Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profits

The updated edition of a classic work on technical analysis

Japanese candlestick charting and analysis is one of the most effective technical methodologies in the universe of technical analysis. This revised and updated new edition of Profitable Candlestick Trading makes learning the method fast and easy by introducing specific patterns, as well as the psychology behind them. The book shows how to quickly search, view, and profit with candlestick formations, revealing how to find trading situations that have the maximum potential for profitability, the highest probability of success, and the least amount of risk. Knowing how to use the candlesticks and why they work will immediately improve your investment profitability and permanently alter your overall investment perceptions. This newly acquired perception will produce consistent profits along with an associated mental reprogramming designed to maximize investment returns.

More than 400 years of refined reversal–identification and trend–continuity projection is now at your disposal. Profitable Candlestick Trading, Second Edition will show you how to reap the knowledge that has led to centuries of successful trading.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: Reversal Patterns.

Chapter 3: Continuation Patterns.

Chapter 4: Major Signals Explained.

Chapter 5: Finding and Learning the Signals Made Easy.

Chapter 6: Common Patterns.

Chapter 7: Revolutionizing Investor Psychology.

Chapter 8: Analyzing Profitable Trades.

Chapter 9: Maximizing Profits.

Chapter 10: Trading Programs.

Chapter 11: Using Candlesticks to Improve Elliot Wave Analysis

Chapter 12: Option Trading Refined.

Chapter 13: Candlesticks with Commodities and Futures.

Chapter 14: Trend Analysis: Improving the Probabilities.

Chapter 15: Eliminating Mental Trading Flaws with Candlestick Analysis.

Chapter 16: Candlestick Trading Rules.

Chapter 17: Conclusion.

Glossary.

About the Author.

Index.

STEPHEN W. BIGALOW has over twenty–five years investment experience, including eight years with Kidder Peabody & Co., Cowen & Company, and Oppenheimer & Company, followed by fifteen years of commodity trading and real estate investing. Mr. Bigalow has advised professional traders, money managers, mutual funds and hedge funds, and is recognized by many in the trading community as the "professional′s professional." He also runs The Candlestick Trading Forum, an online trading community.