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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic training: a futures primer | |
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| Futures markets and the futures contract | |
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| It is as easy to sell short as to buy long | |
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| Margin and leverage | |
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| Delivery months | |
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| Brokers and commissions | |
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| The players | |
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| A hedging example | |
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| The Exchange, 'open outcry' and the clearinghouse | |
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| The regulators and regulations | |
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| How to place an order | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The intermediate futures trading course (or just enough knowledge to make you dangerous!) | |
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| Zero sum game | |
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| Money management | |
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| Contrary opinion theory | |
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| Spreads, straddles, and switches | |
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| Carrying charges | |
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| Normal or inverted? | |
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| The "Voice from the Tomb" | |
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| A diabolical story | |
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| The options primer | |
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| What is an option? | |
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| How options work | |
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| Advanced option strategies | |
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| Buying options to protect futures | |
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| Writing options as a hedging strategy | |
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| Covered option writing | |
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| Option spreads | |
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| Straddles and strangles | |
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| Butterfly spreads | |
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| Ratios | |
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| Eight winning option trading rules | |
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| Stay away from deep in-the-money options | |
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| Stay away from deep out-of-the-money options | |
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| Trade slightly out-of-the-money, at-the-money, or slightly in-the-money options | |
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| There is a time for all seasons | |
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| Covered call writing is a good strategy for what appears to be a bullish environment, and covered put writing is generally good for what looks like the bear | |
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| In "normal" markets, write straddles and strangles | |
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| Look for opportunities to backspread | |
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| Use options to hedge a profitable futures position | |
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| How to analyze the markets fundamentally | |
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| Fundamental analysis | |
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| Technical analysis | |
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| Which is the best way to go? | |
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| Financial futures | |
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| Currencies | |
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| Energy | |
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| Agricultures | |
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| Meats | |
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| Metals | |
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| The advanced futures trading course (or how to analyze the markets technically) | |
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| Does technical analysis really work? | |
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| Charts | |
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| Gaps | |
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| Open interest | |
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| Point and figure charts | |
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| Japanese candlestick charts | |
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| Spread trading-a valuable forecasting tool | |
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| Why technical analysis makes sense | |
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| The most valuable technical tool (TMVTT) | |
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| Bottom pickers versus trend followers | |
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| A moving picture | |
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| A moving average primer | |
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| The simple moving average | |
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| How many days should you use in your moving average? | |
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| Bottom line | |
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| How I use "TMVTT" | |
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| Step 1 | |
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| Step 2 | |
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| Additional rules for maximum success | |
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| A day trader's secrets | |
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| Your nine essential day trader's rules | |
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| The trend reversal day trading system | |
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| Your state of mind (trader's psychology) | |
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| Motive | |
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| Six hurdles to successful trading | |
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| Money management | |
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| If you don't feel right, you won't trade right | |
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| Your advantage | |
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| Twenty-five trading secrets of the pros | |
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| Jesse's secret | |
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| The secret to making the big money is to maximize the big move | |
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| Jesse Livermore | |
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| Those who can be right and sit tight | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |