Product Description

Everything investors need to know to understand, utilize, and profit from the basic tools of technical analysis

Technical analysis (TA) doesn't have to be difficult or intimidating. In fact, many TA tools are remarkably simple to use and have helped millions of individual investors dramatically improve their results.

The Investor's Guide to Technical Analysis provides investors with practical strategies, cut-to-the-chase explanations, and detailed introductions to the basic tools and concepts of technical analysis.

More than just an overview of technical analysis, this results-based book shows investors how to apply the most efficient and reliable TA tools to their investment programs and greatly increase both their confidence and their results. Straightforward examples and descriptions show investors of every type how to:

• Understand market cycles and their value in choosing optimal buy and sell points
• Identify and make use of basic indicators as well as sentiment indicators
• Use trend lines to accurately track market movement

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #279459 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover

Everything You Need to Know to Increase Your Investing Profits, and Cut Your Losses, Using the Easy-to-Understand Tools of Technical Analysis

Praise for The Investor's Guide to Technical Analysis:

"Curt Renz's review of the common patterns seen throughout financial markets gives you that spark of insight that is so necessary to investment success."

--Robert R. Prechter, President, Elliott Wave

"Curt Renz has triumphed in this indispensable guide to technical analysis. His talent for making complicated technical concepts easy to understand is amazing."

--Phil Flynn, Senior Market Analyst, Alaron Trading

"Curt Renz, one of the giants of financial television, teaches the investor how to 'read the market's mind' through technical analysis."

--Bernie Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, Schaeffer's Investment Research, Inc.

"Curt Renz's closely reasoned and well-illustrated book plus clear examples belongs in the collection of every trader and investor."

--Robert Stovall, CFA, Managing Director, Wood Asset Management, Inc.

"Curt has written the definitive introduction to technical analysis, with clear explanations of sometimes difficult concepts in layman's language and easy-to-understand chart examples. I use it in my own analysis every day."

--Michael Murphy, CFA, Editor, Technology Investing, Founder, California Technology Stock Letter

About the Author

Curt Renz is the market analyst for WebFN, a widely followed financial news service. He also anchors and produces an evening business telecast distributed by Weigel Broadcasting.

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Customer Reviews

Sooooo Basic
Beware of the description of this book. Anyone who has a scintilla of technical analysis knowledge should avoid this book. If this is your very first day of obtaining trading knowledge then this is the book for you. If it is your second day, you are already beyond this book.

Concise
This is a slim and concise guide to chart patterns and the relationships between volume and price. There is a brief discussion of moving averages and other indicators like oscillating waves, but the bulk of the book is centered on how to interpret the patterns seen when reading a stock chart.
I think think the book would have been more useful for me if it included chapters about some of the other tools that are commonly available for charting stocks, such as Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD).

Practical guide to charts
This book provides a concise and easy to understand introduction and reference to technical analysis. It is well written and uses charts for illustration instead of mathematical formulas. In my view any serious investor should know technical analysis at least at this level in order to assess market direction and price behaviour. Those who wish to build solely on technical approach to trading and investment would need to purchase additionally some more detailed and comprehensive treatments.