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Monday 19 November 2007
Marber on Markets
Harriman House
Controversial insights from a 50-year career in charting
"I have been a fan of Brian Marber's work for 20 years. He has an unconventional take on life, a refreshing change from the herd mentality of many City analysts. Marber On Markets will intrigue and amuse in equal measure."
- Jeff Randall, Editor-at-Large, Daily Telegraph
This is not your average book on technical analysis. Why? Because the author is not your average technical analyst. Brian Marber is unique - and so, as a result, is this book.
Technical analysis is about running profits and cutting losses, not when it hurts but when your exposure is no longer technically justifiable. "Tops and bottoms are for fools" is a Rothschild maxim; "and for liars" is Marber's, who compares technical analysis to huntin', shootin' and fishin': "we hunt for a trend, never shoot for a top nor fish for a bottom".
Having spent more than 50 years learning to be a technical analyst (he compares being 'a bit of a chartist' to amateur brain surgery), Marber explains his approach, employing the format he perfected as lecturer and teacher. He starts with price, then what it leads to: trends, support and resistance, patterns, indicators and ratios. When you have absorbed all that, including a chapter on Japanese candle-stick chart analysis, he move on to stops, without which all forecasts are worthless.
The book does not claim to be comprehensive, but does aim to be honest, presenting the reader with the techniques and indicators that Marber himself has used so successfully; if something doesn't work, he doesn't use or explain it. But he does reveal certain methods that he himself devised. As he says: "I have read very few books, but those I have read never told the reader when and how a technical signal goes wrong. This book does."
It also shows you the nitty-gritty, technical analysis in real time, warts and all, including reports on equity indices, gold, oil and the dollar. The book is a must-read for anyone who really wants to understand markets, delivered in Marber's distinctive voice.
Fellow of the Society of Technical Analysts, stockbroker, equity and FX fund manager, broadcaster, lecturer at I.M.I and founder of his own FX consultancy, Brian Marber, with 51 years in the business, can make a fair claim to be the most widely experienced technical analyst in the world.
At N.M. Rothschild & Sons he was the first investment manager in the UK using only technical analysis. In the 1990s he was exempted from the SFA Exams for would-be FX account managers because of his 'long and distinguished career in the investment industry'.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brian Marber was voted by institutional investors No.1 technical analyst in the City for six successive years in the 1970s and 1980s - a unique record. In 1980, in a survey by The Singer Company, he had the best FX forecasting record in the world.
For 15 years his monthly foreign exchange column in Euromoney Currency Report was required reading. He has also written for The Financial Times and The Sunday Times; his August article in the latter not only called the low when many commentators were expecting a market slump, but also forecast the advance to the highs that followed in October.
Brian Marber is FX Consultant to banks, large corporations, hedge fund companies (including Europe's oldest, Odey Asset Management), and private clients.
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