Integrating Technical Analysis for the Investor

Overview :

"A book on Technical Analysis written for the Investor 


Yes, it is possible to use technical analysis for investing, not just trading! Technical analysis has always been seen as a tool for short-term trading rather than investing. Through this book, the author will share with investors an original approach to technically define the trend for the various time frames - Daily, Weekly, Monthly and so on. The book will reveal the consistent relationship between the time frames. It explains which time frame dictates a market's behavior and shows how to invest better with the knowledge of the larger time frames. 


The book's second innovation is to help investors integrate technical trend, timing and price indicators for market entry and exit. This approach "integrates" signals from various technical tools rather than rely on signals from a single indicator, whether it be timing or price for entry and exit. This integrated approach has been effectively used by the author for investing for many years.


Learn :

• Time tested techniques to define a market's trend

• To integrate trend, timing and time indicators for optimal market entry and exit in trending and non-trending market environments

• About the two-way and three-way relationships between monthly, weekly and daily time frames 

• How to invest better with the knowledge of the relationship of multiple time frames of markets


About the author


BC Low (CMT) has been a teacher-cum-practitioner in Technical Analysis since the 1980s. Low has published in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities in September 2010 and November 2012. He has delivered many seminars to various financial institutions in Singapore and abroad. He was the President of the Singapore Technical Analysts & Traders Society (STATS) in 2011-13. Formerly a Senior Lecturer in Singapore Polytechnic, he developed and taught two modules of Technical Analysis from 1992 to 2011. He was the technical analyst at Merrill Lynch International Bank, and currently Low is President of Technical Analysis Consultancy, Singapore.


CONTENTS


Foreword 


Chapter 1 Introduction 

Technical Analysis is about Probability

Technical vs Fundamental Analysis

Where does Technical Analysis work best?

Holy Grail versus a Tool Box 

Integration is Key

Technical Analysis is also for long-term investment 


Chapter 2 Forecasting Trend with Price Action

Defining Trend with Price Levels 

Defining Trend with Selected Price Patterns 

Defining Trend with Selected Candlesticks 


Chapter 3 Forecasting Trend with 10 & 40 Exponential Moving Averages 

Moving Average Basics 

10/40 Exponential Moving Averages Trend Signals

10/40 Exponential Moving Averages as Support/Resistance in Trending Markets

10/40 Exponential Moving Averages in Congesting Markets


Chapter 4 Price Targets with Bollinger Bands 

Bollinger Bands Formulation

Applications in a Congestion

Applications in a Trending Market

Applications at the End of a Trend

Bollinger Bands Constraints


Chapter 5 Price Targets with Fibonacci Ratios 

Fibonacci Basics

Retracement Projections

Expansion Projections

Tactical Issues in Fibonacci Technique


Chapter 6 Timing with Stochastics 

Stochastics Structure

Stochastics Timing Signals in a Congestion 

Stochastics Buy Timing in an Uptrend 

Stochastics Sell Timing in a Downtrend

Why do Stochastics timing signals work in trends?

Stochastics Counter-trend Signals in a Trending Market


Chapter 7 Timing with Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) 

MACD Formulation 

MACD Trend Signal

MACD Divergence Signal

MACD Timing Signals

MACD & Stochastics Compared


Chapter 8 Integrating Trend, Timing & Price 

Integrating 10/40 EMA Change of trend with Price Action

Integrating 10/40 EMA Change of trend with MACD

Integrating 10/40 EMA with various indicators in resumption of trend

Integrating Price with Stochastics in a Strong Trend

Integrating Candlesticks with Bollinger Bands & Stochastics in a Congestion


Chapter 9 Time Frames Technique for Long Term Investment 


Defining Time Frame Technique

Benefits of Time Frame Technique

Time Frame Principles

4 Important Time Frame Relationships

Time Frame Guidelines 

Making the Most of Time Frames


Chapter 10 Managing Positions 

Fear and Greed 

Pyramiding 

Lower Price Stocks

Partial Exit 

The "Crowded Trade" 

Managing Long Term Positions 

On Following Recommendations

Your Own Portfolio of Preferred Stocks

An Investment Model that Suits You.


Concluding Remarks