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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Getting into the Swing of Things
• Chapter 1: Swing Trading from A to Z
• Understanding What Swing Trading Is (and Isn’t)
• What Swing Trading Is to You: Determining Your Time Commitment
• Sneaking a Peek at the Swing Trader’s Strategic Plan
• Building Your Swing Trading Prowess
• Chapter 2: Understanding the Swing Trader’s Two Main Strategies
• Strategy and Style: The Swing Trader’s Bio
• Wrapping Your Mind around Technical Theory
• Appreciating the Value of the Big Picture: Fundamental Theory
• Chapter 3: Focusing on the Small Stuff: The Administrative Tasks
• Hooking Up with a Broker
• Selecting Service Providers
• Starting a Trading Journal
• Creating a Winning Mindset
• Part 2: Timing Is Everything: Technical Analysis
• Chapter 4: Charting the Market
• Nailing Down the Concepts: The Roles of Price and Volume in Charting
• Having Fun with Pictures: The Four Main Chart Types
• Charts in Action: A Pictorial View of the Security Cycle of Life
• Assessing Trading-Crowd Psychology: Popular Patterns for All Chart Types
• Letting Special Candlestick Patterns Reveal Trend Changes
• Measuring the Strength of Trends with Trendlines
• Chapter 5: Asking Technical Indicators for Directions
• All You Need to Know about Analyzing Indicators
• Determining Whether a Security Is Trending
• Recognizing Major Trending Indicators
• Spotting Major Non-Trending Indicators
• Combining Technical Indicators with Chart Patterns
• Using Technical Indicators to Determine Whether to Be In or Out of the Market
• Chapter 6: Trend Following or Trading Ranges
• Trading Trends versus Trading Ranges: A Quick Rundown
• Trend Trading
• Trading Ranges: Perhaps Stasis Is Bliss?
• Comparing Markets to One Another: Intermarket Analysis
• Putting Securities in a Market Head-to-Head: Relative Strength Analysis
• Part 3: Running the Numbers: Fundamental Analysis
• Chapter 7: Understanding a Company, Inside and Out
• Getting Your Hands on a Company’s Financial Statements
• Assessing a Company’s Financial Statements
• Analyzing More Than Just Numbers: Qualitative Data
• Valuing a Company Based on Data You’ve Gathered
• Chapter 8: Finding Companies Based on Their Fundamentals
• Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Top-Down Approach
• Starting from the Grassroots Level: The Bottom-Up Approach
• Deciding Which Approach to Use
• Chapter 9: Assessing a Company’s Stock: Six Tried-and-True Steps
• The Six Step Dance: Analyzing a Company
• Step 1: Taking a Company’s Industry into Account
• Step 2: Determining a Company’s Financial Stability
• Step 3: Looking Back at Historical Earnings and Sales Growth
• Step 4: Understanding Earnings and Sales Expectations
• Step 5: Checking Out the Competition
• Step 6: Estimating a Company’s Value
• Part 4: Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan
• Chapter 10: Fail Fast: Managing Risk
• Risk Measurement and Management in a Nutshell
• First Things First: Measuring the Riskiness of Stocks before You Buy
• Limiting Losses at the Individual Stock Level
• Building a Portfolio with Minimal Risk
• Planning Your Exit Strategies
• Chapter 11: Knowing Your Entry and Exit Strategies
• Understanding Market Mechanics
• Surveying the Major Order Types
• Placing Orders as a Part-Time Swing Trader
• Placing Orders if Swing Trading’s Your Full-Time Gig
• Chapter 12: Walking through a Trade, Swing-Style
• Step 1: Sizing Up the Market
• Step 2: Identifying the Top Industry Groups
• Step 3: Selecting Promising Candidates
• Step 4: Determining Position Size
• Step 5: Executing Your Order
• Step 6: Recording Your Trade
• Step 7: Monitoring Your Shares’ Motion and Exiting When the Time is Right
• Step 8: Improving Your Swing Trading Skills
• Chapter 13: Looking at the Scoreboard to Evaluate Your Performance
• No Additions, No Withdrawals? No Problem!
• Comparing Returns over Different Time Periods: Annualizing Returns
• Accounting for Deposits and Withdrawals: The Time-Weighted Return Method
• Comparing Your Returns to an Appropriate Benchmark
• Evaluating Your Trading Plan
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 14: Ten Simple Rules for Swing Trading
• Trade Your Plan
• Follow the Lead of the Overall Market and Industry Groups
• Don’t Let Emotions Control Your Trading
• Diversify, but Not Too Much
• Set Your Risk Level
• Set a Profit Target or Technical Exit
• Use Limit Orders
• Use Stop-Loss Orders
• Keep a Trading Journal
• Have Fun
• Chapter 15: Ten (Plus One) Deadly Mistakes of Swing Trading
• Violating Your Trading Plan
• Starting with Too Little Capital
• Gambling on Earnings Dates
• Speculating on Penny Stocks
• Changing Your Trading Destination Midflight
• Doubling Down
• Keeping Open Positions While You Travel
• Thinking You’re Hot Stuff
• Concentrating on a Single Sector
• Trading Illiquid Securities
• Overtrading Stocks
• Appendix: Helpful Resources for Today’s Swing Trader
• Sourcing and Charting Your Trading Ideas
• Doing Your Market Research
• Keeping Tabs on Your Portfolio and the Latest Market News
• Fine-Tuning Your Trading Techniques
• Index
• About the Author
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement