Trades About to Happen: A Modern Adaptation of the Wyckoff Method

222 Pages·2013·21.41 MB·English

by  David H. Weis

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A Modern Adaptation of the
Wyckoff Method
David H. Weis
Foreword by Dr. Alexander Elder
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Weis, David H.
Trades about to happen : a modern adaptation of the Wyckoff method / David H. Weis.
pages cm -- (Wiley trading series)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-48780-8 (cloth); 978-0-470-48780 (ebk); 978-1-118-25870-5 (ebk);
978-1-118-23362-7 (ebk)
1. Stocks—Charts, diagrams, etc. 2. Stock price forecasting.
3. Investment analysis. 4. Wyckoff, Richard Demille, 1873-1935. I. Title.
HG6041.W885W45 2013
332.63’2042—dc23
2012046824
Printed in the United States of America
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Karen,
and to the memory of my parents.
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For the gods perceive things in the future;
Ordinary people things in the present;
But the wise perceive things about to happen.
—Philostratos, Life of Apollonies of Tyana
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