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Summary of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

In his original groundbreaking book Thomas Bulkowski created a popular reference for all technical investors and traders. Now updated in its second edition, the book contains new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets, 23 new patterns, and includes a second section devoted to ten event patterns.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780471668268

Pages:

1032 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

21437

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

24/05/2005

Edition:

2nd Edition

Press and Industry Reviews

"The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening."
- Larry Williams, trader and author of Long–Term Secrets to Short–Term Trading

"Chart patterns are the basics behind most trading methods, and this book is a great achievement in a highly useful format. Bulkowski has taken an intelligent and thoughtful approach to producing a practical guide to understanding and trading chart formations."
- Perry Kaufman, author of New Trading Systems and Methods and A Short Course in Technical Trading

Praise for the First Edition

"Not since Edwards and Magee has someone put together so comprehensive an assemblage of market behavior expressed graphically. No chartist should be without this book."
- John Sweeney, Interim Editor Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities

"Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns . . . is a valuable contribution to the existing literature on charting and should be considered an indispensable reference by any serious chart trader."
- Edward D. Dobson, President, Traders Press, Inc.

"Meticulously researched, complete, and insightful, the Encyclopedia has earned a permanent place on my trading desk as a highly valued resource."
- Thomas A. Bierovic, Manager, Strategy Testing & Development, Omega Research, Inc.

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About Thomas N. Bulkowski

THOMAS N. BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with twenty–five years of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of Trading Classic Chart Patterns (Wiley), and contributing writer to Active Trader; Stocks, Futures & Options; Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities; and other magazines. Before earning enough from his investments to "retire" from his day job at age thirty-six, Bulkowski was a hardware design engineer at Raytheon and a senior software engineer for Tandy Corporation.

Contents of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

Introduction

PART ONE: BROADENING BOTTOMS

1. Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Ascending
2. Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Descending
3. Broadening Tops
4. Broadening Wedges, Ascending
5. Broadening Wedges, Descending
6. Bump-and-Run Reversal Bottoms
7. Bump-and-Run Reversal Tops
8. Cup-with-Handle
9. Cup-with-Handle, Inverted
10. Diamond Bottoms
11. Diamond Tops
12. Double Bottoms, Adams & Adam
13. Double Bottoms, Adams & Eve
14. Double Bottoms, Eve. & Adam
15. Double Bottoms, Eve. & Eve
16. Double Tops, Adam & Ada
17. Double Tops, Adam & Eve
18. Double Tops, Eve & Adam
19. Double Tops, Eve & Eve
20. Flags
21. Flags, High and Tight
22. Gaps
23.Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms
24. Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, Complex
25. Head-and-Shoulders Tops
26. Head-and-Shoulders Tops, Complex
27. Horn Bottoms
28. Horn Tops
29. Islands Reversals
30. Islands, Long
31. Measured Move Down
32. Measured Move Up
33. Pennants
34. Pipe Bottom
35. Pipe Tops
36. Rectangles Bottoms
37. Rectangles Tops
38. Rounding Bottoms
39. Rounding Tops
40. Scallops, Ascending
41. Scallops, Ascending and Inverted
42. Scallops, Descending
43. Scallops, Descending and Inverted
44. Three Falling Peaks
45. Three Rising Valleys
46. Triangles, Ascending
47. Triangles, Descending
48. Triangles, Symmetrical
49. Triple Bottoms
50. Triple Tops
51. Wedges, Falling
52. Wedges, Rising

PART TWO: EVENT PATTERNS

53. Dead-Cat Bounce
54. Dead-Cat Bounce, Inverted
55. Earnings Surprise, Bad
56. Earning Surprise, Good
57. FDA Drug Approvals
58. Flag, Earnings
59. Same Store Sales, Bad
60. Same Store Sales, Good
61. Stock Downgrade
62. Stock Upgrade

Statistics Summary
Glossary and Methodology
Index of Chart and hart Patterns
Subject Index