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Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kahn, Michael N., Author.
Series:
Financial Times Prentice Hall books
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Investment analysis.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] FT Press 2006
Language Note:
English
System Details:
text file
Summary:
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.
Contents:
A few things you'll need to know before you begin
Required background
What is technical analysis?
What is a chart?
Jargon you cannot avoid
The core of chart analysis
Concepts
What are supply and demand in the markets?
The trend is your friend and so are trendlines
See the forest and the trees
Chart patterns
when the market needs a rest
when the market is changing its mind
explosions
Corrections in perspective
Technical analysis in the real world
What is there other than price?
Volume
Time
Sentiment
Fundamental analysis really is technical analysis
Just what makes a stock (bond, commodity) look good?
Risk versus reward
is this stock really worth it?
This isn't brain surgery
The actual process of investing
Ok now do it!
How to know if you are wrong
Sometimes being wrong is good
When to sell
Bear markets
A word about your ego
Tools and case studies
What do I really need to get started?
Building your technical toolbox
Final advice
Case study
the perfect world
the real world
How good is your broker's stock?
Further on down the road
Introduction to candlesticks
Cycles
Elliott waves
Technical terms you may have heard
Debunking the TV analyst
Fun with jargon
Closing thoughts.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9786610848249
9781280848247
1280848243
9780132054959
0132054957
OCLC:
1027140803

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