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Mark Whistler
ark Whistler is a trader, author and analyst.
Whistler has appeared on CNBC and is a
regular contributor to FXStreet.com,
discussing currency trading and global
markets.
Whistler is also a contributing Senior Market
Strategist toTradingMarkets.com.
His books include 2034 The Corporation
Post 2012 (CreateSpace, 2009), The Swing Trader's Bible (John Wiley
& Sons, Inc.) - co-authored with CNBC/Fox News regular guest Matt
McCall, Trade With Passion and Purpose (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2007), Trading Pairs (Wiley, 2004), Profit from China (Investment
U/Wiley, 2006) and Profit from Uranium (Investment U/Wiley,
2006.)
Mark Whistler is also the founder of WallStreetRockStar.com,
fxVolatilty.com and InstitutionalIndexResearch.com. Whistler is also
a regular columnist for Investopedia.com. In his spare time, Mr.
Whistler operates Eats For The Streets, a growing organization -
dedicated to helping homeless across America and the
MarkWhistlerGallery.com , an unbiased Internet art gallery open to
all artists (globally) seeking to display their works.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sandy and Ed –Thank you! I love you!
Karen, Mike and brilliant Ryan! I love you!
Thank you FxStreet…Maud and Vicki… Your patience is amazing! Thank
you Marcel ter Beek for your feedback and patience! Thank you Michael Soni
for your time and guidance (and the initial 'poison tree' metaphor.) I really
appreciate all that you've done! Thank you Alvin Yu, Adam Huo and all of
ECTrader.Net in Guangzhou, China. To Francois, thanks for still believing in
me…we're almost there!
To Mark and Tanya Harrison… Mark I am very excited for your new book
on Mortgages to hit shelves soon! Mark, you're an incredible writer! Thank
you Ed Carson for your friendship, past guidance and continued support.
Thank you to TradingMarkets.com and to Investopedia.com -Chris! Thank
you Carl Killough, your trading is brilliant buddy –perhaps one of the best I
know!
Thank you to everyone who I have not mentioned who stuck by me during
the composition of Volatility Illuminated… The project pushed every ounce of
everything I have to the brink… I cannot thank you enough for not giving up!
Last, but not least, thank you Joe O'Connor for editing the 1st version of the
probability article!
Table of
Contents
LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY (EXTENDED)
ADDITIONALNOTICETOFOREX/CURRENCYTRADERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART ONE 2
PARADIGM AT SEA
CHAPTER ONE
WHYSUPERMANWEARSHISUNDERPANTSONTHEOUTSIDE 2
THE MAJORITY IS ALWAYS WRONG –ESPECIALLY RETAIL TRADERS 19
THE PRINCIPLE OF BUOYANCY INMARKETS 22
CHAPTER TWO 30
WHYINDICATORSAREFAILINGINTHECURRENTMARKET 30
RETAIL VERSUS INSTITUTION 31
LOCK,STOCK AND DOGMA 33
HIIVEFFECT IN ACTION 36
FINDING SANITY WITHIN THE CHAOS 38
CHAPTER THREE 41
BEHINDTHECURTAIN 41
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOOKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN,EVEN IF IT'S NOT SOCIALLY APPROPRIATE
42
THE STORY OF BLACK MONDAY-1987 47
THE CONFESSIONOF MASSMEMORYFAILURE 52
ADATE WITHBLIND DEVOTION 56
MEDIA MADE MALADAPTIVE MEMORY 67
THE ACCEPTED STANDARD OF NOTHINGNESS 76
TOSEEVOLATILITYILLUMINATEDYOUMUSTBEWILLINGTOSEEINFORMATION
CLEARLY 80
CHAPTER FOUR 86
FIBONACCI&PITCHFORKS 86
FIBONACCI IN NATURE 87
THE FIBONACCI PROPHECY 88
FIBONACCI RETRACEMENT VOLATILITY 96
AS SIMPLE AS A PITCHFORK 98
MACRO TO MICRO PITCHFORKS 103
DAILY CHART IN ACTION 106
4-HOUR CHART 108
NOTE 113
CHAPTER FIVE 114
VOLATILITYADJUSTEDFOREX FIBONACCI PITCHFORK STRATEGY 114
RULES TO FOLLOW 124
AFEW FINAL NOTES 125
CHAPTER SIX 126
QUADCCI–THETRADITIONALVOLATILITYPARADIGM 126
STANDARD STAN AND THE FOUR HORSEMEN 142
IDENTIFYING POTENTIALREVERSALS WITH CCI 148
PART TWO 154
VOLATILITY 154
ILLUMINATED 154
CHAPTER SEVEN 155
INFORMATION ACCELERATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND THE VOLATILITY PARADIGM 155
PRE-LOADING MAJOR 158
MARKETS FOR VOLATILITY 158
MARKET VOLATILITY THROUGH EINSTEIN'STHEORYOFSPECIALRELATIVITY 172
CRITICAL MASS AND CONSCIOUS UNAWARENESS 179
THE TIPPING POINT OF INFORMATION MASS 185
CHAPTER EIGHT 197
VOLATILITY AND PROBABILITY THROUGH THE MOVEMENT OF DISTRIBUTIONS 197
WORDS OF CAUTION 200
TRANSCENDING MARKETS THROUGH VOLATILITY AND PROBABILITY 201
GAUSSIAN CURVE REVISITED 208
THE EXPANSION AND COMPRESSION OF SUBSET DISTRIBUTIONS 224
CHAPTER NINE 239
VOLUME WEIGHTED AVERAGE PRICE (VWAP) 239
CHAPTER TEN 255
-WVAV - 255
WHISTLERVOLUME 255
ADJUSTEDVOLATILITY 255
WHAT IS WVAV? 256
MEASURING MASS AND ENERGY 257
MASS AND ENERGY THROUGH STANDARD DEVIATIONS 267
WHAT THE MULTIPLIER EFFECTMEANS TO US 269
WHY DO WE LOOK FOR VOLATILITY SPIKES? 271
WVAVVOLATILITY/ENERGY 274
CHAPTER ELEVEN 285
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ORDERFLOW AND MARKETS 285
MOST RETAIL TRADERS NEVER CONSIDER THE TERM 'BENCHMARK' 290
BIOVAPMAN AND THE INSANITY OF DR.WATERMELON STUFFER 295
BUY SIDE/SELL SIDE 296
CHAPTER TWELVE 306
WAVE•PM 306
WAVE•PM,WVAVAND QUAD CCI 314
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 319
THE DYNAMIC MOVEMENTS OF SUBSET DISTRIBUTIONS 319
THE NEVER-ENDING SEARCH BEHIND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS 321
CHINESE RESTAURANT PROCESS,PROBABILITY/VOLATILITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 324
PROBABILITY DENSITY 327
FUNCTION (PDF) 327
RULES OF 331
TRADINGDISCIPLINE 331
SIX COREPRINCIPLES 333
OFTECHNICALANALYSIS 333
ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER 334
CUSTOM INDICATOR CODE I 335
WAVE●PM 335
CUSTOM INDICATOR CODE II 339
DUEL CCIWITH SIGNAL 339
CUSTOM INDICATOR CODE III 343
WVAV 343
BIBLIOGRAPHY /RECOMMENDED READING 347
END NOTES 349
