Brown C. The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases. A Visual Dictionary of the Most Useful Charts in Technical Analysis

McGraw-Hill, 2005. — 306 p.A handy, clear, easy-to-use reference guide to the most important charts in technical analysis; charts only, virtually no text to bog down the user in getting what he wants when he wants it.
The book will feature one chart per page that will be clearly labelled as to the pattern being illustrated.
This book offers you a gold mine of trading directional signals that took years of experience to collect. We traders are just a growing logic tree of signals, and it is hard to put words around them all. Your observation skills will be put to the test by this book. Here are a few guidelines on what to study. Focus closely on such things as price closes versus opens when arrows are added to the chart. Study charts from right to left, and see if the signal or level or pattern has been significant for the market in the past. Any area highlighted in gray is significant. Market geometry is huge in my view. When making a careful evaluation between methods, study the reactions on both market tops and bottoms. Does an indicator make complex tops and simple V bottoms? Study the source of a trendline and the minor anchor points selected. When I teach, I find most people look for patterns that are far too wide or large. It is the attention to detail that makes a great technician, but keep in mind the goal is to answer what will happen in the next bar, not to detail the squiggles through a chart for historic prosperity.