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