Product Description

Profitable Candlestick Trading

Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit

Misunderstood by investors for years, Japanese Candlestick charting and analysis has been described as too complicated to learn and too labor-intensive. Now, Candlestick trading expert Stephen Bigalow dispels these notions and demystifies the process of this valuable and successful technical analysis tool in Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit.

In accessible and easy-to-understand language, this book bridges the gap between past wisdom and contemporary practice to give any level of investor a complete understanding of this proven, profitable, and time-tested investing technique.

"A superb exposition of Japanese Candlesticks: the oldest method of technical analysis developed more than 400 years ago. The book offers a thorough review and evaluation of this increasingly popular method of market analysis. A great source of information both for an experienced trader and a novice in this field."
–Vincent Kaminski
Managing Director, Enron Corp.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83908 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
"...this book is unquestionably destined to become a classic technical analysis reference book for years to come..." -- erivativesreview.com, 16 July 2002

From the Inside Flap
Tested, proven, and successful, Japanese Candlestick charting and analysis is one of the most profitable–yet underutilized–ways to trade the market. In Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profits, Candlestick trading expert Stephen Bigalow shows you how to recognize and harness the power of Candlestick signals as well as implement them into a profitable trading system. Signals created by this unique technical analysis method–represented in the form of graphic "Candlestick" formations–identify the immediate direction and effects of investor sentiment through price movements, and allow you to trade profitably by realizing trend reversals before other investors do.

This step-by-step guide makes learning the Candlestick method a fast and easy process by introducing specific patterns as well as the "psychology" behind each pattern that develops in a chart. Incorporating the common sense and logical disciplines that most investors are aware of, but ignore, Profitable Candlestick Trading opens with a detailed look at the most valuable aspect of technical analysis–reversal patterns–while explaining major reversal signals such as the Doji, the Hammer, the Hanging Man, Engulfing Patterns, and Dark Cloud Cover. Although most Candlestick signals are reversal patterns, this comprehensive guide also addresses continuation patterns and explores how they can help with the decision-making process during certain trading periods. Mastering the Candlestick method will revolutionize your investment-thinking process.

Profitable Candlestick Trading dispels the notion that Candlestick techniques are too labor-intensive. Using software search programs allowing you to visually evaluate hundreds of charts in a matter of minutes, you’ll quickly learn how to search and view Candlestick formations. Moving from theory to practice, this guide shows you how to find trading situations that have the maximum potential for profitability; the highest probability of succeeding; and the least amount of downside risk. By exposing you to the profitable combinations of signals, price moves, and stochastic positions apparent in a number of common patterns–such as the Jay Hook pattern–this book will speed up your recognition of the process and increase your profits with each trade whether for a one minute, one day, or one year hold.

With tools in hand, you’ll begin to learn about the built-in advantages of the Japanese Candlestick methodology. Bigalow shows you how to coordinate Candlestick analysis with simple but disciplined trading rules to form an extremely profitable investment program that utilizes these advantages to their fullest. Whether you’re dealing in stocks, commodities, or futures, Profitable Candlestick Trading gives you the advice, knowledge, and techniques necessary to enter the markets with confidence and exit with profits.

In providing an in-depth understanding of how Candlestick charting works–across a variety of investment vehicles–this comprehensive guide allows you to control your own investment future and produce profitable results that go far beyond other investment programs. Your investment abilities will be dramatically improved forever.

From the Back Cover
Profitable Candlestick Trading

Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit

Misunderstood by investors for years, Japanese Candlestick charting and analysis has been described as too complicated to learn and too labor-intensive. Now, Candlestick trading expert Stephen Bigalow dispels these notions and demystifies the process of this valuable and successful technical analysis tool in Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit.

In accessible and easy-to-understand language, this book bridges the gap between past wisdom and contemporary practice to give any level of investor a complete understanding of this proven, profitable, and time-tested investing technique.

"A superb exposition of Japanese Candlesticks: the oldest method of technical analysis developed more than 400 years ago. The book offers a thorough review and evaluation of this increasingly popular method of market analysis. A great source of information both for an experienced trader and a novice in this field."
–Vincent Kaminski
Managing Director, Enron Corp.

Customer Reviews

Best Practical Candlestick Book
This book is the third Candlestick book that I have read cover to cover. The previous two were Steve Nison's two Candlestick books. While Nison's books were excellent and extremely easy to understand, this book concentrates on strategy for making money and gives more trading insights. I have been making money even in this bear market using the trading signals described in the book.

The system is simple...use stochastics to confirm candle signals to ensure that you always buy oversold stocks and sell short oversold stocks. If you are a disciplined trader and wait for confirmation of the signals you can be profitable more than 75% of the time and your losses from your losing trades will be minimal if you keep tight stops - A must in these market conditions.

There is a huge amount of overlap in Nison's and this book but I would still recommend all three as there is always some different points in each.

Destined to Become a Classic in the Investment Literature!
The art of using Japanese Candlestick charts as a means to finding potential investment ideas has often been considered to be an arcane, complicated process, to be used by only the most sophisticated investors. This has now changed. Mr. Bigalow has truly revealed all the "tricks of the trade" within this book and the companion website.

This book not only illustrates and explains every Candlestick signal investors need to know, but the underlying psychology that creates the signals in the first place is also revealed to the reader. But learning and knowing the signals, and understanding how the signals are created, are not of much use unless the investor also has a quick and easy way to FIND the signals on a regular basis. Using a very popular, inexpensive charting service, Mr. Bigalow shows how to set up the software filters so that thousands of stocks can be analyzed, and only the Candlestick charts with the highest profitability potential will be displayed. This search process can be done in a matter of minutes. To my knowledge, this has never been explained in any other book.

Mr. Bigalow goes on to explain how to use Candlesticks along with your other favorite technical analysis tools to enhance your trading, why Stochastics are the best single tool to use with Candlesticks, how to identify the "false" signals, how to maximize profits and minimize losses, and "The Ultimate Investment Program", known to only a handful of sophisticated investors until now.

By reading and putting into practice the techniques explained in this book and the website, investors truly can "Revolutionize Their Investor Psychology".

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for both novice and sophisticated investors.

Candlesticks Clarified
I have been fascinated by candlesticks for years but I never had the knowledge or confidence to properly apply the candlestick methodology until I read "Profitable Candlestick Charting". In the past I would see what I thought was a candlstick pattern, but I was never quite sure of the implication of the pattern. Steve Bigalow not only clearly explains how to recognize each reversal or continuation candlestick pattern, but also shows how candlsticks depict the battle between the buyers and sellers and how quickly the market's perception of a stock can change and be recognized by candlestick analysis. Most importantly, he shows how to combine candlestick analysis with stochastics to not only set up high probability trades, but also establishes clear entry and exit rules to limit losses and maximize profits on those trades. In summary, a superb book which brings objectivity to a subjective subject.