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Review: Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader (Wiley Trading)

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While new technology and complicated theories promise to take your trading to “the next level,” the truth is that long-term success in this field is rooted in simplicity. That’s why Al Brooks has created Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar.

With this book, Brooksa technical analyst for Futures magazine and an independent traderdemonstrates how applying price action analysis to chart patterns can help enhance returns and minimize downside risk. Along the way, you’ll discover the importance of understanding every bar on a price chart, why particular patterns are reliable setups for trades, and how to locate entry and exit points as markets are trading in real time.

Throughout these pages, some of the most useful tools for deciphering price action are covered in detail, including:

• Trendlines and trend channel lines

• Prior highs and lows

• Breakouts and failed breakouts

• The size of bodies and tails on candles

• The relationship between current bars to prior bars

• And much more

Learning what the market is telling you can be difficult, but with the right approach, you can achieve this goal and capture consistent profits in the process. Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar has all the information you need to succeed at this endeavor and will put you in the best position possible to make the most of your time in today’s turbulent markets.

Praise for Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar

“Al Brooks has written a book every day trader should read. On all levels, he has kept trading simple, straightforward, and approachable. By teaching traders that there are no rules, just guidelines, he has allowed basic common sense to once again rule how real traders should approach the market. This is a must-read for any trader that wants to learn his own path to success.”
Noble DraKoln, founder ofwww.SpeculatorAcademy.com and author of Trade Like a Pro and Winning the Trading Game

“Al Brooks is a trader’s trader. He understands the focused energy it takes to be successful at trading and works long, hard hours in front of the computer screen to beat the markets. In his first trading book, he outlines, selflessly, his strategy step by step. A doctor and educator in his previous life, he uses his eye for detail and transfers lessons he learned in training himself on the art of trading to the written page. For those who are willing to delve into the details of day trading and dedicate the time and energy to do it seriously and most likely profitably, Al Brooks’s book Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar, is a must-read.”
Ginger Szala, Publisher and Editorial Director, Futures magazine

Review:

I am a trader who, as the author does, uses price action to trade. I advance-ordered this book, because its title promised a detailed discussion of price action well beyond what is generally available in the typical books on trading. In this regard I am not disappointed. The author, who is a scalper, does offer what I consider to be the best presentation of how to select trade entries and exits using price action. This is an approach that many good traders use, but it is an art rarely written about in great detail. If an in depth discussion of bar to bar price action is what you’re after, the Brooks’ book may be your only choice.

Unfortunately the book has many annoying faults that could have easily been remedied by better writing, careful editing, and better layout and printing. The main fault is the writing. What the text needs is careful editing by one skilled in technical writing and armed with a red pencil. There are too many needless words and too many awkward sentences. Sentences such as “Bar 15 was a break to a new low, and it had a strong bull reversal bar off the new low, and it overshot two bear trend channel lines.” (Pg 298) Sadly, this kind of writing confronts us on every page. Presumably, the author meant to say: “Bar 15 broke to a new low but closed as a strong bull reversal bar that overshot two bear-trend channel lines.” There are so many run-on sentences that one wonders whether the author is trying to start a war on commas. Punctuation is far too lax. This may seem like nitpicking to some, but these faults, all easily corrected, make reading this book far more of a chore than it ought to be. There is really no excuse for such poor editing in a fifty-dollar book. I suppose the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, is as much at fault as the author.

In spite of its faults, this book must be commended on being the first to take on an analysis of price action in such depth. Perhaps with a second edition we will get a book that looks and reads as it ought to. If so, Dr. Brooks’ book could potentially find itself in the top rank of books on trading.