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The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends

by John Murphy

ISBN-10: 0471144479
ISBN-10: 0-471-14447-9
ISBN-13: 9780471144472
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-14447-2
Hardcover
1996-10-18
Wiley


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Praise for THE VISUAL INVESTOR

"John Murphy is one of a rare breed: an expert technical analyst who can actually write. This combination of skills helped make his Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets a classic. Now John has written the perfect overview aimed specifically at the stock investor who wants to learn technical analysis. . . . The Visual Investor offers a complete course in technical analysis, lucid enough to be accessible to the novice, yet thorough enough to range well beyond the basics. . . . [It] is must reading for the stock and mutual fund investor who wants to start incorporating technical analysis as a decision-making tool."
—Jack D. Schwager Author, The New Market Wizards and Technical Analysis

"The challenge of technical analysis is that it can be so technical. Now John Murphy, through The Visual Investor, explains everything for the common investor who wants to use technical analysis but doesn't want an overly complicated presentation."
—Thom Hartle Editor, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine

"As my research group relies heavily on market analysis for its research product, we get numerous inquiries from professional investors on where to find books on this topic. John Murphy's The Visual Investor is my first recommendation to the novice investor as well as the investment professional. . . . [It] is the simplest and most helpful first look at markets that I have seen."
—John Kozey III, CFA, CMT Equity Research Director, Bridge Trading Company


Reviews


The Visual Investor
This is a must read for anyone that invests in the stock market. John Murphy is the master teacher of reading charts for the beginers or the experts.Always a great price on Amazon.

A Bad Summary of His Previous Two Excellent Books
I do not recommend this book for either professionals or beginners. Although Mr. Murphy is a great technician and has written 5-star books (Technical Analysis and Intermarket Technical Analysis) on technical analysis, this is only a very bad summary of his former books. Better buy his other books on the subject.

Over rated!
Covers a broad range of topics, but does not get deep enough on any one point to be very helpful! I have to agree with the other (2 star) reviews the book is great for the beginner, but did not provide me with the insight I had been hoping for! I too would agree the book is getting a little out dated. It really pays to read the reviews!

intro book
although an intro book, I did not find this very useful. there are a bunch of tools: volume, indicators etc. but I did not learn anything about how to use that info and actually buy a stock. for the same purpose, check out Intelyze, more expensive, but MUCH better tool.

Visual Investor - Good Starting Point
For the novice investor this is a good starting point. It speaks to the beginner trader. It intruduces you to chart analysis, intermarket relationships and Stock and Market trends. However, it is 10 years old and some of the technology discussed is out of date. The basic concepts of oscillators, indicators and trends are solid information. The CD provided did not work in my system and I viewed it as worthless. I think it was created for an operating system well below today's standards. Interesting book and nice starting point for the beginner.


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