TECHNICAL ANALYSIS PLAIN AND SIMPLE: CHARTING THE MARKETS IN YOUR KAHN M. / LANGUAGE Księgarnia

Technical analysis offers powerful, objective tools for picking stocks and making money--and in today’s market environment, that makes it more indispensable than ever. Unfortunately, most technical analysis books confuse investors instead of enlightening them. In this clear, practical, fully updated book, Barron’s Online technical analysis columnist Michael N. Kahn introduces proven technical analysis techniques in simple language that any investor can understand and use.

Kahn explains how technical analysis works and then teaches you how to read charts and translate them into investment decisions. You’ll learn how to use technical analysis to complement your current approach to stock selection, discover what makes a stock look promising, and objectively assess both risk and reward.

This completely revised third edition contains many new examples reflecting today’s transformed market environment. You’ll find detailed new coverage of recognizing bubbles, including real estate (2006), oil (2008), and bonds (2009). Kahn presents powerful new insights into the relationship between technical analysis and market psychology and crucial, up-to-date guidance on sector rotation in rapidly changing markets. He also presents a full chapter on navigating through chaotic, once-in-a-millennium, “black-swan” market events.

Why technical analysis works
Bringing real objectivity to investment decision-making
Chart patterns: See the forest and the trees
Recognizing markets that are changing, need a rest, or are about to take off
Understand the central importance of price...
And what you must know about volume, time, and investor sentiment
Down the road: a taste of advanced technical analysis
Candlesticks, cycles, Elliott waves, and how to debunk those guys on TV

Michael N. Kahn, CMT, a Chartered Market Technician, currently writes the twice-weekly column “Getting Technical” for Barron’s Online. Mr. Kahn also produces a daily proprietary technical market newsletter, Quick Takes Pro (www.QuickTakesPro.com). Previously, he was chief technical analyst for BridgeNews, a division of Bridge Information Systems, a leading source of global financial information, transaction services, and network services.

He has been a regular guest on the Nightly Business Report on PBS, has appeared on CNBC, and was the editor of the Market Technicians Association newsletter, Technically Speaking. His first book, Real World Technical Analysis, was published in January 1998, by Bridge/Commodity Research Bureau Publishing.

Prior to writing technical commentary, Mr. Kahn was a Senior Product Manager for Knight-Ridder Financial before that company was merged into Bridge. He was responsible for the marketing design of several of the firm’s charting software platforms and launched technical analysis coverage for Knight-Ridder Financial News. He was also a coeditor of the Tradecenter Market Letter. Prior to joining Bridge/Knight-Ridder Financial in 1986, Mr. Kahn was a senior municipal bond specialist with Merrill Lynch. He also worked in the Financial Planning Department at Shearson Lehman American Express.

Mr. Kahn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and economics from Brandeis University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University.

Table of Contents

Preface xxi

About This Book xxv

How to Get the Most from This Book xxxi

Part I A Few Things You’ll Need to Know Before You Begin

1 Required Background 3

2 What Is Technical Analysis? 13

3 What Is a Chart? 19

4 Jargon You Cannot Avoid 25

Part II The Core of Chart Analysis

5 Concepts 35

6 What Are Supply and Demand in the Markets? 41

7 The Trend Is Your Friend and So Are Trendlines 47

8 See the Forest and the Trees 55

9 Chart Patterns--When the Market Needs a Rest 63

10 Chart Patterns--When the Market Is Changing Its Mind 73

11 Chart Patterns--Explosions 83

12 Corrections in Perspective 89

Part III Technical Analysis in the Real World

13 What Is There Other Than Price? 97

14 Volume 109

15 Time 117

16 Sentiment 121

17 Fundamental Analysis Really Is Technical Analysis 131

18 Just What Makes a Stock (Bond, Commodity) Look Good? 137

19 Risk Versus Reward--Is This Stock Really Worth It? 149

20 This Isn’t Brain Surgery 161

Part IV The Actual Process of Investing

21 OK, Now Do It! 177

22 How to Know if You Are Wrong 183

23 Sometimes Being Wrong Is Good 187

24 When to Sell 191

25 Bear Markets 203

26 A Word About Your Ego 209

Part V Tools and Case Studies

27 What Do I Really Need to Get Started? 213

28 Building Your Technical Toolbox 219

29 Final Advice 225

30 Case Study--The Perfect World 227

31 Case Study--The Real World 235

32 Case Study--Bizarro World 249

33 How Good Is Your Broker’s Stock? 253

Part VI Further on Down the Road

34 Introduction to Candlesticks 261

35 Cycles 271

36 Elliott Waves 275

37 Technical Terms You May Have Heard 279

38 Debunking the TV Analyst 299

Fun with Jargon 303

Closing thoughts 311

Index 313

352 pages, Hardcover

Po otrzymaniu zamówienia poinformujemy,
czy wybrany tytuł polskojęzyczny lub anglojęzyczny jest aktualnie na półce księgarni.