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Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar

Al Brooks · 2009 · Level: advanced

Brooks's dense, complete treatment of price action: every bar tells you who is in control and what is likely next.

For prop traders: Demanding, but the closest thing to a full price-action curriculum for intraday futures traders.

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