Index

A

Accuracy of data, 117

Adaptive moving averages, 19

ADX, see Average directional movement index

Aesop, 1

Alcott, Louisa May, 163

Anti-Martingale strategy, 168, 169

Appel, Gerald, 27

Aristotle, 189

Asset classes:

data analysis by, 151154

trending, 6364

Average directional movement index (ADX), 2829

Bollinger bands with, 8182

DMI with, 57, 58

Averaging down, 168169

B

Backtesting, 48, 8990

for data integrity, 116118

and same-day profit target/stop loss, 7374

Bad data, 117

Behavioral finance, 1

Benchmarking, 123

Body-mind interaction, 191192

Bollinger, John, 36

Bollinger bands:

with ADX filter, 8182

and Ichimoku three moving average crossover, 61

mean reversion systems, 3637

and moving average convergence/divergence indicator, 62

trend-following systems, 6061

with 200-day moving average filter, 7980

Breakeven syndrome, 68

Breakouts:

Bollinger band, 60

channel, 3031, 5960, 9091

false, 19

The Budda, 87

C

CCI, see Commodity channel index

Channel breakout:

nth period (Donchian's), 3031

for trend-following swing trading, 9091

in trend-following systems, 5960

Collins, Art, 59

“Comfortable” trading, 3

Commodity channel index (CCI), 3739

slow stochastics extremes with, 8283

slow stochastics extremes with time exit and, 8385, 9293

Conflict, internal, 193

Confucius, 177

Consciousness, evolution of, 196197

Consecutive losses, 161

Consistency, 195, 196

Contract size, 4344

Contrarian investing, 16, 17

Corrections, 89

Correlation history, 172

Countertrend reversals, ...

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