Strategies for Profiting on Every Trade. Simple Lessons for Mastering the Market

Englisch

9781592802593

John Wiley & Sons

Oliver L. Velez, Paul Lange

236

Gebundene Ausgabe

Introduction 11 Getting Started 11 Lessons on Getting Ready 21 Developing a Watch List 21 The Watch List Concept 25 Time Frames 26 Your Progress as a Trader 28 Lessons on Some Basics 33 What Market Is That Again? 33 Looking at the Big Picture 37 A Guide to Protective Stop Losses 41 Trading the First Half Hour 44 Fundamental vs. Technical 46 News You Can Use 49 News and Your Trading 53 Are You Still Investing? 56 Reversal Times 58 The All Important 200 Period Moving Average 60 Moving Averages, the Power of the 20 MA 67 A Return to Some Basics 71 Lessons on Managing 73 Managing a Trade 73 Dealing with Disaster 75 Alternate Swing Entries 77 The Reward to Risk Ratio 81 Do You Find Yourself Target Challenged? 87 The Anatomy of an Entry 89 Lessons on Psychology in Trading and Planning 94 The Psychology of Fear 94 The Trading Plan - The Key to Your Success 96 Discipline 99 Some of Your Best Qualities 100 The Need to Be Right 102 The Ways Traders Learn 104 Using Public Fear as a Trading Tool 106 Analysis of a Losing Trade 110 Technical Lessons 115 Some Common Mistakes 115 Was That a Double Top? 118 Support and Resistance 123 That First Pullback 127 Recognizing a Trend Day 129 The Perspective of Multiple Time Frames 133 Zoom, Zoom, Zoom 137 Daily Pivot Points 141 Fighting the Trend 144 How a Trend Ends 147 The Intraday Trend 150 Finding an Intraday Reversal 152 A Change in Trend, Part 1 155 A Change in Trend, Part 2 157 Trading Gaps, Part 1 159 Trading Gaps, Part 2 162 Chart Lessons on the Market 165 The NASDAQ in Review 165 A Look at the Market 170 The NASDAQ Update, Part 1 172 The NASDAQ Update, Part 2 175 The Volatility Index as a Guide 178 Caution in the Market 181 Lessons on Classic Patterns 184 Using Relative Strength as One of Your Tools 184 Relative Strength at Reversal Time 187 Failed Breakdown at Reversal Time 190 A Strategy against the Trend 193 Playing a Climactic Reversal 196 The Lunch Time Fade 198 The Power of a Mortgage Play 201 Finding Unique Plays 204 Quality Breeds Nicknames 207 When It All Comes Together 210 Conclusion 215 Appendix 219 Analyzing Pristine Buy Set-ups 219 Glossary 225 Index 229

230 mm

16.1 cm