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All About Technical Analysis

Authors: Constance Brown

Published: December 2002

eISBN: 9780071423489 0071423486 | ISBN: 9780071385114

Contents

Part One: What is Technical Analysis, and Who Can Benefit?

Chapter 1 Could Charts Have Called the Enron Collapse?

Chapter 2 What Is Technical Analysis and Who Uses It?

Chapter 3 Can Mutual Fund Investors Use Technical Analysis?

Part Two: How to Create Charts

Chapter 4 How to Get the Data into Your Computer

Chapter 5 Weekly, Monthly, and Intraday Time Intervals: How to Display the Data

Chapter 6 How Asian Traders Prefer to Display Data

Chapter 7 Why the U.S. Dollar Dictates the Longevity of an American Equity Bull Market

Chapter 8 Help! Short- and Long-Term Interest Rates Are Really Confusing

Money Market Securities or Short-Term Interest Rate Markets

Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Markets

Price-to-Yield Relationship

Yield to Maturity versus Realized Yield

Yield Curves

Chapter 9 Why a North American Needs International Market Data

Chapter 10 Wait a Minute! Isn’t That Real Estate Data?

Part Three: How to Read the Data to Make a Decision

Chapter 11 A Big-Picture Summary of the Different Approaches within Technical Analysis

Category One: Does the Method or Technique Depend on Pattern Recognition?

Category Two: Does the Method Focus on the Geometric Mathematical Relationships within the Market’s Price Data or Indicators?

Category Three: Does the Method Strive to Identify Behavioral Traits and Study Extremes of Market Participants?

Category Four: Does the Method Strive to Detect Correlations between Different Markets to Determine If One Market Is Providing a Leading Signal for Another?

Chapter 12 Directional Patterns and Signals within the Data

Chapter 13 Why Are There Holes in My Data?

Chapter 14 Understanding Trends and Basic Market Geometry

Chapter 15 Using Market Geometry for Price Projections

Chapter 16 Ways to Detect Market Extremes Using Price, Breadth, and Sentiment

Chapter 17 The Hottest Stock since Green Ketchup! How to “Listen” to the Media with a Technical Mindset

Part Four: How to Handle Specific Problems

Chapter 18 Price Targets for Stocks Just Listed and Other Challenges

How Do You Calculate Support or Resistance for a Stock Just Listed with No Historical Data?

How Do You Calculate Market Support When the Index Has Fallen below Historic Price Lows?

How Do You Calculate a Price Objective When the Stock or Market Is Trading above Historic Highs?

How the Internet Can Lead You to a Poor Market Decision

What Is the Global Industry Classification Standard and How Do You Use Stock Sectors for Analysis?

Part Five: Lessons From Global Market Shock Waves

Chapter 19 Lessons from Global Market Shock Waves

The Americas Catch the Asian Flu in 1998

The “Dot Gones”: Researching Opportunities after a Market Implodes

September 11, 2001

Part Six: Why Does Technical Analysis Work?

Chapter 20 What Do Seashells, Hurricanes, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average All Have in Common?

Chapter 21 A Universal Higher Order and How All Things Are Indeed Connected

Part Seven: Market Cycles And Long-Term Cycles Of Importance

Chapter 22 Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance

Part Eight: Putting It All Together With Risk Exposure In Mind

Chapter 23 A Broker Has Just Recommended that You Buy a Stock. What Do You Do Next?

Chapter 24 The 27 Million Dollar Lunch

Appendix A: The Growth of Technical Analysis in Universities and Colleges

Technical Analysis Academic Programs

Coming Soon—Curriculum Under Development

Technical Analysis Organizations

Index