Trading Techniques

The Elements of Successful Trading
Developing Your Comprehensive Strategy Through Psychology, Money Management, and Trading Methods
Author: Robert Rotella
Publisher: New York Institute of Finance
Hardcover Published 08/92 666p. List $37.95

This book shows the way to create a clearly defined strategy that incorporates the technical financial aspects of trading as well as the less easily defined "mind set" of success. It teaches the reader how to combine money-management analysis techniques, established trading techniques, and the realities of trading on the floor.



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Event Trading
Profiting from Economic Reports and Short-Term Market Inefficiencies
Author: Ben Warwick
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Hardcover Published 06/96 218p. List $50.00

This book presents a new and exciting technique to trade on the financial and commodity markets, and represents a third major approach to trading, distinctly different from the fundamental and technical approaches. It is 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.



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The Four Cardinal Principles of Trading
How the World's Top Traders Identify Trends, Cut Losses, Maximize Profits, and Manage Risk
Author: Bruce Babcock
Publisher: Irwin
Hardcover Published 06/96 224p. List $40.00

This book fully explains each of the four key principles of trading (trade with the trend, cut losses short, let profits run, and manage risk) through a series of interviews with top traders such as Jack Schwager, Larry Williams, and Tom Aspray.



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High-Impact Day Trading
Powerful Techniques for Exploiting Short-Term Market Trends
Author: Robert M. Barnes
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Hardcover Published 03/96 221p. List $50.00

In this book the author examines several popular day trading techniques and reveals his own highly acclaimed system. He shows how to capitalize on daily price trends without risking much capital and demonstrates how to fine-tune his system to fit the behavioral characteristics of different markets.



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The Intuitive Trader
Developing Your Inner Trading Wisdom
Author: Robert Koppel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 05/96 238p. List $39.95

This book provides an in-depth examination of what makes top traders and investors successful. It provides a blueprint which enables readers to identify and learn how to cultivate the skills necessary to develop the intuitive sense and offers extensive exercises of actual techniques to use whether they are trading on the floor of an exchange, in front of a computer or through a broker. It also includes interviews with well-known market wizards such as Thomas Belsanti, Linda Leventhal, Charles Faulkner and Howard Abell who explain how they apply intuition on a regular basis for their own trading.



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The New Technical Trader
Boost Your Profit by Plugging into the Latest Indicators
Author: Tushar S. Chande Stanley Kroll
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 05/94 204p. List $59.95

This book integrates new methods of technical analysis with strategies for effective risk control and money management. Linear regression analysis, new momentum oscillators, VIDYA, Qstick, typical trade profile and contingency planning are among the topics discussed. It also includes tutorials and practical examples that explain the indicators in detail.



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Trader Vic
Methods of a Wall Street Master
Author: Victor Sperandeo T. Sullivan Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Softcover Published 09/93 304p. List $17.95

This book highlights proven strategies based on 3 principles, capital preservation, consistent profits and pursuit of superior returns, which are usable by any investor. Along with exploring the interrelationships between the national and global economies and monetary and fiscal policies, it describes the pyschological barriers which can prevent investors from executing their plans. It also demonstrates how investors can succeed in any market.



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Trader Vic II
Principles of Professional Speculation
Author: Victor Sperandeo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 04/94 275p. List $37.50

This book offers fresh, insightful applications to a legion of traditional investment techniques, combining concepts from fundamental and technical analysis, probability and statistics, politics, economics and psychology resulting in a comprehensive and proven trading approach. Its coverage includes Dow Theory, economic forecasting, the use of historical data in risk assessment and much more. It is packed with illustrations and charts from stock, futures and options markets, each clarifying a significant technique.



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Trading for a Living
Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Author: Alexander Elder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 04/93 289p. List $59.95

This book explores crucial factors in the markets that most experts overlook, time, volume and open interest and describes little-known indicators to profitably track them. It covers all the popular technical approaches to futures, options and stock markets including Elliott Wave, oscillators, moving averages, Market Logic, and point-and-figure charting. It also explains why most traders sabotage themselves and how to avoid doing the same.



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Trading Without Fear
Eliminating Emotional Decisions With Arms Trading Strategies
Author: Richard W. Arms Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 07/96 228p. List $49.95

This book explains the strategies underpinning volume analysis, an objective, emotion-free technical analysis and trading system that allows everyday individual investors to combine price and volume data for common stocks into a chart that reliably forecasts long-term market moves. It presents new material on ease of movement and volume-adjusting averages not available elsewhere. It also helps investors eliminate fear, a constant cause of paralysis, from their investment decisions.



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Tricks of the Floor Trader
Insider Trading Techniques for the Off-The-Floor Trader
Author: Neal T. Weintraub
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Hardcover Published 11/95 229p. List $40.00

This book describes the strategies and tactics used by floor traders and how to incorporate them successfully. It is written in a series of short chapters and the "tricks" used by professional traders are grouped into four sections: strategies, and tactics; psychology and discipline; money management; and general tricks and tips. It unveils an extraordinary amount of information on how pros make money in today's fast-paced trading pits and the reader will learn a variety of techniques, from trading a government report to exploiting overbought and oversold markets.



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Volume and Open Interest
Classic Trading Strategies for 24-Hour Markets
Author: Kenneth H. Shaleen
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Hardcover Published 07/96 277p. List $50.00

This book brings a thoroughly up-to-date perspective to identifying discrepancies in market behavior, especially markets in almost-constant transition, and developing a disciplined approach to using volume and open interest.



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