Technical Analysis Course (TAC)

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• What Is Technical Analysis?
• Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis
• Technical Analysis Methodologies
• Benefits of Technical Analysis
• Market Timing
• A Final Word

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Benefits of Charting
• Bar Charts
• Line Chart (or Close-Only Chart)
• Candlestick Charts
• Chart Scaling

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Dow Theory
• Support and Resistance Levels
• Trendlines
• Construction of Trend Channels
• Fan Lines

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Reversal Patterns
• Key Reversals
• Head-and-Shoulders Formations
• Rounded Tops and Bottoms
• V Formations
• Continuation Patterns
• Triangles
• Wedges
• Flags and Pennants
• False Breakouts

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• The Benefits of Candlestick Charting
• Candlestick Reversal Patterns
• Candlestick Continuation Patterns

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Benefits and Drawbacks of P&F Charts
• P&F Chart Trendlines and Formations
• Chart Patterns

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Quantitative Indicators
• Trend-Following Indicators
• Momentum Indicators

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Introductions to Cycles
• Cycles in Nature
• Cycles and Market Timing
• The Structure of Cycles
• Prominent Cycles
• Combining Cycle Analysis with other Technical Analysis Tools

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• What is Intermarket Analysis?
• The Business Cycle
• Equity Sector Rotation
• Portfolio Application

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Elliot Wave Theory Background
• Elliot’s Assumptions
• The Basic Structure of Price Patterns
• Impulse Waves, Extensions and Variations
• Corrections
• Rules and Guidelines
• Enhancing Elliott
• Wave Characteristics/Personalities
• Relationship of Basic Chart Analysis and Elliott Wave

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Overall Equity Market Analysis
• Sector Analysis

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Unique Characteristics of Futures Markets
• Market Timing
• Long-Term Charts
• Continuous Contract Charts
• Seasonality and Cycles
• Volume and Open Interest
• Commitments of Traders Report
• Bullish Consensus Index

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Definition
• Characteristics
• Relationship to Other Forms of Trading
• Origins of the HFT Market
• Size and Composition of the HFT Market
• Application of HFT to Non-Equity Markets
• What is Latency and Co-location?
• Purported Primary Benefits of HFT
• Purported Detrimental Impacts of HFT
• HFT Theoretical Basis
• Steps Involved in Setting up and Testing a Potentially New HFT Trading Strategy
• Limited Shelf Life of Trading Strategies
• Implementing Selected Trading Strategy
• HFT Primary Trading Strategies
• Current HFT Industry Trends

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• What is Behavioural Finance?
• Cognitive and Emotional Biases

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Formulating a Trading Plan
• Being Well Capitalized
• Understanding the Markets You Are Trading
• Money Management Rules
• Know Yourself