In this popular first volume of the Street Smart series, Don Worden offers a base of knowledge from which a beginning chart reader can become an effective technical analyst. Designed to "get you off the mark" in chart reading, The Rudiments lays a critical foundation for understanding the power of using charts to guide you in your stock selection.

Mr. Worden writes about:

• The value of charts for stock analysis

• The relationship between fundamental and technical analysis

• What really is "technical analysis"

• Reading price, trends, and using trendlines to make charts understandable

• What role do emotions play in trading

• How important is volume

• Recognizing channels and channel busters

• Understanding the impact of moving averages

The new chart reader or anyone needing a refresher course on the basics, will not find a better primer on how to use technical analysis to make sense of the stocks you follow.

In this new, illustrated volume of this popular series, Don Worden takes you further into the world of Technical Analysis (chart reading).

In his cut-to-the-point style, he discusses:

• The underlying logic of the market

• Your chances of success trading stocks

• The effective traders essential attributes

• The seven uses of Technical Analysis

Mr. Worden includes a detailed discussion of using trends to determine market movement. He reviews:

• How trends show where a stock has been

• The three basic trends

• Fundamental questions to ask about trends

• How trends are based on certain specific realities

• Distinguishing important trends from those that matter less

• How to spot trend reversals, violations and beginnings

• Examining the quality of trends

Mr. Worden summarizes this section with a fascinating discussion of the three basic concepts that make up the famous "Dow Theory." Street Smart II concludes with some basic precepts of the "street smart technician."

Developing a cohesive investment strategy and philosophy of studying the market is crucial to the long-term success of any investor. In this seminal book, Don Worden lays the groundwork from which you can become an investor who thinks for him or herself. As a basic philosophy of the market, Trader’s Manifesto offers traders and investors a foundation on which to stand in the twists and turns
of trading stocks.

Trader’s Manifesto examines:

• The role of risk management in trading

• Key principles of timing for effective buying and selling

• The need to keep rooted in reality when trading.

• How to seek out the essential truths underlying a stock or market move

• How the tools of technical and fundamental analysis can be blended successfully

• How to devise your own trading personality and priorities by thinking for yourself

• Keeping the science of analysis and the history of the market in perspective

Mr. Worden also talks about the roll of liquidity and luck in your success. He touts the importance of discipline and hard work in keeping your trading decisions sound.

As a foundational treatise on which you can build your own philosophy of trading, Trader’s Manifesto is definitive.