The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends

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John Wiley & Sons, 1996 - Business & Economics - 306 pages
Praise for THE VISUAL INVESTOR

"John Murphy is one of a rare breed: an expert technical analyst who can actually write. This combination of skills helped make his Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets a classic. Now John has written the perfect overview aimed specifically at the stock investor who wants to learn technical analysis. . . . The Visual Investor offers a complete course in technical analysis, lucid enough to be accessible to the novice, yet thorough enough to range well beyond the basics. . . . [It] is must reading for the stock and mutual fund investor who wants to start incorporating technical analysis as a decision-making tool."
--Jack D. Schwager Author, The New Market Wizards and Technical Analysis

"The challenge of technical analysis is that it can be so technical. Now John Murphy, through The Visual Investor, explains everything for the common investor who wants to use technical analysis but doesn't want an overly complicated presentation."
--Thom Hartle Editor, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine

"As my research group relies heavily on market analysis for its research product, we get numerous inquiries from professional investors on where to find books on this topic. John Murphy's The Visual Investor is my first recommendation to the novice investor as well as the investment professional. . . . [It] is the simplest and most helpful first look at markets that I have seen."
--John Kozey III, CFA, CMT Equity Research Director, Bridge Trading Company
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
The Trend Is Your Friend
15
Pictures That Tell a Story
41
Your Best Friend in a Trend
73
Is It Overbought or Oversold?
95
How to Have the Best of Both Worlds
119
Market Linkages
137
Stock Sectors
159
Sectors and Industry Groups
195
Mutual Funds
215
Global Investing
235
CONCLUSION
259
Resources
267
Market Breadth
273
Japanese Candlesticks
281
Glossary
289

The Dollars Impact on Smaller Stocks
169
Relative Strength and Rotation
177

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About the author (1996)

JOHN MURPHY has been the technical analyst for CNBC-TV for the past six years. He is the author of the bestselling Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets and Intermarket Technical Analysis (Wiley). Mr. Murphy is President of MURPHYMORRIS, Inc. which was created (with software developer Greg Morris) to produce interactive educational products and services in the field of technical (visual) analysis. Their Web site is www.murphymorris.com.

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