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Description

An accessible guide to understanding and using technical chart patterns

Chart pattern analysis is not only one of the most important investing tools, but also one of the most popular. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Getting Started in Chart Patterns is designed to help both new and seasoned traders profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns. Expert Thomas Bulkowski opens with a basic discussion of chart pattern formation and how bad habits can hurt trading.

He then moves on to introduce over 40 key chart formations as well as numerous trading tactics that can be used in conjunction with them. Readers will benefit from the specifics (actual trades with dollar amounts) outlined throughout the book and the frank discussions of how trading behavior can affect the bottom line.

Anecdotes from Bulkowski's own trading experiences are also included to shed light on how one of the best in the business goes about trading with chart patterns.

Chapter Headings

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. The Smart Money's Footprints

2. Trading Psychology

3. The Truth about Trendlines

4. Support and Resistance: The Most Important Chart
Patterns

5. Special Situations

6. The Top 10 Performing Bottoms

7. Common Patterns for the Toolbox

8. Event Patterns: What They Are and How to Trade Them

9. Busted Patterns: Making Money by Trading Failure

10. More Trades: Putting It All Together

11. The Art of Trading: Checklists

12. Crunching the Numbers

Epilogue/Closing Position
Glossary
Index of Chart and Event Patterns
Index