Technical Analysis & Market Profits R. W. Schabacker 1932 VTG RARE Study Course Text

See photos for condition. All pages are in good condition, the cover shows some wear, especially on the corners. This appears to have been professionally produced by Brewer Cantelmo Co. Inc., 116 East 27th Street, New York City for use as his study course.

The Title page notes this as book as “Technical Analysis and Market Profits” By R. W. Schabacker, Financial Editor of Forbes Magazine and author of “Stock Market Theory and Practice.”

Richard Schabacker, Princeton graduate, writer, author, distinguished finance editor of Forbes Magazine, teacher, died at the young age of 36. Schabacker’s many accomplishments included developing the first stock market “index” and a groundbreaking course in technical analysis. This Wall Street figure lived through the Roaring 20’s, the Crash of 1929 and the Depression.

His "pioneering research" represents one of the finest works ever produced on technical analysis, and his book remains an example of the highest order of analytical quality and incisive trading wisdom.

In 1921, he earned an Economics degree with High Honors from Princeton University. After working for little less than two years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he returned to Princeton for a Master of Arts in English earned in 1924. Schabacker’s employment positions included the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Standard Statistics Company (now Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.) His ultimately became a financial writer and editor of Forbes magazine for 10 years.

During his time around Forbes, he wrote approximately 440 articles and columns on business, the stock market, investments, and life on Wall Street. He also authored two detailed books on securities trading and stock market analysis and prepared a study course that others later continued and sold as a book.