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A complete guide to the futures market : technical analysis and trading systems, fundamental analysis, options, spreads, and trading principles /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schwager, Jack D., 1948- (Author), Etzkorn, Mark (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Wiley trading series.
Subjects:
Futures market.
Commodity exchanges.
Hedging (Finance)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries. For Beginners Only
  • The Great Fundamental versus Technical Analysis Debate
  • Chart Analysis and Technical Indicators. Charts
  • Types of Charts
  • Linking Contracts for Long-Term Chart Analysis: Nearest versus Continuous Futures
  • Trends
  • Trading Ranges
  • Support and Resistance
  • Chart Patterns
  • Is Chart Analysis Still Valid?
  • Technical Indicators
  • Applying Chart Analysis to Trading. Midtrend Entry and Pyramiding
  • Choosing Stop-Loss Points
  • Setting Objectives and Other Position Exit Criteria
  • The Most Important Rule in Chart Analysis
  • Trading Systems and Performance Measurement. Technical Trading Systems: Structure and Design
  • Examples of Original Trading Systems
  • Selecting the Best Futures Price Series for System Testing
  • Testing and Optimizing Trading Systems
  • How to Evaluate Past Performance
  • Fundamental Analysis. Fourteen Popular Fallacies, or What Not to Do Wrong
  • Supply-Demand Analysis: Basic Economic Theory
  • Types of Fundamental Analysis
  • The Role of Expectations
  • Incorporating Inflation
  • Seasonal Analysis
  • Analyzing Market Response
  • Building a Forecasting Model: A Step-by-Step Approach
  • Fundamental Analysis and Trading
  • Futures Spreads and Options. The Concepts and Mechanics of Spread Trading
  • Intercommodity Spreads: Determining Contract Ratios
  • Spread Trading in Stock Index Futures
  • Spread Trading in Currency Futures
  • An Introduction to Options on Futures
  • Option Trading Strategies
  • Practical Trading Guidelines. The Planned Trading Approach
  • Seventy-Five Trading Rules and Market Observations
  • 50 Market Wizard Lessons
  • Introduction to Regression Analysis
  • A Review of Elementary Statistics
  • Checking the Significance of the Regression Equation
  • The Multiple Regression Model
  • Analyzing the Regression Equation
  • Practical Considerations in Applying Regression Analysis
  • References and Recommended Readings.