This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Technical charts demystified: why they work, how they work, and how to get started with them. Patterns on charts are not random apparitions. They are formed when real people, acting in their self interests, buy and sell stocks, bonds, currencies, or commodities in pursuit of financial gain. They act, that action is recorded, and the sum actions of all participants form the patterns we see. Period. There is no conspiracy and there is no randomness.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Get the wind at your back, by consistently picking the right sectors and industry groups Usually, certain sectors of the market are leading the charge while others are lagging. This means you need to know which sectors of the market are going to lead and which will lag. Once you know that, picking stocks from the leaders is a lot less risky. How do you do that? Fortunately, in most markets...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to recognize market turning points that are just about to happen, so you can profit--and avoid getting hammered. ¿ If some chart patterns are merely a rest stop for the market, others are turning points. If you already own a position in the market and one of these patterns form, it is probably time to consider selling. Here, you will learn to recognize these “reversal patterns”....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Beyond mere “pattern recognition”: how to interpret the subtle and not-so-subtle variations that appear in real-world charts. Technical analysis has always been considered an interpretive skill and often cannot be tamed by mechanical systems. Even the latest “innovations” in setting trendlines and price targets cannot substitute for the human mind in leaving room for variations of traditional patterns. Consider a familiar price pattern in several different ways....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Understanding time: one of the most crucial, powerful, and underutilized aspects of technical analysis. Time is one of the more underutilized facets of technical analysis. How much time did the market spend in its trend? Is the small trading range now long enough to allow for the excesses and imbalances built up during the trend to dissipate? The concepts of overbought and oversold center around markets that move too far, too fast, and that last term is completely time dependent....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Discover the surprising “technical” underpinnings of conventional “fundamental” stock analysis. Let’s take a close look at fundamental analysis. If a company has raised its dividends consistently each quarter, the stock should rise. If earnings continue to grow, that is good, too. This seemingly fundamental information certainly sounds like a pair of rising trends to a technician. A rising trend in underlying factors usually translates into a rising trend in the stock price.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how to use the powerful insights revealed by market volume. Volume is said to be the fuel that drives market moves. The more shares or contracts that change hands, the more committed the buyers and sellers, and the more important that period’s trading becomes. Think of it this way--the more active investors on both sides become, the more the market will represent mass psychology and the more efficient it will become in establishing value....
This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn. Available in print and digital formats. Why technical analysis isn’t nearly as “technical” as you think--and why any investor can successfully use it to profit! What a terrible name has been bestowed upon this method of market analysis--“technical.” Developing a new bio-medical implant device is technical. Market analysis? That is not technical. True, there are technical terms and research. Mathematical modeling can play a role. But strip away the advanced-level components, and technical analysis is just a tool for deciding to buy or sell....
This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn. Available in print and digital formats. Why technical analysts rely on chartsand how you can start using simple charts to make better investment decisions. Charts are everywhere. In the investment world, we usually chart price movements over time. Technical analysis recognizes that to know where prices are going, one must know where prices have been. But understanding the market from quotes is nearly impossible, and the more instruments are followed, the harder it is. Enter the chart....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. How to choose and use the right tool for every technical analysis task Like quality carpentry, quality technical analysis requires the right tool for the right job. Many technicians use only a few indicators, completely ignoring some sectors of analysis. This is like building a table with two or three legs. It may stand for a while, but it won’t be solid enough to deal with shifting or heavy loads.
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“This book is an excellent primer. As a proponent of the art-versus-science school of technical analysis, his primary focus is on the practical aspects of chart reading and how to translate the intelligence derived from charts into investment decisions. If you have ever wondered what technical analysis is, or how you could get started doing it, this is a good place to start.” John Bollinger, CFA, CMT, President, Bollinger Capital Management “Here is the place to discover why the RSI goes up while the price is going down, how to measure potential moves from a breakout, how not to look at a chart with preconceived notions of what the market will do--‘Let the market talk....’ The advice is above all practical. [This is] a book to own, particularly in the earlier stages of your investment career.” Michael Smyrk, STA Journal “Finally, an easy-to-understand explanation of how technical analysis works! This primer shows investors how to spot trends and patterns in the markets that can help them choose winning stocks. Full of practical advice, this is a must have for both individual and professional investors.” Susie Gharib, Coanchor, PBS Nightly Business Report The Best-Selling Introduction to Technical Analysis: Updated with New Examples, Techniques, and Guidance! Fully updated with new coverage of bubbles, sector rotation, and rare “black swan” market events 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
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Discover the little-known technical patterns that reveal when the market’s headed sideways. Markets go up and down, but they also go sideways. Both bulls and bears can lose their desires to buy and sell aggressively as value is established. They wait for the next clues the market will leave as it decides where it wants to go next. Just like a car, trending markets must rest occasionally to refuel. Their “rest stops” are called congestion zones....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Technical charts demystified: why they work, how they work, and how to get started with them. Patterns on charts are not random apparitions. They are formed when real people, acting in their self interests, buy and sell stocks, bonds, currencies, or commodities in pursuit of financial gain. They act, that action is recorded, and the sum actions of all participants form the patterns we see. Period. There is no conspiracy and there is no randomness.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Stop burying yourself in data: Cut to the chase and get the insights you need to discover real market trends and make better trades! ¿ So many investment tools are available to the technician that it is easy to overdo it. Vast quantities of data may be unnecessary to discern simple patterns. The “noise” associated with daily data can confuse long-term analysis, and too many indicators can obscure the trend they are attempting to measure. Keep it simple: Less is more.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Beyond mere “pattern recognition”: how to interpret the subtle and not-so-subtle variations that appear in real-world charts. Technical analysis has always been considered an interpretive skill and often cannot be tamed by mechanical systems. Even the latest “innovations” in setting trendlines and price targets cannot substitute for the human mind in leaving room for variations of traditional patterns. Consider a familiar price pattern in several different ways....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Discover the surprising “technical” underpinnings of conventional “fundamental” stock analysis. Let’s take a close look at fundamental analysis. If a company has raised its dividends consistently each quarter, the stock should rise. If earnings continue to grow, that is good, too. This seemingly fundamental information certainly sounds like a pair of rising trends to a technician. A rising trend in underlying factors usually translates into a rising trend in the stock price.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. How to choose and use the right tool for every technical analysis task Like quality carpentry, quality technical analysis requires the right tool for the right job. Many technicians use only a few indicators, completely ignoring some sectors of analysis. This is like building a table with two or three legs. It may stand for a while, but it won’t be solid enough to deal with shifting or heavy loads.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to handle upward or downward “explosions” in market prices--and how to keep yourself from being fooled by them. ¿ Sometimes, market perceptions change so rapidly that the market seems to explode higher or lower. The extreme example is a market crash, but we can see this rapid shift after takeover announcements or surprising earnings news. This is sometimes exaggerated by news emerging between trading sessions. Technicians call these situations “gaps” because they leave a void on the charts.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. The six stock-picking criteria that help you consistently choose winners. If you can find at least three of the following six characteristics in a stock, the chances are you will pick a winner: 1. Rising price trend as more investors jump aboard. 2. Strong, but not excessive, price momentum. Anything higher indicates that supply and demand are out of synch. 3. Strong sector....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to recognize market turning points that are just about to happen, so you can profit--and avoid getting hammered. ¿ If some chart patterns are merely a rest stop for the market, others are turning points. If you already own a position in the market and one of these patterns form, it is probably time to consider selling. Here, you will learn to recognize these “reversal patterns”....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. The simple, practical guide to understanding trendlines--and riding trends to earn greater investment profits. The old adage says, “The trend is your friend.” Why? It is because trends tend to perpetuate unless something causes them to do otherwise. If you can identify a trend in its early stages, you can ride that trend for significant profits. Trendlines mark the trend on the chart so it can be followed easily once it is identified....
This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn. Available in print and digital formats. Why technical analysis works: a quick, easy-to-understand look at the underlying theory. Investors and speculators react the same way to the same types of events again and again, and this is reflected in the ebb and flow of prices. If one charts this activity over time, patterns emerge. Some of these patterns comprise standard technical analysis, whereas others are created by analysts, based on their own observations and calculations....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Get the wind at your back, by consistently picking the right sectors and industry groups Usually, certain sectors of the market are leading the charge while others are lagging. This means you need to know which sectors of the market are going to lead and which will lag. Once you know that, picking stocks from the leaders is a lot less risky. How do you do that? Fortunately, in most markets...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. How to “let the market talk” and bring flexibility to technical analysis, instead of squeezing complex, organic markets into artificial textbook definitions. Market analysis is just not a precise endeavor. The market is a living being: It does not react to the world exactly the same way twice. Flexibility is key: If you stick too closely to textbook definitions, you may be right, but you’ll have a lot of losing trades.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Stop burying yourself in data: Cut to the chase and get the insights you need to discover real market trends and make better trades! ¿ So many investment tools are available to the technician that it is easy to overdo it. Vast quantities of data may be unnecessary to discern simple patterns. The “noise” associated with daily data can confuse long-term analysis, and too many indicators can obscure the trend they are attempting to measure. Keep it simple: Less is more.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Understanding, measuring, and using investor sentiment to predict market trends--and make more money. The least-understood area of analysis is sentiment analysis. This covers such areas as degree of speculation, public opinion, and consensus. It is measured by relative activities in speculative instruments, such as options and polls of bullish opinions. Both rely on the “burning match” theory, in which the flame is passed from investor to investor until nobody is left to take it....
This download is a free sample chapter from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (ISBN: 0137042019) by Michael N. Kahn CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Read the following excerpt from the Preface: Technical analysis is one of the oldest market disciplines, yet the majority of the investment and academic communities consider it, at best, a minor supplement to their own work. At worst, it is disparaged as tea-leaf reading or simply a self-fulfilling prophecy. Look at these two phrases. They suggest that the technical analyst divines the market from some mystical process. This could not be further from the truth. Consider the fundamental analyst. This person relies on company reports, conversations with company insiders, and macro-economic research in relevant business sectors. All this is indispensable when determining if a company is viable and predicting how its business will fare in the future. Now consider the source of all the raw data. Much of it is projection and conjecture. How can you rely solely on such raw data when earnings reports and other industry-wide data will be subject to revisions? Technical analysis looks at actual trades in which bulls and bears have put their money where their collective mouths are. There is no revision of data. There is no ambiguity. There is no mystical divining of the future. All market and stock selection is based on current, not past, price performance, the predictable behavior of market participants, and the dynamics between markets over time. To continue reading, download this free preview of the Preface & Chapter 4. The full book is also available for sale.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to handle upward or downward “explosions” in market prices--and how to keep yourself from being fooled by them. ¿ Sometimes, market perceptions change so rapidly that the market seems to explode higher or lower. The extreme example is a market crash, but we can see this rapid shift after takeover announcements or surprising earnings news. This is sometimes exaggerated by news emerging between trading sessions. Technicians call these situations “gaps” because they leave a void on the charts.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Understanding time: one of the most crucial, powerful, and underutilized aspects of technical analysis. Time is one of the more underutilized facets of technical analysis. How much time did the market spend in its trend? Is the small trading range now long enough to allow for the excesses and imbalances built up during the trend to dissipate? The concepts of overbought and oversold center around markets that move too far, too fast, and that last term is completely time dependent....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how to use the powerful insights revealed by market volume. Volume is said to be the fuel that drives market moves. The more shares or contracts that change hands, the more committed the buyers and sellers, and the more important that period’s trading becomes. Think of it this way--the more active investors on both sides become, the more the market will represent mass psychology and the more efficient it will become in establishing value....
This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn. Available in print and digital formats. Why technical analysis works: a quick, easy-to-understand look at the underlying theory. Investors and speculators react the same way to the same types of events again and again, and this is reflected in the ebb and flow of prices. If one charts this activity over time, patterns emerge. Some of these patterns comprise standard technical analysis, whereas others are created by analysts, based on their own observations and calculations....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and digital formats. Discover the little-known technical patterns that reveal when the market’s headed sideways. Markets go up and down, but they also go sideways. Both bulls and bears can lose their desires to buy and sell aggressively as value is established. They wait for the next clues the market will leave as it decides where it wants to go next. Just like a car, trending markets must rest occasionally to refuel. Their “rest stops” are called congestion zones....
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