How to Get Started in Active Trading and Investing

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Introduction -- Part I -- The Landscape -- Chapter 1. Traditional Wall Street: Trumpery, Tyranny, and Tendency -- Investment Banking -- Why a Broker can make you Broke -- Analysts -- Corruption in the Food Chain -- Enter the Regulators -- The Mutual Funds Role -- Where is the Market Food? -- Chapter 2. The Business Cycle -- The Business Cycle Components -- The Role of the Government -- Federal Reserve Economic Policy -- Chapter 3. The Broad Market and the Way the Engine Runs -- Broad Equity Markets -- Fixed Income Market: Bond Basics -- Commodities -- Chapter 4. Sector Analysis -- The Dow Jones Utility Average -- AMEX Oil Index -- Currencies -- The Effects of Interest Rates on the Dollar and Gold -- Real Estate -- The Fear Index -- The "Edge" is Emerging -- Part II: Pictures of Perception -- Chapter 5. Opinion versus Analysis -- Raw Market Data -- The Basic Premise of Technical Analysis -- Charting -- Volume -- Elasticity-The Range of Emotion equals the range of Price -- Chapter 6. Supply, Demand, and Emotions -- Supply/Demand-The Emotional Hedge -- Price -- Volatility -- The Volatility and Smoothing of Time -- Volume -- Velocity -- Chapter 7. Market Cyclesand Technical Analysis -- Market Stages -- Chapter 8. Support and Resistance -- Consensus -- The Moving Average-Smoothed Consensus -- Chapter 9. Trajectories and Paths -- Consolidation and Reversal Patterns -- Chapter 10. Candles and Oscillators -- The Momentum Candle -- Candlestick Patterns -- Oscillators and Indicators -- Chapter 11. Fundamentals of Financial Fantasy -- Fundamentals answer Why, not When -- What is Fundamental Information -- Manipulation of Fundamental Information -- How to Filter Through Fundamental Data -- Chapter 12. Becoming Your Own Analyst -- Reviewing the Top down Approach -- Top-Down and Trend Alignment -- Bottom-Up -- Directional Bias versus No Bias -- Chapter 13. Tactical Trading and Investing -- The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions -- Slippage Can Destroy Analysis -- Institutional Order Flow -- Single Source Liquidity Investment Vehicles -- Futures -- E-mini S & P Contract -- Chapter 14. Pay Raises Become Effective When You Do -- Applying What You have Learned -- Chapter 15. When to Sell -- Chapter 16. Favorite Strategies -- The "Short Squeeze" -- The Stochastic Play -- The Earnings Play -- Buy Rumor, Sell Fact -- Conclusion -- Index.;"How to Get Started in Active Trading and Investing explains how to: Understand, and profit from, the moves of market makers, discover and implement a personalized trading style, improve market-timing skills and instincts."--Publisher's Description.