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SKILLS & TECHNIQUES
Swing
Trading
Anticipating
Market Direction
Modern markets
shift gears constantly. Stay ahead of the curve, learn to
act quickly and capitalize on fresh trading
opportunities.Bilateral Trade Setups
Overcome directional bias and let the price action tell
you which way to go.
Exploring Market Physics
Price movement follows natural physical laws. Learn how
to profit from these powerful hidden forces.
Pattern Cycles: Declines - Reversals - Tops - Highs - Trends - Breakouts - Bottoms
Syllabus from the live presentation at the National
Online Trading Expo in New York City.
Scanning Tips and Techniques
Train your eyes to look at charts this way the next time
you do your market homework.
The Profitable Trader
Personal discipline is the one thing you can't learn
sitting in an audience.
Trading Execution Zone
A pattern is only as good as the price action that
follows it.
Trading with Stage Analysis
What if you could just glance at a chart, and find good
trades immediately?
20 Golden Rules for Traders
Add these simple rules to your daily trading and build
consistent profits.
20 Rules for Effective Trade
Execution
It's easier to find good stocks than to trade them for a
profit.
20 Rules to Stop Losing Money
The best way to start making money is to stop losing it!
TREND
REVERSALS
Bottoms
& Tops
Fishing
for Profits
Trading bottoms
and tops have the highest reward:risk ratios of all
short-term trades. But it's still very easy to miss your
opportunity. Use these informative strategies to locate
outstanding entry points.
Adam
& Eve & Adam
Learn two variations of the double bottom that get you in
at the lowest risk.
Adam & Eve Tops
Use this classic topping formation to identify profitable
short sales.
Hell's Triangle
The development of three descending highs and a
horizontal floor often sets the stage for a major
selloff.
Lowdown on Bottoms
There are many variations on the theme, including rounded
bottoms, triple bottoms and V-bottoms.
The
Big W
Use the Big W to trade your way through major reversals.
PROFITING
FROM DECLINE
Corrections
Effective
Short Selling
When markets
break down, they display common characteristics over and
over again. Identify the current phase of the decline and
position yourself to capitalize on the panic of the
crowd.
Anticipating a Selloff
How You Could Have Seen ImClone's Implosion Coming.
5 Wave Declines
Declines are not chaotic events. Look for the orderly
1-2-3-Drop-Up in corrective movements.
Selling Declines
The fearful crowd provides a rich source for profits on
trades initiated during corrections and declines.
Surviving Bear Markets
Most players wrongly believe that profits will continue
in a major decline as long as they just flip their long
strategies upside down.
Common Pitfalls of Selling Short
The bear market will end when Joe Sixpack quits his job
so he can sell short for a living.
MARKET
MATHEMATICS
Indicators
Traders
Toolbox
The right
technical tools will get you into good trades and keep
you out of bad ones. Use these powerful indicators and
tools to cross-verify the message of your chart pattern.
Bollinger Bands Tactics
Use Bollinger Band strategy to pinpoint major swing
reversals and breakouts.
Five Fibonacci Tricks
Add these Fib twists and turns to your toolbox, and apply
them to your next trade.
Fun with Fibonacci
Fibonacci numbers consistently mark hidden support and
resistance.
Moving Average Crossovers
Add the Golden Cross and Death Cross to your trading
arsenal.
Overbought/Oversold Overload
Should we run for the hills because a market is
overbought, or load up the boat because it's oversold?
Time Trading
Effective manipulation of time is a critical skill for
long term trading success.
Voodoo Trading
Magic numbers, astrological dates and prayer wheels have
all been enlisted in the search for that elusive trading
edge.
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FINDING THE EDGE
Market
Dynamics
Trend-Range
Mechanics
When stock
movement breaks the rules, it could be emitting a very
strong signal. Here's what to look for when you're
expecting the unexpected.Clear
Air
Clear Air identifies price levels where volatility should
spike sharply. Use these zones to execute high-reward,
high-risk entry.
Cutting Losses
Attention to loss is a sign of trading experience.
Attention to gain is a sign of trading immaturity.
Effective Market Timing
Folks believe chart-reading automatically leads to
profitable trading. This isn't true.
Exit Strategies
Most traders don't have an exit plan, whether their
positions are turning a profit or going down in flames.
Greed and Fear
Learn to take advantage of destructive crowd behavior
driven by greed or fear.
Measuring Reward:Risk
Trading is an odds game, in which anything can happen at
any time.
Pattern Failure
The best trade may be in the opposite direction from the
one that you're planning.
Playing Failed Failures
Modern markets try to burn everyone through rinse jobs
before they launch definable trends.
RIDING
THE WAVE
Breakouts
Trend
Following Systems
Breakouts
through key support or resistance signal price movement
that will likely persist for some time. Use these key
trend and breakout patterns to capture large pieces of
the move.
Breakout Trading
A market starts rising when it stops falling. Hidden in
the final twists and turns of long bottoms, new uptrends
go unnoticed by the crowd.
Catch The Dow and Elliott Waves
Dow Theory hasn't missed a beat in over 100 years. So
what does Charlie Dow have to offer modern traders?
False Breakouts and Whipsaws
Breakouts occur in zones of conflict. Both bulls and
bears are very passionate at these turning points.
Morning Gap Strategies
Having trouble with those irritating morning gaps? You're
not alone.
The Gap Primer
Old traders' wisdom advises that gaps get filled.
However, some gaps never fill.
Trend, Direction and Timing
Learn what to look for before you commit your capital.
Trend Waves
Add Elliott Wave Theory to your chart analysis and
discover a new world of trading opportunities.
Triangle Trading
Hone your pattern trading skills with a fresh look at
this classic formation.
FAST
FINGERS
Day
Trading
Intraday
Cycles and Tactics
Day traders
face intense competition and hidden traps set by
insiders. Avoid common intraday pitfalls and make market
cycles work in your favor.
3-D Trade Execution
Use multiple time frame pattern analysis to identify
profitable intraday trade setups.
Bid-Ask
The bid/ask spread reveals underlying supply and demand
on the ticker tape.
Pullback Day Trading
Learn to step in front of other day traders on intraday
pullbacks.
Tale of the Tape
The years you spent studying technical analysis may not
make you a good trader.
Tape Reading
Learn the subtle skills of tape reading and understand
the ways that insiders manipulate the markets.
UNCHARTED
TERRITORY
New
Highs
Momentum
Trading
Stocks at new
highs display unique momentum characteristics that can
persist for months. Jump on the momentum bandwagon but
minimize the considerable risks when you do.
Mastering The Momentum Trade
Momentum trading can be mastered. Three disciplines will
break destructive habits and reprogram trading for
success.
Momentum Cycles
Minimize the risks of momentum trading by tuning your
positions to the hidden action-reaction cycles of dynamic
trend.
Uncharted Territory
Use the Rule of Alternation to measure opportunity as
stocks rally to new highs.
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