The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This book deals with the advantages of using technical market indicators, which to use, how and when to use them, and why. This new edition offers an accumulated treasury of nearly all known technical market indicators, including many new ones and better ways to use long-established ones. It offers precise formulas, performance over all available market history, and how to maximize reward/risk potentials. Now you can apply tested indicators immediately to your own investment decision making. Praise for the first edition: 'Objective. Systematic. Honest. Pulls no punches. Thorough. Extensively researched. Provides in-depth coverage of more than one hundred indicators, clearly revealing both their strengths and weaknesses. Shows you how to select indicators that work best to achieve your objectives while taking the guesswork out of your investing and trading. The source for the actual facts about technical market timing indicators' - Alan R. Shaw, CMT, Managing Director, Senior Advisor, Technical Research Department, Salomon Smith Barney. 'The most thoroughly documented research that I have ever seen. Shows hard evidence. Highly recommended' - Gerald Appel, Signalert Corporation. 'Credible. Must reading' - Norman G. Fosback, The Institute for Econometric Research, Inc. 'Terrific. The most helpful text' - Paul Rabbitt, RabbittAnalytics.Com. The same technical market indicators used by top-performing traders and investors are available now. This book offers the necessary knowledge on how to formulate and test technical market indicators in an orderly, step-by-step fashion. Specific technical market indicator parameters shown in this book would have maximized reward/risk performance over actual market history. Technical market indicators offer: logical, practical, efficient, effective, systematic, and precisely quantified frameworks for organizing information about actual observed market behavior, providing a firm foundation for making speculative decisions, grounded on historical precedent; flexibility and adaptability to any time frame and any trading instrument; and, clear-cut, precise, and objective signals that allow us to confidently execute trades while eliminating uncertainty, guesswork, confusion, anxiety, and stress, and freeing us from forecasts, opinion, bias, ego, hope, greed, and fear. Technical market indicators offer: a sensible and orderly procedure for selecting specific decision rules that would have maximized reward/risk performance over actual past market behavior; simple, intuitive, easy-to-understand, and precisely defined formulas based on a manageable number of variables, enabling us to execute decisions with the timely and disciplined consistency that is vital for success in the financial markets; accessibility, based on readily available technology and data; conservation of capital and precisely defined methods for risk control; and, risk reduction means greater consistency of profitable returns. This book shows you how to find a trading system that is right for you and how to apply it for best results increased profit, decreased risk, and the self-confidence of gaining control over your investment decision making.

A thorough, honest and objective research evaluation.
"Thomas A. Meyers, CPA, and I did our best to provide a thorough, honest and objective research evaluation of 110 diverse market timing indicators. We are grateful for the kind words of our fellow professional analysts, reprinted below." -- Robert W. Colby, CMT.

"This useful book should be on the desk of every technical analyst." -- Arthur Merrill.

"This is the most thoroughly documented research into a broad array of technical indicators and tools that I have ever seen. I know of no other book that has been as thorough in presenting hard evidence to its readers… Highly recommended for both experienced and inexperienced investors." -- Gerald Appel.

"An excellent overview of 110 of the best known technical market indicators with a superb introductory section that explains how technical analysis is evolving with the aid of statistical verification and computer applications. This book is an indispensable single volume for both novice and professional market analysts." -- Ted C. Earle.

"The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators will become the standard reference guide for stock market technicians and analysts. It pulls no punches — by providing an honest, extensively researched, appraisal of virtually every known indicator." -- Louis B. Mendelsohn.

"Credible…systematic analysis…commendable for its willingness to identify indicators whose forecasting value has been exaggerated or is non-existent, as well as those that really do have predictive ability… If you are a serious student of the market… this book is for you… Must reading." -- Norman G. Fosback.

"Compiles a vast amount of detailed research… puts forth the rational behind and the methods used to research… gives detailed information on each of the selected indicators with definitions, examples, charts, and tables… hundreds of hours of research presented in a technical but lucid style, replete with excellent examples…The book deserves a place on the shelves of seri! ous stock market investors…" -- Robert D. Adamshick.

"Will provide many happy hours of study. Technical studies have been number-crunched through years of data…to provide tabulated summaries of profit and loss, maximum drawdown length of winning and losing trades, number of stop loses hit… in fact most of the testing that you and I have been intending to carry out for years." -- Henry Southworth.

"A terrific addition to any investor’s reference bookshelf." -- Robert Prechter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.