| Introduction | p. ix |
| Learning the Tools | |
| What Makes the Market Tick? | p. 3 |
| The Stock Market--The Great Ocean | p. 3 |
| The Futures: Institutional Program Trading | p. 4 |
| Program Trading | p. 5 |
| Spotting Program Trading | p. 7 |
| How to Use the Futures as Your Market Barometer | p. 8 |
| Tier Synergy | p. 9 |
| Tier Divergence | p. 11 |
| The Nasdaq Market | p. 12 |
| The Level 2 Screen | p. 13 |
| Reading the Time of Sales Report | p. 16 |
| Block Trades on the Time of Sales: Nasdaq versus NYSE | p. 17 |
| Watching the Market Makers | p. 20 |
| The Market Makers | p. 21 |
| So How Do Market Makers Make Money on Spreads? | p. 22 |
| The Ax | p. 23 |
| The New Powerhouse Trading Market Makers | p. 28 |
| Market Maker Tactics | p. 30 |
| The Ax: How to Spot Him and Play Him | p. 31 |
| Charts: The Most Powerful Tools | p. 41 |
| 1-Minute Stochastics Chart | p. 42 |
| 3-Minute Moving Averages Chart | p. 48 |
| 13-Minute Moving Averages Chart | p. 54 |
| Momentum Stocks | p. 55 |
| Order Routing and ECNs | p. 57 |
| "Monster Key" | p. 58 |
| Order-Routing Systems (The Messengers) | p. 59 |
| Paring Down Lots | p. 87 |
| Types of Plays | p. 90 |
| CNBC | p. 90 |
| Nasdaq Most Active | p. 91 |
| www.ISLD.com | p. 91 |
| Barron's | p. 92 |
| Business Week | p. 92 |
| News Stock Movers | p. 92 |
| Scanners | p. 100 |
| Internet Stocks | p. 101 |
| Playing Initial Public Offerings | p. 102 |
| Evaluating the IPO | p. 103 |
| Playing an IPO | p. 105 |
| Quiet-Period Plays | p. 108 |
| Determining Your Style | p. 110 |
| Swing Trading | p. 110 |
| Preparing to Trade | p. 114 |
| Paper Trading and Risk Capital: Getting Started | p. 114 |
| Mental Preparation | p. 116 |
| The Infamous and Expensive Learning Curve | p. 120 |
| The Trade Journal | p. 123 |
| Pay Yourself | p. 125 |
| Implementing the Tools | |
| How to Day-Trade Correctly | p. 129 |
| Start Off with One Basket of Stocks | p. 131 |
| Now That You Have Your Basket Stocks, What Next? | p. 132 |
| Observing Your Basket Stock on Nasdaq Level 2 | p. 134 |
| Buy Signals | p. 135 |
| Short Signals | p. 137 |
| Shorting News Stocks | p. 140 |
| The Anatomy of a Short Squeeze | p. 142 |
| How to Spot a Short Squeeze | p. 145 |
| Aftermarket Short Squeeze | p. 146 |
| Straddles and Boxing Your Position: A Short's Defense | p. 148 |
| Playing Momentum Stocks on the Fly | p. 153 |
| Gauging Rhythm | p. 154 |
| Recognizing Rhythms | p. 156 |
| The Market Day Breakdown | p. 159 |
| Premarket | p. 159 |
| The Open | p. 160 |
| Post Open | p. 167 |
| Dead Zone | p. 168 |
| Post Dead Zone | p. 169 |
| Last Hour | p. 169 |
| Postmarket/After-Hours | p. 170 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 171 |
| Money Management and Risk Management | p. 195 |
| The Home Run Syndrome | p. 202 |
| A Different Style of Trading by Russell Arthur Lockhart, Ph.D. | p. 203 |
| Why Day Trading? | p. 204 |
| Why Day Traders Lose Money | p. 206 |
| The Principle of Action | p. 208 |
| Methods, Techniques, and the Principle of Alternation | p. 209 |
| The Three-Price Break Method of Trend Determination | p. 210 |
| East Meets West | p. 217 |
| Fibonacci Price Potential Targets | p. 222 |
| The Concept of Market Structure | p. 228 |
| Fibonacci Pivot Points | p. 231 |
| Target and Pivot Point Reflection in Future Prices | p. 232 |
| The Concept of Seed Wave | p. 232 |
| Further Uses of Market Structure Price Points | p. 234 |
| The Natural Trading Unit | p. 235 |
| Conclusion | p. 236 |
| Notes | p. 236 |
| Hardware Setup and Brokers | p. 238 |
| Computers | p. 238 |
| Connection | p. 239 |
| Brokers | p. 240 |
| Index | p. 243 |
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