Jacinta Chan trades full time for a living. She was the head of the derivative desk of a large investment bank in South East Asia where her responsibilities included the sales and dealing of futures and options contracts. She also conducts continued professional education for other professionals in her field, besides giving lectures for her online university course. Jacinta is the author of Pearson Malaysia’s book, Everything Technical Analysis.

Introduction

Part 1: What do traders know?

Introduction – The market technicians

1. Know the market: how to read and construct charts

2. History has a habit of repeating itself

3. Spot the bubble and win

4. Follow the winners: trading with the trend

5. The tools that professionals use

6. Leading technical indicators in the market

7. The profit opportunities

8. Wave after wave

9. Booms and busts: risks and returns

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Conclusion

Part 2: Trading with professional technical systems

Introduction: the trading game plan

11. Technical indicators to use

12. Principles of a technical algorithm trading system

13. Understanding market characteristics and what to do

14. Simple formulas to design your own trading models

15. Programming trading rules into your system

16. How to write a good trading plan

17. Losing a little to grow your capital

18. Practise stop loss

19. Fine tuning the trading wheel

20. The total trader – winning trading psychology

Conclusion