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Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns: 225 Hardcover – Illustrated, 24 May 2005

by Thomas N. Bulkowski (Author)

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In this revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski updates the classic with new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets and 23 new patterns, including a second section devoted to ten event patterns. Bulkowski tells you how to trade the significant events - such as quarterly earnings announcements, retail sales, stock upgrades and downgrades - that shape today's trading and uses statistics to back up his approach. This comprehensive new edition is a must-have reference if you're a technical investor or trader. Place your order today. "The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening." - Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading

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Language : English
Hardcover : 1040 pages
ISBN-10 : 0471668265
ISBN-13 : 978-0471668268

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?The book is called an ?Encyclopedia? for a reason. In roughly 1000 pages, it contains 53 chart patterns plus 9 more event patterns which will pretty much cover you for any chart you come across?. if you take technical trading seriously, it is a book that should be on your shelf.? ?Alan Battista, Stockineer.com Book Review

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Praise for encyclopedia of chart patterns, SECOND EDITION

The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives hard data on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening.
--Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading

Chart patterns are the basics behind most trading methods, and this book is a great achievement in a highly useful format. Bulkowski has taken an intelligent and thoughtful approach to producing a practical guide to understanding and trading chart formations.
--Perry Kaufman, author of New Trading Systems and Methods and A Short Course in Technical Trading

Praise for the First Edition

Not since Edwards and Magee has someone put together so comprehensive an assemblage of market behavior expressed graphically. No chartist should be without this book.
--John Sweeney, Interim Editor Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities

Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns . . . is a valuable contribution to the existing literature on charting and should be considered an indispensable reference by any serious chart trader.
--Edward D. Dobson, President, Traders Press, Inc.

Meticulously researched, complete, and insightful, the Encyclopedia has earned a permanent place on my trading desk as a highly valued resource.
--Thomas A. Bierovic, Manager, Strategy Testing & Development, Omega Research, Inc.

From the Back Cover

The Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, recognized as the premier reference on chart pattern analysis, extends its lead with this Second Edition. This definitive text includes new bull and bear market statistics, performance sorted by volume shape and trend, more than a dozen additional chart patterns, and a new section covering ten event patterns. Significant events--such as earnings announcements, stock upgrades and downgrades--shape today's trading, and Bulkowski gives readers the best information on what happens after those events occur. He also shows you how to trade them and uses reliable statistics to back it all up.

In each chapter of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Second Edition you'll learn the following about each pattern:

Results Snapshot--A statistical summary of pattern behavior, including its performance rank, breakeven failure rate, average rise or decline--all separated by breakout direction and market type (bull or bear)
Tour--A broad introduction to the pattern
Identification Guidelines-- Characteristics to look for
Focus on Failures--What failed patterns look like, why they failed, and how to avoid them
Statistics--The numbers and what they tell you, separated into bull/bear markets and breakout direction, including average rise or decline, failure rates, volume shapes, performance by size, and busted pattern performance
Trading Tactics--Strategies to increase profits and minimize risk
Sample Trade--Puts it all together, showing the chart pattern in action, with hypothetical or actual trades using real data
For Best Performance--A table of selection tips to boost performance

Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Second Edition also includes summary tables ranking chart- and event-pattern performance for easy reference; a glossary; a chapter on methodology explaining what each statistical table entry means and how it was calculated; and a visual index to make chart pattern identification a snap.

The result is today's most comprehensive and valuable technical analysis reference--one that will save you critical time in identifying chart patterns and increase your likelihood of buying near the price bottom and selling near the top.

About the Author

THOMAS N. BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with twenty-five years of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of Trading Classic Chart Patterns (Wiley), and contributing writer to Active Trader; Stocks, Futures & Options; Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities; and other magazines. Before earning enough from his investments to "retire" from his day job at age thirty-six, Bulkowski was a hardware design engineer at Raytheon and a senior software engineer for Tandy Corporation.

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ADSP500

This belongs on your shelf, period.

5 July 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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Quite frankly, and this is coming from a professional technical market analyst, this belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who has advanced beyond the basic introductory concepts of technical analysis. I would highly recommend that anyone who is new to the discipline first begin with the similarly must-have text entitled "How to Make Money in Stocks" by William J. O'Neil. If you have absorbed the phenomenal introduction to charting provided in said text, you will most certainly make frequent use of this text by Thomas Bulkowski. It is absolutely a reference book, rather than a page-turner of a method-based instructional book; for those who are ready to progress towards advanced charting, perhaps those considering taking any of the CMT exams, this is a worthwhile investment!

23 people found this helpful

timothy

Great book and information!

12 July 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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The book is well worth the price. It outlines 63 trends and gives statistics for each one. He writes well and describes each one with tactics to improve your odds and what to lookout for. The picture is just the preface of a chapter. Each chapter includes 20-30 pages of analysis and advice. Also, the book is made out of quality material and seems like it’ll easily last for years.

20 people found this helpful

Sailor Dunc

Bulk Effort Adds Weight to Hunches

7 November 2012 - Published on Amazon.com

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The updated 2nd Edition of Thomas Bulkowski's "Encyclopedia" gathers and explains the nuances of umpteen chart patterns and their derivatives. Of particular note is his bold attempt to give a mathematical expectation of probable odds after such a pattern. Having studied these patterns over x years in both bull and (shorter) bear environments, he reports which percent of the time prices then advanced or declined and by an average of how much.

So his book can be used as a real time reference, he presents a unique visual pattern index in the back. Find as close as possible a match to what you are confronted with on screen. Then look it up to see if his past study and commentary sheds useful light.

All very interesting. There is no question that Bulkowski has done an absolutely EXHAUSTIVE amount of work here. The mere ATTEMPT deserves appreciation. Many authors promote the patterns that support their pet trading plan in an idealized context with only vague qualifiers ("of course sometimes", "often"). Not something you should bank on in the messier real world without much testing and/or very careful risk management.

The most valuable insight from ALL his stats? More proof that there is no free lunch to be had. Even the best and most "reliable" of patterns have mere slightly better odds of prices going the one way instead of sideways or worse, the other. In "edge finding" that is, after all, about as good as it gets. But it is sobering (and oh so important) to know just HOW thin such edges usually are. That is why the word "edge" itself is so darn accurate. In the often razor thin sense of the word!

Alas his stats, welcome for the reason given, are not very bankable either. No standard deviation or Monte Carlo stimulation results are given to provide a firmer sense of the robustness of the findings.

Moreover this entire APPROACH to TA: gathering and trying to catalog follow-up results, suffers from it's own abstraction. He furthers a long tradition. But as a foundation for ACTION it is an incomplete approach that lends itself to the unjust charges that liken TA more to astrology or palm reading than science. The huge subjectivity is at once it's failure AND it's alibi against the charge of failure! "Didn't you notice that classic squiggle on the higher time frame?" "There it was a lower right shoulder you twit not an ascending triangle!" No wonder. This is just like "you knew darn well she was a Leo when you proposed but, sigh, you failed to note Mars was in the ascendancy on the day she was born." No wonder. Silly you.

Don't get me wrong. Give me a chart over fundamental number crunching or talking heads any day. Familiarity with reoccurring or unusual patterns on those charts absolutely helps. Of deeper value than cataloguing however is a focus on what does the observed action likely MEAN? What might it be saying about the supply/demand balance in the (limited) context of the time? What are the (always several) main possibilities going on underneath to create such a pattern? This is an alternate way of approaching TA. One that stands more on the shoulders of the likes of Wyckoff and is reflected today by such TA authors as Adam Grimes. While interpretation and decision is STILL inevitably more subjective art more than solved science (and has to be or there would be no one on the other side of the order books), to me THAT approach to TA has more promise and practical value than this book's.

Having said all this, the two approaches are not mutually exclusive. Bulkowski's work on patterns is still head and shoulders over going it alone with no point of reference. Going well beyond agnostic reporting, he also presents generous insight and tactical trading advice throughout. It remains to be seen how "handy" the reference is in the heat of battle.

Here you have enough named pattern variations to last a life time. For me most of them can likely be reduced to just a half dozen major themes. One could get mislead by random noise by reading too much into the near limitless variations. In connecting dots, like much else in trading, simple broad strokes are better. Yet at a thousand large sized, NOT large font, pages, the book will get far more credit for thorough than simple.

Still Bulkowski deserves applause. There is obviously a life's work reflected here. Yes more unassailable, well grounded probability and results studies are badly needed to carry such work further. They can be applied to the sacred tenants of FUNDAMENTALS more objectively than to invariably PERCEPTION biased chart patterns. Likely to even more devastating effect. At the end of the day you still won't have a crystal ball. But at least you will know it and hopefully will act accordingly.

Bulkowoski's bulk effort will long stand as a weighty, genuine contribution to the quest. Sail on!

97 people found this helpful

Thirsty4Knowledge

A Must Have Referene Book l Damaged Shipment

3 May 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is an extremely valuable reference book for any serious traders, new or seasoned. The content of the book is exactly what I was looking for. I especially like the statistics on the performance & failure.

The only thing I am very disappointed is the packaging for the shipment used. This is a NEW hardcover book with 999 pages therefore it is quite heavy. Packaging material used was a mere lightweight bubble Kraft envelope, therefore the book was delivered with damaged corners on the cover & half of the internal corner pages on one end.

People who buy NEW printed books expect the book arrive in pristine condition. The packaging material used for shipping need to be in great care, like what Amazon used to do. Next order better come undamaged or I shall order from other online resources whenever I don't need to be concerned about the product referral fee gets to the author or product reviewer.

5 people found this helpful

Boris

Masterwork

12 December 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a masterpiece by Bulkowski, exactly what I need. It's more like a dictionary or an well-organized collection of charts for experienced traders who already have basic foundation of patterns names. The graphs are small, but they are not the point of this book. I will recommend reading the technical analysis books first before reading this. Overall, it's a quick reference book rather than a comprehensive book in terms of chart patterns.

2 people found this helpful

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