The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns

Book excerpt: The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns is your 'cheat sheet' for making technical trading decisions. Learn to spot trends and act on them intelligently. This book has everything you need: *An introduction to chart patterns and why they can take your trading to the next level*21 detailed chart patterns with a historical example for every chart*Exit and entry suggestions*Chart pattern trading tips*An introduction to the powerful Raindrop Chart Patterns from Trendspider.comBuyers and sellers for each trade execution are always equal, it's the price that changes. Every chart tells a visual story of the battle between buyers and sellers at different price levels. Their decisions create patterns that start to show the current path of least resistance. This book is intended to be a road map for seeing the patterns that emerge on charts. Using chart patterns will give you an edge because they'll help you trade in the direction of least resistance, profit from momentum, see the potential for a reversal in price action and create good risk/reward ratios upon entry.This edge will show good levels for entries that allow a stop loss to limit a losing trade, but give enough room for a trailing stop or profit target to create a large winning trade. By finding the best price zones on a chart, you'll be able to execute the best asymmetrical risk trades and be more profitable over time.From Steve Burns of NewTraderU.com: "Over the last several years, I've enjoyed getting to know, and working with Atanas Matov. He has remained one of my most popular guest writers on NewTraderU.com, and his insight on technical indicators, how to identify and trade a trend and his chart pattern knowledge are invaluable to traders worldwide. After the launch of the incredibly successful, Ultimate Price Action Trading Guide, we knew we wanted to team up again. This chart pattern book is our combined effort to bring a clear and concise explanation of chart patterns to help you recognize charts and build pattern recognition."About the Authors: Steve Burns started investing in 1993 and trading his own accounts in 1995. It was love at first trade. A natural teacher with a unique ability to cut through the bull and make complex ideas easy to understand, Steve wrote New Trader Rich Trader and started New TraderU.com in 2011. Since then, Steve and his wife Holly have written 19 books and published 8 eCourses on NewTraderUniversity.com.Follow Steve on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn@SJosephBurnswww.NewTraderU.comwww.NewTraderUniversity.comAtanas Matov a.k.a. Colibri Trader (@priceinaction on Twitter) started his trading career as a retail trader in the early 2000's. After a few years of trading and investing his own funds, he won the KBC stock market challenge and shortly afterwards started working for a leading prop trading house in London. Currently he is trading his own account and trying to help other traders through his trading blog and social media. Major part of Atanas's philosophy is in giving back and helping others achieve their trading goals. In his own words: "Judge your trading success by the things you have given up in order to get where you are now!"Follow Atanas on Twitter @priceinactionwww.colibritrader.com