|
Page |
| Introduction |
3 |
| The Trading Plan |
6 |
| Trading Plan Equity Allocation |
6 |
| Watch-List Creation and Management |
7 |
| Market State Controls |
8 |
| Setups |
8 |
| Trade Trigger and Entry |
8 |
| Trade Sizing |
8 |
| Trade management – Position exit |
9 |
| Trade Management – Position Addition |
9 |
| Account Management |
9 |
| Cost management |
9 |
| System Performance – Targets |
9 |
| Theory and General Principles |
9 |
| Gambling Versus Investing and Trading |
9 |
| Expectation |
10 |
| Variance |
12 |
| Proving Positive Expectation – Paper Trading |
13 |
| Compounding and Compounding Rate |
14 |
| Market Analysis Technologies |
14 |
| Price Charts – Bars and Candlesticks |
15 |
| Price Charts – Time Frames |
16 |
| Price Swings, Trends, and Ranges |
17 |
| Price Charts – Polarity |
18 |
| Trend Lines |
20 |
| Support and Resistance Levels |
23 |
| Price Reversal (Top and Bottom) Patterns |
25 |
| Fibonacci Price Levels |
32 |
| Quantitative Trend: MVTI |
38 |
| Candlestick Structure and Patterns |
41 |
| Range – Consolidation and Expansion |
43 |
| Volatility Tools |
43 |
| Volatility Constriction – The Squeeze |
47 |
| Symmetry |
48 |
| Pivot Confirmation Through Breaking of Symmetry |
49 |
| Price Lifecycle Model |
50 |
| Fibonacci Fitting |
51 |
| Elliot Wave Market Structure |
55 |
| Elliott Wave Impulses and Corrections |
56 |
| Elliott Wave Fractal Structure |
57 |
| Elliott Wave Analysis Example – SPX Daily |
59 |
| Elliott Wave Example – Expanding Flat Correction |
60 |
| Elliott Wave Example – Triangle in RUT |
62 |
| Elliott Wave Combinations |
63 |
| Elliott Wave Leading and Ending Diagonals |
64 |
| Key Elliott Wave Guidelines |
64 |
| Market Top Anatomy |
65 |
| Cross Market Analysis |
67 |
| Putting Analysis To Work |
67 |
| RUT Analysis |
68 |
| AMGN Analysis |
72 |
| Mechanics of Trading |
73 |
| Preferred Trading Instruments |
73 |
| Preferred Trend State |
74 |
| Watch-list Creation and Management |
74 |
| Setups and Triggers |
79 |
| Bottom Structure Turn |
80 |
| Fibonacci Retrace Turn |
83 |
| Elliot Wave Setups |
87 |
| Elliot Wave Setups |
87 |
| Nested Three Wave Setup |
89 |
| Wave 2 & 4 Setups |
90 |
| Triangle and Combination Considerations |
99 |
| Other Elliott Wave Setups |
99 |
| Market State Modeling for Trading Plan Control |
99 |
| Exit Management |
103 |
| Stops for Loss Exits |
103 |
| Structural Stops |
103 |
| Retrace Turn Percentages |
108 |
| Volatility Stops |
108 |
| Stop Adjustment to Break-Even and MarketState |
112 |
| Stop Levels and Bid/Ask Spreads |
115 |
| Profit Exits |
115 |
| Trading Mechanic Architecture |
121 |
| The Psychology of Trading |
122 |
| Cost Management |
124 |
| Total Market Exposure and Reinvestment |
125 |
| Trade Sizing Mechanics |
126 |
| Example Trading Plans |
126 |
| Baseline Plan |
126 |
| Trading Plan Rifle Shot |
127 |
| Trading Plan Synergy |
133 |
| Account Value Variance |
140 |
| Pragmatic Gambler’s Ruin |
141 |
| Related Reading |
142 |
| Acknowledgements |
143 |
Spec-K Trading 