Sunday, September 11, 2011

Opus

Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader (Wiley Trading)  Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader (Wiley Trading)
"This is not a book one can read. It is for study. One who studies this book is immediately faced with a challenge, visualize every phrase with what you have seen on a chart".

I was reading this in my hotel nights. Not suitable for the newbie, not a easy piece of trading study but it is the best book on price action I have read so far. There are many faults and repetitions and the writing is dry at best. Al Brooks is a serious man and he makes your effort to grasp his opus as big as possible, in order to increase your own effort!.. He is clever but also scholastic. He lucks one quality only : intuition. Trading is also intuition.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Forexbird

Love your blog.

Wouldn't you agree that intution comes with thoughtful and meaningful screentime, chart-work and trading experience, and, as such, it's not as much as intuition but the result of countless hours of purpuseful practice?

Al Brook's book is a classic. His new (more detailed and allegedly easier-to-read) books are coming out in November.

All the best

msmith

Fahim said...

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