Winning the Mental Game on Wall Street

• The Big Game. Black Magic. The Villain. The Blind. Out of the Darkness. The Camera. The Primary Receptors. A Starting Point. One-to-One. Of Maps. Dating This Map. Bringing Data Up to Date. The Twenty-Six Lead Soldiers. Maps of Maps. The Pigeonholes. The Labels. Not Quite The Same. Up and Down The Ladder. Similarities and Differences. Beyond the World of Things. The Meanings we Attach to Maps. Maps Without Territories. An Exceedingly Complex Machine. Layers of Awareness. Time Binding. Stop! Look! Listen! Contradictions. Let's Not Be Too Anthropocentric. Sanity Must be Achieved. The Thinking Process. The Vagueness of the High Abstractions. "To Me". Either/Or. The Dangerous Nature of Dichotomy. Three-Valued Orientation. Multi-Valued Systems. Infinite-Valued Systems. The Greeks Had a Phrase For It. Imperfect Information. Why Does It Hurt So Much. Profits Can Be Painful, Too. Predicting the Future. The Method of Prediction. Hunting. Positive Feedback. What is Value? Asking the Right Questions. Two Practical Questions For Everyday. Balderdash, Unlimited. We Can't Get it All. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth. Interlude. Dated Data. "Buy Good, Sound Stocks". "I am Interested Only in Income". "But Still I Insist on my Dividends". Put Them Away in the Box and Forget Them. Dat Ol' Debbil Margin. Not Just a Market of Stocks. Correlations and Causes. The "Fundamentals". Accrued VS Realized. Up is Better Than Down. The Up-and-Down of It. Politics and Economics. A Variety of Devices. Can Any Man Predict the Future? The Method of Evaluation. Building the Method. The Method is Built From the Bare Bones. Putting the Method to Work. Habit Can Be a Pitfall. Chain and Flash Reactions. Numbers Can Be a Pitfall. The Wonderful Curves. Losses Can Be Pitfalls. Profits Can Be Pitfalls. Common Sense Can be a Pitfall. The Pig Watchers. The Limits of Prediction. Is the Market a Game? The Purely Mathematical Odds. The Strategy of Your Opponent. The Payoff. Fractionizing VS Maximizing. Accentuate the Negative. Net Long-Term Gains. Index.

"This book is a classic--the standard of excellence against which everything in technical analysis is measured."--Ralph Acampora, Prudential Securities