All About Technical Analysis

Part One: What is Technical Analysis, and Who Can Benefit?<br/>Chapter 1: Could Charts Have Called the Enron Collapse?<br/>Chapter 2: What Is Technical Analysis and Who Uses It?<br/>Chapter 3: Can Mutual Fund Investors Use Technical Analysis?<br/>Part Two: How to Create Charts<br/>Chapter 4: How to Get the Data into Your Computer<br/>Chapter 5: Weekly, Monthly, and Intraday Time Intervals: How to Display the Data<br/>Chapter 6: How Asian Traders Prefer to Display Data<br/>Chapter 7: Why the U.S. Dollar Dictates the Longevity of an American Equity Bull Market<br/>Chapter 8: Help! Short- and Long-Term Interest Rates Are Really Confusing<br/>Money Market Securities or Short-Term Interest Rate Markets<br/>Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Markets<br/>Price-to-Yield Relationship<br/>Yield to Maturity versus Realized Yield<br/>Yield Curves<br/>Chapter 9: Why a North American Needs International Market Data<br/>Chapter 10: Wait a Minute! Isn’t That Real Estate Data?<br/>Part Three: How to Read the Data to Make a Decision<br/>Chapter 11: A Big-Picture Summary of the Different Approaches within Technical Analysis<br/>Category One: Does the Method or Technique Depend on Pattern Recognition?<br/>Category Two: Does the Method Focus on the Geometric Mathematical Relationships within the Market’s Price Data or Indicators?<br/>Category Three: Does the Method Strive to Identify Behavioral Traits and Study Extremes of Market Participants?<br/>Category Four: Does the Method Strive to Detect Correlations between Different Markets to Determine If One Market Is Providing a Leading Signal for Another?<br/>Chapter 12: Directional Patterns and Signals within the Data<br/>Chapter 13: Why Are There Holes in My Data?<br/>Chapter 14: Understanding Trends and Basic Market Geometry<br/>Chapter 15: Using Market Geometry for Price Projections<br/>Chapter 16: Ways to Detect Market Extremes Using Price, Breadth, and Sentiment<br/>Chapter 17: The Hottest Stock since Green Ketchup! How to “Listen” to the Media with a Technical Mindset<br/>Part Four: How to Handle Specific Problems<br/>Chapter 18: Price Targets for Stocks Just Listed and Other Challenges<br/>How Do You Calculate Support or Resistance for a Stock Just Listed with No Historical Data?<br/>How Do You Calculate Market Support When the Index Has Fallen below Historic Price Lows?<br/>How Do You Calculate a Price Objective When the Stock or Market Is Trading above Historic Highs?<br/>How the Internet Can Lead You to a Poor Market Decision<br/>What Is the Global Industry Classification Standard and How Do You Use Stock Sectors for Analysis?<br/>Part Five: Lessons From Global Market Shock Waves<br/>Chapter 19: Lessons from Global Market Shock Waves<br/>The Americas Catch the Asian Flu in 1998<br/>The “Dot Gones”: Researching Opportunities after a Market Implodes<br/>September 11, 2001<br/>Part Six: Why Does Technical Analysis Work?<br/>Chapter 20: What Do Seashells, Hurricanes, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average All Have in Common?<br/>Chapter 21: A Universal Higher Order and How All Things Are Indeed Connected<br/>Part Seven: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance<br/>Chapter 22: Market Cycles and Long-Term Cycles of Importance<br/>Part Eight: Putting it All Together with Risk Exposure in Mind<br/>Chapter 23: A Broker Has Just Recommended that You Buy a Stock. What Do You Do Next?<br/>Chapter 24: The 27 Million Dollar Lunch<br/>Appendix A: The Growth of Technical Analysis in Universities and Colleges<br/>Technical Analysis Academic Programs<br/>Coming Soon—Curriculum Under Development<br/>Technical Analysis Organizations<br/>Index