Table of Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii CHAPTER 1 Invest in Yourself, Not a Trading System 1 CHAPTER 2 Playing the Percentages 11 CHAPTER 3 Performance Measures 19 CHAPTER 4 Extracting Performance Results 45 CHAPTER 5 Monitoring Performance 69 CHAPTER 6 Breaking Down a Stock or Commodity 87 CHAPTER 7 Quantifying Risk 109 CHAPTER 8 Trading in Trendless Markets 121 CHAPTER 9 Integrating Variables into a Moving Average 141 CHAPTER 10 Going against the Grain 161 CHAPTER 11 Restrictive Trading Systems 181 CHAPTER 12 Identifying the Shifting Characteristics of Volume 199 CHAPTER 13 Predictor Variables 221 CHAPTER 14 Cross-Hedging Strategies 243 CHAPTER 15 Formulating Trading Decisions 271 CHAPTER 16 Preparing for Success 285 Technical Appendix 291 About the Companion Website 305 About the Author 307 Index 309

About the Author

Dr. Anthony Trongone earned his PhD from NYU in 1987. He is a Certified Financial Planner as well as a Commodity Trading Advisor. He is one of the Master Educators for eSignal and has written over sixty articles for various trading publications, including twenty-three articles for Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities . Besides his extensive trading experience that includes trading equity futures in the commodity pits, his twenty-five years teaching graduate courses in finance, psychology, and quantitative methods in the United States as well as many cities in China and Taiwan, has given him a dynamic perspective on trading the equity markets. Trongone is an intraday trader who attributes much of his success to consistently playing the percentages along with making trading decisions without the emotional distractions, which often hamper our ability to achieve mastery over the markets.