Technical Analysis: A Self-Teaching Guide / Edition 1

by Constance M. Brown

Overview

Learn all about technical analysis and chart a course for a stable financial future

Interested in incorporating technical analysis into your investment strategy but feeling a bit at sea when it comes to making sense of all the charts and tools? Here's your lifeline! With help from Technical Analysis Demystified, you'll have big profits in your forecast.

Chartered Market Technician Constance Brown explains the many different types of technical analysis tools and how to use them. Key topics covered include charting, moving averages, trends and cycles, oscillators, market patterns, Fibonacci ratios, price data, risk-to-reward ratios, and much more. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a glossary, this straightforward guide makes technical analysis easy to understand and apply to your strategy of spotting-and profiting from-market trends and patterns.

This fast and easy guide offers:

• Clear explanations of charting techniques
• Time-tested trading rules and guidelines
• Valuable charts, graphs, and figures
• Strategies for developing your own system for analyzing the market
• Detailed descriptions of real-time trades

Simple enough for a novice but in-depth enough for a seasoned investor, Technical Analysis Demystified will help you capitalize on market cycles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071458085
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/19/2007
Series:	Demystified
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Constance Brown, CMT (Chartered Market Technician), founded Aerodynamic Investments, Inc., after working for more than 15 years as an institutional trader in New York City. She continues to actively trade and advises numerous financial institutions and banks around the world.

Table of Contents

1.How Do Past Prices Indicate Future Prices?

2.When Do You Trade and How Do You Protect Yourself?

3.Which Price Levels are Important?

4.When is a Market Overbought or Oversold?

5.Does the Price Data Itself Give Clues about Direction?

6.How Do We Know When Something Will Happen?

7.Twenty-Five Reasons to Enter the Market

8.Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall

9.How to Develop Your Own System

10.Real-Time Trades Explained in Detail