Index
Hawkins, Stephen, 666
Head and shoulders pattern, 108, 503–509
Hedging, 847
Heikin Ashi candlesticks, 583–584
Herd behavior, 780–781, 815
Herrick payoff index, 179, 207–208
Heuristic, 818
Hidden divergence. See Reverse divergence
High pole warning, 616–617, 619
Hikkake reversal breakout, 230–231
Hindsight bias, 818
Horizontal channels, 106, 469, 511, 512, 518, 533, 537
Horizontal counts, 620–621
Horizontally based overlays, 236, 238, 250, 251
Ichimoku Kinko Hyu analysis, 627–650
advantages and disadvantages, 643–644
balance aspects in, 645–646
barriers to price and overlay action, 635–638
bullish and bearish indications, 639–641
calculating Ichimoku average, 629
candlesticks with, 580, 581, 643
chart components/overlays, 628–633
cloud-based trade triggers, 641–642
combining with Fibonacci retracements, 638
functional aspects, 633–643
Ichimoku cloud, 628
lookback period characteristics, 632
overlay calculations, 633
price projection, 649
time and price domain characteristics, 644–649
time displacement characteristics, 632
timeframe implications and the underlying cycle,
647–649
trend-identification indicators, 633–635
whipsaw actions, 643–644
ID/NR breakouts, 232–233
IFTA CFTE official reading list, 933-934
IFTA STA (UK) Diploma Exam official reading list,
935
Implied volatility, 787
Impulse waves, 674
Impulsive waves, 418–421
Indicators:
chart scaling, 237–239
classification of, 235–239
overlay, 235–236
window, 236–237
Inflection point-based bands/channels, 492
Inflection points, 850
Information analysis, 7
Informed investor, 54, 102–103, 780–782, 815
Initiative buying, 660–661
Initiative selling, 661
Input data, 253–255
Inside bars, 224–226
Inside day pattern, 224–226, 546. See also ID/NR
breakouts
Insider activity, 36–37
Insider trading, 7
Integrated technical analysis, 849–878
bullish and bearish clusters, 852
dynamic price clusters, 860–865
identifying clusters, 852–853
inflection points, 850
intermarket and broad market confluences,
875–877
multiple oscillator STF agreement, 874–875
price-oscillator agreements, 870–872
price-time confluences, 867–870
reliability of clusters and single overlay barriers,
850–852
single oscillator MTF agreement, 872–874
static price clusters, 853–860
time clusters, 865–867
Inter contract price divergence, 342–343
Inter moving average divergence, 317–319, 347
Inter regression line divergence, 349
Intermarket relationship, 170
Inter-oscillator divergence, 350–352
Interpretational ambiguity, 286
Intra-oscillator divergence, 352
Intrinsic bias, 105–107
Intrinsic sentiment, 496
Intrinsic sentiment bias, 211, 547–549
Intrinsic value, 4–6
Inverted divergence. See Reverse divergence
Investment decision making, 923-931. See also Client/
investor objectives
bearish outlook, long term, 928-929
bearish outlook, short/medium term, 930-931
bullish outlook, long term, 924-928
bullish outlook, short/medium term, 929-930
Investor behavior. See Investor psychology
Investor biases, 817–823
Investor objectives. See Client/investor objectives
Investor psychology, 813–824
certainty bias, 817–818
chart patterns and behavior, 815–817
cognitive dissonance, 822–823
confirmatory bias, 819
ego defensive bias, 818
general behavioral aspects, 813–815
heuristics, 818
hindsight bias, 818
loss-aversion bias, 819
market consolidations and behavioral explanations,
820–821
market trends and behavioral explanations,
817–820
mental framing and anchors, 819–820
misinterpretation bias, 819
overconfidence, 819
regret bias, 818
representativeness bias, 819
sunk cost bias, 818