Section 1:
Segment 1:
- The Basics of Money Management
- The Importance of knowing Why we play the game.
- The fallacy of the Zero Sum game
- The cost of options
- The most dangerous trades
- Volatility and what it means to you
- Mistakes even professionals make
- Offset capability
- Good markets / Bad markets and how to tell them apart
- Mechanical Vs non-mechanical systems
- How the market works
- Defining your objectives, System hopscotch
- How to develop a Trader's feel for the market
If the instrument is liquid, you can apply this methodology. Works on
Monthlies, works on 1 minute charts, and everything in between...
Segment 2:
- How to start a Futures, Equities, or Forex trading account
- How to define your time frame
- Intra-day Vs day trading, the advantages of both
- Use and misuse of margin
- Personality profile of successful traders (how do you compare?)
- The 3 period rule
- Logical profit objectives
- Risk/Reward valuations
- Rating the favorability of a system
- How to develop a Trader's feel for the market
Segment 3:
Gambling theory
- Aberrant behavior (the concept of runs)
- Idealized Vs real world trading
- When to bet light, when to bet heavy
- RUIN THEORY, How it affects you
- Why time/experience in trading is so important
- How to increase your time in the game
- Money management conclusions
Section 2:
Segment 4:
- The way I approach the Game
- The overall trade plan
- Dangerous entry techniques
- How trend and time frame relate
- Lagging indicators
- Displaced Moving Averages, Stochastic, MACD & Trend lines, how they
stack up
- How to benefit from market Failures
- When to "fade" the experts and when to go with them
- Leading indicators
- Combining leading and lagging indicators across time frames
- The Detrended Oscillator and the Oscillator predictor, used for taking
profits
- Rating a system, Variations and combinations of different market indicators
to achieve maximum effectiveness
- Specific Displaced Moving Averages revealed
- A mechanical system with an outstanding record (fully disclosed)
Segment 5:
- How the Oscillator Predictor can be used to soup up any trend following
system
- Calculation of DMA's
- Key of the day/containment of trend
- How DMA's mitigate whipsaws
- The double re-penetration (one of the strongest trend change signals there
is)
- Why I had my biggest loss, ever!
- Specifics on mixing leading and lagging indicators
- Detailed discussion of The Oscillator Predictor and Detrended Oscillator
- Normalized Vs non-normalized indicators
- Traditional use of Stochastic and MACD
- How I use the Stochastic and MACD
- When and how to fade the Stochastic and MACD indicators
- Thrust and Acceleration -what it means to us
- When and how to tighten up on your stops
"The Money Management and personality aspects of successful traders, has
helped me immensely."
Section 3:
Segment 6:
- Review
- The trade plan
- The traders time frame
- Introduction to Fibonacci
- Fibonacci Numbers
- Fibonacci Time counts
- Fibonacci RETRACEMENT and EXPANSION analysis
- The use of the Proportional Divider
- Detailed examples of how different time frame players handle the same
markets
- Large orders and how they effect our game plan
- Stops and how they affect the movement of the markets
- Order placement techniques...filling brokers and locals, their affect
on you
- How predictions by popular market Gurus affect the markets
- Combining trend and Fibonacci
- Order types?When and how to use certain order types
- Combining objectives from different waves
- What led to the 500 point down day prediction
- The Prime rate follows Fibonacci too
Segment 7:
- Confluence numbers
- Calculation of multiple reaction Fibonacci series
- Lots of details on trading techniques and fluid stop placement
- FibNode creation relating to the time frames you choose
- Moving Focus numbers
- How to break even when you're wrong the market
- What affects your decision on which FibNode to act on-especially when
confronted with a long Fibonacci series
- The use of FibNodes Software
- Lineage markings
- How to handle Gaps and Thrust
- The relative importance of reaction numbers
- Fibonacci tactics, specific examples
- The deletion of "old" reaction numbers
- FibNodes as Logical Profit Objectives
- News and how it is used by competent Fib players
- How to predict market "blow offs", ahead of time
- How the attainment of Logical profit objectives effect the expectation
of continued profitability
Segment 8:
- Details on Fibonacci Tactics
Minesweeper, Wash and Rinse, Bonsai, Tighten Up, and more
- The importance of flat tops and bottoms
- What formation forecasts a turn in the Stochastics
- Multiple tops and bottoms, what they mean, how to play them
- The Dangers of initiating orders on breakouts
- The mechanics of trading thrust
- The Dangers of not calculating higher time frame FibNodes
- A five minute time frame bond example
X'd trades and floor mechanics
- What happens when you're due a fill and you don't get one
- A monthly time frame bond example
- Tactics and strategy for post 2700 DOW
- Long and short term examples in bonds and equities
- How the 2702 DOW projection was made
- How bad ticks affect projections
Segment 9:
- The importance of diverging cash and futures indexes
- Scenarios for future market movements in S&P and Bonds
- How to trade Fibonacci Failures!
- The Fibonacci Failure that warned of the 500 point break
- 1706 DOW confluence
- Playing the Reactions back after the 500 point down day
- Comprehensive bond example
- Putting it all together...