Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
by John J. Murphy · first published 1999
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets expands upon and updates Murphy's classic Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets. Packed with some 400 real-life charts that clarify every key point, it covers: the fundamentals of technical analysis and chart construction; what you must know about trends and the building blocks of chart analysis; price patterns, including major reversal and continuation patterns; methods of analysis - moving averages, oscillators, contrary opinion, and other indicators; and time cycles, market interrelationships, money management, and trading tactics. Begin
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For me... 1. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy 2. Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan 3. [just finished] The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right By Atul Gawande 4. [finished last week] Dealers of Lightning…
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗…be net positive. It's a strange duality for some people to grasp. A good first read: High Probability Trading (Marcel Link) The Bible: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre) The basics: Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (John Murphy), Japanese Candlestick Analysis (Steve Nixon - skip the first chapter), Trading and Exchanges (Larry Harris) Good follow ups: All the Market Wizards books (Jack Schwager) Psychology: Trading…
on “Ask HN: Any of you took a loss while trading? How did you handle it?” ↗…that. Warren Buffett, for instance, does plenty of stock analysis and he's not a technical trader at all. He repeatedly says he doesn't try to time the market. [3] The first book I read on trading - Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets [4] - was from a technical analysis perspective, and I lost money trying to implement it. Then I read about value investing and started trying to apply those principles - only buying fundamentally sound…
on “Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)” ↗…conflict with the ideas presented in the text above... * Technical Non-Fiction * Functional Programming in Scala Pro Git Learning from Data Optimization Models; Califiore, El Ghaoui (in progress) Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (in progress) -- Not great. Very little motivation to finish this one... Had the goal of 30 books, at least 8 of which had to be textbooks. Not quite there, but there's some really dense stuff this year,…
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