Preface Section 1: Technical Theory Chapter 1: The technical approach to trading and investing Chapter 2: Charts Chapter 3: The Dow Theory Chapter 4: The Dow Theory's defects Chapter 5: Replacing Dow Theory with John Magee's Basing Points Procedures Chapter 6: Important Reversal Patterns Chapter 7: Important Reversal Patterns: continued Chapter 8: Important Reversal Patterns: the Triangles Chapter 9: Important Reversal Patterns: continued Chapter 10: Other Reversal Phenomena Chapter 11: Consolidation Formations Chapter 12: Gaps Chapter 13: Support and Resistance Chapter 14: Trendlines and Channels Chapter 15: Major Trendlines Chapter 16: Technical Analysis of Commodity Charts Chapter 17: A Summary and Concluding Comments Section 2: Trading Tactics Chapter 18: The Tactical Problems Chapter 19: The All-important Details Chapter 20: The kind of stocks we want: the speculator's viewpoint Chapter 21: Selection of stocks to chart Chapter 22: Selection of stocks to chart: continued Chapter 23: Choosing and managing high-risk stocks: tulip stocks, Internet sector, and speculative frenzies Chapter 24: The probable moves of your stocks Chapter 25: Two touchy questions Chapter 26: Round lots or odd lots? Chapter 27: Stop orders Chapter 28: What is a bottom, what is a top? Chapter 29: Trendlines in action Chapter 30: Use of Support and Resistance Chapter 31: Not all in one basket Chapter 32: Measuring implications in technical chart patterns Chapter 33: Tactical review of chart action Chapter 34: A quick summation of tactical methods Chapter 35: Effect of technical trading on market action Chapter 36: Automated timeline: The Moving Average Chapter 37: The same old patterns Chapter 38: Balanced and diversified Chapter 39: Trial and error Chapter 40: How much capital to use in trading Chapter 41: Application of capital in practice Chapter 42: Portfolio risk management Chapter 43: Stick to your guns Appendix A: The Dow Theory in practice Appendix B: Resources Section 1: important and indispensable sites Section 2: references for further study Section 3: investment-oriented sites Section 4: the Sharpe Ration Section 5: calculating volatility Section 6: the essence of fundamental analysis Section 7: software packages and Internet technical analysis sites Section 8: the Leverage Space Portfolio Model Glossary Bibliography.