Thomas N. Bulkowski - Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

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THIRD EDITION

Thomas Bulkowski

Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Bulkowski. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data:

Names: Bulkowski, Thomas N., author.

Title: Encyclopedia of chart patterns / Thomas Bulkowski.

Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2020] | Series: Wiley trading | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020055782 (print) | LCCN 2020055783 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119739685 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119739722 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119739692 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Stocks—Charts, diagrams, etc. | Commodity futures—Charts, diagrams, etc. | Investment analysis.

Classification: LCC HG4638 .B85 2020 (print) | LCC HG4638 (ebook) | DDC 332.63/222—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055782LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055783

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To my parents,who continued to love me even after my homemaderocket set the lawn on fire, and to my four‐legged best friend,

Rusty,who saved my life; it grieves me that I couldn’t save yours.

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I receive a lot of emails from people wanting to know the fastest way to lose money. They don't phrase it like that, of course. “I want to trade Forex full time,” using massive leverage. “I need to make money because I quit my job, I have $10 in trading capital, and I'm in debt up to my eyeballs. Can you help?”

One trader, let me call her Lisa, found success using this book. In just over a year, she made $5 million. On paper. Then she used real money, funded in part by help from her parents.

What happened?

Lisa made over a thousand percent and bought her dad a boat.

Can I adopt her?

For some, like Lisa, this book is a shortcut to making money. I've done the heavy lifting by researching and cataloging chart patterns for more than two decades. I packaged that research and experience into this book. It's a thick book. It's an expensive book. And it's worth every cent as Lisa found out.

All of my books sell well because I do one thing which few authors do: I prove what I write. I don't just copy the ideas of others who copied them from someone else. My books break new ground. I'm the person others are stealing their ideas from. You'll find my ideas between the covers of this book in easy‐to‐understand language. There, I share performance details on 75 chart patterns. Some patterns work. Some are best left untouched. And some that don't work turn into money makers when they bust their downward breakouts.