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- Product code: 12838
- ISBN: 0071203001,
ISBN13: 9780071203005,
285 pages, CD-Rom + pb
Published by McGraw-Hill Professional on 1998
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Rating: 3.9/5 (8 votes cast)
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Description of Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Analysis |
Technical analysis is the art of identifying market turning points at a relatively early stage. For the savvy investor or trader who identifies these changes and acts accordingly, the rewards can be enormous.
Listen and watch as this unique entry-level guide explains and demonstrates the tools used by one of the world's foremost technical analysts to evaluate emerging trends before they become apparent to the crowd. Using its effective interactive CD-ROM/workbook format, you'll learn how to:
- Interpret charts of futures, stocks, markets, and options and identify key support and resistance levels
- Master the basic concepts of momentum and understand its effect on price
- Apply the theory with a common sense set of trading strategies
- Use price and volume patterns to identify breakouts
- Analyze peaks and troughs that can signal a change in the prevailing trend
- Interpret moving averages and analyze their impact
- User state-of-the-art techniques such as candlestick charting to determine trends and reversal patterns
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Reviews"This is a great book for the beginners. it explains in a simple language and easy flow and maintains the interests of the novice. I would recommend this book, it is a small investment, for making analysis before buying stocks."
- H. Garcha, Baton Rouge, LA
"I found the book to be very informative, and I have just applied some of the chart analysis to get out of some positions in the NASDAQ. You have saved me over $5,000 last week!"
- Jeff Chang
"This is the best thing out there. To have it on your computer is the ultimate."
- S. Gallas, Florida
"The difference between a book and a CD tutorial is amazing! On the CD, the concepts really click."
- Bruce Harlow, Hawaii
"The CD/book on Intro to Technical Analysis presents the subject matter better than anything else I've seen (my 3rd book on TA). It is presented in a manner that is applicable immediately. Martin's analogies clarifies what can be complicated concepts. Two thumbs up... "
- Sam in Hawaii
| Contents of Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Analysis |
PART ONE. BASIC CONCEPTS
1. BASIC PRINCIPLES
Some Ground Rules
What Is Technical Analysis?
Methods of Plotting Charts
Bar Chart
Line Chart
Point-and-Figure Chart
Candlestick Chart
Methods of Scaling Charts
2. THE MARKET CYCLE MODEL AND BASIC TREND IDENTIFICATION
Different Types of Trends
The Market Cycle Model
Peak-and-Trough Analysis
How Significant Is the Reversal?
3. SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE
Definition
General Rules
Examples
PART TWO. TREND INDICATORS
4. PRICE PATTERNS
Rectangles
Four Basic Principles of Pattern Interpretation
Pattern Significance
Measuring Implications
Confirmation of a Valid Breakout
Volume
Head-and-Shoulders Formations
Head-and-Shoulders Tops
Reverse Head-and-Shoulders
Continuation Head-and-Shoulders
Head-and-Shoulders Failures
Examples
Double Tops and Bottoms
Broadening Formations
Triangles
5. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF TREND LINES
Extended Trendlines
Significance of Trendlines
Trend Channels
Corrective Fan Principle
Logarithmic Versus Arithmetic Scale
6. PRICE PATTERNS FOR TRADERS
Flags
Pennants
Wedges
Saucers and Rounding Tops
Key Reversal Days
2-Day Reversals
Outside Days
Inside Days
Gaps
Breakaway Gap
Runaway Gap
Exhaustion Gap
Island Reversals
7. MOVING AVERAGES
The Concept
Simple Moving Averages
Rules of Interpretation
Front-Loaded Averages
Envelopes and Bollinger Bands
PART THREE. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
8. PRINCIPLES OF MOMENTUM
Overbought and Oversold
A Useful Tip
The Importance of Time Frames
Divergence
How to Tell the Significance of a Divergence
Divergences Must Be Confirmed by Price
Trend-Line Violations
Price Pattern Completion
Moving Averages and Momentum Indicators
9. KEY MOMENTUM INDICATORS
Rate of Change
Overbought and Oversold Levels
Trendline Construction
Price Patterns
The RSI
Interpreting the RSI
Moving-Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
Stochastics
Interpretation
10. HOW TO MAKE VOLUME WORK FOR YOU
Introduction
Principles of Volume interpretation
11. INTRODUCTION TO CANDLESTICK CHARTING
Basics of Candle Construction
Reversal Patterns
Hammers and Hanging Men
Dark Cloud Cover and the Piercing Line
Engulfing Patterns
Stars
More on Dojis
Upside Gap Two Crows
Continuation Patterns
Upside and Downside Gaps
Rising-Three and Falling-Three Methods
12. SOME QUICK TIPS ON PRACTICAL TRADING TACTICS
Good Places to Enter Positions
Good Places to Take Profits or Cut Losses
How to Deal with False Breakouts
APPENDIX
Installation, Technical Support, and FAQs
Index
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