Forecasting Stock Market Trends

Forecasting Stock Market Trends is one of the most comprehensive early studies on price behavior, trend dynamics, and predictive market structure. This digital book provides a systematic framework for identifying future market direction using chart patterns, momentum characteristics, cycle tendencies, and long-term behavioral principles that continue to influence modern technical analysis.

Created by analysts from the Technical Analysis Research Institute, this work represents a foundational reference for understanding how trends form, evolve, and reverse. The book examines the anatomy of bull and bear markets, structural phases of trend development, breakout and reversal behavior, and the influence of economic cycles on long-term price movement.

The digital edition includes early chart formations, interpretation methods, and statistical tendency studies that help traders build a practical forecasting model based on measurable market characteristics — not speculation or subjective opinion.

This is an essential historical and analytical guide for traders seeking a structured approach to anticipating price movement using classical technical principles.

✅ What You’ll Learn:

• How to read and interpret classical chart patterns
• Structural logic behind bull and bear market phases
• How market behavior reveals early signals of trend reversal
• Momentum characteristics and trend confirmation tools
• How cycles influence long-term market turning points
• Practical forecasting frameworks used by early technical analysts
• How support, resistance, and volume reveal market intention
• How to apply historical price behavior to modern markets
• Techniques for identifying overextension and exhaustion
• How to forecast direction using recurring market tendencies

💡 Key Benefits:

• Gain a structured, classical foundation in technical market forecasting
• Learn timeless analytical principles still used by professional traders
• Improve timing through pattern recognition and cycle awareness
• Replace guesswork with model-based interpretation
• Build confidence in analyzing trend continuation vs. reversal
• Access one of the earliest complete forecasting frameworks in market analysis

👤 Who This Book Is For:

• Intermediate traders learning structured forecasting methods
• Technical analysts studying classical trend theory
• Market historians and researchers
• Chart-focused traders seeking disciplined methodologies
• Anyone wanting a timeless foundation in market forecasting

📚 Table of Contents:

• MOST STOCKS FOLLOW GENERAL TREND
• BUSINESS FAILURES
• EARNINGS AND DIVIDENDS
• PRICES OF INDIVIDUAL COMMODITIES
• GENERAL PRICE LEVELS
• SPECIAL PRICE INDEXES
• CROP PRODUCTION
• MINERAL PRODUCTION
• IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION
• INDEXES OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY
• RATE OF CONSUMPTION
• VOLUME OF TRADE
• NATIONAL BANKS
• NEW YORK BANKS-FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS
• MONEY RATES
• BOND YIELDS
• STOCK AVERAGES AND INDEXES
• THE DOW THEORY
• THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING BASIC CONDITIONS

Forecasting Stock Market Trends By Kenneth S. Van Strum