Japanese candlestick charting and analysis is definitely a viable and effective tool for stock and commodity market timing and analysis. That is a bold statement, especially when you consider the universe of analysis techniques that are being promoted, offered, sold, used, abused, and touted. Other than Nison's work, the only problem has been the lack of detailed information on how to use and identify them. Not only will this book solve this problem, but it will also provoke an intellectual curiosity in candlesticks that will not easily disappear | tarn tai Timeless Techniques for Trading Stocks and Futures Gregory I. Morris McGraw-Hill New York San Francisco Washington . Auckland BogoU Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Table of contents Table of Contents 5. Reversal candle Patterns 19 Reversal versus Continuation Patterns 20 Chapter Format i 20 Index of Reversal Patterns 22 4. continuation Patterns 141 Index of Continuation Pattern 142 5. The Sakata Method and Candle Formations 187 Sakata s Method 188 Candle Formations 199 6. Philosophy of candle Pattern Identification 209 Data Requirements Gaps and Rules 209 The Idea 212 Enter Human Psychology 212 Trend Determination 213 Moving Averages and Smoothing 213 The Trend Method Used 215 Identifying the Candle Patterns 215 7. Reliability of Pattern Recognition 225 Measures of Success 223 Reverse Current Trend and Continue Cunent Trend 226 Candle Pattern Statistical Ranking 226 Candle Patterns and Stocks 227 Summary of the Three Stock Tables 231 Candle Patterns and Futures 233 Summary of the Three Futures Tables 237 Individual Stock Analysis 238 8. Candlestick Filtering 241 The Filtering Concept 241 Pre-Signal Areas 243 Indicators 244 Filtering Parameters 247 Filtering Examples 249 Individual Stock Analysis 253 Conclusion 268 9. Derivative Charting Methods 269 CandlePower Charting 269 Examples 271 Condensed CandlePower Charting 275 Example 276 10. Conclusion 277 CandlePower Software 278 Appendix 281 Interview with Mr. Takehiro Hikita 281 Final Note 287 Bibliography 289 Index 293 vl vil Foreword I am a collector of first editions of books. My specialties include astronomy texts written before 1900 such as Percival Lowell s classic Mars the first published speculations about the possibility of life on the red planet which inspired Jules Verne to write The War of the Worlds and a strange little tome from 1852 that claims astronomer William Hershel spotted sheep on the Moon with his telescope. My
