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One of the questions I am asked often is what is the difference between my books. Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts is all about candlesticks, tearing apart how they work using simple statistics and user-friendly analysis. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns is the same as the Candlestick book, but it covers chart patterns and event patterns. Trading Classic Chart Patterns introduces a scoring system to help you select chart patterns that work. Getting Started in Chart Patterns is a book about chart patterns for both the novice and expert trader because it covers areas of chart patterns not discussed in my other books. But you can think of it as a lite version of my Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns book with a less in-depth look at chart patterns and a heavier focus on how to trade them.

Here’s a testimonial that’s worth reading not for what he says about my books (which is nice) but about his success trading the markets.

Dear Mr. Bulkowski,

I’m a 22-year old college student and an options trader. For the last year and four months, before June, I virtually traded options at real time, turning one hundred thousand into five million. Then, at the beginning of the summer, I opened my first real money account, and have made a little less than 1,200% on my account, never having more than 30% of my entire account invested at one time, never having more than 15% in one stock (now no more than 10%, eventually I’ll get it down to having no more than 5%).

I got started in charts with Getting Started in Chart Patterns. I followed that book with Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns. and followed that with Trading Classic Chart Patterns. with the recommendations listed on Dan Zanger’s site. I loved those books so much that I bought Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts. since I’m a fan of charts. I was amazed at how much I had already figured out. You put names to what I was just observing and statistics that made me even more profitable. I keep both your encyclopedias next to my computer while I go over my stocks ever night, and I see a break out.

My parents are mad at you because now they can’t claim me on their taxes this year. Just kidding, I bought my dad the boat he always wanted because they matched my account which gave me a few extra dollars to play with.

I hope your trading is doing well and your doing well.

Thank You So Much. Your Books Are Awesome.

— Trader01603

Chart pattern analysis is not only one of the most important investing tools, but also one of the most popular. Filled with expert insights and practical advice from one of the best in the business, Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition helps new and seasoned traders alike profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns.

Substantially revised and expanded, this new edition of the popular guide now includes additional charts for ETFs and mutual funds. It introduces more than 40 key chart formations, as well as trading tactics that can be used in conjunction with them. It supplies actual trades (with dollar amounts), along with author Thomas Bulkowski’s frank discussion of how trading behavior can affect the bottom line.

Interwoven throughout the technical presentations are fascinating anecdotes drawn from the author’s quarter-century as a professional trader that vividly demonstrate how one of the best in the business leverages the power of chart patterns.

Getting Started in Chart Patterns, Second Edition Table of Contents

Preface to First and Second Editions