Trading Tools and Tactics -- Contents -- Introduction: The Journey Begins -- CHAPTER 1 Subjective Doesn't Work in the Market: Technical Analysis Is the Objective Standard -- The Guru Syndrome -- The Pitfalls of Fundamental Analysis -- Technical Indicators: Adding Subjectivity to the Chart -- Approaching the Markets Objectively -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 2 Candlestick Analysis: Using the Language of Candles to Profit from Market Moves -- A Single Candle -- Multiple Candle Formations -- Failure Is Not Always Bad -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 3 Support and Resistance: Price Is King -- Price Patterns -- Recognizing Reference Points -- The Two Forms of Support and Resistance: Major and Minor -- How Support and Resistance Areas Form -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 4 Moving Averages the Right Way: Visual Aids to Price Action -- A Valuable Technical Measurement -- Convergence Can Help -- Moving Averages as Focal Areas -- Staying Objective -- A Few Good Rules While Using Moving Averages -- Other Points to Consider -- Moving Averages to Find Plays -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Volume Is Money: Commitment to Prices -- The Fallacies of Volume -- Using Volume Properly -- The Primary Uses of Volume -- Volume As It Relates to Tradability -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 6 Retracement Analysis: Using Retracement Analysis to Continue Your Move -- The Concept of Retracements -- To Retrace or Not to Retrace? -- Retracements Imply a Trend -- Continuing To Keep It Objective -- What Lies Beyond 60 Percent? -- Retracement Levels in Downtrends -- A Special Retracement Pattern -- Retracement Levels in Sideways Trends -- What Lies Beyond 100 Percent? -- The Bigger Picture -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 7 Bar-by-Bar Analysis: Each Bar Tells Us Something -- Objectivity Is Still the Goal -- A Quick Review of Individual Bars -- How the Bars Interact -- Additional Thoughts -- In Summary.

CHAPTER 8 Market Internals: Examining the Direction of the Market -- Determining Price Movement -- When to Be Different -- Favorite Market Internals -- A Quick Overview of Intermarket Analysis -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 9 Relative Strength: Relative Strength Defined -- Identifying Different Types of Relative Strength -- Is Relative Strength Always Good? -- Relative Strength and Weakness with Morning Gaps -- Relative Strength with Sector Analysis -- Relative Strength to Market Internals -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 10 The Trend Is Your Friend: There Are Only Three Directions -- What Makes a Trend? -- Pivots -- When Pivots Come Together -- Some Subjective Guidance -- Keeping It Clean -- Checking the Reaction -- Final Thoughts -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 11 Shoot the Gap: What Is a Gap? -- What Causes a Gap? -- Fallacies about Gaps -- Gaps and the Daily Chart -- The Intraday Play -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 12 Frame-by-Frame: The Concept of Multiple Time Frames -- Which Time Frames? -- The First Goal of Using Multiple Time Frames -- A Powerful Concept Emerges -- Warning Signs in the Micro Trend -- Hidden Patterns -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 13 Making Failure Work for You: Recognizing When Patterns Fail -- Did the Play Stop, or Did the Pattern Fail? -- When Good Patterns Fail -- Capitalizing on Predictable Failures -- Expected (or Unexpected) Failure -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 14 Manage the Trade and the Money: The Missing Link -- Managing the Money-Share Size -- How Much to Risk -- Managing the Money-Throughout the Day -- Considerations When Swing Trading -- Basic Trade Management Concepts -- Managing the Trade-Staying with the Trend -- Managing the Trade-Zooming Down -- In Summary -- CHAPTER 15 Getting Through a Typical Trading Day: Strategies to Incorporate into Your Daily Routine -- Beginning Your Day -- Planning Your Trade, Trading Your Plan -- After the Close.

Maximizing the Winners, and Handling the Losers Properly -- CHAPTER 16 There Is Only One Truth in the Markets -- Price Is King -- Appendix A: Abbreviations -- Appendix B: Trade Types -- Glossary -- About the Companion Website -- Index.