatrical presentation, helping bring technical analysis to a broad public audience.
Bert Dohmen is the founder of the Dohmen Capital Research Institute and publisher of the Wellington Letter. A longtime student of Federal Reserve policy, liquidity cycles, and global capital flows, Dohmen built an international reputation as a contrarian macro analyst. Bert gained national prominence during the 1979–81 interest-rate crisis, when his bold call for prime rates above 20% made the Wellington Letter required reading across Wall Street. His work has been widely quoted in major financial publications, and he has appeared frequently on financial television programs. The Wellington Letter earned top rankings in national surveys, reflecting Dohmen’s focus on identifying major economic and market shifts ahead of consensus.
Harry Dent is a demographic researcher and economic strategist whose work focuses on how population trends, generational behavior and innovation cycles influence long term growth. A graduate of Harvard Business School, where he earned Baker Scholar honors, Dent has advised corporations, investors, and policymakers since the late 1980s. He worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, served as CEO of multiple growth companies, and authored several bestselling books outlining hallmark insights such as the Baby Boom Spending Wave, generational demand patterns, the 80–90 year Boom/Bust supercycle, and S-curve innovation surges.
James Stack is the founder of InvesTech Research and president of Stack Financial Management. His work combines historical market analysis, breadth indicators, and disciplined risk management to guide both research subscribers and asset-management clients. He is in the early stages of expanding his research into an active money-management operation, with an emphasis on capital preservation and long-term discipline.
Stan Weinstein, editor of the iconic Professional Tape Reader, is one of the most enduring figures in modern technical analysis, best known for developing Stage Analysis, a deceptively simple framework that classifies markets and individual stocks into distinct phases of accumulation, advance, distribution and decline. First articulated in his classic book, Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, Weinstein’s method gave investors a disciplined way to align with primary trends while avoiding the most destructive phases of market cycles. His emphasis on relative strength, moving averages, and confirmation across indexes and sectors anticipated many of the risk-on/risk-off and trend-following concepts widely used today. Weinstein’s core insight – knowing what stage a market is in matters more than predicting what comes next – remains a practical guide for staying on the right side, and more important, avoiding the wrong side of the market.
Jim Bianco is the founder and president of Bianco Research, an affiliate of Arbor Research & Trading, where he has produced fixed-income and macroeconomic research since 1990. His work focuses on money flows, yield dynamics, government policy, and the interaction between financial markets and economic behavior. Bianco’s research examines topics ranging from bond market structure and inflation drivers to equity market capitalization relative to GDP. A frequent speaker and media contributor, Jim has appeared in major financial publications and on television networks worldwide. Bianco previously held research roles at UBS Securities, First Boston, and Shearson Lehman Brothers and has served in leadership positions in the CMT Association.
Connie Brown is a technical analyst, trader, and author known for advancing the practical application of Gann theory and multi-disciplinary market analysis. After more than a decade as an institutional trader, she founded Aerodynamic Investments in 1996 and focuses her work on research, writing, and advisory services. Brown is the author of several books, including Aerodynamic Trading, Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional, and the award-winning Fibonacci Analysis. She serves as editor of the CMT Association’s Journal of Technical Analysis, has served on the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) Education Committee, holds the Master of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA) designation, and is credited with developing the Composite Index oscillator used by traders across markets and timeframes.
Ned Davis founded Ned Davis Research in 1980 after accumulating years of market experience spanning multiple cycles. His core philosophy rejects the pursuit of perfect forecasts in favor of a disciplined process he calls “weight of the evidence,” which evaluates trends, sentiment, monetary conditions, and valuation together. Davis emphasizes risk management, adaptability, and the importance of avoiding major mistakes rather than predicting precise outcomes. He is the author of Being Right or Making Money and The Triumph of Contrarian Investing, and his research is widely cited in financial media and used by institutions seeking data-driven market guidance.
Ralph Acampora is widely regarded as one of the architects of modern professional technical analysis. Over a long career, he helped move chart-based analysis from the fringes of Wall Street to institutional acceptance. Acampora spent 15 years as Director of Technical Analysis at Prudential Equity Group and later served as Director of Technical Research at Knight Equity Markets, while also teaching at the New York Institute of Finance for decades. He co-founded the Market Technicians Association in 1970, played a central role in the creation of the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, and helped establish the first formal technical analysis library. Frequently consulted by financial media and institutions, Acampora is also a noted market historian and co-author of the CMT Association’s early history.
Dick Arms is a technical analyst and portfolio manager whose work consistently emphasizes the importance of trading volume as a window into market behavior. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Arms advises institutional investors and manages private portfolios while developing tools that reshape how analysts interpret market internals. He has authored five books on technical analysis and introduced indicators—Equivolume charting, Ease of Movement, volume-adjusted moving averages, and most notably the Arms Index (TRIN)—that highlight the relationship between volume and price movement. His research challenges price-only analysis and remains influential among traders focused on market breadth and supply-demand dynamics.
Justin Mamis is a veteran market observer whose career spans more than four decades and nearly every corner of the financial industry. After developing an interest in markets in the years following the Korean War, he goes on to work on the New York Stock Exchange floor, in specialist firms, and in institutional advisory roles. He publishes The Mamis Letter for institutional clients and authors several influential books, including When to Sell and The Nature of Risk. Known for his skepticism and plainspoken style, Mamis remains deeply critical of speculative extremes and the growing reliance on technology in trading.
Arch Crawford is an analyst and educator best known for developing a market-timing approach informed by decades of correlation studies linking market volatility to electromagnetic and solar phenomena, while remaining grounded in breadth, sentiment, and internal market measures. Early in his career, Arch worked as first assistant to prominent Wall Street technician Robert Farrell at Merrill Lynch, where he gained a traditional grounding in technical analysis. In 1977, following years of research into correlations between planetary cycles and financial markets, Crawford launched Crawford Perspectives, a newsletter that has continued for decades and remains closely followed by cycle-oriented investors. His work has consistently focused on identifying major market turning points rather than short-term fluctuations.
Steve Nison is the figure most responsible for bringing Japanese candlestick charting into the Western financial mainstream. Through years of original research, translation of rare Japanese texts, and direct collaboration with members of the Nippon Technical Analysts Association, Nison transformed centuries-old trading principles — once virtually unknown outside Japan — into practical tools used across global markets. Author of the landmark books, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques and Beyond Candlesticks, he showed how candle patterns, combined with Western technical methods and disciplined risk control, could sharpen timing and preserve capital. Today, with candlestick charts offered as a default menu option on virtually every charting platform worldwide, the principles Nison outlines here are a foundational language of modern market analysis.
A Message from the Editor:
In early 1999, Bob Prechter and I were lamenting the lack of enthusiasm that Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser had for technical analysts and decided we should do something about it. Thus arose Wall Street Uncut, a series of unconventional financial interviews with people whose work was too important to be relegated to the question of whether or not they could tell me where the Dow would close next Friday. I cared not what they thought of the market; I’d been on the media carousel for over a decade and knew that game. I didn’t care if they were bullish or bearish. I wanted to know about their methods. I wanted to hear their war stories. I did my homework so I could at least attempt to ask intelligent questions. These people were pioneers, and their work – in many cases now permanently embedded in the craft with little credit for their significant contributions – should be appropriately recognized and available to future generations of market students and aficionados.
I hope you enjoy reading these interviews as much as I enjoyed conducting them.
—Dave Allman, Ed.
P.S. – While the focus of Wall Street Uncut was not on forecasts, it is noteworthy just how prescient the handful of prognostications within this book turned out.
About Dave
Dave Allman began learning about money at age 11 working summers on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. At 19, Dave graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in mathematics. He bought his first house the next year just outside of Atlantic City. The casino gambling referendum passed six months later. Within two years, real estate prices had boomed, the gambling stocks went vertical and Dave no longer aspired to an exciting career as an actuary.
Dave has worked closely with Bob Prechter since 1983. He has lectured around the globe on the application of the Wave Principle, Fibonacci relationships and investor psychology, and taught advanced classes on Elliott to hundreds of investors.
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—Hal Cumberland
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—David Williams
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—Mark Lenz
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—Jeff Dempsey
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—Bob Roeske, OEX Trader
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