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Day Trade Part-Time Review

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(More customer reviews)When John and I started trading, we found such a confusing mess of information that we had a very difficult time getting started. And it was an expensive time because we had no clear direction or path to take. We wrote this book to serve as a mentor to people who want to give day trading a try, but don't want to "quit their day job" or lose their life's savings to do it.
Day trading is not, and should never be, gambling. In times of extreme market volatility, it can be your most conservative investment style. Understanding and using the principles of day trading can be a safe alternative to a "buy and hold" strategy when the markets are in a zig-zag pattern up and down. With the technology stocks going up 10 points one day and down 10 the next, a careful day trader can capture a piece of that variability each day, whereas a "buy and holder" would be net flat and probably developing a considerable ulcer. Everyone interested in stocks should know enough about day trading to understand good intraday entry points, even if they are primarily investors.
This book is meant to act as your guide - helping you take each step in the learning process toward becoming a successful part-time day trader. We show you how to find a broker, what software you need, what books to read, what web sites to look at, what training course you need, and give you guidance on how to put it all together.
Most important, we tell you everything that can go wrong! And we show you how to practise without risking any of your hard earned money. This is not a get-rich quick scheme. It is an approach that will enable you to capture the daily variations in the market.
John and I were not hedge fund managers. We were not stock brokers. We were just regular people like most of you that wanted to find a way to make a little extra money. We know what regular people "don't" know - we don't assume you have Wall Street Knowledge. We talk to you like we wish someone had talked to us. And we give you examples of the things we went through so you can learn from our experiences and not have to repeat our mistakes.
We wish you much success. Jeanette

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Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are like most people, after your first few losing trades you set about to learn better market analysis. After your next string of losers you learned about risk management. But there's still one more challenge to conquer; yourself.
     That is the major premise of this book. If it sounds like wishy-washy psycho-babble to you, I'll only say that I would have agreed -- four months ago, before I quit my 20-year technology career, obtained a Series/7 license and joined a professional day-trading firm. I now believe most people would lose money if you gave them 50/50 odds on whether or not it was going to rain tomorrow.
     In other words, successfully forecasting the market is not enough. Why not? Well, this book explains why not. It has to do with one's sense of self-worth, one's moral judgment of money, one's work-ethic, one's tendency to focus on good news while ignoring bad, and other things.
     "Zone" was recommended to a friend of mine by a professional floor trader who told him, "I wish I had read it before starting two years ago. Don't place another trade until you do." Well said. Does this apply to investors as well as traders? Oh, absolutely! If you have ever said to yourself, "I'm not selling that stock while it's down, I'll wait until I have a profit in it," then for the love of money, read this book.
     Finally, read "Zone" before Douglas' earlier work. If you still want more then read "Disciplined Trader" for a general review plus a deeper exploration into the author's philosophical and meta-physical theories.

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Pasha The Greek Review

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(More customer reviews)For a kid caught in a net he sure went a long way. He was the hero of his small village, saving it twice from disaster then going on the road to be a trader for thousands of years. I would have liked to hear more about his many wives. The part about the Camels was interesting but when the one old female adopted his young bride Mora and he took her home to his castle and the whole staff fell in love with her then they found the ship and she got all interested in exploring it then they took the trip to other worlds. Poor Mora passed away from the plague then he married the Princess of England and years later tried to tell them about the wars that were coming but they wouldn't listen then after World war one he Married the American in spite of her antics but she turned out to be okay. She was feisty and insisted on being a pilot in spite of everything he did to keep her home but she got to test the planes he was building and after the war. OOps don't want to give away the whole plot someone else may enjoy it as much as I did.
Oh I looked up the sales on CS and the thing has sold a bunch sure glad I bought mine from CS.
Clair Johnson. (Went to school with Melvin he was a quiet guy who would have guessed he would turn out to be such a good writer).

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Caught in a fisherman's net in about 5,000 BC, he was about five summers and did not know who he was or where he came from. He grows up with the fisherman's family, saves the village from bandits, saves the people from a tidal wave, becomes a trader and lives many centuries trading on the silk road to China.

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Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (Studies in Comparative World History) Review

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(More customer reviews)I first encountered this book as part of my grandmother's current reading shortly after its publication. I next saw it as part of the required reading for an upper division undergraduate history course. I mention these to note that this book will interest the casual reader of history or the serious student. While it is scholarly, it's subject takes the reader on such a world tour that it practically qualifies as a travelogue. Curtin's accessible presentation makes this is an exciting as well as an informative read.
Curtin describes how the urge to exchange the goods uniquely available to specific areas has encouraged cultures to meet and exchange ideas as well as goods throughout the centuries. His examples of these exchanges, ranging from Greek city states and West African kingdoms, to Portuguese explorers in the interior of Brazil and Indonesian merchants so accustomed to sailing in search of commerce that they have no home on land, demonstrate the effects on individuals and societies of these meetings, and the accomodations neccesary between merchants to negotiate their differences and get the goods they desire. Along the way we see familiar historical characters in a new light, as with Curtin's discussion of the British trade with Russia and a reexamination of British-Indian trade from the Indian perspective, or his consideration of Spanish competition with the Dutch for South East Asian trade. Players one might not have considered emerge as major powers, as with Armenian trade, from their participation in the Silk Road between Ancient Rome and China, to their invaluable role as cross cultural ambassadors for most of Eurasia up to the nineteenth century. Curtin closes with a consideration of the birth of the modern global industrial economy.
This is a valuable book for any serious student of history and an interseting read for the lay reader as well.

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My Word Is My Bond: Voices from Inside the Chicago Board of Trade Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a FASCINATING book about a business, institution, and people who have been a driving force in the commodities business. It is very well written, capturing the trust and intelligence of those who have contributed to this unique market.

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Technical Trading Online (Wiley Online Trading for a Living Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you were trading profitable would you read books about online trading?
So if you are interested in buying books about this topic then we can suggest that you're a beginning or a losing trader. As a beginner I'd prefer reading another book which focuses on the basics (like Elder's classic "Trading for a Living"). If you are in the markets for several months already and you think you might belong to the 90% losing traders then this book is for you. For all the Dollars lost in the markets you'd be stupid to save your cash on this book. I've read many great books about trading online. And this one belongs to my favorite. No book will make you trade profitably and no book is a substistute for experience. But some books including this one will help you make big steps forward.
Many books I've read about online or day trading were written by Nasdaq market makers. All in all they were all telling you the same about cutting losses etc. What makes this one outstanding is the use of those cunning and witty metaphors by the authors. I remember my first major loss, I was almost crying and doubting my existence. But when I read the very first pages of this book which were covering just my mischief I burst out laughing. One might think the author's trying to insult or making fun of the trading crowd out there calling us "stupids" or "schmoes". But he's not. He experienced the same I did. And many of you were experiencing severe losses too.
Losing is a learning process. Why crying about your losses when you can laugh and get your lessons by just reading this book. You really should do. -- Five Stars!!
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Okay, I leave the review above from June 2001 as it was.
Five years and some books on trading later I have to add that this and all other books from the Wiley Online Trading for a Living series are mainly written for beginning traders. They're not bad at all and you really don't waste your money on them.
Technical Trading Online still belongs to my favorites. However it lacks in details. I must admit that I rather read it for the laughs. Although the author finds some serious words at the end of the book. Trading IS a serious profession.
Today, when it comes to books that hammer and engrave their messages into my brain, I like to recommend Vadym Graifer's Techniques of Tape Reading and John Carter's Mastering the Trade which is a very fine book (and doesn't lack of wits either). These two books are not for beginners as they require common knowledge in technical analysis (like candles, trends or averages...). A great book on this basic knowledge is Steven Achelis' Technical Analysis from A to Z.

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The four golden rules of trading in one invaluable bookHere is the first online trading book to present a detailed approach to using technical analysis online in the real world of stock trading for any trader, regardless of his or her strategy. Using a comprehensive trading model that can be modified to meet the individual trader's needs, this professionally crafted advice will make a pro out of anyone. Also included is a reference to the next online resources for charting.

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Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is both exhaustive and, at times, exhausting. Brenner's thesis, encapulated in the lengthy postscript to the book, is that socio-political forces remain at the forefront of explanations of the English Civil War, despite the overthrowing of the older consensus that the Revolution represented the comprehensive destruction of feudal remnants by an increasingly confident, largely urban bourgegoisie. In this Brenner is at odds with revisionist historians like Conrad Russell and Mark Kishlansky, both of whom stress the exogenous character of factors like religion and war. Brenner painfully amasses evidence for the decisive role of what he calls the London colonial, inter-loping merchants, whose radical religious and commercial agendas were finally fully adopted in the establishment of the Commonwealth in opposition to the older London merchants elites ensconced first in the Merchant Adventurers and then in the East Indies Company. These latter had their power and prestige directly from the monarchy and thus represented a form of socio-political power that was anti-capitalist even if still bourgeois and based on mercantile trade. The battle between the Royalists and the Parliamentary forces represented divergent understandings of the place of the sovereign in a country whose principal subjects were increasingly coming under the sway of capitalist values, and whose ideas of absolute ownership of property, religion, political consensus and the proper use of foreign policy were repeatedly traduced by a monarchy who insisted on out-moded concepts of sovereignty.

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A major reinterpretation ofthe transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.

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Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The muslims have been about eight centuries in Iberia . Some roots in the south remain .Of course they have lived with people of other religions , but it was not a paradise . They were more developed than the local people , in the agriculture , in the sciences , and architecture . By these reasons , they had relationship with the east , mainly Egipt , north Africa and some christian Countries . This helped , but it was not enough . This book is a very good help to understand some reasons of its so long presence .

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