All over the world a growing number of people are viewing trading the markets as a valuable source of additional income or even as a new career option.

Sitting in front of a PC, they are able to connect to their brokers trading platform and buy or sell on the world market assets of all kinds: gold, oil, shares, bonds, and so forth.

Today, it is no longer a problem to be short on almost any class of asset.


Contents and what is In This Awesome Ebook?
Part I
1 What We Are Talking About ............................................ 3
2 Transaction Costs ......................................................... 7 Introduction ................................................................. 7
3 Pips and More ............................................................ 21
4 Market Depth ............................................................ 27
5 Leverage Effect .......................................................... 31
6 Trends Do Exist .......................................................... 35
7 The Basic Signals ........................................................ 39
8 The Triads ................................................................ 45
9 The Signals ............................................................... 49
10 Protocol Validation ...................................................... 51
11 Two Case Studies ........................................................ 55 Case 1 ...................................................................... 55 Case 2 ...................................................................... 56
12 Combinations ............................................................. 59
13 Cycle ...................................................................... 63
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14 The Trading Plan ........................................................ 67
15 Never Fight the Trend, the Trend Is Your Friend .................... 69
16 Double Sampling ......................................................... 73
Part II
17 Platforms in Parallel ..................................................... 77
18 Elementary Smoothing: EMA .......................................... 83
19 The Hull Algorithm ...................................................... 87
20 Systems Validation ....................................................... 95
21 DEMA .................................................................... 99
22 DEMAg .................................................................. 103
23 TEMA and Sams TEMA (TEMAS) .................................. 105
24 Zero LagTSZSams Comb ........................................ 111
25 Sams Hound ............................................................ 113
Part III
26 ATR ...................................................................... 121
27 How to Download the Data ............................................ 129
28 The Stops ................................................................ 131
29 Intraday Volatility ...................................................... 137
30 The Protocol for the Stop Loss and the Take Profit ................. 141
31 Wiggles ................................................................... 143
32 How to Close the Position .............................................. 147
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33 Avoiding to Be Wiped Out ............................................. 149
34 Heikin Ashi .............................................................. 165
35 HA Average ............................................................. 171
36 The Chaikin Volatility .................................................. 175
37 Noah Effect .............................................................. 177
38 Volatility Explosions .................................................... 181
39 Third-Degree Interpolation ............................................ 185
40 The Strategy of John Gilbert and Frederick Mosteller (G&M) .... 187
41 Swans .................................................................... 189
42 RSID (RSI Detrended) .................................................. 197
43 The Pristine Method .................................................... 201
44 Donkey ................................................................... 203
45 Conclusion ............................................................... 209