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Investor's Guide To Charting
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Table of Contents

1. The art of the chart
fundamental analysis
technical analysis
patterns and profits
options, futures and indexes
chartists do it up and down
buyers, sellers, greed, fear and psychology

2. The trend is your friend: basic components of any price chart
trends
trend lines
moving averages
scales

3. The head and shoulders and friends
words of warning on the classic patterns
reversal patterns - tops
reversal patterns - bottoms
continuation patterns

4. The supporting cast: secondary signals to support the main conclusion
volume
relative strength or share price relatives
breadth and the advance / decline line
momentum
welles wilder's RSI
stochastic
moving average convergence-divergence (MACD)

5. The technique from Japan: an introduction to candlestick charting
bodies and shadows
candlestick patterns
windows
jack schwager's tests

6. Is the price moving? Really moving?: point and figure charts
how to compile a point and figure chart
trend lines and trading signals
the count

7. A quick guide to chartist gospels
fibonacci
elliot wave theory
gann
coppock

8. Whoever made money from charting?
jesse livermore
victor sperandeo
monroe trout
stanley kroll
anthony bolton
crispin odey

9. A modest grapple with real life (a look at real charts)
not a scientific test
a sprinkling of expert views
a sympathetic hearing
how to use this chapter
randomness is restricted
get a system and look twice

10. Will it work for you?
two charts
what works for the professionals
just the gold-plated signals
or dime-a-dozen
not needing to understand but needing to change
should professional chartists be rich?
and fundamentalists?
and you?

11. Net gains for Charting: what the internet can do for chartists
obliging online brokers
community offerings
gold standard
breathless in the US - platinum standard
net advice  Glossary Further Reading Index 

About the Author

Alistair Blair is the No Free Lunch columnist for the Investors Chronicle magazine and writes about business and investment for many other publications. In 1999, he was voted the Periodical Publishers' Association’s Business Writer of the Year. After reading PPE at Oxford and completing an MBA at Manchester Business School, Alistair gained practical experience of the City by working at Hill Samuel and Fidelity.

Reviews

"The best introduction I've seen" - The Daily Telegraph, July 2006 "A thought-provoking book. If you're interested in investment you should read it whether you bracket chartism with astrology or not." Sir Christopher Hogg, Chairman, Reuters "Alistair Blair makes charting make sense. You'll soon discover why chartists believe 'the trend is your friend' and why this book should be your constant companion." Matthew Vincent, Editor, Investors Chronicle

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