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Omar Bassal, CFA, is a Chief Investment Officer with thirty years' experience trading stocks. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.

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Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting into the Swing of Things 5

Chapter 1: Swing Trading from A to Z 7

Chapter 2: Understanding the Swing Trader's Two Main Strategies 27

Chapter 3: Focusing on the Small Stuff: The Administrative Tasks 43

Part 2: Timing Is Everything: Technical Analysis 59

Chapter 4: Charting the Market 61

Chapter 5: Asking Technical Indicators for Directions 89

Chapter 6: Trend Following or Trading Ranges 117

Part 3: Incorporating Fundamental Analysis into Your Swing Trading Plan 139

Chapter 7: The Macro (Economy) and Micro (Business) 141

Chapter 8: So, What's This Company Worth? 163

Chapter 9: Assessing a Company's Stock: Six Tried-and-True Steps 187

Chapter 10: Sourcing: How to Find Swing Trading Candidates 205

Part 4: Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan 221

Chapter 11: Fail Fast: Managing Risk 223

Chapter 12: Knowing Your Entry and Exit Strategies 249

Chapter 13: Walking through a Trade, Swing-Style 263

Chapter 14: Looking at the Scoreboard to Evaluate Your Performance 281

Part 5: The Part of Tens 297

Chapter 15: Ten Simple Rules for Swing Trading 299

Chapter 16: Ten Deadly Mistakes of Swing Trading 309

Appendix: Helpful Resources for

Today's Swing Trader 317

Index 327