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Description of Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional

"There are fifteen major breakthroughs in technical analysis! Seven of these breakthroughs are new, never-before-revealed material!"
- George Lane, Stochastics Originator

As professional traders approach the 21st century, accelerating technological change threatens to make conventional technical studies and indicators ineffective. To compete in this changing environment, these professionals need radical new uses and combinations of indicators and formulas to keep their competitive edge.

Not a primer for the novice, "Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional" resets the scales, arming today's professional trader with new, unique, and never-before-seen formulas and uses of key market indicators and techniques.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780070120624

Pages:

341 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

10256

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Published:

01/04/1999

Edition:

illustrated edition

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About Constance M. Brown

Constance Brown, CMT, CPO, is president of Aerodynamics Investments, Inc., and Aerodynamic Fund, Ltd. She trades for the accounts of institutional organizations and offshore investors. Brown provides a closely monitored premier daily analysis service on the Treasury Bond and S&P markets for money center banks and institutional traders including sophisticated, well-informed investors in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Brown's highly influential S&P intraday price projections, once available on Bloomberg, Reuters, Telerate, and DTN, are now accessible through the Internet. The projections continue to be monitored by brokers on major exchanges. She is a popular speaker at financial conventions throughout the world.

Contents of Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional

PART I: Dispelling Some Common Beliefs about Indicators

1. Oscillators Do Not Travel Between 0 and 100
2. Dominant Trading Cycles Are Not Time Symmetrical
3. Choosing and Adjusting Period Setup for Oscillators
4. Dominant Trend Lines Are Not Always From Extreme Price Highs or Lows
5. Signals From Moving Averages Are Frequently Absent in Real-Time Charts

PART II: Calculating Market Price Objectives

6. Adjusting Traditional Fibonacci Projections for High-Probability Targets
7. Price Projections by Reverse-Engineering Indicators
8. Price Objectives Derived from Positive and Negative Reversals in RSI
9. Calculating Price and Time Objectives from a Gann Wheel
10. Using Oscillators with the Elliott Wave Principle

PART III: New Methods for Improving Indicator Timing and Filtering Premature Signals

11. Volatility Bands on Oscillators
12. The Composite Index
13. Evaluating the Comparative Strengths and Weaknesses of Common Indicators
14. The derivative Oscillator

Appendices

A. Real-Time Application: Japanese Yen
B. Real-Time Application: Asian and European Equity Indices
C. Real-Time Application: S&P/Bond Market
D. Formulas
E. Aerodynamic Fund, Ltd and Aerodynamic Fund, L.P.