Investor's Guide to Charting, 2nd Edition
Analysis for the Intelligent Investor
By Alistair Blair
Financial Times / Pearson Education
September 2003
ISBN: 0-273-66203-1
256 Pages, Illustrated, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
$49.50 Paper Original
Charting is a complex and sometimes derided world, but one that nonetheless
commands an enormous following. Some basic knowledge of charting is essential
for any keen investor, and this fully revised and updated edition of Alistair
Blair's Guide to Charting is the independent, introductory overview of technical
analysis for the private investor. Guide to Charting is packed with purpose-drawn
charts and worked examples, and explains in detail how charting theories work.
Written with the private investor's viewpoint in mind the book's coverage will
give you all that you need to start practicing technical analysis and, unlike
other books on the subject, will also interest the more sophisticated, experienced
practitioner by:
Comparing technical analysis with fundamental analysis; Examining the records
of some of charting's most renowned exponents; Applying technical analysis to
recent FTSE company price charts; Providing alternative interpretations of 'live'
charts; Identifying both successful and failed recommendations by professional
chartists. An insight into the world of charting, this text includes information
on where to start, timescales, basic components of a price chart and different
types of chart. It should be of interest to investors who are less than fully
conversant with technical analysis.
Contents
1. The art of the chart fundamental analysis technical analysis patterns and
profits options, futures and indexes chartists do it up and down buyers, sellers,
greed, fear and psychology
2. The trend is your friend: basic components of any price chart trends trend
lines moving averages scales
3. The head and shoulders and friends words of warning on the classic patterns
reversal patterns - tops reversal patterns - bottoms continuation patterns
4. The supporting cast: secondary signals to support the main conclusion volume
relative strength or share price relatives breadth and the advance / decline
line momentum welles wilder's RSI stochastic moving average convergence-divergence
(MACD)
5. The technique from Japan: an introduction to candlestick charting bodies
and shadows candlestick patterns windows jack schwager's tests
6. Is the price moving? Really moving?: point and figure charts how to compile
a point and figure chart trend lines and trading signals the count
7. A quick guide to chartist gospels fibonacci elliot wave theory gann coppock
8. Whoever made money from charting? jesse livermore victor sperandeo monroe
trout stanley kroll anthony bolton crispin odey
9. A modest grapple with real life (a look at real charts) not a scientific
test a sprinkling of expert views a sympathetic hearing how to use this chapter
randomness is restricted get a system and look twice
10. Will it work for you? two charts what works for the professionals just the
gold-plated signals or dime-a-dozen not needing to understand but needing to
change should professional chartists be rich? and fundamentalists? and you?
11. Net gains for Charting: what the internet can do for chartists obliging
online brokers community offerings gold standard breathless in the US - platinum
standard net advice Glossary Further Reading Index
Author Alistair Blair is the No Free Lunch columnist for the Investors
Chronicle magazine and writes about business and investment for many other publications.
In 1999, he was voted the Periodical Publishers' Association’s Business Writer
of the Year. After reading PPE at Oxford and completing an MBA at Manchester
Business School, Alistair gained practical experience of the City by working
at Hill Samuel and Fidelity. top Reviews "A thought-provoking book. If you're
interested in investment you should read it whether you bracket chartism with
astrology or not." Sir Christopher Hogg, Chairman, Reuters "Alistair Blair makes
charting make sense. You'll soon discover why chartists believe 'the trend is
your friend' and why this book should be your constant companion." Matthew Vincent,
Editor, Investors Chronicle
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