A Trader's First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to The World's Fastest Growing Market Review

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(More customer reviews)On a 1-10 scale I would give my own knowledge of stocks a 7, bonds a 5 and commodities a 3. I am in the steel business, but steel is not traded like a commodity (though there have long been efforts to change that). I understand the general theory of how the commodities markets are supposed to work, but I ordered this book because I wanted to get a deeper understanding of how they function on a day to day basis. I was very pleased with the scope of this book and would recommend it to people who are considering getting involved, in a modest way, with commodities.
Please note though that one book, no matter the author's skill or breadth of knowledge, is NOT capable of turning anyone in to a professional commodities trader. Some of the negative reviews are both amusing and scary because they seem to be written by people who figured that they would just buy X commodity and suddenly become millionaires. I guess every market (and poker) relies to some extent on Darwinism - it's the amateurs that end up making the pros rich.
I think that Ms. Garner manages to successfully steer a course down the middle in terms of providing enough broad, general, information for newbies, while still including some actionable technical information which would allow you to start trading immediately (if unsuccessfully).
At the end of the day, commodities trading isn't for me. Between a full-time job I don't have the time left to devote hours and hours to do the research that might possibly allow me to be a successful dabbler in commodities. Nor do I have the ability to constantly watch the markets to catch the rapid rise and falls that provide brief trading opportunities. This book helped to convince me that commodities trading is best left to others. It is this conclusion that perhaps is worth far more than the purchase price of this book.

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