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Glossary


By: Gary "Gar" Crandall


Congratulations, you have completed the theoretical portion of the online training course!

Now comes the real-life experience with stocks---trading for profits. What we strongly recommend is that you first try "paper" trading to gain the experience required to gain both skill and confidence. For this purpose, we provide you with a trading simulator.

 


You can learn how to use the trading simulator by studying the Help files that come along with the program. Once you feel confident that you can trade for profit, then---and only then should you venture into "real" trading with an online broker.

 

Training Drills

 

Here are some training exercises that you can use with the trading simulator. Choose the topic that best fits your anticipated trading style, and work the recommended strategy until you gain the skill and confidence necessary for "real" trading.

 

Day Trading (or AM / PM-only trading)

 

Exercise 1 - AM Gap Down. On a day when the market is poised for a lower opening, run the Vulcan Oracle and examine the After Hours list before the opening bell. Note the top 4 or 5 stocks that are showing a gap down (their 'ask' price should be lower than the previous close price). Enter the stock into your quote streamer to see what it does when the market opens. If it plummets even further, or even trades sideways, "buy" the stock with the simulator until it produces either a 2% gain (or more), or a -2% loss (in which case you bail out). If you lose on the trade, study the intra-day chart and consult the rules for DMGD in this course to find out where you went wrong.

 

Exercise 2 - Trap Door. Sometime while the market is open, turn on the Trap Door Scanner in the Vulcan Oracle. Wait for a stock to trip the Trap Door alert (which will display a popup window with the stock that triggered the alert). Immediately examine the intra-day chart for today's session, and if it appears to meet the criteria as outlined in Winning Patterns, go for the trade in the simulator. Don't hold it for too long, sell when you are happy with the gains. Sometimes this happens in minutes. Note that you have to be very fast when trading Trap Doors, so it is recommended that you have the simulator ready to go before the Trap Door Scanner fires.

 

Exercise 3 - Lunar Bounce. On a day when the major indices are 'red' (to the downside), run the Vulcan Oracle about 30 minutes before the market close (the market closes at 4PM-eastern). Using the Bounces list, examine the top stocks showing losses, and using an intra-day chart, spot the ones that are at or near their session low. Then if any are near or at their lows a couple of minutes before the close, buy them in the trading simulator. Note that you should not do this exercise unless you can be at the next session opening, which is 9:30AM-eastern, because the idea of this strategy is to take the gains when the stock bounces in the morning.

 

Semi Day Trading (holding for a day or two)

 

Exercise 1 - Staircase to Heaven. On a day that the market appears flat or to the upside in the early going, run the Vulcan Oracle and examine the top 10 to 20 stocks about 25 minutes after the open (which would be 9:55-eastern time). Using an intra-day chart, note any that are at or near their session high at that time. Then if one or two make a session high at 10AM, buy and hold the stock for the remainder of the session. Takes gains either at the end of the day, or the next morning, assuming that gains are there to be taken. Don't let it lose more than 3% to 5%. Set a stop if necessary.

 

Exercise 2 - Breakout. This exercise requires ideal conditions to work, which are (a) The market has been uptrending, and (b) You have a "green" light in today's session in the Vulcan Oracle. But before you find those conditions, begin making a watch list, using the Best/Worst list, of stocks that are forming a sideways base and/or are trading near the upper end of their recent channel. Then, once one of them breaks above their channel's high, and with strong volume, but the stock in the simulator and ride it for at least one session. Set stops as necessary to avoid deep losses if it backfires.

 

Longer-term Trading

 

Exercise 1 - MACD Tracking. Choose a day in which the market is distinctly positive or negative, avoiding a day where it travels sideways or is indecisive. Following the example shown in the strategy for MACD Tracking, use the Vulcan Oracle's "Longer Term" list to locate a stock whose MACD has recently crossed lines. If the market is bullish, go with one that has crossed to the upside (the "red" line crosses above the "green"), or if the market is bearish, sell short one that has the "green" crossing the "red." The idea is to catch one that has recently crossed, matching the market's direction, rather than one that has crossed some time ago. But (or sell short), then hold the stock as long as the MACD signal remains in the same position, and close the position if the lines cross the other way.  Juggle this strategy back and forth for several weeks and see how you do. Don't let one lose more than 7%.