TRADING THE MEASURED MOVE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Today's Trading Environment: Descent of the Pit and Ascent of the Screen -- Players on the Field -- The Algo Brothers -- Where Are You? -- Chapter 2 Inside the Hidden Market -- Deep Roots -- Beyond 1.618 -- Fibonacci Basics -- Fibs Make the Moves -- Why Do Fibs Work? -- Fibs in the Real World -- In Summary -- Chapter 3 Drawing a Road Map: Finding Direction -- A Mountain Range of Price -- Obstacles in the Road: Pivot Points -- Navigating Trends -- Long and Winding Roads -- Chapter 4 More Tools for Trading Power: Filling the Toolbox -- Watching the Clock (and the Calendar) -- Tick Tock -- The Tape and the DOM -- The DOM (Depth of Market) -- A Full Toolkit -- Chapter 5 The 90 Percent Factor-Executing Your Trade: Where the Rubber Meets the Road -- Priorities and Job One -- What's the Risk, What's the Reward? -- A Brief Pit Stop -- Preparing the DOM -- Crossing the Starting Line -- Running Off the Road -- When Multiple Contracts Just Aren't Possible -- Why 90 Percent? -- Chapter 6 Three Types of Trade Setups -- The Traditional 50 Percent Measured Move -- A Series of Measured Moves -- Which Traditional Measured Moves Not to Trust -- The Extension 50 Percent Measured Move -- The Extension 50 Percentin a Series -- Which Extensions Not to Trust -- The 61.8 Percent Failure -- What 61.8 Percent Failures Not to Trust -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 7 Using Multiple Time Frames to Trade -- Time Frames and Russian Dolls -- The Path of Least Resistance -- Trading the Trend -- Why Do Markets Continue to Make New Highs? -- Why Do Markets Continue to Make New Lows? -- A New Concept -- What Time Frame Should We Look At? -- Types of Multiple Time Frames -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 8 Three Entry Strategies for Retracements -- The Goal.

Front Runs and First Targets -- The Three Entry Strategies -- The First Test -- The Front Run of the Second Test -- The Trend Break and Next Measured Move -- The Progression of Entries -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 9 The Seasonality of Markets and the Best Times to Trade -- The Big Picture -- The Months -- Studying the Past -- A Money Manager's Year -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter and Spring -- The Days -- The Hours (Best and Worst Times to Trade) -- The Worst Times to Trade -- The Typical Money Manager -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 10 Tools for the NYSE -- Lagging versus Leading Indicators -- Tools for the NYSE -- Bank -- Breadth -- The Tick -- Tick Hooks -- Time and Sales -- Trade the Trend -- Using All the Tools Together -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 11 Tick Extremes and Divergences -- The Types of Tick Extremes -- The Old Way -- The New Way -- Ticks That Signal a Reversal -- Tick Divergences -- How to Use a Divergence -- What Happens if the Trend Breaks? -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 12 Profiting from Gap Fills -- What Is a Gap? -- In What Instruments Do Gap Fills Exist? -- The Types of Gap Fill Scenarios -- Gap Fills to Avoid -- Options Expiration Fridays -- Rollover Thursday and the Day After -- The First Trading Day of the New Quarter -- 10-Point Gap-and-Go Levels -- No-Trade Zones -- Gap Fill Percentages -- Tools for the Gap Fill -- The Traditional Trader's Way -- The Conservative Way -- The Gap Fill Workflow and Filter -- Entries -- Which Entry? -- When Gaps Don't Fill -- What to Do? -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 13 How to Manage Positions and Take Profits -- The Rule for Measured Moves -- The Distance Formula -- Trailing a Series of Measured Moves -- After the Confirmation of Trend.

Using the -23 Percent Profit Target: Take Profit on the Time Frame You Entered the Trade -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 14 Risk Management (Advanced Trade Management) -- Bob the Trader -- Curtis the Contractor -- Risk per Trade -- How Many Futures Contracts Should I Trade? -- Stop Placement -- The Free Trade -- The Reduced-Risk Trade -- Why Scale Out? -- Pick an Instrument and Focus on It -- Trading the News Is Gambling -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 15 The Inner Trader: The Emotions of a Trader -- Mentality -- Money Management -- Emotions -- How Long Does It Take for a New Trader to Trade Well? -- Attitude -- Are You Proactive or Reactive? -- Trading Well versus Trading for Profit and Emotional Capital -- The Phases of Measured Moves -- The Four Phases of Measured Moves -- The Series of Measured Moves -- Basic Traditional Measured Moves -- Extension Measured Moves -- Extension Measured Moves -- The Progression of Measured Moves -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Chapter 16 The Trading Plan: Keeping Your self Safe with Statistical-Based Rules -- The Four Legs of a Trading Strategy -- Leg 1: Money Management -- Leg 2: Entry Rules -- Leg 3: Profit-Taking Rules -- Leg 4: Statistical-Based Trading Rules -- Why Trading Rules -- General Trading Account Rules -- Gap Fill Trading Rules -- American (NYSE) Session Trading Rules -- European (Euro) Session Trading Rules -- Setups -- Daily Setups -- 15-Minute Setups -- Micro Setups -- A Trading Journal -- Why Is This Important to Your Trading? -- Bringing It all Together -- About the Author -- Index.