Chart Your Way To Profits: The Online Trader′s Guide to Technical Analysis (Wiley Trading) - Hardcover

Knight, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470043504 ISBN 13: 9780470043509

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Synopsis

Chart Your Way to Profits shows you how to harness the technology available on www.prophet.com to analyze markets and make informed trading decisions. It discusses the fundamentals of technical analysis and shows you how to design your own charts and indicators in a way that enables you to easily monitor the markets and make solid trading decisions.

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About the Author

TIM KNIGHT is the founder of www.prophet.net, which has been rated by Forbes magazine and Barron′s as the number one online site for technical analysis since 1999. Prior to starting Prophet.net, he was vice president of products for Montgomery Securities, where he helped develop PC–based trader workstations before the development of Web trading. Knight has traded for over twenty years, primarily using technical analysis and price charts, and is currently the Senior Vice President of Technology at Investools, the leading provider of online investor education. His blog can be read at http://tradertim.blogspot.com

From the Back Cover

Praise for CHART YOUR WAY TO PROFITS

"As a former pit trader and a technical ′newbie,′ I have found Tim′s new book to be the best resource I′ve seen for the everyday trader. With its fun and informative style, it has allowed me to understand and appreciate the professional world of technical analysis."
Tom Sosnoff, cofounder and CEO, thinkorswim, inc.

"Tim Knight is a chartist′s chartist I can′t recommend his work highly enough. Few people have done as much as he has in providing the sort of quality online resources technical traders need in order to make money in the financial markets. Chart Your Way to Profits is a twenty–first–century blueprint on how to use technical tools to achieve trading and investing success."
David Penn, Editor, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine

"Tim has written the best guide to leveraging ProphetCharts and technical analysis in the market today. This is a complex subject and can leave new and old investors buried in too much data or impossible learning curves. Tim breaks these complex ideas down into actionable ideas and strategies. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants an education in the latest and best tools and methods professional technicians are using today."
John Jagerson, Vice President of Content, Investools author of Profiting with Forex

"Tim Knight presents charting in a clear and straightforward manner with lots and lots of annotated charts the way it should be. Learning just a few of the techniques presented will help investors get better results, no doubt about it."
Michael Kahn, columnist for "Getting Technical," Barron′s Online

From the Inside Flap

Making money in today′s markets isn′t easy, but with the right approach, you can succeed. No one knows this better than author Tim Knight, who has been charting and trading the financial markets for more than twenty years. During this time, his passion for the markets led him to create Prophet.net a Web site containing an innovative array of technical analysis tools which has been consistently ranked the number one site for technical analysis by Barron′s and Forbes magazines.

Now, in Chart Your Way to Profits, Knight shows you how to use the powerful technology available online in conjunction with technical analysis to analyze markets and make the most profitable trading decisions possible.

Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, Chart Your Way to Profits covers a lot of ground with respect to technical analysis and charting. You′ll be introduced to the charting tools ProphetCharts and JavaCharts, so you can discover how to perform your own analysis with the help of hundreds of real–world examples. Along the way, you′ll also become familiar with some of the most important rules of sound trading.

Filled with in–depth insight and practical advice, Chart Your Way to Profits also:

• Examines a variety of chart types currently available, how to size and arrange them, and the differences in charting stocks, options, indices, and other financial instruments
• Discusses the mechanics of managing watch lists as well as chart styles and how to use them effectively
• Highlights essential indicators, including moving averages, Bollinger bands, the parabolic stop and reversal (PSAR), and moving average convergence divergence (MACD)
• Explores numerous analysis methods for financial charts, such as saucers, multiple tops and bottoms, trendlines, channels, and Fibonacci studies
• And much more

Consistent analysis produces consistent profits. And through the ups and downs of financial markets, technical criteria and charting allow traders to be completely objective in their assessment of price action, while leaving emotion out of the decision–making process. Chart Your Way to Profits can help you do the same, as it shows you how to combine technical analysis with powerful online tools to achieve trading success.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470043504
• ISBN 13: 9780470043509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432