The Trend Strategist Handbook by Price Headley is a stock trading
book intended as a guide
for the individual investor or professional trader who is new to stock
chart technical analysis. For the typical investor who is more
familiar with the fundamental analysis of a security ( i.e. concerned
with economic health or macro factors that may cause the price of a
stock to move), rather than the technical analysis of a security, this
book provides a comprehensive guide to using technical indicators as
trading tools. The book also provides stock market education and
identifies trading methodologies such as swing trading systems, stock market
timing and trend trading analysis. The technical trading techniques and
charting strategies outlined in the book can be applied to any market
trading system.
Author's Background
Price Headley is the author of
The Trend Strategist Handbook.
He is a well-known expert on technical analysis trading techniques, and
is the founder of BigTrends.com. Headley is a regular guest on CNNFn,
Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox
Financial News, in addition to a variety of print and online financial
news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes,
Investor's Business Daily, USA Today and Bloomberg Personal. He is
recognized by Timer Digest as ranking among the top 10 Market Timers in
the . In response to BigTrends' readers interest in a
catch-all book that gets to the heart of key technical and quantitative
trading techniques, Price Headley developed The Trend Strategist
Handbook. His objective in this book was to introduce the investor
to the technical aspects of trading to find trends and at the same time focus on
helping to take the emotions of of investing. Headley is a firm
believer in defining the bigger trend first, even when trading on a
short-term basis. As a result, he likes to study monthly and
weekly charts before analyzing shorter term time frames.
Headley uses computers extensively to
scan for acceleration or divergence patterns among other methods he has
found to create an edge over time. He also monitors
important news reports, particularly earnings surprises, to see how a
stock reacts to good or bad news. He has found that
the biggest moves often happen once a stock reacts to news in the
opposite direction of what the crowd had expected.
Thus, the reactions are more important than the news itself in Headley's
work.
Book Overview
The Trend Strategist Handbook is an ebook that can be downloaded. This
sbook breaks down key trade signals and essential buy and sell
triggers into well defined and easy-to-grasp sections that helps the
investor move easily up the scale of trading mastery, with an eye toward
achieving measurable results.
Each section includes a quick check up of essential points, including
how to use technical analysis and indicators individually OR in
combination, plus assessment tools to measure the investor's progress along the way.
The book comprises of 5 separate chapters. The first 4 chapters
provide detailed explanations of key ingredients of technical analysis.
The last chapter assimilates the chart patterns and indicators learned
in the previous chapters and provides a practical guide in how to
successfully implement the charting tools. The 5 sections of the book
are as follows:
Chapter1 - Introduction to Charting
Chapter2 - Learn to Recognize and Identify the Most Important Chart
Patterns
Chapter3 - Learn How to Interpret Chart Indicators
Chapter4 - Learn How to Interpret Sentiment Indicators
Chapter5 - Putting It All Together
After mastering the 5 sections, the reader will advance his skills in
technical analysis and will learn to trade using technical indicators
with more confidence.
Bonus Features
Investors who are interested in purchasing the ebook will also
receive 3 additional trading resources to help advance their trading
skills. The first resource consists of three online presentations
by Price Headley:
- How to Trade the QQQQ's Like A Pro: Strategies for Index
Success
- Trading Techniques to Profit with the OEX
- Swing Trading Short-Term Trends in Stocks
The second resource is a free 3-month subscription to the weekly newsletter service provided by BigTrends.com. The investor will receive the Stock and
Options Netletter is valued at $58, but will be provided free for 3-months.
Along with the ebook, the investor will also receive a third trading
resource, a 3-month subscription to the StockWeblog.com's Market Timer
Service. The Market Timer Service is a daily newsletter valued at
$29. It consists of trading ideas and recommendations to help the
investor time the markets for short-term, intermediate-term and long
term trading.