Time the Markets:  

Using Technical Analysis to Interpret Economic Data​

Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT - December 2011

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Stock investors who time markets based on business cycles can earn enormous profits, while others continue to swim upstream against rushing currents. In Time the Markets, Charles D. Kirkpatrick II offers a systematic, practical, and accessible methodology for identifying probable shifts in business cycles.

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​Overcoming the divide between fundamental and technical analysis, Kirkpatrick tests twenty-five publicly available economic indicators and identifies only three that, taken together, usually signal major market movements. Youll learn which fundamental, economic, monetary, sentiment, and price data indicators work best--and which to avoid as redundant, time-consuming, and only marginally helpful.

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​Kirkpatrick explains why market timing is crucial to reducing risk, reviews evidence about whether markets can be timed, and presents methods for neutralizing the risks of market decline. Next, he introduces easy-to-use technical methods for establishing where trends and oscillations are beginning or ending. Finally, he walks through tests of economic indicators to determine when markets are most likely to change direction--so you can ride the waves in rising markets, and step aside when they plummet.  Read reviews.

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• Beyond the flawed Efficient Markets Hypothesis  Why market data shows that markets can be timed

• What you need to know about trends, momentum, and cycles  A quick technical analysis primer for long-term investors

• Timing systems that work: building, testing, and using them  Compiling your data and transforming it into usable insights

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