دانلود کتاب Stock Charts for Dummies

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Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 7
About This Book......Page 15
Icons Used in This Book......Page 16
Where to Go from Here......Page 17
Part 1 Getting Started with Stock Charts......Page 19
Minimizing the Emotional Roller Coaster of Investing......Page 21
Discovering All the Tools You Can Use with Your Charts......Page 22
Getting Organized with Your Charts......Page 23
Putting Everything Together......Page 24
Getting Ready for the Emotions of Owning a Stock......Page 25
Understanding a few market basics......Page 26
Leveling the playing field......Page 28
Building a Chart to Track and Control Emotions......Page 29
Checking Out Index Charts......Page 31
Indexes around the world......Page 32
Commodity indexes......Page 33
Defining Trends......Page 34
Part 2 Viewing the Money Trail through Different Lenses......Page 37
Chapter 3 Focusing on Chart Settings......Page 39
Starting with the time period, range, and spacing......Page 40
Defining the price display......Page 43
Displaying volume and toggles......Page 47
Setting Overlays......Page 48
Common indicators......Page 50
Volume and price as indicators......Page 51
Chapter 4 Burning the Candle at Both Ends with Candlestick Charts......Page 53
Deciphering the Parts of a Candlestick Chart......Page 54
The candle body......Page 55
Shadows on a hollow candle......Page 56
Shadows on a filled candle......Page 57
Windows......Page 58
Introducing Color onto a Candlestick Chart......Page 59
Crafting Your Chart......Page 60
Knowing when candles matter......Page 62
Buying based on bullish candlestick patterns......Page 63
Price bar components......Page 65
Different types of bar charts......Page 66
Building a Bar Chart from the Ground Up......Page 68
Gaps......Page 69
Trading ranges, support, resistance, and breakout......Page 70
What Is a Line Chart?......Page 73
Making a Line Chart the Easy Way......Page 75
Reading and Using Your Chart Line by Line......Page 76
Adding support and resistance lines......Page 77
Knowing when lines matter......Page 78
Comparing Area Charts to Line Charts......Page 81
Strengthening or dimming the area display......Page 83
Adding color lines to emphasize change......Page 84
Adding a Personal Touch with Styles......Page 85
Knowing When Area Charts Matter......Page 86
Part 3 Using Chart Tools for Decision Making......Page 89
Chapter 8 Charting Different Time Periods......Page 91
60-minute to daily candle display......Page 92
Daily to monthly candle display......Page 93
Weekly to monthly candle display......Page 94
Daily to weekly bar charts......Page 95
Weekly to monthly bar charts......Page 96
Converting Line and Area Charts to Different Periods......Page 97
Looking at the daily price movement in context......Page 98
Using a range of one year (or more) with a daily chart......Page 100
Examining market capitalization with daily charts......Page 102
Embracing Short-Term Thinking with 60-Minute Charts......Page 105
Using 60-minute charts for index watching......Page 106
Weekly bar charts......Page 108
The big benefits of weekly analysis......Page 109
Recognizing major long-term lows and highs......Page 110
Analyzing investor behavior......Page 111
Picking the Right Chart for the Right Range......Page 112
Shifting Your Focus to Closing Prices......Page 113
Chapter 9 Reading a Price Chart......Page 117
Recognizing an uptrend......Page 118
Spotting a downtrend......Page 119
Looking at consolidation basics......Page 121
Recognizing different periods of consolidation on a chart......Page 122
Reading investor behavior during consolidation......Page 123
Types of bases......Page 124
The start of an uptrend from a base......Page 128
Reaching the Top: Muffins, Spires, or Something Else?......Page 129
The rounded top......Page 130
The spire......Page 131
The parabolic run......Page 132
The double top......Page 133
The range trading top......Page 134
Arithmetic scaling......Page 135
Scaling guidelines......Page 137
Chapter 10 Harnessing the Power of Overlays......Page 139
Plotting a moving average......Page 140
Looking at moving averages for different periods......Page 143
Examining the uses and benefits of moving averages......Page 147
Keltner channels......Page 149
Bollinger Bands......Page 153
Moving average envelopes......Page 154
Finding Your Sweet Spot between Horizontal Support and Resistance......Page 156
Beginning with Indicator Basics......Page 159
Divergence......Page 160
Rolling with Momentum Indicators......Page 161
Moving average convergence divergence indicator (MACD)......Page 162
Momentum displays that look like the MACD......Page 164
Relative strength index (RSI)......Page 167
Stochastics......Page 172
Using Volume with Price......Page 175
Chaikin money flow (CMF)......Page 176
Money flow index (MFI)......Page 177
On-balance volume (OBV)......Page 179
Accumulation distribution (ACCUM/DIST)......Page 180
Determining How Many Indicators to Use on One Chart......Page 181
Chapter 12 Making Sense of Relative Strength Indicators......Page 183
Sectors and industries......Page 184
What makes a strong stock......Page 185
Measuring a Stock’s Relative Strength to the S&P 500, a Sector, and an Industry......Page 186
Creating a ratio chart......Page 187
Interpreting a ratio chart......Page 189
Introducing technical ranking......Page 190
Plotting and interpreting the SCTR indicator......Page 192
Looking at the components of the SCTR indicator......Page 193
Understanding market movement in the rankings......Page 195
Protecting your capital with SCTR......Page 197
Using SCTR for base breakouts......Page 199
Checking Out Performance Charts......Page 200
Using Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG)......Page 202
Part 4 Getting Organized and Managing Stock Trends......Page 205
Chapter 13 Organizing Charts into Industry or Sector Groups......Page 207
Recognizing the Importance of Sectors and Industry Groups......Page 208
Creating a list with a name and a number......Page 209
Populating a list with one or more charts......Page 211
Using the Number in Sorted Order button......Page 212
Removing numbers from stocks inside a list......Page 214
Organizing Your ChartLists......Page 215
Temporary scan lists......Page 216
Sector or industry lists......Page 217
Index lists......Page 218
Chapter 14 Keeping Track of What’s Going On......Page 219
Surveying predefined scans......Page 220
Saving scans to ChartLists......Page 222
Creating and Using Your Three Main ChartLists......Page 223
Deciding which stocks to move......Page 224
Moving stocks into your three lists......Page 225
Setting Alerts......Page 226
Chapter 15 Conducting Breadth Analysis......Page 229
Investigating Bullish Percent Indexes......Page 230
Interpreting the results for groups of stocks......Page 231
Comparing breadth information......Page 234
The NASDAQ composite breadth......Page 236
The New York Stock Exchange composite breadth......Page 239
The Toronto Stock Exchange breadth......Page 240
Counting the Days......Page 241
Down days......Page 242
Inside and outside days......Page 243
Volume and price bar extremes......Page 244
Outside reversal dates on weekly charts......Page 245
Tracking Key Events......Page 246
Options expiration days......Page 247
Fed meeting dates......Page 248
Spotting a Break of Support on Indexes......Page 249
Part 5 Personalizing Your Stock Charts with Styles......Page 251
Chapter 17 Customizing Candlestick Charts......Page 253
Daily candlestick charts......Page 254
Weekly candlestick charts......Page 256
Creating your default ChartStyle setting......Page 258
Saving multiple ChartStyles......Page 259
Trading a daily candlestick chart with annotations......Page 260
Trading a weekly candlestick chart......Page 264
Sharing Your Customized Charts......Page 265
Chapter 18 Fine-Tuning Your Bar Charts......Page 267
Colors......Page 268
Indicators......Page 269
Special settings for weekly bar charts......Page 270
Trading Using a Daily Bar Chart with Your Settings......Page 271
Trading Using a Weekly Bar Chart with Your Settings......Page 273
Chapter 19 Adjusting Your Line and Area Charts......Page 277
Creating a Custom Weekly Line Chart......Page 278
Developing Your Own Monthly Line Chart......Page 280
Selecting your indicators......Page 281
Saving your monthly line chart......Page 282
Trading a monthly line chart......Page 283
Setting Up a Specialized Monthly Area Chart......Page 284
Part 6 Putting Your Stock Charting Expertise to Work......Page 287
Separating the Strong from the Weak......Page 289
Sector summary......Page 290
Knowing When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em......Page 293
Gauging gains......Page 294
Following technical clues to help manage your trades......Page 295
Thinking about trading styles......Page 297
Chandelier exits......Page 298
Parabolic stop and reverse......Page 299
Chapter 21 Putting It All Together......Page 301
Market tops......Page 302
Leading sectors......Page 304
Market breadth......Page 308
Position of the indexes compared to the 40-week moving average......Page 309
Narrowing Your Focus to Certain Sectors......Page 310
Choosing your fishing holes: Sectors with promise......Page 311
Using SCTR reports......Page 312
Using Targeted Scans......Page 313
Price displays......Page 316
SCTR and the relative strength rankings......Page 317
Journaling about the market and your trading......Page 318
Tracking and analyzing your winners and losers......Page 319
Continuing to buy winners......Page 320
Refraining from holding losers......Page 321
Part 7 The Part of Tens......Page 323
Trying to Fight the Market Instead of Following It......Page 325
Buying a Loser......Page 326
Chasing a 25–35 Percent Off Sale in Great Companies......Page 327
Forgetting That Commodity Stocks Are Very Volatile......Page 328
Buying a Story Instead of a Stock......Page 329
Selling a Winner Too Soon......Page 330
Continuously Avoiding What’s Worked......Page 331
Not Buying Stocks in Falling Markets......Page 332
Being Prepared for Big Moves in a Short Time......Page 333
Understanding That You Don’t Have to Be First to Buy......Page 334
Seeing Huge Gaps on Earnings......Page 335
Using Volatility to Warn the End Is Near......Page 336
Realizing That the SCTR Won’t Help Find Exits......Page 337
Using the U.S. Dollar as a Guide......Page 338
Index......Page 341
EULA......Page 363