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Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Brain around Technical Analysis

Realizing That the Trend Is Your Friend

Knowing What to Do about Crowd Extremes

Looking at Market Sentiment

Using Chart Indicators

Getting Started

Chapter 2: Bars and Bar Reading

Building Basic Bars

Using Bars to Identify Trends

Reading Special Bar Configurations

Understanding Spikes

Grasping Gaps

Chapter 3: Charting the Market with Candlesticks

Anatomy of a Candlestick

Identifying Emotional Extremes

Turning to Reversal Patterns

Recognizing Continuation Patterns

Interpreting a Series of Patterns

Chapter 4: Seeing Patterns and Drawing Trendlines

Introducing Patterns

Identifying Continuation Patterns

Noting Classic Reversal Patterns

Drawing Trendlines

Chapter 5: Transforming Techniques into Trades

Capturing Trendedness with Channels

Using Channels to Trade

Dealing with Breakouts

Picking Apart Pivot-Point (Horizontal) Channels

Digging into Dynamic Lines and Channels

Understanding Volatility

Gauging Momentum

Putting Lines and Indicators Together

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