Getting Started in Chart Patterns

Chart pattern analysis is not only one of the most important investing tools, but also one of the most popular. Filled with expert insights and practical advice from one of the best in the business, Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition helps new and seasoned traders alike profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns.

Substantially revised and expanded, this new edition stay true to the original, with author Thomas Bulkowski's frank discussion of how trading behavior can affect the bottom line. Interwoven throughout the technical presentations are fascinating anecdotes drawn from the author's quarter-century as a professional trader that vividly demonstrate how one of the best in the business leverages the power of chart patterns.

• Includes additional charts for ETFs and mutual funds
• Introduces more than 40 key chart formations, as well as trading tactics that can be used in conjunction with them
• Supplies actual trades, with their corresponding dollar amounts

If you're looking to gain a better understanding of this discipline, look no further than the Second Edition of Getting Started in Chart Patterns.

THOMAS BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with more than thirty years of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts and Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns. His work has appeared in magazines such as Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, SFO, Active Trader, The Technical Analyst, The Trader's Journal, and Traders'. Before earning enough from his investments to "retire" from his day job at age 36, Bulkowski was a hardware design engineer with Raytheon and a senior software engineer for Tandy Corporation.

Preface to First and Second Editions

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to Chart Patterns

Chapter 2: Identifying Chart Patterns

Chapter 3: The Truth about Trendlines

Chapter 4: Support and Resistance
The Most Important Chart Patterns

Chapter 5: Ten Buy Signals

Chapter 6: Ten Sell Signals

Chapter 7: Special Situations

Chapter 8: Busted Patterns
Making Money by Trading Failure

Chapter 9: More Trades
Putting It All Together

Chapter 10: The Art of Trading Checklists

Chapter 11: Crunching the Numbers

Glossary

Visual Index of Chart Patterns

About the Author

Index

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