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.
