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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Has Changed? | |
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| Fand Categories | |
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| Global Funds | |
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| Investors Need to Be Informed | |
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| Benfits of Visual Investing | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| What Is Visual Investing? | |
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| Why Market Analysis? | |
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| The Trend Is to Blend | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Why Study the Market? | |
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| Chartists Are Cheaters | |
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| It's Always Just Supply and Demand | |
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| Charts Are Just Faster | |
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| Charts Do Look Ahead | |
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| Pictures Don't Lie | |
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| Picture Anything You Want | |
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| The Market's Always Right | |
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| It's All About Trend | |
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| Isn't past Always Prologue? | |
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| Timing is Everything | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Trend Is Your Frlend | |
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| What Is a Trend? | |
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| Support and Resistance Levels | |
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| Role Reversal | |
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| Short Versus Long Term | |
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| Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Charts | |
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| Recent Versus Distant Distant Past? | |
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| Trendllines | |
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| Channel Lines | |
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| Retracing Our steps by One. Third, One-Half, and Two Thirds | |
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| Weekly Reversals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Pictures That Tell a Story | |
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| Chart Types | |
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| Time Choices | |
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| Scaling | |
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| Volume Analysis | |
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| Chart Patterns | |
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| Measuring Techinques | |
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| Even the Fed Is Charting | |
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| The Triangle | |
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| Polnt-and-Figure Charts | |
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| Chart Pattern Recognition Software | |
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| Indicatiors | |
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| Your Best Friend in a Trend | |
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| Two Classes of Indicators | |
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| The Moving Average | |
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| The Simple Average | |
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| Weighting the Average or Smoothing it? | |
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| Moving Average Lengths | |
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| Moving Average Combinations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Is Overbought or Oversold? | |
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| Measuring Overbought and Oversold Conditions | |
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| Divergentum | |
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| Momentum | |
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| Welles Wilder's Relative Strength Index | |
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| The Stochastics Oscillator | |
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| Combine RSI and Stochastics | |
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| Summary | |
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| How Lo Have the Best of Both Worlds | |
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| MACD Constrction | |
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| MACD as Trend-Following Indicator | |
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| MACD as an Oscilator | |
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| MACD Divergences | |
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| How to Blend Dally and Weekly Signals | |
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| How to Make MACD Even Batter-The Histogram | |
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| Be Sure to Watch Monthly Signals | |
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| How to Know Which Indicators to Use | |
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| The Average Directional Movement (ADX) Line | |
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| Summary | |
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| Linkago | |
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| Market Linkage | |
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| The Asset Allocation Process | |
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| The Relative Strength Ratlo | |
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| 2002 Shift from Paper to Hard Assets | |
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| Commodlty/Bond Ratio also Turned up | |
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| Turns in the Bond/Stock Ratio | |
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| 2007 Ratio Shifts Back to Bonds | |
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| Bonds Rise as Stocks Falp | |
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| Falling U.S. Rates Hurt the Dollar | |
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| Falling Dollar Pushes Gold to Record High | |
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| Commodity-Related Stocks | |
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| Foreign Stocks Are Linked to the Dollar | |
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| Commodity Exporters Get Bigger Boost | |
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| Global Decoupling is a Myth | |
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| Rislng Yen Threatens Global Stocks | |
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| Review of 2004 Intermarket Book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Market Breadth | |
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| Measuring Market Breadth with NYSE AD Line | |
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| NYSE AD Line Violates Moving Average Lines | |
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| Advance-Decline Shows Negative Divergence | |
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| Where the Negative Divergences Were Located | |
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| Retail Stocks Start to Underperform During 2007 | |
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| Retailers and Homebuilders Were Linked | |
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| Consumers are also squeezed by Rising Oil | |
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| Dow Theory | |
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| Transports Don't Confirm Industrial High | |
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| Percent of NYSE Stock above 200-Day Average | |
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| NYSE Bullish Percent Index | |
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| Point-and Figure Version of BPI | |
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| Summary | |
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| Relative Strength and Rotation | |
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| Uses of Relative Strength | |
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| Top-Down Analysis | |
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| Relative Strength versus Absolute Performance | |
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| Using Relative Strength between Stocks | |
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| Comparing Gold Stocks to Gold | |
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| How to Spot New Market Leaders | |
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| Where the Money Came from | |
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| Spotting Rotation Back into Large Caps | |
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| Trend Changes Are Easy to Spot | |
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| Rotation within Market Sectors | |
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| Chinese Stocks Lose Leadership Role | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds | |
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| Sectors and Industry Groups | |
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| Difference between Sectors and Industry Groups | |
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| Performance Charts | |
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| Sector Carpets | |
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| Using Market Carpet to Find Stock Leaders | |
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| Industry Group Leader | |
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| Sector Trends Need to Be Monitored | |
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| Information on Sectors and Industry Groups | |
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| Spotting Natural Gas Leadership | |
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| Natural Gas Components | |
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| CBOE Volatility (VIX) Index | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mutual Funds | |
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| What Works on Mutual Funds | |
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| Open- versus Closed-End Funds | |
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| Charting Adjustments on Open-End Funds | |
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| Blending Fundamental and Technical Funds | |
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| Relatlve Strength Analysis | |
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| Traditional and Nontraditional Mutual Funds | |
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| Keep It Simple | |
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| 200-Day Moving Average and Housing | |
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| Natural Gas Breakout | |
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| Consumer Discretionary Broakdown | |
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| Bear Crossing Sinks Chips | |
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| Negative ROC Hurts Technology | |
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| Consumer Staples Hold Up Okay | |
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| Retail Ratio Plunges | |
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| Energizing a Portfolio | |
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| Latin America Leads | |
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| Real Estate Is Glonbal | |
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| Profunds Rising Rates Fund | |
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| Profunds Falling U.S. Dollar Fund | |
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| Commodity Mutual Funds | |
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| Inverse Stock Funds | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exchange-Traded Funds | |
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| ETFs versus Mutual Funds | |
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| Using ETFs to Hedge | |
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| Using a Bear ETF | |
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| Trading the Nasdaq 100 | |
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| Using Sector ETFs | |
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| Inverse Sector ETFs | |
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| Using Technology as a Market Indicator | |
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| Commodity ETFs | |
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| Foreign Currency ETFs | |
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| Bond ETFs | |
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| International ETFs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Why It's Called Visual Inversting | |
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| The Media Will Always Tell You Why Later | |
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| Media Views Keep Shifting | |
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| Visual Analysis Is More User Frjendly | |
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| Keep It Simple | |
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| Visual Tools Are Universal | |
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| The Stock Market Leads the Economy | |
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| Prices Lead the Fundaments | |
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| Sector Investing | |
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| Exchange-Traded Funds | |
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| A Year After the 2007 Top | |
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| Warning Signs were Clearly Visible | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Find a Good Web Slte | |
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| Use the Readers Choice Awards | |
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| StockCharts.com | |
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| ChartSchool | |
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| Online Bookstore | |
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| Investor's Business Daily | |
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| Stock Scans | |
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| Bullish Percent Indexes | |
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| DecisionPoint.com | |
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| McClellan Breadth Indicators | |
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| Japanese Candlesticks | |
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| Candlestick Patterns | |
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| Bullish Engulfing Patterns | |
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| Stock Scan Candlestick Patterns | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Point-and-Figure Charting | |
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| Triple and Quadruple Signals | |
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| How to Vary P&F Charts for Sensltlvity | |
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| There's No Doubt about P&F Singnals | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |