Trading Price Action Trends Technical Analysis of Price Charts Bar by Bar for the Serious Trader

by Brooks, Al

• ISBN13: 9781118066515
• ISBN10: 1118066510
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-29
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This is a book for human resource professionals, academics, researchers and independent consultants who are engaged in assessing other people at work. It places assessment in its political, economic, social and organizational context, and provides a critical guide to emergent issues in both research and practice. The contributors to the book originate from countries in Europe, North America and Asia and provide a vital perspective for the rapid international developments in selection and assessment in the 1990s and beyond.

Author Biography

AL BROOKS is a technical analysis contributor for Futures magazine and an independent day trader. His approach to reading price charts was developed over two decades in which he changed careers from ophthalmology to trading. Brooks graduated from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1978 and received a BS in mathematics with honors from Trinity College in 1974. His website, brookspriceaction.com, outlines his trading approach and views as well as hosts a subscription-based daily trading chat room in which Brooks talks with other traders about the market.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

List of Terms Used in This Book xiii

Introduction 1

PART I Price Action 35

CHAPTER 1 The Spectrum of Price Action: Extreme Trends to Extreme Trading Ranges 55

CHAPTER 2 Trend Bars, Doji Bars, and Climaxes 59

CHAPTER 3 Breakouts, Trading Ranges, Tests, and Reversals 77

CHAPTER 4 Bar Basics: Signal Bars, Entry Bars, Setups, and Candle Patterns 83

CHAPTER 5 Signal Bars: Reversal Bars 89

CHAPTER 6 Signal Bars: Other Types 101

CHAPTER 7 Outside Bars 155

CHAPTER 8 The Importance of the Close of the Bar 169

CHAPTER 9 Exchange-Traded Funds and Inverse Charts 173

CHAPTER 10 Second Entries 177

CHAPTER 11 Late and Missed Entries 181

CHAPTER 12 Pattern Evolution 185

PART II Trend Lines and Channels 191

CHAPTER 13 Trend Lines 195

CHAPTER 14 Trend Channel Lines 209

CHAPTER 15 Channels 219

CHAPTER 16 Micro Channels 249

CHAPTER 17 Horizontal Lines: Swing Points and Other Key Price Levels 269

PART III Trends 275

CHAPTER 18 Example of How to Trade a Trend 289

CHAPTER 19 Signs of Strength in a Trend 307

CHAPTER 20 Two Legs 319

PART IV Common Trend Patterns 323

CHAPTER 21 Spike and Channel Trend 325

CHAPTER 22 Trending Trading Range Days 359

CHAPTER 23 Trend from the Open and Small Pullback Trends 383

CHAPTER 24 Reversal Day 415

CHAPTER 25 Trend Resumption Day 423

CHAPTER 26 Stairs: Broad Channel Trend 431

About the Author 437

About the Website 439

Index 441