Our Current Trading Book Picks
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Money-Making Candlestick Patterns: Backtested for Proven Results Author/s: Palmquist, Steve |
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| Data that took Steve Palmquist years to compile and interpret is now at your fingertips. In this breakthrough guidebook, Palmquist reveals the most effective candlestick patterns and indepth information on back testing for optimal success. Thorough and highly organized, this book teaches you to exploit every move the market makes with cutting-edge chart-reading techniques. | |
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Profit from the Peak Author/s: Brian Hicks, Chris Nelder; |
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| According to author Brian Hicks, we are facing the end of our oil-based economy. Not just the United States, but the world. But the coming oil crisis doesn't have to have entirely negative implications. Profit from the Peak shows readers the potential upside to the end of oil and how this event can actually be a positive for investors. It will educate investors on which companies and industries are best positioned to take advantage of the changing marketplace. | |
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Trading for a Living Author/s: Alexander Elder |
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| You have just taken a big step away from the crowd of amateurs. By opening Trading for a Living, you’ve resolved to become a successful trader. Dr. Alexander Elder is a professional trader, a world-class expert in technical analysis, and a practicing psychiatrist. He believes that successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind, Method, and Money. First, you will see that the key to winning is inside your Mind. You will find out how to develop discipline and how to avoid the traps of emotional trading. Second, you will learn how to find good trades by using charts, computerized indicators, and other tools. You will discover how to combine several analytic Methods into a powerful trading system. Finally, you will learn how to manage Money in your trading account. The rules for limiting risks are as vital to a trader as a safety net is to a high-wire walker. With this book, you are on your way to mastering a new way of trading stocks, futures, currencies, and options. Dr. Alexander Elder helps you embark on an intense pursuit—trading for a living. |
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CFDs Specific Trading Books
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How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator Author/s: Alexander Davidson |
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| This is a crash course in speculation on the stock market. It focuses on proven strategies for making money, whether the market is up or down. This book shows you how to develop a trading system, and presents some little known rules of the game. It will teach you the essentials of stock market speculation, from how to find the right stockbroker, to how to make money selling short and things in between. The pitfalls of specuating in stocks are also addressed."--Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities |
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CFDs The Definitive Guide to Contracts for Difference Author/s: David James Norman |
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| CFDs, or contracts for difference, provide the investor with unparalleled trading opportunities in today's volatile markets.
CFDs are derivative products that allow you to trade on the price movements of securities and indices without ever owning the underlying asset. They offer a leveraged, flexible, cost-effective alternative to traditional trading methods. You can go long or short and hedge open positions in other tradable instruments, thereby enabling you to trade whatever the market conditions.
- What a CFD is, how it is priced, and the range of different CFDs and markets available to trade. - The principles of CFDs and the mechanics of opening, funding and maintaining a CFD trading account, and the different types of account that are available. - The logistics of trading CFDs including details of tradable markets, the range of underlying instruments and popular trading strategies. - The benefits and risks of trading CFDs including leverage, shorting, hedging and tax. - A comparison between CFDs and other trading instruments such as spread betting, covered warrants, options and futures. - Controlling risk through the use of stop loss limits, trailing stops, guaranteed stops and limited liability orders.
CFDs are an essential part of the smart investor's toolbox, and this book gives you everything you need to make the most of them. |
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The UK Trader's Bible |
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| The only comprehensive UK-published guide to short-term trading - Combines detailed reference information with the author's advice on strategy and tactics |
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Liars Poker By Michael Lewis |
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| In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. | |
