Pring on Price Patterns: The Definitive Guide to Price Pattern Analysis and Intrepretation

In Pring on Price Patterns, legendary market analyst Martin J. Pring delivers one of the most comprehensive works ever written on the interpretation and application of chart patterns. This definitive guide goes beyond simple visual recognition, teaching traders how to understand the psychology and market forces that give each pattern its predictive power.

Pring systematically categorizes reversal and continuation formations, from head-and-shoulders and triangles to lesser-known setups, explaining the statistical logic and behavioral dynamics behind them. He combines classic technical theory with modern analytical rigor, demonstrating how to confirm patterns using volume, momentum, and breakout validation.

With over 400 charts and practical examples, Pring on Price Patterns equips readers to identify emerging opportunities, avoid traps, and trade with greater confidence and timing accuracy. It’s a masterwork for traders seeking to blend art and science in the reading of price action and market structure.

✅ What You’ll Learn:

• How to identify and trade major reversal and continuation patterns
• The psychological and technical principles behind pattern formation
• How to use volume, momentum, and trend confirmation effectively
• Pattern failure recognition and techniques to minimize risk
• Advanced breakout timing and measured-move projection strategies
• Practical applications for different markets and timeframes

💡 Key Benefits:

• Master professional-level pattern recognition and interpretation
• Improve trade timing and reliability through confirmation analysis
• Understand the behavioral forces driving technical patterns
• Build a structured framework for price action decision-making
• Apply classic and modern setups across any market or instrument

👤 Who This Book Is For:

This book is designed for traders, analysts, and investors who rely on chart reading and pattern recognition to guide market decisions. It’s ideal for intermediate to advanced practitioners of technical analysis seeking a deeper, more data-grounded understanding of price behavior and pattern psychology.

📚 Table of Contents:

Part I. Basic Building Blocks

• Market Psychology and Prices: Why Patterns Work
• Three Introductory Concepts
• Support and Resistance Zones: How to Identify Them
• Trendlines
• Volume Principles as They Apply to Price Patterns

Part II. Traditional Patterns

• Using Rectangles, a Case Study for All Patterns
• Head and Shoulders
• Double Tops, Double Bottoms, and Triple Patterns
• Triangles
• Broadening Formations
• Miscellaneous Patterns

Part III. Short-Term Patterns

• Smaller Patterns and Gaps
• Outside Bars
• Inside Bars
• Key Reversal, Exhaustion, and Pinocchio Bars
• Two- and Three-Bar Reversals

Part IV. Miscellaneous Issues

• How to Assess Whether a Breakout Will Be Valid or False
• How Do Price Patterns Test?

Pring on Price Patterns: The Definitive Guide to Price Pattern Analysis and Interpretation By Martin J. Pring