All About Technical Analysis tells you everything you need to know to incorporate the predictive strength of technical analysis into your overall investing strategy. From the basics of charts and charting to how to use advanced technical indicators and oscillators, this easy-to-understand guidebook explains why so many independent investors have come to rely on technical analysis–and how you can use it to dramatically improve both your short- and long-term investment returns.
Contents:
- Could Charts Have Called the Enron Collapse?
- What Is Technical Analysis and Who Uses It?
- Can Mutual Fund Investors Use Technical Analysis?
- How to Get the Data into Your Computer
- Weekly, Monthly, and Intraday Time Intervals: How to Display the Data
- How Asian Traders Prefer to Display Data
- Why the U.S. Dollar Dictates the Longevity of an American Equity Bull Market
- Help! Short- and Long-Term Interest Rates Are Really Confusing
- Why a North American Needs International Market Data
- Wait a Minute! Isn’t That Real Estate Data?
- A Big-Picture Summary of the Different Approaches within Technical Analysis
- Directional Patterns and Signals within the Data
- Why Are There Holes in My Data?
- Understanding Trends and Basic Market Geometry
- Using Market Geometry for Price Projections
- Ways to Detect Market Extremes Using Price, Breadth, and Sentiment
- The Hottest Stock since Green Ketchup! How to “Listen” to the Media with a Technical Mindset
- Price Targets for Stocks Just Listed and Other Challenges
- Lessons from Global Market Shock Waves
- What Do Seashells, Hurricanes, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average All Have in Common?
- A Universal Higher Order and How All Things Are Indeed Connected
- Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance
- A Broker Has Just Recommended that You Buy a Stock. What Do You Do Next?
- The 27 Million Dollar Lunch
All About Technical Analysis: The Easy Way to Get Started By Constance M. Brown pdf
Aya Lyons (verified owner) –
The book is not well written. The author does not clearly explain her thinking, she hops from topic to topic without connecting the ideas behind the topics, and always assumes that the reader has some working knowledge on the matter she is writing about.
That is not to say that the book cannot be useful. The author has some good points on why technical analysis can work, but it is a petty that more often than not her message does not come across.
Lucca Lynn (verified owner) –
Poorly written, makes no sense. I am a fundamental analysis investor, but I do find some charting to be useful to identify trends, resistance and support, etc. But this book tries to link the stock market to sound waves and any other number of useless correlations. I couldn’t even get past the 2nd chapter, and flipping through it made me glad I never bothered. Please don’t waste your money, I’m sure there are good resources out there if technical analysis is your thing, like the Bill O’Neil Investors Business Daily stuff. Steer clear of this one.
Gemma Moss (verified owner) –
If you already have a good knowledge of and right now are using classic TA gained from all those classic TA books, you must read this book. It is also a good starter for Connie’s another book “Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional”. There is few so far could tell you, in almost full respects, what’s the difference between the classic TA and the modern one or why some classic TA simply doesn’t work at present. You will be impressed by some topics in this book like trendline, RSI, Fibonacci price projection, cycle and how to use Windows Paint software for TA etc etc. Also you may know what a great trader is doing, thinking and feeling vividly when she is facing the market as all these are from her own career and experience, like real-time. When you read her trading SP before first Gulf War, you may even know the difference between a professional and a member from “Default Club” (Connie’s word, amateur traders).
Bellamy Christian (verified owner) –
One previous reviewer complained that there were too many instances in this introduction to TA where the author introduces a topic cursorily and promises to come back to it in detail later — and then never does. I’d be inclined to echo that complaint to some extent. The other thing I’d say against this text is that a lot of the advice is difficult to translate into something you’ve learned about the markets that you didn’t know before — in many cases a topic is introduced and I’m thinking “yes, OK, I understand, but… that means what?” The author is a professional trader of some standing but isn’t a great teacher.
HOWEVER, the big plus for this book which makes it worth reading despite the above comments is that it provides a lot of anecdotal evidence of the psychology of the trading “industry” and introduces with stark clarity the divide between the retail and professional trading worlds. Combined with other texts on technical analysis this definitely has a place on the bookshelf (well-thumbed) of the aspiring TA trader.
One warning — if, like me, your interest is primary Forex trading, there’s very little in this book that’s specific to forex — that said, a great deal of what is discussed in a stock or futures context is applicable to forex.
In summary, I don’t think Ms Brown quite succeeds in coming down the level of the “getting started” TA trader, but the book provides valuable insights and is worth reading nonetheless. You might not want to make it the very first book on TA you read, though.
Mack Gaines (verified owner) –
While I agree the organaztion of the book is a little odd, I find it very amusing that when a brilliant trader reveals one version of the “holy grail” to the public they scoff and complain. That’s why so few of them make money. Stop reading books, you’re wasting your life away. Get another hobby.
Matilda Zhang (verified owner) –
I read about half of the book, the author keeps talking about how great technical analysis is, and how she is one of the experts on that. She shows some examples but I don’t feel I got anything out of them. I understand what she tries to find, but she doesn’t explain well how she finds it. I am not going to waste any more of my time on this book, the author probably is very experienced on the subject, but not a good writer/presented.
Araceli Kline (verified owner) –
The book lacks organization and focus. Don’t spend money with this book. Buy Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional, from the same author, if you want to know her thoughts.
Cyrus Hart (verified owner) –
I greatly enjoyed reading this book. It was very well written, and it filled in a few holes in my education. However, I did not learn very much new about technical analysis. For a begginer, however I think that this book would provide a wealth of information.
Samira Glover (verified owner) –
This book is written with retail traders in mind who has no prior exposure to technical analysis or charting in general. Not a book teaching straightly technical methods. Also not a book teaching a complete methodology. It is a nice guided tour of trading by a professional trader who knows her stuff well. Well written with interesting tales to keep the readers stay focus. A good read but not as good as the other book written by the same author for professional traders, Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional: Strategies and Techniques for Today’s Turbulent Global Financial Markets .
Ramon Sullivan (verified owner) –
this book is a great follow up for the ultimate day trader as it shows you the proper uses for technical analysis and why its important to get you techinique down in this strategy I say read this if you are already familiar with the terminology of the day trader game
Ledger Rollins (verified owner) –
good purchase.
Porter Rowe (verified owner) –
Connie Brown is a superb teacher no one has an insight but the market like she does and she knows how to transmit her knowledge
Isaias O’Donnell (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this book. As a female trader myself, it was nice to see a book written by a woman, as this field is still predominantly male.
I found many of her comments fascinating, such as the one that people who have a knowledge of art or music make good traders. As I am an art lover, this astounded me! Then I realized that I can easily look at a work of art for 30 minutes, and can do the same to a stock chart, including studying indicators and stock patterns. I can see this in music notation. A fascinating book.