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Moving averages, MACD, VWAP, RSI, the TTM Squeeze, Volume Profile, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci retracements, and Average True Range, each treated as it really is: useful, limited, and costly when misread.
Every book stands on its own. Each one spends as much time on how and why an indicator fails as on how it works, because the failures are where the money goes.
The earlier books in this series teach the indicators the way they're traditionally taught. The newer ones test those teachings against more than twenty years of market data, including some of Dean's own. Where the numbers disagree with the conventional wisdom, he says so.
Ten Popular Indicators Every Trader Should Know — A Quick Primer on Stock Charts with Indicators, Tested on Decades of Market Data
Every charting platform gives you the same indicators. Which ones actually tell you something? Moving averages, MACD, RSI. You see them on every stock chart, and you've heard the rules that go with them.
Catch Volatility Breakouts Before They Happen
Most traders spend their careers chasing moves that have already happened. This book teaches you how to spot them before they do. Some of the market's sharpest moves begin in a period of unusual calm, when price compresses into a tighter and tighter range, coiling like a spring.
Understanding the Most Popular Momentum Indicator in Trading
Most traders learn MACD the wrong way — they memorize the signals without understanding what the indicator is actually measuring. Then they wonder why it keeps failing them.
Master the Five Essential MAs in Technical Analysis
Most books teach you one or two moving averages. This one teaches you five — completely. Moving averages are on every chart on every platform used by every trader in the world.
A Practical Guide to Trading with Volume Weighted Average Price
27 full-color charts built from real one-minute market data, so every idea in this book is shown on an actual trading day you can check for yourself.
Which Anchors Actually Work — Technical Analysis for Stocks and Swing Trading, Tested on 29 Million Trading Days
Where should you anchor your VWAP? This book tested the answer on 29 million trading days. Anchored VWAP is one of the most useful lines on a chart, and the advice on where to draw it is rarely checked.
A Complete System for Timing Stock Trades with Relative Strength — Confirmed by Trend, Volume, and Risk
Most traders don't lose to bad stocks. They lose to good rules applied to the wrong market. You've felt it. A strong stock breaks out, RSI climbs into the seventies, the textbook says sell — so you sell, and the stock runs another forty percent while your discipline watches from the sidelines.
Why RSI Lies to Crypto Traders — and How to Fix It
RSI works in crypto. The rulebook does not. This book is the rewrite. It is November 2020. Bitcoin has just crossed $19,000. A trader sees the RSI touch 75 — overbought, by every textbook ever written.
Reading Where the Market Actually Traded — and When That Map Lies
36 full-color charts built from real one-minute market data, printed large on a 7 × 10 inch page so every level is easy to read. Every trading platform can draw a volume profile.
What They Really Tell You — The Bollinger Bands Strategy, Tested Against 22 Million Days of Market Data
The number everyone quotes is wrong, and it costs money. You have read the sentence: the bands sit two standard deviations from the average, which captures about 95% of price action.
The 16 Mistakes Behind Them and How to Trade Winning Retracements
Everyone says Fibonacci works. So why do your levels keep failing? You draw the retracement. Price slices straight through the level that was supposed to hold.
Where to Put a Stop Loss, How Much to Risk, and When to Let a Trade Run — Technical Analysis for Stocks and Swing Trading, Tested on 36 Years of Market Data
Every trade needs a stop. Where should it go? Put it too close, and an ordinary day knocks you out of a trade that was right. Put it too far, and a small loss becomes a large one.