About The West Coast Cycles Club

The purpose of the WCCC is to help its members increase their investment knowledge to enable them to make their own investment and personal financial decisions. Our purpose is strictly educational and social. We do not provide investing or trading advice. Information presented on this website or at the WCCC monthly meetings is for information only and does not constitute investment or financial advice. We educate and share expertise on investing and trading Stocks/ETFs/Funds, to use market timing techniques for growing our portfolios when the markets are favorable, to avoid those situations of high risk/low return, and to have fun doing it.

Our monthly meetings provide the primary means for exchanging information and hearing what the experts have to say on various subjects. The information usually is technical - about a given market indicator’s ability to confirm signs of a trend reversal, or details of how Hurst cycles may show a top or bottom coming up in a few weeks. The second half of the meeting, we focus on market cycles and indicators, getting the latest interpretations from the experts, and a Q&A on specific items of interest. Members expertise in use of various charting and analysis programs provides valuable insight into what they have found useful, and what is a waste of time. This cuts through the “hype” offered in the ads and reviews about what the programs can do and how much help they are in making trading decisions.

Members often make presentations on “What works for me,” providing insight into how to apply various tools and use published information in a specific trading approach. A recurring theme is to discuss Money Managers and their newsletters, comparing the risk adjusted performance over 5 - 10 years. This helps to sort out the ones worth looking at, and provides a hint of what investing literature is no more than junk mail. Members have access to this information via the club, and a chance to meet experts, ask questions about their interpretation of the markets, analysis techniques, investing and trading approaches, and where to get more information.

History of Our Club
At a meeting in 1988, Sherman McClellan got Richard Mogey interested in the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index with his a call for an important top in the stock market in August 1987 based on the Summation Index structure, and the crash of 1987 and the recovery in 1988. This brought more attention to the usefulness of the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index for understanding stock market pricing dynamics. Sherman then took a regular role in the presentations at the meetings, and kept others up to date with the Oscillator and Summation Index by speaking on Gene Morgan’s "Charting the Market" program on Channel 22. Tom and Sherman McClellan started The McClellan Market Report in 1995 with the Daily Edition following in 1998. Mogey later hosted a couple of seminars involving Sherman and Marian McClellan's work with the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index.

The monthly meeting tradition changed when the Foundation's headquarters were moved to Pennsylvania, to link up with the University of Pennsylvania, and its extensive library made the move east. The group of regular attendees were left sort of hanging, and decided to form their own group and that is how the West Coast Cycles Club came to be. There were a lot of details to get the club set up: a meeting site had to be found, costs negotiated, notices sent out, a contact list had to be made, procedures for handling money set up, presentation equipment purchased, and decisions made about who would present and when during the meetings.

The Sierra Club in Buena Park was chosen as the central location of the people likely to attend WCCC meetings, and that luncheon meetings were the best fit for people’s schedules. Richard Mogey agreed to send charts to each meeting for presentation and Sherman McClellan began to give a more extensive presentation. Applications of Investors FastTrack became the general topic for the morning meeting. Gordon Suiter ran the meetings along with Rob Thatcher, presenting many systems for timing and switching mutual funds and other market timing and selection ideas. Some of the past key presenters included: Larry Williams, Tom Demark, Stan Harley, Larry Katz, Dave Wright, Don Gimpel and Sunny Harris. Apart from the guests, member presentations covered the on-going work of attendees such as Gordon Suiter, Rob Thatcher, Will Turk, George Moore and John Wilner - who covered the astrological slant.  

Membership - Benefits of Becoming a Member
Investors who potentially benefit the most would be those who know the least about investing, market timing and the pros and cons of a buy-and-hold approach. Some attendees from over the years had no concept of technical analysis. If they knew anything, it was the partial truths from greedy brokers that followed strict fundamentals and provided little help after the getting the account.

Our members gain exposure to current investing tools, strategies in use by money managers, experts in market analysis, and reviews of what's working and what's not.  This includes the opportunity to hear what others are doing with investment software programs, as well as investment approaches that do not use canned software, The primary speakers are people who are managing their own portfolios.

Meetings provide access to the experts and experiences of people who have learned by practicing investing and trading with the help of the club and its collective knowledge.  Some members are linked into many financial organizations and contacts including AAII, MTA, FSC. Experts regularly provide input to the meetings including Richard Mogey, past Director of Research at the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, and Sherman McClellan who publishes the McClellan Market Report. 

Meetings provide the opportunity to obtain practical knowledge that you can use to compare with your own investing strategy and technique.  Over the years we've learned quite a lot of investing "truths" and we take every opportunity to share them.  Although the primary focus tends to be on what fairly experienced people are doing, some presentations of a tutorial nature are given for people who are just getting started, no matter what the age is.  

By registering as a member, your name will be put on the mailing list to receive meeting notices and reminders for our meetings.  This list is kept private and not available to others outside the club. Your contact information is not shared with club members unless permission is given. There is no cost to signing up as a member.

If you would like to sign up as a club member and be put on the mailing list, or just get more information about the club and its meetings, please contact Michael Levitin:   wcccinfo2@gmail.com