Investor's Guide to Charting: An Analysis for the Intelligent Investor - Softcover

Blair, Alistair.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273662031 ISBN 13: 9780273662037

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

"Without question, some people have made astonishing amounts of money from studying share price charts and foretelling whether share prices would rise or fall. It is equally certain that further astonishing amounts of money have been lost in the same exercise." Alistair Blair

Charting is a complex and sometimes derided world, but one that nonetheless commands an enormous following. Some basic knowledge of charting is essential for any keen investor, and this fully revised and updated edition of Alistair Blair’s Guide to Charting is the independent, introductory overview of technical analysis for the private investor.

Guide to Charting

is packed with purpose-drawn charts and worked examples, and explains in detail how charting theories work. Written with the private investor’s viewpoint in mind the book’s coverage will give you all that you need to start practising technical analysis and, unlike other books on the subject, will also interest the more sophisticated, experienced practitioner by:

• Comparing technical analysis with fundamental analysis
• Examining the records of some of charting’s most renowned exponents
• Applying technical analysis to recent FTSE company price charts
• Providing alternative interpretations of ‘live’ charts
• Identifying both successful and failed recommendations by professional chartists

About this title

About the Author

Alistair Blair is the No Free Lunch columnist for the Investors Chronicle magazine and writes about business and investment for many other publications. In 1999, he was voted the Periodical Publishers' Association’s Business Writer of the Year. After reading PPE at Oxford and completing an MBA at Manchester Business School, Alistair gained practical experience of the City by working at Hill Samuel and Fidelity.

From the Back Cover

Charting is a complex and sometimes derided world, yet it still commands an enormous following. Some knowledge of the subject is useful for every investor. This fully revised and updated edition of Alistair Blair's Investor's Guide to Charting will bring you up to speed quickly, entertainingly and sometimes skeptically.

Investor's Guide to Charting

is packed with purpose-drawn charts and worked examples and explains in detail how charting theories work. Written with the private investor's viewpoint in mind, the book will give you all that you need to start practising technical analysis.

Learn what charts can and cannot show you, how and when to use them, and when to take them with a pinch of salt. Alistair Blair will get you thinking.

"A thought-provoking book. If you're interested in investment you should read it whether you bracket chartism with astrology or not."

Sir Christopher Hogg, Chairman, Reuters

"Alistair Blair makes charting make sense. You'll soon discover why chartists believe 'the trend is your friend' and why this book should be your constant companion."
Matthew Vincent, Editor, Investors Chronicle

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273662031
• ISBN 13: 9780273662037
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264