Most financial market books, especially those on TA, seem as though addressed to prospective targets: "Suckers, use my super dooper-specialized proprietary method, trade a lot, get my newsletter, and open an account at my very own, highly recommended XYZ brokerage firm." They are, generally, composed of descriptions of too-well known indicators, replete with glowing, yet unsubstantiated, accounts of the profits the author has obtained by using them. Even the more serious attempts, like those of John Murphy, are merely encyclopedic gatherings of indicators, with little effort made to determine their objective utility or profitability; or, like Kaufman's, while addressing a more intelligent, educated technician, too compendious. Sadly, the better books present the reader with barely more than introductions to approaches that are mathematically and computationally more rigorous; and, while they may also indicate further directions of study, do little in the way of providing it.

大多数金融市场书籍，尤其是那些关于TA的书籍，似乎都是针对预期目标的：“笨蛋，使用我的超级傻瓜专用方法，进行大量交易，获取我的时事通讯，并在我自己强烈推荐的XYZ经纪公司开一个账户。”通常，这些书都是由对过于知名的指标的描述组成的，写满了作者通过使用它们所获得的利润的光鲜亮丽的，但没有事实根据的账目。甚至像约翰·墨菲（johnmurphy）那样更为严肃的尝试，也仅仅是指标的百科全书式集合，几乎没有努力确定它们的客观效用或盈利能力；或者，像考夫曼那样，对一个更聪明、更受过教育的技术人员讲话时，言简意赅。可悲的是，更好的书给读者的仅仅是介绍数学和计算更严谨的方法；而且，虽然他们也可能指出进一步的研究方向，但在提供它的方式上做得很少。