Techniques of Tape Reading

Book excerpt: How to use trading's most time-honored technique to reap profits in today's fastmoving, point-and-click markets Tape reading is among the oldest and most successful methods of technical analysis. Techniques of Tape Reading shows traders how to incorporate the best aspects of tape reading into a modern trading plan, by understanding the correlation between volume and price and simply trading off what a stock's price movement is telling them to do. A practical, how-to guide for using tape reading to improve trading decisions in today's screen trading environment, Techniques of Tape Reading discusses: Profitable use of tape reading in both swing and day trading How the best traders condition their minds and mind-sets Tape reading techniques for up, down, and nontrending markets