The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends (Wiley Trading),   ISBN:9780470382059

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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.

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I expected this book to be about new ways to visually assess charts, something
I am interested in since I use visual cues in my trading.

What I got was a rehash of some very basic charting techniques and indicators,
and some info on basic investment vehicles.

The rest of the book was dedicated to numerous shameless plugs for Murphy's products, investment tools and Internet projects.

I wouldn't even recommend this book to a rank newbie to the investment arena.

Very poor. Something not expected from someone with such a good reputation in
investment.

This is the first book I ever returned to Amazon.....

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This book helps give a general perspective on how to use graphical tools to make financial decisions. I have used the principles to improve my investing.

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This is the book to buy if you are interested in learning about technical analysis of stocks and commodities. This book goes so far as to rename it visual analysis to make it more clearly understood. What this type of trading is doing is basing trading decisions off of measuring price action and volume, with the purpose being to buy stocks at a profit during trends, trend reversals, and off of support and seeing when to sell short into resistance. It shows how to read chart patterns and how to use moving averages to identify trends. You will learn the basics of using oscillators like MACD, stochastics, and Histograms. This book also will get you familiar with RSI and how to measure momentum. I found this book to be the clearest explanation of technical analysis I have seen. I wish it was one of the first books I had read on the subject and not the 100th. Very useful for beginners but experienced traders will likely find it far to basic.

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A top drawer writer of Technical Analysis reaching out to all levels of intellect. John Murphy makes some startling revelations about the elusive stock market. I recommend this text to the students that take my course in "Stock Market Trading."