Focusing on the less complicated charts that you can quickly understand and integrate into your investment program, Technical Analysis for the Rest of Us covers how you can use technical analysis to: Review your portfolio to determine which investments meet your current objectives and when is the best time to sell those that don't Analyze stock price patterns, volume, and moving averages to more accurately forecast pending price movements Improve your overall performance whether you are an active trader, buy-and-hold investor, or anything in between Identify bull and bear markets in their earliest stages to enhance or protect investment gains Profit from alternative investments including preferred stocks, closed end mutual funds, and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Technical Analysis for the Rest of Us explains exactly what you need to know to make technical analysis a profitable part of your investment portfolio. Plain talking and accessible, it provides you with step-by-step directions for using charts and charting to reduce investment risk and replace it with the predictability of knowing how each investment has performed in the past and will most likely perform in the future