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While institutional traders continue to implement quantitative (or algorithmic) trading, many independent traders have wondered if they can still challenge powerful industry professionals at their own game? The answer is "yes," and in Quantitative Trading, Dr. Ernest Chan, a respected independent trader and consultant, will show you how. Whether you're an independent "retail" trader looking to start your own quantitative trading business or an individual who aspires to work as a quantitative trader at a major financial institution, this practical guide contains the information you need to succeed.
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The first all-in-one home day trading seminar--complete with interactive CD-ROM, tapes, and workbook! Novice electronic day traders pay up to $3,000 for intensive training seminars. Now, successful trader, author, and seminar leader David Nassar turns his own five-day seminar into a highly detailed, interactive crash course for traders looking to quickly learn the ropes in this lucrative field. This comprehensive and detailed at-home seminar consists of three closely integrated components: CD-ROM--Traders learn how to use the keyboard and trading software via lifelike trading scenarios; Audiocassettes--Twelve hours of step-by-step instructions include details, examples, and interviews; Workbook--The nucleus of the course--explanations and exercises interact with the audio and CD-ROM components for maximum impact.
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A short-term trading strategy based on the buying and selling of predominantly large-capitalization stocks Contrarian Ripple Trading sets out to teach its readers a short-term stock trading technique that can assist ordinary people, with no professional financial background, how to trade profitably. This technique-which has been successfully used by the authors-is based on contrarian principles and exploits the normal short-term fluctuations of both the overall stock market and individual stock prices. It recommends setting purchase price points based on comparisons of a stock's prevailing price to its 52-week high and low, and espouses an aggressive selling discipline under which profits are always taken. Placing an emphasis on both the buying and selling of predominantly large-capitalization stocks, Contrarian Ripple Trading contains the perfect strategy for readers looking to increase their trading profits and minimize overall trading risk. Aidan J. McNamara (Wyckoff, NJ) is Associate Publisher at The Deal LLC, whose print publications include The Deal, The Daily Deal, Corporate Dealmaker, and Tech Confidential. Martha A. Brozyna (Wyckoff, NJ) is a part-time lecturer in the History Department at Rutgers University.
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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
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Everything you need to know about Single Stock Futures "Single stock futures are an incredibly important new financial instrument for managing risk. Kennedy Mitchell provides an outstanding and easy-to-read explanation of these new products for either an expert futures user or for someone learning about futures markets for the first time." –Peter Borish, Senior Managing Director, OneChicago Although single stock futures may be a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, this instrument has been successfully traded for years in various overseas markets–leaving you, the individual and professional investor, to play catch-up. Exactly what are single stock futures? They are futures contracts, within the futures universe, that have shares of listed public companies as their underlying asset. In Single Stock Futures: An Investor’s Guide, author Kennedy Mitchell introduces you to single stock futures, explains how they function, and demonstrates the various ways they can be traded. This comprehensive guide clearly illustrates how investors–both individual and professional–can utilize single stock futures independently or as an application to add new dimensions to an investment portfolio. Single stock futures have the potential to improve the performance of professionals, novices, investors, and traders. Take this opportunity to find out how with Single Stock Futures: An Investor’s Guide.
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"Computerized Trading Strategies" introduces the non-computer trained investor to the basics of computer-enhanced trading strategies. It shows the reader how to write BASIC programs for technical analysis on the IBM PC and compatibles so they can develop, test, refine, and apply their own trading systems more quickly and accurately than standard trading practices. The book explains how to obtain both up-to-the-minute and historical price data for stocks, commodities, and currencies through on-line services, and incorporate the data quickly and easily into one's own trading programs. The most popular technical trading systems are covered, including single and double moving averages, oscillators, on-balance volume, and stochastics, and the author shows how to tailor them to fit a trader's preferred strategy.
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A popular options authority offers you a hands-on guide to get you up and trading—even if you’re a novice Options are extremely popular with traders looking to gain leverage and reduce risk, but books on the subject often get bogged down in complex mathematical formulas and other detailed discussions, which aren’t helpful a new trader. Start Trading Options delivers clear, concise, and ready-to-use explanations to guide you from the fundamentals of options through more advanced and powerful trading strategies. Plain-English descriptions explain uses of calls and puts, strategies for buying and selling, techniques for combining futures and options to create synthetic positions, and types of spreads from strangles and straddles to vertical, ratio, and delta.
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As experienced traders can attest, news events often mark the beginning or culmination of major trends. Event trading is a new and exciting technique to trade the financial and commodity markets, and represents a third major approach to trading, distinctly different from the fundamental and technical approaches. Designed to capture profits from market reactions to news events, event trading provides a systematic approach for exploiting a variety of market-moving events, such as economic reports, official interest rate changes, and surprises in corporate earnings reports. By understanding how markets respond to the news, traders can reap huge profits. Event Trading is the first book on the subject and is sure to generate great interest among active traders and investors. Specific topics include: Origins of event trading; Event trading and intermarket analysis; Game theory and the financial markets; Creating an event trading portfolio. Event Trading will include a demonstration disk that show how to implement the strategies and techniques explained in the book. Developed by author Ben Warwick, the software will enable traders to analyze historical market repsonses to economic news and deduce probabilities for upcoming trades. Combined, the software and book will provide traders with everything they need to understand and implement this exciting new trading method.
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Praise for Stock Index Futures & Options "Everything you wanted to know about global stock indexes in one place." —Tom Basso CEO, Trendstat Capital Management "With twenty years of professional experience behind her, Susan Abbott Gidel is the perfect person to present this intricate overview of today’s futures and options markets. Included is everything a beginner needs to know to understand the world of derivatives." —Robert R. Prechter Jr. President, Elliott Wave International
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A complete blueprint for starting and managing a personal trading business. "Without a clear understanding of the correct basics of trading you'll never succeed in this business. Sunny Harris' Trading 102: Getting Down to Business will give you the correct basics of trading in an easy to learnformat. This book will jump start the success of anyone who has not figured out the truth of trading." —Larry Williams Trader and Author. "Sunny Harris has done it again! Her new book, Trading 102, offers a wealth of exceptionally useful information for traders and investors. It places high on my list of recommended reading." —Edward D. Dobson President, Traders Press, Inc. "Trading 102 is the perfect sequel to Trading 101. Sunny Harris brings all of the essential ingredients together and presents a concise step by step plan of action. I am amazed at the wide range of material she was able to squeeze into this very enjoyable book." —Charles LeBeau Author, trading advisor, founder of the System Traders Club. In her much-praised and highly popular book, Trading 101, Sunny Harris offered novices a crash course on the basics of the field, from puts and calls to stocks and bonds to GDPs and EMAVs. Now, for those looking to continue their education, Harris presents Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, an invaluable roadmap to taking the next step: designing an individual trading system and starting a personal trading business. Along with hands-on strategies, proven techniques, and straightforward guidelines for tailoring a system based on individual trading styles, Trading 102 is packed with a wealth of easy-to-read charts and graphs, as well as complete information on: The science of the business —setting goals, budgeting, keeping an expense worksheet, figuring outgo Formulating a sound business plan —cover page, mission statement, company differentiators, resource requirements, summary Software for systems testing —Excalibur, TradeStation, MetaStock, Window on Wall Street (WOW), and more System performance assessment —keeping track, slippage, Rate of Return (ROR), Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE), Value Added Monthly Index (VAMI) Psychological traps to avoid —a special section written by Adrienne Laris Toghraie, a leading trader's coach, that covers lack of preparedness and motivation, conflict, inappropriate emotional states, negative behaviors. Supported by a bibliography and a comprehensive appendix that includes margin requirements, commodity contract information, and closing values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, trading 102 is required reading for anyone looking to take the big leap into professional fund management.
$47.45
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