Your plain-English guide to understanding and using technical chart patterns Chart pattern analysis is not only one of the most important investing tools, but also one of the most popular. Filled with expert insights and practical advice from one of the best in the business, Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition helps new and seasoned traders alike profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns. Substantially revised and expanded, this new edition stay true to the original, with author Thomas Bulkowski"s frank discussion of how trading behavior can affect the bottom line. Interwoven throughout the technical presentations are fascinating anecdotes drawn from the author"s quarter-century as a professional trader that vividly demonstrate how one of the best in the business leverages the power of chart patterns. * Includes additional charts for ETFs and mutual funds * Introduces more than 40 key chart formations, as well as trading tactics that can be used in conjunction with them * Supplies actual trades, with their corresponding dollar amounts If you"re looking to gain a better understanding of this discipline, look no further than the Second Edition of Getting Started in Chart Patterns. Preface to First and Second Editions ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Introduction to Chart Patterns 1 Chapter 2 Identifying Chart Patterns 7 Chapter 3 The Truth about Trendlines 17 Chapter 4 Support and Resistance 35 The Most Important Chart Patterns Chapter 5 Ten Buy Signals 53 Chapter 6 Ten Sell Signals 119 Chapter 7 Special Situations 191 Chapter 8 Busted Patterns 225 Making Money by Trading Failure Chapter 9 More Trades 255 Putting It All Together Chapter 10 The Art of Trading 285 Checklists Chapter 11 Crunching the Numbers 323 Glossary 327 Visual Index of Chart Patterns 333 About the Author 339 Index 341