Plain-language guides to investing, trading, technical analysis, options, and retirement income, from a trader who has had real money on the line since the 1990s.
Before anything else, every book asks the same thing: what can go wrong, and how do you protect yourself when it does?
Price charts from the ground up: candlesticks, support and resistance, trendlines, chart patterns, volume, market structure, and gaps. Each book tests the classic rules against more than twenty years of US stock data, so you learn how often a pattern actually does what it is supposed to.
The tools traders lean on most, including moving averages, MACD, VWAP, RSI, the TTM Squeeze, and Fibonacci retracements. Each book spends as much time on how and why an indicator fails as on how it works, because the failures are where the money goes.
One strategy at a time, taken all the way down. Assigned, Called Away, and Hedged are for the investor who would rather understand one mechanism completely than a dozen halfway. Each names the catch as plainly as the reward.
Turning a finished nest egg into income that lasts. Harvested takes the options route; Built takes the dividend route; Weathered tests dividend income through three decades of storms. All three ask where the monthly paycheck comes from once the paychecks stop, and what makes it hold.
Investing rules tested on the whole record, including the companies that failed. Pick Dividend Stocks That Keep Paying tests the dividend rules on every stock in the S&P 500 since 1990, and Crashes, Recessions and Recoveries tests 34 beliefs about market cycles on 155 years of returns.
The most repeated trading rules, tested one at a time on decades of market data, each with a plain verdict. The Seasonal Stock Market Handbook covers the calendar; The Day Trading Rules Handbook covers the trading day.
Quick calculators for the numbers behind the books: stops and position size, covered calls, cash-secured puts, and dividend income.
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