The Three Skills of Top Trading

PART ONE Systems Building and Behavioral Finance 1

CHAPTER 1 Systems Building for the Three Skills

of Top Trading 3

CHAPTER 2 Behavioral Finance 33

CHAPTER 3 The Life Cycle Model of Crowd Behavior 55

PART TWO Pattern Recognition

and Discretionary Trading 87

CHAPTER 4 Wyckoff: The Man, the Method,

the Mystique 89

CHAPTER 5 The Basic Elements of Charting

for the Wyckoff Method 99

CHAPTER 6 The Wyckoff Method of Technical Analysis

and Speculation 131

CHAPTER 7 Anatomy of a Trade 161

PART THREE Mental State Management 173

CHAPTER 8 Trader Psychology and Mental Discipline 175

CHAPTER 9 The Composite Man 201

CHAPTER 10 Putting It All Together: Ten Principles

for a Trader to Live By