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CHAPTER 1: THE NO-FRILLS
INVESTMENT STRATEGY
- Picking the Right Investment
Vehicles
- Risk: Reward Comparisons Between More Volatile and
Less Volatile Equity
Mutual Fund Portfolios -
Gain/Pain
Ratios
- Drawdown: The Measure of Ultimate Risk
- The End Result: Less is More
- Changing Your Bets While the Race is Still Underway
- Relative Strength Investing
- Increasing the Risk:
Maintaining a Portfolio of Somewhat More Aggressive
Mutual Funds
- Observations
- Upping the Ante
- A Quick Review of Relative Strength Investing
- Summing Up
CHAPTER 2: TWO QUICK AND DIRTY MARKET MOOD
INDICATORS
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Identifying High- and Low-Risk Investment Climates
The Nasdaq/New York Stock
Exchange Relative Strength Indicator
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Maintenance and Interpretation of the Nasdaq/NYSE Relative
Strength Indicator
- Observations
- Measuring the market mood with The Intermediate Monetary Filter
- The Monetary Model
- Combining the Two Indicators
- Summing Up
CHAPTER 3:
MOVING AVERAGES AND RATES OF CHANGE:
TRACKING TREND AND MOMENTUM
- The
Purpose of Moving Averages
Moving Averages: Myths and
Misconceptions
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Using Moving Averages to Identify the Four Stages of the
Market Cycle
- The Rate of Change Indicator: How to
Measure and Analyze the Momentum of the Stock Market
- Rate of Change Patterns and the Four Stages of the Market Cycle
CHAPTER 4: MORE THAN JUST PRETTY PICTURES:
POWER
TOOL CHART PATTERNS
- The Concept of Synergy
- Powerful Chart Formations
- The Wedge
Formation: Times to Accumulate and Times to Distribute Stocks
- Synergy in Chart Patterns
- Head and Shoulder Formations
- Support and Resistance Levels
- Tricks with Trendlines
- Channel
Support and Resistance
- False Breakouts and Breakdowns: Key Market
Patterns
CHAPTER 5: POLITICAL,
SEASONAL, AND TIME CYCLES:
RIDING THE TIDES OF MARKET WAVE MOVEMENTS
- Calendar-Based Cycles in the Stock Market
- Time Cycles: Four Days to
Four Years
- Segments of Market Cycles
- Lengths of Market Cycles
- How
the Confirming Indicator Helps the Cause
- The 18-Month Market Cycle with a
Rate of Change Confirming the Indicator
- T-Formation: the Ultimate
Cyclical Power Tool?
- In Summary
CHAPTER 6: BOTTOM FISHING, TOP SPOTTING,
STAYING THE COURSE:
POWER TOOLS THAT COMBINE MOMENTUM OSCILLATORS WITH MARKET BREADTH MEASUREMENTS
FOR IMPROVED MARKET TIMING
- A Quick Review of Where We Have Been
- The "Internal" as Opposed to the
"External" Stock Market
- Measures of Market Breadth
- The New York Stock
Exchange Advance-Decline Line
- Breadth Patterns at Bull Market Highs
-
Using a Somewhat More Sensitive Rate of Change Measure of the
Advance-Decline Line
- The Weekly Impulse Signal
- The Daily-Based Breadth
Impulse Signal
CHAPTER 7: VOLUME EXTREMES, VOLATILITY, AND VIX:
RECOGNIZING CLIMACTIC LEVELS AND BUYING OPPORTUNITIES AT MARKET LOW POINTS
- Market Tops: Calm Before the Storm; Market Bottoms: Storm Before the
Calm
- TRIN: An All-Purpose Market Mood Indicator
- The Volatility Index (VIX)
and Significant Stock Market Buying Zones
- The Major Reversal Volatility
Model
CHAPTER 8: ADVANCED MOVING
AVERAGE CONVERGENCE-DIVERGENCE (MACD):THE
ULTIMATE MARKET TIMING INDICATOR?
- Scope of Discussion
- The Basic Construction of the Moving Average
Convergence-Divergence Indicator
- Using Divergences to Recognize the Most
Reliable Signals
- Improving MACD Signals by Using Different MACD
Combinations for Buying and Selling
- Synergy: MACD Confirmed by Other
Technical Tools
- MACD Through the Years: Long-Term, Short-Term and
Intraday
- The Amazing Ability of the MACD to Identify Significant Market
Low Points Followign Severe Stock Market Declines
CHAPTER 9: MOVING AVERAGE TRADING CHANNELS:
USING YESTERDAY'S ACTION TO CALL TOMORROW'S TURNS
- The Basic Ingredients of the Moving Average Trading Channel
- Moving
Average Trading Channels in Operation
- The Evolution of Phases Within the
Moving Average Trading Channel
- Moving Average Channels and the Major
Trend
- How to Construct a Price/Moving Average Differential Oscillator
-
A Review of the Key Rules Associated with Moving Average Trading Band
Trading
CHAPTER 10: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
ORGANIZING YOUR MARKET STRATEGIES
- The First Step: Define the Major Trend and Major Term Cycles of the
Stock Market
- The Second Step: Check Out Market Mood Indicators and
Seasonal Cycles
- The Third Step: Establish the Direction and Strength of
the Current Intermediate Trend and Try to Project the Time and Place of the
Next Intermediate-Term Reversal
- The Fourth Step: Fine-Tune Your
Intermediate-Term Studies with Studies Based on Shorter-Term Daily- or Even
Hourly- Market Readings
- Lessons I Have Learned During 40 Years as a Trader
- Recommended
Reading and Resources
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