The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends
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The Visual Investor, How to Spot Market Trends breaks down technical analysis into terms that are accessible to even individual investors. Murphy covers all the fundamentals, from chart types and market indicators to sector analysis and global investing, providing examples and easy-to-read charts so that any reader can become a skilled visual investor.
Introduction:
Traders and investors have been using a visual approach to investing for over a century. Up until the past decade, the use of visual analysis as a serious method of trading and investing was pretty much limited to professionals and full-time traders. Most successful traders would never think of making a trade without first consulting the pictures on their charts. Even the Federal Reserve Board now uses price charts.
The book is divided into four sections. Section One explains what visual analysis is and how it can be blended with more traditional forms of investment analysis. Section Two covers some of the more popular market indicators in use today. We stress the concepts behind the various indicators and how they are interpreted.
Section Three introduces the idea of market linkages. This is especially important in order to appreciate why stock market investors should also monitor movements in commodity prices, bond prices, and the dollar. Intermarket analysis is also helpful in understanding asset allocation and the process of sector rotation within the stock market. Section Four focuses on sector analysis. Relative strength analysis is shown to play an important role in the selection process. We also show you how to analyze the global markets.
Contents:
- What Is Visual Investing?
- The Trend Is Your Friend
- Pictures That Tell a Story
- Your Best Friend in a Trend
- Is It Overbought or Oversold?
- How to Have the Best of Both Worlds
- Market Linkage
- Market Breadth
- Relative Strength and Rotation
- Exchange-Traded Funds
- Sectors and Industry Groups
- Mutual Funds
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13 reviews for The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends
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Adalee Valdez (verified owner) –
Great book for the technical minded.
Coraline Casey (verified owner) –
As a relative newcomer to active investing, this is the best book on technical analysis I have read. It’s an easy read, but definitely deep enough to get started. After wasting considerable time selecting amongst other people’s strategies and setups, I realize this book is all I need.
The first half of the book is basic technical analysis. Probably the most essential topic, finding support/resistance and drawing trend lines, is discussed first. Only a handful of indicators are discussed later, but they are discussed at length. The book motivated me to reduce the number of indicators on my charts and better understand the indicators that I do use.
The second half of the book was eye opening to me as I don’t have a financial or economics background. The material on sector rotation and intramarket linkage was a good read. It made me think of the broader market beyond what stock or ETF I’m currently studying.
The charts in this book come from stockcharts.com. However, I can’t think of anything in this book that you can’t do on any other popular charting platform.
Alayna Harding (verified owner) –
Super informative read. Enjoyed every page. A must read for the avid investor who wishes to learn the basics of technical analysis.
Adriana Shields (verified owner) –
If you trade or invest in the financial markets, you need this book.
Devon Dixon (verified owner) –
An excellent introduction to technical analysis, inter market analysis, and charting. A nice writing style along with interesting historical analysis keeps the pages turning.
Harry Hodge (verified owner) –
I have been saving and investing since the early 1980’s. I’ve been reasonably successful and I have been able to fund a comfortable retirement. Historically, I’ve been a buy and hold investor, concentrating primarily on the fundamentals, and on buying solid businesses. With a long time horizon, there was no need to try and “time” the market. Just hold solid businesses through the inevitable downturns…
But what if you could take advantage of those downturns, reduce your exposure during times of extreme volativity, and have fresh capital to invest when the markets settle and prices begin to rise again? You could significantly increase your profits, and cut down on those sleepless nights.
I admit I looked at charts, but really didn’t understand or care about Technical Analysis. This book demystifies the principles so that virtually any investor can understand what’s important to look at, understand what you’re looking at, and what would be an effective course of action, based on what is actually happening right now in the real world. Fundamental analysis is, in effect, trying to figure out what “should” happen in the market. This book shows you how to interpret what IS happening, and what you should do about it. Extremely powerful.
Blakely Cuevas (verified owner) –
Like the section on sector rotation, don’t care much for the indicators though macd,Bollinger bands,rsi. etc,etc.
Brodie Hurst (verified owner) –
So many terms outlined,love this book$$$
Kyler Gillespie (verified owner) –
To find the best stock in a given moment is not an easy task. Surprisingly, the author has illustrated a systematical way to spot the booming sector and the best stock. His approach is simple enough to implement and does not require any of the economic knowledge. Before I read this book, I have just completed another book – Invest with the Fed by Robert Johnson. In Robert’s book, he has explained his findings in great detail on which sector has high potential based on the Fed monetary policy. His quantitative methods and decade long studies were given in the book. But after I read John’s book, I have to say that John’s top-down approach is much practical and systematic. You don’t need to read Robert’s book to find the right sector. John’s method will automatically find it for you at the right time. As John presented, by studying market carpet and comparing the relative strength, you can easily spot the best sector. And then, zoom into the right stock within that sector. Moreover, John’s approach seems to be future-proof even if the economic situation or the Fed’s role is changed.
While reading this book, I have also bought John’s classic – Technical Analysis of the Financial Market. That book covers many more areas, but this little book is more down-to-earth with many modern upgrades such as charting tools and indicators. Both books are well done, and I highly recommend them.
Alianna Jaramillo (verified owner) –
Excellent summary of stock market!
Love it.
Annabelle Ahmed (verified owner) –
This book blends a thoughtful approach to identifying market trends with specific examples about ways to play the trends. I would recommend this book to anyone curious about understanding how markets work.
Riggs Pruitt (verified owner) –
Every investor should study this
Brecken Berry (verified owner) –
I would like this book better if it was a little bit newer. Also, the graphs need to be in color. They were difficult to read many instances. I like the book it did give me a bunch of tips. Was worth the money.