Technical analysis the complete resource for financial market technicians
Already the field's most comprehensive, reliable, and objective guidebook, Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, Second Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances. Selected by the Market Technicians Association as the of...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
FT Press
c2011.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629062606719 |
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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.
