Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.632042
EAN: 9780071387101
ISBN: 0071387102
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 12, 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Sales Rank: 195210
Studio: McGraw-Hill

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


The Technical Analysis Course has gained a loyal following for its unique lesson-per chapter format and comprehensive coverage of the tools and strategies of technical analysis. This third edition provides revised and updated details on every key aspect of technical analysis. New sections answer questions on current topics including Bollinger Bands, curved trend lines, moving average convergence-divergence, the market's change to decimal pricing, and much more.



Thomas A. Meyers, C.P.A., C.F.A., C.F.C.U., is chief financial officer for a large insurance group.






Rating: - A good place to start
This book is a great place to start if you know nothing about technical analysis. It is very well organized, and the quizzes help to reinforce the lessons of the text. Meyers starts with basic chart construction and the types of charts, moves through reversal and consolidation patterns, gaps, trendlines and channels, and support and resistance before taking on any computed indicators. Next he moves through moving averages, relative strength, and volume indicators, and finally oscillators. He then ... Read More

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Rating: - Outdated, Inaccurate, Expensive
I'm so sorry I spent hard-earned money on this book, I wish I had read the reviews here first. I can find very little use in today's market for a collection charts on stock movements from 20 years ago. Of course, history can be a guide, but nothing in this book takes into account all of the changes in trading technology. Most of the "tips" here date from a time when there was no program trading, and no one did any trading at home via the Internet. If you attmept to do technical analysis by calling ... Read More

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Rating: - Not Very Useful
This books seems to have been written to explain the stock market movements during the 1980s. There are a few theories to explain movement of NYSE big board stocks, and almost no coverage of NASDAQ. If you try to map these theories to the NASDAQ-fueled boom ending in 2000 or the slump since then, the author's weakly defined premises break down entirely. This book would have been useful in 1982, but I need to trade in the 2003 market. No help here; in fact, much of it is counter-intuitive. I tested ... Read More

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Rating: - Badly Organized Jumble of Techniques
This book was assigned reading for a college-level investing course; now I understand why the professor drives an old car and teaches this class instead of making money in the market. In all my years of schooling, I've never encountered something so poorly assembled. I have unearthed a few useful concepts, but they are largely buried in an pile of tired market cliches and chart after chart of dated 1980s investing patterns.

There are many other books on the topic (you can do a search on "technical ... Read More

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Rating: - Dated Treatment of "Tech Analysis Lite"
Much of this book contains some very tired theories on stock movements from generations ago. While stock patterns may have some historic trends, it is a gross oversight in failing to consider how computerized trading has affected both patterns and the timing of trades. This book would have had some use in 1975, but it will hinder the modern technical trader, who must compete with others using state of the art technology. And as others have noted, the text is rife with errors.

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