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  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Head and Shoulders: An Introduction to Reversal Patterns by Timothy A. Maguire ""A picture is worth a thousand words""- Chinese proverb. The first thing a novice to the stock market would likely notice about individual security prices is that they are not static. Continual change is the only true constant in the market. Being aware of this, technical analysts attempt to predict what changes will occur in individual stock prices. One of their specific goals is to determine when trend reversals are underway. Generally, when a stock is undergoing one of these reversals, either from an uptrend t...

AUTHOR: Timothy A. MaguireDATE: AUG 1985

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  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...CORNERSTONE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: The Dow Theory by Timothy A. Maguire ""The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance."" (Samuel Adams, 1771) Historical Perspective Charles Henry Dow, founder and first editor of the Wall Street Journal, laid the foundations for technical analysis of stock trends over eighty years ago. During his thirteen year tenure as editor, from 1889 to 1902, Dow based his observations of the stock market upon interactions between the market averages he is credited with inventing. Although tod...

AUTHOR: Timothy A. MaguireDATE: NOV 1984