The proven approach to amassing futures-styles profits in the stock market. This innovative book shows stock traders how futures trading techniques and strategies can increase their equity trading profits. Using key indicators from the futures market, the author has developed an advanced decision making process for eliminating guesswork, and letting the markets tell you when to buy or sell a stock. Through examples involving such stocks as IBM, Citicorp, and Sears, stock traders will discover: how futures indicators (moving averages, stochastics, charts) also work for stocks, techniques to make options an integral part of any trading strategy, and how and when to short a stock, or use a stop-loss order to protect profits.

Table of Contents

The Case for Timing. The Secret of Timing. Stock Timing and Fundamental Analysis. What Does Value Really Mean? Bull and Bear Markets. Fashions in Investment Change. Where Mutual Funds Fail. The Risk in Mutual Funds. How and When to Buy Stocks. Defining A Bull Market. Defining A Bear Market. Sideways Markets. On Balance Volume (OBV): Some Innovative Uses. Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD). The Building Blocks for Charts. Price Rules. Moving Averages: Use with Price Rules. Stochastics: Overbought/Oversold Indicator. Trendlines, Channel Lines, and Linear Retracement. Chart Patterns to Buy. When to Look for Market Lows. What Else You Need to Know. Interest Rates. How to Manage Your Capital. Protect Capital with A Stop-Loss. Stops for Protecting Profits. Finding the Best Stocks. Bringing It All Together. Entry Checklist: Bringing the Signals Together. Case Study: Buy Into an Established Trend. Case Study: Buy A Long-Term Breakout. Case Study: Buy Into A Rapidly Moving Market. When to Sell and When to Sell Short. When to Sell. Selling Stocks Short. Entry Checklist: Sell Short. Case Study: Sell Short Into an Approaching Waterfall. Case Study: Sell Into an Emerging Bear Market. Case Study: Short Into a Vacuum Crash. Different Perspectives. How to Use Options. Market Myths I. Market Myths II. T he Winning Attitude. Capital Should be Forever. Appendices: A: How the System Worked in 1998.

About the Author

Colin Alexander is the publisher of The Five Star Bulletin, a popular advisory service for futures traders. Since 1996, his service has consistently been rated in the top ten by Commodity Traders Consumers Report. In 1998 he launched Stocktimer, a successful advisory service for buying stocks and selling stocks short. Mr. Alexander is author of several trading books, including Capturing Full-Trend Profits in the Commodity Futures Markets and the widely acclaimed Five Star Futures Trades.