E-Book Overview
John Murphy's "The Visual Investor" is an introduction to technical analysis for the stock investor.This book focuses mostly on technical analysis for stock investors. It offers buy and sell strategies. The book also mentions how technical analysis can be applied for ETF's, commodities, mutual funds, and bonds. Also, it mentions on how investors can use ETF's to take advantage of hard-to-access markets such as commodities, foreign markets, currency, and bonds. It's a 300 page or so book but lots of charts which makes the book a quick read. One of the pluses about this book is that it encourages looking at the bigger picture by looking at monthly and weekly charts as well as the daily charts before making a buy or sell. Also, it encourages on looking at relative strength charts in order to determine best of bread. I consider myself an intermediate investor, mainly a fundamental investor with a couple years of technical analysis experience. I have read books forex trading that covered some technical analysis. This book so far is the best book on technical analysis. This book opened my eyes more on technical analysis.This book is a very good primer on technical analysis. I would recommend is this book to anyone starting out on technical analysis.
E-Book Content
P1: JYS FM JWBT015-Murphy December 2, 2008 9:9 Printer: TBD The Visual Investor i P1: JYS FM JWBT015-Murphy December 2, 2008 9:9 Printer: TBD Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons is the oldest independent publishing company in the United States. With offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, Wiley is globally committed to developing and marketing print and electronic products and services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market’s ever changing temperament and have prospered—some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future. For a list of available titles, visit our Web site at www.WileyFinance.com. ii P1: JYS FM JWBT015-Murphy December 2, 2008 9:9 Printer: TBD The Visual Investor How to Spot Market Trends Second Edition JOHN J. MURPHY John Wiley & Sons, Inc. iii P1: JYS FM JWBT015-Murphy December 2, 2008 9:9 Printer: TBD C 2009 by John J. Murphy. All rights reserved. Copyright Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4470, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchan