Ordinary People, Extraordinary Profits: How to Make a Living as an Independent Stock, Options, and Futures Trader + DVD

Preface.    Acknowledgments.    INTRODUCTION.    Trade the Professional Way.    Ride the Statistical Edge ... Like Betting Seven in Craps.    Master the Inner Game.    Chapter 1: Foundational Analysis.    Charts.    Two Types of Analysis.    What Exactly Is Technical Analysis?    The Four-Stage Theory.    Support and Resistance.    Trends.    Trading Volume.    Moving Averages.    Chapter 2: Risk Management.    Discipline-The Key to Trading Success.    Discipline Perspectives.    Avoid Trading with Scared Money.    Terra Nova Trade Evaluator.    Your Goal: To Trade without Emotion.    Plan Your Trade and Trade Your Plan with Risk-Reward Ratios.    Setting Stops-Overview.    Avoid This Mistake.    RealTick Can Help.    Risk Management and Trading with the News.    Risk Management and Share Size.    Summary.    Chapter 3:   Basic Chart Formations.    Time Frames.    Interpreting Chart Patterns.    Reversal Patterns.    Continuation Patterns.    Summary.    Chapter 4: Going Short.    Finding Shorting Opportunities.    Margin Accounts.    Summary.    Chapter 5: Other Trading Vehicles.    What Is an E-Mini S&P 500 Contract?    E-Mini Symbols.    Initial and Maintenance Margin Requirements.    Treatment of Settlement.    The E-Mini Contract versus the Pit-Traded Contract.    Price and Percentage Limits.    Single-Source Liquidity.    E-Mini Standard & Poor's 500 as a Hedge.    Tax Advantages with the E-Mini.    The E-Mini Nasdaq 100.    Chicago Board of Trade Mini-Dow Futures Use $5 Multiplier.    Who Regulates Futures Trading?    Program Trading and Fair Value.    Predicting the Opening.    How to Calculate Fair Value.    What about Exchange-Traded Funds?    The QQQQs.    E-Mini Is Hard to Beat.    Put and Call Options.    A Brief History.    Puts and Calls and Standardized Options.    Shares per Option.    Pricing.    Symbology.    Settlement.    In-the-Money or Out-of-the-Money.    Rights versus Obligations.    Opening and Closing Transactions.    Open Interest.    Opening Rotation.    Option Positions.    Conversions, Reversals, and Synthetics.    The Greeks and Delta Value.    Summary.    Chapter 6: Trading Strategies.    The Profiler's-Systems Trading.    Pricing Puts/Calls-A Strategy You Can Use.    Chapter 7: Indicators and Oscillator.    Stochastics.    Relative Strength Index.    ARMS Index.    Fibonacci Retracements.    Chapter 8: Traditional Pivot Analysis.    The Pivot Formula.    The Pivot in Action.    The Area between R1 and S1.    Illustrating Pivot Lines on RealTick.    Archiving Pivot Levels.    Pivotal Psychology.    Strategy and Money Management.    Lining Up Levels on Multiple Time Frames.    Trading a Confluence Zone.    Swing Trading with Confluence Areas.    Summary.    Chapter 9: Planning and Staying on Track.    What Is Your Time Commitment?    How Will You Fund Your Trading Account?    What Style of Trading Will You Pursue?    What Are Your Profit Objectives?    How Will You Manage Your Profits?    Do You Evaluate All Your Trades?    Are You Keeping a Journal?    Summary.    Chapter 10 Your Path to Success.    Where to Next?    Summary.    Appendix: MarketWise Tools-Routes to Success.    MarketWise Web Site Resources.    Tuning to the Market Intraday.    Glossary.    Bibliography and Exchange Contact Information.    Exchange Contact Information.    About the DVD.    Index.