Book description
Your plain-English guide to understanding and using technical chart patterns
Chart pattern analysis is not only one of the most important investing tools, but also one of the most popular. Filled with expert insights and practical advice from one of the best in the business, Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition helps new and seasoned traders alike profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns.
Substantially revised and expanded, this new edition stay true to the original, with author Thomas Bulkowski's frank discussion of how trading behavior can affect the bottom line. Interwoven throughout the technical presentations are fascinating anecdotes drawn from the author's quarter-century as a professional trader that vividly demonstrate how one of the best in the business leverages the power of chart patterns.
Includes additional charts for ETFs and mutual funds
Introduces more than 40 key chart formations, as well as trading tactics that can be used in conjunction with them
Supplies actual trades, with their corresponding dollar amounts
If you're looking to gain a better understanding of this discipline, look no further than the Second Edition of Getting Started in Chart Patterns.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to First and Second Editions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Chart Patterns
- Chapter 2: Identifying Chart Patterns
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Chapter 3: The Truth about Trendlines
- What Are Trendlines?
- A Trendline Example
- Trendlines: External, Internal, and Curved
- Touch Spacing
- Trendline Touches
- Trendline Length
- Trendline Angles
- Trendline and Breakout Volume
- Measure Rule for Trendlines
- Drawing Trendlines
- 1–2–3 Trend Change Method
- Sample Trade Using Trendlines
- Advanced Trendline Tactics
- What We Learned
- Chapter 4: Support and Resistance
- Chapter 5: Ten Buy Signals
- Chapter 6: Ten Sell Signals
- Chapter 7: Special Situations
- Chapter 8: Busted Patterns
- Chapter 9: More Trades
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Chapter 10: The Art of Trading
- Before Buying
- When to Sell
- General Trading Tips
- Trading Psychology
- What We Learned
- Chapter 1 : Introduction to Chart Patterns
- Chapter 2 : Identifying Chart Patterns
- Chapter 3 : The Truth about Trendlines
- Chapter 4 : Support and Resistance
- Chapter 5 : Ten Buy Signals
- Chapter 6 : Ten Sell Signals
- Chapter 7 : Special Situations
- Chapter 8 : Busted Patterns
- Chapter 9 : More Trades
- Chapter 11: Crunching the Numbers
- Glossary
- Visual Index of Chart Patterns
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Getting Started in Chart Patterns, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118859209
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