3.
The education on how to use the first fabulous two to generate profits
4.
Superb brokerage services to execute your trades and investments
once you have mastered the ART system
Best of all, you get this right here in just one book. This means that for
the price of one book, you will be able to experience the reality of technical
analysis software and data to generate greater profits. You’ll see firsthand
how technical analysis can enhance your fundamental analysis. Or, if you
do not use fundamentals, you will see how ART can be used as a stand-
alone decision maker for your trading and investing.
Maybe you are currently making entry and exit decisions by looking at
fundamental information that you can gather from news, corporate earn-
ings, Fed statistics, or any other multitude of reports that are available to
you on CNBC and in the
Wall Street Journal.
The reality is that those reports can be subject to distortion (a corpo-
ration carefully manages how the numbers are revealed so as to look their
best); exaggeration (it’s a slow news day and a commentator may need to
enhance a story to make it newsworthy); and, of course, interpretation (a
trader interprets a poor earnings report and panics out of a position to find
out that the stock goes up, and up and up).
How do we determine what is reality? How do we know when
something is exaggerated or distorted? How do we make sense of the
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information and the world around us to determine how to make profitable
financial decisions? That is where “reality-based” trading and investing
come in. ART, Applied Reality Trading, can help you decipher the informa-
tion that you receive from the market so that you can clearly understand it
and act on it intelligently.
This does not mean that you will be following someone else’s reality.
Instead, you will be creating your own reality and personal financial ap-
proach that works for you and makes you profits. Think about Columbus
setting off to sail into the distance in 1492, when everyone else thought that
the world was flat. That didn’t stop Christopher; he had his own reality, and
he followed it and succeeded. Despite the naysayers, he was courageous
enough to try a new approach—which is what you will be doing. You will
be an explorer and you will discover your reality, and you will use that as
your edge in the financial markets.
The gift that ART and technical analysis can also give to you is clarity.
You can include the ART trading software in your approach to confirm, or
deny, an entry or exit. ART gives you the reality because it is based on the
truths of the market—price and volume—and these cannot be distorted.
My personal approach happens to be purely technical analysis using
the ART software, but many of my students do combine fundamentals with
ART. You will decide what is right for you, and this book is designed to
bring you up to speed in trading with ART
R
and technical analysis. If you
have never used technical analysis and charts to make better entry and exit
choices, there is no time like the present! This book,
The ART of Trading
,
gives you everything you need to get started.
Enjoy the benefits of “reality-based” trading and technical analysis. I
wish you all the best in everything that you do!
B
ENNETT
M
C
D
OWELL
San Diego, California
January 2008
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