Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, 8th Edition (Hardcover)
I read Edwards and McGee, Technical Analysis of Stock Market Trends with great enthusiasm. Here was a book that was originally written in the 1940's that is equally valid to anyone trying to play the stock market in the Twenty First Century. It also gave me insights into the wild times on Wall Street in the Roaring 20's, and taught me how the pros did stock manipulation and organized "bear traps." Understanding Wall Street irrational exuberance in 1928 helps a smart investor understand the irrational exuberance in 1999. I started reading and then using Technical Analysis because I found I couldn't make money on the market just using the fundamental analysis that my accounting professors taught me in business school. I bought stocks based on detailed analysis of the firm's fundamentals and then could not understand why the prices of my "smart" investments immediately dropped like a rock. Technical analysis provides an investor with insights into the market forces (supply and demand) that affect the rise and fall of stock prices and give a rational investor understanding of the psychology of the herd of investors.
Modern web technology available from Clearstation and E-trade take the drudgery out of the technical charting, and make it easy for an amateur investor to become an experienced technical chart reader. Edwards and McGee was the book that helped me develop this skill. I can not praise the authors of this book enough.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814406807/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-7033550-8157504?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Modern web technology available from Clearstation and E-trade take the drudgery out of the technical charting, and make it easy for an amateur investor to become an experienced technical chart reader. Edwards and McGee was the book that helped me develop this skill. I can not praise the authors of this book enough.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814406807/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-7033550-8157504?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained : The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points
The Essential Companion Workbook for Martin Pring's Best-Selling Technical Analysis Explained Martin Pring's Technical Analysis Explained has long been the acknowledged bible for gaining a clear understanding and hands-on knowledge of technical analysis. Now let Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained help you profit even more from this essential book by coaching you on its most important ideas and techniques until they become automatic in the heat of trading battle. Packed with hundreds of questions that correspond to chapters and sections throughout the book, this valuable study guide features: Charts and graphs to help you visually digest the concepts presented Full text answers to guarantee your complete understanding of each important idea Fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and matching question formats The hard-hitting, no-nonsense style that made Technical Analysis Explained a classic Technical analysis mastery isn't easy, but its financial rewards make it virtually indispensable. Use Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained to reach the next level of technical analysis education, and ensure that you enter every trading day with the weapons you need to come out on top.
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Monday, May 15, 2006
Technical Analysis Explained : The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points (Hardcover)
Recommended for professional certification by the Market Technician's Association The Original and Still Number One Technical Analysis Answer Book Technical Analysis Explained, 4th Edition, is today's best resource for making smarter, more informed investment decisions. This straight-talking guidebook details how individual investors can forecast price movements with the same accuracy as Wall Street's most highly paid professionals, and provides all the information you will need to both understand and implement the time-honored, profit-driven tools of technical analysis. Completely revised and updated for the technologies and trading styles of 21st century markets, it features: Technical indicators to predict and profit from regularly occurring market turning points Psychological strategies for intuitively knowing where investors will seek profits and arriving there first! Methods to increase your forecasting accuracy, using today's most advanced trading techniques Critical Acclaim for Previous Editions: "One of the best books on technical analysis to come out since Edwards and Magee's classic text in 1948.... Belongs on the shelf of every serious trader and technical analyst." Futures "... Technical Analysis Explained [is] widely regarded as the standard work for this generation of chartists." Forbes Traders and investors are creatures of habit who react and often overreact in predictable ways to rising or falling stock prices, breaking business news, and cyclical financial reports. Technical analysis is the art of observing how investors have regularly responded to events in the past and using that knowledge to accurately forecast how they will respond in the future. Traders can then take advantage of that knowledge to buy when prices are near their bottoms and sell when prices are close to their highs. Since its original publication in 1980, and through two updated editions, Martin Pring's Technical Analysis Explained has showed tens of thousands of investors, including many professionals, how to increase their trading and investing profits by understanding, interpreting, and forecasting movements in markets and individual stocks. Incorporating up-to-the-minute trading tools and technologies with the book's long-successful techniques and strategies, this comprehensively revised fourth edition provides new chapters on: Candlesticks and one- and two-bar price reversals, especially valuable for intraday and swing traders Expanded material on momentum including brand new interpretive techniques from the Directional Movement System and Chaunde Momentum Oscillator to the Relative Momentum Index and the Parabolic Expanded material on volume, with greater emphasis on volume momentum along with new indicators such as the Demand Index and Chaikin Money Flow Relative strength, an increasingly important and until now underappreciated arm of technical analysis Application of technical analysis to contrary opinion theory, expanding the book's coverage of the psychological aspects of trading and investing Technical analysis is a tool, nothing more, yet few tools carry its potential for dramatically increasing a user's trading success and long-term wealth. Let Martin Pring's landmark Technical Analysis Explained provide you with a step-by-step program for incorporating technical analysis into your overall trading strategy and increasing your predictive accuracy and potential profit with every trade you make.
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets : A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (Hardcover)
Are you looking for time-tested trading techniques that professional stock index and futures traders use?Futures and options markets can be profitable arenas for both novice and experienced traders. But to come out on top, you must have a solid understanding of the markets, the technical tools used to trade them, and yourself.After twenty-five years as abroker, trader, and educator in the futures and options field, John Person has associated with trading legends and manysuccessful traders and witnessed firsthand their strategies for success. Out of these real-time experiences, he shares the valuable insights you will find in A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics. Novice and experienced alike will gain a better understanding of the mechanics of the markets and methodologies that work.Person demonstrates multiple trading methodologies using pivot point analysis and shows you how you can implement these key calculations with other methods and indicators. To understand this approach, you don’t have to abandon your knowledge of traditional technical analysis techniques. All you have to do is be open to integrating the theories to help you confirm, validate, and identify entry and exit points when trading.By learning how to better integrate elements of market analysis such as time and price, you’ll be ready to trade with confidence and achieve success. The proven methodologies that are discussed from the technical side include:Pivot points–a leading price indicator that is based on price points using different time framesCycle analysis–which deals with predicting market turning points based on timeCandle chart patterns–which are based on price relationships between the open, high, low, and close including past chart points such as old highs or lowsFibonacci ratio corrections and extension studies–which are based on past price pointsMental thought processes–the last and maybe the most important aspect of trading, which will help you evaluate your psychological makeup and overcomerough spots to stay focused when tradingIf you are to trade successfully, you need to understand that it requires hard work, discipline, and, above all, that you remain focused with the use of methodologies that pinpoint opportunities and help you take control of your emotions. A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics will go a long way toward accomplishing these goals
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pivot point analysis, pivot point calculations, pivot point formula, underlying futures market, pivot point numbers, related transaction fees, shooting star formation, bearish harami cross, oops signal, candle charts, candle charting techniques, bearish engulfing pattern, chart pattern recognition, bullish harami, soybean chart, underlying futures price, adverse market move, uptrending market, piercing pattern, underlying futures contract, bullish engulfing pattern, candle pattern, debit spread, bearish divergence, swing trading
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Sunday, May 14, 2006
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management (Hardcover)
Soviet-born author and practicing psychiatrist Elder (director, Financial Trading Seminars, Inc.) shares his learning over the years as a professional trader and expert in technical analysis and his principle of understanding the three Ms (Mind, Method, Money), which will strengthen the discipline required to be successful in trading. He explores crucial factors in the markets that most experts overlook, including time, volume, and open interest, and describes little-known indicators to track them profitably. In addition, he covers many of the more technical approaches to investing in futures, such as factoring in the meaning from the Elliott Wave, oscillators, moving averages, Market Logic, and point-and-figure charting. His unique viewpoints in this overly saturated genre explain his particular view that most traders sabotage themselves, while offering tips for others to avoid doing the same. The narration by Richard Davidson soundly guides the listener through this highly specialized work that, although first published seven years ago, remains recommended for university libraries supporting a finance and business curriculum.DDale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Better Stock Trading: Money and Risk Management (Hardcover)
An in-depth examination of money management methods for consistent trading successIn Better Stock Trading, Daryl Guppy shows readers how to improve returns by using good money management technique–not by increasing risk in trying to win more trades. Readers will learn how to level the market playing field by using the best money management strategies for their particular account size. From the straightforward two percent rule, to pyramiding methods, and overall portfolio management, Guppy presents a selection of strategies, which will allow any independent trader to capitalize on a rising market and protect funds when the bear takes over. He also shows readers how to study their own trading history and use this information to improve their trading future. Trading skill counts, but money management gives independent traders the edge. Daryl Guppy (Australia) is an experienced and highly successful private trader. A member of IFTA and the Australian Technical Analyst's Association, he is a popular speaker at international trading seminars in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. He is the author of five highly successful trading titles, including Market Trading Tactics (0-471-84663-5), and is the Editorial Director of The Investors' International Bookshelf.
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Market Trading Tactics: Beating the Odds Through Technical Analysis and Money Management (Hardcover)
Market Trading Tactics Beating the Odds Through Technical Analysis and Money Management Market Trading Tactics is a handbook of trading tactics, touching on the major charting techniques and indicators. It shows how to formulate realistic money management techniques and helps the private trader use all these indicators to search for the best trading opportunities. It shows how to plan entry set-ups and how to devise disciplined stop-loss techniques. The book outlines a flexible day-to-day plan of action that enables traders of all levels to trade with greater direction and confidence. Author Daryl Guppy also discusses how to go about the daily search for new trading opportunities and offers ready-to-use formulae to ease the process. He explains how best to exploit trading opportunities and discusses managing the position to maximize profitability. The book is supported on www.guppytraders.com with constantly updated material. Guppy takes position-trading beyond the basics as he describes in easy-to-understand detail how it is possible for any trader with an understanding of the market to maximize the prospects of success by using the right trading tactics. "Extremely entertaining and well-written book which explains the ins and outs of technical analysis in a way which is not only understandable but readily applicable. This book is certain to become a standard in the libraries of traders and others interested in the development of trading mastery." - Ari Kiev, M.D., author of Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets "Daryl Guppy has detailed a series of down-to-earth and practical methodologies that provide an invaluable, solid foundation to assessing and managing risk in today's markets. This must be considered as required reading for both new and seasoned investors intending to commit their funds to trading in the equity market." - Ian Copsey, Executive Director of Mandarin Capital Technologies Pte. Ltd. and author of Integrated Technical Analysis "Guppy proves he's no small fish in understanding the art and science of trading. You will learn from this book." - Larry Williams, author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
How Technical Analysis Works (New York Institute of Finance) (Hardcover)
You can learn about technical analysis in many ways
daily bar chart, weekly bar chart, uptrend line, tick volume, neutral trend, key reversal day, candle chart, double top pattern, failure swing, rising wedge, bullish divergence, breakaway gap, bearish divergence, momentum study, price action, falling wedge, advancing stocks, downtrend line, stochastic indicator, stock breaks, stock rallies, exhaustion gap, sideways trend, advancing issues, moving average line
Prophet Financial Systems, Apr Jul Oct, Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec, Wall Street, Business Machines, Dow Theory, Industry Groups, United States, New York Stock Exchange, Aor Jul Oct, Annual Rate of Return, Joseph Granville, Lowry's Reports, Relative Strength Index, Stan Weinstein
Bruce Kamich has written one of the best books on technical analysis that I've seen in a long time. Unlike most introductory books, it neither over simplifies, nor does it make it seem as if you need a PhD to learn how to use technical analysis. The book explains how and why technical patterns and indicators work in an entertaining way. On top of that, the examples of patterns in the book are not "text book". You actually get to see what these things might look like in the real world instead of the perfect picture you see in most books. This is invaluable. On top of that, the book is a bargain!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735202702/ref=pd_sim_b_5/002-4447987-3096861?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
daily bar chart, weekly bar chart, uptrend line, tick volume, neutral trend, key reversal day, candle chart, double top pattern, failure swing, rising wedge, bullish divergence, breakaway gap, bearish divergence, momentum study, price action, falling wedge, advancing stocks, downtrend line, stochastic indicator, stock breaks, stock rallies, exhaustion gap, sideways trend, advancing issues, moving average line
Prophet Financial Systems, Apr Jul Oct, Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec, Wall Street, Business Machines, Dow Theory, Industry Groups, United States, New York Stock Exchange, Aor Jul Oct, Annual Rate of Return, Joseph Granville, Lowry's Reports, Relative Strength Index, Stan Weinstein
Bruce Kamich has written one of the best books on technical analysis that I've seen in a long time. Unlike most introductory books, it neither over simplifies, nor does it make it seem as if you need a PhD to learn how to use technical analysis. The book explains how and why technical patterns and indicators work in an entertaining way. On top of that, the examples of patterns in the book are not "text book". You actually get to see what these things might look like in the real world instead of the perfect picture you see in most books. This is invaluable. On top of that, the book is a bargain!
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The Investor's Guide to Technical Analysis (Paperback)
Everything investors need to know to understand, utilize, and profit from the basic tools of technical analysis Technical analysis (TA) doesn't have to be difficult or intimidating. In fact, many TA tools are remarkably simple to use and have helped millions of individual investors dramatically improve their results. The Investor's Guide to Technical Analysis provides investors with practical strategies, cut-to-the-chase explanations, and detailed introductions to the basic tools and concepts of technical analysis. More than just an overview of technical analysis, this results-based book shows investors how to apply the most efficient and reliable TA tools to their investment programs and greatly increase both their confidence and their results. Straightforward examples and descriptions show investors of every type how to: Understand market cycles and their value in choosing optimal buy and sell points Identify and make use of basic indicators as well as sentiment indicators Use trend lines to accurately track market movement
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Friday, May 12, 2006
Technical Analysis : Power Tools for Active Investors
"In this book, 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. Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Technical Analysis offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough market success.
Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis for the first time. He presents technical analysis solutions for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors. Many of the strategies and models he presents have never before been published. Several are based on MACD, a tool that revolutionized technical analysis¿and one that he created.
This book distills over thirty years of trading experience into a practical guide you can start profiting from right now.
Learn technical analysis from one of the world's top experts.
Hands-on guidance from Gerald Appel, publisher of Systems and Forecasts
Coping with today's unprecedented market volatility
Indispensable techniques for profiting in uncertain markets
Winning techniques that take just 10 minutes a week
Better results than ""buy and hold""¿with far less risk
Riding the tides of market wave movement
How to recognize crucial political, seasonal, and time-based cycles
MACD: The ultimate market timing indicator invented by the author himself
Includes new, advanced breakthrough techniques that revolutionize technical analysis
How you can profit from technical analysis... step-by-step!
By Gerald Appel, inventor of the MACD technique used by virtually every serious technical analyst
How to uncover the hidden clues that reveal when markets are about to shift
For short-term, medium-term, and long-term investors¿including those new to technical analysis
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131479024/ref=pd_sim_b_3/104-4539975-4942325?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis for the first time. He presents technical analysis solutions for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors. Many of the strategies and models he presents have never before been published. Several are based on MACD, a tool that revolutionized technical analysis¿and one that he created.
This book distills over thirty years of trading experience into a practical guide you can start profiting from right now.
Learn technical analysis from one of the world's top experts.
Hands-on guidance from Gerald Appel, publisher of Systems and Forecasts
Coping with today's unprecedented market volatility
Indispensable techniques for profiting in uncertain markets
Winning techniques that take just 10 minutes a week
Better results than ""buy and hold""¿with far less risk
Riding the tides of market wave movement
How to recognize crucial political, seasonal, and time-based cycles
MACD: The ultimate market timing indicator invented by the author himself
Includes new, advanced breakthrough techniques that revolutionize technical analysis
How you can profit from technical analysis... step-by-step!
By Gerald Appel, inventor of the MACD technique used by virtually every serious technical analyst
How to uncover the hidden clues that reveal when markets are about to shift
For short-term, medium-term, and long-term investors¿including those new to technical analysis
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131479024/ref=pd_sim_b_3/104-4539975-4942325?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Stock Trading with Moving Averages (Paperback)
Covers the moving averages trading method from start to finish, building a solid foundation using the most basic moving averages (MA) concepts to advanced techniques. These methods can be applied for day-trading or for position traders of individual stocks.
Included are chapters explaining the 20-day/40-day MA technique, the 30-day/60-day MA method, and the 50-day/100-day MA tactic. Scores of actual stock chart examples provided showing how each moving average series gives reliable entry/exit timing signals and even useful stop-loss levels.
An in-depth follow-up to Droke's best-seller, Moving Averages Simplified, this book is must-reading for chart readers, technical traders, or for those wanting to learn more about the many important uses of the best of all technical tools - the moving average!
Inside Preview: Could the infamous Worldcomm fiasco, which demolished countless stock portfolios, been averted by using moving averages? Find out by reading Stock Trading with Moving Averages!
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Included are chapters explaining the 20-day/40-day MA technique, the 30-day/60-day MA method, and the 50-day/100-day MA tactic. Scores of actual stock chart examples provided showing how each moving average series gives reliable entry/exit timing signals and even useful stop-loss levels.
An in-depth follow-up to Droke's best-seller, Moving Averages Simplified, this book is must-reading for chart readers, technical traders, or for those wanting to learn more about the many important uses of the best of all technical tools - the moving average!
Inside Preview: Could the infamous Worldcomm fiasco, which demolished countless stock portfolios, been averted by using moving averages? Find out by reading Stock Trading with Moving Averages!
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Magic of Moving Averages (Paperback)
Scot Lowry spent years of researching and testing various methods and systems for futures trading. The moving average system, which is described in detail in this new book, is an eminently practical and logical approach to successful trading. It is the result of Lowry's painstaking research, easily understood and fully explicit. It is geared toward the novice as well as the professional trader.
The reason for writing this book is twofold: first, after years of studying charts, he was able to identify an occurrence in market trading that can almost ensure high returns with minimal risk. This approach to trading is very clear and easy to understand. It leads to the second reason for writing this book. For a long time, he felt this system was too simple to warrant a book, but over time, he became increasingly convinced that the system you are about to learn has been overlooked by the vast majority of people. Why haven't more people seen this? More often than not, people do not see the forest for the trees. In other words, the trading plan you are about to see is so simple that it defies logic. It is not complicated, it is not time consuming and it has no difficult formulas to try and understand. It is an easy, layman's approach to profitable trading in the futures markets.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0934380430/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-1813217-8428607?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
The reason for writing this book is twofold: first, after years of studying charts, he was able to identify an occurrence in market trading that can almost ensure high returns with minimal risk. This approach to trading is very clear and easy to understand. It leads to the second reason for writing this book. For a long time, he felt this system was too simple to warrant a book, but over time, he became increasingly convinced that the system you are about to learn has been overlooked by the vast majority of people. Why haven't more people seen this? More often than not, people do not see the forest for the trees. In other words, the trading plan you are about to see is so simple that it defies logic. It is not complicated, it is not time consuming and it has no difficult formulas to try and understand. It is an easy, layman's approach to profitable trading in the futures markets.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0934380430/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-1813217-8428607?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time
The trading strategies of legends Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch, Gerald Loeb, and more provide ways to triumph in the market Today's bookshelves are so laden with Johnny-come-lately experts, eager to sell their knowledge to any and all, that it's sometimes hard for traders to know which way to turn or whom to trust. Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time makes the choice simple, examining the careers of five traders--Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch, Gerald Loeb, Nicolas Darvas, and Bill O'Neil--who, more than any others over the past century, demonstrated tremendous success at conquering Wall Street. This technique-filled book presents numerous ways in which the timeless strategies of these investing icons can be used to tame today's high-speed, unforgiving marketplaces. Comparing and contrasting the successes--and occasional failures--of these five giants of finance, it reveals: What Jesse Livermore did to correctly call every market break between 1917 and 1940 How Bill O'Neil stuck to basics to create his famously effective CANSLIM system The strategies Nicolas Darvas used to become a self-made millionaire several times over.
Timeless rules for profitable, low-risk trading--from five investing legends
Over the course of a century, in every type of economy and market, five traders wrote and perfected the rules for successful stock trading. Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time examines these amazing traders and their careers, and reveals how you can use their remarkably similar skills, disciplines, and trading rules to improve your performance in today's high-risk, high-reward markets.
Look to these "Babe Ruths of Trading" to discover:
Jesse Livermore--How early market defeats taught him the number one rule of profitable trading--Cut your losses and move on!
Bernard Baruch--Techniques Baruch learned from his $5 a week Wall Street job--and how they helped him build a multimillion dollar portfolio
Nicolas Darvas--What this "outsider" did to regularly outmaneuver Wall Street's top pros in his spare time
Gerald Loeb--What Loeb saw that many others missed, allowing him to sidestep the Crash of 1929
William O'Neil--How O'Neil expanded on the time-honored rules of his predecessors to become a great modern-day success story
Certain rules and techniques have always distinguished the best traders. Discover what those strategies are, and how to use them to power your trading profits while dramatically cutting your losses, in the entertaining, technique-driven, and always fascinating Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071437886/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-1813217-8428607?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Timeless rules for profitable, low-risk trading--from five investing legends
Over the course of a century, in every type of economy and market, five traders wrote and perfected the rules for successful stock trading. Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time examines these amazing traders and their careers, and reveals how you can use their remarkably similar skills, disciplines, and trading rules to improve your performance in today's high-risk, high-reward markets.
Look to these "Babe Ruths of Trading" to discover:
Jesse Livermore--How early market defeats taught him the number one rule of profitable trading--Cut your losses and move on!
Bernard Baruch--Techniques Baruch learned from his $5 a week Wall Street job--and how they helped him build a multimillion dollar portfolio
Nicolas Darvas--What this "outsider" did to regularly outmaneuver Wall Street's top pros in his spare time
Gerald Loeb--What Loeb saw that many others missed, allowing him to sidestep the Crash of 1929
William O'Neil--How O'Neil expanded on the time-honored rules of his predecessors to become a great modern-day success story
Certain rules and techniques have always distinguished the best traders. Discover what those strategies are, and how to use them to power your trading profits while dramatically cutting your losses, in the entertaining, technique-driven, and always fascinating Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071437886/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-1813217-8428607?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional By Constance Brown
Strategies and Techniques for Today's Turbulent Financial Markets
As professional Traders Approach the 21st century, accelerating technological change threatens to make conventional technical studies and indicators ineffective. The growing mass of inexperienced technical traders armed with plug-and-play technical software and rapid Internet access to the markets has created a global trading desk. To complete in this changing environment, professionals need radical new uses and combinations of indicators and formulas to keep their competitive edge.
Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional resets the scales, arming today’s professional trader with new, unique, and never-before-seen formulas and uses of key market indicators. Not a primer for the novice, it assumes the reader’s working knowledge and proficiency in technical analysis.
Constance Brown also records for the first time in print the price projection methods of Andrew Cardwell’s Positive and Negative Reversals derived from the Relative Strength Index. She goes on to contribute to George Lane’s Stochastics and Joe DiNapoli’s price projection levels. Leaving no stone unturned, Brown then combines them with her own substantial body of research on Gann Analysis and custom indicators to create an impressive, exceedingly accurate new system. Global professional traders, frustrated by inexplicable indicator failures and capital erosion, must set themselves apart by challenging many beliefs widely accepted as gospel in today’s trading world. The stunningly innovative and accurate Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional will make your technical analysis and trading more effective and help you to establish the trading dominance every professional trader needs to excel.
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As professional Traders Approach the 21st century, accelerating technological change threatens to make conventional technical studies and indicators ineffective. The growing mass of inexperienced technical traders armed with plug-and-play technical software and rapid Internet access to the markets has created a global trading desk. To complete in this changing environment, professionals need radical new uses and combinations of indicators and formulas to keep their competitive edge.
Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional resets the scales, arming today’s professional trader with new, unique, and never-before-seen formulas and uses of key market indicators. Not a primer for the novice, it assumes the reader’s working knowledge and proficiency in technical analysis.
Constance Brown also records for the first time in print the price projection methods of Andrew Cardwell’s Positive and Negative Reversals derived from the Relative Strength Index. She goes on to contribute to George Lane’s Stochastics and Joe DiNapoli’s price projection levels. Leaving no stone unturned, Brown then combines them with her own substantial body of research on Gann Analysis and custom indicators to create an impressive, exceedingly accurate new system. Global professional traders, frustrated by inexplicable indicator failures and capital erosion, must set themselves apart by challenging many beliefs widely accepted as gospel in today’s trading world. The stunningly innovative and accurate Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional will make your technical analysis and trading more effective and help you to establish the trading dominance every professional trader needs to excel.
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Sunday, May 07, 2006
Charting Commodity Market Price Behavior by Dee Beveal
L. Dee Belveal is an accomplished economist, journalist, and author. Born August 15, 1918, he attended public schools in Boise, Idaho, and is an alumnus of American University in Washington, D.C. He is widely published author on commodity trading and futures markets, having contributed five volumes dealing with these topics, covering the full range of professional price speculation and risk management. He draws on more than twenty years of experience as a professional speculator.
In addition to his writing on market topics, Mr. Belveal also created and administered the Commodity Solicitors Registration Examination, first launched inthe US in 1965, which has since become an industry-wide requiremetn for all futures brokers in order to be licensed to trade on regulated exchanges anywhere in the world.
He has served as economic consultant to some of the world's most distinguished commercial firms, as well as advising governments in connection with their commodity planning and marketing activities. For a single example. Mr. Belveal directed the planning, structure, and addition of Honduras coffee exports to the list of deliverables against the New York Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange C contract.
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In addition to his writing on market topics, Mr. Belveal also created and administered the Commodity Solicitors Registration Examination, first launched inthe US in 1965, which has since become an industry-wide requiremetn for all futures brokers in order to be licensed to trade on regulated exchanges anywhere in the world.
He has served as economic consultant to some of the world's most distinguished commercial firms, as well as advising governments in connection with their commodity planning and marketing activities. For a single example. Mr. Belveal directed the planning, structure, and addition of Honduras coffee exports to the list of deliverables against the New York Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange C contract.
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Saturday, May 06, 2006
Profits in Volume by Richard Arms
NOW, for the first time in years…The landmark book on Equivolume Charting that described the methodology and its application for the first time---is available again. Presented in its original form, this is the classic that tied volume and price together, allowing investors to analyze not only the way in which a stock is moving, but the underlying pressures involved in that movement. And uniting volume and price into a single entry provides the investor with a unique view, unrealized in a traditional bar chart.
This innovative technique was the outgrowth of Dick Arms' development of the widely known Arms Index, often referred to as the short term trading index (TRIN). The Arms Index work led him to the realization of the importance of volume as an analysis tool. And this index is so important to investors that it is recapped daily in the Wall Street Journal, and weekly in Barron's. It is also recalculated and displayed every minute on CNBC ticker tape.
Whether you're just learning about Equivolume Charting, hoping to get a more indepth look into Arm's famous technical tools, or searching for ways to profit from the driving forces of the market---Profits in Volume is a must have book.
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This innovative technique was the outgrowth of Dick Arms' development of the widely known Arms Index, often referred to as the short term trading index (TRIN). The Arms Index work led him to the realization of the importance of volume as an analysis tool. And this index is so important to investors that it is recapped daily in the Wall Street Journal, and weekly in Barron's. It is also recalculated and displayed every minute on CNBC ticker tape.
Whether you're just learning about Equivolume Charting, hoping to get a more indepth look into Arm's famous technical tools, or searching for ways to profit from the driving forces of the market---Profits in Volume is a must have book.
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Friday, May 05, 2006
Technical Analysis - Power Tools for Active Investors
In this book, 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. Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's The Practical Guide to Technical Analysis offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough market success.
Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis for the first time. He presents technical analysis solutions for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors. Many of the strategies and models he presents have never before been published. Several are based on MACD, a tool that revolutionized technical analysis—and one that he created.
The author currently supervises over $550 million in investments: This book distills his 40 years of trading experience into a relentlessly practical guide you can start profiting from right now.
Learn technical analysis from one of the world's top experts Hands-on guidance from Gerald Appel, publisher of Systems and Forecasts. Coping with today's unprecedented market volatility Indispensable techniques for profiting in uncertain markets. Winning techniques that take just 10 minutes a week Better results than "buy and hold"—with far less risk. Riding the tides of market wave movement How to recognize crucial political, seasonal, and time-based cycles. Bottom fishing, top spotting, and staying the course You can time the market. Here's how. MACD: the ultimate market timing indicator Breakthrough techniques that revolutionized technical analysis... invented by the author himself. Using yesterday's action to predict tomorrow's How you can profit from Moving Average Trading Bands. Putting it all together Using everything you've learned to organize a more effective market strategy.
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Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis for the first time. He presents technical analysis solutions for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors. Many of the strategies and models he presents have never before been published. Several are based on MACD, a tool that revolutionized technical analysis—and one that he created.
The author currently supervises over $550 million in investments: This book distills his 40 years of trading experience into a relentlessly practical guide you can start profiting from right now.
Learn technical analysis from one of the world's top experts Hands-on guidance from Gerald Appel, publisher of Systems and Forecasts. Coping with today's unprecedented market volatility Indispensable techniques for profiting in uncertain markets. Winning techniques that take just 10 minutes a week Better results than "buy and hold"—with far less risk. Riding the tides of market wave movement How to recognize crucial political, seasonal, and time-based cycles. Bottom fishing, top spotting, and staying the course You can time the market. Here's how. MACD: the ultimate market timing indicator Breakthrough techniques that revolutionized technical analysis... invented by the author himself. Using yesterday's action to predict tomorrow's How you can profit from Moving Average Trading Bands. Putting it all together Using everything you've learned to organize a more effective market strategy.
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Technical Analysis from A to Z - 2nd Edition: Covers Every Trading tool... from the Absolute Breadth Index to the Zig Zag by Stephen B. Achelis
This book attempts to be an encyclopedia of the most popular TA indicators. After a short, concise introduction to the basic TA concepts, Achelis covers everything from the Absolute Breadth Index to the Zig Zag Indicator. Entries are typically 3 pages long and contain an Overview, an Interpretation, an Example and a Calculation section.
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Point & Figure Charting: The Complete Guide by Carroll D. Aby, Jr.
Point & Figure Charting: The Complete Guide is the most thorough text on Point and Figure charting, and is our preferred book on the subject. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of P&F is provided. (302 pgs)
As we enter the last decade of the 20th century, indecision and turbulence prevail in the financial markets. Meanwhile, attempts to identify major price swings in the stock market dominate investment strategies. Perhaps more that ever before, people seem unable or unwilling to venture into investment decisions. Growing numbers of individuals depend on others for acceptable investment returns. To accommodate increasing expectations for better investment performance, timing strategies in the equity markets must play a larger role.
This material represents a compendium of technical investment analysis for entrepreneurial investors. The book includes a unique blend of pragmatic investment management concepts and real-world applications. The approaches developed herein appeal to individual investors and mathematical emphases are excluded for the sake of pragmatism. Broad-based treatment of investment management principles in diverse settings functions as a surrogate to mathematical and theoretical overkill.
Although sequential reading represents the more conventional approach, the continuity and flow of the book, readers will find that individual sections can still offer their autonomy and ability to stand-alone.
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As we enter the last decade of the 20th century, indecision and turbulence prevail in the financial markets. Meanwhile, attempts to identify major price swings in the stock market dominate investment strategies. Perhaps more that ever before, people seem unable or unwilling to venture into investment decisions. Growing numbers of individuals depend on others for acceptable investment returns. To accommodate increasing expectations for better investment performance, timing strategies in the equity markets must play a larger role.
This material represents a compendium of technical investment analysis for entrepreneurial investors. The book includes a unique blend of pragmatic investment management concepts and real-world applications. The approaches developed herein appeal to individual investors and mathematical emphases are excluded for the sake of pragmatism. Broad-based treatment of investment management principles in diverse settings functions as a surrogate to mathematical and theoretical overkill.
Although sequential reading represents the more conventional approach, the continuity and flow of the book, readers will find that individual sections can still offer their autonomy and ability to stand-alone.
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Monday, May 01, 2006
A New Look at Technical Analysis by Bob McCullough
Many new and unique ideas about technical analysis, market models, graphic tools, technical indicators, and trading methods are explored in great depth in this outstanding book. Consists of articles and studies originally written for owners of the author's Investograph Plus Software. Will give the computerized trader a deeper understanding of markets and how to analyze them more effectively than ever before.
There's big money to be made by learning how to time market trades. Timing markets means learning how to use charting and technical analysis tools. There are a number of good reference books that tell you how to calculate technical analysis indicators and how to make the necessary graphical constructions needed for analysis of charts. However, most of these books cover the same olf familar tools. Also, because so mamy tools are described in each of the well known reference books, treatment of how to use them can only be superficial. This book describes some new, powerful, and unique tools. It also probes into how to use the traditional tools with a depth not found in any other book.
Chapter 1 Market Structures 4 Cyclical Structure of Markets, Oscillators, and Price/Oscillator Divergences 6 Model of Markets Based on Chaos Theory and Using Trend Channels to Monitor Trends 15 Detecting the Ends of Trends Based on "Biased Random Walk" Market Model 18 Determining Cycle Durations 21 Chapter 2 Profitable Trading Patterns 24 Profitable Patterns In Oscillator Plots 25 More Profitable Patterns In Oscillator Plots 28 Creation of Elliott Wave Sequences By Market Cycles 31 Several Japanese Candlestick Reversal Patterns 34 Support and Resistance Levels 37 Chapter 3 Making Money With Oscillators 40 Extracting Cycles from Prices Using Centered Moving Averages and 42 Plotting "Least Squares" Extracted Cycles Calculating and Using Wilder's Relative Strength Index 45 Calculating and Using the Stochastic Oscillator 48 Calculating and Using the Commodity Channel Index 51 Using Formula X, Formula Y, and Formula H 54 "Looking Into the Future" with Least Squares Extracted Cycles 57 Using the Price Chart and Least Squares Momentum to Coordinate 60 Oscillator Signals with the Underlying Trend Coordinating the Price Chart with Formula X to Determine the Direction of the Underlying Trend and Stop Loss Prices 63 Chapter 4 Envelope Analysis 66 Using Moving Average and Standard Deviation Envelopes to Get the Best Prices 67 Projecting the "Next Bar" on a Price Chart 70 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Evaluate Vertical Credit Spreads for Options 73 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Determine Entry, Exit, and Stop Loss Prices for the "Next Bar" 78 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Estimate the"Next Bar's" High and Low 81 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Estimate theLocation of the End Points of a Trend Channel that Includes the "Next Bar's" Data 84 Chapter 5 Graphical Tools 87 Constructing Andrews Pitchforks 88 Constructing Trend Channels with Statistical Analysis 91 Adjusting Trend Channel Widths to Project Outer Limits of Prices 96 Fibonacci Time Lines 99 Chapter 6 Trading Systems 102 Volatility Driven Trading Systems 103 The Volatility Breakout System 106 Reducing Drawdowns by Trading the Equity Curve 109 Anticipating Exit and Entry Prices When Trading the Equity Curve 114 The Three Point Trading System 117 Trading with Martingale Money Management and "Look Ahead" Envelopes 120 More About Martingale Money Management and "Look Ahead" Envelopes 123 Chapter 7 Trading Mutual Funds 126 Using Alpha and Beta When Trading Mutual Funds with a Long Time Horizon 127 Intermediate and Short Term Mutual Fund Trading 130 Trading Sector Mutual Funds 133 Chapter 8 Using Comparison Charts 137 Using Relative Strength (Comparison) Charts to Reduce Risk 138 Least Squares Momentum with Relative Strength (Comparison) Charts 141 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Topics 145 Filtering Oscillator Signals 146 Equivolume Charts and the Cumulative Ease-of-Movement Indicator 149 Using the Cumulative Ease-of-Movement Indicator 152 Spread Trading with a Special Spread Oscillator 155 Smoothing Data with TRIX 158 Time Shifting of Price Waves and Using Two Different Duration Oscillators to Take Advantage of This Phenomenon 161 Using Moving Averages for Exits from Momentum Driven Stocks 164 Chapter 10 Trading Psychology 168 Chapter 11 Getting Ready for the Opening Bell 172
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There's big money to be made by learning how to time market trades. Timing markets means learning how to use charting and technical analysis tools. There are a number of good reference books that tell you how to calculate technical analysis indicators and how to make the necessary graphical constructions needed for analysis of charts. However, most of these books cover the same olf familar tools. Also, because so mamy tools are described in each of the well known reference books, treatment of how to use them can only be superficial. This book describes some new, powerful, and unique tools. It also probes into how to use the traditional tools with a depth not found in any other book.
Chapter 1 Market Structures 4 Cyclical Structure of Markets, Oscillators, and Price/Oscillator Divergences 6 Model of Markets Based on Chaos Theory and Using Trend Channels to Monitor Trends 15 Detecting the Ends of Trends Based on "Biased Random Walk" Market Model 18 Determining Cycle Durations 21 Chapter 2 Profitable Trading Patterns 24 Profitable Patterns In Oscillator Plots 25 More Profitable Patterns In Oscillator Plots 28 Creation of Elliott Wave Sequences By Market Cycles 31 Several Japanese Candlestick Reversal Patterns 34 Support and Resistance Levels 37 Chapter 3 Making Money With Oscillators 40 Extracting Cycles from Prices Using Centered Moving Averages and 42 Plotting "Least Squares" Extracted Cycles Calculating and Using Wilder's Relative Strength Index 45 Calculating and Using the Stochastic Oscillator 48 Calculating and Using the Commodity Channel Index 51 Using Formula X, Formula Y, and Formula H 54 "Looking Into the Future" with Least Squares Extracted Cycles 57 Using the Price Chart and Least Squares Momentum to Coordinate 60 Oscillator Signals with the Underlying Trend Coordinating the Price Chart with Formula X to Determine the Direction of the Underlying Trend and Stop Loss Prices 63 Chapter 4 Envelope Analysis 66 Using Moving Average and Standard Deviation Envelopes to Get the Best Prices 67 Projecting the "Next Bar" on a Price Chart 70 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Evaluate Vertical Credit Spreads for Options 73 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Determine Entry, Exit, and Stop Loss Prices for the "Next Bar" 78 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Estimate the"Next Bar's" High and Low 81 Using "Look Ahead" Envelopes to Estimate theLocation of the End Points of a Trend Channel that Includes the "Next Bar's" Data 84 Chapter 5 Graphical Tools 87 Constructing Andrews Pitchforks 88 Constructing Trend Channels with Statistical Analysis 91 Adjusting Trend Channel Widths to Project Outer Limits of Prices 96 Fibonacci Time Lines 99 Chapter 6 Trading Systems 102 Volatility Driven Trading Systems 103 The Volatility Breakout System 106 Reducing Drawdowns by Trading the Equity Curve 109 Anticipating Exit and Entry Prices When Trading the Equity Curve 114 The Three Point Trading System 117 Trading with Martingale Money Management and "Look Ahead" Envelopes 120 More About Martingale Money Management and "Look Ahead" Envelopes 123 Chapter 7 Trading Mutual Funds 126 Using Alpha and Beta When Trading Mutual Funds with a Long Time Horizon 127 Intermediate and Short Term Mutual Fund Trading 130 Trading Sector Mutual Funds 133 Chapter 8 Using Comparison Charts 137 Using Relative Strength (Comparison) Charts to Reduce Risk 138 Least Squares Momentum with Relative Strength (Comparison) Charts 141 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Topics 145 Filtering Oscillator Signals 146 Equivolume Charts and the Cumulative Ease-of-Movement Indicator 149 Using the Cumulative Ease-of-Movement Indicator 152 Spread Trading with a Special Spread Oscillator 155 Smoothing Data with TRIX 158 Time Shifting of Price Waves and Using Two Different Duration Oscillators to Take Advantage of This Phenomenon 161 Using Moving Averages for Exits from Momentum Driven Stocks 164 Chapter 10 Trading Psychology 168 Chapter 11 Getting Ready for the Opening Bell 172
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