All About Technical Analysis

Constance Brown, CMT (Chartered Market Technician), founded Aerodynamic Investments, Inc., after working for more than 15 years as an institutional trader in New York City. She continues to actively trade and advises numerous financial institutions and banks around the world.

• 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