Technical Analysis For Dummies by Barbara Rockefeller
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Book Reviews of Technical Analysis For Dummies
Book Review: Does not have examples
Summary: 2 Stars
I want to be honest for this book. I'm a daily trader and want to learn more about technical analysis. After I read this book I notice that this book does not have any examples to make it understandable for readers. It just has explanations that make it boring to read. In my opinion find a book that has examples about real situation during trading stocks. YOU CAN NOT LEARN ONLY WITH EXPLENATIN. My suggestion is read other technical analysis books reviews to find out which one have both explanations follow by examples. Good luckBook Review: Typical dummies book
Summary: 2 Stars
There was a modest amount of good info embedded in a lot of fluff and useless verbiage which is typical of these dummy books. I found myself having to carefully review and sometimes reread sections to parse out the important bits. I think what I really needed was just a book of pictures of chart patterns with short explanations for each one. Anyway I got enough out of this to get me started but it was more work on my part than it needed to be.Book Review: There's gotta be better than this
Summary: 2 Stars
The author attempts a very difficult subject and falls flat on her face.
Very unclear. Sentences an English professor couldn't diagram. Most any other book on Technical Analysis would be better
Book Review: Plain English
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't say I read this whole book, because, I started to read it and found from a markets perspective I couldn't agree with much of what it said. That probably applies to T/A in general, mind, not just this book. However, it does confirm that this book isn't really managing to sell T/A. There are too many qualifications about indicators and rules which if you take on, rather than ignore, make some of these systems no better than a crack-pot lottery system. Also, having dipped into various chapters there seem to be cases of things only being glossed over, such as candlesticks.
Much cases, of may, might, probable, etc. If you want to get rich quick, first learn how to do the DD and value analysis. Then use T/A if you must to provide some support to your entry and exits into investments, but do not invest on the basis of charts alone. You may win some, and then lose some, and win some, and lose some, and lose some, and over time, unless lucky, you'll probably lose some more than you win some. Of course, there are lucky people. Don't take these people as being statistically representative of whether T/A works or not!
Sorry; the book doesn't do it for me, though I'm quite positive there will be more succint books produced by sharper traders which will act as better guides.
Book Review: Covers too much without depth and out of date
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this book to learn about the technical indicators used in day trading. The 4 or 5 pages I had skimmed at the store were nice summaries, but I was very disappointed that it didn't go into any real detail without enough examples or charts to explain things. This book does cover the history and philosophy of day trading, so if you are really clueless, it's not a bad start, but don't expect to execute any day trades after reading just this book.