The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators
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The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators by Robert W. Colby is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative references ever written on the science and application of technical indicators. Designed for professional traders, analysts, and quantitative researchers, this monumental work serves as a complete catalog of market indicators, offering both their theoretical foundation and empirical performance results.
Colby meticulously examines over 100 indicators—from classic tools like moving averages, MACD, and RSI, to advanced and less common techniques such as adaptive smoothing, volatility-based systems, and relative strength analytics. Each indicator is presented with clear explanations, formulas, usage guidelines, and real-market testing results, making this book an indispensable guide for both discretionary and system-based traders.
What distinguishes this encyclopedia from other trading handbooks is its evidence-driven approach. Colby goes beyond definition and theory to evaluate each indicator’s statistical reliability, testing performance across multiple market environments and timeframes. By applying rigorous quantitative methods, he identifies which indicators add real value—and which fail under objective scrutiny. This allows readers to build or refine trading systems with confidence grounded in data, not myth.
The book also explores indicator combinations, trend confirmation techniques, and filtering methods that can improve signal accuracy and risk control. For quantitative analysts, it provides a valuable framework for designing, backtesting, and optimizing trading models, while discretionary traders will appreciate its insights into timing, momentum, and market structure.
With its encyclopedic depth and empirical rigor, Colby’s work remains one of the cornerstones of modern technical analysis. It bridges academic precision with real-world practicality, empowering traders to understand not only how indicators work—but why and when they work best.
Whether you are developing systematic strategies, refining existing models, or exploring market dynamics at an advanced level, The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators is a reference that belongs in every serious trader’s library.
Contents:
- Introducing Technical Market Indicators
- Walk-Forward Simulation of Technical Market Indicators Offers the Potential for Consistent Profits Through Time
- Finding a Technical Market Indicator That Is Right for You
- What Others Say about Technical Market Indicators, Models, and Trading Systems
- Technical Market Indicators
The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators By Robert W. Colby pdf
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Joanna Mullins (verified owner) –
Books is simply, clearly and completely explains all the technical market indicators that are used in examining stock trends. At more than 800 pages, this book is double the size of the first edition and COMPLETELY updated. I bought three copies of the Second Edition as soon as it came out, and I gave two copies to my friends. This book tells what the indicators measure, what their components are, how they are formulated, and what exactly they purport to indicate. It describes their various realms of usefullness and their limitations. The book is packed with charts and examples and is very, very interesting to read. I bought the first edition about six years ago and have found it the only useful reference of its type. The Second Edition is entirely updated and expanded and is ESSENTIAL for understanding Technical Market Indicators and stock trends. I recommend that EVERYONE in the industry and all serious independant traders and researchers get this book.
Allen Murphy (verified owner) –
Very useful book
Elijah Esparza (verified owner) –
This book gives an overview of several indicators, but if you want an in-depth understanding of a particular indicator then this is not the right book for you. However, its good value for money.
If you are a technical enthusiast like myself, then the best book out there is New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems: J. Welles Wilder.
Its an old classic, and within its pages lies “The Holy Grail”.
Ayan Browning (verified owner) –
A must for the serious investor. A concise and easy to understand examination of technical market indicators. Mr. Colby’s book is invaluable when determining the usefulness of indicators. This book is about as close as you can get to a “one stop shop” for technical research.
Ramona Flowers (verified owner) –
This is a great book for technical traders. There needs to be more books like this on trading.
Zaniyah Villanueva (verified owner) –
This is the most comprehensive book of its kind. Just the graphs of the indicators, equity curves and market indexes are worth the price of the book. The author makes the case for the objective form of technical analysis, where indicators, trading rules, patterns and systems are well defined and testable. This is an absolute necessity for technical analysis to move out of the relm of market myth and folklore and become a disciplined observational science. Though there is always room for debate on specific methodologicial issues, there can be no debate that technical analysis must move in the direction advocated by the author Robert Colby. This book is a must own for any serious student of the market.
Kylen Chen (verified owner) –
This is very good book if you would like to understand systems and compare them however it uses only monthly data and it doesn’t give you any suggestion if you should apply any system or not as an investor.
Isabel Cortez (verified owner) –
I have been in Technical analysis for more than 4 years and have many books on the subject but of all the books I have “The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators” is the most misguided title ever. Motivation for this statement is that the book is almost like an empty vessel. The author relates to numerous indicators and indicates how successful or unsuccessful they are but without explanations which make it difficult to comprehend. Also nowhere in the book does he indicate how these indicators should be used which, in my opinion, should be the essence of a book with this title.
Leighton Olson (verified owner) –
Probably alot more here than most people want. Nonetheless an excellent introduction to most any technical indicator, and some investment strategies. The results of his study were very interesting to me in as much as some of the technical indicators I had been using evidently are not as reliable as I thought. Certainly not a book I am going to sit down and read cover to cover, but an excellent reference to pick out a specific technical indicator or strategy, read about it and see how it backtests over many years.
Legend Prince (verified owner) –
Good reference for technical indicators.
Kaylee Merritt (verified owner) –
a very useful reference
Elle Truong (verified owner) –
If you are serious about technical analysis and would like to be able to understand the underlying logic, formula, success rate, and limitations of market osicllators and indicators, then this book is for you.
Greta Dickerson (verified owner) –
This was a great book, I learned a lot about indicators that allowed me to come up with my system!!!!
Bella Nielsen (verified owner) –
THE BEST book on Tech Analysis I have read.
Tru Patterson (verified owner) –
Not very informative on how to apply indicators. Lots of pages with not enough information.
Saul O’brien (verified owner) –
Even most of the indicators comes with brief explanation, it is still a valuable book.
Shelby Stanton (verified owner) –
a very thick tome describing the purpose and math behind many indicators from simple moving average to CCI, MACD and more.
Zyair Murphy (verified owner) –
Most excellent reading!
Bella Carpenter (verified owner) –
The information presented here is decent, but if your a futures trader as I am, the indicators time frame doesn’t fit trading futures. Look elsewhere if you need a book on T.A. for futures trading.
Jeremy Boone (verified owner) –
Use this comprehensive, well written book along with Wikipedia to quickly orient yourself in the field of technical analysis and start using technical indicators right away, without wading through some author’s possibly tedious and/or slanted overview. One great feature is that the author compares the results of of applying each technical approach to a baseline that is usually the results of buying and holding the DJIA for most if not all of the 20th century. This is a great help in ranking these indicators and picking the ones that attract us.