Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors

by Gerald Appel

Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Practical Power Tools! offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying even advanced technical analysis the first time. Among the models he covers: NASDAQ/NYSE Relative Strength, 3-5 Year Treasury Notes, Triple Momentum, Seasonality, Breadth-Thrust Impulse, and models based on the revolutionary MACD techniques he personally invented. Appel covers momentum and trend of price movement, time and calendar cycles, predictive chart patterns, relative strength, analysis of internal vs. external markets, market breadth, moving averages, trading channels, overbought/oversold indicators, Trin, VIX, major term buy signals, major term sell signals, moving average trading channels, stock market synergy, and much more. He presents techniques for short-, intermediate-, and long-term investors, and even for mutual fund investors.

Genres: Finance

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Mohan · Rating 3 out of 5]

LAter part of book is worth reading, esp starting from macd. In depth explanation of each topic.

[Martha · Rating 2 out of 5]

creator of MACD; use lots of graphs & have mathematical background but still don't understand this book

[Uldis Braunfelds · Rating 4 out of 5]

Technical analysis is a classic.

[Mehdi Zare]

Gerald Appel is the inventor of MACD. He introduced different simple strategies for selecting mutual funds and then added more signals with historical performance.