Leslie K. Mcnew

• Flying high with forex

  By Leslie K. Mcnew  |  November 1, 2012

  Leslie McNew checks in with her student-run Flyer FOREX Fund and discusses lessons her students learn using girth in their trading models.

• Forex fund management, student trader style

  By Leslie K. Mcnew, Kevin L. Woeste, Charles B. Keller, Dr. John Rapp  |  May 1, 2010

  Here's what happened when college students managed a fund based on a proprietary trading model.

• Flyer Forex Girth Model Update

  By Leslie K. Mcnew, Tup Ingram  |  November 2, 2009

  This week's update on the University of Dayton students' trading simulation based on the four-hour girth model.

• Flyer Forex Girth Model update

  By Leslie K. Mcnew, Tup Ingram  |  October 27, 2009

  In September Leslie McNew's students began trading the four-hour girth model. Here is a progress report.

• Learning to trade: It's academic

  By Leslie K. Mcnew, Tup Ingram  |  October 1, 2009

  The four-hour vs. one-hour girth model for trading currencies incorporates volatility, momentum and velocity. We discuss a program that teaches the girth model and how the model can be used to manage a currency portfolio prudently.

• Doomsday hedging

  By Leslie K. Mcnew  |  February 12, 2009

  For the past six months, the currency market has not been kind to its traders. In the euro market, we were accustomed to having about 80 pips of noise on the four-hour chart before a trend developed,

• Adding girth to your profits

  By Leslie K. Mcnew  |  November 17, 2008

  During early 2008, Maize Asset Management developed a proprietary phenomenological commodity trading model, which is embedded with statistical modules. These modules help define the direction,

• Trading the plan

  By Leslie K. Mcnew  |  December 18, 2006

  At this point in the conversation, you should leave the room, remove any money under management you have with this person, and run like crazy for the front door. To paraphrase Talem, this trader is

• Simple system, big profits

  By Leslie K. Mcnew  |  June 30, 2006

  That the trend is your friend is the first rule of trading. One of the easiest and most visual methods of trend following is to locate the moving average of the price data and trade with it. Experts