Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Analysis: A CD-ROM Seminar and Workbook

Book excerpt: Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Anaylsis: A CD-ROM Seminar and Workbook, produced by leading technical analyst and author Martin Pring, explains and demonstrates tools used by the world's foremost technical analysts to evaluate emerging trends. This technically state-of-the-art package then goes further, to provide specific steps you can take to turn these analyses into profit-producing trades. Using the effective CD-ROM/workbook format, you'll learn how to: Research and construct instantly valuable charts of stock and market activity; Interpret the basic concepts of momentum, and apply the theory to actual trades through a common sense set of trading strategies; Use price and volume pattern to identify breakouts; Analyze and act on peaks and troughs that can signal a change in the prevailing trend; Calculate moving averages and gauge their impact. Pricing also includes savvy advice on when to buy, when to take profits, and how to identify and handle false breakouts. More than three hours of CD tutorial, including video, animated diagrams, realistic movies, and audio clips let you develop and hone your technical analysis skills, with an interactive quiz at the end of each chapter.