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• Archive: http://archive.is/b3lG4 DESCRIPTIONA comprehensive guide to technical analysis for both the novice and the professionalTechnical analysis is a vital tool for any trader, asset manager, or investor who wants to earn top returns.
• Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers lets you combine technical analysis and fundamental analysis using existing technical signals to improve your investing performance.
• Author Tom Lloyd Sr. explains all the technical indicators you need to know, including moving averages, relative strength, support and resistance, sell and buy signals, candlesticks, point and figure charts, Fibonacci levels, Bollinger Bands, and both classic and new indicators.
• Merging these technical indicators with fundamental analysis will keep you in a portfolio of outperforming stocks, sharpen your fundamental buy discipline, and put your sell discipline on autopilot.Includes case studies applying technical analysis to current trending and hotly debated stocks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and NetflixOffers thorough and straightforward guidance on technical analysis for both professional and individual investorsCovers the vital indicators in the public domain that investors need to knowWhether you're an individual investor who wants to beat the indexes, a trader looking for high-risk, high-return positions, or a portfolio manager who wants to take a fundamental approach, this an ideal guide to technical analysis and indicators.TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxiCHAPTER 1 Using Moving Averages and Relative Strength Performance to Beat the Index 1Relative Strength Index, Money Flow Index, Keltner Channels, and Standard Deviation, with Apple Exhibits Know the Playing Field 1Apple Computer’s 200-Day Moving Average 320-, 50-, and 200-Day Moving Averages 4Relative Strength versus the S&P 500 Index 6Keltner Channels 8Mean Reversion 8Breakout Signal 9Apple’s Top at $644 9Relative Strength Index (RSI) 10Money Flow Index (MFI) 10Standard Deviation (StdDev) 11Relative Strength Performance, AAPL: $SPX 11Supply and Demand 12Summary 13CHAPTER 2 On-Balance Volume, Accumulation/Distribution, Chaikin Money Flow, Pivot Point, Resistance and Support, and Point & Figure Chart, with Apple and Google Exhibits 15Price and Volume 16Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) 18Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) 18Value-Added Signals 19Using Moving Averages 19Pivot Point, Support and Resistance Points 20Reverse Head-and-Shoulders Bottom 20Apple Earnings Report 21Case Study Questions on Apple 22Planning for Apple’s Earnings Report 22You Must Now Make a Decision on Apple before Earnings 25Answers to the Case Study Questions 25Summary of the Apple Case Study 30Google Case Study 30Summary of the Google Case Study 38CHAPTER 3 Bottoms and Tops, Buying and Selling Cycles, and Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO), with IBM and Hewlett-Packard Exhibits 39Inverted Head-and-Shoulders Bottom 39Double Top and “V” Bottom 41Resistance 41Cycles 42Writing Puts and Calls 42The “Cloud Stocks” for the Future 43Long-Term Investing 43Buy-and-Hold Strategy Is Problematic 44Hewlett-Packard Case Study 46Case Study Answer 47Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO) 49My Answer to the Case Study 51Summary 51CHAPTER 4 Sell Signals 53Double Top, Failed Momentum, 10- and 20-Day Trends, Broken Support, Aroon Oscillator, and Directional Movement with ADX, with Herbalife Exhibits Technical Signals before a Blowup 53Technical Signals after a Blowup 54Double-Top Warning 56The 10- and 20-Day Moving Average Signals 58Aroon Oscillator and Directional Movement 59Comments after the Herbalife Blowup 60Herbalife Case Study Challenge 62Answers to the Case Study Questions 64The Daily Chart Looks More Bearish 65Summary 67CHAPTER 5 Supply and Demand, Candlestick Signals, and Point & Figure Chart, with Facebook Exhibits 69Candlestick Sell Signal for Facebook 69Failed Facebook versus Lucky LinkedIn 70Portfolio Managers PreferFundamental Analysis 71The Facebook IPO Game 72Facebook Selloff 73Facebook Dives Because of Supply 74Traders Look for Inefficient Markets 75Facebook Secrets Took Price Down 76Facebook: The Rush to Sell on the First Day 77Facebook Price in Search of a Bottom 78Why Is Price Going Down?
• 79Seeing Demand/Supply on the Chart 80Waiting for Buy Signals 81Picture of a “Busted IPO” 82Point & Figure Chart Shows Continued Selling 83On-Balance Volume 86Accumulation/Distribution 86Summary Picture of Supply and Demand 88Facebook’s First Earnings Report 88CMF Signal 89MFI and MACD Signals 90Gravestone Doji Candlestick Signal 90Pivot Point Support/Resistance Levels 91Day–Trading Signals 91Tremendous Supply Overhang 93Summary 93CHAPTER 6 Breakout Signals 95Ascending Triangle, Bullish Rectangle, Double Bottom, and Falling Wedge, with Microsoft, Lululemon, and HomeDepot Exhibits Double Bottom and Bullish Rectangle Breakout 95What Is Wrong with Microsoft?