Table of Contents
Preface to the 10th anniversary edition- A Trade is Still a Trade as Time Goes By IX
Preface-Nuggets or Paper? 1
PART I-ADVANTAGE, PRIVATE TRADER
1 Private Traders: An Endangered Species? 9
2 A Guppy Among Sharks 18
3 Electronic Trading 31
4 Benchmarks for Trading 43
5 Blue Chips-Hold or Fold? 63
PART II-SELECTED TOOLS FOR THE PRIVATE TRADER
6 The Trend is Your Friend 77
7 Your Private Index 93
8 Walk a Mile with the Crowd 109
9 Point and Figure Charting 123
10 Enter the Fool-Not 149
11 Putting it All Together 171
PART III-GETTING PAID
12 Protecting Profits 187
13 Six to Twenty-One 210
14 When Traders Go Sour 258
15 Waylaid by the Holy Grail 273
16 The Brass Ring 283
Glossary 287
Index 293