How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange (eBook )

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Contenido:

CHAPTER 1 The Basics of Foreign Exchange

Trading 1
Sell a Yard of Cable 2
Don’t Want to Trade! 4
Transaction Costs 7
It Never Stops 8
My Biggest Losing Trade 8
The Bottom Line 11

CHAPTER 2 Trend Analysis 13

What Is a Trend? 14
How to Profitably Trade Bull and Bear Markets 18
How to Trade the Trend 21
Megaphones and Pennants 25
Average Directional Index 27
The Bishop 28
The Bottom Line 30

CHAPTER 3 Channel Breakouts 31

The Beginnings of Channel Breakouts 31
What Is a Channel Breakout? 32
Better Channel Breakouts 35
The Pros and Cons of Channel Breakouts 39
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The Bishop 40
ADX Filter 43
The Principle of Instant Gratification 46
Rejection Rule 46
The Last Bar Technique 51
Tactics 52
Taking Profits 52
The Bottom Line 53

CHAPTER 4 The Conqueror 55

The Beginnings of the Conqueror 55
What Is True Range? 56
Enhancing the Conquistador 57
Adjusting the Stop 63
The Bottom Line 65

CHAPTER 5 Stochastics 67

What Are Stochastics? 67
How to Use Stochastics as an Overbought and
Oversold Indicator 69
Trading Signals from Crossovers 71
Profitability of Stochastics 74
Warnings 75
The Best Way to Make Money Using Stochastics 76
Go with the Trend 81
How I Use Stochastics 81
Interview with George Lane 82
The Bottom Line 89

CHAPTER 6 Pattern Recognition 91

Inside Days 91
Double Whammy 94
Multiunit Tactic 95
Reversal Days 97
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Riding the Rejection Rule 101
The Bottom Line 103

CHAPTER 7 Risk Management 105

Stopping Bad Risk Management 105
How to Make Sure We Are Never Wiped Out 108
Good Risk Management: Fixed Fractional 108
How Many Contracts Should I Put On? 109
Highly Correlated Positions 109
Kelly Formula 110
Trade Your Equity Curve 114
Take a Time Out 115
Turning Poor Systems into Good Systems 115
How Big a Position Should I Take? 116
The Bottom Line: Diversify through Time 117

CHAPTER 8 Slingshot 119

The Importance of Minimizing Losses 120
Beware of Taking Profits Too Early 121
Psychological Profits 122
Confirmations 123
Maximum Excursion Analysis 124
Using the Slingshot for Profits 125
The Mini-Slingshot 128
The Bottom Line 130

CHAPTER 9 The Psychology of Successful

Trading 131
Why Do You Trade? 132
The Pressures of Trading 136
Why Do You Lose? 137
Addressing a Lack of Knowledge 138
Addressing a Lack of Capital 140
Addressing a Lack of Self-Discipline 141
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An Example of Overcoming the Bizarre Twists and
Turns of the Mind 143
Treat Trading as Education 144
Stress-Free Trading 147
Be the Casino 148
Developing Your Trading Plan 149
Filling Out the Plan 150
The Importance of a Postmortem 153
The Bottom Line 155

CHAPTER 10 Putting It All Together 157

Diversifying to Reduce Risk 157
Use a Mental Checklist 158
How to Trade Only One Method 159
The Bottom Line 160
Epilogue: Key Insights for Maximizing Your
Trading Profits 161
Appendix: Suggested Reading 177
Acknowledgments 179
About the Author 181
Index 183




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