Trading and Investing in the Forex Markets Using Chart Techniques

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.
Thes e 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.


Spis treści:
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
Further Reading
Index

Nota biograficzna:
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.

Okładka tylna:
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 em otional 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.