Description
Book SynopsisTony Plummer is a director of Helmsman Economics Ltd, and is a former director of Guinness Flight Hambro Global Fund Managers Ltd, Hambros Fund Management PLC, and Hambros Bank Ltd. He carries out independent research into the patterns and rhythms of global markets as well as giving global lectures on crowd psychology and technical analysis.
Trade Review"This book will entertain and intrigue keen investors." Financial Times "As clear cut and easy-to-read an introduction as one could want." The Independent
Table of Contents
- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Section - ONE: The logic of non-rational behaviour in financial markets;
- Chapter - 01: Wholly individual or indivisibly whole;
- Chapter - 02: Two’s a crowd;
- Chapter - 03: The individual in the crowd;
- Chapter - 04: The systems approach to crowd behaviour;
- Chapter - 05: Cycles in the crowd;
- Chapter - 06: Approaches to forecasting crowd behaviour;
- Section - TWO: The dynamics of the bull–bear cycle;
- Chapter - 07: The stock market crowd;
- Chapter - 08: The shape of the bull–bear cycle;
- Chapter - 09: Energy gaps and pro-trend shocks;
- Chapter - 10: The spiral and the golden ratio;
- Chapter - 11: The mathematical basis of price movements;
- Chapter - 12: The shape of things to come;
- Section - THREE: Forecasting turning points;
- Chapter - 13: The phenomenon of cycles;
- Chapter - 14: The threefold nature of cycles;
- Chapter - 15: Economic cycles;
- Chapter - 16: Recurrence in economic and financial activity;
- Chapter - 17: Integrating the cycles;
- Chapter - 18: Forecasting with cycles;
- Chapter - 19: Price patterns in financial markets;
- Chapter - 20: The Elliott wave principle;
- Chapter - 21: Information shocks and corrections;
- Chapter - 22: The confirmation of buy and sell signals;
- Section - FOUR: The psychology of trading;
- Chapter - 23: The psychology of fear;
- Chapter - 24: The troubled trader;
- Chapter - 25: The psychology of success;
- Chapter - 26: Summary and conclusions