Arthur Sklarew

Arthur Sklarew's involvement with commodities started in the early 1930s when he was a commission broker and import agent in the cash coffee market in New York. It was then that he first began to use price charts and moving averages in advising customers on the timing of their purchases and sales. In the late 1940s he expanded into cocoa importing, and in 1950 acquired a membership on the New York Cocoa Exchange. When he eventually realized that he was making far more money in futures than in...See more

Arthur Sklarew's involvement with commodities started in the early 1930s when he was a commission broker and import agent in the cash coffee market in New York. It was then that he first began to use price charts and moving averages in advising customers on the timing of their purchases and sales. In the late 1940s he expanded into cocoa importing, and in 1950 acquired a membership on the New York Cocoa Exchange. When he eventually realized that he was making far more money in futures than in his cash business, he decided to concentrate on the former exclusively. Since 1963 he has been associated with a major Wall Street commission house.He was an avid student of market technical phenomena for those same years, constantly experimenting with new approaches, techniques, and methods. (He earned his reading glasses, he said, peering at price charts.) This, his first book, is the distillate of more than three decades of experimentation and inquiry into the price behavior of commodity markets. See less