Technical Analysis For Dummies Kindle Edition

It's a good book for an experienced trader but a little too involved for the novice. For those less educated in technical analysis I would highly recommend Trend Trading For Dummies by Dr. Barry Burns and Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein.Technical Analysis for Dummies by Barbara Burns is a great book for your shelf to use as a reference because it has a lot of information that would be of value to the more advanced. The book is certainly not recommended for "Dummies" - in my opinion!

There is lots of wasted sentences which I guess is used as filler. It's better to pass straight to certain chapters. I have mixed feelings on this book. I feel it is useful if you can bypass the noise. I would have liked to see a lot less pages and a more straightforward to the point style. I will say this is not a first good read if you want to learn the basics of charting and strategies.

This book ( Which I cover in chapter 2 ) was very annoying to read. I found that they use too many ( I’ll cover this in chapter 4 ) cut always instead of stating on then subject at hand. You must read about 20 ( I’ll cover this innchoater 9 ) pages , too get maybe 1 sentence of useful information. No would not recommend this book ( I’ll cover this in chapter 6747478 ) and I regret having purchased it.

This, like the previous edition, is a must read for people who invest in the stock market. I read the previous edition as a supplement to my masters degree assignments. This new edition is well worth reading, if for nothing more than to refresh your current understanding of the market in today's environment. There is quite a few new explanations and additions to this version and Ms. Rockefeller explains all of it very well. Great book.

I want to like this book more than I do. I appreciate the author's friendly and no-nonsense tone. Although I'm a beginner, she seems to know what she's talking about. But I strongly object to how the book is organized. For the first 70 pages, she hints at indicators and approaches, constantly saying "I'll explain this in Chapter 4, I'll explain that in Chapter 11." So, you learn very little, but have high hopes for chapters ahead.Then, she jumps deep into the vagaries of backtesting, without having shown you how to do something a little more elementary, like draw a support line. Like I said, I'm a beginner; I'd never even heard of backtesting, and I really didn't want to wallow within a mysterious and unidentified piece of software before the author showed me how to recognize a resistance line. Hello? Plus, some of the charts could use quite a bit more labeling, and one so far seems to be missing.Hopefully, if I read this book two or three times, I'll squeeze out of it what she put in, but the organization is frankly infuriating.

This is a terrific starting point for technical analysis. It is easily understood and covers just about all the basics. It doesn't push any one view and is therefore a first-rate unbiased survey. Its only bias is toward technical analysis. If someone new to trading asked me what books to read to get started I'd point them to this one and Jack D. Schwager's "Getting Started in Technical Analysis."

This is a great, informative book.It is clearly written and approaches the subject of technical analysis in a concise, clear and comprehensive ways. The sections on chart reading and analysis I found to be particularly invaluable and highly informative. This book talks in detail about the major candlestick indicators (which I didn't know about before) and I found the sections on candlestick indicators to be very valuable. This book also goes into detail about all major technical indicators and how to use them and their pros and cons(MACD, RSI, Fast and Slow Stochastic Oscillators, Bollinger Bands, DMI indicator, etc...).It talked in a clear and informative way about identifying trends and identify trend reversal signals using technical indicators like the MACD as well as with chart reading and candlestick indicators.With what I've learned through this book I almost find myself wondering why people think stock trading is so hard and how could an educated person not make good money on the stock market? There are so many indicators of market changes, so many guiding indicators like the MACD, Stochastic indicators, etc...This book has taught me invaluable and significant information that have already greatly influenced my ability, confididence and profitability as a trader. If your a beginner or intermediate trader, get this book!!The personality of the author did turn me off. However the clarity, value and informativeness of the book absolutely overrode any dislike I had of the author. This is a great book.

I've taken up studying technical analysis over the last few months trying to teach myself how to day trade and this book has been an extremely helpful reference overview of patterns, indicators and just general strategy mindfulness to consider. I keep it close by for reference.