All About Technical Analysis
The Easy Way to Get Started
Published on 16. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-07-138511-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book explains everything you need to know about technical analysis - what it is, how to use it to forecast markets, mutual funds, and real estate, and more! Technical analysis is one of today's most accurate investment tools for market selection and timing. But what is technical analysis? How can you combine it with traditional investing methods to improve your portfolio's performance and make informed - and better - investment decisions?"All About Technical Analysis" tells you everything you need to know to incorporate the predictive strength of technical analysis into your overall investing strategy. From the basics of charts and charting to how to use advanced technical indicators and oscillators, this easy-to-understand guidebook explains why so many independent investors have come to rely on technical analysis - and how you can use it to dramatically improve both your short- and long-term investment returns.
Whether you are an experienced stock market investor or a beginner, look to "All About Technical Analysis" to learn more about: using charts to identify stock, bond, and real estate trends; strategies to pick industry sectors and stocks; precise price levels to buy and sell; techniques for combining momentum, breadth, and sentiment indicators and much more.
Whether you are an experienced stock market investor or a beginner, look to "All About Technical Analysis" to learn more about: using charts to identify stock, bond, and real estate trends; strategies to pick industry sectors and stocks; precise price levels to buy and sell; techniques for combining momentum, breadth, and sentiment indicators and much more.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
65 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-138511-4 (9780071385114)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.
Content
Part One: What is Technical Analysis, and Who Can Benefit?
Chapter 1: Could Charts Have Called the Enron Collapse?
Chapter 2: What Is Technical Analysis and Who Uses It?
Chapter 3: Can Mutual Fund Investors Use Technical Analysis?
Part Two: How to Create Charts
Chapter 4: How to Get the Data into Your Computer
Chapter 5: Weekly, Monthly, and Intraday Time Intervals: How to Display the Data
Chapter 6: How Asian Traders Prefer to Display Data
Chapter 7: Why the U.S. Dollar Dictates the Longevity of an American Equity Bull Market
Chapter 8: Help! Short- and Long-Term Interest Rates Are Really Confusing
Money Market Securities or Short-Term Interest Rate Markets
Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Markets
Price-to-Yield Relationship
Yield to Maturity versus Realized Yield
Yield Curves
Chapter 9: Why a North American Needs International Market Data
Chapter 10: Wait a Minute! Isn't That Real Estate Data?
Part Three: How to Read the Data to Make a Decision
Chapter 11: A Big-Picture Summary of the Different Approaches within Technical Analysis
Category One: Does the Method or Technique Depend on Pattern Recognition?
Category Two: Does the Method Focus on the Geometric Mathematical Relationships within the Market's Price Data or Indicators?
Category Three: Does the Method Strive to Identify Behavioral Traits and Study Extremes of Market Participants?
Category Four: Does the Method Strive to Detect Correlations between Different Markets to Determine If One Market Is Providing a Leading Signal for Another?
Chapter 12: Directional Patterns and Signals within the Data
Chapter 13: Why Are There Holes in My Data?
Chapter 14: Understanding Trends and Basic Market Geometry
Chapter 15: Using Market Geometry for Price Projections
Chapter 16: Ways to Detect Market Extremes Using Price, Breadth, and Sentiment
Chapter 17: The Hottest Stock since Green Ketchup! How to "Listen" to the Media with a Technical Mindset
Part Four: How to Handle Specific Problems
Chapter 18: Price Targets for Stocks Just Listed and Other Challenges
How Do You Calculate Support or Resistance for a Stock Just Listed with No Historical Data?
How Do You Calculate Market Support When the Index Has Fallen below Historic Price Lows?
How Do You Calculate a Price Objective When the Stock or Market Is Trading above Historic Highs?
How the Internet Can Lead You to a Poor Market Decision
What Is the Global Industry Classification Standard and How Do You Use Stock Sectors for Analysis?
Part Five: Lessons From Global Market Shock Waves
Chapter 19: Lessons from Global Market Shock Waves
The Americas Catch the Asian Flu in 1998
The "Dot Gones": Researching Opportunities after a Market Implodes
September 11, 2001
Part Six: Why Does Technical Analysis Work?
Chapter 20: What Do Seashells, Hurricanes, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average All Have in Common?
Chapter 21: A Universal Higher Order and How All Things Are Indeed Connected
Part Seven: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance
Chapter 22: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance
Part Eight: Putting it All Together with Risk Exposure in Mind
Chapter 23: A Broker Has Just Recommended that You Buy a Stock. What Do You Do Next?
Chapter 24: The 27 Million Dollar Lunch
Appendix A: The Growth of Technical Analysis in Universities and Colleges
Technical Analysis Academic Programs
Coming Soon-Curriculum Under Development
Technical Analysis Organizations
Index
Chapter 1: Could Charts Have Called the Enron Collapse?
Chapter 2: What Is Technical Analysis and Who Uses It?
Chapter 3: Can Mutual Fund Investors Use Technical Analysis?
Part Two: How to Create Charts
Chapter 4: How to Get the Data into Your Computer
Chapter 5: Weekly, Monthly, and Intraday Time Intervals: How to Display the Data
Chapter 6: How Asian Traders Prefer to Display Data
Chapter 7: Why the U.S. Dollar Dictates the Longevity of an American Equity Bull Market
Chapter 8: Help! Short- and Long-Term Interest Rates Are Really Confusing
Money Market Securities or Short-Term Interest Rate Markets
Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Markets
Price-to-Yield Relationship
Yield to Maturity versus Realized Yield
Yield Curves
Chapter 9: Why a North American Needs International Market Data
Chapter 10: Wait a Minute! Isn't That Real Estate Data?
Part Three: How to Read the Data to Make a Decision
Chapter 11: A Big-Picture Summary of the Different Approaches within Technical Analysis
Category One: Does the Method or Technique Depend on Pattern Recognition?
Category Two: Does the Method Focus on the Geometric Mathematical Relationships within the Market's Price Data or Indicators?
Category Three: Does the Method Strive to Identify Behavioral Traits and Study Extremes of Market Participants?
Category Four: Does the Method Strive to Detect Correlations between Different Markets to Determine If One Market Is Providing a Leading Signal for Another?
Chapter 12: Directional Patterns and Signals within the Data
Chapter 13: Why Are There Holes in My Data?
Chapter 14: Understanding Trends and Basic Market Geometry
Chapter 15: Using Market Geometry for Price Projections
Chapter 16: Ways to Detect Market Extremes Using Price, Breadth, and Sentiment
Chapter 17: The Hottest Stock since Green Ketchup! How to "Listen" to the Media with a Technical Mindset
Part Four: How to Handle Specific Problems
Chapter 18: Price Targets for Stocks Just Listed and Other Challenges
How Do You Calculate Support or Resistance for a Stock Just Listed with No Historical Data?
How Do You Calculate Market Support When the Index Has Fallen below Historic Price Lows?
How Do You Calculate a Price Objective When the Stock or Market Is Trading above Historic Highs?
How the Internet Can Lead You to a Poor Market Decision
What Is the Global Industry Classification Standard and How Do You Use Stock Sectors for Analysis?
Part Five: Lessons From Global Market Shock Waves
Chapter 19: Lessons from Global Market Shock Waves
The Americas Catch the Asian Flu in 1998
The "Dot Gones": Researching Opportunities after a Market Implodes
September 11, 2001
Part Six: Why Does Technical Analysis Work?
Chapter 20: What Do Seashells, Hurricanes, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average All Have in Common?
Chapter 21: A Universal Higher Order and How All Things Are Indeed Connected
Part Seven: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance
Chapter 22: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance
Part Eight: Putting it All Together with Risk Exposure in Mind
Chapter 23: A Broker Has Just Recommended that You Buy a Stock. What Do You Do Next?
Chapter 24: The 27 Million Dollar Lunch
Appendix A: The Growth of Technical Analysis in Universities and Colleges
Technical Analysis Academic Programs
Coming Soon-Curriculum Under Development
Technical Analysis Organizations
Index