Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, 2nd Edition

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• Copyright 2006
• Edition: 2nd

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-13-134597-4
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-134597-3

Technical analysis is a hot topic for investors right now and offers powerful, objective tools for picking stocks and making money--but most explanations of the subject simply confuse investors instead of enlightening them. In this clear, practical book, Barron's columnist Michael Kahn introduces technical analysis in simple English. Kahn explains exactly how technical analysis works, then teaches you how to read charts and translate what they tell you into real buy and sell decisions. The fully updated Second Edition contains many new examples reflecting major market changes since the First Edition: 9/11, equities bear markets, commodities bull markets, changing interest rates, and more. Step by step, Kahn illuminates the basic theory of technical analysis, demystifies its jargon, outlines its core techniques, and shows how to use it to complement (not replace) the reader's current approach to stock selection. He explains trendlines, chart patterns, and corrections; reveals what makes a stock look promising; and helps to assess potential risk and reward.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  xix

About the Author  xxi

Preface  xxiii

About This Book  xxvii

How to Get the Most From This Book  xxxiii

Part I: A Few Things You’ll Need to Know Before You Begin  1

Chapter 1: Required Background  3

Chapter 2: What Is Technical Analysis?  13

Chapter 3: What Is a Chart?  19

Chapter 4: Jargon You Cannot Avoid  25

Part II: The Core of Chart Analysis  33

Chapter 5: Concepts  35

Chapter 6: What Are Supply and Demand in the Markets?  41

Chapter 7: The Trend Is Your Friend and So Are Trendlines  47

Chapter 8: See the Forest and the Trees  55

Chapter 9: Chart Patterns–When the Market Needs a Rest  63

Chapter 10: Chart Patterns–When the Market Is Changing Its Mind  73

Chapter 11: Chart Patterns–Explosions  83

Chapter 12: Corrections in Perspective  89

Part III: Technical Analysis in the Real World  95

Chapter 13: What Is There Other Than Price?  97

Chapter 14: Volume  109

Chapter 15: Time  117

Chapter 16: Sentiment  121

Chapter 17: Fundamental Analysis Really Is Technical Analysis  129

Chapter 18: Just What Makes a Stock (Bond, Commodity) Look Good?  135

Chapter 19: Risk Versus Reward–Is This Stock Really Worth It?  147

Chapter 20: This Isn’t Brain Surgery  159

Part IV: The Actual Process of Investing  173

Chapter 21: OK, Now Do It!  175

Chapter 22: How to Know if You Are Wrong  181

Chapter 23: Sometimes Being Wrong Is Good  185

Chapter 24: When to Sell  189

Chapter 25: Bear Markets  201

Chapter 26: A Word About Your Ego  205

Part V: Tools and Case Studies  207

Chapter 27: What Do I Really Need to Get Started?  209

Chapter 28: Building Your Technical Toolbox  215

Chapter 29: Final Advice  221

Chapter 30: Case Study–The Perfect World  223

Chapter 31: Case Study–The Real World  231

Chapter 32: How Good Is Your Broker’s Stock?  245

Part VI: Further On Down the Road  251

Chapter 33: Introduction to Candlesticks  253

Chapter 34: Cycles  263

Chapter 35 Elliott Waves  267

Chapter 36: Technical Terms You May Have Heard  271

Chapter 37: Debunking the TV Analyst  289

Fun with Jargon  293

Closing Thoughts  301

Index  303

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