Trading Books: Beating the Financial Futures Market: Combining Small Biases Into Powerful Money Making Strategies

Author: Art Collins
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2006

Topics Covered: 

• The Problem with Non-Mechanical Trading
• Why Doesn’t Spontaneous Trading Work? Why Is It So Hard for Someone to Profit by Merely Using His Head?
• Identifying Simple Biases
• Close versus Closing Averages
• The Four Rules of Prudent Optimization
• Two-Day versus Five-Day Averages
• Fifty-Day Order of Extreme Highest/Lowest Closes
• Combining the First Three Basic Indicators
• Cuing Off Relative Range Sizes 
• Fifteen-Day High/Low Averages
• Combining All Five Indicators 
• Other Combinations of the Five Basic Indicators
• Two More Open-to-Close Biases
• Cups and Caps
• Three-Day 20 Percent Support-Resistance Indicator
• The Eight Indicator System
•  Entering on Stops and Limits
• Some General Observations about Stops
• The Pros and Cons of Price Targets
• Other Applications of the Two High/Low Exit Technique
• On Further Optimization, Market Drift, and Virgin Data
• Targeting Sectors
• Index Biases Part One—Days of the Week
• Index Biases Part Two—Days of the Month
• Index Biases Part Three—Month of the Year Indicator
• Index Biases Part Four—Combining Day of Week, Monthly, and Previous Eight Indicators
• The Dow-Spoo Spread
• Intraday Day Trading Part One: The Most Significant Price in Your Arsenal
• Intraday Part Two—The Switch 
• Intraday Part Three—An Effective Index Switch
• Intraday Part Four—A Financial Switch
• Intraday Part Five—Four Combined Entry Signals in the Indexes
• What to Do after Five Closes in the Same Direction
• Some Additional Fade Ideas
• Another Look at N Day and an Alternative Stop Approach
• Taking On the Axioms Part One—The RSI Indicator
• Taking On the Axioms Part Two—The Reversal Day Indicator
• Potpourri—Systems as I Discover and/or Rediscover Them—In No Particular Order
• The Six Signal Indicator
• Combining the Non–Either-Or Indicators
• Six Signals Plus Non–Either-Or—Putting It All Together