Table of Contents
- Part I: Introductiob
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Technical Analysis
- Chapter 2: The Basic Principle of Technical Analysis--The
Trend
- Chapter 3: History of Technical
Analysis
- Chapter 4: The Technical Analysis
Controversy
- Part II: Markets and Market Indicators
- Chapter 5: An Overview of Markets
- Chapter 6: Dow Theory
- Chapter 7: Sentiment
- Chapter 8: Measuring Market
Strength
- Chapter 9: Temporal Patterns and
Cycles
- Chapter 10: Flow of Funds
- Part III: Trend Analysis
- Chapter 11: History and Construction of
Charts
- Chapter 12: Trends--The Basics
- Chapter 13: Breakouts, Stops, and
Retracements
- Chapter 14: Moving Averages
- Part IV: Chart Pattern Analysis
- Chapter 15: Bar Chart Patterns
- Chapter 16: Point and Figure Chart
Patterns
- Chapter 17: Short-Term Patterns
- Part V: Trend Confirmation
- Chapter 18: Confirmation
- Part VI: Other Technical Methods and Rules
- Chapter 19: Cycles
- Chapter 20: Elliott, Fibonacci, and
Gann
- Part VII: Selection
- Chapter 21: Selection of Markets and Issues: Trading and
Investing
- Part VIII: System Testing and Management
- Chapter 22: System Design and
Testing
- Chapter 23: Money and Portfolio Risk
Management
- Part IX: Appendices
- Appendix A: Basic Statistics
- Appendix B: Types of Orders and Other Trader
Terminology
- Bibliography
- Index
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About the Author
Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT, relative to technical
analysis, is or has been:
- President, Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., Kittery, Maine--a
private firm specializing in technical research; editor and
publisher of the Market Strategist newsletter.
- Author of several other books on aspects of technical analysis
in the trading markets.
- Adjunct professor of finance, Brandeis University International
School of Business, Waltham, Massachusetts.
- Director and vice president, Market Technicians Association
Educational Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts--a charitable
foundation dedicated to encouraging and providing educational
courses in technical analysis at the college and university
level.
- Editor, Journal of Technical Analysis, New York, New York--the
official journal of technical analysis research.
- Director, Market Technicians Association, New York, New
York--an association of professional technical analysts.
In his life in the stock and options markets, Mr. Kirkpatrick has
been a hedge fund manager, investment advisor, advisor to floor and
desk traders and portfolio managers, institutional stock broker,
options trader, desk and large-block trader, lecturer and speaker
on aspects of technical analysis to professional and academic
groups, expert legal witness on the stock market, owner of several
small businesses, owner of an institutional brokerage firm, and
part owner of a CBOE options trading firm. His research has been
published in Barron’s and elsewhere. In 1993 and 2001, he won the
Charles H. Dow Award for excellence in technical research, and in
2009, he won the MTA award for his contributions to technical
analysis. In 2012, he and Julie Dahlquist together won the Mike
Epstein Award from the Market Technicians Association Educational
Foundation for their dedication to expanding technical analysis
courses into college and university graduate schools and for
creating this textbook to be used in professional courses on
technical analysis. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard
College (A.B.), and the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania (M.B.A.), he was also a decorated combat officer with
the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He currently resides in Maine
with his wife, Ellie, and their various domestic animals.
Julie R. Dahlquist, Ph.D., received her B.B.A. in economics
from University of Louisiana at Monroe, her M.A. in theology from
St. Mary’s University, and her Ph.D. in economics from Texas
A&M University. Dr. Dahlquist has taught at the collegiate
level for three decades. Currently, she is an associate professor
of professional practice in economics and finance at the M. J.
Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. Dr.
Dahlquist is a frequent presenter at national and international
conferences. She is the coauthor (with Richard Bauer) of Technical
Market Indicators: Analysis and Performance (John Wiley & Sons) and
Technical Analysis of Gaps (Pearson). Her research has appeared in
Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Technical Analysis,
Managerial Finance, Applied Economics, Working Money, Financial
Practice and Education, Active Trader, and the Journal of Financial
Education. She is a recipient of the Charles H. Dow Award (2011)
and the Epstein Award (2012). She serves on the Board of the Market
Technicians Association Educational Foundation and as editor of the
Journal of Technical Analysis. She and her husband, Richard Bauer,
have two children, Katherine and Sepp.