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Index
Introduction
Disclaimer
Financial Notes
Chapter 1 – Entering the Stock Market Field
What Makes Stocks and Options Different?
What About Dividend Stocks?
Who Could Benefit from Day-Trading?
What Problems Persist With Day-Trading?
What Does it Take to be a Great Day-Trader?
What You Need for Trading
Chapter 2 – How to Tell What Stock is Right for You
Choose Stocks in a Field You Understand
The National Market
Do You Know the Company?
Review Price Trends
Work With Moving Averages
The Relationship between Revenue and Debt
Compare the Performance of a Stock With Other Similar Choices
What is Best for Short or Long-Term Needs?
Signs a Stock is Better for Day-Trading
Signs a Stock Works for Long-Term Investing
Chapter 3 – Reviewing an SEC Report
Background of a Report
10-K Report
10-Q Report
8-k Report
Internal Functions
Added Tips
What If a New Version of a Report Is Issued?
What About the Chairman’s Letter?
Chapter 4 – Understanding the True Value of a Stock
P/E Ratio
Price/Earnings Growth Ratio
Price/Sales Ratio
Analyze the Book Value
Chapter 5: Using a Stock Screener
How to Use a Screener
A Quantitative Approach
The Best Choices
Chapter 6: Working With a Great Trading Platform
Analytics Points
Can This Work In Lieu of a Stock Screener?
What Are the Best Trading Platforms?
Don’t Forget Simulators
Chapter 7: Trading the Same Stocks – A Good Idea?
Find Patterns
How Volatile Is the Stock?
Focus on One Stock for the Day
Time Between Trades
Check the Long-Term Report
Chapter 8: Identifying Patterns in a Stock
Reversal or Continuation?
Pennant
Wedge
Cup and Handle
Head and Shoulders
Triangles
Double Top or Bottom
Pocket Pivot
Chapter 9 – Using a Stochastic Oscillator
An Important Note
A Stochastic Oscillator
The Formula Used
Identifying the Value
When It Reaches the Value
Can You Change the Timing?
Strategies For Trading Using the Oscillator
Can the Rate Be Negative?
Chapter 10 – Identifying Trades During the First Hour
Significant Losses or Gains After the First Hour
Should You Trade During This Time Period?
If You Wish to Trade Here…
Chapter 11 – When to Buy Long and When to Sell Short
Investing In a Long-Trade
Investing in Short-Trades
A Warning About Selling Short
Works With Patterns
Chapter 12 – Planning Limit or Stop Orders
Stop Orders
Trailing Stops
Stop and Reverse
Limit Orders
Concerns About the Limit and Stop Orders
What About Commissions?
Is There is a Chance An Order Might Not Be Executed?
Watch for Volatility
Chapter 13 – Other Types of Stock Orders
Conditional Orders
Duration Order
Chapter 14 – Buying Stocks on Margin
Examples
For Which Stocks Can You Use Margins?
Margin Calls
Strategies for Margin Trading
Chapter 15 – How to Identify Bad Stock News
Social Media Is Risky
Avoid Anonymous Sources
Who Else Is Reporting?
Review the Fine Print
Where to Find News
Chapter 16 – Signs that You Should Avoid a Stock
The Debt to Equity Ratio is Too High
The Cash Flow is Negative
Profit Warnings
Insider Trading Is Prominent
A High-Level Resignation
SEC Investigations
Other Commonplace Points
Can’t You Just Place a Put Order On These Stocks?
Chapter 17 – False Signals and How to Recognize Them
What Causes False Signals?
How Can You Avoid a False Signal?
Chapter 18 – Understanding Penny Stocks
What Is a Penny Stock?
Serious Risks
What if You Do Want to Invest?
Chapter 19 – Strategies for IPOs
Be Cautious When Reading a Prospectus
Review the Underwriters
Watch the Lock-Up Period
Is the First Day a Good Time?
Chapter 20 – What Determines the Values of Options?
Intrinsic Value
Is the Equity Good?
Look at Market Conditions
Time Value
Time Decay
Supply and Demand
Chapter 21 – Planning an Options Trade
American or European?
Review the Option Premium
How Long Can an Option Keep Its Value?
How Long Should Your Option Last?
When to Use a Shorter Option
When to Use a Longer Option
Use an Options Simulator
Chapter 22 – When and When Not to Exercise An Option Early
How Deep In the Money Are You?
A Dividend Might Be Issued
Review Commissions
What Is the Risk?
Chapter 23 – Covered or Uncovered Options Calls
Understanding the Covered Call
Is the Covered Call Ideal For Day-Traders?
Looking At the Uncovered Call
Which Is Best?
Chapter 24 – Bull and Bear Spreads For Options
The Bull Spread
The Bear Spread
Can These Work for Any Investment?
Chapter 25 – Other Options Trading Strategies
Long Straddle
Long Strangle
Married Put
Protective Collar
Butterfly
Condor
Synthetic Long
Synthetic Short
Chapter 26 – Analyzing the History of a Dividend Stock
Review the Values
Watch if the Stock Value Goes Down
Check When Dividends Are Paid
Look At the Various Dates
How Are Dividends Increasing?
Can One-Time Dividends Work?
Chapter 27 – Understanding the Dividend Totals In Stocks
How to Calculate the Dividend Yield
Review the Price-Dividend Ratio
Forward Dividend Yield
Chapter 28 – Added Strategies for Dividend Stocks
How Does a Stock Manage Its Earnings?
Focus on Stocks You Will Hold For a While
Watch for Taxes
Should You Buy a Stock Solely for the Dividend?
How This Works
Does the International Market Play a Part?
Watch For the News Stories
Analyze Closing Prices and Volume Totals
Watch for Share Totals
Avoid Options at This Time
Use Proper Screeners
Keep Your Research Going
Avoid Late-Day-Trading
Does Early Trading Really Make a Difference?
Chapter 30 – Analyzing the Doji
Analyze the Volume Line
Continuation or Reversal?
Types of Doji
Watch When the Doji Candle Closes
Analyze How Much of a Change Happens
Watch for Stop-Loss Orders
Exit and Enter Quickly
How Many Doji in a Row?
Chapter 31 – Advanced Points on How Candlesticks Are Positioned
Star
Harami
Hammer
Inverted Hammer
Hanging Man
Shooting Star
Marubozu
Spinning Tops
Abandoned Baby
Dark Cloud Cover
Engulfing Pattern
Stick Sandwich
Three White Soldiers
Three Black Crows
Two-Crow Gap
Chapter 32 – Stock Repair Strategy
What Stocks Should You Work With?
Why Two Traditional Strategies Won’t Work
How Long Does the Strategy Take?
How to Use the Strategy
Determining Strike Prices
Can You Buy More Shares When the Long Call Is Exercised?
Chapter 33 – Bid and Ask Prices
Recent Changes Make a Big Difference
Is it Better to Work With More Shares?
Analyze the Size of the Spread
Analyze Bid-Ask Spread Changes In a Day
Check on What a Broker Offers
Chapter 34 – High-Frequency Trading
How Does It Work?
How Long Does It Take?
How Big of a Change Is There?
Can This Work the Other Way Around?
Is This Profitable?
Review Latency
Chapter 35 – Strategies to Avoid When Investing
Not Having a Sensible Plan
Using Long-Trades on Non-Volatile Stocks
Switching Strategies Too Quickly
Being Too Dependent on Analysts
Investing in Just Any Business
Not Having a Stop-Loss Plan
Chapter 36 – What To Do With Stock During a Merger
Will You Have a Voice?
Stock-For-Stock
Combination
Reverse Merger
Should You Sell During a Merger?
Watch for Premiums
When Do You Have to Enter?
Chapter 37 – When to Sell a Stock
Look at Dividend Changes
Review Your Price Target
When the Volume Slows
When a Business Is About to Go Bankrupt
Tax Considerations for Losing Stocks
Avoid Emotional Concerns
Chapter 37 – How Much Money Should You Spend At One Time?
Plan a Percentage Limit
Review the Cents Per Risk
How Big of a Position Should You Have?
A Sense of Balance
Chapter 38 – What About Preferred Stock Shares?
How Are Preferred Shares Different from Common Shares?
How Can You Buy Preferred Shares?
What About Maturity?
Why Would a Business Issue Preferred Shares?
The Three Types of Preferred Shares
Important Concerns
Chapter 39 – Will These Strategies Work For Other Types of Investments?
Should You Move On?
Conclusion
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