Profiting from Market Trends; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Trend Development; Chapter 1 Introduction to Trend Analysis; What Is a Market Trend?; It's All About the Trend; Profiting from Market Trends; Let's Build a Clock; Repeated Study Leads to Proficiency; Develop a Strong Foundation of Knowledge; Chapter 2 Trend Direction; Price Peaks and Bottoms; Price Pivots Are the Building Blocks of Trends; Roles of Price Pivots; Trendlines; External and Internal Trendlines; Moving Averages; Determining Trend Direction; Criteria for an Uptrend; Criteria for a Downtrend.
Sideways (No Trend)Building upon the Basics; Chapter 3 Trend Duration; Long-Term Trend; Bull and Bear Markets; Intermediate-Term Trend; The Intermediate-Term Trend's Role in the Major Trend; The Construct of Intermediate-Term Trends; Short-Term Trend; Longer Trends Are Dominant; Trends within a Trading Range; Rapid Price Moves; Parabolic Rise; Rapid Decline; Starting and Ending Points of Trends; Determine a Trend's Percentage Rise or Decline; Drawing Trendlines; Long-Term Trendlines; Intermediate-Term Trendlines; Short-Term Trendlines; Trends within Trends; Chapter 4 Trend Interruptions.
Minor Trend InterruptionsPauses (Consolidation Days); Bases (Minor Consolidation); Pullbacks in an Uptrend; Flags and Pennants; A Bit on Statistics; Larger Trend Interruptions; Moving Averages; Corrections; Consolidation; Correction Turned into Consolidation; Trend Reversals; Profiting from Trend Interruptions; Chapter 5 Early Trend Reversal Warnings; Climax Move; Key Reversal; Exhaustion Gap; Divergence; Divergence Lines; Guidelines for Divergence Analysis; Failure to Break a Prior Peak or Bottom; Change in Trendline Slope; Break of a Tight Trendline; Approaching a Strong Ceiling or Floor.
Check the Next Higher Time FrameOther Support and Resistance; Candlestick Reversal Patterns; Responding to Early Warnings; Protecting Capital; Initiating a New Position; Warnings versus Buy-Sell Triggers; Chapter 6 Later Trend Reversal Warnings; Break of Support or Resistance; Break of a Strong Trendline; Break of an Up Trendline; Break of a Down Trendline; Horizontal Support and Resistance Lines; Break of a Strong Moving Average; Breakdown below a Strong Moving Average; Breakout above a Strong Moving Average; Change in Direction of Peaks or Bottoms; Shift to a Period of Consolidation.
Multiple WarningsWhy Not Just Let Stops Get Me Out?; Mechanical Systems versus Discretionary Trading Strategies; Swing Trading Tips; Price Swings Form within Intermediate-Term Trends; Swings Are Trends on Lower Time Frames; Swing-Ending Warnings; Categorizing and Quick Reference Guides; Part II Putting Trend Analysis to Work; Chapter 7 The Broad Market; The Business Cycle; Let the Market Be Your Guide; Monitoring the Market; Monitor the Charts; Monitor the Market Internals; Monitor the Market Fundamentals; Market Statistics; Chapter 8 Bull Markets; Bull Markets of the Past 50 Years.
