CMT reading list:

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author
Pring,
Martin J.

book
Technical Analysis Explained, 5th
Edition, McGraw Hill Book
Company, New York, NY, c.2014,
ISBN 978-0-07-182517-7

contents
cmt1
Chapters:
2. Financial Markets and the Business Cycle
3. Dow Theory
4. Typical Parameters for Intermediate Trends
6. Trendlines
7. Basic Characteristics of Volume
8. Classic Price Patterns
9. Smaller Price Patterns and Gaps
10. One- and Two-Bar Price Patterns
11. Moving Averages
13. Momentum I: Basic Principles
14. Momentum II: Individual Indicators
15. Momentum III: Individual Indicators
16. Candlestick Charting
18. Miscellaneous Techniques for Determining Trends
19. The Concept of Relative Strength
21. Price: The Major Averages
22. Price: Sector Rotation
24. Time: Cycles and Seasonal Patterns
25. Practical Identification of Cycles
26. Volume II: Volume Indicators
27. Market Breadth
28. Indicators and Relationships That Measure Confidence
29. The Importance of Sentiment
30. Integrating Contrary Opinion and Technical Analysis
31. Why Interest Rates Affect the Stock Market
32. Using Technical Analysis to Select Individual Stocks
33. Technical Analysis of International Stock Markets
34. Automated Trading Systems
35. Checkpoints for Identifying Primary Stock Market Peaks and Troughs
cmt2
Chapters:
19. The Concept of Relative Strength
22. Price: Sector Rotation

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Edwards,
Robert D.,
Magee,
John, and
Bassetti,
W.H.C.

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends,

10th Edition, CRC Press, Taylor
& Francis Group, Boca Raton,
Florida, c2013, ISBN 978-1-4398-
9818-5

contents
25. Practical Identification of Cycles
31. Why Interest Rates Affect the Stock Market
34. Automated Trading Systems
35. Checkpoints for Identifying Primary Stock Market Peaks and Troughs
cmt1
Chapters:
1. The technical approach to trading and investing
2. Charts
3. The Dow Theory
4. The Dow Theorys defects
6. Important Reversal Patterns
7. Important Reversal Patterns: continued
8. Important Reversal Patterns: the Triangles
9. Important Reversal Patterns: continued
10. Other Reversal phenomena
11. Consolidation Formations
12. Gaps
13. Support and Resistance
14. Trendlines and Channels
15. Major Trendlines
24. The probable moves of your stocks
28. What is a bottom, what is a top?
29. Trendlines in action
30. Use of Support and Resistance
31. Not all in one basket
32. Measuring implications in technical chart patterns
38. Balanced and diversified
40. How much capital to use in trading
41. Application of capital in practice
42. Portfolio risk management
cmt2
Chapters:
17. A summary and concluding comments
23. Choosing and managing high-risk stocks: tulip stocks, Internet
sector, and speculative frenzies
24. The probable moves of your stocks
27. Stop orders

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Kirkpatrick,
Charles D.
and
Dahlquist,
Julie R.

Technical Analysis The Complete

Resource for Financial Market
Technicians 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education, Inc., c. 2011, ISBN-10:
0-13-705944-2; ISBN-13: 978-
0-13-705944-7

contents
28. What is a bottom, what is a top?
41. Application of capital in practice
42. Portfolio risk management
cmt1
Chapters:
1. Introduction to Technical Analysis
2. The Basic Principle of Technical Analysis The Trend
3. History of Technical Analysis
4. The Technical Analysis Controversy
5. An Overview of Markets
6. Dow Theory
8. Measuring Market Strength
9. Temporal Patterns and Cycles
10. Flow of Funds
11. History and Construction of Charts
12. Trends The Basics
14. Moving Averages
15. Bar Chart Patterns
17. Short-Term Patterns
18. Confirmation
19. Cycles
20. Elliott, Fibonacci, and Gann
21. Selection of Markets and Issues: Trading and Investing
22. System Design and Testing
23. Money and Risk Management
Appendix A Basic Statistics
Appendix B Types of Orders and Other Trader Terminology
cmt2
Chapters:
7. Sentiment
10. Flow of Funds
13. Breakouts, Stops, and Retracements
14. Moving Averages
15. Bar Chart Patterns
17. Short-Term Patterns
18. Confirmation
19. Cycles

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du Plessis,
Jeremy

The Definitive Guide to Point and

Figure 2nd Edition, Harriman
House LTD, 2012, ISBN: 978-
0857192-
45-5. Click on the following link to
buy it at an MTA members special
discount:
www.updata.co.uk/shop/mtabooko
ffer.asp

contents
20. Elliott, Fibonacci, and Gann
21. Selection of Market and Issues: Trading and Investing
22. System Design and Testing
23. Money and Risk Management
Appendix A Basic Statistics
cmt1
Chapters:
1. Introduction to Point and Figure Charts
2. Characteristics and Construction
3. Understanding Point and Figure Charts
4. Projecting Price Targets
For those using the second edition of the du Plessis book
Chapters:
1. Introduction of Point and Figure Charts
2. Characteristics and Construction
3. Understanding Patterns and Signals
4. Understanding and using Trend lines
5. Projecting Price Targets
cmt2
Chapters:
5. Analyzing Point and Figure Charts
6. Point and Figure Charts of Indicators
7. Optimization of Point and Figure Charts
8. Point and Figures Contribution to Market Breadth
9. Advanced Point and Figure Techniques
For those using the second edition of the du Plessis book:
Chapters:
6. Analyzing Point and Figure Charts
7. Point and Figure charts of Indicators
8. Optimization of Point and Figure Charts
9. Point and Figures Contribution to Market Breadth
10. Advanced Point and Figure Techniques

Nison,

Japanese Candlestick Charting

cmt3
Chapters:
All Chaptersell
cmt2

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Kaufman,
Perry J.

book
Techniques, 2nd Edition, New York
Institute of Finance

New Trading Systems and

Methods, 5th Edition, John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., c.2005,2013, ISBN 978-
1-118-04356-1

contents
Chapters:
1. Introduction
2. A Historical Background
3. Constructing the Candlestick
4. Reversal Patterns
5. Stars
6. More Reversal Patterns
7. Continuation Patterns
9. Putting It All Together
cmt3
Chapters:
10. A Cluster of Candles
11. Candles With Trend Lines
12. Candles With Retracement Levels
13. Candles With Moving Averages
14. Candles With Oscillators
15. Candles With Volume
16. Measure Moves
17. The Best of the East and West: The Power of Convergence
CMT 2
Chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts and Calculations
3. Charting
4. Charting Systems and Techniques
6. Regression Analysis
7. Time-Based Trend Calculations
8. Trend Systems
9. Momentum and Oscillators
10. Seasonality and Calendar Patterns
11. Cycle Analysis
12. Volume, Open Interest and Breadth
13. Spreads and Arbitrage
14. Behavioral Techniques
20. Advanced Techniques
21. System Testing
23. Risk Control

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Montier,
James

Behavioural Investing: A
Practitioners Guide to Applying
Behavioural Finance, John Wiley &
Sons Inc., ISBN-10:
0470516704, ISBN-13: 978-
0470516706
found in google book (some pages
available)
added on my favorites

Frost, A.J.
and
Prechter,
Robert R.

Elliott Wave Principle, 10th Edition,

New Classics Library, Gainesville,
GA c. 1978-2005, ISBN 0-
932750-75-3

contents
24. Diversification and Portfolio Allocation
cmt3
Chapters
1. Emotion, Neuroscience and Investing: Investors as Dopamine Addicts
2. Part Man, Part Monkey
3. Take a Walk on the Wild Side
4. Brain Damage, Addicts and Pigeons
5. What Do Secretaries Dustbins and the Da Vinci Code have in
Common
6. The Limits to Learning
7. Behaving Badly
8. A Behavioural Critique
9. The Folly of Forecasting: Ignore all Economists, Strategists, &
Analysts
10. What value Analysts?
11. The Illusion of Knowledge or Is More Information Better Information?
12. Why Waste Your Time Listening to Company Management?
13. Whos a Pretty Boy then? Or Beauty Contests, Rationality and
Greater Fools
14. ADHD, Time Horizons and Underperformance
15. The Story is The Thing (or The Allure of Growth)
16. Scepticism is Rare or (Descartes vs Spinoza)
17. Are Two Heads Better Than One?
29. Improving Returns Using Inside Information
30. Just a Little Patience: Part I
31. Just a Little Patience: Part II
32. Sectors, Value and Momentum
33. Sector-Relative Factors Works Best
34. Cheap Countries Outperform
38. The Anatomy of a Bubble
39. De-bubbling: Alpha Generation
40. Running with the Devil: A Cynical Bubble
41. Bubble Echoes: The Empirical Evidence
cmt2
Chapters:
1. The Broad Concept
2. Guidelines of Wave Formation
3. Historical and Mathematical Background

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Aronson,
David R.

Pring,
Martin J.

Brown,
Constance
M.

Murphy,
John J.

ECN - INT

book
link:
google my favorites book
some pages avaialbel

Evidence-Based Technical
Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 2007 by
David R. Aronson. ISBN-13: 978-
0-470-00874-4 (cloth), ISBN-10:
0-470-00874-1 (cloth)
Investment Psychology Explained,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c.1993,
ISBN 0-471-13300-0
Technical Analysis for the Trading
Professional 2nd Edition, McGraw-
Hill, c.2012 ISBN-10: 007175914X;
ISBN-13: 978-0071759144

Trading with Intermarket Analysis:

A Visual Approach to Beating the
Financial Markets Using Exchange-
Traded Funds, John Wiley & Sons
Inc., c.2012, ISBN: 978-1-118-
31437

contents
4. Ratio Analysis and Fibonacci Time Sequences
cmt3
Chapters:
All chapters
cmt2
Chapters:
4. Statistical Analysis
5. Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals
6. Data-Mining Bias: the Fools Gold and Objective TA
7. Theories of Nonrandom Price Motion
cmt2
Chapters:
All Chapters
cmt3
Chapters:
1. Oscillators Do Not Travel Between 1 and 100
2. Dominant Trading Cycles Are Not Time Symmetrical
3. Choosing and Adjusting Period Setup for Oscillators
4. Dominant Trend Lines Are Not Always From Extreme Price High or
Lows
5. Signals From Moving Averages Are Frequently Absent in Real-Time
Charts
6. Adjusting Traditional Fibonacci Projections for Higher-Probability
Targets
7. Price Projections by Reverse Engineering Indicators
8. Price Objectives Derived From Positive and Negative Reversals in RSI
9. Calculating Price and Time Objectives from a Gann Wheel
10. Using Oscillators with the Elliott Wave Principle
11. Volatility Bands on Oscillators
cmt3
Chapters:
All Chapters

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