Technical Analysis: A Personal Seminar

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New York Institute of Finance, 1989 - Business & Economics - 239 pages
This seminar is designed to show novices how to evaluate stocks in light of their own investment goals or limitations. It explains the basic elements of securities analysis and discusses methods to use for deciding on the purchase of a specific security. Beginning investors will learn the different types of common stocks, the means for assessing investment risk, basic principles of fundamental analysis and how to read a financial statement. Relying only on arithmetic that can be performed easily with a pocket calculator, the text also demonstrates the formulas necessary for informed stock evaluation.

Contents

Charts
9
Trends and Trendlines
41
The Longs the Shorts and the Uncommitted
73
Accumulation
105
The Markup Phase
135
Distribution
161
The Markdown Phase
189
Sources of Information
211
Index
229
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