The Art and Science of Technical Analysis: Market Structure, Price Action, and Trading Strategies

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: The Foundation of Technical Analysis
	CHAPTER 1: The Trader’s Edge
		Defining a Trading Edge
		Finding and Developing Your Edge
		General Principles of Chart Reading
		Indicators
		The Two Forces: Toward a New Understanding of Market Action
		Price Action and Market Structure on Charts
		Charting by Hand
	CHAPTER 2: The Market Cycle and the Four Trades
		Wyckoff’s Market Cycle
		The Four Trades
		Summary
PART II: Market Structure
	CHAPTER 3: On Trends
		The Fundamental Pattern
		Trend Structure
		A Deeper Look at Pullbacks: The Quintessential Trend Trading Pattern
		Trend Analysis
		Summary
	CHAPTER 4: On Trading Ranges
		Support and Resistance
		Trading Ranges as Functional Structures
		Summary
	CHAPTER 5: Interfaces between Trends and Ranges
		Breakout Trade: Trading Range to Trend
		Trend to Trading Range
		Trend to Opposite Trend (Trend Reversal)
		Trend to Same Trend (Failure of Trend Reversal)
		Summary
PART III: Trading Strategies
	CHAPTER 6: Practical Trading Templates
		Failure Test
		Pullback, Buying Support or Shorting Resistance
		Pullback, Entering Lower Time Frame Breakout
		Trading Complex Pullbacks
		The Anti
		Breakouts, Entering in the Preceding Base
		Breakouts, Entering on First Pullback Following
		Failed Breakouts
		Summary
	CHAPTER 7: Tools for Confirmation
		The Moving Average - The Still Center
		Channels: Emotional Extremes
		Indicators: MACD
		Multiple Time Frame Analysis
	CHAPTER 8: Trade Management
		Placing the Initial Stop
		Setting Price Targets
		Active Management
		Portfolio Considerations
		Practical Issues
	CHAPTER 9: Risk Management
		Risk and Position Sizing
		Theoretical Perspectives on Risk
		Misunderstood Risk
		Practical Risks in Trading
		Summary
	CHAPTER 10: Trade Examples
		Trend Continuation
		Trend Termination
		Failure Test Failures
		Trading Parabolic Climaxes
		The Anti
		Trading at Support and Resistance
		Summary
PART IV: The Individual, Self-Directed Trader
	CHAPTER 11: The Trader’s Mind
		Psychological Challenges of the Marketplace
		Evolutionary Adaptations
		Cognitive Biases
		The Random Reinforcement Problem
		Emotions: The Enemy Within
		Intuition
		Flow
		Practical Psychology
		Summary
	CHAPTER 12: Becoming a Trader
		The Process
		Record Keeping
		Statistical Analysis of Trading Results
		Summary
APPENDIX A: Trading Primer
APPENDIX B: A Deeper Look at Moving Averages and the MACD
APPENDIX C: Sample Trade Data
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index