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Technical Analysis.

by CMT, Charles D. Kirkpatrick II; Julie Dahlquist, Ph.D., CMT.
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -- 2 THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS-THE TREND -- How Does the Technical Analyst Make Money? -- What Is a Trend? -- How Are Trends Identified? -- Trends Develop from Supply and Demand -- What Trends Are There? -- What Other Assumptions Do Technical Analysts Make? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 3 HISTORY OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -- Early Financial Markets and Exchanges -- Modern Technical Analysis -- Current Advances in Technical Analysis -- 4 THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS CONTROVERSY -- Do Markets Follow a RandomWalk? -- Can Past Patterns Be Used to Predict the Future? -- What About Market Efficiency? -- Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis -- Pragmatic Criticisms of Technical Analysis -- What Is the Empirical Support for Technical Analysis? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part II: Markets and Market Indicators -- 5 AN OVERVIEW OF MARKETS -- In What Types of Markets Can Technical Analysis Be Used? -- Types of Contracts -- How Does a MarketWork? -- Who Are the Market Players? -- How Is the Market Measured? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 6 DOW THEORY -- Dow Theory Theorems -- Criticisms of the Dow Theory -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 7 SENTIMENT -- What Is Sentiment? -- Market Players and Sentiment -- How Does Human Bias Affect Decision Making? -- Crowd Behavior and the Concept of Contrary Opinion -- How Is Sentiment of Uninformed Players Measured? -- How Is the Sentiment of Informed Players Measured? -- Sentiment in Other Markets -- Hulbert Gold Sentiment Index -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 8 MEASURING MARKET STRENGTH -- Market Breadth -- Up and Down Volume Indicators -- Net New Highs and Net New Lows -- Using Moving Averages -- Very Short-Term Indicators -- Conclusion -- Review Questions.
9 TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND CYCLES -- Periods Longer than Four Years -- Periods of Four Years or Less -- January Signals -- Events -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 10 FLOW OF FUNDS -- Funds in the Marketplace -- Funds Outside the Security Market -- The Cost of Funds -- Fed Policy -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part III: Trend Analysis -- 11 HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHARTS -- History of Charting -- What Data Is Needed to Construct a Chart? -- What Types of Charts Do Analysts Use? -- What Type of Scale Should Be Used? -- Point-and-Figure Charts -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 12 TRENDS-THE BASICS -- Trend-The Key to Profits -- Trend Terminology -- Basis of Trend Analysis-Dow Theory -- How Does Investor Psychology Impact Trends? -- How Is the Trend Determined? -- Determining a Trading Range -- Directional Trends (Up and Down) -- Other Types of Trend Lines -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 13 BREAKOUTS, STOPS, AND RETRACEMENTS -- Breakouts -- Stops -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 14 MOVING AVERAGES -- What Is a Moving Average? -- How Is a Simple Moving Average Calculated? -- What Other Types of Moving Averages Are Used? -- Strategies for Using Moving Averages -- What Is Directional Movement? -- What Are Envelopes, Channels, and Bands? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part IV: Chart Pattern Analysis -- 15 BAR CHART PATTERNS -- What Is a Pattern? -- Do Patterns Exist? -- Computers and Pattern Recognition -- Market Structure and Pattern Recognition -- Bar Charts and Patterns -- How Profitable Are Patterns? -- Classic Bar Chart Patterns -- Patterns with Rounded Edges-Rounding and Head-and-Shoulders -- Long-Term Bar Chart Patterns with the Best Performance and the Lowest Risk of Failure -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 16 POINT-AND-FIGURE CHART PATTERNS -- What Is Different About a Point-and-Figure Chart?.
History of Point-and-Figure Charting -- One-Box Reversal Point-and-Figure Charts -- Three-Point (or Box) Reversal Point-and-Figure Charts -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 17 SHORT-TERM PATTERNS -- Pattern Construction and Determination -- Traditional Short-Term Patterns -- Summary of Short-Term Patterns -- Candlestick Patterns -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartV: Trend Confirmation -- 18 CONFIRMATION -- Analysis Methods -- Volume Confirmation -- Open Interest -- Price Confirmation -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVI: Other Technical Methods and Rules -- 19 CYCLES -- What Are Cycles? -- Translation -- How Can Cycles Be Found in Market Data? -- Projections -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 20 ELLIOTT, FIBONACCI, AND GANN -- ElliottWave Theory (EWT) -- The Fibonacci Sequence -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVII: Selection -- 21 SELECTION OF MARKETS AND ISSUES: TRADING AND INVESTING -- Which Issues Should I Select for Trading? -- Which Issues Should I Select for Investing? -- Top-Down Analysis -- Bottom Up-Specific Stock Selection and Relative Strength -- Examples of How Selected Professionals Screen for Favorable Stocks -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVIII: System Testing and Management -- 22 SYSTEM DESIGN AND TESTING -- Why Are Systems Necessary? -- How Do I Design a System? -- How Do I Test a System? -- Optimization -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 23 MONEY AND RISK MANAGEMENT -- Risk and Money Management -- Testing Money-Management Strategies -- Money-Management Risks -- Money-Management Risk Strategies -- Monitoring Systems and Portfolios -- If Everything Goes Wrong -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part IX: Appendices -- A BASIC STATISTICS -- Returns -- Probability and Statistics -- Descriptive Statistics -- Inferential Statistics -- Modern Portfolio Theory -- Performance Measurement.
Advanced Statistical Methods -- Artificial Intelligence -- Review Questions -- B TYPES OF ORDERS AND OTHER TRADER TERMINOLOGY -- An Order Ticket -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X-Y-Z.
Summary: Already the most complete, reliable, and objective guide to technical analysis, this book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances. Selected as the official companion to the prestigious Market Technicians Association CMT program, it systematically explains the field’s principles and techniques, presenting academic evidence and hundreds of illustrations.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -- 2 THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS-THE TREND -- How Does the Technical Analyst Make Money? -- What Is a Trend? -- How Are Trends Identified? -- Trends Develop from Supply and Demand -- What Trends Are There? -- What Other Assumptions Do Technical Analysts Make? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 3 HISTORY OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -- Early Financial Markets and Exchanges -- Modern Technical Analysis -- Current Advances in Technical Analysis -- 4 THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS CONTROVERSY -- Do Markets Follow a RandomWalk? -- Can Past Patterns Be Used to Predict the Future? -- What About Market Efficiency? -- Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis -- Pragmatic Criticisms of Technical Analysis -- What Is the Empirical Support for Technical Analysis? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part II: Markets and Market Indicators -- 5 AN OVERVIEW OF MARKETS -- In What Types of Markets Can Technical Analysis Be Used? -- Types of Contracts -- How Does a MarketWork? -- Who Are the Market Players? -- How Is the Market Measured? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 6 DOW THEORY -- Dow Theory Theorems -- Criticisms of the Dow Theory -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 7 SENTIMENT -- What Is Sentiment? -- Market Players and Sentiment -- How Does Human Bias Affect Decision Making? -- Crowd Behavior and the Concept of Contrary Opinion -- How Is Sentiment of Uninformed Players Measured? -- How Is the Sentiment of Informed Players Measured? -- Sentiment in Other Markets -- Hulbert Gold Sentiment Index -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 8 MEASURING MARKET STRENGTH -- Market Breadth -- Up and Down Volume Indicators -- Net New Highs and Net New Lows -- Using Moving Averages -- Very Short-Term Indicators -- Conclusion -- Review Questions.

9 TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND CYCLES -- Periods Longer than Four Years -- Periods of Four Years or Less -- January Signals -- Events -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 10 FLOW OF FUNDS -- Funds in the Marketplace -- Funds Outside the Security Market -- The Cost of Funds -- Fed Policy -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part III: Trend Analysis -- 11 HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHARTS -- History of Charting -- What Data Is Needed to Construct a Chart? -- What Types of Charts Do Analysts Use? -- What Type of Scale Should Be Used? -- Point-and-Figure Charts -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 12 TRENDS-THE BASICS -- Trend-The Key to Profits -- Trend Terminology -- Basis of Trend Analysis-Dow Theory -- How Does Investor Psychology Impact Trends? -- How Is the Trend Determined? -- Determining a Trading Range -- Directional Trends (Up and Down) -- Other Types of Trend Lines -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 13 BREAKOUTS, STOPS, AND RETRACEMENTS -- Breakouts -- Stops -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 14 MOVING AVERAGES -- What Is a Moving Average? -- How Is a Simple Moving Average Calculated? -- What Other Types of Moving Averages Are Used? -- Strategies for Using Moving Averages -- What Is Directional Movement? -- What Are Envelopes, Channels, and Bands? -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part IV: Chart Pattern Analysis -- 15 BAR CHART PATTERNS -- What Is a Pattern? -- Do Patterns Exist? -- Computers and Pattern Recognition -- Market Structure and Pattern Recognition -- Bar Charts and Patterns -- How Profitable Are Patterns? -- Classic Bar Chart Patterns -- Patterns with Rounded Edges-Rounding and Head-and-Shoulders -- Long-Term Bar Chart Patterns with the Best Performance and the Lowest Risk of Failure -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 16 POINT-AND-FIGURE CHART PATTERNS -- What Is Different About a Point-and-Figure Chart?.

History of Point-and-Figure Charting -- One-Box Reversal Point-and-Figure Charts -- Three-Point (or Box) Reversal Point-and-Figure Charts -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 17 SHORT-TERM PATTERNS -- Pattern Construction and Determination -- Traditional Short-Term Patterns -- Summary of Short-Term Patterns -- Candlestick Patterns -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartV: Trend Confirmation -- 18 CONFIRMATION -- Analysis Methods -- Volume Confirmation -- Open Interest -- Price Confirmation -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVI: Other Technical Methods and Rules -- 19 CYCLES -- What Are Cycles? -- Translation -- How Can Cycles Be Found in Market Data? -- Projections -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 20 ELLIOTT, FIBONACCI, AND GANN -- ElliottWave Theory (EWT) -- The Fibonacci Sequence -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVII: Selection -- 21 SELECTION OF MARKETS AND ISSUES: TRADING AND INVESTING -- Which Issues Should I Select for Trading? -- Which Issues Should I Select for Investing? -- Top-Down Analysis -- Bottom Up-Specific Stock Selection and Relative Strength -- Examples of How Selected Professionals Screen for Favorable Stocks -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- PartVIII: System Testing and Management -- 22 SYSTEM DESIGN AND TESTING -- Why Are Systems Necessary? -- How Do I Design a System? -- How Do I Test a System? -- Optimization -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 23 MONEY AND RISK MANAGEMENT -- Risk and Money Management -- Testing Money-Management Strategies -- Money-Management Risks -- Money-Management Risk Strategies -- Monitoring Systems and Portfolios -- If Everything Goes Wrong -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part IX: Appendices -- A BASIC STATISTICS -- Returns -- Probability and Statistics -- Descriptive Statistics -- Inferential Statistics -- Modern Portfolio Theory -- Performance Measurement.

Advanced Statistical Methods -- Artificial Intelligence -- Review Questions -- B TYPES OF ORDERS AND OTHER TRADER TERMINOLOGY -- An Order Ticket -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X-Y-Z.

Already the most complete, reliable, and objective guide to technical analysis, this book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances. Selected as the official companion to the prestigious Market Technicians Association CMT program, it systematically explains the field’s principles and techniques, presenting academic evidence and hundreds of illustrations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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