Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Analysis: A CD-ROM Seminar and Workbook
Author: Martin J. Pring
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 0070329338
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade (01 August, 1997)
Sales Rank: 19,068
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best Back to Basics Book I Have Read
Virtually all the great traders, regardless of whether they are technical, fundamental or both agree on keeping your ideas simple. Why do pro athletes go over the basics during training and practice? Because that is where a lot of games or won or lost. Get the bssics right. Only fools think they know it all. Too many people especially in technical analysis like to have complicated theories with interpretaions that for the rest of us are to hard to decifer. This book delivers a ton of information clearly, concisely and correctly. Yes the CD is very much like the book, but this repetition really helps drive the principals home. Furthermore, the dialog, color charts and pointers on the CD help with difficult or confusing concepts. For you advanced traders don't ignore this book. It does an excellent job of covering all the bases. This book will be the conerstone of my spring training and my cheat book during the season!
Rating: 2 out of 5
A very simplstic audio book
There are several problems that I had with this book. First, it is basically an audio book with charts. In some ways, it is nice to hear an explanation while seeing it on a chart, but if you are used to learning from textbooks, then this book/CD is a nightmare. The written text offers nothing additional to the audio, and the CD has problems (sometimes it would lose audio for spans of time, and these gaps were not filled in by the text). It is also extremely basic, to the point that all the information is found easily and presented just as clearly on the internet, for example on about.com. Also, due to the audio nature of the book, you can't really control the pace or skip through basic pages like you can with a regular book. The book was OK, considering that it was an overview; but considering that you can get the same information for free, I would not bother with it and would just skip to a more comprehensive text, such as Technical Analysis of Financial Markets by Murphy.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Introduction tp Technical Analysis
Martin Pring makes this confusing area more black and white and the enclosed CD-Rom provides some great information about how to read charts. The book's format is easy to follow, too. If you are just starting with technical analysis, this book should be the one you read first. Similar Products
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