Investing with Volume Analysis: Identify, Follow, and Profit from Trends, 1st edition
Published by FT Press (March 18, 2011) © 2011
- Buff Pelz Dormeier
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Technical Analyst's 2013 Book of the Year and Trader Planet's 1st Place STAR Award!
In the continual pursuit for higher profits investors and traders alike often assume significantly higher risks while chasing the next hot opportunity. Other more sophisticated investors attempt to employ complicated indicators while not fully understanding the information the indicator was designed to reveal. On the other hand, savvy investors employ analysis to gauge the market,  positioning themselves to potentially earn higher profits with significantly less risk. Volume analysis attempts to delve deep inside the market trends to help identify shifts within the markets.  Investing with Volume Analysis s presents an enlightened perspective on the role of volume, not only in pragmatic terms but also in terms of apprehending the underlying rationale of how and why. Award-winning technical analyst Buff Pelz Dormeier teaches state-of-the-art methods for analyzing the relationship of volume to price movements and the evolution of market trends. Writing in clear, accessible language that all investors can understand and apply, Dormeier demonstrates how to:
- Accurately analyze the four R's of Volume: Responsiveness, Reliability, Risk, and Returns
- Gain more clarity and actionable information from index volume data
- Distinguish between retail and institutional activities, and invest accordingly
- Minimize the impact of poor investment decisions
- Avoid costly mistakes beginning technical analysts often incur
- Understand how recent regulatory changes are impacting market behavior
- Use new money management tools to help reduce risk and avoid market whipsaws
Volume analysis may be one of the best, most well-proven forms of technical analysis. Investing with Volume Analysis doesn't just introduce this powerful technique: It explains how investors at all levels may utilize it successfully.
Use powerful, easy-to-apply volume analysis techniques to recognize emerging market trends sooner and profit from them.
- Discover the hidden forces behind market moves by mastering all four R’s of Volume: Responsiveness, Reliability, Risk, and Returns.
- Use state-of-the-art money management tools to reduce risk and avoid market whipsaws.
- Understand how recent changes in market regulation are impacting market behavior—and apply that knowledge before other investors can.
Introduction    1
Chapter 1: Two Perspectives of Market Analysis    5
Chapter 2: The History of Technical Analysis    12
Chapter 3: Price Analysis    27
Chapter 4: Volume Analysis    32
Chapter 5: Volume: The Force of the Market    39
Chapter 6: How to Read the Market Like a Book    53
Chapter 7: Volume in Trends    73
Chapter 8: Volume in Patterns    93
Chapter 9: Measuring Volume Information    112
Chapter 10: Pure Volume Indicators    118
Chapter 11: Interday Volume Accumulation Indicators    127
Chapter 12: Intraday Volume Accumulation Oscillators    132
Chapter 13: Price Range Volume Indicators    140
Chapter 14: Price Accumulation Based on Volume Indicators    147
Chapter 15: Tick-Based Volume Indicators    151
Chapter 16: Volume-Weighted Price Indicators    157
Chapter 17: The Volume Price Confirmation Indicator    182
Chapter 18: A Compendium of Breadth Indicators    209
Chapter 19: Buff Up Your Volume: Introducing Capital Weighted Volume    226
Chapter 20: Risky Business    241
Chapter 21 Putting It All Together: Volume-Dictated Strategies    259
Chapter 22: Modern Day Volume Issues    281
Bibliography    306
Armed with proprietary indicators and investment programs, Buff Pelz Dormeier, CMT dynamically manages private investment portfolios for affluent individuals, institutions, trusts, and endowments. Buff builds customized strategies designed to meet or exceed a client’s specific investment objectives in what is often uncertain market conditions. This is accomplished by utilizing proprietary state-of-the-art portfolio management tools designed to grow and preserve wealth in a risk-conscience manner.
In Buff’s 15+ years in the securities industry, he has been employed as a financial advisor, an analyst, and a portfolio manager. An award-winning industry innovator, Buff is the developer of Volume Weighted Moving Averages (VWMA), the VW-MACD, the Volume Price Confirmation Indicator (VPCI), VPCI Stochastics, the Anti-Volume Stop Loss (AVSL), the Trend Thrust Indicator (TTI), Capital Weighted Volume Indexes, and a host of cap-weighted, volume-based breadth indicators.
As a celebrated source of investment knowledge, Buff’s work with market indicators and trading system design has been published and/or referenced in Barron’s, Stock’s & Commodities, SFO and Active Trader magazines, and the IFTA & MTA Journals. A Chartered Market Technician, Buff received the 2006 Charles Dow Award recognizing research papers breaking new ground or which make innovative use of established techniques in the field of technical analysis. The Charles H. Dow Award is considered one of the most important recognitions in the field of technical analysis. He has also been a featured speaker at national and international conferences including Expo Trader Brazil, the TradeStation World Conference, and the Moneyshow International Trader’s Expo.
Buff was a double major graduate of Indiana State University participating in varsity track and cross country as a student athlete. Still an avid runner, Buff is a former Indiana Marathon champion.
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