Chapter 1

Brushing Up on Stock Charting Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Keeping your emotions in check as you invest

check Getting different views of charting

check Making decisions with charting tools

check Organizing and managing trends for your stocks

check Tweaking your personal stock charts

You can find hundreds of books talking about technical analysis and stock charting, but if you don’t build your stock charts properly to do that analysis, you could end up getting the wrong information. In this book we introduce you to the various types of stock charts out there, as well as the tools you can use to make these charts work even better for you when you’re trying to make stock buying and selling decisions. This chapter gives you the basics.

Minimizing the Emotional Roller Coaster of Investing

Before you even start working with charts, it’s important to understand how your emotions can help make good and bad stock purchase and sale decisions. In Chapter 2, we discuss the key emotional drivers of stock trading ...

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