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# 36

0DTE Butterfly 14.11
0DTE Credit Spread 14.11
0DTE Iron Condor 14.11
12-Month Action Plan 5.8
3 Steps to Get There 2.5
400 Years of Stock Markets — A Timeline 3.1
Step 1: Create Flex Query at IBKR 2.1
Step 1: Request Export in App 2.2
Step 2: Configure Flex Query 2.1
Step 2: Download CSV 2.2
Step 3: Import in Singularity Trader 2.2
Step 3: Select Report Sections 2.1
Step 4: Save Query 2.1
Step 5: Generate Flex Query Token 2.1
Step 6: XML Export for All Years 2.1
Step 7: XML Import of History 2.1
Step 8: Set up in Singularity Trader 2.1
₿ Example 2 — BTC 2015–2018: Wave-5 Euphoria + ABC 13.5
↘️ Ending Diagonal (Wave 5 or C) 13.2
↘️ Leading Diagonal (Wave 1 or A) 13.2
⏱️ Profile Types by Time Horizon 6.10
⏱️ Time Fibonacci (Wave Duration) 13.4
△ Triangle (3-3-3-3-3) 13.3
☢️ Important Note — No Investment Advice 13.8
⚖️ The Three Non-Negotiable Core Rules 13.1
⚠️ My First Trade Is Missing from the Import 2
✂️ Truncated Fifth 13.2
➡️ Flat (3-3-5) — Regular, Expanded, Running 13.3
🇩🇪 German Elliott Wave Providers 13.8
📥 Your 3-Minute Migration 2.5
🕰️ Hindsight Bias: The Biggest Trap 13.7
🖱️ What Really Happens When You Click Buy? 3.3
🗺️ Why this chapter? 1.5
🗺️ Your Path to the Trading Cockpit 1
🛠️ Practical Setup: The Confluence Long 6.12
🛡️ What Is This About? 7.0

A 35

A trade shows a ⚠️ warning triangle 25
Add Notes to Trades 15
Advanced Breakout Patterns (2 Patterns) 12.3
After the Purchase: What Does the App Show? 2.6
After Your First Buy — Learn to Read Charts 2.6
AI as the 6th Kondratieff Wave? 5.3
All-Weather Portfolio (Dalio 1996) 5.8
Allocation Adjustments for Phase 5 5.5
Alternative: Manual XML Import 2.1
Am I Addicted? — 10-Point Self-Test 7.2
Anatomy of Historical Debt Resets 5.4
Andrews Pitchfork 6.8
Application in Portfolio 5.3
Application in Trading 5.2
Architecture: The Two Dimensions 20
Asset Allocation per Cycle Phase 5.8
Assign Markets in Groups 18
Assignment: What Really Happens? 10.5
ATR (Average True Range) 6.6
Auto-Retry on Temporary Errors 2.1
Automatic Synchronization 2.1
Available Tools (Reference) 7.7
Average Win vs. Loss 17
Avoid Overtrading 9
What Are Income ETFs? 14.2
What are Signals? 18
What are Strategies? 18
What are Trading Rules? 20
Why Analysis? 4.1
Why Analyze? 4
Why are Rules Important? 20
🏦 Account Rules in Detail 20
📈 Accumulation Schematic (Phases A–E) 6.11
🔄 Alternate Count Discipline 13.7
🔬 Anatomy of the Profile 6.10

B 27

Backtesting Strategies 18
Balance Sheet & Capital Structure 4.2
Bear Call Spread 10.6
Bear Put Spread 10.6
Bearish Candlestick Patterns 6.3
BIS Credit Gap as Early-Warning Indicator 5.4
Bollinger Bands 6.6
Bonds & Convertible Bonds 3.6
Box Size: Absolute vs. ATR-Based 12.1
BPNYA — NYSE Bullish Percent 12.5
Break-Even Chips on the Trade Card 16
Broken Wing Butterfly 14.4
Broker Approval: Requesting Options Level 10.5
Broker Data Security 23
Broker Selection 7.3
Bull Call / Bear Put (Debit Spreads) 14.5
Bull Call Spread 10.6
Bull Put / Bear Call (Credit Spreads) 14.5
Bull Put Spread 10.6
Bullish Candlestick Patterns 6.3
Bulls, Bears & Market Directions 3.1
Button doesn't respond or work 25
Buy & Hold / Value / Dividends 14.6
Buy Signals (5 Patterns) 12.3
🌐 Breadth, Sentiment & Market Internals 6.12
🌱 Beginner FAQ — The 10 Most Common First Questions 9
📈 Building & Reducing Positions — Pyramiding and Scaling Out 6.13

C 64

Calendar & Diagonal Spreads 14.4
Calendar, Double Calendar & Diagonal Spread 10.9
Can I delete old trades? 24
Candlestick Anatomy 6.2
CANSLIM (William O'Neil) 14.13
Cash-Secured Put 10.4
Cash-Secured Put 14.3
Categorize Trades with Tags 15
Central Banks & Monetary Policy 4.4
CFDs, Crypto & Structured Products 3.6
Chart Intervals & Multi-Timeframe Analysis 6.8
Chart Patterns I: Reversals 6.5
Chart Patterns II: Continuations 6.5
Chart Types 6.2
Choose a Strong Password 23
Choosing an ETF — 5 Questions 2.6
Choosing Strike and Expiry 10.5
Classic Calendar Anomalies 5.7
Clearing, Settlement & Custodian Banks 3.4
Cognitive Biases in Trading 8.3
Collar 10.4
Collar (Protective Put + Covered Call) 14.3
Combination Logic 5.9
Comdirect 2.4
COMEX Delivery Reports 11.7
Commitment of Traders (COT) 11.7
Commodity Calendar / Inter-Month Spread 14.7
Commodity Seasonality 5.7
Common Questions 2.5
Community & Forum 26
Comparison: UCITS ETFs (DE/EU Available) 14.2
Comparison: US-Domiciled ETFs 14.2
Condition Types 20
Connect ChatGPT (Custom GPT) 7.7
Connect Claude (claude.ai) 7.7
Connect Claude Code CLI 7.7
Connecting to sTraderZ.com 2.3
Consorsbank 2.4
Contract Anatomy 11.1
Convergence with S/R Levels 12.4
COT Analysis — What the Big Players Are Actually Doing 20
Covered Call 10.4
Covered Call 14.3
Covered Put 10.4
Creating an API Key on Binance 2.3
Critique: Excel Errors & Model Limits 5.4
Critique: Lagging Sentiment & Algo Effect 5.6
Critique: Periodicity & Pseudoscience 5.3
Crypto Alternatives Compared 2.3
Crypto Basis Trade / Funding-Rate Arbitrage 14.8
Crypto DCA / Spot Accumulation 14.8
Crypto: Binance 2.4
Crypto: Bitpanda 2.4
CSV Format — Black on White 2.5
Currencies & Commodities 4.4
Current Assessment 2026 5.9
Current Status 2026 + Critique 5.5
Current Value (Mark-to-Market) 16
Why Charts Are the Language of Markets 6.1
🎯 Confluence Over Single Signals 6.12
🎯 Why Cash-Secured Put as a Starting Point? 10.5
🔗 Combinations: Double Three & Triple Three 13.3
😍 Confirmation Bias: Too in Love with the Count 13.7
🪙 Why Connect Binance? 2.3

D 21

Dalio vs. Minsky vs. Reinhart/Rogoff 5.4
Dark Pools 11.7
Dashboard Checklist 5.9
Data Architecture (Simplified) 20
Decision Matrix (DACH) 2.0
Diagonal-Termination-Reversal 14.16
Dimension 1: Rule Source 20
Dimension 2: Scope (Applicability) 20
Dispersion Trading 14.14
Diversification & Correlation 7.1
Diversification across Currencies + Regions 5.8
Dividend Metrics 4.3
Drawdown & Recovery Mathematics 7.1
Drawdown Resilience & Recovery 8.7
DTE Column for Options Trades 15
What Data Gets Imported? 2
What Does the Platform Cost? 2
Why does my account balance here differ from my broker? 24
📉 Distribution Schematic (Phases A–E) 6.11
📥 Data from TradingLogbook? Bring Your Tags. 2.1
🧠 Why Does Elliott Wave Work? — The Theory Behind It 13.1

E 22

Earnings Calendar Spread 14.12
Earnings Long Straddle 14.12
Earnings Seasonality & IV Cycles 5.7
Earnings Short Strangle / Iron Condor 14.12
Economic Calendar & Earnings Season 4.5
Edge & Historical Statistics 14.15
Emotion Management & Stress Reduction 8.4
Empirical Assessment of the Theories 5.2
Energy 11.2
Equity Index Futures 11.4
ETFs 3.6
Example Layouts 21
Example Strategy 18
Expected Move — What the Market Prices In 14.12
Expected Value over 10 Years 14.10
🌊 Elliott Wave Trading — Overview 13
🍎 Example 3 — AAPL 2003–2018: Multi-Year Bull Cycle 13.5
🎓 Exercises — Count for Yourself! 13.5
🎯 Why Elliott Wave? — Strengths, Weaknesses & Learning Roadmap 13.1
📈 Example 1 — SPX 2009–2021: The Big Impulse 13.5
🚀 Extended Waves: Wave 3 vs. Wave 5 13.2
🧪 Entry Probing — First Feeler, Then Load 6.13

F 21

Fees & Hidden Costs 7.3
Fibonacci Retracements & Extensions 6.5
Fibonacci-Confluence-Setup 14.16
Final Tips 26
Forex 3.6
Forex Carry & Trend Following 14.7
Forex Futures 11.4
Forex Grid Trading 14.7
From Cash-Secured Put to the Wheel Strategy 10.5
From Sync to Your First Crypto Trade 2.3
Futures & Commodities 3.6
Futures Day Trading 14.7
Futures — Overview 11
FX Seasonality 5.7
Your First CSP Step by Step 10.5
🌱 Your First 3 Rules — Starter Set 20
🎓 Final Quiz — Elliott Wave Mastery 13.9
🎯 Fibonacci Confluence Setups 13.4
🎯 Fibonacci Extension Levels for Impulse Waves 13.4
📊 From Time-Volume to Volume-at-Price 6.10
📐 Fibonacci Retracement Levels for Corrections 13.4

G 6

Gap Trading (Gap-and-Go / Gap-Fill) 14.13
GAPs — Price Gaps Explained 3.1
Going Deeper After the 1R Rule 7.0
Grains 11.3
Greeks Mini-Guide: Just Delta and Theta 10.5
What Gets Synced? 2.3

H 9

Hedgers vs. Speculators 11.5
Hedging in the Retail Portfolio 11.5
Help on Every Page 26
Historical Correlation & Edge 14.14
Historical Performance & Statistics 14.10
History & Mechanics 11.1
Horizontal Method (Horizontal Count) 12.4
Why History (Doesn't) Repeat 5.1
📖 History & Origins 13.1

I 43

How it works 22
I can't access my account 25
I recorded a trade, but the numbers don't add up. What's wrong? 24
I see red and green numbers. What do these mean? 24
IBKR Margin & Auto-Liquidation 14.10
Identifying & Using False Signals 6.9
Implementation Phases 20
Import Trades (Optional) 15
Imported Data at IBKR 2.1
Industrial Metals 11.2
Inflation & Business Cycle 4.4
Inflation Hedges 5.8
ING 2.4
Installation 21
Installation 22
Integration into the Platform 20
Interest Rate & Bond Futures 11.4
Interest Rates & Yield Curve 4.4
Intra-Week & Options Expiry Effects 5.7
Intra-Year Patterns: Stock Indices 5.7
IP Whitelist (Strongly Recommended) 2.3
Iron Butterfly 10.7
Iron Condor 10.7
Iron Condor & Iron Butterfly 14.4
IV Crush Explained 14.12
What is "Margin" and why is it important? 24
What Is 0DTE? 14.11
What is a "Position"? 15
What Is a Box Spread? 14.9
What is a Flex Query? 2.1
What Is a Stock, a Stock Exchange, a Broker? 3.1
What Is Institutional Flow? 11.7
What Is Point & Figure — History 12.1
What is Point & Figure? 12
What Is Seasonality? 5.7
What Is the Bullish Percent Index? 12.5
What is the IBKR Live Bridge? 22
What is the Stream Deck Plugin? 21
What It's About 14.14
What It's About 14.15
☢ Important — No Investment Advice 14.1
🌍 International Reference 13.8
🏦 What Is This Chapter About? 2.0

J 2

Jade Lizard & Big Lizard 14.4
Juglar (7-11 yrs, Investment Cycle) 5.2

K 6

Keep a Trading Journal 9
Kitchin (3-5 yrs, Inventory Cycle) 5.2
Kondratieff (50-60 yrs, Tech Waves) 5.3
Krypto: Binance 2.4
Krypto: Bitpanda 2.4
Kuznets (15-25 yrs, Demographics + Construction) 5.2

L 8

M 32

MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) 6.6
Macro Seasonality & Intermarket 5.7
Manage Your Risk 9
Manual Entry 2.4
Manuelle Erfassung 2.4
Margin Mechanics 11.1
Market Context — How Large the 0DTE Wave Really Is 14.11
Market data subscription & delayed quotes 22
Market Participants & Trading Venues 3.3
Market Phases & Dow Theory 6.7
Markets 2
Married Put 10.4
Master-Quiz: Synthese aller Theorien 5.8
Mean Reversion / Oversold Bouncer 14.6
Mechanics & Deal Types 14.15
Mechanics & Derivation 14.10
Mechanics & Derivation 14.14
Mechanics & Greeks 14.9
Mechanics Comparison 14.2
Merger-Arbitrage 14.15
Minsky FIH — Hedge → Speculative → Ponzi 5.4
Momentum / Breakout 14.6
Money Management 14.11
Monthly Heatmap & Statistics 19
Moving Averages 6.6
Multi-Account: Personal, Business, Foundation in parallel 22
Multiple Accounts 2
My trades aren't calculated correctly 25
Why Market Fundamentals Matter 3.2
Why Mindset Is Everything 8.1
📊 Minervini Trend Template 6.7
🔧 My Trade Was Not Recognized or the Strategy Is Wrong 25

N 5

O 21

One-Day Reversal 6.9
Open Interest 11.7
Open Questions & Feedback 20
Opening Range Breakout (ORB) / VWAP 14.13
Operation 22
Options Strategies — Overview 10
Options — What Are They? 10.1
Order Book, Bid/Ask & Matching 3.2
Order Routing & Execution 7.3
Order Types in Detail 3.3
Order Walls & Order Book Imbalance 11.7
Overview 2
Overview 2.1
Overview 2.2
Overview 2.4
Overview 5
Overview 17
Overview 23
Overview of Theory Families 5.1
Why Options Are Different 10.1
🔬 Order Flow Basics — Bid/Ask, Absorption & Cumulative Delta 6.11

P 49

P&F Trend Lines (45-Degree Rule) 12.2
P&F vs. Candlestick Chart — When to Use Which? 12.1
P&L & Cash Flow 4.2
Page won't load or shows blank 25
Pair with straderz.com 22
Pairing US ↔ UCITS 14.2
Pairs Trading / Statistical Arbitrage 14.13
Parameters: Period & Detrend 19
Pepperstone (CFD) 2.4
Percentage Return (%) 16
Phase 0: Orientation (Day 1, 1 Hour) 1.5
Phase 1: Foundation (Week 1) 1.5
Phase 2: Risk BEFORE Return (Week 2) 1.5
Phase 3: First Real Trade (Week 3–4) 1.5
Phase 4: Reading Charts (Week 5–6) 1.5
Phase 5: Conservative Options (Week 7–12) 1.5
Phase 6: Advanced (from Month 4) 1.5
Pivot Points 6.8
Placing the Order at IBKR — Walkthrough 2.6
Placing the Order at Trade Republic — Walkthrough 2.6
Position Sizing 7.1
Practical Applications 14.9
Practical Approaches & Setups 14.11
Practical Checklist & Conclusion 14.10
Practical Checklist & Conclusion 14.14
Practical Checklist & Conclusion 14.15
Practical Integration 5.7
Practical Tips 14.2
Practical Workflows 19
Practice — Overview 7
Pre-Earnings (Long-Vol) vs. Post-Earnings (Short-Vol) 14.12
Precious Metals 11.2
Prerequisites 2.3
Prerequisites 7.7
Prerequisites — Your Trades Must Already Be Imported 2.5
Price Discovery 11.1
Primary & Secondary Markets, Global Exchanges 3.2
Privacy in the Community 23
Process vs. Outcome — What You Can Control 8.8
Protective Call 10.4
Psychological Pitfalls 7.2
Your Personal 1R with Concrete Examples 7.0
🎯 Position Rules in Detail 20
🎯 Practical Setup 6.10
🎯 Practical Setup — Spring & Upthrust as High-RR Entry 6.11
🎯 Practice: 5 Charts — What Do You See? 6.7
💼 Portfolio Rules in Detail 20
🔢 Practice: Checklist for Your Own Counts 13.5
🧩 Proven Combos 6.12

Q 3

R 33

R-Multiple (Risk-Reward Ratio) 17
Ratio Spreads & Backspreads 14.5
Reading Annual Reports 4.1
Reading the Seasonal Curve 19
Reality Check 14.9
Recognizing Bias Traps Critically 5.1
Record a New Trade 15
Reference: Elliott Wave (Charting 6.x) 5.6
Registration 2
Reinhart/Rogoff: This Time Is Different 5.4
Related Chapters 13
Related Chapters 14.5
Relative Strength — The RS Concept 6.8
Reload Missing Historical Trades (⚠️ Badge on Positions) 2.1
Report Calendar 11.5
Requirements 21
Requirements 22
Reserve Currencies: NL → UK → USA 5.5
Responsibility & Independence 14.1
Reversal Amount 12.1
Reverse Iron Butterfly 10.7
Reverse Iron Condor 10.7
Risk Reversal & ZEBRA (Stock Synthetic) 14.5
Risk/Reward & Kelly Criterion 7.1
Risks & Worst Case 14.14
Risks & Worst Case 14.15
Robust Strategies without Theory Belief 5.8
Rollover in Detail 11.1
Routines & Mental Preparation 8.6
RSI (Relative Strength Index) 6.6
Rule Categories 20
Why Risk First? 7.1
🔤 Reading Profile Shapes 6.10

S 56

Sample Chart: Reference Chart with 6 Columns 12.2
Save Backup Codes 23
Savings Plan or Lump-Sum Purchase? 2.6
Schumpeter's Creative Destruction 5.3
Seasonalities 5.6
Seasonality & Fundamental Drivers 11.5
Seasonality Futures 14.7
SEC Form 4 & 13F Filings 11.7
Second-Order Greeks — When Delta-Neutral Still Explodes 10.2
Sector & Asset Rotation 14.13
Sector Overview — Where Is the Market Right Now? 17
Sector Rotation by Season 5.7
Sector Rotation via Sector BPIs 12.5
Security Best Practices 2.3
Sell Signals (5 Patterns) 12.3
Sentiment Indicators 4.5
Sentiment Indicators 5.6
Sessions, Liquidity & Exchange Mechanics 11.5
Setting Permissions Correctly 2.3
Settings per Key 21
Setup & Login 21
Setup & Sizing 14.14
Setup Guides & Paper Trading 2.0
Short Call 10.3
Short Put 10.3
Short Selling from a Technical Perspective 6.9
Short Straddle 10.8
Short Strangle 10.8
Softs 11.3
Spread Trading 11.5
Statistical Methodology 5.7
Status: Concept 20
Stochastic Oscillator 6.6
Stock Exchange & Trading — Overview 3
Stocks & REITs 3.6
Stop-Loss: Where Do I Really Set It? 7.0
Strangle & Straddle (Short + Long) 14.4
Strategies Overview — Filter & Navigate 14.1
Strategy Overview — How to Find the Right Option 10.3
Strategy Templates (Guides Tab) 18
Strategy Variants 14.10
Strauss-Howe Fourth Turning 5.3
Strongest & Weakest Periods (Badges) 19
Support & Resistance 6.4
Support Contact 26
Supported Brokers 2
Supported Data 2.2
Swing Trading with Chart Analysis 14.6
Sync fails (IBKR, cTrader, API brokers) 25
Sync Not Working — What Now? 2.3
Synthesis: Six Theories Compared 5.9
System Architecture: The Rule Engine 20
📈 Standard 5-Wave Impulse 13.2
📋 Setup Parameters: Entry, Stop, Target, Invalidation 13.6
📐 Soft Guidelines (Not Rules) 13.1
🛒 Why Start with an ETF? 2.6

T 60

How to Read a Strategy Card 14.1
Tail Risk — the Hidden Danger 14.11
Tail-Risk Hedging with Options 5.8
Tax & Regulatory Specifics DACH 11.6
Taxation Austria 7.5
Taxation Germany 7.4
Taxes in Germany (Summary) 14.2
The "Underlyings" Tab — All Your Markets at a Glance 15
The 18 Determinants + Health Index 5.5
The 1R Rule in One Sentence 7.0
The 5 Criteria That Really Matter 2.0
The 5 Most Common Mental Mistakes (Overview) 8.2
The 6 Phases of the Big Cycle 5.5
The 7 Phases at a Glance 1.5
The Basics 15
The Critical Concepts 14.2
The Cycle Detail Modal — Four Tabs 16
The Earnings Catalyst 14.12
The History of Chart Analysis 6.1
The Option Greeks 10.2
The Three Sub-Cycles 5.5
Theta Decay — Time Value Erosion 10.2
Theta Rocket & Gamma Trap 14.11
Time / Price / Pattern Convergence 6.9
Time Period Filter & Quick Year Selection 17
Tips 2.2
Tools & Resources 11.7
Total Profit/Loss (P&L) 17
Trading is a Marathon, Not a Sprint 9
Trading Journal & Self-Reflection 8.5
Trading Letters — External Resources 14.1
Trading Lights — Traffic Light System Before the Trade 20
Trading Sessions, Circuit Breakers & Regulation 3.4
Trading Vocabulary — Compact 3.1
Trend Following / Minervini Trend Template 14.6
Trend Lines & Channels 6.4
Triangle-Breakout 14.16
Troubleshooting 2.1
Troubleshooting 21
Troubleshooting 22
Turtle Trading / Donchian Breakout 14.13
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) 23
Typical Profiles: Which Broker for Whom 2.0
What the Statistics Say 14.12
What This Is About 14.10
What to Do at High Credit Gap 5.4
What Traders Get Out of It 5.1
⏰ Trading Hours in Practice (CET/CEST) 3.5
⚡ The 5 Wave Trading Setups at a Glance 13.6
🌊 The 5+3 Basic Pattern 13.1
🎯 The 5 Concepts for the First 6 Months 6.1
🎯 The 5 Concepts for Your First 6 Months 6
🎯 The Integrated Pro Setup — Everything Together 6.13
📡 The Aroon Indicator 6.12
🔤 Ticker vs. ISIN vs. WKN 3.5
🔭 Top-Down Deep Dive — the 3-Timeframe Rule 6.13
🚀 Trend Continuation Setups with MTF Confirmation 6.13
🚫 Typical Counting Mistakes — and How to Avoid Them 13.5
🧠 The Three Wyckoff Laws & the Composite Man 6.11
🧭 How to Build a Real-Time Count 13.5

U 12

V 7

W 25

Warning Signals (3 Patterns) 12.3
Wave-3-Long 14.16
Wave-C-Reversal 14.16
Wave-Trading-Strategien 14.16
Welcome to Singularity Trader 1
Welcome — the Module Roadmap 3.1
What We Can Learn from the Greats 9
What's Next? 2.5
Wheel Strategy 14.3
Wheel Strategy Rules 20
When 0DTE Works — and When It Doesn't 14.11
When a Position Shows a ⚠️ Symbol 16
When Chart Analysis Works — and When It Doesn't 6.4
When It Goes Wrong — Real Earnings Gaps 14.12
Where Cycles Worked (and Where They Didn't) 5.1
Where Do I Find the Seasonality Tab? 19
Which Type for Which Purpose? 14.2
Who is Ray Dalio? 5.5
Win Rate 17
Window Statistics Panel 19
Worst-Case Scenarios 14.10
Wyckoff Accumulation/Distribution 5.6
📡 Where Can I Find Live Quotes? 3.5
🚫 When Elliott Wave Does Not Work 13.7
🧠 Wave Personality — Character of Each Wave 13.1

X 1

X Columns and O Columns 12.2

Z 1

📉 Zigzag (5-3-5) 13.3