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Trading and Investing in the Forex Markets Using Chart Techniques

Trading and Investing in the Forex Markets Using Chart Techniques

Name: Trading and Investing in the Forex Markets Using Chart Techniques
Brand: John Wiley & Sons
SKU: 9780470745274
Price: 850.00 HKD
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Author: Gareth Burgess
ISBN: 9780470745274

By Gareth Burgess

John Wiley & Sons September 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780470745274
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication: September 2009
Format: Hardback , 226 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book will show you how to find trade and investment opportunities in the financial markets.

The very nature of trading and investing makes it a difficult business. The uncontrollable human emotions that rotate around greed, fear, and hope, are the elements of the human reaction in the markets that form the same repetitive scenarios time and time again.

This book demonstrates how a few relatively straight forward techniques can create a technical plan that will eliminate the emotional element. It will show you how to find opportunities in the market that are ever present and help to prevent trade and investments becoming subject to irrational thinking brought about by heightened emotions during moments of volatile market conditions.

Finding opportunities within the financial markets is about interpreting the price action. This book demonstrates that by observing certain chart techniques, markets that are changing from bullish to bearish and bearish to bullish can be interpreted in light of the change in market sentiment and produce early warning signals. Entry and exit points can then be located and positions that are already in the markets can be monitored for signs of change or weakness. This book will equip you with the skills to create a plan that can be forged and implemented to make the entire process of trading and investing easier.

By reading this book you will be introduced to some of the familiar chart techniques in such a way that it will not take long to understand how best to apply these techniques to your own charts and study them for potential market opportunities. This book does not dwell on the already known signals and techniques but instead concentrates on demonstrating their use and how to confirm the signals with a variety of techniques that have stood the test of time, pulling them together to create a technical picture that visually displays a change in market sentiment and a plan for trading and investing the markets.

These techniques are covered in a step-by-step process through the chapters of the book that include exercises to test your knowledge as the book proceeds. By learning to read charts you too can find great trade and investment opportunities.

Preface

1 Candlesticks = Signals

Introduction

Japanese Candlestick Signals

The Single Signals

Japanese Candlesticks – Double Candlestick Signals

Some Candlestick Examples

Some Further Candlestick Examples

Chart Analysis Exercise 1

Chart Analysis Exercise 1 – Answers

Summary

2 Chart Patterns = Opportunity

Continuation Patterns

Reversal Patterns

Bull Flags

Bear Flags

Bull Pennant

Bear Pennant

Bull Symmetrical Triangle

Bear Symmetrical Triangle

Bull Falling Wedge

Bear Rising Wedge

Inverted Head and Shoulders Continuation Pattern

Reversal Patterns

Bullish Head and Shoulders Reversal Pattern

Bearish Head and Shoulders Reversal Pattern

Triple Top Pattern

Triple Bottom Pattern

The Double Top Pattern

The Double Bottom Pattern

The Bullish and Bearish “V” Pattern

Bullish “V” Top

Bearish “V” Bottom

The Broadening Top and Bottom

Some Chart Pattern Examples

Chart Analysis Exercise 2

Chart Analysis Exercise 2 – Answers

Summary

3 Buying and Selling = Support and Resistance Levels

Support and Resistance

Trend Lines

Trend Line Channels

Intermediate Trend Lines

Internal Trend Lines

Pivot Lines

Predetermined Pivot Highs and Lows

Calculated Pivot Lines

Fibonacci Levels

Chart Analysis Exercise 3

Chart Analysis Exercise 3 – Answers

Chart Analysis Exercise 4

Chart Analysis Exercise 4 – Answers

Summary

4 Applying Confirmation = Confidence Building

Simple Moving Average (SMA)

Simple Moving Average Channel

Chart Analysis Exercise 5

Chart Analysis Exercise 5 – Answers

Momentum Oscillators

The RSI Oscillator

The Stochastic Oscillator (Slow)

The MACD Oscillator

Chart Analysis Exercise 6

Chart Analysis Exercise 6 – Answers

Chart Analysis Exercise 7

Chart Analysis Exercise 7 – Answers

Summary

5 Entry and Exit = Right or Wrong?

Climax Volume

Pivot Lines for Entry and Exit

High/Low/Close and High/Low Calculated Pivot Lines

Candlesticks on Short-Term Charts

Patterns on Short-Term Charts

Summary

6 Putting It All Together = Practice and Patience

Finding the Technical Picture

Creating the Watch List

Money Management

Summary

A Word on Filters

A Word on Recommendations

Final Word

Appendix

About the Author

Gareth A Burgess has over 10 years experience applying chart techniques to investment analysis creating technical views and strategies and is a dedicated private investor himself. He is founder of the chart workshop (www.chart-workshop.de), a provider of technical views for investors. His current research interests are on moving average based signals from which many trading systems are based today. Burgess studied at the University of Liverpool and the University of Konstanz, Germany, and graduated with honours. Burgess also went on to complete a Masters research degree, M.Phil.

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