Index
Sellstop orders, 147
Semi bounded oscillators, 238
Semi-efficient markets, 34–35
Semi-logarithmic scaling, 434
Senkou spans. See Ichimoku Kinko Hyu analysis
Sentiment. See Market sentiment
Sentiment analysis, 12. See also Market sentiment
Sentiment bias, 547–549
Sentiment indicators, 118–119. See also Market
sentiment
Sentiment-based indicators, 783
Separating lines, 545, 546, 587
Shooting stars, 549, 551, 558–559, 586
Short, 9
Short interest ratio, 66, 119, 434
Short-term charts, 837
Signal alternation, 337–338, 339
Signal line crossover, 246
Signals, 839–840
Silver, 58, 90, 111, 160–161, 165, 184–185, 190–193,
242, 261–262, 321, 342–343, 349–350, 624,
809–810, 863
Simple moving average (SMA), 440, 441, 445
Single oscillator MTF agreement, 872–874
Single tail TPO, 665
Skewness, 745
Slippage, 146–147, 148
Slope analysis, 269, 271, 275, 285–290
Slope divergence, 282–290
bullish vs. bearish, 285–287
degree of confirmation/non-confirmation in,
288–290
Smoothed volume, 179
Smoothing, 449, 450, 454, 764, 795
Soros, George, 815
Speed lines, 164–165
Sperandeo, Vic, 228
Sperandeo trendlines, 162–163
Spinning tops and bottoms, 551
Square root scaling, 79–85
Squeeze, Bollinger band, 479
Standard and reverse divergence. See also Divergence
bull setups, 297–299
bullish vs. bearish, 294–306
chronological approach, 311, 312
as continuation and reversal, 307–310
contrarian approach to explaining, 312
distinction between reverse divergence and bull an
bear setup, 312–313
momentum approach, 310–312
OBOS overextended levels, 312
overbought/oversold rationale, 312–313
reverse bullish and bearish divergent setups,
299–307
setups and occurrences, 291, 292
signal alternation between, 337–338, 339
Standard deviation, 744–750
Standard divergence, 286, 291–322
Standard volume bars, 179
Starc bands, 484, 485
Static overlay indicators, 239–240
Statistical analysis, 11–12
Steidlmayer, J. Peter, 666
Stochastic exit mechanisms/setups, 887–889
Stochastic oscillator, 490
Stochastics indicator, 251, 259–262
StochRSI, 254
Stock beta, 754
Stock returns, 81
Stop and reverse (SAR) entries, 486, 487
Stop losses, 834–835
Stop orders, 146, 821
Stoploss levels, 841
Stoploss orders, 146, 895–896
Stopsizing, 153–154
Subjective objectivity, 25–26
Subjectivity, 16–30
in analysis and technical study choice, 16–20
contradictory, confirmatory, and confirming signals,
20–22
in event determination, 25–28
interpretational and inferential, 24
in pattern identification, 22–28
and selective perception, 24–25
Summation, principle of, 720–722
Sunk cost bias, 818
Supply and demand, 6, 12, 30, 70, 74, 590, 651, 759
Support and resistance, 170
bullish support and bearish resistance lines, 615,
616
Fibonacci-based calculating methods, 368–375,
376–379, 382–383, 385–388
integrating candlesticks with, 580
Support and resistance role reversals, 150–151
Swing trading, 56–58, 826
Symmetrical triangles, 109, 111, 515–519
Synchronicity, principle of, 722
System robustness, 916–917, 919Take profit orders, 147
Tanken-sen, 635, 646
Target risk, 886
Targets, 840–841
Tasuki gap, 546, 577
Technical analysis. See also Integrated technical analysis
advantages and disadvantages, 13–16
basic assumptions in application of, 39–40
basic assumptions of, 30–39
branches of, 11–12
chart examples, 17–20
classifying, 11–16
definitions of, 7–9
dual function of, 3
forecasting with, 3
vs. fundamental analysis, 9–11
objectives of, 1–3