Markets and Market Logic [Signed & Inscribed by Authors]

Chicago: Porcupine Press, 1986. 1st ed (presumed). 161 pages; 24 cm Ink underlining and to margins of about 30% of text; else overall good thus (binding very tight) in very good to very good(-) jacket with a few edge-chips; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0941275000

Association copy inscribed to one "Len," who apparently was a good friend of the authors. ¶  Investing. Bourses de marchandises, Commodity exchanges, Financial futures, Marchés à terme d'instruments financiers, commodity exchanges //. "A Market Profile is an intra-day charting technique (price vertical, time/activity horizontal) devised by J. Peter Steidlmayer, a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), ca 1959-1985. Steidlmayer was seeking a way to determine and to evaluate market value as it developed in the day time frame. The concept was to display price on a vertical axis against time on the horizontal, and the ensuing graphic generally is a bell shape--fatter at the middle prices, with activity trailing off and volume diminished at the extreme higher and lower prices. In this structure he recognized the 'normal', Gaussian distribution he had been introduced to in college statistics."—Wikipedia