Book Categories

Title Information

Pages:

374 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

9672

Publisher:

Ross Trading Inc.

Published:

01/01/1970

Edition:

3rd Edition

Write a review of this book

Contents of Trading By The Book

Introduction
How to learn - Need for Wisdom
How to Get Wisdom
Determining to be Wise
Wisdom versus Foolishness
The Book
How I Trade


PART I

1. My First Opportunity
Gold Trading
Chart Scaling and Perspective
Starting a Trading Range
Breakout of a Range Defined
Range Expansion
Range Stop Placement
Drawing The Envelope.

2. Initial Stop
Catastrophic Stop
The Possibilities
Setting Objectives
Possible Events after Breakout
Probable Situations after Breakout

3. Reactions to Range Breakout
Swings Defined
Legs of Swings
Trailing Stops for Breakouts
Closing Out My Position

4. Wheat Trading
Definition of a Trading Range
Trading Ranges Lengths

5. Comments on Trading the Breakout from Congestion
Anticipating Congestion
Recognizing Congestion
Envelope Adjustment
Envelope Contradiction
When to Draw the Envelope


PART II

1. Market harmony
Technical Analysis
Fundamental Analysis

2. About Waves
More about Technical Analysis

3. Selecting a Market
Readiness to Trade
More Market harmony

4. Little Things Mean a Lot
One-Two-Three Highs and Lows
It's as easy as 1-2-3
Bond Trading Using 1-2-3 and the Envelope

5. The Offset Moving Average
Continuation of Bond Trading
Review of Part II
The Ross Hook


PART III

1. Why Kick a Thorn Bush?

2. Defining an Established Trend
Entry Technique for an Established Trend

3. Market Symmetry
How I Use Fibonacci Numbers
Fibonacci Weaknesses
What About Elliot Waves?
What about Cycles?
What about Lunar Cycles?
What about Seasonal Trading?

4. Oscillators
How I Compare my Weekly Oscillator
What the Weekly Oscillator Looks Like
A Neat Trick with the Weekly Oscillator
Divergence and the Weekly oscillator

5. The Greatest Lesson
Learning to Reverse
What It Takes to Reverse
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
What's Ahead


PART IV

1. The Daily Oscillator
Computing the Daily Oscillator
What the Daily Oscillator Tells Me
Testing a Trade Three Ways
Review of Three-Way Testing

2. Refining the First Test
Rules for Entering Three-Way Tested Trades

3. Trading Gold for a Year with Three-Way Testing

4. The Anatomy of a Market


PART V

1. One-two-three Breakouts for a Trading Range

2. Trading from a Ledge
What is Congestion?
Rules for Trading from a Ledge

3. Trading within a Trading Range

4. Channels

5. Selecting trades
Flag of the Week
Flag of the Day
Ledge Method
Breakout Method


PART VI

1. Strategy and Considerations
Statistical and Dollar Advantages
About Advisors, Brokers and Such
Good Advisors?
About Managed Accounts
About Stops and Risk

2. About Commissions
About Placing Orders
The Business of Trading
About Charts and Charting Services

3. Chart Perspective
System vs Method
A Double Alert
Don't Get Angry at a Market
Objectives
About Technical Indicators
Runs
Avoid Foolish Moves

4. A Year of Trading

5. Wrap-up, Clarifications and Comments

6. For you