An Interactive Guide to Technical Analysis [CD-ROM]

Active Books (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 1998

An Interactive Guide to Technical Analysis is an electronic book that explains the subject of technical analysis using hundreds of visual popups and animations. The book contains simulations that provide the reader with a hands on experience of charting techniques and technical indicators. A useful tool for day traders, investors and financial professionals; and consists of six parts:

Basic Concepts - importance of trends, how to create and use charts, how to identify support and resistance levels.

Pattern Identification - how to identify patterns on price charts, how to use breakouts to give buy and sell signals, how to use filters to define valid breakouts and set target prices.

Technical Indicators - how to construct technical indicators that can give buy and sell signals, how the indicators behave in a variety of market conditions, how to interpret divergencies between prices and oscillators.

Japanese Candlesticks - how to read candlestick charts, how to identify candlestick patterns, how to interpret signals given by these patterns

Point and Figure Charts - how to construct and interpret point and figure charts, how to identify patterns on point and figure charts, how to use trading rules to create point and figure trading systems.

Trading Techniques - how various techniques can be combined to form trading systems, the risk/return trade-off involved in trading systems, practice trading techniques using real life data.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Active Books Ltd (September 12, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 190287000X
• ISBN-13: 978-1902870007
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,983,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very interactive approach to learning technical analysis, May 14, 1999

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This review is from: An Interactive Guide to Technical Analysis (CD-ROM)

The main thing about this CDROM book is that it enables you to try your hand at the patterns and indicators as you read about them. The coverage of techniques and indicators is fairly wide, though somewhat thin at times. I like the use of pop up pictures in place of the lengthy text descriptions found in paper based books. It also has excellent quizzes with scenarios based questions -- which are very useful for building day trading skills. The dynamic visuals and interactive bits make this book more interesting than its paper based counterparts and worth the price.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice fun way of learning and applying technical analysis, May 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: An Interactive Guide to Technical Analysis (CD-ROM)

I found the structure of this computer based guide to technical analysis to be very userfriendly and interactive. After learning about an indicator I could "see" how to use the indicator and even better than that I could tweak the parameters to perform my own technical analysis on provided data. A unique book worth it's price.