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Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts? Find them a little confusing? No worries! Candlestick Charting For Dummies sheds light on this time-tested method for finding the perfect moment to buy or sell. It demystifies technical and chart analysis and gives you the tools you need to identify trading patterns — and pounce!

This friendly, practical, guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. In no time, you’ll be working with common candlestick patterns, analyzing trading patterns, predicting market behavior, and making your smartest trades ever. You’ll discover the advantages candlestick has over other charting methods and learn the secrets of combining it with other technical indicators. You’ll also get familiar with different ways to display and interpret price action, including trend lines, support levels, resistance levels, moving averages, and complex indicators. Discover how to:

Construct candlestick charts
Identify and interpret basic patterns
Trade in bull and bear markets
Work with complex patterns and indicators
Avoid False signals
Understand the components of market activity
Deal with bullish or bearish single-stick, two stick, and multistick patterns
Identify and interpret complex patterns
Use indicators to determine the market
Outperform the market in any conditions

Don’t know whether to grab the bull by the horns or just grin and bear it? Read Candlestick Charting For Dummies and get it right the first time.

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368 pages
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English
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For Dummies
Publication date

April 7, 2008
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7.2 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
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0470178086
ISBN-13

978-0470178089
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Packed with charts and real-world trading examples

Translate candlestick patterns and use them to predict market behavior

Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts, but find them confusing? No worries — this friendly, practical guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. You'll see how to work with common candlestick patterns and analyze data to make smart trading decisions. You'll also combine patterns with other indicators for more profitable trading!

Discover how to:

Construct candlestick charts
Identify and interpret basic patterns
Trade in bull and bear markets
Work with complex patterns and indicators
Avoid false signals

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Packed with charts and real-world trading examples

Translate candlestick patterns and use them to predict market behavior

Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts, but find them confusing? No worries — this friendly, practical guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. You'll see how to work with common candlestick patterns and analyze data to make smart trading decisions. You'll also combine patterns with other indicators for more profitable trading!

Discover how to:

Construct candlestick charts
Identify and interpret basic patterns
Trade in bull and bear markets
Work with complex patterns and indicators
Avoid false signals

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 1st edition (April 7, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470178086
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470178089
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.2 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches

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Russell Rhoads, CFA, is Director of Education for the CBOE Options Institute having joined CBOE as an instructor in 2009. His career before CBOE included positions at a variety of firms including Highland Capital Management, Caldwell & Orkin Investment Counsel, Balyasny Asset Management, and Millennium Management. He is a financial author and editor having contributed to multiple magazines and edited several books for Wiley publishing. He is the author of five market related books including Trading VIX Derivatives, Option Spread Trading, and Trading Weekly Options. He is currently finishing up two books to be published in the summer of 2016, Volatility Trading Strategies and Options for Institutions and Advisors. Finally, he co-authored material to be included in Level II of the CFA program beginning in the spring of 2017. In addition to his duties for the CBOE, he is an adjunct instructor at Loyola University and the University of Illinois - Chicago.

He is a double graduate of the University of Memphis with a BBA ('92) and an MS ('94) in Finance and also received a Master's Certificate in Financial Engineering from the Illinois Tech in 2003. In addition to his duties for CBOE, he is currently pursuing a PhD from Oklahoma State University with an expected graduation date of December 2017.

Questions / comments / suggestions - please contact me at russellrhoads@gmail.com.

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This book is easy to understand

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2023

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So far it’s good. This book is what I hope it would be.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2017

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If you want to venture into the stock market, it is really important to understand all aspects of it. You want to know what the investors are doing, you want to understand what day traders are doing to. You need to know the advantages and disadvantages to all means of analysis and how people using these means of analysis will be responding to the market. You want to know what they expect to happen and how they use past data for this and how these various means of analysis, say of day trader, compare to those who are looking at the intrinsic value of a company for investing purposes and how this plays into say how they are undervalued or overvalued and how this effects the volume of trading etc. As such, all I'm saying, get the book!

One person found this helpful

Another good Dummies book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2009

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This book was an excellent source of the information I was looking for. I wanted to learn more than just the fundamental concepts of candlestick charting and the book exceeded my expectations. I was afraid the book would be overly technical and I would get lost in the jargon. Pleasantly, the book lived up to my previous "Dummies" experiences. I probably have somewhere around 15 titles of the Dummies books. It is a great way to scratch the surface on something and decide if it's worth heavily investing alot of time and more money in.

In this case, the book does much more than scratch the surface. I am only a couple of chapters into it, and I already "feel" like an expert on reading candelsticks and predicting price movements and patterns. The one thing I thought that stood out above and beyond for me is the ability to skip around to different chapters without being lost. It is not a cover to cover read. You can extract just what you need out of it and move on. And that is exactly what I am doing. I also really appreciate the real world applicability. You can literally take what you read with a computer in front of you and immediately apply it to test and gauge your level of understanding. Anyone interested in technical analysis and how candlestick charting relates should start here. Since I have not read other Candlestick books, I cannot compare how this ranks with others, but for me - wanting to learn Candlestick charting without spending tons of money and buying overly technical books, this was great.

46 people found this helpful

Easy to understand

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2021

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Very helpful for those of us who know little to nothing about stocks

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LET YOUR CANDLES SHINE

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2017

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Learning candle stick patterns is not like falling off a log for me. But, I intend on memorizing the patterns as soon as they sink in. I believe candle stick patterens combined with technical analysis gives a leg up on trading. When I look at charts, I try to dig back into the book to identify what I'm looking at. I try not to shoot from the hip!

One person found this helpful

A great place to start from.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2015

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Great for beginners. A little repetitive as some other reviews have pointed out, but a little repetition helps the concepts sink in.
Concepts are clearly illustrated. Some of the web sites and reviews are a bit dated, but far from deal killers. A great place to start.

4 people found this helpful

Great Resource.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2020

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Great Resource. This should be a staple for all trading libraries.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2021

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Every chapter is filled with ' I talk more about this in chapter 8 and if you forgot what you've just read in chapter 8 you can go back to chapter 6 '
To get to the point you have to search through paragraphs of unnecessary sidenotes, maybe author forgot the book has Contents people can refer to and there's no need to give navigational advice every time, after all, this is a book for dummies, likely 1st ever they pick up to learn about the new subject for them. Do you really think they're going to be skipping chapters? They intend to read it cover to cever, so why fill the book with advice on how to read the book, this is supposed to advice on how to trade. Waste of time and pain. Has useful info but would've been 3 times thinnner if not for time-wasting rambling.

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Phil Dodd

Very informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2021

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I bought this book to get to know how the forex market works and I can honestly say this book is my go to book, it is very interesting and it tell you everything that you need to know about forex, they explain it in simple terms and is easy to understand it seems a thick book but once I got reading through it I was half way through it before I knew it and I started to know different strategies of trading and different elements this book is perfect for anybody wanting to try the forex markets but please bare in mind that this book is not a million pound money maker the forex markets are a volatile market and it goes up and down and you can make and loose money on the same breath but this book lets you understand how the markets change

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Nicky Jenkin - njenkin

Great source of information to build understanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2020

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Still ploughing my way through this. Lots of good information in there and information is good. Sometimes I have to go away a let my brain process what I’ve just been reading then and come back again later. Used in conjunction with looking at live charting online to strengthen your understanding, I can see this being quite powerful. Very good book.

Before Trading read and research as much as you can. At this point... you’re certainly not losing any money. Book is a bargain if you factor that in. Fully recommended, but you have to do your own research too to get full understanding.

2 people found this helpful

D.

Extremely useful book for beginners. A must buy (for beginners).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2016

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The "For Dummies" books are ideal for absolute beginners. As an absolute beginner trying to establish a foundation of knowledge for candlestick charts, i found this book extremely helpful and useful. It describes the structure of candlesticks, explains the benefits of using candlesticks instead of other charts, introduces the reader to candlestick chart patterns and this book includes a lot more useful information. For people who already have a strong knowledge of chart patters, i would suggest another source as this book is most certainly aimed at beginners (in my opinion). I implore all beginners to get this book as it will assist you greatly in learning and building on the basic, yet most important information. Overall, i wholeheartedly believe that all beginners should purchase this book. Best of luck in your candlestick charting endeavours :)

9 people found this helpful

Connor

Great book! Would recommend to anyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 24, 2021

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I've been in and out of learning to trade for a couple of years now, I've read a lot of books on the subject.

This book I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn to trade - even if you do not use candlestick charting already.

It provides a lot of different patterns to look out for and the author explains the meaning behind the patterns and why they are affective.

Great book - definitely the one I have found most useful thus far.

It has given me the knowledge and also confidence to actively trade the markets.

One person found this helpful

Vivian

Very interesting book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 30, 2018

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The book is a good course in candlesticks with lots of examples demonstrating the use of each pattern. It is also a good introduction to technical indicators.
The examples focus on stocks and futures but the theory is the same for other instruments like forex so I'm ok with that.
Finally you will gain some basic knowledge on a variety of instruments, ideas on how to enter and exit trades, and trading general advice.
I believe that the author has done a great job and also he has a good sense of humour.
For Dummies book have always a lot to offer.

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