The Master Swing Trader toolkit

Table of contents

Part One: Parsing the Modern Markets

Chapter 1: Prospering in the Postcrash Environment

The Paradox

The Diabolical Market

Twenty-first-century Inefficiencies

The Survivalist Trader

Defining Your Trading Edge

Chapter 2: The Crooked Playing Field

Index Futures

Program Trading

Program Trading: Observations and strategies

Action-Reaction-Resolution

Working with Cross-market Influences

Trading versus Technical Analysis

The Real World: Awakening to Insanity

Part two: Cycles, Shocks, and seasonality

Chapter 3: Revisiting the Market Clock

Trend Relativity

The Electronic Trading Day

Calendar Perils

Option Expiration

Earning Season

Aggressive-defense Cycles

Shock Spirals

Chapter 4: Relative Strength

Three Relative Strength Tools

Reading the Buy-sell Swing

Identifying Reversals and Counterswings

Ideal Time versus Ideal Price

The Real World: Reading between the Lines

Part three: Rediscovering Profitability

Chapter 5: The Nature of Winning

Positive Expectancy

The Survivalist Trading Plan

Yo-yos

Long-term Profitability

The Real Bottom Line

Chapter 6: Survivalist Trading Strategies

Swing Analysis

Convergence-Divergence

Defensive Short Selling

50-Day Moving Average Strategies

Volume

Fibonacci Plays

countermarket Plays

First Hour Range Breaks

Bilateral Entry

The Real World: Paranoia and Prosperity

Part four: Managing Opportunity

Chapter 7: Market Entry

Margin and Capitalization

Anticipation versus Reaction

Pulling the Trigger

Chapter 8: Positions, Markets, and Trading Styles

Subdividing the Stock Universe 

Exchange-traded Funds

Position Choice

Sizing, Scaling, and Exposure

Baskets

Survivalist Holding Periods

Remote Trading

The Real World: The Needle in the Haystack

Part five: Controlling Exposure

Chapter 9: Position Managemnet

Stops

Survivalist Stop Strategies

Overnight Holds

End of Day Checklist

Chapter 10: Mastering the intraday Market 

Ready, Set, Go

Taping Reading

Taping Reading Tells

Pre- and Postmarket

Playing the Pre- and Postmarkets

Premarket Checklist

Trading the News

Intraday Buy-sell Swing

Gap strategies

Rinse Jobs

Event Risk

The Chopping Block

The real world: Riding the Tiger

Part six: Manage Risk and Reward

Chapter 11: The Nature of Losing

The Performance Cycle

Overtrading

Trading Mistakes

Drawdowns

self-destruction

Washing Out

Chapter 12: Capital PReservaton

Trading collaring

Collaring Strategies

Exit Strategies

Final Thoughts on Risk Management

Mastering the Survivalist Trade

The Real World : The Master Swing Trader