Chapter List – Trading Stocks and Options My Way

  1. Preface to: Trading Stocks and Options My Way
  2. Wall Street’s Great Game!
  3. The Stages of Volatility and the Price of Stocks
  4. The Pause
  5. The Emotional Cycle of the Market
  6. My Coiling Pattern – What It Is and How to Use It (Part One)
  7. My Coiling Pattern – What It Is and How to Use It (Part Two)
  8. My Coiling Pattern – Why My Specific Moving Averages Work (Part 3)
  9. My Coiling Pattern – The Cycle of the Pattern (Part Four)
  10. My Coiling Pattern – The Irons and the VIX (Part Five)
  11. My Coiling Pattern – The Quintessential “Canary!” (Part Six)
  12. The Critical Path Method
  13. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part One)
  14. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Two)
  15. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Three)
  16. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Four)
  17. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Five)
  18. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Six)
  19. The Modern Art of Tape Reading (Part Seven)
  20. Permabears – and Stock Market Insurance
  21. Analyze, But Do Not Predict!
  22. Always, When a Trader, Be Prepared!
  23. A Little Wall Street History
  24. How I Read Barrons in 15 Minutes!
  25. Technical Indicators to Avoid
  26. The Short Interest
  27. Feelings
  28. Dual-Processing!
  29. RSI is Relative
  30. Luck
  31. Bifurcation as a Tell
  32. Wax On! Wax Off! Risk On! Risk Off!
  33. Timing Intra-Day Trades
  34. The Mind of the Short Seller
  35. The Un-Hedged Clause
  36. The Art of the Trade – How to Engage the Trader’s Right Brain (Part One)
  37. The Art of the Trade – Determining the Trade’s Execution Price (Part Two)
  38. The Art of the Trade – The Efficacy of Being a Contrarian (Part Three)
  39. Strive to be a Generalist!
  40. Pro versus Pro!
  41. Ignorance is Not Bliss
  42. When Things Change, Position Dictates!
  43. Pioneers! O Pioneers!
  44. “1” is the Loneliest Number!
  45. Always Control Your Risk
  46. Build Positions in 3’s
  47. Buy on the Sound of the Cannons!
  48. My Charting Rules
  49. Columbus Used Charts Too!
  50. Does Size Really Matter?
  51. Fear
  52. Use Two Accounts and Why You Should!
  53. The Length of the Line
  54. Technical versus Fundamental Analysis
  55. Scaled Sentiment Stochastic (S3)
  56. The When, Which and How of Scalping a Dividend
  57. The Guru Business, Circa 1902
  58. Stock Trading Halts: Why and How to Play Them
  59. The W Pattern
  60. Risk, Reward; In That Order
  61. The Trader’s Linear Mental Line of Risk Measurement
  62. Contrarian Dogma
  63. Debunking the Technical Indicator “Days to Cover”
  64. How I Use ETFChannel.com
  65. 20-60-20
  66. 20-60-20: The Short Side Trader’s Approach
  67. Averaging In
  68. Deciphering the Next Dividend
  69. Charting: A Turn of the Page
  70. There are TWO Reasons for Buying Stock
  71. The Short Side – Risk On—From the Short Sellers’ Side (Part One)
  72. The Short Side – Timing Bottoms (Part Two)
  73. The Short Side – Short and Sometimes “Sweet” (Part Three)
  74. The Short Side – My Tactical Approach to a Short Sale (Part Four)
  75. The Short Side – My Shorting Rules (Part Five)
  76. The Short Side – Say it Ain’t So, Joe! (Part Six)
  77. Take a Loss Like a… Robot!
  78. Why We Trade Options!
  79. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part One)
  80. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part Two)
  81. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part Three)
  82. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading – The Technicals (Part Four)
  83. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part Five)
  84. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part Six)
  85. My Tactical Rules of Options Trading (Part Seven)
  86. The Synthetic Approach to Buying an Option
  87. Break It Down
  88. Bullish Put Spreading
  89. Back Spreading
  90. The Art of Legging a Trade
  91. How to Leg a Trade by Leaning
  92. Pricing Puts and Calls
  93. Skewing the Market
  94. The Subtle Effect of Rising Interest Rates on Options Prices
  95. The Basic Pricing Determinants of Puts and Calls
  96. Reversals are a Bull’s Ally
  97. Morphing the Bullishly Biased Put Time Spread into the Synthetic Call
  98. Think Inside the Box!
  99. The Value of Air
  100. The Dual-Spreads Combination
  101. The Anatomy of Buying a Deep Call
  102. LEAPS of Faith
  103. Break All Combinations Down into Their Constituent Parts
  104. The Calendar Diagonal Spread
  105. Risk, Delta and Negative Gamma
  106. Dynamic Synthetic Puts
  107. Using the Synthetic Call Tactic
  108. That Epiphany Moment!
  109. The Totally Hedged Market/Capital Neutral Strategy
  110. The Relativity of Volatility to Chaos
  111. Volatility and a 16,000 Dow 30
  112. Patience and the Options Trader
  113. Capture a Dividend Using the Bullishly Biased Put Calendar Diagonal Credit Spread
  114. The Long Call Time Spread
  115. The Collateral Effects of Mini-Options
  116. My Rules for Using the Synthetic Call Tactic
  117. The ABC’s of Synthetically Buying a Stock or ETF
  118. The Put Backspread
  119. The Call Time Spread
  120. Rolling Options Positions
  121. Morphing the Time Spread into the Conversion Reversal
  122. Kicking the Can Using the Bearish Risk Reversal
  123. Be Out There!
  124. “Chase” and Lose the Edge!
  125. Options Trading is an 8 to 5 Job
  126. The Crisscross Strangle
  127. Vertical Spreading Rules
  128. An Option Trade Well-Opened is Already Half-Closed!
  129. The Mesa Trade – Skip Raschke/Advanced Analysis (Part One)
  130. The Mesa Trade – Skip Raschke/Advanced Analysis (Part Two)
  131. The “U” Combination
  132. Options Trading and “Low” Stock Market Volume
  133. Epilogue