Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide to profiting from institutional trading trends The key to being a successful trader is finding a system that works and sticking with it. Author Al Brooks has done just that.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
List of Terms Used in This Book xiii
Introduction 1
PART I Price Action 35
CHAPTER 1 The Spectrum of Price Action: Extreme Trends to Extreme Trading Ranges 55
CHAPTER 2 Trend Bars, Doji Bars, and Climaxes 59
CHAPTER 3 Breakouts, Trading Ranges, Tests, and Reversals 77
CHAPTER 4 Bar Basics: Signal Bars, Entry Bars, Setups, and Candle Patterns 83
CHAPTER 5 Signal Bars: Reversal Bars 89
CHAPTER 6 Signal Bars: Other Types 101
CHAPTER 7 Outside Bars 155
CHAPTER 8 The Importance of the Close of the Bar 169
CHAPTER 9 Exchange-Traded Funds and Inverse Charts 173
CHAPTER 10 Second Entries 177
CHAPTER 11 Late and Missed Entries 181
CHAPTER 12 Pattern Evolution 185
PART II Trend Lines and Channels 191
CHAPTER 13 Trend Lines 195
CHAPTER 14 Trend Channel Lines 209
CHAPTER 15 Channels 219
CHAPTER 16 Micro Channels 249
CHAPTER 17 Horizontal Lines: Swing Points and Other Key Price Levels 269
PART III Trends 275
CHAPTER 18 Example of How to Trade a Trend 289
CHAPTER 19 Signs of Strength in a Trend 307
CHAPTER 20 Two Legs 319
PART IV Common Trend Patterns 323
CHAPTER 21 Spike and Channel Trend 325
CHAPTER 22 Trending Trading Range Days 359
CHAPTER 23 Trend from the Open and Small Pullback Trends 383
CHAPTER 24 Reversal Day 415
CHAPTER 25 Trend Resumption Day 423
CHAPTER 26 Stairs: Broad Channel Trend 431
About the Author 437
About the Website 439
Index 441
