• How to use horizontal and vertical counts to estimate the size of price moves,
• How to use stop-orders to protect positions,
• How to use pyramiding to maximise profitable trends,
• How to use swing trading in combination with point and figure, and
• How to adapt your trading style to your capital and risk tolerance.

Based on rigorous research, testing and analysis, Weber and Zieg's book is the definitive guide to what point-and-figure charting is, and how to use this powerful trading method first systematized by A. W. Cohen. It will benefit all traders, from the novice to the experienced.

10 Powerful Advantages of Point-and-Figure:

1. It is easy to understand.
2. It focuses on what really matters: price movements.
3. Point and figure is both a chart methodology and trading system which directly produces buy and sell signals.
4. It has been rigorously tested and it works.
5. It provides exact decision rules to enter and exit trades.
6. It is universal — the same techniques apply to every investment prudent . . . including stocks, derivatives, commodities and mutual funds.
7. It always gets you in on a major move.
8. It works for both long and short positions, and always displays stop-loss points.
9. It generates crystal-clear trend lines.
10. It concentrates money in the trending positions.

HEINRICH A. WEBER was co-founder and managing director of the market-making firm, Servisen Trading/QT Optec. He learned technical analysis while working with one of the early exponents, Ed Hargitt. In a joint venture operation with HSBC-James Capel, he directed the development of one of the first trading systems using the Hurst coefficient.

He is a partner and risk manager of the active Eurex member firm, DeTraCo. As a partner, he develops risk models and finan-cial forecasting applications with AleaSoft (www.aleasoft.com), the European leader in the use of neural networks for the predic-tion of energy prices. Occasionally, he does specific consulting in the securities area, some of which is conducted jointly with Dr. Zieg.

Heinrich studied at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) at Lausanne, Switzerland, and has a PhD and an MBA from Rushmore University.

He lives with his wife and two young daughters in Geneva, Switzerland.