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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Case for Timing | |
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| The Secret of Timing | |
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| What and When to Buy and Sell | |
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| The Difference Between Two Stocks | |
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| What You Need | |
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| Six Primary Objectives | |
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| The Structure of This Book | |
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| Stock Timing and Fundamental Analysis | |
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| Why Buying Low and Selling High Doesn't Work | |
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| Cendant, Great Stock but Lousy Action | |
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| You Don't Have to Get Left Behind! | |
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| Buying Value Can Mean a Long Wait | |
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| The Market Is Always Right | |
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| What Does Value Really Mean? | |
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| Value Versus Price | |
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| Valuation Criteria and Normality | |
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| Valuations in the 1970s and early 1980s | |
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| Valuations in the 1990s | |
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| The Japanese Experience | |
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| Investment Trusts in the 1920s | |
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| Historical Valuations | |
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| Valuation Criteria Work As Alerts | |
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| Bull and Bear Markets | |
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| The Long-Term History of Stocks | |
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| Distortions Caused by Inflation | |
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| Major Bull and Bear Markets | |
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| Stocks Since 1957 | |
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| The Risk of Buying at a Market Top | |
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| Why You Must Avoid Bear Markets | |
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| Value Fails in a Bear Market | |
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| Fashions in Investment Change | |
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| Industries Come and Go | |
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| General Motors in High Gear and Low | |
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| Coca-Cola in Low Gear and High | |
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| Digital Equipment Goes Out of the Sun | |
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| Success and Failure Come and Go | |
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| Fashions in Asset Classes Change | |
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| Where Mutual Funds Fail | |
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| Trading Versus Investment | |
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| What Do the Funds Hold? | |
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| Expert Funds | |
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| Superfund | |
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| How to Tell Long-Term from Short | |
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| Index Funds | |
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| Mutual Fund Management Fees | |
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| The Risk in Mutual Funds | |
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| A Mutual Fund Is Just Another Stock | |
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| Do You Want to Hold for That Long Term? | |
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| How the Funds Say It | |
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| Calculating Investment Returns | |
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| You Ask the Questions: Fund Quiz | |
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| You Should Do the Job Yourself | |
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| How and When to Buy Stocks | |
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| Defining a Bull Market | |
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| Upward Zigzags | |
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| W Formations: The Start of a Bull Market | |
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| W Formation: Initial Higher High | |
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| W Formation: Initial Higher Low | |
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| Zigzags Apply to All Indicators | |
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| Defining A Bear Market | |
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| Downward Zigzags | |
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| M Formations: The Start of a Bear Market | |
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| M Formation: Initial Lower Low | |
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| M Formation: Initial Lower High | |
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| Sideways Markets | |
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| Endless Chop | |
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| Trading-Range Examples | |
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| On Balance Volume (Obv): Some Innovative Uses | |
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| Volume Can Forecast Price | |
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| New Applications for OBV | |
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| Interpreting OBV | |
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| OBV and General Electric | |
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| OBV and Microsoft | |
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| OBV and Cognos | |
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| OBV and IBM | |
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| Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (Macd) | |
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| Direction and Momentum | |
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| Using MACD | |
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| MACD and General Electric | |
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| MACD and Coca-Cola | |
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| MACD and Cognos | |
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| MACD and IBM | |
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| Learn to Believe in MACD | |
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| The Building Blocks for Charts | |
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| Price Bar Action | |
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| Always Follow the Footprints | |
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| Price Rules | |
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| When to Pull the Trigger | |
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| Price Rule Principles | |
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| Conditions for All Price Rules | |
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| Price Rules | |
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| Illustrating the Price Rules | |
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| Moving Averages: Use With Price Rules | |
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| Settings for Moving Averages | |
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| Using Moving Averages | |
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| Microsoft and the Monthly Moving Averages | |
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| Buy Off the Weekly Chart | |
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| Buy Off the Daily Chart | |
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| When You Should Wait to Buy | |
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| A Stock to Sell Short | |
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| Stochastics: Overbought/Oversold Indicator | |
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| When to Buy Low and Sell High | |
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| Setting for Stochastics | |
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| How to Use Stochastics | |
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| Stochastics Applied | |
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| Trendlines, Channel Lines, and Linear Retracement | |
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| Drawing a Trendline | |
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| Drawing a Channel Line | |
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| The Dow Industrials and Linear Retracement | |
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| Trendlines Drawn Off Price Rules and Reversals | |
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| Chart Patterns to Buy | |
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| The Long-Term Breakout | |
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| Some Doldrums Never End | |
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| Eastman Kodak Breaks Out | |
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| Colgate Shows Emerging Strength | |
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| The Reverse Head-and-Shoulders | |
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| The Ascending Triangle | |
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| When to Look for Market Lows | |
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| Selling Climaxes and Double Bottoms | |
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| Stocks Above Their 200-Day Average | |
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| The Zweig Breadth Thrust Indicator | |
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| Ticks As a Selling Climax Indicator | |
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| The Line Chart for Ticks | |
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| What Else You Need to Know | |
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| Interest Rates | |
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| When Interest Rates Drive Stocks | |
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| Bonds Versus Stocks | |
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| Cause and Effect Reverse | |
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| Why Capital Investment Booms Go Bust | |
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| How to Manage Your Capital | |
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| Risk Versus Reward | |
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| Don't Invest All at Once | |
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| Keep Capital in Reserve | |
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| What Gerald Loeb Did | |
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| Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! | |
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| Routine Retracements and More Serious Ones | |
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| Give Winners Room to Breathe | |
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| Don't Average Down! | |
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| Think Positively in a Bull Market | |
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| Think Defensively in a Bear Market | |
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| Separate Income from Capital | |
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| Capital Management Summary | |
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| Protect Capital With a Stop-Loss | |
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| The Initial Protective Stop (IPS) | |
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| Why You Need a Stop | |
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| How to Set the Initial Protective Stop | |
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| The IPS in Practice | |
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| The Weekly and Daily Charts for Stops | |
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| Mind Good-till-Cancelled Stops | |
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| Stops for Protecting Profits | |
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| The Trailing Protective Stop (TPS) | |
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| The Higher-Low Stop | |
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| The Higher-Low Stop in Practice | |
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| The Price Reversal Stop | |
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| The Price Reversal Stop in Practice | |
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| The Trendline Stop | |
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| The Trendline Stop in Practice | |
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| Stops When You Really Need Them | |
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| Be Prepared to Buy Back | |
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| Finding the Best Stocks | |
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| Where to Start Looking | |
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| Technical Alerts That Work | |
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| Fundamental Alerts That Work | |
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| Fundamentals That Don't Work | |
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| Bringing It All Together | |
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| Entry Checklist: Bringing the Signals Together | |
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| Confirming Indicators | |
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| Negating Indicators | |
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| Case Study: Buy Into an Established Trend | |
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| The Entry Checklist for Citicorp | |
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| Case Study: Buy a Long-Term Breakout | |
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| The Entry Checklist for Schlumberger | |
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| Case Study: Buy Into a Rapidly Moving Market | |
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| Don't Think It's Too Late | |
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| The Entry Checklist for Cognos | |
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| When to Sell and When to Sell Short | |
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| When to Sell | |
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| Reasons to Sell | |
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| Warning Signs | |
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| Selling Stocks Short | |
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| Sell First, Then Buy | |
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| Short-Sellers Perform a Service | |
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| Risk and Reward | |
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| Stocks Not to Sell Short | |
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| Short Sale Candidates | |
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| The Short Interest Ratio | |
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| Short Sale Procedures | |
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| Short Sale Margins | |
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| Calculate the Stop-Loss | |
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| Start Short Sales Slowly | |
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| Pyramiding Margin | |
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| Entry Checklist: Sell Short | |
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| Differences Compared with Buying | |
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| Confirming Indicators | |
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| Negating Indicators | |
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| Case Study: Sell Short Into an Approaching Waterfall | |
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| IBM Takes a Slide | |
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| The Entry Checklist | |
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| Case Study: Sell Into an Emerging Bear Market | |
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| K Mart Makes a Top | |
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| The Entry Checklist | |
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| Case Study: Short Into a Vacuum Crash | |
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| What Happened in October 1987 | |
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| The Entry Checklist | |
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| Prepare for the Next Bull Market | |
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| Different Perspectives | |
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| How to Use Options | |
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| Trade with the Professionals | |
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| Professionals Sell (Write) Options | |
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| Professionals Also Sell Put Options | |
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| Sell Naked Options against the Trend | |
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| Advantageous Strategies | |
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| Market Myths I | |
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| The Savings Myth | |
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| The Myth of Corporate Profits | |
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| The Myth of Pension Profits | |
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| The Myth of Professional Integrity | |
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| The Myth of EBDITA | |
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| The Myth of Corporate Buybacks | |
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| The Myth of Stock Options | |
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| Market Myths II | |
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| The Myth of New Eras | |
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| The Myth of Defensive Stocks | |
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| The Inflation Myth | |
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| The Myth of the Fed's Credibility | |
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| The Myth of Confidence | |
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| The Myth of Baby Booms and Baby Busts | |
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| The Market Fuel Myth | |
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| The Devalued Currency Myth | |
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| The Natural Resources Myth | |
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| The Winning Attitude | |
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| The Psychological Challenge of Success | |
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| Sins to Avoid | |
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| Capital Should be Forever | |
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| Make Money and Also Keep It | |
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| There Are Times to Stand Aside | |
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| The Paradox of Cash | |
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| The Best Decisions Are Often Difficult | |
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| Buy the Strong; Sell the Weak | |
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| Taking Losses | |
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| Use Stops | |
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| Sometimes You Have to Pay Taxes | |
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| The Foremost Rule: Preserve Capital! | |
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| How The System Worked in 1998 | |
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| Index | |