An excellent and easy-to-follow book on technical trading in general, and technical trading systems in particular. Learn proven successful systems, accompanied by a veteran trader's analysis of the specific techniques that make them work. Written in trading course format with straightforward concise method explanations, and a series of "trading games" for extra practice.

A straightforward guide teaching the time-tested approach of using technical analysis to minimize risk and boost profits. You'll learn: classical chart patterns, how to identify trends and trading ranges, how to zero in on market tops and bottoms in advance. Plus the "Magee Method" of buying/selling and the best editorials from Magee's market letters. It's the best explanation of the technical process ever written.

This powerful book provides an incredibly thorough analysis of system development. You'll learn specific trading systems and the practicalities of their implementation. The first half of the book shows you how to build robust trading systems consistent with your beliefs. The second half discusses money management, risk control, and the implementation of trading systems. Includes brilliant work on "equity curve analysis".

Starting with an overview of classical chart analysis, the structure and design of technical trading systems are explored with an emphasis on their application to real markets. A full array of technical tools are covered, including a 125-page section illustrating how to use them to analyze charts.

Introduces you to a powerful approach that combines traditional tools with fundamentals and behavioral finance/trader psychology. By deepening your understanding of what actually makes prices move, this book trains you to uncover lower-risk opportunities and get the most from those opportunities.

A practical and results-oriented introduction to technical analysis and charting. Provides strategies for using technical analysis in every major market...along with detailed explanations of which tools provide the most predictive value. Includes insightful examinations of trend detection, chart pattern interpretation, bull/bear signals, and much more.

This self-study manual helps you make the best use of John J. Murphy's "Technical Analysis Of The Financial Markets". Its objective is to test--and thereby ensure--your comprehension of the large body of knowledge associated with technical analysis. Its easy-to-follow, step-by-step method leads you through each of the book's chapters and provides objectives that give your reading focus and help you pull together the broad array of information that Murphy offers.

This is one of the easiest and most usable guides to technical analysis ever written. Presenting one simple idea and example at a time, top technical analyst Michael Kahn thoroughly demystifies technical analysis, and shows you exactly how to profit from it.

In this book, Gerald Appel--one of the world's most respected technical analysts--presents a complete course in forecasting future market behavior through cyclical, trend, momentum, and volume signals. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis for the first time. Several strategies incorporate the classic and revolutionary MACD indicator which he created.

Personal favorite technical strategies (and helpful pointers) from 16 top analysts are brought to light through in-depth interviews. Expert analysts include John Murphy, Peter Eliades, John Bollinger, Martin Pring, et al.

Current information on all aspects of technical analysis. The roster of contributors is a "Who's Who" of trading: Wilder on RSI, Steve Moore on seasonals, Schwager on the uses and abuses of technical analysis, Pring on momentum, Prechter on Elliott Wave and more. From bar charts to candlesticks, volume to Gann ­ here's your guide to the profit-grabbing techniques of the masters.

He's the personal technical analyst to top traders and institutions ­ like George Soros, Citibank and Goldman-Sachs. And now he details the revolutionary methods and strategies he's perfected over the last 20 years. DeMark reveals two brand new oscillators, a secret sequential method of zeroing in on market tops and bottoms, price projection methods and scientific wave theory. This book pushes the technical frontier a step further.

Author Thomas Meyers leads you through a personalized course on technical analysis techniques that provides the critical tools, materials, and plans necessary to buy, sell and trade more profitably. Included in this brand new third edition are completely revised tables and charts plus new lessons on the true value of failed signals, Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD), and Bollinger Bands.

Skillfully highlights how to use volatility-based tools to successfully trade today's institutionally dominated markets. Shows you how to locate hidden mathematical structures on price charts and then fully capitalize on what you've uncovered. Introduces the incredibly informative new concepts of Projected Implied Volatility and Volatility Shift, among many others.