商品簡介
Candlestick analysis is a highly effective but underused investment decision-making technique. Many people in the investment community are aware of candlestick analysis, few really understand how or why it works. The common perception about candlestick trading has always been that it requires a long time to learn and become proficient at ituand that is the major reason the majority of investors have stayed away from it. That misconception is what spurred Stephen Bigalow to write the first edition of Profitable Candlestick Trading in 2001. Now, in this newly revised and updated edition, he draws from ten additional years of trading research to show how to use candlesticks to considerably enhance your investment abilities across all investment vehicles and over all trading time frames.
Signals created by this unique method of technical analysisurepresented in the form of graphic "candlestick" formationsuidentify the immediate direction and effects of investor sentiment through price movements, allowing traders to profit by spotting trend reversals before other investors. The graphical formation of a signal makes reversals immediately visible, providing a visual graphic of investor psychology during a specific time period. Profitable Candlestick Trading details the most valuable aspect of this technical analysis methodologyureversal patternsuas well as reversal signals, including the Doji, the Hammer, the Hanging Man, Engulfing Patterns, and Dark Cloud Cover. The book also explains continuation patterns and explores how they can help with the decision-making process during various trading periods. Its easy-to-understand techniques show how to find trading situations that have the maximum potential for profitability, the highest probability of succeeding, and the least amount of downside risk.
Whether you're trading stocks, options, currencies, or commodities, the methods described in Profitable Candlestick Trading will dramatically improve your investment capabilities.
作者簡介
Stephen W. Bigalow Has over twenty-five years investment experience, including eight years with Kidder Peabody & Co., Cowen & Company, and Oppenheimer & Company, followed by fifteen years of commodity trading and real estate investing. Mr. Bigalow has advised professional traders, money managers, mutual funds and hedge funds, and is recognized by many in the trading community as the "professional's professional." He also runs The Candlestick Trading Forum, an online trading community.
