The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases - Hardcover

Brown, Constance

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071442073 ISBN 13: 9780071442077

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

A handy, clear, easy-to-use reference guide to the most important charts in technical analysis; charts only, virtually no text to bog down the user in getting what he wants when he wants it

The book will feature one chart per page that will be clearly labelled as to the pattern being illustrated.

The author provides an introduction explaining what the book does, how to use the book, and how it is organized.

About this title

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.

About the Author:

Constance Brown, CMT (Chartered Market Technician), founded Aerodynamic Investments, Inc., after working for more than 15 years as an institutional trader in New York City. She continues to actively trade and advises numerous financial institutions and banks around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071442073
• ISBN 13: 9780071442077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304