'A well written book to bring you up to sped on the tools of trading and how you can best use them.'
Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading, The Right Stock at the Right Time, How I Made $1,000,000 Trading Commodities

'In The Financial Times Guide To Technical Analysis, Jacinta Chan takes you through the entire process of trading. Following Chan's approach will help you preserve your capital and send you on the road to success.'
Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan, Editor of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine

The Financial Times Guide To Technical Analysis begins with the very basics of technical analysis and market price behaviours and then teaches you how to apply these concepts and principles to your own trading.

With this comprehensive and straight talking guide you will soon be using the same successful techniques and formulas as the professionals.

The Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis shows you how to:

• Understand those trading systems that will generate high returns
• Identify price patterns and trends
• Use the right technical indicators to get the best out of the markets
• Write and execute a trading plan that increases your chances of beating the market

• What do traders know?
  • Introduction - The market technicians
  • Know the market: how to read and construct charts
  • History has a habit of repeating itself
  • Spot the bubble and win
  • Follow the winners: trading with the trend
  • The tools that professionals use
  • Leading technical indicators in the market
  • The profit opportunities
  • Wave after wave
  • Booms and busts: risks and returns
  • The secret
• Trading with professional technical systems
  • Introduction: the trading game plan
  • Technical indicators to use
  • Principles of a technical algorithm trading system
  • Understanding market characteristics and what to do
  • Simple formulas to design your own trading models
  • Programming trading rules into your system
  • How to write a good trading plan
  • Losing a little to grow your capital
  • Practise stop loss
  • Fine tuning the trading wheel
  • The total trader - winning trading psychology