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Are you an active investor who holds stocks overnight or for a few weeks or months? If you trade actively without going "flat" each day, then you're a swing trader—part of the growing number of investors and traders who buy and sell on momentum, trends, and short-term price movements.

Today's serious swing trader needs more than a beginner's guide to electronic stock trading. Electronic Swing Trading for Maximum Profit gives you the advanced skills, discipline, and knowledge necessary to achieve your trading goals. Author and trading instructor Misha Sarkovich, Ph.D., teaches you step-by-step what the professionals look for in the markets and how you can use swing-trading techniques to reduce trading risk and improve accuracy. Whether you're trading through an online broker or with direct access, you will discover invaluable lessons on how to:

Develop buy, sell, and short trade signals
Recognize price momentum
Learn Japanese candlestick charting
Protect your overnight positions
Master fundamental and technical analysis
And much more!

Complete with information on software upgrades, trade execution, ECNs, tax issues, and more, the lessons here will help you take your trading skills to the next level.

"Once again, Dr. Sarkovich has shown how individual traders can use the same strategies the pros have tried to keep secret for years. Reading this step-by-step guide is like having your own personal trading coach." —Tim Bourquin, Cofounder, TraderInterviews.com and the Online Trading Expo

"Find everything from reading Level II to analyzing charts in one easy place.
Electronic Swing Trading for Maximum Profit is a one-stop bible for today's swing trader." —Philip Berber, Founder, CyBerCorp.com

User Reviews about Electronic Swing Trading for Maximum Profit: Discover the Professional Trading Strategy that Combines Day Trading with Long-Term Investing Techniques

I bought this book some years ago and I still love it. It was the first book that I bought on trading and I did not appreciate how good it was until I started buying and checking out regular investing books at the library. You know the kind of lame books like Susan Orman's book 9 steps to financial freedom. The kind of book that's all fluff and no substance other than the same advice that my grandfather had told me (use your home equity, lower your expenses, balance your portfolio, ect, ect.). Most investing books are all about personal finance and not investing. As well, most trading books that I have read or looked at are more about market mechanics than actual case studies or trades themselves. Also, Dr. Sarkovich does not waste your time or money on stories from his past to fill up his book. You will not find chapters here about how trading was at a desk somewhere back in the day. Why? Because he has spent the time telling you what you need to know to start trading, not his past life in the field.

That review on here about the book being for beginners really chaps my hide. It says right on the friggen cover "From Beginner to Advanced Trading". And that is exactly what I need. Heck, I still read it from time to time because I am still learning how to do this correctly and not lose money at it. I practically need to memorize this book since I look at it so much. I have post it notes sticking out of about 30 pages of it right now. And its so easy to find what I need when I need it. I mean the sections are , How to trade, When to trade, What to trade, and in those sections is all the info and explanations about what you are seeing on the screen (level 1 and 2 info, trade order and execution, candlestick charting, charting patterns, moving averages, Bollinger bands, market measures and volume, and much more).

What I needed at the time was a book that would explain to me everything going on the screen when I had my scottrade account opened, and that is exactly what this book did for me. I could just sit there, make theoretical trades, and watch what happens, then go back to the book, read some, and then get that ha-ha moment when I finally figured out what was going on. This was possible because unlike many other books, this one tells you what things are going to look like when moves happen. Other books just give a brief basic description of how the screens work, this one goes the next step and tells you what things will look like when something happens.

One other review complained that it is more about day trading than swing trading. Once again, man, read the darn cover. It says, "Day-trading with long term techniques". What do you think Swing Trading is anyway? That reviewer is an idiot in my opinion for that remark. If you want to learn trading then read this book. However, if you want to learn investing then go read Graham and Dodds "Security Analysis."

PS. I bought it back when it was 40 bucks + tax. It's a steal today.
-- Best Begginers Trading Book That I Own

One of the best on the subject I have read... and I have read a lot. I particually enjoyed his charting and mathmatical explorations. Very good analysis on the importance and uses of MACD, EMA, and Bollinger Bands. This book took my trading to a new level. -- I found it!

Since I lived in Nevada I tend to compare stock trading, whether it is day trading or swing trading, to speculation. If you are inclined to speculate and take a short term stock position, I recommend that you read the book before you engage in stock trading. It will help you understand the risk, tools and strategies required to survive in the business of stock trading.

I like the book a lot because it was an honest introduction to short term stock trading. The book did not contain any hype or promises of returns or road map to fortunes. All of the trading risks in specualting on the stock price movements were disclosed upfront. Most importantly, the tools to manage such risk were introduced.

Secondly, the book has more than 400 pages of stock trading information and so the book is complete. In my opinion, all of the trading information, from technical and fundamental analysis to Level II screen, was systematically presented in an easy to understand language. The book was also well organized and well illustrated so it was easy to read.

In short, this book is one of the most complete introductory texts to stock trading that I have read. I particularly recommend the book to novice stock traders, although experienced traders will also benefit by reading it. -- No hype--just the facts