The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases - Hardcover

Brown, Constance

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071442073 ISBN 13: 9780071442077

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2004

Synopsis

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases provides traders with illustrations of more than 275 key chart patterns along with their most important variations. An innovative and soon-to-be essential addition to every technical trader's reference library, it provides:

• An alphabetical listing of every pattern
• A list of the patterns grouped by subject
• Clear notations to highlight key reversals and points of interest

About this title

About the Author

Constance Brown, C.M.T., is president of Aerodynamic Investments, Inc., a trading firm with an unmatched reputation for calling exact market pivot dates at precise price levels, and a member of the accreditation board of the Market Technicians Association. She is the author of All About Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional, and Aerodynamic Trading. To learn more, please visit www.aeroinvest.com.

From the Back Cover

Today's most authoritative and reliable technical trader's reference

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases provides you with a comprehensive volume of key chart patterns, timely trading market signals, and popular phrases. Compiled by Constance Brown, one of today's most successful technical analysts and traders, it includes:

• More than 275 illustrated examples of valuable chart patterns and market timing signals

• Patterns listed alphabetically, grouped by subject and variable degree of probable success

• Clear notations to highlight market reversals and points of interest

• Indicator comparisons using identical stock symbols and time periods, allowing you to easily discover your own indicator preferences

• Actual charts from Pfizer, Microsoft, Amazon, and other leading stocks, along with economic and market indices, bonds, currencies, and more

• Charts and patterns that illustrate popular phrases, such as "closed below the low of the day"

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals & Phrases gives you quick access to hundreds of popular chart patterns and trading market signals. It will help you to quickly recognize ­­and act upon ­­profit opportunities in today's markets.

Everything is here, including:

• Oscillators and oscillator comparisons
• Weak and strong divergence patterns
• Gann time forecasting charts
• Point-and-figure charting
• Fibonacci confluence charts
• Market entry signals
• Trend lines
• Volatility bands
• Elliott Wave patterns
• And much more

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases is the most comprehensive visual library of technical chart patterns, signals, and market timing tools ever published. A compilation of more than 275 chart patterns and signal variations, it supplies traders, investors, and money managers with a valuable source of original ideas and applications, charts and techniques used by some of the top producers in the industry, and guidance on how to tell the difference between weak and strong market signals.

This innovative reference demonstrates the visual appearance and characteristics of chart patterns, signals, and timing tools and demonstrates how veteran traders have applied them in real market conditions. Clear and straightforward, it will allow you to:

• Focus closely on individual indicator characteristics, for example an indicator confirmed by volume versus price pattern
• Carefully evaluate signal character between methods to study reactions on both market tops versus bottoms
• Easily discern dozens of high risk market turns based on price pattern, or calendar date cycle analysis
• Study charts from right to left to help determine the past significance of signals
• Make comparisons between major oscillators across similar markets, to more easily allow signal formations to be evaluated
• Increase the value of your trend analysis by utilizing smarter pivot points, arcs, and unconventional internal price channels
• View examples of technical analysis applied to long-term periods of fundamental data, to highlight where traders stand now in relation to history

A variety of technical trading methods are demonstrated to show how their application in actual trading conditions. You can study the source of a trendline and the minor anchor points selected when an indicator makes complex tops and simple V bottoms. Eighteen market entry signals are detailed, in addition to demonstrations of numerous reversal and continuation signals. Charts show volatility bands, volatility measurements, and several examples of the VIX Volatility Index.

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases will provide you with hundreds of new ideas and avenues for understanding and applying market charts, regardless of time interval or global market. It will change the way in which you approach your trading day, by improving your chart recognition abilities and making your approach more straightforward and well-informed than ever before.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071442073
• ISBN 13: 9780071442077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304