Modern financial markets offer the real world's best approximation to the idealized price auction market envisioned in economic theory. Nevertheless, as the increasingly exquisite and detailed financial data demonstrate, financial markets often fail to behave as they should if trading were truly...

Technical theory -- The technical approach to trading and investing -- Charts -- The dow theory -- The dow theory's defects -- Replacing dow theory with john magee's basing points procedure -- Important reversal patterns -- Advantages -- Important reversal patterns: the triangles -- Important...