He decided to dedicate his future to learning day trading strategies and that journey led him to ultimately write How To Trade for a Living, a book that helps others to find stocks to day trade, the best brokers for day trading, and the best software for day trading.

What You Will Learn

Day Trading Strategies
  • ABCD pattern trading
  • Bull flag momentum trading
  • Top reversal trading
  • Bottom reversal trading
  • Moving average trend trading
  • VWAP trading
  • Support & resistance trading
Timing
  • When to enter and exit trades
  • Defining stop losses
Trading Psychology
  • How to control emotions trading
Money Management
  • How manage risk and reward
Trading Tools
  • Which software is best for day traders?
Best Brokers For Day Trading
  • Which brokers are best for day traders

4. Technical Analysis Explained

If you want to understand technical analysis for stock trends, Martin Pring’s Technical Analysis Explained has stood the test of time as a proven resource.

The book was first published decades ago and continues to be a bestseller with

good reasons.

It is widely regarded as the Bible of technical analysis because it is so comprehensive.

Indeed, it is designed to give you everything you need to forecast accurately how investors will respond to future events based on how they have statistically responded in the past.

Regardless of whether you trade stocks, ETFs, or commodities, Pring blends the art and science of technical analysis well.

Pring expands beyond stock analysis and focuses on ETFs and how to analyze them.

He also describes in detail his proprietary Pring Special K Indicator.

What You Will Learn

Trend-Determining Techniques
  • Market Cycle model
  • Financial markets and the business cycle
  • Dow theory
  • Parameters for intermediate trends
  • Price patterns
  • One-and-two bar price patterns
  • Trendlines
  • Moving averages
  • Momentum principles
  • Momentum indicators
  • Candle charts
  • Point and figure charting
  • Relative strength
Market Structure
  • Price: major averages
  • Price: group rotation
  • Longer time cycles
  • Volume oscillators
  • Breadth
Market Behavior
  • Why interest rates affect stock market
  • Sentiment indicators
  • Technical analysis & contrary opinion
  • Identifying market peaks and troughs
  • Automated trading systems
  • Technical analysis of global stock markets
  • Technical analysis of individual stocks
Elliott Wave
  • Theory of Elliott Waves

5. Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques

Steve Nison has long been regarded as one of the leading authorities on Japanese Candlesticks trading.

In Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, he walks readers step by step through the theory and practice of this eastern method of investment analysis.

Whether you are looking to gain an edge in futures or equities trading, or simply in hedging and speculation, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques is a one-stop guide.

It covers the basics of Japanese Candlestick charting techniques as well as advanced methods that can be applied to almost any market.

For traders who like to learn through application, hundreds of examples are shown throughout the book.

What You Will Learn

Japanese Candlesticks Basics
  • Background of candle charting techniques
  • How to construct candlestick lines
Reversal Patterns
  • Umbrella lines
    • Hammer
    • Hanging man
  • Engulfing pattern
  • Dark-cloud cover
  • Piercing pattern
Star Patterns
  • Morning star
  • Evening star
  • Morning and evening Doji stars
  • Shooting star
  • Inverted hammer
Reversal Patterns
  • Harami pattern
  • Harami cross
  • Belt-hold lines
  • Upside-gap two crows
  • Three black crows
  • Three advancing white soldiers
  • Three mountains and three rivers
  • Counterattack lines
  • Dumpling tops and frypan bottoms
  • Tower tops and bottoms
Continuation Patterns
  • Windows
  • Tasuki
  • High-price gapping
  • Low-price gapping
  • Rising and falling three methods
Dojis
  • Northern doji
  • Long-legged doji
  • Gravestone doji
  • Dragonfly doji
  • Tri-star
Candles with Trend Lines
  • Springs and upthrusts
  • Change of polarity principle
Candles with Moving Averages
  • Simple moving average
  • Weighted moving average
  • Exponential moving average
  • Applying moving averages
Candles with Oscillators
  • Relative strength index
  • Moving average oscillator
  • Stochastics
  • Moving average convergence-divergence (MACD)
Measured Moves
  • Breakouts from boxes
  • Swing targets
  • Flags
  • Pennants

6 – Technical Analysis For Dummies

If you are a newbie wanting to learn technical analysis from the ground up, Technical Analysis for Dummies is a great place to start.

The book is a step-by-step guide to help you identify stock market trends and spot turning points in order to make decisions in real-time.

The ultimate goal of the book is to help you to improve your portfolio performance through a deep understanding of technical analysis.

Whether you are looking to perform cryptocurrency technical analysis, gold technical analysis, Forex technical analysis, crude oil technical analysis or simply plain vanilla equities analysis, Technical Analysis for Dummies is a comprehensive resource.

What You Will Learn

 

Technical Analysis Toolbox
  • Introduction to technical analysis
  • Charting
  • Market timing
The Essence of Market Movement
  • Identifying crowd behavior
  • Trading mean conversion
  • Retracements
Market Sentiment
  • Tracking on-balance volume
  • Key reversals
  • Volume indicators
The Art of Trading
  • Choosing your trading style
  • Classifying indicators
  • How indicators work
  • Choosing indicators
  • Risks of backtesting
Managing The Trade
  • Building a trading plan
  • Stop loss orders
  • Adding & reducing positions
Reading Basic Bars
  • Identifying an uptrend and downtrend
  • Selecting time frames
Market Behavior
  • Tick and bar placement
  • Trading range
  • Identifying common special bars
  • Filling the gap
  • Average trading range
Japanese Candlesticks
  • Dojis
  • Identifying emotional extremes
  • Reversal patterns
  • Continuation patterns
Pattern Analysis
  • Ascending and descending triangles
  • Double bottoms and double tops
  • Head and shoulders
  • Gaps and retracements
Drawing Trendlines
  • Support and resistance lines
  • How to use linear regression
  • Breakouts and false breakouts
  • Using resistance to enter and exit
Channel Analysis
  • Channel-drawing basics
  • Analyzing breakouts
  • Linear regression analysis
  • Pivot support and resistance
Dynamic Analysis
  • Simple moving averages
  • Exponential moving averages
  • Multiple moving averages
  • MACD analysis
Measuring Momentum
  • How to calculate momentum
  • Applying momentum
  • Determining relative strength index
  • Stochastic oscillators
  • %K and %D indicators
Estimating Volatility
  • Low volatility with and without trending
  • High volatility with and without trending
  • Standard deviation
  • Average true range bands
Point-and-Figure Charting
  • Applying pattern analysis
  • Constant range bars
  • Combining point-and-figure techniques with other indicators
Cycles and Waves
  • Financial cycles
  • Seasonality
  • Gann 50 retracement
Secrets of Top Technical Traders
  • Learn your expectancy
  • The trend is your friend
  • Diversify
Rules for Working with Indicators
  • Use support and resistance
  • Follow the breakout principle
  • Embrace patterns

 

This article has been republished with permission from Investor Mint.