Contents

Introduction                                                                                                                                                         

Part 1. Trend-Determining Techniques                                                                    

1. Market Cycle Model                                                                                                 
2. Financial Markets and the Business Cycle                                                               
3. Dow Theory                                                                                                            
4. Typical Parameters for Intermediate Trends                                                           
5. Price Patterns                                                                                                         

6. Smaller Price Patterns                                                                                                         
7. One and Two-Bar Price Patterns                                                                             
8. Trendlines                                                                                                               
9. Moving Averages                                                                                                    
10. Momentum Principles                                                                                            
11. Individual Momentum Indicators I                                                                         
12. Individual Momentum Indicators II                                                                       

13. Candle Charts                                                                                                       

14. Point and Figure Charting                                                                                     
15. Miscellaneous Techniques for Determining Trends                                                
16. The Concept of Relative Strength                                                                         

17. Putting the Techniques Together: The DJ Transports 1990-2001                         

Part 2. Market Structure                                                                                           

18. Price: The Major Averages                                                                                    
19. Price: Group Rotation                                                                                            
20. Time: Longer-Term Cycles                                                                                     
21. Practical Identification of Cycles                                                                            
22. Volume: General Principles                                                                                   
23. Volume Oscillators                                                                                                

24. Breadth                                                                                                                 

Part 3. Interest Rates and the Stock Market                                                           

25. Why Interest Rates Affect the Stock Market                                                         
26. Sentiment Indicators                                                                                            
27. Applying Technical Analysis to the Theory of Contrary Troughs                            
28. Checkpoints for Indentifying Primary Stock Market Peaks and Troughs                
29. Automated Trading Systems                                                                                 
30. Technical Analysis of Global Stock Markets                                                           
31. Technical Analysis of Individual Stocks                                                                  

Epilogue                                                                                                                     

Appendix The Elliott Wave                                                                                        

Glossary                                                                                                                     

Bibliography                                                                                                              

Index