Stop and Make Money: How To Profit in the Stock Market Using Volume and Stop Orders / Edition 1

by Richard W. Arms

Overview

Richard Arms is one of the world’s most respected stock market technicians. His expertise in this field is unparalleled, and now, with Stop and Make Money, he reveals how to profit from short-term price movements in the stock market—whether you’re buying or selling short—by accurately interpreting price/volume information and effectively employing stop orders to enter and exit positions. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly discover how to anticipate short-term stock market moves and improve your overall trading activities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470129968
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/02/2008
Series:	Wiley Trading , #317
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

RICHARD ARMS, a financial consultant to institutional investors and a private portfolio manager, is a noted expert in the field of technical and market analysis. Arms has created key technical tools for understanding market price movement, which are listed daily in the Wall Street Journal and included in a variety of market analysis software programs. His Equivolume charting system is now part of the most popular stock and futures software, and his Arms Index—also known as the Short-Term Trading Index or TRIN—has become one of the most important technical tools on Wall Street. Arms received the prestigious Market Technicians Award in 1995.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

About the Author xi

Introduction The Great Opportunity 1

Chapter 1 Let’s Get Started 7

Chapter 2 A Pair of Shorts 19

Chapter 3 Why Technical Analysis? 27

Chapter 4 The Market Is Always Right 33

Chapter 5 Equivolume Charts 39

Chapter 6 Getting Ready to Trade 47

Chapter 7 Choosing Your Route 53

Chapter 8 Power Boxes 67

Chapter 9 Okay, Let’s Buy 77

Chapter 10 Stop Orders for Getting In 87

Chapter 11 Stop Orders for Getting Out 95

Chapter 12 A Play, Not a Position 103

Chapter 13 Minding the Gaps 109

Chapter 14 Tops and Bottoms 115

Chapter 15 Flags, Pennants, and Rectangles 121

Chapter 16 Support and Resistance 133

Chapter 17 Trends and Channels 139

Chapter 18 Targets 145

Chapter 19 Ease of Movement and Volume-Adjusted Moving Averages 151

Chapter 20 Is the Market Going to Go Up or Down? 159

Chapter 21 The Arms Index 165

Chapter 22 Market Tops and Bottoms 173

Chapter 23 In Conclusion 179

About the CD-ROM 183

Index 187