Hutson had a brief foray in the stock market in the late 1960s and bought two additional houses in the 1970s before returning to securities in 1980.
Using his engineering and analytic background, he for hours delved into trading concepts by reading books in library.
He purchased a personal computer system for $7,500 to allow him to automatically generate a chart that would take hours if created manually.
When the software for a specific technical concept did not work, Hutson asked Boeing colleague and math doctorate Anthony Warren to collaborate with him to fix the program.
To ready himself for the conference, Hutson wrote a paper that became the foundation of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities's inaugural October 1982 issue.