Time the Markets Using Technical Analysis to Interpret Economic Data, Revised Edition

In Time the Market,award-winning technical analyst Charles D. Kirkpatrick uses technical methods to analyze key economic indicators and identify useful buy and sell signals for long-term investors. Uncover these powerful signals based on the technical analysis of corporate, industry, monetary, sentiment, and market data to avoid capital loss and become more profitable.

Charles D. Kirkpatrick, II, CMT, is president of Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., a technical analysis research firm that publishes the Market Strategis investment newsletter. During his professional career, he was an institutional salesman, technical analyst, portfolio manager, hedge fund general partner, securities trading firm owner, option trader, floor trader, lecturer at universities, expert witness at security trials, small business owner, charitable foundation organizer and officer, and combat-decorated officer in Vietnam.   A past instructor in finance at the School of Business Administration, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, and recently Adjunct Professor of Finance at Brandeis University’s International Business School, he is the only two-time winner of the Market Technicians Association’s prestigious Charles H. Dow Award for research in technical analysis and winner of the Market Technicians Association 2008 Annual Award for “outstanding contributions to the field of technical analysis.”   He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), a past member of the board of directors of the Market Technicians Association, and past editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis. He is a past member and vice president of the board of the Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation and is currently a member of the American Association of Professional Technicians (AAPTA).   In addition to more than ten published articles on aspects of the stock and bond markets, he coauthored Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, the primary textbook for the CMT program and for university graduate courses in technical analysis, and he authored Beat the Market, a book on relative strength stock selection. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (AB), and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), he lives in Maine with his wife of almost 50 years.