Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Preparing to Win

Introduction: It’s Time to Rule the Freakin’ Markets!

1.

The Knucklehead Within: Identifying Your Type

2.

Getting Real: Defining Your Trading Capacity

3.

I Just Gotta Be Me: Finding Your Own Trading Style

Part II: The Mind Game

4.

Meeting the Enemy: Learning to Think Like “Them”

5.

The Seven Deadly Sins, Plus Fear: Knowing Your Psychological Achilles’ Heel

Part III: Playing to Win

6.

Making Friends with the Trends: The Right Way to Pick Stocks

7.

Hot Tips from Hell: Five Bad Ways to Pick Stocks

8.

Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan: How to Enter, Maintain, and Exit the Play

9.

Hard Hat Zone: Setting Stops on Every Trade

10.

Short and Sweet: Flexibility in Volatile Markets

11.

Making It for Keeps: Six Keys to Sound Money Management

12.

Keeping Your Edge: The Rules of the Game

13.

The Pursuit of Wowsa!: Trading to Follow Your Dreams

Glossary