A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics

- Preface
- Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Futures and Options: Understanding the Mechanics
- How the markets work, the elevator analogy, product for the times, important terminology such as margin, contract specifications, and leverage

CHAPTER 2: Fundamentals: The Market Driver
- Supply and demand issues, economic growth and productivity effects, major economic reports and their in role in market prices

CHAPTER 3: Technical Analysis: The Art of Charts
- Western-style bar charts and key reversals, point-and-figure charts that focus only on price, market profiling, price and time analysis

CHAPTER 4:Candle Charts: Lighting the Path
- Enlightening charting technique and its colorfully named patterns--hammers, stars, spinning tops, dojis, hanging man, and others--powerful reversal patterns, reliable continuation patterns, key examples in the dollar and bonds

CHAPTER 5:Chart Analysis: Volume, Open Interest, Price Patterns
- Volume and open interest rules for traders, M tops and W bottoms, trend lines, measuring patterns, the head-and-shoulders, triangles, pennants and flags, diamonds, wedges, funnels, gaps, islands, rounded bottoms, oops signals, opening range breakouts

CHAPTER 6:Pivot Point Analysis: A Powerful Weapon
- The pivot point formula for target trading, calculating support and resistance levels, importance of multiple verification from several sources, the P3T trading technique, weekly and monthly charts and numbers, risk management techniques

CHAPTER 7:Day-Trading, Swing Trading: Acting on Analysis
- Trading to bounce off target numbers, calling tops and bottoms, weekly chart magnets, harami cross and other candle clues to market reversals, pivot points save the day, lining up the stars, the verify-verify-verify approach

CHAPTER 8:Technical Indicators: Confirming Evidence
- Moving averages and trends, simple rules with averages, tweaking and visualizing MACD, stochastics, false signals, Gann's key numbers,

JOHN L. PERSON is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor who publishes The Bottom Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly publication.John hosts his own financial radio show where he interviews some of the country's top analysts and traders. These interviews are archived on his Web site www.nationalfutures.com. He is widely quoted by CBS Market Watch,Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, the BBC, Futures magazine,and appears as a guest onCNBC. He teaches these techniques atsome of the country's leading investment expos andconducts seminars from coast to coast. He was invited by the Chicago Board of Trade to contribute his daily market commentaries, which can be found at www.cbot.com/dow.