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Stock Charts For Dummies®
by Lita Epstein, Greg Schnell
Stock Charts For Dummies
Cover
Cover
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Stock Charts
Chapter 1: Brushing Up on Stock Charting Basics
Minimizing the Emotional Roller Coaster of Investing
Viewing Stocks from Varying Perspectives
Discovering All the Tools You Can Use with Your Charts
Getting Organized with Your Charts
Customizing Your Charts
Putting Everything Together
Chapter 2: Using Charts to Minimize Your Emotional Roller Coaster
Getting Ready for the Emotions of Owning a Stock
Building a Chart to Track and Control Emotions
Checking Out Index Charts
Defining Trends
Part 2: Viewing the Money Trail through Different Lenses
Chapter 3: Focusing on Chart Settings
Choosing Chart Attributes
Setting Overlays
Selecting Indicators
Chapter 4: Burning the Candle at Both Ends with Candlestick Charts
Deciphering the Parts of a Candlestick Chart
Introducing Color onto a Candlestick Chart
Crafting Your Chart
Reading and Using Your Chart to Make Decisions
Chapter 5: Spotting Differences with Bar Charts
Beginning with Bar Chart Basics
Building a Bar Chart from the Ground Up
Putting a Bar Chart to Work
Chapter 6: Seeing What’s Trending with Line Charts
What Is a Line Chart?
Making a Line Chart the Easy Way
Reading and Using Your Chart Line by Line
Chapter 7: Getting the Lay of the Land with Area Charts
Comparing Area Charts to Line Charts
Making an Area Chart You Can Show Off
Adding a Personal Touch with Styles
Knowing When Area Charts Matter
Part 3: Using Chart Tools for Decision Making
Chapter 8: Charting Different Time Periods
Converting Candlestick Charts to Different Periods
Converting Bar Charts to Different Periods
Converting Line and Area Charts to Different Periods
Taking It One Day at a Time with Daily Charts
Embracing Short-Term Thinking with 60-Minute Charts
Seeing the Big Picture with Weekly Charts
Knowing When a Monthly Chart Can Come in Handy
Picking the Right Chart for the Right Range
Shifting Your Focus to Closing Prices
Chapter 9: Reading a Price Chart
Running with Bulls and Sleeping with Bears: Uptrends and Downtrends
Bucking the Trend: When a Stock Isn’t Trending
Leveling Out: It’s All about the Base
Reaching the Top: Muffins, Spires, or Something Else?
Scaling for Profit: It’s Only Money
Chapter 10: Harnessing the Power of Overlays
Keeping Track of Moving Averages
Getting into the Groove with Channel Investing
Finding Your Sweet Spot between Horizontal Support and Resistance
Chapter 11: Using Indicators to Facilitate Chart Analysis
Beginning with Indicator Basics
Rolling with Momentum Indicators
Using Volume with Price
Determining How Many Indicators to Use on One Chart
Chapter 12: Making Sense of Relative Strength Indicators
Relative Strength Investing Basics: Seeking Better-Performing Stocks
Measuring a Stock’s Relative Strength to the S&P 500, a Sector, and an Industry
Ranking Stocks with SCTR
Checking Out Performance Charts
Using Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG)
Part 4: Getting Organized and Managing Stock Trends
Chapter 13: Organizing Charts into Industry or Sector Groups
Recognizing the Importance of Sectors and Industry Groups
Creating and Populating ChartLists
Organizing Your ChartLists
Chapter 14: Keeping Track of What’s Going On
Making a Watch List
Creating and Using Your Three Main ChartLists
Setting Alerts
Chapter 15: Conducting Breadth Analysis
Investigating Bullish Percent Indexes
Studying the Percentage of Stocks above the 200 DMA
Reviewing the Breadth of Different Exchanges
Chapter 16: A Quick Check of the Week’s Action
Counting the Days
Responding to Weird Price Action
Tracking Key Events
Spotting a Break of Support on Indexes
Part 5: Personalizing Your Stock Charts with Styles
Chapter 17: Customizing Candlestick Charts
Picking Your Personal Candlestick Indicators
Saving Your Personal Style
Trading Using a Candlestick Chart with Your Settings
Sharing Your Customized Charts
Chapter 18: Fine-Tuning Your Bar Charts
Adjusting Bar Chart Settings to Your Liking
Trading Using a Daily Bar Chart with Your Settings
Trading Using a Weekly Bar Chart with Your Settings
Chapter 19: Adjusting Your Line and Area Charts
Creating a Custom Weekly Line Chart
Developing Your Own Monthly Line Chart
Setting Up a Specialized Monthly Area Chart
Part 6: Putting Your Stock Charting Expertise to Work
Chapter 20: Using Your Charts to Inform Your Buy, Hold, and Sell Decisions
Separating the Strong from the Weak
Knowing When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em
Selling Stocks Before They Head South
Chapter 21: Putting It All Together
Gauging the Market’s Direction
Narrowing Your Focus to Certain Sectors
Using Targeted Scans
Working with Price Displays, Overlays, and Indicators
Taking Away Lessons from Your Wins and Losses
Part 7: The Part of Tens
Chapter 22: Ten Common Investing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Trying to Fight the Market Instead of Following It
Buying a Loser
Chasing a 25–35 Percent Off Sale in Great Companies
Falling for a 75 Percent Off Sale
Forgetting That Commodity Stocks Are Very Volatile
Buying a Story Instead of a Stock
Investing in a Sick Sector
Selling a Winner Too Soon
Continuously Avoiding What’s Worked
Not Buying Stocks in Falling Markets
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Cashing In on Tomorrow’s Amazingly Great Stock
Being Prepared for Big Moves in a Short Time
Understanding That You Don’t Have to Be First to Buy
Waiting on the Big-Name IPOs
Seeing Huge Gaps on Earnings
Watching for Crisis in a Stock
Using Volatility to Warn the End Is Near
Measuring Volatility with the Average True Range
Realizing That the SCTR Won’t Help Find Exits
Working with Bollinger Bands
Using the U.S. Dollar as a Guide
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Table of Contents
Cover
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Stock Charts
Chapter 1: Brushing Up on Stock Charting Basics
Minimizing the Emotional Roller Coaster of Investing
Viewing Stocks from Varying Perspectives
Discovering All the Tools You Can Use with Your Charts
Getting Organized with Your Charts
Customizing Your Charts
Putting Everything Together
Chapter 2: Using Charts to Minimize Your Emotional Roller Coaster
Getting Ready for the Emotions of Owning a Stock
Building a Chart to Track and Control Emotions
Checking Out Index Charts
Defining Trends
Part 2: Viewing the Money Trail through Different Lenses
Chapter 3: Focusing on Chart Settings
Choosing Chart Attributes
Setting Overlays
Selecting Indicators
Chapter 4: Burning the Candle at Both Ends with Candlestick Charts
Deciphering the Parts of a Candlestick Chart
Introducing Color onto a Candlestick Chart
Crafting Your Chart
Reading and Using Your Chart to Make Decisions
Chapter 5: Spotting Differences with Bar Charts
Beginning with Bar Chart Basics
Building a Bar Chart from the Ground Up
Putting a Bar Chart to Work
Chapter 6: Seeing What’s Trending with Line Charts
What Is a Line Chart?
Making a Line Chart the Easy Way
Reading and Using Your Chart Line by Line
Chapter 7: Getting the Lay of the Land with Area Charts
Comparing Area Charts to Line Charts
Making an Area Chart You Can Show Off
Adding a Personal Touch with Styles
Knowing When Area Charts Matter
Part 3: Using Chart Tools for Decision Making
Chapter 8: Charting Different Time Periods
Converting Candlestick Charts to Different Periods
Converting Bar Charts to Different Periods
Converting Line and Area Charts to Different Periods
Taking It One Day at a Time with Daily Charts
Embracing Short-Term Thinking with 60-Minute Charts
Seeing the Big Picture with Weekly Charts
Knowing When a Monthly Chart Can Come in Handy
Picking the Right Chart for the Right Range
Shifting Your Focus to Closing Prices
Chapter 9: Reading a Price Chart
Running with Bulls and Sleeping with Bears: Uptrends and Downtrends
Bucking the Trend: When a Stock Isn’t Trending
Leveling Out: It’s All about the Base
Reaching the Top: Muffins, Spires, or Something Else?
Scaling for Profit: It’s Only Money
Chapter 10: Harnessing the Power of Overlays
Keeping Track of Moving Averages
Getting into the Groove with Channel Investing
Finding Your Sweet Spot between Horizontal Support and Resistance
Chapter 11: Using Indicators to Facilitate Chart Analysis
Beginning with Indicator Basics
Rolling with Momentum Indicators
Using Volume with Price
Determining How Many Indicators to Use on One Chart
Chapter 12: Making Sense of Relative Strength Indicators
Relative Strength Investing Basics: Seeking Better-Performing Stocks
Measuring a Stock’s Relative Strength to the S&P 500, a Sector, and an Industry
Ranking Stocks with SCTR
Checking Out Performance Charts
Using Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG)
Part 4: Getting Organized and Managing Stock Trends
Chapter 13: Organizing Charts into Industry or Sector Groups
Recognizing the Importance of Sectors and Industry Groups
Creating and Populating ChartLists
Organizing Your ChartLists
Chapter 14: Keeping Track of What’s Going On
Making a Watch List
Creating and Using Your Three Main ChartLists
Setting Alerts
Chapter 15: Conducting Breadth Analysis
Investigating Bullish Percent Indexes
Studying the Percentage of Stocks above the 200 DMA
Reviewing the Breadth of Different Exchanges
Chapter 16: A Quick Check of the Week’s Action
Counting the Days
Responding to Weird Price Action
Tracking Key Events
Spotting a Break of Support on Indexes
Part 5: Personalizing Your Stock Charts with Styles
Chapter 17: Customizing Candlestick Charts
Picking Your Personal Candlestick Indicators
Saving Your Personal Style
Trading Using a Candlestick Chart with Your Settings
Sharing Your Customized Charts
Chapter 18: Fine-Tuning Your Bar Charts
Adjusting Bar Chart Settings to Your Liking
Trading Using a Daily Bar Chart with Your Settings
Trading Using a Weekly Bar Chart with Your Settings
Chapter 19: Adjusting Your Line and Area Charts
Creating a Custom Weekly Line Chart
Developing Your Own Monthly Line Chart
Setting Up a Specialized Monthly Area Chart
Part 6: Putting Your Stock Charting Expertise to Work
Chapter 20: Using Your Charts to Inform Your Buy, Hold, and Sell Decisions
Separating the Strong from the Weak
Knowing When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em
Selling Stocks Before They Head South
Chapter 21: Putting It All Together
Gauging the Market’s Direction
Narrowing Your Focus to Certain Sectors
Using Targeted Scans
Working with Price Displays, Overlays, and Indicators
Taking Away Lessons from Your Wins and Losses
Part 7: The Part of Tens
Chapter 22: Ten Common Investing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Trying to Fight the Market Instead of Following It
Buying a Loser
Chasing a 25–35 Percent Off Sale in Great Companies
Falling for a 75 Percent Off Sale
Forgetting That Commodity Stocks Are Very Volatile
Buying a Story Instead of a Stock
Investing in a Sick Sector
Selling a Winner Too Soon
Continuously Avoiding What’s Worked
Not Buying Stocks in Falling Markets
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Cashing In on Tomorrow’s Amazingly Great Stock
Being Prepared for Big Moves in a Short Time
Understanding That You Don’t Have to Be First to Buy
Waiting on the Big-Name IPOs
Seeing Huge Gaps on Earnings
Watching for Crisis in a Stock
Using Volatility to Warn the End Is Near
Measuring Volatility with the Average True Range
Realizing That the SCTR Won’t Help Find Exits
Working with Bollinger Bands
Using the U.S. Dollar as a Guide
About the Authors
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