"...excellent, professional grounding for one's investing. Interesting, original contribution to the literature of the markets!" Steven Phillips

Use popular chart patterns profitably In his follow-up to the well-received Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski gives traders a practical game plan to capitalize on established chart patterns. Written for the novice investor but with techniques for the professional, Trading Classic Chart Patterns includes easy-to-use performance tables, vivid case studies, and a scoring system that makes trading chart patterns simple. This comprehensive guide skillfully gives investors straightforward solutions to profitably trading chart pattern…

The first new book in a generation to focus on the practical applications of trading with oscillators Oscillators are an essential group of indicators that futures, options, and stock traders have embraced to reveal turning points in flat markets. In this pioneering book, Mark Etzkorn, Associate Editor of Futures magazine, comprehensively discusses the purposes and uses of such important oscillators as stochastic, momentum, Elder-Ray, Williams per centR, among many others, then focuses on Relative Strength Index (RSI), one of today's most popul…

Arbitrage is central both to corporate risk management and to a wide range of investment strategies. Thousands of financial executives, managers, and sophisticated investors want to understand it, but most books on arbitrage are far too abstract and technical to serve their needs. Billingsley addresses this untapped market with the first accessible and realistic guide to the concepts and modern practice of arbitrage. It relies on intuition, not advanced math- readers will find basic algebra sufficient to understand it and begin using its method…

This unique book analyses all the commercial aspects of oil companies, taking into account the significant structural changes within the sector since the mid-1990s. As well as detailing the analytical techniques used to price oil equities, an up-to-date section on oil industry corporate finance explains how the competitive structure of the industry has influenced company performance and how this governs corporate conduct. Illustrated with topical examples, the book examines the structure and ownership of the industry and shows how to project pr…

This work provides, simultaneously and comprehensively, historical, institutional and theoretical foundations for developments in the stock market. It debunks many a myth about stock price behaviour and the valuation of stocks. The traditional valuation models are tested and shown to be often weak and unreliable, especially when applied to the valuation of technology stocks. New paradigms are suggested. The authors seek to answer many questions about the stock market: Why invest in stocks, how to invest in stocks, how to value stocks, how to ch…