Bibliography

(In alphabetical order) Aby, Carroll D. J. Point & Figure Charting: The Complete Guide. Grinville, SC: Traders Press Inc., 1996. Bollinger, John. Bollinger on Bollinger Bands. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Bulkowski, Thomas N. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Carney, Scott M. Harmonic Trading, Volume One: Profiting ... Read more

OBV P&F

Volume Indicator P&F Charts On Balance Volume, invented by Joseph Granville, is a most basic volume indicator. It adds the volume to the previous total when price rises, else it is deducted. OBV indicator calculated on usual charts when plotted using Point & Figure method becomes very simple to read due to the clear and ... Read more

P&F of Indicators

Indicator as Point & Figure A 14-day RSI is a popular indicator on bar and candlestick charts. Same indicator plotted in P&F charts is featured below. Figure 11.3.1: Nifty 14 day RSI line chart and 2% x 3 Point & Figure chart This way, noise of RSI indicator can be removed and plotted for reading ... Read more

Positional Investment

Investing Generally speaking, investment is made keeping larger time horizon in mind. It is a sensible approach to use higher box-values when time horizon is large. All P&F methods that we have discussed can be applied on larger box-value charts for medium-term or long-term investments; I am not repeating it unnecessarily. The earlier discussion about ... Read more

Short & Medium-term

Various methods and techniques on P&F discussed throughout this book are applicable on all time frames and box-values. Even one or two things understood properly can make you trade any instrument successfully. A few strategies are discussed in this chapter from investing and trading perspective, to arm you with more ideas and use the ones ... Read more

Index Trading

Nifty as per simple setup rules can be traded on lower time-frame charts. In other words, basic Double Top and Double Bottom patterns can be filtered by trend identification techniques like moving average. I recommend 5 absolute box-value for the same on 1 min time frame. Have a look at the chart below. Figure 12.3.12: ... Read more

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