The ART of Trading

PART I Reality 1

CHAPTER 1 It’s All About Reality 3

CHAPTER 2 The Reality of Price and Volume 7

CHAPTER 3 Managing Risk: Always Set a Stop-Loss Exit 13

CHAPTER 4 If It Sounds Too Good to Be True . . . 19

CHAPTER 5 Personal Methods to Increase Trading

Success 23

CHAPTER 6 Identify Your Personal ART Profile 27

PART II Art 39

CHAPTER 7 Design Your Business Plan 41

CHAPTER 8 Selecting a Financial Market

CHAPTER 9 Selecting a Time Frame 55

CHAPTER 10 Selecting an ART Platform, Broker, and

Data Feed 59

CHAPTER 11 Psychology and the Trader’s Mind-Set 63

CHAPTER 12 Artistic Simplicity 67

CHAPTER 13 The Art of Paper-Trading 71

PART III Science and Math 75

CHAPTER 14 Calculating Proper Trade Size 77

CHAPTER 15 Other Formulas and Recipes 83

CHAPTER 16 The Human Brain 87

PART IV ART System Basics 91

CHAPTER 17 ART Is the Total Solution 93

CHAPTER 18 Pyramid Trading Points (P and MP) 97

CHAPTER 19 Market Truths: Price Bars and Volume 115

CHAPTER 20 ART Reversal Bar Signals (1B and 2B) 121

CHAPTER 21 Trend-Trading Rules 135

CHAPTER 22 Countertrend-Trading Rules 141

CHAPTER 23 Scalping Rules 147

PART V Advanced Techniques 155

CHAPTER 26 How to Trade Bracketed Markets 167

CHAPTER 27 Software Optimization and Average True

Range (ATR) 179

CHAPTER 28 Stop and Reverse (SAR) 183

CHAPTER 29 Higher-Time-Frame Filter 187

CHAPTER 30 Other Filter Techniques 205

CHAPTER 31 Elliott Wave—Ungrounded Assessment 215

CHAPTER 32 Other Ungrounded Assessments 223