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Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians
3rd ed.
Charles Kirkpatrick II, Julie Dahlquist
Written by Charles Kirkpatrick II, CMT, a two-time winner of the Market Technicians Association's Charles H. Dow Award and an adjunct finance professor at Brandeis, and Julie Dahlquist, PhD, CMT, editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis. It presents technical analysis as a discipline, with academic evidence for and against it. For advanced readers who want a rigorous, textbook-level treatment.
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