Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 23, 2021 - Business & Economics - 1312 pages

The market's bestselling and most comprehensive reference on chart patterns, backed by statistics and decades of experience

When the smart money trades the securities markets, they leave behind financial footprints. Combine enough footprints together and you have a trail to follow. That trail becomes what’s called a chart pattern. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition expands upon Bulkowski's immensely popular Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns. Whether you’re new to the stock market or an experienced professional trader, use this book as a reference guide to give you an edge.

Within the pages of this book, you’ll learn how to identify chart patterns, supported by easy-to-understand performance statistics describing how well a pattern works, what the failure rate is, and what special quirks suggest better future performance. You’ll discover how often a stop loss order will trigger at various locations within a chart pattern, how the chart pattern’s performance has evolved over the past three decades, and how to profit from failure by trading busted patterns.

This broadened and revised Third Edition offers investors the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to this popular method of market analysis. Written by a leading expert on chart patterns, Tom Bulkowski, this edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns including 23 new ones, with pictures and performance statistics, packaged within easy-to-read text.

  • Gain essential knowledge of chart patterns and how they are used to predict price movements in bull and bear markets
  • New tables include how often stops are hit, busted pattern performance, performance over the decades, and special pattern features
  • Joining Tour, Identification Guidelines, Focus on Failures, Statistics, Trading Tactics and Sample Trade is Experience. It puts you in the passenger’s seat so you can share lessons learned from Bulkowski's trades
  • This edition reports on statistics from nearly four times the number of samples used in the Second Edition and ten times the number in the First Edition

The Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition further solidifies the reputation of this book as the leading reference on chart patterns, setting it far above the competition.

 

Contents

Chapter 42 HeadandShoulders Tops Complex
636
Chapter 43 Horn Bottoms
653
Chapter 44 Horn Tops
668
Chapter 45 Island Reversals
682
Chapter 46 Measured Move Down
699
Chapter 47 Measured Move Up
713
Chapter 48 Pennants
726
Chapter 49 Pipe Bottoms
743

Chapter 8 Broadening Bottoms
95
Chapter 9 Broadening Formation RightAngled and Ascending
114
Chapter 10 Broadening Formation RightAngled and Descending
132
Chapter 11 Broadening Tops
153
Chapter 12 Broadening Wedge Ascending
175
Chapter 13 Broadening Wedge Descending
192
Chapter 14 BumpandRun Reversal Bottom
208
Chapter 15 BumpandRunReversal Top
227
Chapter 16 Butterfly Bearish
245
Chapter 17 Butterfly Bullish
255
Chapter 18 Cloudbanks
263
Chapter 19 Crab Bearish
277
Chapter 20 Crab Bullish
286
Chapter 21 Cup with Handle
294
Chapter 22 Cup with Handle Inverted
311
Chapter 23 Diamond Bottoms
326
Chapter 24 Diamond Tops
344
Chapter 25 Diving Board
362
Chapter 26 Double Bottoms Adam Adam
379
Chapter 27 Double Bottoms Adam Eve
398
Chapter 28 Double Bottoms Eve Adam
419
Chapter 29 Double Bottoms Eve Eve
438
Chapter 30 Double Tops Adam Adam
458
Chapter 31 Double Tops Adam Eve
476
Chapter 32 Double Tops Eve Adam
494
Chapter 33 Double Tops Eve Eve
510
Chapter 34 Flags
526
Chapter 35 Flags High and Tight
542
Chapter 36 Gaps
555
Chapter 37 Gartley Bearish
568
Chapter 38 Gartley Bullish
577
Chapter 39 HeadandShoulders Bottoms
585
Chapter 40 HeadandShoulders Bottoms Complex
601
Chapter 41 HeadandShoulders Tops
618
Chapter 50 Pipe Tops
760
Chapter 51 Rectangle Bottoms
773
Chapter 52 Rectangle Tops
792
Chapter 53 Roof
811
Chapter 54 Roof Inverted
825
Chapter 55 Rounding Bottoms
839
Chapter 56 Rounding Tops
855
Chapter 57 Scallops Ascending
871
Chapter 58 Scallops Ascending and Inverted
888
Chapter 59 Scallops Descending
903
Chapter 60 Scallops Descending and Inverted
921
Chapter 61 Three Falling Peaks
936
Chapter 62 Three Peaks and Domed House
952
Chapter 63 Three Rising Valleys
960
Chapter 64 Triangles Ascending
976
Chapter 65 Triangles Descending
997
Chapter 66 Triangles Symmetrical
1019
Chapter 67 Triple Bottoms
1040
Chapter 68 Triple Tops
1057
Chapter 69 VBottoms
1075
Chapter 70 VBottoms Extended
1089
Chapter 71 VTops
1104
Chapter 72 VTops Extended
1118
Chapter 73 Wedges Falling
1131
Chapter 74 Wedges Rising
1148
Chapter 75 Wolfe Wave Bearish
1164
Chapter 76 Wolfe Wave Bullish
1174
Statistics Summary
1184
Glossary
1197
Visual Index of Chart Patterns
1212
Index
1221
EULA
1289
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About the author (2021)

THOMAS BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with 40 years of experience trading stocks. He is a leading expert on chart patterns and an internationally known author of nine Wiley titles including Chart Patterns: After the Buy and Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition.

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