Squeezing Profits
Catch Volatility Breakouts Before They Happen
A complete guide to trading the Squeeze: how it flags compressed volatility, how to trade the release, and the risk rules that keep a failed breakout cheap.
Home Series
The Technical Indicator Series
Moving averages, MACD, VWAP, RSI, the TTM Squeeze, Volume Profile, Bollinger Bands, and Fibonacci retracements, each treated as it really is: useful, limited, and costly when misread.
Every book stands on its own. Each one spends as much time on how and why an indicator fails as on how it works, because the failures are where the money goes.
The earlier books in this series teach the indicators the way they're traditionally taught. The newer ones test those teachings against more than twenty years of market data, including some of Dean's own. Where the numbers disagree with the conventional wisdom, he says so.
MACD for Beginners
Understanding the Most Popular Momentum Indicator in Trading
What MACD actually measures, where every one of its signals comes from, and the risk management that keeps you trading long enough to use them.
Moving Averages for Beginners
Master the Five Essential MAs in Technical Analysis
Five moving averages, taught completely: what each one is built to do, how to trade it, and how to tell when your system has stopped working.
VWAP for Beginners
A Practical Guide to Trading with Volume Weighted Average Price
The line institutions trade around all day, explained from the ground up, with four rules-based setups and an honest chapter on when it fails.
Anchored VWAP
Which Anchors Actually Work — Technical Analysis for Stocks and Swing Trading, Tested on 29 Million Trading Days
Nine ways to choose an anchor, tested across 36 years and 29 million trading days: which anchored VWAP lines mean something, and which are just a date on the calendar.
The RSI Swing Trader
A Complete System for Timing Stock Trades with Relative Strength — Confirmed by Trend, Volume, and Risk
A complete swing-trading system built around RSI, where every signal is read in the context of the trend around it.
Overbought
Why RSI Lies to Crypto Traders — and How to Fix It
RSI rebuilt for crypto: why the 70/30 rules misfire in a market that never closes, and how to calibrate the indicator by cycle phase, asset, and regime.
Volume Profile
Reading Where the Market Actually Traded — and When That Map Lies
How to read the price levels where real trading happened, and how to tell when that map is misleading you.
Bollinger Bands for Beginners
What They Really Tell You — The Bollinger Bands Strategy, Tested Against 22 Million Days of Market Data
What Bollinger Bands really measure, tested across 22.8 million days of prices: not which way a stock will move, but how far, and how to size a position from it.
Why Your Fibonacci Levels Fail
The 16 Mistakes Behind Them and How to Trade Winning Retracements
Sixteen specific mistakes behind losing Fibonacci trades, sorted into four stages, with a structural fix for each.