1st Edition

International Encyclopedia of Technical Analysis

    Investors are firmly entrenched in two camps: those who believe that economic and financial fundamentals are the keys to investment success, and those who prefer some form or other of technical analysis. To serve those who use technical analysis, the authors have written a practical, useful, and comprehensive guide to all the major and minor technical analysis systems used by today's investors and financial professionals. In this unique reference book, technical analysis systems are discussed in depth, with detailed attention to the pros and cons of each. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers a mini-dictionary of the terms, concepts, and market issues that are part of the discipline of technical analysis.

    Introduction; A; Accumulation and Distribution; Advance/Decline Line; Alteration Principle; Apex; Arbitrage; Arms Index (TRIN); Ascending and Descending Tops; Ask; Assumptions; Average True Range; Average Up and Average Down; B; Back Up; Barron's Confidence Index; Base; Basis Point; Basket Trade; Bear Market; Bid and Ask; Big Mac Index; Blowoff; Bollinger Bands; Bottom; Breadth Analysis; Breadth (Advance-Decline) Index; Breakout; Bull Spread; Bull and Bear Markets; Bullishness Indicators; C; Canslim; Cats and Dogs; Changes: Up and Down; Channel; Charting; Commission; Commodities Futures; Commodity Channel Index; Commodity Research Bureau Indexes; COmmodity Sold Short (Short Sales); Confirmation; Congestion Area; Consolidation; Continuation Formation; Contrarian Investing; Correction; Cycle Analysis; D; Demand Versus Supply; Descending Tops; Dip; Distribution; Divergence; Dollar-Cost Averaging; Double Bottom or Top; Double Crossover; Dow Theory; Downturn; E; Ease of Movement; Efficient Market Hypothesis; Efficient Portfolio; Elliott Wave Analysis; Exhaustion; F; Financial Pyramid; Five-Day-Away Rule; Flag; Flat Market; Foreign Currency Trading; Front Month; Fundamental Analysis; Futures Trading; G; Gaps; H; Hammering the Market; Head and Shoulders; Herrick Payoff Index (HBI); Historical Trading Range; Hook Day; I; Index Of Bearish Sentiment; Insider Trading Indicator; Insiders; Interdelivery Spread; Interest Rates; Intermarket Analysis; International Stock Markets; Investment Strategies; J; Japanese Candlestick Charts; L; Leverage; Limit; M; MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence); Market Indicators; Market Reciprocal; Median Price; Members; Misery Index; Momentum; Momentum Gauges; McClellan Oscillator; McClellan Summation Index; Monetary Indicators; Money Flow Index; Most Active Issues; Moving Average Convergence/Divergence; Moving Averages; N; Negative Volume Index (NVI); New Highs and New Lows; Nikkei Golf Membership Index; O; On-Balance Volume Technical Indicator; Open Interest; Oscillators; Overbought/Oversold Indicators; Overhang; P; Parabolic; Pay Up; Penetration; Pennant; Performance Chart; Platform; Portfolio Theory; Positive Volume Index (PVI) Technical Indicator; Precious Metals; Price Calculations; Price and Volume Trend (PVT); Price Patterns; Program Trading; Pullback or Throwback; Puts/Calls Ratio; Pyramiding; Q; Quadrant Lines; R; Rally; Random Walk; Range; Reaction; Relative Comparative Strength; Relative Strength Analysis; Relative Strength Index Calculation; Conclusion; Resistance; Retracement; Reversal Day; Reversal Formation; Rising Bottoms; Roofline; Round Trip; Ryan Index; S; Saucer; Schulz's Ratio; Seasonal Momentum; Secondary Offering (Distribution); Selling Climax; Sensitivity; Sentiment Indicators; Shakeout; Smoothing; Specialist; Speculation Index; Spike; Spread; Stag; Stochastics; Stock/Bond Yield Gap; Straddle; Strap; Strong Market; Support and Resistance; Speed Resistance Lines; Conclusion; T; Technical Analysis Software; Test; Thin Issue; Throwback; Tick; Timing Decisions; Top; Topping Out; Trading; Trading Systems; Trading Volume; Trading Volume Gauges; Trend; Trendline; Triangle; Trin; Types Of Stocks; U; Uptick; V; Valley Floor; Value Averaging; Vertical Line Charting; Vertical Spread; Volatility; Volume; W; Formation; Wall Street Week Technical Market Index; Weak Market; Wedge; Whipsaw; Wilder's Average True Range; Williams' %R; Y; Yield Curve; Yield Gap; Z; Zigzag Chart

    Biography

    Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim, Anique A. Qureshi, Jeffrey Brauchler