Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Bloomberg Visual Guide to Candlestick Charting
Michael C. Thomsett · 2012
75/100
👍 Worth It
Thomsett covers more than two hundred candlestick terms with real company charts as anchors, making this a genuinely useful desk reference for traders learning technical analysis visually. It does not teach you when to trade — it teaches you to read the patterns — which means it requires some existing market context to get full value. For the right reader at the right stage, this Bloomberg series entry is solid.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety96
substance76
craft74
originality65
accuracy78
hype70
age-fit88
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict75
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