PART I Breakouts: Transitioning into a New Trend 35 CHAPTER 1 Example of How to Trade a Breakout 53 CHAPTER 2 Signs of Strength in a Breakout 61 CHAPTER 3 Initial Breakout 81 CHAPTER 4 Breakout Entries in Existing Strong Trends 91 CHAPTER 5 Failed Breakouts, Breakout Pullbacks, and Breakout Tests 99 CHAPTER 6 Gaps 119 PART II Magnets: Support and Resistance 139 CHAPTER 7 Measured Moves Based on the Size of the First Leg (the Spike) 153 CHAPTER 8 Measured Moves Based on Gaps and Trading Ranges 165 vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER 9 Reversals Often End at Signal Bars from Prior Failed Reversals 175 CHAPTER 10 Other Magnets 179 PART III Pullbacks: Trends Converting to Trading Ranges 183 CHAPTER 11 First Pullback Sequence: Bar, Minor Trend Line, Moving Average, Moving Average Gap, Major Trend Line 205 CHAPTER 12 Double Top Bear Flags and Double Bottom Bull Flags 213 CHAPTER 13 Twenty Gap Bars 233 CHAPTER 14 First Moving Average Gap Bars 239 CHAPTER 15 Key Inflection Times of the Day That Set Up Breakouts and Reversals 245 CHAPTER 16 Counting the Legs of Trends and Trading Ranges 253 CHAPTER 17 Bar Counting: High and Low 1, 2, 3, and 4 Patterns and ABC Corrections 259 CHAPTER 18 Wedge and Other Three-Push Pullbacks 301 CHAPTER 19 Dueling Lines: Wedge Pullback to the Trend Line 313 CHAPTER 20 “Reversal” Patterns: Double Tops and Bottoms and Head and Shoulders Tops and Bottoms 319 CONTENTS ix PART IV Trading Ranges 327 CHAPTER 21 Example of How to Trade a Trading Range 367 CHAPTER 22 Tight Trading Ranges 377 CHAPTER 23 Triangles 411 PART V Orders and Trade Management 417 CHAPTER 24 Scalping, Swinging, Trading, and Investing 419 CHAPTER 25 Mathematics of Trading: Should I Take This Trade? Will I Make Money If I Take This Trade? 437 CHAPTER 26 Need Two Reasons to Take a Trade 481 CHAPTER 27 Entering on Stops 491 CHAPTER 28 Entering on Limits 493 CHAPTER 29 Protective and Trailing Stops 517 CHAPTER 30 Profit Taking and Profit Targets 535 CHAPTER 31 Scaling Into and Out of a Trade 543 CHAPTER 32 Getting Trapped In or Out of a Trade 567 About the Author 571 About the Website 573

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