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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
INTRODUCTION You Are Already a Commodity Trader | p. 1 |
My Most Important Market Belief | p. 4 |
The Beginning of My Career as a Speculator | p. 5 |
The Ride of a Lifetime | p. 8 |
Making Order Out of Short-Term Chaos | p. 9 |
How I Learned about the Market | p. 9 |
Charting the Market | p. 11 |
The Nonrandom Market | p. 13 |
Understanding Market Structure | p. 15 |
Market Structure Will Never Change | p. 21 |
Short-Sell Pattern | p. 27 |
Target Time and Trailing Stops | p. 28 |
Recap | p. 32 |
ItâÇÖs a Question of Price and Time | p. 33 |
All You Will Ever Need to Know about Cycles | p. 33 |
The Natural Cycle of Range Change | p. 39 |
Where the Trend Is with You—The Second Power-Play Price Pattern | p. 50 |
Recap | p. 54 |
The Real Secret to Short-Term Trading | p. 59 |
ItâÇÖs All about Time | p. 61 |
Bankrolling Hotshot Traders | p. 62 |
Proving the Point | p. 65 |
How to Make the Most Money | p. 68 |
Recap | p. 70 |
Volatility Breakouts—The Momentum Breakthrough | p. 71 |
Simple Daily Range Breakouts | p. 76 |
A Look at Volatility in the S&P 500 | p. 80 |
Separating Buyers from Sellers to Find Volatility Using Market Swings | p. 95 |
Results | p. 96 |
One Step Further | p. 97 |
Recap | p. 98 |
The Theory of Short-Term Trading | p. 99 |
What Is Wrong about the Information Age | p. 103 |
E. H. HarrimanâÇÖs Rule of Making Millions | p. 104 |
Recap | p. 105 |
Getting Closer to the Truth | p. 107 |
The Market Is Not a Coin Flip: Random Walk or Cootner versus Cohen (Cohen Wins) | p. 108 |
Gold TDOM Study | p. 117 |
Bond TDOM Study | p. 118 |
Monthly Road Maps | p. 120 |
Recap | p. 123 |
Patterns to Profit | p. 125 |
The Common Element | p. 126 |
The Questions to Ask | p. 131 |
My Smash Day Patterns | p. 132 |
How to Use Smash Day Patterns | p. 136 |
SpecialistsâÇÖ Trap | p. 137 |
A Vital Note—This Works on Shorter Time Frames as Well | p. 141 |
Oops! This Is Not a Mistake | p. 145 |
S&P Oops! Trading | p. 151 |
Recap | p. 152 |
Separating the Buyers from the Sellers | p. 153 |
Greatest Swing Value | p. 155 |
Stock Index Trading with Greatest Swing Value | p. 156 |
Some Pointers | p. 160 |
Recap | p. 161 |
Short-Term Trading from a Quote Screen | p. 163 |
How a Quote-Screen Trader Makes Money | p. 165 |
Swing Points as Trend Change Indication | p. 166 |
The Three-Bar High/Low System | p. 167 |
A New Indicator for Short-Term Traders: Willspread | p. 170 |
Willspread and the S&P 500 Stock Index | p. 174 |
Recap | p. 180 |
Special Short-Term Situations | p. 181 |
Month-End Trading in Stock Indexes | p. 181 |
Target Months | p. 184 |
Making It Better | p. 184 |
Month-End Trading in the Bond Market | p. 186 |
Getting Specific | p. 187 |
Better and Better | p. 188 |
A Time to Sell | p. 191 |
Recap | p. 193 |
When to Get Out of Your Trades | p. 195 |
Thoughts on the Business of Speculation | p. 197 |
Exits before Entries | p. 197 |
What Speculation Is All About | p. 200 |
ItâÇÖs about Time | p. 201 |
Essential Points about Speculation | p. 202 |
Recap | p. 215 |
Money Management—The Keys to the Kingdom | p. 217 |
Most Traders Use a Hit-and-Miss Approach | p. 218 |
Approaches to Money Management—One Is Right for You | p. 218 |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Money Management | p. 219 |
Looking in New Directions, Drawdown as an Asset | p. 222 |
Back to Ralph: 2011 Money Management Breakthrough | p. 228 |
The Kelly Ratio Mirage | p. 229 |
Recap | p. 233 |
From Kennedy to Obama, Thoughts from 50 Years of Trading | p. 235 |
Trading and Collecting Honey | p. 236 |
Low-Hanging Fruit | p. 237 |
Look before You Leap | p. 238 |
Remember the Game Called Pick Up Sticks | p. 238 |
And It Can Get Worse by Far. . . | p. 239 |
Lock-Up Time | p. 240 |
Enough on Greed . . .Now LetâÇÖs Deal with Fear | p. 241 |
Running, Trading, and Losing | p. 242 |
Doing the Wrong Thing . . . ItâÇÖs So Easy, IsnâÇÖt It? | p. 242 |
ItâÇÖs Not the Trade, ItâÇÖs the Battle | p. 243 |
The Art of Fly-Fishing Revisited | p. 244 |
Fear and Greed, Looking Them in the Face Again | p. 245 |
Why Most Traders Lose Most of the Time | p. 246 |
A Review of Losing Trades Showed That | p. 247 |
The Number One Reason We Lose Money Trading | p. 247 |
The Most Important Trading Belief You Have | p. 248 |
The Worst Dog I Ever Had Cost Me the Most | p. 249 |
Athletics Are Such a Parallel to Trading | p. 251 |
What Causes Stock and Commodity Market Trends | p. 251 |
How to Measure the Public versus the Pros | p. 253 |
Folks, It Just CanâÇÖt Be Done | p. 254 |
The Rush of Trading | p. 255 |
Beating Them to the Punch | p. 257 |
ItâÇÖs Just Over My Head | p. 259 |
I Looked Fear and Greed in the Face | p. 259 |
The ShowMust Go On | p. 260 |
Broken Noses, Cauliflower Ears, and Bad Trades | p. 261 |
Learning How to Lose Money | p. 262 |
Hillary, High Hopes, and Heartaches | p. 263 |
Nervous Nellies—Heaven Bound | p. 264 |
Secrets of System Developing and Trading | p. 265 |
The Difference between Winners and Losers | p. 266 |
Recap | p. 268 |
Just What Does Make the Stock Market Rally? | p. 269 |
Logic 101 | p. 270 |
These Words Are My Bond | p. 270 |
A Look at Data A and Data B | p. 270 |
LetâÇÖs Break Some Bad Habits | p. 273 |
How to Break Bad Habits | p. 273 |
Comments on Setting Stops—Dollar Loss and Unpredictability | p. 275 |
An Overview of How I Trade | p. 278 |
My Trading Strategy . . .How It Works | p. 282 |
Recap | p. 285 |
Hard Facts about a Very Hard Game to Win | p. 287 |
It Is Just Like Life | p. 289 |
Maybe You Are Not Cut Out for This . . . | p. 292 |
You Are in a Tough Spot . . . | p. 293 |
But ThereâÇÖs a Little Bit More. . . | p. 294 |
In Closing | p. 295 |
Index | p. 297 |
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