The Profit Magic of
Stock Transaction Timing
by J.M. Hurst
Reprinted and updated from 1997 release.
From the book cover: Big money in the stock market comes from compounding profits on short term trades, but until now, no tool of investing has achieved the timing accuracy necessary to do it. This book reports on a price-forecasting technique the author has refined over the course of 20,000 hours of computer research. He reports it predicts price turns with unprecedented precision and has consistently returned high profits.
Partial Outline of Contents:
1. Maximize Your Profits: Where the Magic is: The Most Dollars in the Least Time: Maintaining 100% Investment
2. Timing Is the Key: Something New and Unconventional Is Required: What Makes Prices Change: the Source of Trends: The Significance of Cyclicality.
3. Verify Your Chart Patterns: How to Tell in Advance If a Chart Pattern Will Fail: How to Plot and Interpret a Moving Average Properly
4. Timing Your Buys with Graphics: Prediction of Pice Turns Using Envelopes: How to Generate Graphical Buy Signals
5. You've Made Some Money - How to Keep It: Use of Logical Cut Loss Criteria: Extension to Trailing Sell Signals
6. Compute Your Way to Increased Profits: How to Construct and Use Half-Span Moving Averages
7. How to Select and Track Trading Issues: The Total Scanning Concept: Making Use of Screening Criteria: Selecting Candidates for Volatility: Applying Stability Factors
8. Trading by Logic Instead of By Guess: Determining the State-of-the-Market: Computing Potential and Risk: A Model Transaction.
9. Why Stock Prices Change: Understanding Irrational Decision Processes: What You Should Know About Fundamental Factors: The Infuence of Broad Environmental Factors: Now Compare Cyclicality vs. History
10. Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them: Why the Unexpected occurs: Recognizing Psychological Barriers: Counteracting the Outside Influence.
11. Spectral Anaysis-How to Do It and What It Means: Why Numerical Analysis.