Table of Contents:
  • A few things you'll need to know before you begin
  • Required background
  • What is technical analysis?
  • What is a chart?
  • Jargon you cannot avoid
  • The core of chart analysis
  • Concepts
  • What are supply and demand in the markets?
  • The trend is your friend and so are trendlines
  • See the forest and the trees
  • Chart patterns
  • when the market needs a rest
  • Chart patterns
  • when the market is changing its mind
  • Chart patterns
  • explosions
  • Corrections in perspective
  • Technical analysis in the real world
  • What is there other than price?
  • Volume
  • Time
  • Sentiment
  • Fundamental analysis really is technical analysis
  • Just what makes a stock (bond, commodity) look good?
  • Risk versus reward
  • is this stock really worth it?
  • This isn't brain surgery
  • The actual process of investing
  • Ok now do it!
  • How to know if you are wrong
  • Sometimes being wrong is good
  • When to sell
  • Bear markets
  • A word about your ego
  • Tools and case studies
  • What do I really need to get started?
  • Building your technical toolbox
  • Final advice
  • Case study
  • the perfect world
  • Case study
  • the real world
  • How good is your broker's stock?
  • Further on down the road
  • Introduction to candlesticks
  • Cycles
  • Elliott waves
  • Technical terms you may have heard
  • Debunking the TV analyst
  • Fun with jargon
  • Closing thoughts