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Index
Cover
How to Get Started in Active Trading and Investing
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Landscape
Chapter 1: Traditional Wall Street—Trumpery, Tyranny, and Tendency
Investment Banking
Why a Broker Can Make You Broke
Analysts
Corruption in the Food Chain
Enter the Regulators
The Mutual Funds Role
Where is the Market Food?
Chapter 2: The Business Cycle
The Business Cycle Components
The Role of the Government (Fiscal Policy)
Federal Reserve Economic Policy (Monetary Policy)
Chapter 3: The Broad Market and the Way the Engine Runs
Broad Equity Markets
Fixed Income Market: Bond Basics
Commodities
Chapter 4: Sector Analysis
The Dow Jones Utility Average
AMEX Oil Index
Currencies
The Effects of Interest Rates on the Dollar and Gold
Real Estate
The Fear Index
The “Edge” is Emerging
Part II: Pictures of Perception
Chapter 5: Opinion versus Analysis (Data)
Raw Market Data
The Basic Premise of Technical Analysis
Charting
Volume
Time
Elasticity—The Range of Emotion Equals the Range of Price
Chapter 6: Supply, Demand, and Emotions
Supply/Demand—The Emotional Hedge
Price
Volatility
The Volatility and Smoothing of Time
Volume
Velocity
Chapter 7: Market Cycles and Technical Analysis
Market Stages
Chapter 8: Support and Resistance
Consensus
The Moving Average—Smoothed Consensus
Chapter 9: Trajectories and Paths
Continuation and Reversal Patterns
Chapter 10: Candles and Oscillators
The Momentum Candle
Candlestick Patterns
Oscillators and Indicators
Chapter 11: Fundamentals or Financial Fantasy
Fundamentals Answer Why, Not When
What is Fundamental Information
Manipulation of Fundamental Information
How to Filter Through Fundamental Data
Chapter 12: Becoming Your Own Analyst
Reviewing the Top-Down Approach
Top-Down and Trend Alignment
Bottom-Up
Directional Bias Versus No Bias
Chapter 13: Tactical Trading and Investing
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Slippage Can Destroy Analysis
Institutional Order Flow
Single Source Liquidity Investment Vehicles
Futures
E-Mini S&P Contract
Chapter 14: Pay Raises Become Effective When You Do
Applying What You Have Learned
Chapter 15: When to Sell
Chapter 16: Favorite Strategies
The “Short Squeeze”
The Stochastic Play
The Earnings Play
Buy Rumor, Sell Fact (News)
Conclusion
Index
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