Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar – Al Brooks

While new technology and complicated theories promise to take your trading to “the next level,” the truth is that long-term success in this field is rooted in simplicity. That’s why Al Brooks has created Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar.

With this book, Brooks—a technical analyst for Futures magazine and an independent trader—demonstrates how applying price action analysis to chart patterns can help enhance returns and minimize downside risk. Along the way, you’ll discover the importance of understanding every bar on a price chart, why particular patterns are reliable setups for trades, and how to locate entry and exit points as markets are trading in real time.

Throughout these pages, some of the most useful tools for deciphering price action are covered in detail, including:

* Trendlines and trend channel lines
* Prior highs and lows
* Breakouts and failed breakouts
* The size of bodies and tails on candles
* The relationship between current bars to prior bars
* And much more

Learning what the market is telling you can be difficult, but with the right approach, you can achieve this goal and capture consistent profits in the process. Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar has all the information you need to succeed at this endeavor and will put you in the best position possible to make the most of your time in today’s turbulent markets.

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