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

Knight, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470620021 ISBN 13: 9780470620021

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Synopsis

A cutting-edge guide to turning technical analysis into trading success, Chart Your Way to Profits, Second Edition shows you how to use the powerful technology available online in conjunction with technical analysis to assess markets and make the most profitable trading decisions possible. In the book, author Tim Knight discusses the key aspects of technical analysis and reveals how to design your own charts and indicators in a way that enables you to easily monitor the markets and make solid trading decisions. This new edition discusses a wider range of technical tools within ProphetCharts and shows you how to evaluate and compare industry sectors and groups of stocks to identify the best trading opportunities. * Features many new technical tools for tracking individual stocks * Illustrates how to use the highly-rated online application ProphetCharts to create state-of-art, customized graphs * Helps hone your own analysis skills through hundreds of real-world examples Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, Chart Your Way to Profits, Second Edition not only explains technical analysis, but also provides readers with examples demonstrating how effective technical analysis can identify highly profitable trades.

About this title

About the Author

TIM KNIGHT is a hedge fund money manager and the founder of Prophet Financial Systems (now owned by TD Ameritrade), rated by Forbes magazine and Barron's as the number-one online site for technical analysis. He also writes the popular blog, slopeofhope.com. 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.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the First Edition of

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

From the Inside Flap

Technical analysis is the study of past price movement for the purpose of predicting future price movement. If done correctly, it can lead to substantial trading profits. But making money in the market isn't easy. No one knows this better than author Tim Knight, who has been charting and trading the financial markets for more than twenty years. The company he founded, Prophet Financial Systems (now owned by TD Ameritrade), was ranked for years as the number-one site for technical analysis by both Barron's and Forbes.

In the first edition of Chart Your Way to Profits, Knight showed how to use the powerful technology available online in conjunction with technical analysis to analyze markets and make the most profitable trading decisions possible. Now, in this revised Second Edition, he offers many new technical tools for tracking individual stocks and also shows you how to use ProphetCharts® to do advanced intermarket technical studies to identify the best opportunities.

Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, Chart Your Way to Profits, Second Edition introduces the ProphetCharts® application (accessible to anyone with Internet access and an account), which allows you 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. The author examines a variety of chart types, highlights essential indicators, explores numerous analysis methods, and offers a wealth of in-depth insight and practical advice throughout the book.

No matter what you trade, technical analysis can make you a better and more profitable trader. Price charts will consistently provide the most complete representation of the supply and demand behind any financial instrument because everything that can be publicly known or speculated is already built into the graph. 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, Second Edition 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: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470620021
• ISBN 13: 9780470620021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528