A Beginner's Guide to Charting Financial Markets: A Practical Introduction to Technical Analysis for Investors

A Beginner’s Guide to Charting Financial Markets......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
About the author......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Introduction To Charting......Page 14
What is a chart?......Page 18
A brief history of charting......Page 19
What is the market?......Page 21
Styles of market analysis......Page 25
Just why do charts work?......Page 27
So what is technical analysis?......Page 29
What technical analysis is not......Page 31
When not to use it?......Page 32
The basic parts of a chart......Page 34
What creates the chart?......Page 39
Everything supports price......Page 40
3. Understanding Each Part Of A Chart......Page 42
1. Price......Page 43
2. Volume......Page 44
3. Momentum......Page 46
4. Structure......Page 47
5. Sentiment......Page 62
Pulling it all together......Page 63
Sanity check......Page 66
A bad reaction to good news......Page 71
Value play or dying stock?......Page 73
Checking out an idea......Page 79
Weighing your options – Should you invest at all?......Page 81
How will this make you a better investor?......Page 82
2 Putting Charts To Work For You......Page 86
5. Putting Stocks To The Technical Test......Page 90
The three basic goals of the tools......Page 91
Checklist for success......Page 92
A good candidate to buy......Page 94
A good candidate to avoid......Page 96
A stock that gets a “maybe”......Page 97
What if you made a mistake?......Page 98
Knowing when to sell......Page 101
How about the fundamentals?......Page 102
What is going on around you?......Page 104
The real world......Page 107
The real reason we do this......Page 119
Technicians license......Page 120
Variations......Page 123
Let the market talk......Page 126
Summary – the real world......Page 128
8. Examples......Page 130
9. Conclusion......Page 144
Index......Page 146