Trading for a Living

Trading for a Living
Author: Alexander Elder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1993-03-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471592242

Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas: * How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader * How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd * How to use a computer to find good trades * How to develop a powerful trading system * How to find the trades with the best odds of success * How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion volume--Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills. For example: Question Markets rise when * there are more buyers than sellers * buyers are more aggressive than sellers * sellers are afraid and demand a premium * more shares or contracts are bought than sold * I and II * II and III * II and IV * III and IV Answer B. II and III. Every change in price reflects what happens in the battle between bulls and bears. Markets rise when bulls feel more strongly than bears. They rally when buyers are confident and sellers demand a premium for participating in the game that is going against them. There is a buyer and a seller behind every transaction. The number of stocks or futures bought and sold is equal by definition.

Enhancing Trader Performance

Enhancing Trader Performance
Author: Brett N. Steenbarger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118428641

Through his own trading experiences and those of individuals he has mentored, Dr. Brett Steenbarger is familiar with the challenges that traders face and the performance and psychological strategies that can meet those challenges. In Enhancing Trader Performance, Steenbarger shows you how to transform talent into trading skill through a structured process of expertise development and reveals how this approach can help you achieve market mastery.

Trading the Hard Right Edge

Trading the Hard Right Edge
Author: G. Picciuli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release:
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Trading is challenging for most people because they simply don't have information, tools or confidence to become successful and trading the hard right edge can be downright scary without it. Trading the Hard Right Edge is important for especially for beginners because it tells it like it is and gives an inside look at trading the financial markets giving you the reality on what the live market is really like, the way they are really run and also tells you who runs them and what you need to do as a self-directed trader to survive in them. Let’s face it, it’s a well-known fact that 97% of self-directed investors and traders fail and lose all of their money, why does this happen? It happens because brand new self-directed traders enter into this business with a bunch of misguided grandiose ideas of making a million dollars from trading and while you can surely make millions of dollars from trading however you would need to be using hundreds of millions of dollars of capital to do so, no joke. As a brand new self-directed trader you have no idea of the brutality and volatility that goes on in the live markets on a daily basis and that there are people in the live markets like the smart money who will walk over dead bodies to get paid so make no mistake as a retail trader and think you can go in the live market and beat them, you can’t. What you can do though is properly prepare yourself to trade with the best traders in the world and get paid right along with them instead of paying them. Once you have completed reading Trading the Hard Right Edge you will have a chance at competing with the best professional traders on the planet. The techniques in Trading the Hard Right Edge will put you on the fast track to being able to make an unlimited income for yourself and becoming consistently profitable enough from trading the financial markets to perhaps even making a living from doing it, isn’t that the reason you’re doing it?

Trade Like a Casino

Trade Like a Casino
Author: Richard L. Weissman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118137965

A detailed look at the common characteristics found in most successful traders While there are a variety of approaches to trading in the financial markets, profitable traders tend to share similar underlying characteristics. Most have a methodology that they believe will prove profitable over the long run and are willing to endure short-term setbacks. If you're looking to make the most of your time in today's markets, you need to understand what separates the best from the rest. And with Trade Like a Casino, you'll gain the knowledge needed to excel at this challenging endeavor. Engaging and informative, this reliable guide identifies and explains the key techniques and mental processes characteristic of successful traders. It reveals that successful traders operate very much like a casino in that they develop a method that gives them "positive expectancy" and they unflappably implement the method in the face of changing, and oftentimes volatile, market conditions. Page by page, the book explores the intricacies of methodology, mental control, and flexibility that allow traders to develop and maintain the casino-like edge. Reveals how many successful traders tend to follow the same general principles, even if their approach to trading may differ Explores how to account for the risk of being wrong and the market moving against you Discusses how to develop an approach that combines trade selection with sound risk management, avoids emotional attachment to positions, exploits volatility cycles, and focuses on market action Regardless of how you approach markets, the insights found here will help improve the way you trade by putting you in a better position to distinguish the differences between successful and unsuccessful traders.

Trading from Your Gut

Trading from Your Gut
Author: Curtis Faith
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0137051689

EARN SERIOUS TRADING PROFITS BY USING YOUR WHOLE BRAIN! Legendary traders like Jesse Livermore, George Soros, Richard Dennis, and Steven Cohen use their full range of powers that encompass both instinct and analysis. That’s how they made their fortunes–and that’s how you can, too. In Trading from Your Gut, Curtis Faith, renowned trader and author of the global bestseller Way of the Turtle, reveals why human intuition is an amazingly powerful trading tool, capable of processing thousands of inputs almost instantaneously. Faith teaches you how to harness, sharpen, train, and trust your instincts and to trade smarter with your whole mind. Just as important, you’ll learn when not to trust your gut–and how to complement your intuition with systematic analysis. You’ve got a left brain: analytical and rational. You’ve got a right brain: intuitive and holistic. Use them both to make better trades, and more money! “Whole Mind” trading: the best of discretionary and system approaches How winning traders use analysis and disciplined intuition together How to profit from other traders’ “Wrong Brain Thinking” Understand other traders, without acting like them How to provide a firm intellectual framework for your trades What successful traders have discovered about the market’s structure and laws The unique value of intuition in swing trading Use your intuition to trade patterns that computer technology can’t recognize

Beginner Day Trader Tip Book

Beginner Day Trader Tip Book
Author: Joe Scuti
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2015-11-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519299208

Read this Joe Scuti book on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or digital device or in paperback. You absolutely need to have a competitive edge in the markets as a self-directed beginner, and you must have it before you do anything in the live markets with real money. Beginner Day Trader Tip Book details tips for how to develop your edge for making money in today's live markets, I encourage you to read and utilize the tips in this book right away. Each day, the wealth from trader accounts is transferred from those without an edge into the accounts of those who have developed that all needed important winning edge. Which one do you want to be? Use Beginner Day Trader Tip Book as an overview or a guide if you will, for what to study and learn first to become consistently profitable from day trading, swing trading or position trading and investing. I give you concise information as to what to learn first and what to look for as far as further information is concerned. I tell you only the most critical things to learn first because those are absolutely the most important and the ones that will make you money right away if you do them. Beginner Day Trader Tip Book is written to provide straightforward, easy to understand and easy to apply advice, tips and techniques that can be the backbone of any traders success in the financial markets. When you are done reading this book you will have an excellent basic explanation of what to do before you even study any more information or do any kind of other education. The information and tips in this book will put you on the fast track to becoming a successful self-directed investor and trader with very little money invested other than the cost of this book. There are no short cuts and you must do the time if you want to drive your own money train. I try to keep the explanations clear concise, simple and uncomplicated. This book can help you keep it simple and filter the huge amount of information out there down to only what you need to know right away and then can work towards adding more information and studies as you go. My philosophy is to start small and build on success have limited exposure while you hone your skills, then progress as you become more competent. You can use this book and the references, suggestions and tips in it to go further into your educational studies of the markets and there dynamics. Knowing market dynamics is going to be critical for you to have the winning edge you will need to be a successful market participant. Use the tips in Beginner Day Trader Tip Book and begin making money right away.

The Psychology of Trading

The Psychology of Trading
Author: Brett N. Steenbarger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471420239

"The one, only, and by far the best book synthesizing psychology and investing. In addition to providing modern, scientific knowledge about psychology, this book provides a mirror into the mind and wide breadth of knowledge of one of the leading practitioners of brief and effectual cures. Will help to cure your trading and your life." -Victor Niederhoffer, Chief Speculator, Manchester Investments Author, The Education of a Speculator and Practical Speculation "How refreshing! A book that rises above the old NLP model of the 80's and provides insights on how our relationship with the market is indeed a very personal one. Not only has Steenbarger provided some fantastic tools for the trader to transform his mindset, but he has contributed unique trading ideas as well. Brilliant!" -Linda Raschke, President, LBRGroup, Inc. "'Investigate, before you invest' was for many years the slogan of the New York Stock Exchange. I always thought a better one would be, 'Investigate YOURSELF, before you invest.' The Psychology of Trading should help you increase your annual investment rate of return. Mandatory reading for anyone intending to earn a livelihood through trading. " -Yale Hirsch, The Hirsch Organization Inc., Editor, The Stock Trader's Almanac "This highly readable, highly educational, and highly entertaining book will teach you as much about yourself as about trading. It's Oliver Sacks meets Mr. Market-extraordinary tales of ordinary professionals and individuals with investment disorders, and how they successfully overcame them. It is a must-read both for private investors who have been shell-shocked in the bear market and want to learn how to start again, as well as for pros who seek an extra edge from extra inner knowledge. Steenbarger's personal voyage into the mind of the market is destined to become a classic." -Jon Markman, Managing Editor, CNBC on MSN Money Author, Online Investing and Swing Trading "Dr. Steenbarger's fascinating, highly readable blend of practical insights from his dual careers as a brilliant psychologist and trader will benefit every investor; knowing oneself is as important as knowing the market." -Laurel Kenner, CNBC.com Columnist, Author, Practical Speculation

Trade the Trader

Trade the Trader
Author: Quint Tatro
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132101610

When you trade, you're not just trading companies that deliver goods or services. You're trading against other traders who care about only one thing: taking your money. That's the #1 hard reality of trading - and most traders either don't know it, or don't act as if they do. In this book, top trader and hedge fund manager Quint Tatro shows how to win consistently in the "zero sum" game of trading, where there's a loser for every winner. You'll learn how to reflect your trading competition in every facet of trading and investing: choosing companies to invest in, knowing when to jump in and out of the market, and mastering the psychology and gamesmanship of trading. Coverage includes: Understanding the "other side of the trade": the thousands of pros you're trading against. Finding a technical edge with technical analysis you can exploit over and over again. Understanding sentiment and overcoming the human emotions and biases that cost you dearly. Utilizing the most essential strategies of fundamental analysis. Playing positions and probabilities, not P+Ls. Recognizing and capturing huge opportunities in down markets.

How to Day Trade

How to Day Trade
Author: Ross Cameron
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1504957733

Success as a day trader will only come to 10 percent of those who try. It’s important to understand why most traders fail so that you can avoid those mistakes. The day traders who lose money in the market are losing because of a failure to either choose the right stocks, manage risk, and find proper entries or follow the rules of a proven strategy. In this book, I will teach you trading techniques that I personally use to profit from the market. Before diving into the trading strategies, we will first build your foundation for success as a trader by discussing the two most important skills you can possess. I like to say that a day trader is two things: a hunter of volatility and a manager of risk. I’ll explain how to find predictable volatility and how to manage your risk so you can make money and be right only 50 percent of the time. We turn the tables by putting the odds for success in your favor. By picking up this book, you show dedication to improve your trading. This by itself sets you apart from the majority of beginner traders.