How many times have you used a screwdriver when a chisel would work best? Or wondered if you could substitute baking powder for baking soda? Having the correct tool or ingredient available when you need it certainly helps, but the key to success is knowledge of how to select the best tool for the job and the skill to use that tool effectively.

Owning the Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition, means you’ll have the tools available when you need them but also the knowledge from decades of experience with chart patterns. Inside the pages of this easy-to-read and easy-to-use reference you’ll:

• Gain essential knowledge of chart patterns and how they are used to predict future price movements
• Discover new tables including how often stops loss orders are hit, busted pattern performance, performance of chart patterns over each of the past three decades, and special features unique to the chart pattern
• Share lessons learned from Bulkowski’s trades in a new section called Experience, Joining Tour, Identification Guidelines, Focus on Failures, Statistics, Trading Tactics and Sample Trade
• Find statistics from nearly four times the number of samples used in the Second Edition and ten times the number in the First Edition

Perfect for stock traders and investors devoted to technical analysis, the Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns will also earn a place in the libraries of professional investors and fund managers seeking valuable information into the future behavior of stock prices.

The market’s bestselling and most comprehensive reference on chart patterns, backed by statistics and decades of experience

When the smart money trades stocks, they leave behind financial footprints. Combine enough footprints together and you have a trail to follow. That trail becomes what’s called a chart pattern. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition, expands upon Bulkowski’s immensely popular Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns. Whether you’re new to the stock market or an experienced professional trader, use this book as a reference guide to give you an edge.

Within the pages of this book, you’ll learn how to identify chart patterns, supported by easy-to-understand performance statistics describing how well a pattern works, what the failure rate is, and what special quirks suggest better future performance. You’ll discover how often a stop loss order will trigger, how the chart pattern’s performance has evolved over the past three decades, and how to profit from failure by trading busted patterns.

Written by a leading expert on chart patterns, Thomas Bulkowski, this edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns including 23 new ones, with charts and performance statistics, packaged within easy-to-read text. The Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition further solidifies the reputation of this book as the leading reference on chart patterns.