Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

PART ONE Systems Building and Behavioral Finance.

CHAPTER 1 Systems Building for the Three Skills of Top Trading.

CHAPTER 2 Behavioral Finance.

CHAPTER 3 The Life Cycle Model of Crowd Behavior.

PART TWO Pattern Recognition and Discretionary Trading.

CHAPTER 4 Wyckoff: The Man, the Method, the Mystique.

CHAPTER 5 The Basic Elements of Charting for the Wyckoff Method.

CHAPTER 6 The Wyckoff Method of Technical Analysis and Speculation.

CHAPTER 7 Anatomy of a Trade.

PART THREE Mental State Management.

CHAPTER 8 Trader Psychology and Mental Discipline.

CHAPTER 9 The Composite Man.

CHAPTER 10 Putting It All Together: Ten Principles for a Trader to Live.

Notes.

Recommended Reading.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

Hank Pruden is a leading technical analyst with more than twenty years of active trading experience. He is currently Executive Director of the Institute of Technical Market Analysis and on the board of directors of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco. Pruden is also a professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he has taught technical analysis for thirty years. He has also served on the board of directors of the Market Technicians Association and served as vice chair of the International Federation of Technical Analysts.