Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, + Website Setups for Stock, Forex, and Futures Markets

by Person, John L.

• ISBN13: 9780471980223
• ISBN10: 0471980226
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics, John Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers-in the stock, forex, and futures markets-based on a moving average approach.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Author Biography

John L. Person, CTA, is President of Nationalfutures.com, a professional advisory service, and President of J&B Capital Management. In 1998, he developed his own proprietary trading system and began publishing The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental developments as well as technical analysis that includes the data from his trading system, using pivot points combined with candlesticks. Person has appeared regularly on CNBC and is widely quoted by Reuters and MarketWatch from Dow Jones. He has also written many articles for publications such as Futures magazine, Active Trader, and SFO, among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
CHAPTER 1 Trading Vehicles, Stock, ETFs, Futures, and Forex	5	(72)
CHAPTER 2 Determining Market Condition: Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral	77	(16)
CHAPTER 3 How to Read Oscillators to Spot Overbought or Oversold Conditions	93	(18)
CHAPTER 4 Momentum Changes: How to Spot Divergence or Convergence	111	(10)
CHAPTER 5 Pivot Points: Determine key Price Support and Resistance Areas and the Importance of Confluence	121	(38)
CHAPTER 6 Pivot Point Moving Average System	159	(28)
CHAPTER 7 Candle Charts and Top Reversal Patterns	187	(26)
CHAPTER 8 Setups and Triggers: Combining Candles and Pivots	213	(44)
CHAPTER 9 Risk Management: Setting Stops	257	(12)
CHAPTER 10 Projecting Entry and Exit Points: Learn to Scale Out	269	(10)
CHAPTER 11 The Sample Analysis: The Proof Is in the Back-Testing	279	(28)
CHAPTER 12 Confidence to Pull the Trigger Comes from Within	307	(10)
Glossary	317	(18)
About the CD-ROM	335	(4)
Index	339