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Description of Charters on Charting

Continuation patterns, head and shoulders, necklines, pennants, trendlines, candlestick charts - 'Oh no!' another financial book full of jargon and incomprehensible terminology. Actually, not so. This book is very different to most others on the subject.

It is written by an expert who has the ability to explain his subject in jargon-free, plain English. Just sample the pages inside and you will see a large number of illustrations and small amounts of words. You will be able to work out, and master, the subject quite simply by following David Charters' step-by-step guide.

At the end of the quiz structured on three levels so that you can monitor your own progress. It is a very practical guide giving you the opportunity to work things out.

Charting - or technical analysis as it is often known - is an invaluable guide to making better stockmarket decisions. It is a system used by an increasing number of the UK's half million active private investors, as well as City professionals.

It provides a step-by-step guide to charting, all illustrated with worked examples, so enabling the reader to master the subject. The chapter 'A Day in the Life of a Technical Analyst' brings the whole subject alive and at the end of the book there is a quiz which will help readers confirm their understanding of the subject. Charters on Charting will become a 'classic' for private investors as well as many professionals who want to understand fully all the principles.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780713483895

Pages:

156 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

4638

Publisher:

Batsford

Published:

30/11/-0001

Financial Guru Reviews

Now unfortunately out of print, this is the best absolute beginners' guide to technical analysis that has ever been written. Despite being dated and limited and grossly oversimplified, it is driven by powerful enthusiasm and explains the craft with a gentle and irresistible talent.
Alexander Davidson

You cannot argue with a good trading record and when I met him in 1999, David Charters had been charting for more than twenty-five years. His book is as perfect as a step-by-step guide can be, written with clarity and wit by a master of the trade. It also includes a quiz, and 'A day in the life of a technical analyst' in which, curiously, Charters reveals he was still plotting by hand in 1998. Unfortunately Charters on Charting is out of print, but you can pick up a second-hand copy on the internet. Otherwise Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets is worth buying, I am told, in fact Charters suggests it as further reading.
Richard Beddard

Press and Industry Reviews

'Easy to read and packed full of valuable guidance on how to use this important skill.'
Brian Tora

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Contents of Charters on Charting

Introduction

1. What is Charting?

2. The Basic Principles

3. Continuation Patterns

4. Reversal Patterns

5. Mathematical Indicators

6. Other Indicators

7. Putting Theory into Practice

8. Final thoughts

9. A Day in the Life of a Technical Analyst

10. The Charting Quiz


Appendix 1
Further reading

Appendix Two
Rate of Change (R.O.C.) Calculation

Index