Table of Contents

Preface to First and Second Editions ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Introduction to Chart Patterns 1

Chapter 2 Identifying Chart Patterns 7

Chapter 3 The Truth about Trendlines 17

Chapter 4 Support and Resistance 35
The Most Important Chart Patterns

Chapter 5 Ten Buy Signals 53

Chapter 6 Ten Sell Signals 119

Chapter 7 Special Situations 191

Chapter 8 Busted Patterns 225
Making Money by Trading Failure

Chapter 9 More Trades 255
Putting It All Together

Chapter 10 The Art of Trading 285
Checklists

Chapter 11 Crunching the Numbers 323

Glossary 327

Visual Index of Chart Patterns 333

About the Author 339

Index 341

About the Author

THOMAS BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with more than thirty years of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts and Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns. His work has appeared in magazines such as Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, SFO, Active Trader, The Technical Analyst, The Trader's Journal, and Traders'. Before earning enough from his investments to "retire" from his day job at age 36, Bulkowski was a hardware design engineer with Raytheon and a senior software engineer for Tandy Corporation.