Behavioural Technical Analysis

This book is not merely a boring reiteration of the necessary fundamentals, but contains a combination of facts that show weakness of MPT and original ideas. The book contains inconvenient author findings of good stock picking skills of fund managers and obstacles that prevent good fund performance. Although financial gains through common stocks are possible for any investor, the author shows that consistent investment strategy allows increase probability to achieve good results. IMO some author’s ideas are still not proven adequately but I think it will be fruitful to read this book not only for CFAs (prime audience) but also for amateur investors. * — *

Paul V. Azzopardi has decades of experience in investment.He trained and worked as a certified public accountant and then obtained an MBA from the University of British Columbia, now Sauder School of Business, concentrating in finance and investments. He then worked in the securities industry for the last twenty years in various roles but principally as a manager of private client accounts. In this role he invested in securities around the world on behalf of his private clients. He now concentrates on managing a private fund and on his lifelong passion of writing about investments and finance. His blog can be found at Paul’s first book, ‘Investment and Finance: A Common Sense Approach’, an investment primer, was published in 2004 by Progress Press. Paul can be contacted at