Technical Analysis the complete resource for financial market technicians 2nd
Technical Analysis the complete resource for financial market technicians 2nd. Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT Julie Dahlquist, Ph.D., CMT
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INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
2 THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS—
THE TREND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
How Does the Technical Analyst Make Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What Is a Trend? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
How Are Trends Identified? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Trends Develop from Supply and Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
What Trends Are There? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
What Other Assumptions Do Technical Analysts Make? . . . . . . . . 17
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
HISTORY OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS ......................................23
Early Financial Markets and Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Modern Technical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Current Advances in Technical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4 THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS CONTROVERSY ..........................33
Do Markets Follow a Random Walk? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Fat Tails ................................................................................................36
Drawdowns...........................................................................................37
Proportions of Scale . ...........................................................................39
Can Past Patterns Be Used to Predict the Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
What About Market Efficiency?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
New Information...................................................................................42
Are Investors Rational? . ......................................................................46
Will Arbitrage Keep Prices in Equilibrium?.........................................47
Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Pragmatic Criticisms of Technical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
What Is the Empirical Support for Technical Analysis? . . . . . . . . . 52
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part II: Markets and Market Indicators
5 AN OVERVIEW OF MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
In What Types of Markets Can Technical Analysis Be Used? . . . . 58
Types of Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Cash Market
How Does a Market Work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Who Are the Market Players?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
How Is the Market Measured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Price-Weighted Average . .....................................................................70
Market Capitalization Weighted Average . ...........................................71
Equally Weighted (or Geometric) Average . .........................................72
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6 DOW THEORY .......................................................................75
Dow Theory Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The Primary Trend. ..............................................................................80
The Secondary Trend ............................................................................81
The Minor Trend...................................................................................81
Concept of Confirmation . ....................................................................82
Importance of Volume. .........................................................................83
Criticisms of the Dow Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
7 SENTIMENT............................................................................89
What Is Sentiment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Market Players and Sentiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
How Does Human Bias Affect Decision Making? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Crowd Behavior and the Concept of Contrary Opinion . . . . . . . . . 95
How Is Sentiment of Uninformed Players Measured?. . . . . . . . . . . 96
Sentiment Indicators Based on Options and Volatility .........................97
Polls ....................................................................................................102
Other Measures of Contrary Opinion ................................................107
Unquantifiable Contrary Indicators ..................................................116
Historical Indicators .........................................................................117