Markets and Momentum: How Profiling Gives Traders an Advantage
Elevate your trading strategy with actionable market insights from an industry pioneer

In Markets & Momentum: How Profiling Gives Traders an Advantage, James F. Dalton and co-author Robert B. Dalton dramatically expand on their revolutionary first book, Markets in Profile. Summarizing a lifetime of experience—from formative memberships on the CBOE and CBOT to his role as UBS Director of Hedge Fund Research—Jim challenges traders to recognize that market-understanding must be balanced with self-understanding. Jim’s deep market savvy is complimented by Rob’s engaging prose that adds a wealth of insight about the powerful influence of unexamined emotions, impulses, and habits on your trading success.

Jim promotes trader education through Jim Dalton Trading (jimdaltontrading.com), along with his partners Jennifer Loh and Raghu Rajput, driven by the knowledge that the only reliable, objective, actionable information is market-generated. This information is scientifically organized via the Market Profile, which is simply a contextual organization of time, price, and volume—the core components of any financial transaction.

Markets & Momentum offers:

  • Deep dives into issues that lead more than 90% of day traders to lose money, including fading trend days, FOMO, doubling down on losing trades, and failing to let profits run.
  • Strategies for minimizing the influence of news hype and analysis overload in order to remain focused on the only information that matters.
  • Techniques for understanding your own emotional and intuitive reactions, and learning to avoid making impulsive decisions.

This book is ideal for day and short-term traders, and for longer-term investors seeking to improve trade entries and exits. Jim Dalton’s trading insights are supported by six decades of learning directly from the markets, as well as from his wide base of educational clients.

Markets & Momentum is a must-read for traders looking for guidance on developing the insights and skills necessary for conquering the short-term market.

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Markets and Momentum: How Profiling Gives Traders an Advantage
Elevate your trading strategy with actionable market insights from an industry pioneer

In Markets & Momentum: How Profiling Gives Traders an Advantage, James F. Dalton and co-author Robert B. Dalton dramatically expand on their revolutionary first book, Markets in Profile. Summarizing a lifetime of experience—from formative memberships on the CBOE and CBOT to his role as UBS Director of Hedge Fund Research—Jim challenges traders to recognize that market-understanding must be balanced with self-understanding. Jim’s deep market savvy is complimented by Rob’s engaging prose that adds a wealth of insight about the powerful influence of unexamined emotions, impulses, and habits on your trading success.

Jim promotes trader education through Jim Dalton Trading (jimdaltontrading.com), along with his partners Jennifer Loh and Raghu Rajput, driven by the knowledge that the only reliable, objective, actionable information is market-generated. This information is scientifically organized via the Market Profile, which is simply a contextual organization of time, price, and volume—the core components of any financial transaction.

Markets & Momentum offers:

  • Deep dives into issues that lead more than 90% of day traders to lose money, including fading trend days, FOMO, doubling down on losing trades, and failing to let profits run.
  • Strategies for minimizing the influence of news hype and analysis overload in order to remain focused on the only information that matters.
  • Techniques for understanding your own emotional and intuitive reactions, and learning to avoid making impulsive decisions.

This book is ideal for day and short-term traders, and for longer-term investors seeking to improve trade entries and exits. Jim Dalton’s trading insights are supported by six decades of learning directly from the markets, as well as from his wide base of educational clients.

Markets & Momentum is a must-read for traders looking for guidance on developing the insights and skills necessary for conquering the short-term market.

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Elevate your trading strategy with actionable market insights from an industry pioneer

In Markets & Momentum: How Profiling Gives Traders an Advantage, James F. Dalton and co-author Robert B. Dalton dramatically expand on their revolutionary first book, Markets in Profile. Summarizing a lifetime of experience—from formative memberships on the CBOE and CBOT to his role as UBS Director of Hedge Fund Research—Jim challenges traders to recognize that market-understanding must be balanced with self-understanding. Jim’s deep market savvy is complimented by Rob’s engaging prose that adds a wealth of insight about the powerful influence of unexamined emotions, impulses, and habits on your trading success.

Jim promotes trader education through Jim Dalton Trading (jimdaltontrading.com), along with his partners Jennifer Loh and Raghu Rajput, driven by the knowledge that the only reliable, objective, actionable information is market-generated. This information is scientifically organized via the Market Profile, which is simply a contextual organization of time, price, and volume—the core components of any financial transaction.

Markets & Momentum offers:

  • Deep dives into issues that lead more than 90% of day traders to lose money, including fading trend days, FOMO, doubling down on losing trades, and failing to let profits run.
  • Strategies for minimizing the influence of news hype and analysis overload in order to remain focused on the only information that matters.
  • Techniques for understanding your own emotional and intuitive reactions, and learning to avoid making impulsive decisions.

This book is ideal for day and short-term traders, and for longer-term investors seeking to improve trade entries and exits. Jim Dalton’s trading insights are supported by six decades of learning directly from the markets, as well as from his wide base of educational clients.

Markets & Momentum is a must-read for traders looking for guidance on developing the insights and skills necessary for conquering the short-term market.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781394318896
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 02/11/2025
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

JAMES F. DALTON is a trading pioneer. He has four decades’ experience at the intersection of markets and human behavior. He is a former Senior Executive Vice President of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and former Director of Hedge Fund Research for UBS Financial Services. He is also the author of Mind Over Markets and Markets in Profile and the founder of Jim Dalton Trading.

Table of Contents

Preface ix 

Introduction xi 

Part I Foundation 1 

Chapter One The Secrets of Success 3 

Chapter Two Nuance 7 

Chapter Three Chunking 15 

Chapter Four Is Our Trading Approach Different? 21 

Chapter Five Market Understanding Only Goes So Far 27 

Chapter Six You Can’t Always Forget What You Want 33 

Chapter Seven Unlearning 37 

Part II Fundamentals 45 

Chapter EightDeveloping Depth 47 

Chapter Nine Time and Short-term Trading 53 

Chapter Ten Reading the Signs and Finding Value 57 

Chapter Eleven Building on the Foundation 69 

Chapter Twelve Timeframes and the Auction Process 97 

Chapter Thirteen Take a Minute to Breathe 105 

Chapter Fourteen Trend Days 109 

Chapter Fifteen Emotions in Motion 127 

Chapter Sixteen Anchors, References, and Subconscious Bias 131 

Chapter Seventeen Prioritizing References 137 

Chapter Eighteen This Time Is Different 143 

Chapter Nineteen Emotional Intelligence: Navigating Self and Market 155 

Chapter Twenty Markets in Transition 163 

Chapter Twenty-one Explicit/implicit Learning 171 

Chapter Twenty-two Evolving Intuition 177 

Chapter Twenty-three Bringing It All Together 183 

Chapter Twenty-four Markets Handle Current Business First 189 

Chapter Twenty-five Making Decisions (in the Heat of the Moment) 199 

Chapter Twenty-six Beyond Price: Unveiling Market Dynamics 207 

Chapter Twenty-seven The Opening Engagement Starts Here 217 

Chapter Twenty-eight The Power of a Well-kept Journal 233 

Chapter Twenty-nine That’s a Wrap 241 

Appendix A Reference Definitions 247 

Appendix B Reading List 251 

Appendix C Jim Dalton Trading 257 

Acknowledgments 261 

About the Authors 263

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