Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers, + Website: Integrating Technical Analysis with Fundamentals to Improve Performance

Technical analysis is a vital tool for any trader, asset manager, or investor who wants to earn real returns. But not everyone can manage the complex math that underpins the design of technical signals. Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers lets you master technical analysis without mastering the math by focusing on existing technical signals in the public domain to improve your investing performance.

If you want to beat the indexes, you have to understand and measure the forces that drive stock prices. While fundamental analysis is one of those forces, technical analysis measures all of the factors driving price—even those that are proprietary or known only to insiders—leveling the playing field to help you compete with the big boys. Here, author Tom Lloyd explains all the available technical indicators you need to know, including moving average, relative strength, support and resistance, sell and buy indicators, candlesticks, point and figure charts, Fibonacci, Bollinger, and classic and new indicators and patterns. Merging these technical indicators with fundamental analysis correctly will keep you in a portfolio of outperforming stocks, sharpen your buy discipline, and put your sell discipline on autopilot.

In addition to his explanations of each indicator, Lloyd also includes a series of case studies applying technical analysis to current trending and hotly debated stocks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Netflix, among others. These case studies show what technical analysis reveals about these stocks and how they’ve performed relative to predictions.

With simple explanations and practical guidance, Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers is a comprehensive yet straightforward reference appropriate for novice and professional traders alike. For investors looking to beat the index, traders looking for high-risk, high-return investments, and portfolio managers looking for balance between those two positions, this is the perfect guide to the basics of technical analysis.

Praise for Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers

“As a strong believer in the importance of combining fundamentals with technical analysis, I was immediately engaged in this book by Tom Lloyd. Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers reads like a trading diary, written in the moment. With its wealth of charts, the reader sees a clear cut path to profits. Tom puts you in the driver’s seat as he analyzes stock after stock with the tools he has used successfully in his long Wall Street career. If you want to make consistent profits in the stock market, this book is a must-read.”
—Marc Chaikin, CEO, Chaikin Analytics

“I have been following Tom Lloyd’s timely signals for decades. In this treatise, Tom pulls together a library’s worth of the most effective technical analysis tools and market-timing tricks of the trade. Trade like a pro with Tom’s signals playbook.”
— Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Chief Market Strategist, Magnet Æ Fund; Editor-in-Chief, Stock Trader’s and Commodity Trader’s Almanacs

“Successful Stock Signals for Traders and Portfolio Managers quickly focuses in on the key things technical investors need to concentrate on in order to be successful— technical signals that work. Unlike many other investing books that beat around the bush, Tom Lloyd gives you great, usable advice that can help anyone find great trading opportunities in any market.”
— Chip Anderson, President, StockCharts.com