Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, 3rd edition

Published by FT Press (October 13, 2015) © 2016

  • Charles D. Kirkpatrick
  • Julie R. Dahlquist
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Already the field's most comprehensive, reliable, and objective guidebook, Technical Analysis, Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances. Selected by the Market Technicians Association as the official companion to its prestigious Chartered Market Technician (CMT) program, this book systematically explains the theory of technical analysis, presenting academic evidence both for and against it.

Using hundreds of fully updated illustrations and examples, the authors explain the analysis of both markets and individual issues, and present complete investment systems and portfolio management plans. They present authoritative, up-to-date coverage of tested sentiment, momentum indicators, seasonal effects, flow of funds, testing systems, risk mitigation strategies, and many other topics.

Technical Analysis, Third Edition thoroughly covers recent advances in pattern recognition, market analysis, and systems management; new confidence tests; popular methods such as Kagi, Renko, Kase, Ichimoku, Clouds, and DeMark indicators; innovations in exit stops, portfolio selection, and testing; and the implications of behavioral bias; and the recent performance of old formulas and methods. For traders, researchers, and serious investors alike, this is the definitive book on technical analysis.

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Technical Analysis     1
Chapter 2: The Basic Principle of Technical Analysis--The Trend     7
Chapter 3: History of Technical Analysis     21
Chapter 4: The Technical Analysis Controversy     33
Part II: Markets and Market Indicators
Chapter 5: An Overview of Markets     57
Chapter 6: Dow Theory     77
Chapter 7: Sentiment      91
Chapter 8: Measuring Market Strength     143
Chapter 9: Temporal Patterns and Cycles     177
Chapter 10: Flow of Funds     195
Part III: Trend Analysis
Chapter 11: History and Construction of Charts     219
Chapter 12: Trends--The Basics     249
Chapter 13: Breakouts, Stops, and Retracements     281
Chapter 14: Moving Averages     305
Part IV: Chart Pattern Analysis
Chapter 15: Bar Chart Patterns     333
Chapter 16: Point and Figure Chart Patterns     367
Chapter 17: Short-Term Patterns     393
Part V: Trend Confirmation
Chapter 18: Confirmation     439
Part VI: Other Technical Methods and Rules
Chapter 19: Cycles     481
Chapter 20: Elliott, Fibonacci, and Gann     509
Part VII: Selection
Chapter 21: Selection of Markets and Issues: Trading and Investing     533
Part VIII: System Testing and Management
Chapter 22: System Design and Testing     559
Chapter 23: Money and Portfolio Risk Management     589
Part IX: Appendices
Appendix A: Basic Statistics     611
Appendix B: Types of Orders and Other Trader Terminology     639
Bibliography     643
Index     675

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