Table of Contents

Introduction 1


Part One Chart Patterns 9


1 Broadening Bottoms 11


2 Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Ascending 28


3 Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Descending 45


4 Broadening Tops 63


5 Broadening Wedges, Ascending 81


6 Broadening Wedges, Descending 98


7 Bump-and-Run Reversal Bottoms 115


8 Bump-and-Run Reversal Tops 132


9 Cup with Handle 149


10 Cup with Handle, Inverted 164


11 Diamond Bottoms 179


12 Diamond Tops 196


13 Double Bottoms, Adam & Adam 213


14 Double Bottoms, Adam & Eve 229


15 Double Bottoms, Eve & Adam 244


16 Double Bottoms, Eve & Eve 259


17 Double Tops, Adam & Adam 275


18 Double Tops, Adam & Eve 291


19 Double Tops, Eve & Adam 307


20 Double Tops, Eve & Eve 321


21 Flags 335


22 Flags, High and Tight 350


23 Gaps 362


24 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms 374


25 Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, Complex 390


26 Head-and-Shoulders Tops 405


27 Head-and-Shoulders Tops, Complex 421


28 Horn Bottoms 438


29 Horn Tops 451


30 Island Reversals 464


31 Islands, Long 480


32 Measured Move Down 496


33 Measured Move Up 510


34 Pennants 522


35 Pipe Bottoms 536


36 Pipe Tops 550


37 Rectangle Bottoms 563


38 Rectangle Tops 579


39 Rounding Bottoms 595


40 Rounding Tops 608


41 Scallops, Ascending 624


42 Scallops, Ascending and Inverted 639


43 Scallops, Descending 654


44 Scallops, Descending and Inverted 670


45 Three Falling Peaks 684


46 Three Rising Valleys 698


47 Triangles, Ascending 711


48 Triangles, Descending 730


49 Triangles, Symmetrical 748


50 Triple Bottoms 765


51 Triple Tops 779


52 Wedges, Falling 795


53 Wedges, Rising 811


Part Two Event Patterns 827


54 Dead-Cat Bounce 829


55 Dead-Cat Bounce, Inverted 844


56 Earnings Surprise, Bad 855


57 Earnings Surprise, Good 868


58 FDA Drug Approvals 880


59 Flag, Earnings 893


60 Same-Store Sales, Bad 908


61 Same-Store Sales, Good 921


62 Stock Downgrades 934


63 Stock Upgrades 950


Statistics Summary 965


Glossary and Methodology 982


Index of Chart and Event Patterns 993


Index 1001

About the Author

THOMAS N. BULKOWSKI is a successful investor with twenty-five years
of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of Trading
Classic Chart Patterns (Wiley), and contributing writer to Active
Trader; Stocks, Futures & Options; Technical Analysis of Stocks
& Commodities; and other magazines. Before earning enough from
his investments to "retire" from his day job at age thirty-six,
Bulkowski was a hardware design engineer at Raytheon and a senior
software engineer for Tandy Corporation.

Reviews

?The book is called an ?Encyclopedia? for a
reason.  In roughly 1000 pages, it contains 53 chart patterns
plus 9 more event patterns which will pretty much cover you for any
chart you come across?. if you take technical trading
seriously, it is a book that should be on your shelf.?

?Alan Battista, Stockineer.com Book Review