These are the people and the books behind many of the indicators in Technical Analysis from A to Z.
| Name | Best Known As The... |
| Achelis, Steve | Author of Technical Analysis from A to Z. Founder of Equis (aka MetaStock) and creator of the MetaStock technical analysis software. |
| Appel, Gerald | Creator of the MACD. Newsletter author. Author of Stock Market Trading Systems. |
| Arms, Richard | Creator of the Arms Index and Equivolume. Author of Volume Cycles in the Stock Market. |
| Black, Fisher | Co-creator of the Black-Scholes option pricing method. |
| Blau, William | Creator of the Stochastic Momentum Index. |
| Bollinger, John | Creator of Bollinger Bands. |
| Bolton, Hamilton | Author of Elliott Wave Principle-A Critical Appraisal. |
| Chaikin, Marc | Creator of Chaikin Money Flow, Chaikin Oscillator, and Chaikin's Volatility. |
| Chande, Tushar | Creator of numerous technical indicators including the Dynamic Momentum Index. Co-author of The New Technical Trader. |
| Cohen, A.W. | Author of How to Use the Three-Point Reversal Method of Point & Figure Stock Market Trading. |
| Davis, Ned | Market analyst and researcher. |
| DeBry, Jon | Primary researcher on Technical Analysis from A to Z. An investment advisor. |
| Dobson, Edward | Author of Understanding Fibonacci Numbers. |
| Dorsey, Donald | Creator of Inertia, Mass Index, and Relative Volatility Index. |
| Edwards, Robert | Co-author of Technical Analysis of Stock trends. |
| Eliades, Peter | Author of Stock Market Cycles. |
| Elliott, Ralph | Creator of Elliott Waves. |
| Fishback, Don | Creator of ODDS Probability Cones. |
| Fosback, Norman | Author of Stock Market Logic. |
| Granville, Joseph | Creator of One Balance Volume. Author of New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profits. |
| Hannula, Hans | Creator of Polarized Fractal Efficiency. |
| Herrick, John | Creator of the Herrick Index. |
| Klinger, Stephen | Creator of the Klinger Oscillator. |
| Kroll, Stanley | Co-creator of numerous indicators including the Dynamic Momentum Index. Co-author of The New Technical Trader. |
| Lambert, Donald | |
| Magee, John | Co-author of Technical Analysis of Stock Trends. |
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McClellan,
Marian & Sherman |
Creators of the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index. Authors of Patterns for Profit. |
| Merrill, Arthur | Author of Filtered Waves-Basic Theory. |
| Morris, Greg | Author of Candlestick Charting Explained. |
| Mulloy, Patrick | Creator of DEMA and TEMA. |
| Murphy, John | Technical analyst for CNBC-TV for seven years. Author of Technical Analysis of the futures markets and The Visual Investor. |
| Natenberg, Sheldon | Author of Option Volatility and Pricing Strategies. |
| Nison, Steve | Popularized Japanese Candlesticks, Kagi, Renko, and Three Line Break charts in the United States. Author of Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques and Beyond Candlesticks. |
| O'Neil, William | Founder of Investors Business Daily. Author of How to Make Money in Stocks. |
| Poulos, Michael | Creator of the Random Walk Index |
| Prechter, Robert | Author of numerous books on Elliot Waves. See Prechter's books on Amazon.com." |
| Pring, Martin | Author of numerous excellent books including Technical Analysis Explained and Breaking the Black Box. |
| Raff, Gilbert | Creator of the Raff Regression Channel. |
| Scholes, Myron | Co-creator of the Black-Scholes option pricing method. |
| Sibbet, James | Creator of the Demand Index. |
| Tirone, John | Creator of Tirone Levels. |
| Weinberg, Jack | Creator of the Range Indicator. |
| White, Adam | Creator of the Vertical Horizontal Filter. |
| Widner, Mell | Creator of the Projection Oscillator and Projection Bands. |
| Wilder, Welles | Creator of numerous indicators, including the RSI and Directional movement. Author of New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. |
| Williams, Larry | Creator of Williams' Accumulation/Distribution and Williams %R. |
| Zweig, Martin | Author of Winning on Wall Street. Zweig's detailed research popularized many technical indicators. |