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TECHNICAL ANALYSISFROMATOZ Steven B. Achelis
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TECHNICAL ANALYSISFROMATOZ
Steven B. Achelis
TECHNICAL ANALYSISFROMATOZ Steven B. Achelis
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FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS
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CHARTS
Charts
The foundation of technicalanalysis is the chart. ... price, etc. Market indicators cannot be calculated for an
individual security because the required data is not available.
Market indicators add significant depth totechnical analysis, because they...
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by Steven B. Achelis
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Indicators
An indicator is a mathematical ... for
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Terminology
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PART ONE: Introduction toTechnical Analysis
Technical Analysis
Price Fields
Charts
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Terminology
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PART ONE: Introduction toTechnical Analysis
Technical Analysis
Price Fields
Charts
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... landscapers, and the wealthy and the wanting. This
breadth of market participants guarantees an element of unpredictability and excitement.
Fundamental analysis
If we were all totally logical ... prices.
Bar charts
A bar chart displays a security's open (if available), high, low, and closing prices. Bar charts
are the most popular type of security chart.
As illustrated in the bar chart ... eliminated by smoothing the
ratio with a moving average.
Example
The following chart shows the S&P 500 and a 15-day moving average of the A/ D Ratio.
Calculation
Bollinger Bands are displayed as...
... oneself as a man, a
woman or transgender
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(American Psychological Association-
APA).
Sexual identity, sexual preference, and sexual
orientation refer to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, ... taken from: A. Alberti et al., Strengthening ReproSalud’s Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies (Washington, DC: POPTECH Project, 1998); Anna-Britt Coe, Health, Rights, and
Realities: An Analysis ... 2
What additional information is needed about
gender relations?
ANALYSIS- Step 1
What are the gender-based constraints to
reaching program objectives?
ANALYSIS- Step 2
What are the gender-based...
... thought that it had a substantial share of the banking
market but realized that it had only a small share of the total
financial market, which includes much more than banking.
• AT&T stopped ... Andy Grove of Intel as a time in the life of a
business when its fundamentals are about to change.” Banks had
to make changes with the advent of automated teller machines
(ATMs), and major airlines ... such as managing
athletes’ careers.
• The late Roberto Goizueta told his company, Coca-Cola, that
while Coca-Cola had a 35 percent share of the soft drink mar-
ket, it had only a 3 percent share...
... pleasant.
A loaded wagon makes no noise. Really wealthy don't talk about money.
A loveless life is a living death.
A man can die but once.
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
A ... It's better to stop and accept a small loss, rather than continue and risk losing
everything.
Better untaught than ill-taught It's better not to be taught at all than to be taught badly. ... time saves nine. It's better to deal with a problem at an early stage, to prevent it from getting worse.
A stumble may prevent a fall. Correcting a small mistake may help you to avoid making...
... and global accounts. Today’s companies increasingly assign na-
tional and global account managers to manage their largest customers.
Account management systems will grow in the future as more ... votes.
Great brands are the only route to sustained, above-average
profitability. And great brands present emotional benefits, not
just rational benefits. Too many brand managers focus on rational
incentives ... company’s name
and trademark are by far our most valuable assets.”
Companies must work hard to build brands. David Ogilvy in-
sisted: “Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius,
faith...
... persuasively as can a friend, acquaintance, past customer, or inde-
pendent expert. Suppose you are planning to buy a PDA (personal
digital assistant) and you have seen all the ads for Palm, HP, and
Sony. ... marketing. The mass
market is splintering into mini-markets and your company
now has the capability of marketing to one customer at a
time.
• From owning assets to owning brands. Many companies are be-
ginning ... software, 81
marketing process automation, 82
marketing strategy simulators, 114
partner relationship management (PRM),
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real-time inventory management, 81
real-time selling, 81–82
sales automation...
... but today most advantages don’t stay relevant and
few are sustainable. Advantages are temporary. Increasingly, a com-
pany wins not with a single advantage but by layering one advantage
on top ... an-
other value: that many women care about social issues and will pa-
tronize a company that cares.
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Greg Carpenter and Kent Nakamoto have challenged a core as-
sumption of marketers that buyers ... company will have incorporated a set of advantages that all
reinforce each other around a basic idea. Wal-Mart, IKEA, and South-
west Airlines have unique sets of practices that enable them to...
... Insights fromAto Z
since most Jaguars had to be repaired frequently. An acquaintance
of mine always owned two Jaguars, because one was usually in the
repair shop.
Style, or appearance, does play a ... Easy to open the packaging.
• Easy to assemble.
• Easy to learn how to use.
• Easy to use.
• Easy to repair.
• Easy to dispose of.
Just consider “Easy to learn how to use.” I recently purchased
HP/Compaq’s ... financial asset that
needs to be managed and maximized like any other asset. Tom Peters
sees customers as an “appreciating asset.” They are the company’s
most important asset, and yet their value is not...
... listen.
Guarantees
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(EVA), market capitalization, and cost of capital must be as familiar
to them as sales, market share, and gross margins.
Companies today are focusing on shareholder value. The CEO
is not satisfied when ... employees want to
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Marketing Insights fromAto Z
uarantees
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Guarantees are getting more fashionable. Guarantees can be power-
ful builders of corporate value and credibility. They may promise
money ... fail to realize is that their markets are rarely
fully penetrated. All markets consist of segments and niches. American
Express recognized this and created the Corporate Card, the Gold
Card, and...
... analysis
management are being • Sales -to- expense
achieved ratios
• Financial
analysis
• Market-based
scorecard
analysis
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Marketing Insights fromAto Z
nnovation
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Firms face a dilemma. ... physical assets? Own-
ing physical property can be a liability. All a company needs is access to
physical assets. To operate as a lean company may call for decapitaliz-
ing—outsourcing activities and ... will have to
International Marketing
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A major bank announced a new savings plan in the newspapers but
hadn’t explained the plan to its branch managers. An engineering
firm made a decision to sell...