Taking Stock in Your Future: Trading a Single Stock

You won’t find a magic formula or trade secrets in Taking Stock in Your Future. But if you are willing to commit a good chunk of time and a great deal of effort you can be hugely successful in what author, Allan Rosenberg, believes is the most competitive profession today.
Taking Stock in Your Future provides the tools and advice you need to become a thriving part-time trader and presents it in easy-to-understand terms. You’ll learn:
The benefits and practices of value investing, as practiced by the likes of Warren Buffett;
• How to read charts and diagrams so you know when to enter and exit a trade;
• What to look for in a company, including how to read annual reports;
• The cycles of a stock and the influences on the stock market;
• How to set up an online account and create a trade log;
• And you’ll work through a real trade.
The insights and lessons presented in Taking Stock in Your Future will enhance your financial literacy and put you on the road to taking big profits.
Chapter 1 – Our Approach And Philosophy
Value Investing
• Selecting Stocks Under Value Investing
Technical Analysis
• Selecting Stocks Under Technical Analysis
Your Commitments
• Money
• Your Time
• What You’ll Need to Succeed
The Market’s Cycles
Your Approach: Short-Term Trading
Chapter 2 – The Basics
Cyclical Companies by Category
Financial Goals
• Profitability
• Stability
• Liquidity
• Efficiency
• Growth
Financial Analysis
Supply and Demand
The Cycle of a Stock
• Stage One
• Stage Two
• Stage Three
• Stage Four
Support and Resistance
Adding Emotion to the Cycle
Putting It Together
Six Ways Financial Markets Affect Companies
• Anatomy of an Uptrend
• Anatomy of a Downtrend
Going Public
• Underwriting
Reading a Company
Questions and Answers
Chapter 3 – How Stock Markets Work
Market Types
• Commodity Markets
• Futures Contracts
The Exchanges
• The NASDAQ
• The American Stock Exchange LLC
The Securites Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Securities and Exchange Commission Reports
The Indices
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average
• The NYSE Composite Index
• Standard & Poor’s 500 Index
Lessons Learned from the Past
• Lessons from the 1980s
• Today’s Considerations
Selecting an Online Broker
• Products and Services
• Interim Statements
Determining the Health of a Stock
• Fundamental Analysis
• Technical Analysis
• The IDB
Chapter 4 – Charting Basics
Charting Essentials: Line Charts, Bar Charts and Candlestick Charts
• Line Charts
• Bar Charts
• Candlestick Charts
Candlestick Charting Features
Basic Candlestick Patterns
• Hammer and Hanging Man
• Two-Candlestick Patterns
• Three-Candlestick Patterns
• Spinning Tops and High Wave Candlesticks
Questions and Answers
Chapter 5 – Reading the Charts
Your Trader’s Toolbox
• Volume: A Mega-Important Indicator
• Moving Averages
• Oscillators
• On-Balance Volume
The MACD
• MACD-H Signals
Bollinger Bands
Head-and-Shoulders
• The Key Points
• The Graph
Reverse Head-and-Shoulders
• The Key Points
• The Graph
Cup-with-Handle
• The Key Points
• The Graph
Double Bottom
• The Key Points
• The Graph
Double Top
• The Key Points
• The Graph
Gaps: A Trader’s Black Hole
• Exhaustion Gaps
• Some Graphs
Case Study: Harrier Inc.
Buy Trigger List
Questions and Answers
Chapter 6 – Plan Your Trade and Trade Your Plan
Guidelines
• Stop-Loss
• Fibonacci Numbers
• The Market’s Daily Rhythms
• Advance/Decline Line: Market Narrator in a Capsule
Economic Indicators
• Inflation Facts
• Bull/Bear Ratio
• Other Indicators
• A Word about Losses
Level II Trading: Is It for You?
Setting Up a Trading Log
Is This a Good Trade?
• Buying More of One Stock
• High-Risk Trade
• Reducing Risk
Working a Real Trade
• The Stats
• The Journey
• The Rest of the Story
The Big Picture
• Assess the Trading Environment
• Analyze the Broader Markets
• Gold