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The book explores why randomness prevails in markets most, but not all, of the time and how technical analysis can be used to capture statistically validated patterns in certain types of market conditions. The belief of the book is that buying and selling pressure causes patterns in prices, but that these technical patterns are only effective in the presence of true buying/selling imbalance. The Art and Science of Technical Analysis is supported by extensive statistical analysis of the markets, which will debunk some tools and patterns such as Fibonacci analysis, and endorse other tools and trade setups. In addition, this reliable resource discusses trader psychology and trader learning curves based on the author's extensive experience as a trader and trainer of traders. Offers serious traders a way to think about market problems, understand their own performance, and help find a more productive path forward Includes extensive research to validate specific money-making patterns and strategies Written by an experienced market practitioner who has trained and worked with many top traders Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Art and Science of Technical Analysis will give you a realistic sense of how markets behave, when and how technical analysis works, and what it really takes to trade successfully. Review: Close to as Good as it Gets - Grimes' work, and make no mistake, this IS a "work", is as close to as good as it can honestly get in this genre. While written in simple accessible style, this is no breezy weekend read. One of the most sage bits of advice comes right at the start: when finished, go back and study certain chapters again. The reader that will get the MOST out of this contribution, in my view, is someone who already has a bit of mud on their boots from the trenches. In the appendix he provides a "Primer" aimed at the novice. But it is SO basic (how to place an order) that the gesture seems more to mollify an anxious publisher's jacket writer than serve the book's main audience. If you just now got the "what are orders" part down, the take-homes of the book will be pretty fuzzy for awile. And the extra burdens of interpretation and active management a bit much to expect. There are other more full length primers out there. A (precious) few quite good. This book is different. And that is what makes it special. While it IS a fairly comprehensive trading overview, the FOCUS of the book is interpreting and acting on largly uncluttered price action. Few books, even on technical analysis, narrow in on such a basic start point. And Grimes does so with organized, well expressed, non-contradictory prose. In other words, a treat. Rather than remain safely high on cliche and low of detail, the book is rich with specific set-ups and engaging commentary. Grounded in evidence based, probability founded science, it emphasizes the ART of making sense of it all. Of reasoned interpretation and discretionary decisions. This is refreshing. Many of the best books out there, as cognizant as Grimes of the disastrous effect of human nature, emotion and misjudgment, stress the opposite tact. The only hope is creating an "objective" testable system that marginalizes faulty judgment and emotion. The fact of the matter is, subjective opinion's effects are STILL and always, everywhere. The day that ends - no more market. Yet each tiny choice changes each participant's outcome. Gaining a lasting TRUE edge is key. Yet, given the high degree of randomness, this is extraordinarily illusive and very hard work. Faced with this sober reality, his own approach is that of a swing trader. But in the more accurate, not popular sense. I recently put down Dave Landry's Layman's Guide. Both look at simplified price action and quite similar initial set-ups. Both advocate swing trading expectation (at least initially) and grabbing partial profit quite early. Where they DIVERGE in goals and trade management I find quite stimulating. Read! I will just say Landry's hybrid swing-trend blend SEEMS the more logical. A great compromise. The purer swing style coached by Grimes however is certainly more instinctual. More importantly it SEEMS the more realistic and prudent. Grimes makes you ask yourself how time-LIMITED a given entry set-up or bullish chart pattern is likely valid for. Dispite popular mantras, the more "miss than hit" challenge of PURE long term trend trading (enduring deep drawdowns that MUST be made up by sufficient extraordinary runs), is easier said than done. Especially in our times. Grimes' insight, no, the very market structure he helps YOU see evolving, is like having a probability gauge, however slight, as you navigate your OWN way through the wall of fog known as the right margin. Reviewers offering NOTHING but accolades can be suspected (sometimes with reason) to be the author's mom or of his/her customer fan base. So here are two knocks. Sorry son: First. He suggests short and long versions of much of the book's preferred patterns would basically be mirror images. Flip them and away you go. Really? Sometimes no doubt. But the implications and thus psychology can be dramaticaly different. Affecting the volatility and compression of the action. And therefore "how it go'na look". Especially around possible signifigant tops and bottoms. 2nd "beef": Record such a detailed personal Trading Diary that you include EVERYTHING right down to "what you had for breakfast"?? For future result analysis? I nearly choked on my cheerios, blurting: "Give me a break Adam!" Indeed elsewhere he echoes Nassim Taleb about the tendency of humans to see correlations and patterns where there are none. Such a tendency provides an endless boon for "the industry" and an ever present risk for traders. In equal measure. Yes yes his POINT is okay: As we are the main part of our trading equation: know thy state and self (warily). Truly digesting THIS WORK, a diary can expect to show not only improved performance correlation but whetted appetite for MORE such nourishing fare. As the author would agree, no book is "all you need". It never is. But for this one's refreshingly GROUNDED discussions on SEEING risk and recognizing possibley superior set-ups at that hard right edge: My first 5 stars. Sail On! Review: Great Book. A Worthwhile Read and Will Be Useful as a Reference Tool. - I liked this book a lot. I have followed the author's writings since his days at "SMB Capital". His new work is at adamgrimes.com/blog. In my opinion, all of the author's work is worth reading. The book, "The Art and Science of Technical Analysis", is pretty hefty at over 400 pages. For me, there is a TON of relevant information within this book, so much that it's difficult to review, but I'll try. The author starts right in with an explanation of "Expectancy" and "Market Edge". What, in the author's opinion, defines a "trader's edge"? It's made clear in the book that the opinion is that market's, MOST of the time, are very efficient. The reason I emphasize "most" is because it's the opinion of the book that edge is defined as being aware of the moments when the market is NOT efficient and in that zone is where trading edge exist. This concept is covered in the first 5 pages and the remaining 400+ pages the attempt is made to present or make clear when markets are not being efficient. The author states early on that psychology is important and critical, but one can have the best mental attitude and emotional discipline and yet, without an edge, he/she will lose. The bottom line, as stated directly in the book, is that one MUST have edge, a clear statistical edge, and if this doesn't exist, everything else is futile. This entire book is about creating that edge. Charts are broken down at first by showing simply swing pivot points. Then the moves within the swing are broken apart. Then the author gets into multiple time frame trading. How the higher time frame "controls" the lower time frame. I do a LOT of this in my own trading and it's very interesting. None of this is new per se, it's the author's approach that is new. I think what I'm trying to say is that we might know about multiple time frame trading, but if someone enables us to see something we haven't seen before then I think this is worth the time. The author then gets into the "Wykcoff Market Cycle". There are 4 parts to this cycle and most traders I'm sure are aware of "Accumulation", "Markup", "Distribution" and "Markdown". Most traders are aware of this but it's the interface between the end of one cycle and the beginning of another on which the book concentrates. The author states that it's the miscalculation of these phases where losses and dangerous trading situations exist. A considerable amount of time is spent on deciphering these transition modes. These insights, for me, were new, interesting and seem valid. The next part of the book is on "Market Structure". The first stop within this section is "trends". The author talks about what defines a trend and talks at length about trend trading, but also in this section "range trading" is discussed. The author states that failed breakouts are one of the most common patterns in trading. How to determine a failed breakout from a "legitimate" breakout is very difficult but I really believe that the author's insights into this area of trading can be very helpful. As you go deeper into the book you see, and the author explains, there are 4 types of trades. There is trend continuation, trend termination, support and resistance holding and support and resistance failing. Now, these are the 4 types of basic trades but there are countless permutations of these formations. Each of these 4 types of trades is more appropriate during one market cycle then another. It can get confusing. This book does a more than adequate job at clarifying these trades. The next part of the book gets into "Practical Trading Templates". In this chapter/section the author list trading patterns, or rather potential trading patterns. There's a lot here, but essentially there are Primary and Secondary patterns. The Primary trades are breakouts, pullbacks and trades from "failures". The author then devotes a chapter to "Tools For Confirmation". This chapter I liked a lot since one of my several weaknesses as a trader is staying with the trade to fruition. I especially like his analysis of multiple time frame confirmations. I like the concept of paying attention to the highest time frame and then going down from the top. There is an entire chapter on Risk Management. In the appendix the author analyzes certain indicators, one of them being the MACD. He states that any trader should know his tools inside and out. They should know how the tool was designed and exactly what it is and what it's intended to be. I use MACD in my trading and I'm guilty of the exact type of ignorance about which the author speaks. I read this segment many times and I think it's excellent. All in all, this is a meaty book and I read it twice. I'm still re-reading certain parts and I took a lot of notes and underlined a lot of points. I don't write many reviews and as far as trading books go my feeling is that they are long on price and short on relevance. I don't feel that about this book at all. The points are presented in a unique way and I like that. It makes me think about trading differently and enables me to see something I've looked at many times in a different way. That is certainly worth the price of a book. I'm working with some of the points and it will take some practice. In my opinion, this is definitely a worthwhile read. The author's blog is also a worthwhile read. Hope this helps. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #46,649 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Business Finance #41 in Investment Analysis & Strategy #93 in Finance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 479 Reviews | ## Images ![The Art and Science of Technical Analysis: Market Structure, Price Action, and Trading Strategies (Wiley Trading) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71p3ZpJ1R2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Close to as Good as it Gets *by S***C on September 28, 2012* Grimes' work, and make no mistake, this IS a "work", is as close to as good as it can honestly get in this genre. While written in simple accessible style, this is no breezy weekend read. One of the most sage bits of advice comes right at the start: when finished, go back and study certain chapters again. The reader that will get the MOST out of this contribution, in my view, is someone who already has a bit of mud on their boots from the trenches. In the appendix he provides a "Primer" aimed at the novice. But it is SO basic (how to place an order) that the gesture seems more to mollify an anxious publisher's jacket writer than serve the book's main audience. If you just now got the "what are orders" part down, the take-homes of the book will be pretty fuzzy for awile. And the extra burdens of interpretation and active management a bit much to expect. There are other more full length primers out there. A (precious) few quite good. This book is different. And that is what makes it special. While it IS a fairly comprehensive trading overview, the FOCUS of the book is interpreting and acting on largly uncluttered price action. Few books, even on technical analysis, narrow in on such a basic start point. And Grimes does so with organized, well expressed, non-contradictory prose. In other words, a treat. Rather than remain safely high on cliche and low of detail, the book is rich with specific set-ups and engaging commentary. Grounded in evidence based, probability founded science, it emphasizes the ART of making sense of it all. Of reasoned interpretation and discretionary decisions. This is refreshing. Many of the best books out there, as cognizant as Grimes of the disastrous effect of human nature, emotion and misjudgment, stress the opposite tact. The only hope is creating an "objective" testable system that marginalizes faulty judgment and emotion. The fact of the matter is, subjective opinion's effects are STILL and always, everywhere. The day that ends - no more market. Yet each tiny choice changes each participant's outcome. Gaining a lasting TRUE edge is key. Yet, given the high degree of randomness, this is extraordinarily illusive and very hard work. Faced with this sober reality, his own approach is that of a swing trader. But in the more accurate, not popular sense. I recently put down Dave Landry's Layman's Guide. Both look at simplified price action and quite similar initial set-ups. Both advocate swing trading expectation (at least initially) and grabbing partial profit quite early. Where they DIVERGE in goals and trade management I find quite stimulating. Read! I will just say Landry's hybrid swing-trend blend SEEMS the more logical. A great compromise. The purer swing style coached by Grimes however is certainly more instinctual. More importantly it SEEMS the more realistic and prudent. Grimes makes you ask yourself how time-LIMITED a given entry set-up or bullish chart pattern is likely valid for. Dispite popular mantras, the more "miss than hit" challenge of PURE long term trend trading (enduring deep drawdowns that MUST be made up by sufficient extraordinary runs), is easier said than done. Especially in our times. Grimes' insight, no, the very market structure he helps YOU see evolving, is like having a probability gauge, however slight, as you navigate your OWN way through the wall of fog known as the right margin. Reviewers offering NOTHING but accolades can be suspected (sometimes with reason) to be the author's mom or of his/her customer fan base. So here are two knocks. Sorry son: First. He suggests short and long versions of much of the book's preferred patterns would basically be mirror images. Flip them and away you go. Really? Sometimes no doubt. But the implications and thus psychology can be dramaticaly different. Affecting the volatility and compression of the action. And therefore "how it go'na look". Especially around possible signifigant tops and bottoms. 2nd "beef": Record such a detailed personal Trading Diary that you include EVERYTHING right down to "what you had for breakfast"?? For future result analysis? I nearly choked on my cheerios, blurting: "Give me a break Adam!" Indeed elsewhere he echoes Nassim Taleb about the tendency of humans to see correlations and patterns where there are none. Such a tendency provides an endless boon for "the industry" and an ever present risk for traders. In equal measure. Yes yes his POINT is okay: As we are the main part of our trading equation: know thy state and self (warily). Truly digesting THIS WORK, a diary can expect to show not only improved performance correlation but whetted appetite for MORE such nourishing fare. As the author would agree, no book is "all you need". It never is. But for this one's refreshingly GROUNDED discussions on SEEING risk and recognizing possibley superior set-ups at that hard right edge: My first 5 stars. Sail On! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book. A Worthwhile Read and Will Be Useful as a Reference Tool. *by A***A on January 8, 2013* I liked this book a lot. I have followed the author's writings since his days at "SMB Capital". His new work is at adamgrimes.com/blog. In my opinion, all of the author's work is worth reading. The book, "The Art and Science of Technical Analysis", is pretty hefty at over 400 pages. For me, there is a TON of relevant information within this book, so much that it's difficult to review, but I'll try. The author starts right in with an explanation of "Expectancy" and "Market Edge". What, in the author's opinion, defines a "trader's edge"? It's made clear in the book that the opinion is that market's, MOST of the time, are very efficient. The reason I emphasize "most" is because it's the opinion of the book that edge is defined as being aware of the moments when the market is NOT efficient and in that zone is where trading edge exist. This concept is covered in the first 5 pages and the remaining 400+ pages the attempt is made to present or make clear when markets are not being efficient. The author states early on that psychology is important and critical, but one can have the best mental attitude and emotional discipline and yet, without an edge, he/she will lose. The bottom line, as stated directly in the book, is that one MUST have edge, a clear statistical edge, and if this doesn't exist, everything else is futile. This entire book is about creating that edge. Charts are broken down at first by showing simply swing pivot points. Then the moves within the swing are broken apart. Then the author gets into multiple time frame trading. How the higher time frame "controls" the lower time frame. I do a LOT of this in my own trading and it's very interesting. None of this is new per se, it's the author's approach that is new. I think what I'm trying to say is that we might know about multiple time frame trading, but if someone enables us to see something we haven't seen before then I think this is worth the time. The author then gets into the "Wykcoff Market Cycle". There are 4 parts to this cycle and most traders I'm sure are aware of "Accumulation", "Markup", "Distribution" and "Markdown". Most traders are aware of this but it's the interface between the end of one cycle and the beginning of another on which the book concentrates. The author states that it's the miscalculation of these phases where losses and dangerous trading situations exist. A considerable amount of time is spent on deciphering these transition modes. These insights, for me, were new, interesting and seem valid. The next part of the book is on "Market Structure". The first stop within this section is "trends". The author talks about what defines a trend and talks at length about trend trading, but also in this section "range trading" is discussed. The author states that failed breakouts are one of the most common patterns in trading. How to determine a failed breakout from a "legitimate" breakout is very difficult but I really believe that the author's insights into this area of trading can be very helpful. As you go deeper into the book you see, and the author explains, there are 4 types of trades. There is trend continuation, trend termination, support and resistance holding and support and resistance failing. Now, these are the 4 types of basic trades but there are countless permutations of these formations. Each of these 4 types of trades is more appropriate during one market cycle then another. It can get confusing. This book does a more than adequate job at clarifying these trades. The next part of the book gets into "Practical Trading Templates". In this chapter/section the author list trading patterns, or rather potential trading patterns. There's a lot here, but essentially there are Primary and Secondary patterns. The Primary trades are breakouts, pullbacks and trades from "failures". The author then devotes a chapter to "Tools For Confirmation". This chapter I liked a lot since one of my several weaknesses as a trader is staying with the trade to fruition. I especially like his analysis of multiple time frame confirmations. I like the concept of paying attention to the highest time frame and then going down from the top. There is an entire chapter on Risk Management. In the appendix the author analyzes certain indicators, one of them being the MACD. He states that any trader should know his tools inside and out. They should know how the tool was designed and exactly what it is and what it's intended to be. I use MACD in my trading and I'm guilty of the exact type of ignorance about which the author speaks. I read this segment many times and I think it's excellent. All in all, this is a meaty book and I read it twice. I'm still re-reading certain parts and I took a lot of notes and underlined a lot of points. I don't write many reviews and as far as trading books go my feeling is that they are long on price and short on relevance. I don't feel that about this book at all. The points are presented in a unique way and I like that. It makes me think about trading differently and enables me to see something I've looked at many times in a different way. That is certainly worth the price of a book. I'm working with some of the points and it will take some practice. In my opinion, this is definitely a worthwhile read. The author's blog is also a worthwhile read. Hope this helps. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is for sure different than any of all those I have read before on this topic *by I***5 on November 24, 2013* This book is for sure different than any of all those I have read before on this topic. Adam Grimes has mastered the art to accomplish all of the following and merge it into an easy readable trading book without being ever at risk to oversimplify or being shallow: - Analyzing market structure - Dissecting it into small understandable pieces - Explaining those pieces to new traders, but also giving interesting new views or comments to more experienced traders - Putting them back together to better understand the big picture - Putting them into a practical context Pro: Practical trading templates – he manages to draw a clear picture of his approach and set-ups without ever being dogmatic or disqualifying different approaches or opinions. Statistical analysis of trade results – very nice introduction on how to analyze your results At no point in time is he trying to upsell anything, nor does he make reference to any commercial offerings, tools etc. You can go to his blog/website and get a) a flavor of his style and b) a lot more examples, thoughts, stories etc. and as of latest a complete free trading course without any intent to upsell etc. This puts seriously at risk my belief that there is no free lunch… He is never dogmatic, always humble in his style, words, approach, and accepts that there are tools which may not work for him, but maybe for others Contra: As per his own comments in his blog, this book was initially supposed to be 900 pages and was subsequently condensed into 450. I feel it is a pity of “losing” 450 pages of high value content. A few notes: Part I – Foundation of TA: Edge – finally somebody who clearly states that you need an edge to win over the long run. Anybody who says or believes something different can stop reading here and buy some “get rich overnight w/o any effort” book. He also manages to transmit how small and vulnerable to many factors these edge in reality will be. Market cycle – Nice introduction on the market forces and the 4 basic trades: trend continuation, trend termination, S/R holding, S/R breaking. Everything else are nuances or mixes of them, and while trading is much more complex than this, the basic understanding of it helps you put everything into a context. Part II – Market Structure Trends, trading ranges and interfaces between them. Clear words and observations. Luckily, he manages to build the bridge to explain the underlying market structure and the relevant charts, without being dogmatic or boring on certain candle formations or other factors such as MA retracements, S/R points etc. Part III – Trading Strategies By far the best I have ever read. Practical trading template – it is exactly what it says, clear concise template style set-ups over 50 pages showing his main templates with all the different nuances, potential entry strategies etc. Tools for confirmation – Adam recognizes a certain value in certain indicators, but first of all stresses out the need to understand the indicator used in what it is measuring and how it is calculated, to ensure it is properly embedded in your approach. Again, he is not dogmatic, e.g. he explains while Keltner channels are arguably “better” than Bollinger bands, but is flexible in leaving the final decision to the reader. Trade Management – I liked a few new thoughts on where to place the stops Risk Management – nothing new here for anybody who read a few of the serious trading books. For the new trader it should still be eye-opening. Trade examples – trading templates put into practice with a selection of not only text book examples, but also others with not so clear set-ups which are much closer to reality and even losing trades after text book set-ups. Part IV – The individual, self-directed trader The trader’s mind – again, probably nothing new for the experienced reader, but that does not make it less relevant, true or interesting for anybody. Becoming a trader – Together with the chapter on trading templates probably the main differentiator to other trading books or so called. He clearly outlines the importance of a process and the relevant record keeping and journaling and then gives a very interesting insight into analyzing your trading results in order to find flaws and start improving. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Art and Science of Technical Analysis: Market Structure, Price Action, and Trading Strategies - The Art and Science of Trading: Course Workbook - Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/5523271-the-art-and-science-of-technical-analysis-market-structure-price](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/5523271-the-art-and-science-of-technical-analysis-market-structure-price) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-08*