Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market: When to Buy, Sell and Sell Short

The indicators for buying into stocks on both the short and the long side are all standard metrics that are known to intermediate level investors -such as VIX, TRIN, chart patterns such as triangles, lower-low and higher high analysis. Alexander's contribution is to put them together in an action plan. Given this I fail to see why some use this book and obtain poor results. This book is not a substitute for Murphy, or Edwards and Magee, Bulkowski, Achelis or other pure TA books. It is a description of how to integrate TA to actually make trades.

I've adopted this guy as my rich Father. The author of this book has real world, practical, sensible advice given to me througout the years from dear friends in the market who incidentally are very wealthy. I rate this book a 10 if they had it, the predicted rating (4) IS WAY TOO LOW! Thank you, I already made money by following the easy, common sense principals found in this magnificent book. It already paid for itself. Thank you Mr. Alexander.

This book has an exellent balance between TA and prescriptive action. It's not enought to be able to read a chart, you have to know when to act and what action to take given what the chart is telling you. This is not the very best book on TA, it is the very best marriage of TA and practical advice as to what to do with the TA. For example. Both for long and short positions he has a long check list you should make copies of and go through for each stock you take a position on. Further, he has three excellent case studies on buying into an established trend, buying a long term breakout, and buying into a repidly moving market. His 6 chapters on Selling Short are the only reference materials I could find when researching a book on shorting, still in print, of any substance. Again there is a checklist and case studies. Finally, his two chapters on Market Myths should be posted above every online investor's computer. As a long-time avocate of investing on both the short and long side of the market I love the symetrical thinking throughout this book. There is just no way you will become a good investor unless you adopt this symetrical view because as every investor must realize by now, the market doesn't just go up, it goes up 2/3'rds of the time, and down 1/3rd of the time at twice the rate. It's a pitty this book is so little known. If you are on the perverbial desert island, this is the investment book you want. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of TA look at the Bible, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends 7th Edition by Edwards and Magee. ISBN 0-8144-0373-5. Mere mortals should prefer Alexander's book. Best of trades! RocketRoys

As good a book as you will read on Technical Analysis as it relates to the Stock Market. Very well written and edited with lots of charts demonstrating real case histories of the strategies employed. All the material was practically presented in a clear and logical manner. In short it was a an easy read which is good because you will want to return to it often to review key points of interest. Stresses the importance of looking at the markets from first the long term (months) to the intermediate term (weeks) and finally to time your trades using the short term (days). Well done and thanks.

Many of the technical analysis books only show you the patterns, they don't go deep enough into what you should do when you see those patterns. This book tells you what you should do and gives you case studies. If you want to build a system for trading stocks, this book should be in your library.