Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
A Trader's Journey | p. 1 |
The Beginner: Everyone Starts at the Beginning | p. 3 |
Learning to Walk All Over Again | p. 4 |
A Positive Outcome Can Reinforce a Bad Habit | p. 5 |
Risk Management--Don't Leave Home without It | p. 8 |
Don't Blame the Guy behind the Curtain--You Chose This Job | p. 9 |
The Famous Bre-X Scandal | p. 11 |
Listen to the Tape; It Is Never Wrong | p. 12 |
Turnaround: Small and Safe | p. 15 |
Opening a Third Eye | p. 16 |
Confidence Grows from Experience | p. 20 |
The Territory and the Map | p. 24 |
Coming around the Mountain | p. 27 |
The First Profitable Year: Charting Success | p. 29 |
Using a Trading Journal | p. 30 |
Using Your Chart of Your Account | p. 33 |
Imaginary Friends Are Important People Too | p. 36 |
Learning to Trade for a Living | p. 37 |
Learn or You Are Bankrupt | p. 38 |
Keying In on Those around Me | p. 39 |
Not Everyone Gets an A for Effort | p. 40 |
You Decide Your Fate; the Market Doesn't | p. 42 |
Additional Important Beliefs | p. 43 |
Trading Is Not a Need-to-Know Business | p. 44 |
Making the Odds Even | p. 45 |
Making the Probabilities Work for You | p. 46 |
Taking Stock of It All | p. 47 |
The Trader's Circle: Bridging the Gap between Art and Science | p. 49 |
Strengthen the Mind as Well as the System | p. 51 |
Finding Out More about Myself | p. 52 |
Getting through the Stages | p. 53 |
The Final Stage | p. 53 |
Completing the Circle | p. 55 |
Discovering the Satisfaction of Teaching | p. 57 |
Reveling in the Triumph of Another Trader | p. 59 |
Rediscovering the Circle | p. 60 |
A Trader's Edge | p. 63 |
Pros Assess Risk; Amateurs Assess Potential | p. 64 |
You Don't Have to Be in the Middle of Every Battle | p. 65 |
The Dichotomy of the Guilty | p. 67 |
Finding the Elusive Edge | p. 72 |
A Trader's Intuition: The Real Art of Trading | p. 75 |
What Is Intuition? | p. 75 |
Be Careful of Intuitive Traps | p. 76 |
Trading Mantras | p. 77 |
Rules for and the Mindset of a Mature Trader: The Dos and Don'ts of Trading | p. 83 |
Trading System | p. 87 |
Tape Reading: Revitalization of a Lost Art | p. 89 |
One Size Doesn't Fit All | p. 89 |
Discovering What Tape Reading Really Is | p. 91 |
Are You the Majority or the Minority? | p. 93 |
Market Irony | p. 94 |
The Accumulation/Distribution Relationship | p. 95 |
The Role of Setups | p. 107 |
Different Methods of Entry | p. 109 |
Stop-Loss Placement and Trailing | p. 115 |
Revisiting Risk Management | p. 116 |
Confidence Levels | p. 121 |
Trading Setups | p. 123 |
Jump-Base--Explosion (JBE) Setup | p. 124 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 124 |
Open-High--and Open-Low--Break Setups | p. 130 |
Cup-and-Handle Setup | p. 130 |
Capitulation | p. 130 |
Trader's Action | p. 135 |
Trading Market Ranges and Miscellaneous Points | p. 137 |
Trading Ranges | p. 137 |
Miscellaneous Points | p. 142 |
Practical Examples | p. 145 |
Accumulation and Distribution | p. 146 |
Entry on Pullback | p. 151 |
Jump-Base--Explosion (JBE) Setup | p. 154 |
Capitulation | p. 158 |
Capitulation | p. 162 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 167 |
Capitulation and Euphoria | p. 171 |
Finding Entries in a Strong Trend | p. 176 |
Open-Break Setup | p. 180 |
Open-Break Setup | p. 183 |
Open-Low--Break Setup | p. 186 |
Trading within the Range | p. 189 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 193 |
Stop Loss | p. 196 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 198 |
Jump-Base--Explosion (JBE) Setup | p. 201 |
Jump-Base--Explosion (JBE) Setup | p. 204 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 206 |
Trend Continuation | p. 209 |
Open-Low Break and Reversal | p. 211 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 214 |
Trailing Stops and Confidence Levels | p. 217 |
Jump-Base--Explosion (JBE) Setup | p. 221 |
Cup-and-Handle Breakout | p. 223 |
Capitulation | p. 226 |
Open-Low--Break Setup | p. 229 |
Fading Breakout | p. 232 |
Short of the Range Resistance | p. 234 |
Open-Low--Break Setup | p. 237 |
Open-Low--Break Setup | p. 239 |
Drop-Base--Implosion (DBI) Setup | p. 241 |
Cup-and-Handle Setup | p. 244 |
Cup-and-Handle Setup | p. 246 |
Glossary | p. 249 |
Index | p. 251 |
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