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by CFA Omar Bassal
Swing Trading For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Cover
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting into the Swing of Things
Chapter 1: Swing Trading from A to Z
Understanding What Swing Trading Is (and Isn’t)
What Swing Trading Is to You: Determining Your Time Commitment
Sneaking a Peek at the Swing Trader’s Strategic Plan
Building Your Swing Trading Prowess
Chapter 2: Understanding the Swing Trader’s Two Main Strategies
Strategy and Style: The Swing Trader’s Bio
Wrapping Your Mind around Technical Theory
Appreciating the Value of the Big Picture: Fundamental Theory
Chapter 3: Focusing on the Small Stuff: The Administrative Tasks
Hooking Up with a Broker
Selecting Service Providers
Starting a Trading Journal
Creating a Winning Mindset
Part 2: Timing Is Everything: Technical Analysis
Chapter 4: Charting the Market
Nailing Down the Concepts: The Roles of Price and Volume in Charting
Having Fun with Pictures: The Four Main Chart Types
Charts in Action: A Pictorial View of the Security Cycle of Life
Assessing Trading-Crowd Psychology: Popular Patterns for All Chart Types
Letting Special Candlestick Patterns Reveal Trend Changes
Measuring the Strength of Trends with Trendlines
Chapter 5: Asking Technical Indicators for Directions
All You Need to Know about Analyzing Indicators
Determining Whether a Security Is Trending
Recognizing Major Trending Indicators
Spotting Major Non-Trending Indicators
Combining Technical Indicators with Chart Patterns
Using Technical Indicators to Determine Whether to Be In or Out of the Market
Chapter 6: Trend Following or Trading Ranges
Trading Trends versus Trading Ranges: A Quick Rundown
Trend Trading
Trading Ranges: Perhaps Stasis Is Bliss?
Comparing Markets to One Another: Intermarket Analysis
Putting Securities in a Market Head-to-Head: Relative Strength Analysis
Part 3: Running the Numbers: Fundamental Analysis
Chapter 7: Understanding a Company, Inside and Out
Getting Your Hands on a Company’s Financial Statements
Assessing a Company’s Financial Statements
Analyzing More Than Just Numbers: Qualitative Data
Valuing a Company Based on Data You’ve Gathered
Chapter 8: Finding Companies Based on Their Fundamentals
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Top-Down Approach
Starting from the Grassroots Level: The Bottom-Up Approach
Deciding Which Approach to Use
Chapter 9: Assessing a Company’s Stock: Six Tried-and-True Steps
The Six Step Dance: Analyzing a Company
Step 1: Taking a Company’s Industry into Account
Step 2: Determining a Company’s Financial Stability
Step 3: Looking Back at Historical Earnings and Sales Growth
Step 4: Understanding Earnings and Sales Expectations
Step 5: Checking Out the Competition
Step 6: Estimating a Company’s Value
Part 4: Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan
Chapter 10: Fail Fast: Managing Risk
Risk Measurement and Management in a Nutshell
First Things First: Measuring the Riskiness of Stocks before You Buy
Limiting Losses at the Individual Stock Level
Building a Portfolio with Minimal Risk
Planning Your Exit Strategies
Chapter 11: Knowing Your Entry and Exit Strategies
Understanding Market Mechanics
Surveying the Major Order Types
Placing Orders as a Part-Time Swing Trader
Placing Orders if Swing Trading’s Your Full-Time Gig
Chapter 12: Walking through a Trade, Swing-Style
Step 1: Sizing Up the Market
Step 2: Identifying the Top Industry Groups
Step 3: Selecting Promising Candidates
Step 4: Determining Position Size
Step 5: Executing Your Order
Step 6: Recording Your Trade
Step 7: Monitoring Your Shares’ Motion and Exiting When the Time is Right
Step 8: Improving Your Swing Trading Skills
Chapter 13: Looking at the Scoreboard to Evaluate Your Performance
No Additions, No Withdrawals? No Problem!
Comparing Returns over Different Time Periods: Annualizing Returns
Accounting for Deposits and Withdrawals: The Time-Weighted Return Method
Comparing Your Returns to an Appropriate Benchmark
Evaluating Your Trading Plan
Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 14: Ten Simple Rules for Swing Trading
Trade Your Plan
Follow the Lead of the Overall Market and Industry Groups
Don’t Let Emotions Control Your Trading
Diversify, but Not Too Much
Set Your Risk Level
Set a Profit Target or Technical Exit
Use Limit Orders
Use Stop-Loss Orders
Keep a Trading Journal
Have Fun
Chapter 15: Ten (Plus One) Deadly Mistakes of Swing Trading
Violating Your Trading Plan
Starting with Too Little Capital
Gambling on Earnings Dates
Speculating on Penny Stocks
Changing Your Trading Destination Midflight
Doubling Down
Keeping Open Positions While You Travel
Thinking You’re Hot Stuff
Concentrating on a Single Sector
Trading Illiquid Securities
Overtrading Stocks
Appendix: Helpful Resources for Today’s Swing Trader
Sourcing and Charting Your Trading Ideas
Doing Your Market Research
Keeping Tabs on Your Portfolio and the Latest Market News
Fine-Tuning Your Trading Techniques
Index
About the Author
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