John L.Person – Candlestick & Pivot Point Trading Triggers

John L.Person – Candlestick & Pivot Point Trading Triggers

In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics, John Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers—in the stock, forex, and futures markets—based on a moving average approach.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1 Trading Vehicles, Stock, ETFs, Futures, and Forex 5

CHAPTER 2 Determining Market Condition: Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral 77

CHAPTER 3 How to Read Oscillators to Spot Overbought or Oversold Conditions 93

CHAPTER 4 Momentum Changes: How to Spot Divergence or Convergence 111

CHAPTER 5 Pivot Points: Determine Key Price Support and Resistance Areas and the Importance of Confluence 121

CHAPTER 6 Pivot Point Moving Average System 159

CHAPTER 7 Candle Charts and Top Reversal Patterns 187

CHAPTER 8 Setups and Triggers: Combining Candles and Pivots 213

CHAPTER 9 Risk Management: Setting Stops 257

CHAPTER 10 Projecting Entry and Exit Points: Learn to Scale Out 269

CHAPTER 11 The Sample Analysis: The Proof Is in the Back-Testing 279

CHAPTER 12 Confidence to Pull the Trigger Comes from Within 307

Glossary 317

About the website 335

Index 339

Author Information

John L. Person, CTA, is President of Nationalfutures.com, a professional advisory service, and President of J&B Capital Management. In 1998, he developed his own proprietary trading system and began publishing The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental developments as well as technical analysis that includes the data from his trading system, using pivot points combined with candlesticks. Person has appeared regularly on CNBC and is widely quoted by Reuters and MarketWatch from Dow Jones. He has also written many articles for publications such as Futures magazine, Active Trader, and SFO, among others.