Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors: Power Tools for Active Investors (paperback) - Softcover

Appel, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132930048 ISBN 13: 9780132930048

Publisher: FT Press, 2005

Synopsis

Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Practical Power Tools! offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis the first time. Among the models he covers: NASDAQ/NYSE Relative Strength, 3-5 Year Treasury Notes, Triple Momentum, Seasonality, Breadth-Thrust Impulse, and models based on the revolutionary MACD techniques he personally invented. Appel covers momentum and trend of price movement, time and calendar cycles, predictive chart patterns, relative strength, analysis of internal vs. external markets, market breadth, moving averages, trading channels, overbought/oversold indicators, Trin, VIX, major term buy signals, major term sell signals, moving average trading channels, stock market synergy, and much more. He presents techniques for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors.

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Review

FROM STOCK TRADER'S ALMANAC 2006:

 

"The best investment book of the year"

 

FROM SFO MAGAZINE, (www.sfomag.com)

 

"Wisdom gained from three decades of studying stock markets and creating timing indicators is what you will find in Gerald Appel's latest book. ... This book is a master technician's superb source of well-crafted ideas for timing indicators."

                                            --George A. Schade, CMT

About the Author

About the Author

Gerald Appel has, since 1973, published Systems and Forecasts, a leading technical analysis publication. Appel is legendary for his work in technical analysis and market timing, including the creation of Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD), one of the field's most widely used tools. His numerous books include, among others, Winning Market Systems: 83 Ways to Beat the Market, Stock Market Trading Systems (with Fred Hitschler), New Directions in Technical Analysis (with Dr. Martin Zweig), The Big Move, and Time-Trend III. His company, Signalert Corporation, and affiliates, currently manages more than $550,000,000 in investor capital. Appel has trained thousands of traders through his world-renowned video and audio tapes, seminars, and workbooks. He recently taught a series of four-day international master classes on investing and trading strategies in partnership with Dr. Alex Elder. As Appel puts it, "I have never lost anything by giving ideas away. If people find it useful, it makes me feel good."

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Edition details

• Publisher: FT Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0132930048
• ISBN 13: 9780132930048
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 258