AbleTrend: Identifying and Analyzing Market Trends for Trading Success -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Search for a Universal Market Law -- COMPLETE CHAOS OR HIDDEN ORDER? -- WHEN MY INTEREST IN TRADING BEGAN -- A SCIENTIFIC ANTIDOTE TO ARBITRARY MARKET PREDICTIONS -- FIRST STEPS: BECOMING AN EASYLANGUAGE SYSTEM DEVELOPER -- THE TREND: FOE OR FRIEND? -- THE FUNDAMENTAL APPROACH -- THE DREAM OF A UNIVERSAL EARLY-TREND INDICATOR -- COULD THE LAWS OF NATURAL SCIENCES ALSO GOVERN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS? -- THE BIRTH OF ABLETREND -- Chapter 2: Advances in Market Trend Analysis -- WHAT IS A TREND? -- THE SETUP OF A TREND -- MATURITY OF A TREND -- DRAWING TRENDLINES -- SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE -- THE MARKET DEFINES SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE -- HOW COMMON METHODS DEFINE SUPPORT/RESISTANCE LEVELS -- HOW ABLETREND DEFINES SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE LEVELS -- ABLETREND INDICATORS -- OTHER TREND-FOLLOWING INDICATORS -- MARKET INDICATIONS -- THREE RULES FOR FOLLOWING TRENDS -- THE GOLDEN REGION OF ENTRY: THE SWEET SPOT -- TIME, PRICE, FORECASTS, PREDICTIONS, AND TARGETS -- CYCLES AND WAVES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3: Four Elements of Trading Success -- PROFITABLE TRADING SYSTEMS AND METHODS -- ADEQUATE CAPITALIZATION -- MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY -- DISCIPLINE OR A WINNING TRADING PSYCHOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: Essential Philosophy of Trend Trading -- WISDOM OF THE TAO -- TRADING IS A BUSINESS -- ONLY TREND FOLLOWING WORKS -- DON'T TRADE AGAINST THE MARKET -- WHICH MARKET IS THE MOST TRADABLE AND WHY? -- WHY VOTING SYSTEMS DO NOT WORK -- WHY 500 OR 5 PERCENT STOPS DO NOT WORK -- WHY THE WINNING RATE IS NOT IMPORTANT -- WHY YOU CANNOT PICK A TOP OR BOTTOM -- HOW TO LET PROFITS RUN -- HOW TO CUT LOSSES SHORT -- GO THE OPPOSITE WAY OF THE MAJORITY -- TRADE ONLY THE RISK CAPITAL THAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE.

IF YOU WANT TO WIN, THINK ABOUT LOSS -- PLACE YOURSELF BEYOND THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFEAT -- TRADING IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN THE WORLD -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: The Applications -- WHAT IS THE "WINNING FRAMEWORK" FOR A TRADING SYSTEM? -- STM METHOD-BUY ON BLUE AND SELL ON RED -- EVALUATE A TRADING SYSTEM: BACK-TESTING -- FOUR IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR PARAMETER SETTINGS -- ABLETREND2 STOPS -- THE SWEET SPOT-GOLDEN REGION OF ENTRY -- FINDING THE CHARACTER OF A PARTICULAR MARKET -- TREND TIME FRAMES -- AVOID CHOPPY MARKETS -- BREAKOUT OR RETRACEMENT -- DAY TRADING VERSUS SWING TRADING -- IN CONCLUSION: THE FIVE F'S OF DESIGNING A TRADING SYSTEM -- Chapter 6: Examples of Trend Analysis -- STOCKS -- COMMODITIES -- THE E-MINIS -- FOREX -- BONDS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7: Advanced AbleTrend Tools -- VIRTUAL PAPER TRADING (VPT) -- HISTORICAL FORWARD TESTING -- AUTOSCAN -- THE PERCENT CHARTS -- THE GUIDANCE CHARTS -- STOCK SEARCH ENGINE-STOCK PICKS -- VISUAL OR CHART TRADING -- AUTOMATED TRADING ORDERS -- OPTIONS TRADING -- SPREAD TRADING -- PORTFOLIO TRADING -- SUMMARY -- Appendix A: Interviews with AbleTrend Users -- JOHN MEYER -- BOB SEIFERT -- HARVEY SAFF -- GERRY WOLLERT -- MIKE WEINGART -- ALEX KUAN -- REMCO EENINK -- CHRIS ANTHONY -- JIM KANE -- DAVID FAWKES -- Appendix B: Quick Reference for STM -- STM TRADING METHOD -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.