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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

John J. Murphy · 1999 · Level: beginner

The standard textbook: trend, support and resistance, chart patterns, indicators, and intermarket relationships in one reference.

For prop traders: The reference to own before the pattern encyclopedias. Most prop traders only need the first half, done properly.

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