TalkingTrading

We honor the passing of a great lady in this week’s episode of Talking Trading. Dawn Bolton-Smith, aged 87, was the matriarch of technical analysis in Australia.  With a career spanning 50 years, she was the first technical chartist to be employed by the Australian Stock Exchange. Dawn’s passion for charting broke through barriers and her reputation for calling markets correctly was legendary. She helped inspire Louise Bedford and led the way for a generation of women in the markets. Dawn Bolton-SmithThree years ago Louise Bedford asked me to interview Dawn Bolton-Smith for Talking Trading.She described Dawn as share-trading royalty, the pioneer of technical charting in Australia. As life would have it, Dawn lived around the corner from me and we instantly became friends. Dawn and I would sit for hours viewing charts, looking at directional movements, resistance lines and price action for the day. The markets were her living breathing passion.She would always say to me ‘A person who can read charts is the mos