Harry Boxer's proven techniques for short-term traders Written in easy-to-understand language, Profitable Day and Swing Trading + Website explains the trading tactics that draw on price, volume, and pattern recognition. Highly regarded trader Harry Boxer offers the information needed to recognize chart patterns, identify trades, and execute entries and exits that will maximize profits and limit losses. Boxer also reveals his concept of price-volume surges as the key to identifying the most lucrative trades. Throughout the book, Boxer describes his routine for preparing for each trading day, selecting stocks to monitor, and how he keeps track of prices and executes trades. Step by step, this indispensible resource provides the strategies for opening range gaps, the breakouts, and the techniques that have sustained Boxer during his storied Wall Street career. Most notably, he reveals how to trade rising channels following an opening gap or high-volume breakout. Boxer also shows how his strategies can be applied for both day trading and swing trading. Offers the winning strategies for day and swing traders Shows how to recognize the signs and patterns that will lead to successful trades Reveals how to spot a technical price "event" on high volume Written by acclaimed trader Harry Boxer who has more than 45 years of successful trading experience For anyone who wants to tap into acclaimed trader Harry Boxer's winning tactics, this book has it all.
Preface ix Acknowledgments xi About the Author xiii CHAPTER 1 My Journey as a Trader 1 CHAPTER 2 Preparing for the Trading Session 7 CHAPTER 3 Analyzing Early Trend Development 13 CHAPTER 4 My Favorite Day-Trading Patterns 17 CHAPTER 5 Using Moving Averages 23 CHAPTER 6 Drawing Trend Lines and Why They're Critical in Analyzing the Trend 33 CHAPTER 7 Setting Targets and Price Objectives 45 CHAPTER 8 What Kind of Trader Are You? 57 CHAPTER 9 Determining and Setting Stops 61 CHAPTER 10 Technical Divergences and Loss of Momentum 67 CHAPTER 11 The Interpretation and Use of Stochastic Oscillators 79 CHAPTER 12 Moving Average Convergence/Divergence 91 CHAPTER 13 Bollinger Bands 103 CHAPTER 14 Position Sizing and Money Management 113 CHAPTER 15 Swing Trading 119 CHAPTER 16 Rules and Guidelines to Better Trading 123 CHAPTER 17 38 Steps to Becoming a Successful Trader 127 About the Video 131 Index 133