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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Wholehearted Amateur | |
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| Psychological Truths and What to Do about Them | |
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| Truths about Yourself to Know First | |
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| How Often Do You Trade, and How Profitably? | |
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| How Much Are You Trading in Capital and Leverage? | |
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| How Long Have You Been Trading? | |
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| What Financial Instruments Are You Trading? | |
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| Are You Trading Other Peoples' Money or Your Personal Capital? | |
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| Are You a Licensed Trader, or Trading Independently? | |
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| How Were You Trained? | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| How Emotions Can Destroy a Trade | |
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| The Fear Factor | |
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| Greed Is Not Good | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Preventing Overconfidence | |
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| Ignoring Your Predetermined Stop/Loss Price | |
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| Holding Too Long | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| From Impatient to Cool, Calm, and Collected | |
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| The Waiting Is the Hardest Part | |
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| Deciding to Learn More | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Taking Breaks | |
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| Break When Your Confidence Is Low | |
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| Break Because It's Just Not Working | |
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| Break and Then What? | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| The Truth about Your Risk | |
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| The Importance of Risk Management | |
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| The Amount of Trading Capital Allocated to Each Trade | |
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| The Timing for Allocating Capital to a Trade | |
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| Overexposure to Risk | |
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| The Stock or Company You're Trading | |
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| The Time of Day You're Trading | |
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| Gambling | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Why Overexposure to the Market Can Hurt | |
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| Time versus Timing | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Budgeting: Knowing Your Financial Limitations | |
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| Don't Quit Your Day Job: Catch-22 | |
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| Crunching the Numbers | |
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| Cushion Cash | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Minimizing Your Risk with Stop/Loss | |
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| Making Stop/Loss Automatic | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Averaging-Down: A Skilled Strategy | |
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| To Average-Down Successfully Takes Mastery | |
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| Know-How Doesn't Grow Overnight | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Gambling versus Day Trading | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Intraday Trading Truths | |
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| Why Some Traders Make More Mistakes | |
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| Pick Your Stocks Carefully | |
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| Focus, Focus, Focus | |
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| Pay Attention to Market-Moving News | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Trading Consistently All Day | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Stock Picking: Simplifying the Process | |
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| Your Stock Should Have an Average Daily Volume of One Million Shares or More | |
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| Choose Stocks between $10 and $100 | |
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| Pick Stocks That Display Tradable Intraday Price Swings | |
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| Don't Trade Stocks Affected by Strict Federal Regulations | |
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| Beware of Stocks Directly Affected by Current News Headlines | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Why News Can Be Just Noise | |
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| Trading on News versus Monitoring News | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| The Truth about Training and Preparation | |
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| About Those Training Programs | |
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| Seminars for the Greenhorns | |
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| Training Programs for the More Experienced Trader | |
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| Tips for Selecting the Right Program | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Picking the Right Online Broker: Pay-per-Share versus Pay-per-Trade | |
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| Starting Out with Pay-per-Trade | |
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| Transitioning to Pay-per-Share | |
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| High Leverage Pros and Cons | |
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| Hang on to Your Pay-per-Trade Account | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Paper-Trading Strategy | |
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| Paper Trading for the Amateur | |
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| A Word about Advanced Paper Trading | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| Trading for Skill versus Trading for Income | |
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| Building a Foundation of Trading Skills | |
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| First Level | |
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| Second Level | |
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| Third Level | |
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| Summary | |
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| Rules to Remember | |
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| The Perfect Trading Day | |
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| Early Morning Activities | |
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| Pre-market Trading | |
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| The Opening Bell | |
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| Midday Activities | |
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| The Last Hour of Trading | |
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| The Closing Bell | |
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| After-Market Trading | |
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| Homework | |
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| The Worst Trading Day | |
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| Early Morning Activities | |
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| Premarket Trading | |
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| The Opening Bell | |
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| Midday Activities | |
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| Last Hour of Trading | |
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| The Closing Bell | |
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| After-Market Trading | |
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| Homework | |
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| Conclusion: Parting Words | |
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| Appendix: Rules to Remember | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |