Dates and Locations

17 Jun

London, UK

London Chamber of Commerce >>

Course Outline: Trading Strategies - Introduction to Technical Analysis

A. Course Description
This course provides a thorough grounding in technical analysis to traders and investment managers new to the subject.

B. Method of Instruction
This course consists of one, seven hour days of lecture and classroom discussion. All course materials will be provided by the instructor

C. Course Outline
The course gives particular attention to the following topics:

Technical analysis
- Why it works and its limitations

Chart types
- Line, bar, candle and semi-log – Using them in different markets and market conditions

Support and resistance levels
- Identifying levels
- Assessing their strength
- Expected price movement on the break of levels

Trend lines
- Drawing lines correctly
- Recognising trend line breaks and ‘false breaks’

Chart patterns
- The major continuation and reversal patterns
- How to recognise them and how to project subsequent price moves

Volume
- Understanding its significance and using volume data with price

Moving averages
- The different types of moving average lines
- Which periods to use
- Moving average based trading techniques

Dow Theory
- Appreciating the contribution of Charles Dow

New developments in technical analysis
- What new analysis is catching on?