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Summary: Excellent for Beginners and Experts
Review: A VERY POWERFUL LITTLE BOOK! The book is in workbook form, giving you plenty of exercise to learn how to read charts. Can you imagine being able to forecast where stock prices will go just from reading one chart? I've used my knowledge gained from this book on other stock charts, and the theory works everytime! I can't wait to apply this to my investment strategy!
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Summary: This Is Seriously A Great Book!!!
Review: I didn't really know what to expect from this book when I bought it, and I was blown away. I have read dozens of books on Stock Market Technical Analysis and this is the one I would keep if I had to pick just one. It starts out with the basics and ramps up from there. It was roughly 200 pages of chart patterns. It really taught me to see and understand stock chart patterns. Do yourself a favor and give this book a chance.
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Summary: Perfect first book on chart reading
Review: I was really surprised by this little book. I have read numerous books on technical analysis, but I picked it up because I am always looking for good entry books on the subject for friends who end up asking me about technical analysis. And this is now the one I will recommend. I've learned through reading a lot and through trial and error that the simpler the system the better, and nothing is gained from adding on all kinds of indicators and oscillators. The authors have reached the same conclusion and keep things very simple. They are clearly relying to some degree, and for good reason, on the work of Andrew Lo, from MIT, who has written very technical, mathematical papers on various chart patterns and found several of them to be valid. They build very nicely from one concept to another with lots of charts to illustrate their points. Don't be throw off by the listing of 200 pages. Due to the size of the pages and the high number of charts, it reads as a much shorter book. But for a first book, I see this as a real positive. They just get right to the point. Some people never accept the idea that charts might give a glimpse into the behavior of market participants, and that's fine. But for those who are not sure, this is a perfect book to start with. You'll get most of the many principles for drawing trend lines and for recognizing the important patterns, and then you can apply what you learn to charts going forward, and decide for yourself whether reading charts is for you or not. Much better than spending 2x or 3x more for many other books that you'll never get through.
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Summary: Perfect first book on chart reading
Review: I was really surprised by this little book. I have read numerous books on technical analysis, but I picked it up because I am always looking for good entry books on the subject for friends who end up asking me about technical analysis. And this is now the one I will recommend. I've learned through reading a lot and through trial and error that the simpler the system the better, and nothing is gained from adding on all kinds of indicators and oscillators. The authors have reached the same conclusion and keep things very simple. They are clearly relying to some degree, and for good reason, on the work of Andrew Lo, from MIT, who has written very technical, mathematical papers on various chart patterns and found several of them to be valid. They build very nicely from one concept to another with lots of charts to illustrate their points. Don't be throw off by the listing of 200 pages. Due to the size of the pages and the high number of charts, it reads as a much shorter book. But for a first book, I see this as a real positive. They just get right to the point. Some people never accept the idea that charts might give a glimpse into the behavior of market participants, and that's fine. But for those who are not sure, this is a perfect book to start with. You'll get most of the many principles for drawing trend lines and for recognizing the important patterns, and then you can apply what you learn to charts going forward, and decide for yourself whether reading charts is for you or not. Much better than spending 2x or 3x more for many other books that you'll never get through.
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Summary: Outstanding presentation of reading charts
Review: This is the 5th book I have read on the subject of reading stocks charts. This is by far the best for anyone who is not already an expert. I should have read this book first before all the others, because this provides the best foundation I have yet seen. It's simplistic approach is easy to follow, and you can just breeze through the book in just a few hours. It is obvious that the folks who wrote this, have studied how people learn, and have maximized their ability to make it understandable and user-friendly.
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