by Tushar S. Chande and Stanley Kroll (1994)
You watch the market challenge your position with every tick. But are your chosen technical indicators helping or hindering your performance? Do they cope responsively with the glut of fast-changing electronic data? Are they consistently generating the signals you need to make profitable, real-time life and death decisions? Do they dovetail into a trading system based on objective decision making and prudent risk control? Are your risk control strategies proactive, letting you manage your trades aggressively? If not, turn to The New Technical Trader for a new generation of robust indicators designed to provide a valuable edge in today's markets. . In this leading-edge guide, top analyst Tushar Chande and supertrader Stanley Kroll show you their latest, most promising methods of price analysis with the classic tactics and strategies of risk control and money management. The result is a personalized, winning trading system that adjusts automatically to market volatility, generates reliable entry and exit signals, shrewdly estimates risk on new and current positions, and promotes superior portfolio selection. Turn to The New Technical Trader to redefine the basic building blocks of a typical trading system: from moving averages, to momentum oscillators; from price patterns to profitability templates. Learn how to transform the components of popular, static technical indicators - relative strength index, momentum, stochastic oscillator, and more - into dynamic price oscillators that are nimbler than their static predecessors. Detailed tutorials and profuse illustrations from real-life commodity currency and stock market trading scenarios offer specific rules for testing these oscillators, so you can readily adapt them to your trading style. Discover how to: . Develop price forecasts for the next trading day and beyond. Master the essentials of regression analysis to quantify trend strength, detect early warning signs of potential trend changes, and promote a more objective, less emotional approach to trading. Switch to dynamic moving averages that adjust their effective length based on market momentum or volatility so you can set unique stops, develop trading bands for a breakout trading system, and pinpoint resistance or support. Improve identification of candlestick patterns. With Qstick, you can quantify both the internal momentum and shadows, and produce objective numbers to look at rather than a pattern to ponder. Exploit powerful new indicators for risk control. You'll find the hottest new indicators for: creating price-time templates to close out losers and cash out of fast rising winners, learning how to aggressively manage open trades using the maximum favorable excursion, performing what-if simulations with the projected price range to prepare for any market eventuality, and using volatility-based stops to get you in or take you out. In today's fiercely competitive futures and financial markets, your success depends on mastering fast-changing market information and using it to make swift, smart, strategic trading and investment decisions. Designed to help you handle the good days, and the bad, The New Technical Trader is the proactive, single source guide for playing the winning percentages and reaping bigger trading profits with minimum risk.
[edited by] Varuna Godara
" This book examines the implications of pervasive computing from an operational, legal and ethical perspective, so that current and future e-business managers can make responsible decisions about where, when and how to use this technology"--Provided by publisher.
Evelina M. Tainer
"A virtual bible of how economic indicators are constructed and used. Important tidbits of history are mixed with present-day nuances to explain why we should care about all the economic indicators." ?Allen Grommet, Senior Economist, Cambridge Consumer Credit Index "This book is an indispensable resource for anyone that wants a practical understanding of the economy and how it is measured. The information is clear, concise, and will help investors at all levels leverage the vast amount of economic data available." ?Jesse Harriott, PhD, Vice President of Research, Monster Worldwide, Inc. This updated guide to economic indicators -- what they are and what they really mean -- covers all major economic indicators, from GDP to the consumer price index. You'll not only learn what key economic measurements are and how to read and interpret them, you'll discover how to use them to make better, more-informed financial, trading, and investing decisions.
Michael D. Archer
A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies "A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience." -Derek Ching, President, Hawaii Forex "We have members from over 125 countries on our Web site and plan to make Getting Started in ForexTrading Strategies a 'must read' for those looking to trade the FOREX market. It is good to see a book that emphasizes the importance of other elements, such as money management, which are crucial to master if one is to stay in this game. Well done!" -Jay Meisler, cofounder, Global-View.com Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies is a highly visual guide to foreign exchange trading that introduces you to the Codex Method-a proven process that allows you to tailor a trading strategy to your own personal preferences. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a brief overview of traditional FOREX strategies. From here, author Michael Duane Archer outlines his own personal codex-as he guides you through the process of developing yours-and reveals how to use this approach to make, monitor, and exit a trade. Along the way, Archer reveals the best ways to implement your strategy and discusses the importance of consistently keeping trading records. In his previous book, Getting Started in Currency Trading, Archer set a solid foundation for trading the currency market by illustrating how it operated. Now, with Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies, Archer goes a step further by showing you how to cultivate a personal trading strategy that will allow you to succeed within this dynamic environment.
Dr. Joe Duarte, MD, and Optionetics
Thinking about trading options, but aren't sure where to start? Duarte explains in plain English how to choose the right ones for your investment needs, capitalize on sideways movements, and much more.