Bloomberg Visual Guide to Candlestick Charting

Michael C. Thomsett 지음

Bloomberg Press 2012년 01월 19일 출간

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The easy-to-use guide to interpreting candlestick charts and derivative marketsCandlestick charts are an effective way of visualizing price movements and, due to the increased interest in the complex derivatives market, they are being used more and more widely. A combination of a line-chart and a bar-chart, where each bar represents the range of price movement over a given time interval, candlestick charts are most often used in technical analysis of equity and currency price patterns. A guide to the most used charts, The Bloomberg Visual Guide to Candlestick Charting is arranged in an easy-to-use manner, providing a quick reference for those new to the field.Candlestick charts are formed with the help of the opening, high, low, and closing price of the day-if the opening price is above the closing price then a filled candlestick is drawn, and these charts are visual aids for decision making in forex, stock, commodities, and options trading.Contains alphabetical explanations of over 200 candlestick and related termsIncludes daily charts of 50 companies, and six-month charts for comparative explanations of candlesticks with Western-style technical indicatorsWritten by Michael C. Thomsett, author of over sixty books and hundreds of articles, including the bestselling Getting Started in Bonds, also published by WileyEnhanced eBook editions offer video tutorials, test-yourself quizzes, and full-color/interactive charts and graphs, available for purchase separately.A practical and concise resource for anyone new to this way of representing derivatives, The Bloomberg Visual Guide to Candlestick Charting presents sometimes confusing concepts in a format that is easy to understand and digest.

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Introduction: The Value of Candlestick Charting viiChapter 1: Types of Charts 1Chapter 2: The History of Candlesticks 11An Era of Commerce and Growth 11The God of the Markets 12Candlesticks Come to America 13Chapter 3: Candlesticks and Their Attributes 15The Importance of Long Candlesticks 18The Opposite: The Extremely Narrow-Range Session 18Attributes Missing in Candlestick Analysis 19Chapter 4: Pitfalls of Candlesticks 21Chapter 5: Confirmation 29Chapter 6: The Six Basic Candlesticks 31Chapter 7: Candlestick Alphabetical Entries 36Chapter 8: Noncandlestick Confirmation Indicators and Terms 246Appendix: Bloomberg Functionality Cheat Sheet 370Bibliography 371Index 372

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저자(글) Michael C. Thomsett

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Michael C. Thomsett is a financial writer with over sixty books and hundreds of articles to his credit, including the eight editions of Getting Started in Options, as well as Getting Started in Swing Trading, Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis, Getting Started in Property Flipping, and Getting Started in Rental Income. He has been a management consultant in the securities industries and is an active options trader.