Introduction 1Part 1: Getting into the Swing of Things 5Chapter 1: Swing Trading from A to Z 7Chapter 2: Understanding the Swing Trader's Two Main Strategies 25Chapter 3: Focusing on the Small Stuff: The Administrative Tasks 45Part 2: Timing is Everything: Technical Analysis 61Chapter 4: Charting the Market 63Chapter 5: Asking Technical Indicators for Directions 93Chapter 6: Trend Following or Trading Ranges 121Part 3: Running the Numbers: Fundamental Analysis 145Chapter 7: Understanding a Company, Inside and Out 147Chapter 8: Finding Companies Based on Their Fundamentals 169Chapter 9: Assessing a Company's Stock: Six Tried-and-True Steps 189Part 4: Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan 211Chapter 10: Fail Fast: Managing Risk 213Chapter 11: Knowing Your Entry and Exit Strategies 241Chapter 12: Walking through a Trade, Swing-Style 259Chapter 13: Looking at the Scoreboard to Evaluate Your Performance 277Part 5: The Part of Tens 293Chapter 14: Ten Simple Rules for Swing Trading 295Chapter 15: Ten (Plus One) Deadly Mistakes of Swing Trading 305Appendix: Helpful Resources for Today's Swing Trader 315Index 327
Omar Bassal, CFA, is the founder and managing director of Shukr Investments. He has held senior investment positions in the United States and Middle East. Bassal holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business, and has been investing since 1994. Omar wrote the first edition of Swing Trading For Dummies in 2008.