Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege Review

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(More customer reviews)Craig Karmin's new book, "Biography of the Dollar," explores a world that most of us in America take for granted - the world of currency. So, what's so important about the currency? My answer to that is simple- everything.
A free-flowing, stable currency is what makes all trade possible- both domestically and internationally. A lack of confidence in the underlying value of a currency can bring entire economies to a screeching halt. The results can be devastating- life savings are wiped out, hyperinflation can take root, debt is defaulted on, investment dries up. It can take decades for economies to recover.
If you're like me, you probably haven't given much thought to these issues. Because, as Americans, they seem to be such remote possibilities. But are they . . . ?
Karmin's book does an excellent job of informing the reader of how the US Dollar is created, distributed and used not only in the United States; but, throughout the world. Karmin covers many aspects of the Greenback- from printing (it costs 5.7 cents to print one) to foreign government's hoarding (60% of the dollars in circulation are overseas) to lending and interest rates (thank China, not the fed, for keeping US consumer borrowing rates low).
Karmin also brings to light the intense pressure that the Dollar is under every day from seemingly all sides:
-the U.S. Government's unwillingness to balance the budget,
-Asian and Middle Eastern countries growing less interested with "subsidizing" the value of the Dollar,
-the solidifying of the Euro as an alternative global currency, and
-the U.S. consumer's never-ending desire to "borrow-and-buy" their way through life
All of these factors have already played out to a certain degree in the declining value of the Dollar over the past couple years. Will the trend continue and how far will it go? Those questions are explored as well.
I highly recommend that anyone read this book- it is an eye opener without getting technical (economist-types will miss their I-L-S-M diagrams)- and it poses all the right questions to get American's thinking about the implications for the future- whether that be as vital as national security or as trivial as the cost of a hotel room in Paris.


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Forex Analysis and Trading: Effective Top-Down Strategies Combining Fundamental, Position, and Technical Analyses (Bloomberg Financial) Review

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(More customer reviews)It is a very complete book, this a real guide to trade in Forex, not it provides you with guidance but also it gives you the strategic structure to develop your own investment methods.
Even though the following texts are not about trading I recommend the following books:
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The forex market is huge and offers tremendous trading opportunities. There are many different tools for analyzing the forex market. But what are the best tools and the best ways to use them to trade most effectively?
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Day Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies To Profit from Market Swings (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have had the pleasure of seeing Kathy Lien speak twice at Forex seminars. She is very intelligent and has a wonderful personality. You will find some interesting and informative content in this book that can be useful in your educational path in Forex. But it is important to keep in mind that the book is written not by a trading entrepreneur but by a representative of one of the largest Forex brokers. To become a successful trader it is essential to recognize the vast difference in agenda between winning traders and brokers. The entire industry is driven by brokers and almost all material available on learning to trade is tied directly or indirectly to the broker industry whose agenda is to teach trading strategies that make the most money for THEM. Because the industry is unregulated, brokers are able to get away with many less than ethical practices. For instance, it is ironic that another reader mentions how Kathy covers the subject of the "carry trade" in detail. The last time I spoke with FXCM I discovered to my shock that they had adopted the policy of charging a negative interest regardless of which direction one was trading which I believe should be criminal. But there is no regulating agency to prevent them from doing that. Neither the CFTC nor the NFA actually regulate the activity of Forex brokers. Some other brokers, refuse to publish their interest rates or display them in their trading platforms so they can change them behind the scenes every day according to what benefits them the most. You may notice that others have a negative interest that is twice as much as their positive interest. All of this is part of the overall objective to keep the majority of traders focused on day trading which makes the most money for brokers. Studying trading material published by brokers is like asking a casino owner how to gamble. Most of the trading "mentors" are also introducing brokers who make money when you trade. A word to the wise, is that if you intend to succeed in Forex trading consider looking to sources of information that are not tied to any broker such as other traders who have learned to master this arcane art.

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A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)I agree with a couple of posts that say this is a very basic book, and that most of the information could be found for free on the internet. I would go as far as to say that some information would be better if read on the internet.
The examples about pivots (the key part of the book), one chart after another were not easy to follow. The section on TA was woefully lacking. The author has a section on Gann theory, and more or less advises to go buy the book that Gann wrote. As it turns out, there is some pretty rich information about Gann on the web.
My biggest pet peeve about this book were the continual subliminal references (advertisements) to the author's subscription based website. Besides that, I did not like the blatent plugging of the people who praised his book on the back cover. It's okay for an author to put their website on the back of the book. If the information stands on it's own then I can go to the website to learn more. What's not cool is to give vauge trading strategies, then give some glowing account of how your subscription newsletter called the shots.
I did give the book two stars, which means I wasn't totally disapointed. He does stress a couple of good points regarding pivots, but it's all pretty basic beginner stuff.

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A thorough trading guide from a professional traderThe Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics can help the new individual investor understand the mechanics of the markets. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book details what it takes to trade and shows readers how they can broaden their horizons by investing in the futures and options markets. The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics outlines a variety of proven methodologies-pivot points, candlesticks, and other top indicators-so readers may use those that work best for them as well as make their own trading decisions without a second thought. Author John Person also shares his insights on a variety of trading technologies that will allow readers to gain a competitive edge in the market.John L. Person (Palm Beach, FL) publishes The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental new developments as well as technical analysis using his trading system.

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Mastering the Currency Market: Forex Strategies for High and Low Volatility Markets Review

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(More customer reviews)I trade futures, stocks and options, with futures now making up the bulk of my trading. I am very interested in learning currencies and gaining additional flexibility in my trading. I came across this book and saw it was a new publication so I pre-ordered. I assumed it would have the latest inside information on currencies and how best to trade them. After the all, the title is "Mastering the Currency Market, Forex Strategies for High and Low Volatility Markets". I have to say that I was sorely disappointed.
The editorial review says the book is divided into these sections:
* The basics of trading currencies
* Fundamental analysis of price valuation
* Technical analysis and trading charts
* Trading philosophy and psychological discipline
* Volatility and risk management
The first 2 sections are the only parts of the book that offer anything unique to currencies. And out of a 292-page book, these sections end after only the first 48 pages. The rest of the book is a basic technical analysis indicator training manual with some candlestick signals thrown in the mix. Starting with simple candlesticks, covering basic chart patterns and looking at multiple time frames for trade confirmation. The book ends with a short treatise on psychology and trading journals, subjects that have entire works dedicated solely to them. There are no unique "Forex" strategies, just basic technical analysis education.
Chapter 1 discusses the basics, names of currency pairs, market times, etc.
Chapter 2 although seemingly lacking real depth may give the most insight to someone interested in mastering currencies. It discusses economic factors affecting currencies and the price movement. There is a handy chart showing economic reports and the usual effect they have on individual currencies.
There is no detailed insight to the individual currency trading instruments or to the Forex market in general. Interesting, the title suggests strategies for high and low volatility. Looking in the book's index, volatility is discussed on one page, in one small paragraph, and it is a less than an introductory discussion. Which Forex strategies work best in which type of market? Where are the high and low volatility examples? What are the best pairs to trade? How do we hedge? Is there any currency correlation? We may never know.
It would have been simpler for the authors to write the first 2 chapters and then add a page that says, "Apply standard technical indicator trading techniques to the currency market." and end the book there.
If you were a beginner trader, I would say you could add this to your library. However there are hundreds, maybe thousands of technical analysis books on the market, many better than this. We surely do not need another one.
Perhaps a better name for the book would have been "A Beginners Guide to Technical Analysis: With some Forex pairs used as examples." Had that been the name, I would have saved myself the return shipping. 2 stars for basic technical analysis, 1 star for any real Forex insight.
One thing to take in account on all Amazon reviews. Reviewers who have only reviewed the item you are researching should be subject to suspicion. Click on the username to see if the reviewer has any history on Amazon and make your choice wisely.


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The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook: Strategies and Trade Set-Ups (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm an Ed Ponsi fan. However, I think he may have inadvertently misled people with his choice of title and cover art. In particular, the subtitle -- Strategies and Trade Set-Ups -- along with the sports diagrams on the cover, imply that he's going to get down with some powerful set-ups and management techniques. The trade set-ups consist of trading off 10 and 20 day moving averages, and the management techniques consist of the option of adding to a winning trade when it retraces. Duh.
Furthermore, there is quite a lot of rank beginner stuff, for example, an explanation of currency pairs, pip value, lot size, etc. I don't have much patience with that sort of thing. There is plenty of introductory Forex material readily available, and I don't see why so many authors seem to feel the need to pad their books with what their readers already know. It's like buying a book on computer programming that contains detailed instructions on how to turn on the computer or what a hard drive is.
Oddly enough, in a book that explains pip value, there is a chapter on trading other people's money. I think he tried to be all things to all people, from those who started trading a demo last week to the guy who wants to start a hedge fund. I don't think it comes off very well, especially in a 200 page book.
The meat of the book -- the strategy -- consists of various sources of information that can give you a head's up on currency strength. We're talking the COT Report and such things, some which are not so widely known by intermediate level traders. It's good information to have. It wasn't what I was expecting, though. And of course, it's still a crap-shoot. Was the crowd right, or was the crowd wrong? It's the same old question with the same old answer: buy your ticket and take your chances.
The take-away is that Ed feels the real money is in long-term trading as opposed to day-trading. Certainly if you are trading moving averages, you need to let your profits run. Personally, I hate trading moving averages -- or anything that wiggles, for that matter -- and no day will dawn when I'm willing to eat a 100 pip stop.
Buy the book anyway. There are useful and important nuggets and the book is worth the money. Just don't expect trade set-ups that you haven't heard about a hundred times before.


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A practical guide to trading the foreign exchange market
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Written by the author of the hugely successful Forex Patterns and Probabilities, The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook takes the entire concept of Forex education to a new level. The author raises the bar with this ambitious work, presenting fresh new strategies and concepts. Ponsi uses clever analogies and comparisons to make his explanations crystal clear.
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Forex Patterns and Probabilities: Trading Strategies for Trending and Range-Bound Markets (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is mostly for beginners. There are only good advices, so it is a good choice for beginners or those who need to be put back on tracks.
The number of strategies is in fact quite limited and not really new. I was expecting much more from the description. Ed just uses levels for entry and stops that could be slightly different than in some other books.
2 strategies about trending markets (FX-Ed and classic 2 time frame system), 1 for pennant/flags, a volatility breakout strategy, which is in fact a triangle strategy (for the entry). playing the round numbers, a range trading in the low volume opening, and a word about the carry trade.
The so-called FX-Ed trending strategy is based on moving averages. I have backtested it (it is easy, no place for interpretation for the version without partial exits and reload)and of course it works on strongly trending markets such EURUSD recently, but wait, any trending strategy worked!! The same strategy with pairs such as USDJPY generates a loss or a small gain between 1997 and 2005 and it was in fact quite good at buying tops and shorting bottoms, resulting in huge volatility of the equity curve.
Update: Backtest of the "round trip" (playing the round numbers). Only difference with the text is that the second target is a multiple of the first one instead of based on a previous R/S level. From Sept 2003 to Sept 2006, it does not work and looses for most pairs (including those preferred by the author). Even if we take only the first bounce, it looses.
Update2: Backtest of the "Boomerang", a range trading in the low volume opening. EURUSD only as suggested by Ed. Tested from Sept 2001 to Nov 2006. There is a profit growing steadily (though there are drawdowns) from Sept 2001 to May 2004. After that, it is flat. There are still trades, but they do not produce any profit, just breakeven. Has it stopped working after too much advertisement for it?
Page 217 is quite interesting. The author explains why it is not recommended to systematically take small profits such as 10 pips. I am wondering if the "strategy 10" advertised by one of the praisers of this book is compatible with this view. Anyway, Ed also says that those who recommend such thing may just want to profit from people by the "introducing broker" system, and so we must be careful.
The book progresses slowly, explaining every single detail. There are a few repeats in the first half of the book. For most charts, the horizontal labels are not displayed.
The book is 245 pages but the content is quite small because there are so many charts! The number of useless charts is amazing. He uses charts to illustrate any single information in the book. For example, a pair trending up (a chart), a pair trending down (a chart), a congestion (a chart), breakout from congestion (a chart), a strong trend (a chart), a moving average (a chart), a second moving average (a chart), a RSI (a chart), a fib retracement level (a chart). For a "strategy", an entry point (a chart), placement of the stop to be put after the entry (a chart), placing first target (a chart), second target (a chart), third target (a chart), tweaking the exit levels (1 chart per exit level!), Entry triggered (a chart), first target reached (a chart), the pair continues (a chart), it pulls back (a chart), it reaches the second target (a chart), and the third (a chart), etc... Well, don't you think that a few charts with gathering a few things on each of them would have been enough? It looks as if the book was the written version of a seminar. In fact, it probably is!
Page 204: Two times the same chart! The first chart was supposed to show only the entry (as usual), and the second the exit later on, but the first one already shows the exit! Good Ed, you are improving by putting both entry and exit on the same chart (you could save some trees by concentrating more information!!), but only one chart is necessary in this case!

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The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets Review

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(More customer reviews)"The Futures" is delivered as a flat midwestern yarn -- as if told by a Chi-town native, holding forth on a barstool over beers. (PBR of course.)
The story begins with Chicago's founding in the early 1800s. We find out how the futures business, originally built around grains, was a byproduct of Chicago weather: When the canal and river froze, farmers were forced to store their crops, thus creating gluts in the spring -- and the need to lock in sale prices in advance. By the mid-1860s, the first prototype of the U.S. futures contract had arrived.
There is a saying, "I went to a fight the other day and wound up trading futures in Chicago." The history, and the business itself, is built around colorful characters with descriptive nicknames like "Old Hutch," "Vince the Prince," and "Harry the Hat."
In further example, when one well-liked floor trader expired in the pit, the others kept on trading around him... and later expressed the opinion that "that's the way go."
To be clear, Lambert's book is not a primer on trading. Instead it is a series of narratives, tracing the beginnings of futures trading (and the Chicago exchanges themselves) to the present day.
Having cut my teeth as a commodity broker in the late 1990s, "The Futures" brought back memories. (There is nothing quite like arguing at the top of your lungs with a runner named Sol about a bad fill in the S&P pit, with three phone lines lighting up and the market moving away from your partially executed order.)
One of the characters Lambert touches on is Ray E. Friedman, the founder of REFCO (the firm that cleared our accounts). It turns out old Ray had done a prison stretch for selling grade B chickens as grade A to the army in the Korean War. His corner-cutting habit must have infiltrated the culture of the business. REFCO, after growing to $4 billion in customer assets, collapsed in a fraud scandal in 2005.
"The Futures" is also largely the story of onions and eggs -- the original commodities of the "Merc" or Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Lambert recounts how the CBOT was predominantly Irish and the CME Jewish: If your last name was Murray you were Board of Trade, but if your first name was Murray you went to the Merc. The onion trade was eventually banned by congressional order (at the request of angry onion farmers), while the egg trade revolved around the "butter and egg men" of Fulton Street.
Unlike onions, the egg trade was done in by modernization: Eventually chickens were laying eggs year round, which took the seasonality out. But by the time eggs went away, the bigger businesses -- currencies, indices and interest rates -- were just getting going.
There is very much a "right place, right time" aspect to the later explosive growth of the exchanges. Interest rate futures came into their own as the Volcker Fed wrestled with inflation in the early 1980s, causing bond prices to fluctuate wildly. Currency futures had started in time to take full advantage of the post-Bretton Woods era. And the big daddy of them all, stock index futures, got rolling with the help of a tax advantage at the start of the long-running bull market.
By the close of the story, the color and the craziness is clearly fading, the pushers and shovers in brightly colored jackets being replaced by the quiet hum of computers. Gone are the days of frantic hand signals, spontaneous fist fights, and drug-using clerks wearing goggles to protect their eyes against paper cuts. As Chicago modernized itself, going from stockyards to towers of steel and glass, so too did the futures industry. The new era is electronic, and global.
That makes it all the more fun, though, to revisit this fast, amusing tale of how the exchanges grew up with the Windy City, and the gritty roots of how it all came about.

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The New Science of Technical Analysis (Wiley Finance) Review

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(More customer reviews)Most technical analysis books seem to fall into two broad categories. The first is marked by a lack of rigour in thought, lack of backtesting or any form of real verification, and sparse foundations in any form of mass psychology or mathematics. The second category is the antithesis of the first.
This book falls into the more lamentable category. The author's main handicap is an immense ego, which blinds him to the ridiculous claims he makes about his methods, without any real backup. (Nevermind that his editor must have been a total pushover, since its a very poorly edited book).
Second, his methods reveal feeble methodology. Want a good example? Lets look at his chapter on moving averages. He says one fault of simple moving averages is they don't discount the far past in relation to the near past. He mentions some other ones which have been addressed elsewhere. But there aren't any formulae! He then starts talking about his enhancements to moving averages. Half of it doesn't make too much sense, and he neglects to show any graphs.
There are a couple of nuggets in here. One in particular was TD Points, as he calls them. But all the useful things he says could have been summarized into 5-10 pages. He also doesn't really talk about futures, commodities, volatilities, and strategy.
In the end, I cannot figure out why Wiley would publish this book. It doesn't have the quality.

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From the Foreword by John J. Murphy "DeMark's work as a consultant has been restricted to large institutions and many of the legendary traders in the world today. By sharing his creative ideas with us, as well as his passion for precision and improvement, Tom DeMark's emphasis on the 'new science' of technical analysis helps push the technical frontier another step forward. With the unprecedented attention now being paid to technical analysis, this new book couldn't have come at a better time." --John J. Murphy, bestselling author of Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets and Intermarket Technical Analysis, and technical analyst for CNBC "This book is filled with innovative, creative, and clever new ideas on technical analysis. Tom DeMark has done a wonderful job of turning subjective techniques into objective strategies and tactics." --Courtney Smith President and CIO Pinnacle Capital Management, Inc. "Those who know him and his work call him the consummate technician--a trading system developer without peer." --Futures magazine "DeMark is the ultimate indicator and systems guy. No one touches him. I know the Holy Grail of trading systems doesn't exist because if it did, Tom would have found it by now." --James Bianco Director of Arbor Trading "Tom DeMark is a genuine leader who has been behind-the-scenes until now. Publishing DeMark is a coup." --Ralph Vince author of The Mathematics of Money Management

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The Little Book of Currency Trading: How to Make Big Profits in the World of Forex (Little Books. Big Profits) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've read everything Kathy's ever written, and I'm better for it - and this book is no different. Short and to the point: Kathy's section on the buy and sell zones for the Bollinger Bands is worth the price of the book many times over. Those bands have saved me from taking some terrible trades, and helped me quickly identify market conditions that are favorable for longs or shorts. It's easily the best section of the book, in my opinion. Last of all, Kathy has the public track record to back up what she writes.
Trading is risky, of course, and no one strategy is perfect for everyone. But in a world of overpriced trading books, this book is absolutely worth buying.

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Expert Advisor Programming: Creating Automated Trading Systems in MQL for MetaTrader 4 Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is going to mean a great deal to anyone interested in it's subject matter. I bought this book the day it was published. As far as I know it is the first book ever published on this subject and thankfully it also happens to be a great book. It deals with the concept of creating a an Expert Advisor from scratch in a highly robust fashion. It's clear and concise. So much so that with very little programming experience I was able to create my first ever EA on day one after recieving this book. It starts with making a simple EA, then continues to add extra functionality and robustness. By the time you finnish you will have a program which will trade via simple rules (which you can then change to your own strategy) but it will have also included money management functions, trailing stops with a minimum profit stops embedded in it. It can also have a break even stop and the ability to close all orders at once, functions which will calculate the lot size you wish to use,automatically check how many digits your broker uses and the implications then on lot size and much more. This book is worth its weight in Gold!

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Finally, the first comprehensive guide to MQL programming is here! Expert Advisor Programming guides you through the process of developing robust automated forex trading systems for the popular MetaTrader 4 platform. In this book, the author draws on several years of experience coding hundreds of expert advisors for retail traders worldwide. You'll learn how to program these common trading tasks, and much more:- Place market, stop and limit orders.- Accurately calculate stop loss and take profit prices.- Calculate lot size based on risk.- Add flexible trailing stops to your orders.- Count, modify and close multiple orders at once.- Verify trading conditions using indicators and price data.- Create flexible and reusable source code functions.- Add advanced features such as timers, email alerts and Martingale lot sizing.- Avoid common trading errors and easily troubleshoot your programs.- Adjustments for fractional pip brokers and FIFO.- Plus, learn how to create your own custom indicators and scripts!Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer, Expert Advisor Programming can help you realize your automated trading ideas in the shortest amount of time. This book features dozens of code examples with detailed explanations, fully-functioning example programs, and reusable functions that you can use in your own expert advisors!

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All About Forex Trading (All About Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)We've been students of John and Wade (the authors) for the past 21 months and these two guys are fantastic teachers of the financial markets. We finally got the concept of Forex/Markets trading thanks to John and Wade's education. They taught us basics and advanced skills to read charts and trade with profits. They provide simple, no non-sense information needed to understand Forex. You'll love their style and sincerity to educate. Must read - highly recommended material.

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The Forex Mindset: The Skills and Winning Attitude You Need for More Profitable Forex Trading Review

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(More customer reviews)As a former Psychology-Sociology major I've read my share of studies of the mind, but this is one of the best. I am now hoping Martinez will write a biography. Anyone who know psychology as he does has more story to tell, and I for one, look forward to the read.

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Jared Martinez traded the forex market for a decade through the 1980s and '90s before he discovered that successful trading requires 10 percent skill and 90 percent emotional intelligence. He founded the Market Traders Institute on that underlying principle, and now MTI is the most established leader in forex education worldwide.

Jared is known as "FXCHIEF" in the industry, and now, in The Forex Mindset, he shares his secrets with you.

Leadership experts and corporate executives are just waking up to what the FXCHIEF has known for more than 15 years—emotional intelligence matters. With The Forex Mindset, you get up close and personal with greed and fear, the two leading forces in the market. Everyone gets in for greed, but without a healthy understanding of fear, you may be in for one of the worst journeys of your life. This performance-oriented guidebook features a potent synthesis of psychology and strategy that will exponentially increase your ability to acquire wealth as a trader.

Even veteran traders with bulletproof trading strategies are doomed to fail if they don't know themselves. The Forex Mindset prepares you to be a successful trader by helping you identify your unique psychological strengths and weaknesses and how you naturally behave in times of financial crisis. With a newfound understanding of yourself, you can use this book to map out your own path to wealth by:
Delving into human nature and market behavior
Learning how to improve your emotional intelligence
Doing what top traders do to control their emotions in trades and in times of crisis
Implementing authoritative strategies for effective thinking in a state of fear

If you want to make a living from trading forex, apply the lessons in The Forex Mindset and you're already 90 percent there!

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Beat the Forex Dealer: An insider's look into trading today's foreign exchange market (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)Unlike most Forex books, this does not reiterate basic strategy and definitions. Rather, it assumes that the reader knows the basics, and concisely reveals how the Forex dealers can use those strategies against the reader. The author's material corresponds well to common complaints from traders worldwide (check out Forex trader blogs at any website). The graphs are well-laid out, and helpful for elaborating on the counter-strategies described by the author. A quick read, but surely complex enough for re-reads. I cannot comment on whether the author's strategies will indeed ensuring "beating the dealer" (have not tested them yet), but I think that revealing how the Forex establishment can take advantage of traders will make readers more cautious, and less trusting. Should be part of any advanced beginner's library.

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Currency Trading For Dummies Review

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(More customer reviews)Let me be honest here:
This book provides some really good advice about trading the forex market. Which currencies have what tendencies, which times and reports to look out for, how to manage trades and money, etc. It provides the basics for any beginner. But, if you are a beginner, you will NOT notice something EXTREMELY important that the authors of this book did not mention ON PURPOSE. The authors, in full disclosure, state they are associated with [...](i.e. Gain Capital). And while in the book they make it seem that since [...] is part of/is a(n) FCM/CFTC/NFA (basically throwing out terms to a beginner to make it seem safe and legit), the author's on purpose do not mention that [...]is NOT an ECN broker, and hence you'd think that with all those acronyms they'd be credible, but think otherwise. In real short, what this means is that if you are not an ECN broker, you are allowed to, and most disclose in very fine print hidden among pages of other details they know few will read, take on purpose trades opposite of yours (hedge), in order to make more profits and ensure that begineers get wiped out and even good traders don't last for the long term. There are many more terrible practices these bucketshops use like fishing for stops, spread manipulation, etc, and [...]has the "white gloves" implied in this book very much dirty. Just google it if you don't believe me.
Just thought I'd throw this out there for any beginners. Choose your books wisely, but don't trust everything they say, and make sure you know what they failed to say and why.
EDIT: I don't mean to pick on Gain Capital specifically. All I am saying is when you do go to choose ANY forex broker, keep my information in mind since it wasn't outlined in the book.
Edit#2: Just in case, another point that wasn't mentioned: rememmber that if your broker is not FDIC insured, and they go under, all your money with them will almost certainly never be seen again (don't fall for their sales/marketing ploys of "we're the biggest ones" or we have a safe and positive balance sheet; if you never heard of Enron, GM, WAMU, then you'd need to read a bit about them). The only FDIC insured FX broker I know of is CITIFxPro, which, if you read in fine print, is managed by Saxo Bank, not CitiBank.

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Your plain-English guide to currency trading
Forex markets can be one of the fastest and most volatile financial markets to trade. Money can be lost or made in a matter of seconds, and forex markets are always moving. So how do you keep up? This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how the forex market really works, what moves it, and how you can actively trade in it — without losing your head!

All the world's a stage — get an easy-to-follow introduction to the global forex market and understand its size, scope, and players

Show me the money — take a look at the major fundamental and economic drivers that influence currency values and get the know-how to interpret data and events like a pro

Prepare for battle — discover different types of trading styles and make a concrete strategy and game plan before you act on anything

Pull the trigger — establish a position in the market, manage the trade while it's open, and close out on the most advantageous terms

Open the book and find:

Currency trading conventions and tools

Key characteristics of successful traders

Trading pitfalls to avoid and risk management rules to live by

How major currencies typically trade

Why it's important to be organized and prepared

The 411 on buying and selling simultaneously

Tips for understanding rollovers and interest rates

Learn to:

Grasp currency quotes

Capitalize on the foreign exchange market

Manage risk and reward

Use the forces that drive currency movements

Identify key traits of individual currency pairs

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Getting Started in Currency Trading: Winning in Today's Forex Market Review

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(More customer reviews)Novice traders and those with some experience could get a lot of benefits from this book without a lot of dollars.
This book is divided into 6 parts as follows :
1. The foreign exchange markets - forex landscape, a brief history and two ways to trade forex
2. Getting started - regulations, forex lexicon, trading tables, a guide to forex brokers, opening a forex account and making the trade
3. The tools of the trade - fundamental analysis, technical analysis, a trader's tool box, the forex market place and retail forex platforms
4. The complete forex trader - the plan, money management, psychology of trading and improving your trading skill
5. Extra for experts - options and exotics, computers and forex
6. Appendixes
It is nice to be able to download forms and tables in this book from its companion website. In term of delivery the author has managed to describe complex forex aspects into plain English.
May the pips be with you!

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Attacking Currency Trends: How to Anticipate and Trade Big Moves in the Forex Market (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the most boring, childish trading book I have ever read. First you have to go through almost 150 pages of filler, where the author explains, over and over and over again that he is going to show you how to "attack" currency trends. At some point you will probably scream and yell : "Shut the hell up and show us something, anything!!" Then he finally reveals his "secret", are you ready for this? Well here it is, in essence : Buy when the price is above its 100 and 200 moving average and sell when the price is below its 100 and 200 moving average. That's it. Seriously.
He shows you plenty of highly cherry-picked charts to prove his point. Of course for every perfect, textbook chart example there are at least 8 or 10 charts that do NOT work (naturally he won't tell you that), that's the problem with moving averages, they produce a LOT of false breakouts when the market is in a non-trending mood, which is its normal state almost 70% of the time! The author then adds a few (subjective) support/resistance lines (he calls them "remembered lines", how exotic), a couple of trendlines and some Fibonacci levels to the charts (to make them look more complex than they are) and there you are, you now know how to "attack" currency trends (yeah right!), aren't you the lucky one?
All in all, this book will surely impress newbies and amateurs, but for more experienced and knowledgeable traders it is a joke. The new comers will look at the beautiful cherry-picked charts and say "Wow, this stuff really works!". But they will quickly and painfully discover that applying these "techniques" in real time is quite a different story, as their stops get triggered trade after trade! I even challenge the author to consistently find the beginning of a real, mega trend with any degree of accuracy. Because believe it or not, this book not only wants to show you how to "attack" a currency trend, but how to ANTICIPATE a trend as well!
Folks, seriously, if we could anticipate forex trends we would all be richer than Bill Gates in less than two years.
Yes moving averages work with trending markets like the Forex, but nobody was able to eliminate all the false breakouts yet, and this little book is no exception.
PS: Look at all these (more than suspicious) 5 star reviews written by first-time "reviewers", they read like a commercial for the book.

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The guide for reading long-term trends in the foreign currency market
To thrive in the marketplace traders must anticipate, enter, and stay with trends in the foreign exchange market.
In this much-needed guide top forex, expert Greg Michalowski clearly explains the attributes of successful traders, and shows how traders can set themselves up for success by drafting an explicit mission statement and game plan. The book also contains the tools and techniques traders need to read the markets and identify when a market is in a trend. Michalowski shows traders how to enter an emerging trend, how to manage the position, and how to exit the position most effectively.
Includes the technical tools needed to invest in the foreign exchange market: moving averages, trendlines, and Fibonacci levels
Shows how to identify a trend and stick with the trend through its duration
Written by Greg Michalowski who was cited by SmartMoney magazine as a "go to" source for making money moves

With this book, Michalowski offers an important resource for identifying and riding out long-term trends in the volatile foreign currency.

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