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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| This Ain't No Dress Rehearsal! | |
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| Benefits of Day Trading: The Good News | |
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| The Flip Side: Wall Street Takes No Prisoners | |
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| What Does a Day Trader Look Like? | |
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| To Trade or Not to Trade? | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Center Point: The Power of Commitment | |
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| Wall Street: A View from the Top of the Skyscraper | |
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| The First Traders | |
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| The Birth of Wall Street | |
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| Who Are Wall Street's Biggest Party Animals? The Bulls and the Bears | |
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| The Land of Greed and Fear | |
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| Supply and Demand or How Much Will You Pay for That Cookie? | |
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| Price: The Bottom Line | |
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| The New York Stock Exchange | |
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| The NASDAQ Stock Market | |
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| The American Stock Exchange, or Amex | |
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| Where You Come In | |
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| The Bid and Ask, or Offer: What They Mean | |
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| NASDAQ Level II System | |
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| The Ringmaster, CNBC | |
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| Center Point: Empower Your Personal Beliefs | |
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| Day Trading Is Your Business: Let's Set It Up That Way | |
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| Your Day Trading Stash: A Reality Check | |
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| Choose Your Weapon | |
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| What Type of Trader Are You: Part-time or Full-time? | |
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| Trading with an Online Broker: Which One Is Right for You? | |
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| Advantages of Using a Direct-access Trading Platform | |
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| Should You Open Two Trading Accounts? | |
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| Slippage and Commissions: How They Affect Your Wallet | |
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| Trading On Margin: How to Do It and Still Sleep at Night | |
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| Develop a Simple Business Plan | |
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| Create a Success-oriented Environment | |
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| Paper Trading: Should You Do It? | |
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| Center Point: Your Vision: Life's Invitation to Greatness | |
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| The Winning Market Mentality That Leads to Profits | |
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| Protect Your Principal | |
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| Trade to Trade Well, Not to Make Money | |
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| Why the Stock Market Is Always Right | |
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| The Trader's Most Formidable Foe | |
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| Why Faith and Hope Should Be Left in a Basket by the Door | |
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| Why "The Devil" Made You Lose All That Money | |
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| Celebrate Your Positive Trading Characteristics | |
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| Reality Check: What Color Is the Stock Market? | |
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| Don't Push the River: Swim with It and the Money Will Flow to You | |
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| Responsibility and Respect: How They Play Leading Roles in Your Success | |
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| Center Point: Extend Your Reach | |
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| Trading Fundamentals You'll Build On | |
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| The Market Has No Price or Time Limits | |
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| Fundamental Versus Technical Analysis | |
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| Different Trading Time Frames: What They Mean to You | |
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| Trading with the Clock for Profits | |
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| Introduction to Charting Techniques | |
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| Center Point: The Miracle of Giving | |
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| Technical Analysis 101: The Trend Is Your Friend | |
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| Stock Cycles: How They Help You Plan Your Trades | |
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| Support and Resistance: What They Are, How to Recognize Them | |
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| Money-making Breakouts and Breakdowns: How to Identify Them | |
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| How to Draw Trendlines or Where to Connect the Dots | |
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| Center Point: Coincidence or Synchronicity? | |
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| Choose a Stock to Trade | |
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| Volume: A Simple Indicator That Says a Lot | |
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| Moving Averages: What They Are, How to Use Them | |
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| The Final Touch: Momentum Indicators | |
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| Center Point: Detachment-Pathway to Freedom | |
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| When the Tough Get Going: Beginning Trader's Boot Camp | |
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| Order Types and Definitions | |
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| Center Point: The Power of Intuition | |
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| Plan Your Trade and Trade Your Plan | |
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| How to Design Your Trading Log | |
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| Viewpoint: Top Down Versus Bottom Up Approach | |
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| Plan Your Trade with Risk-reward Analysis | |
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| Money-making Chart Patterns for Position Trades | |
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| The Basics: Continuation and Reversal Patterns | |
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| Double-bottom Pattern | |
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| Cup-with-handle Pattern | |
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| Reverse Head-and-shoulders | |
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| Plain Vanilla Breakout | |
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| Know Your Stop Before You Shop | |
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| Center Point: Practice Healthy Selfishness | |
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| The Swinging Day Trader | |
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| Fibonacci Numbers | |
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| Money-making Setups for Swing Trades and Day Trades | |
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| Gap Openings: How to Manage Them | |
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| To Hold Overnight, or Not to Hold Overnight | |
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| Nitty-gritty Stuff about Day Trading | |
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| Does Your Stock Waltz or Jitterbug? | |
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| Where to Place Your Stop-loss Orders | |
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| Day Trading Setups: What You're Looking For | |
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| Quick Level II Review and Intraday Trading Tactics | |
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| Pre-market and After-hours Trading Scene | |
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| The Ultimate Day Trading Scene | |
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| Center Point: Release the Past | |
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| Scalps and Shorts, or the Quick and the Dead | |
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| What Is Scalping? | |
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| Basic Scalping Tactics | |
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| Price Behavior at Whole and Half Numbers | |
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| Scalping Technique: Early Entries | |
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| Level II Review and Scalping Strategies | |
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| Additions to Your Intraday Toolbox | |
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| Tick Charts | |
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| Scalping Setups | |
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| Boost Your Scalping Profit Potential | |
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| Scalping Checklist | |
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| Selling Short: Don't Sell It Short! | |
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| The Shorting Process: How It Works | |
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| Chart Patterns for Selling Short: What to Look For | |
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| Bottom Line Shorting Strategies | |
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| Center Point: Create a Prosperity Mindset | |
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| Love Your Losses: They're a Trader's Best Friend! | |
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| Seven "Suicide Scenes": How to Avoid Them, Protect Your Principal, and Live to Trade Another Day | |
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| Stuff Happens | |
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| The Good News, Bad News Roller-coaster Ride | |
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| Drop the Stop Game | |
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| How Not To Catch a Falling Knife | |
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| Hey, Wait for Me! | |
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| The Whipsaw Club | |
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| Going Ballistic | |
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| Center Point: The Truth about Fear | |
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| Trading Survival Techniques | |
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| The "if, Then" Mentality: How It Boosts You to the Ranks of Professionals | |
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| Stay Aware of Big Picture Dynamics | |
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| The Advance-decline Line as a Superb Storyteller | |
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| Meet Another Storyteller: U.S. Thirty-year Treasury Bonds | |
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| Other "If, Then" Settings | |
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| Too Much Chocolate? | |
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| Watch Out! It's Options Expiration Week | |
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| Program Trading: A Jolt Out of the Blue | |
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| Learn How to Change Gears | |
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| Trading Day In a Capsule | |
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| Where to Find Stocks to Trade | |
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| Trading Fitness: Your Body. Your Mind | |
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| Trading Rules to Prosper By | |
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| Center Point: Live Consciously and Succeed! | |
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| The Future Is Now! | |
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| Trading From the State of Overwhelm | |
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| Microlist of High-caliber Financial Web Sites | |
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| Pump and Dump | |
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| Should You Take a Trading Course? | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Center Point: We Are All Connected | |
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| Recommended Reading List | |
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| Index | |