"Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional Irwin Trader's Edge Series" by Brown, Constance M.

As professional traders approach the 21st century, accelerating technological change threatens to make conventional technical studies and indicators ineffective. To compete in this changing environment, these professionals need radical new uses and combinations of indicators and formulas to keep their competitive edge. Not a primer for the novice, TECHNICAL ANALYSIS FOR THE TRADING PROFESSIONAL resets the scales, arming today's professional trader with new, unique, and never-before-seen formulas and uses of key market indicators and techniques.



CONTENTS
Foreword
Part One: Dispelling Some Common Beliefs about Indicators
Chapter 1. Oscillators Do Not Travel between 0 and 100
Chapter 2. Dominant Trading Cycles Are Not Time Symmetrical
Chapter 3. Choosing and Adjusting Period Setup for Oscillators
Chapter 4. Dominant Trend Lines Are Not Always from Extreme Price Highs or Lows

Part Two: Calculating Market Price Objectives
Chapter 5. Signals from Moving Averages Are Frequently Absent in Real-Time Charts
Chapter 6. Adjusting Traditional Fibonacci Projections for Higher-Probability Targets
Chapter 7. Price Projections by Reverse-Engineering Indicators
Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Calculating Price and Time Objectives from a Gann Wheel
Chapter 10. Using Oscillators with the Elliott Wave Principle

Part Three: New Methods for Improving Indicator Timing and Filtering Premature Signals
Chapter 11. Volatility Bands On Oscillators
Chapter 12. The Composite Index
Chapter 13. Evaluating the Comparative Strengths and Weaknesses of Common Indicators
Chapter 14. The Derivative Oscillator

Appendixes
Appendix A: Real-Time Application: Japanese Yen
Appendix B: Real-Time Application: Asian and European Equity Indices
Appendix C: Real-Time Application: S&P/Bond Market
Appendix D: Formulas
Appendix E: Aerodynamic Fund, Ltd. and Aerodynamic Fund L.P.
Index