How to trade -- and make money -- in the international futures and options markets. The global futures markets are growing steadily, but information on their workings has been scarce. This guide presents a short history of the industry and covers terminology, language, practices of daily business, the players in the game, and the functions of the exchanges and clearing houses. You'll find inside information on the workings of each of the major trading floors, including New York, Chicago, Tokyo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Sydney. Includes listings of futures exchanges, clearing houses, and more than 275 contract specifications and their annual volumes.
"Marshall McLuhan said, 'We have become a global village,' CNBC has helped lead the way in creating a global village for the financial markets. Readers will finish CNBC 24/7 Trading feeling smarter about the markets and really understanding how important it is to be in the information flow." -Mary Meeker, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter "CNBC 24/7 Trading unlocks the mystery of how individual investors can invest and trade everywhere all the time. This book will become the investment bible that levels the playing field between Wall Street and Main Street." -Robert J. Froehlich, Vice Chairman, Kemper Funds Group Managing Director, Scudder Kemper Investments "TD Waterhouse has operations in eight countries, so we see that growth in international investing is accelerating. To be successful investing around the globe, investors need both information and insight. CNBC 24/7 Trading covers what individual investors need to know in a thorough, easy to understand way." -Steve McDonald, CEO, TD Waterhouse From the Foreword "CNBC 24/7 Trading . . . embraces the reality that the markets never stand still . . . this book is a guide to the emerging 24/7 marketplace, a road map to the potential rewards for investors who can grasp that marketplace's opportunities and understand its risks."-Sue Herera "This definitive book on investing in the 24/7 markets provides the comprehensive tools for active investors and market pros alike. Offering information and advice on trading, obtaining research, measuring market volatility, and assessing local market risk, no smart investor should venture without it." -Linda R. Killian, CFA, Principal, Renaissance Capital
This book provides a comprehensive look at the challenges of keeping up with liquidity needs and technology advancements. It is also a sourcebook for understandable, practical solutions on trading and technology.
Global trading was once purely the domain of specialists such as George Soros. But the efficiency of electronic trading is opening up this lucrative market to the masses. This book details how the average investor can access the global markets and profit from them.
Many individuals enter financial markets with the objective of earning a profit from capitalizing on price fluctuations. However, many of these new traders lose their money in attempting to do so. The reason for this is often because these new traders lack any fundamental understanding of financial markets, they cannot interpret any data, and they have no strategy for trading. Trading in markets is really about deploying strategies and managing risks. Indeed, successful traders are those who have strategies which they have proved to be consistent in granting them more financial gains than financial losses. The purpose of this book is to help a potentially uninformed retail trader or inquisitive reader understand more about financial markets, and assist them in gaining the technical skills required to profit from trading. It represents a beginner’s guide to trading, with a core focus on stocks and currencies.
Gives an incisive analysis of and insight into volume & open interest, which have been used as technical indicators of market trends for many years. Shows -- How market sentiment is reflected through VOI indicators -- How to develop a disciplined approach to using VOI -- How to identify discrepancies in market behavior -- How to analyze the behavior of specific markets.
Written by Kathy Lien—chief strategist for the number one online currency broker in the world—Day Trading the Currency Market reveals a variety of technical and fundamental profit-making strategies for trading the currency market, and provides a detailed look at how this market actually works. It contains actionable information and strategies, which can help you enter this highly competitive arena with confidence and exit with profits.
Trading forex is completely different from trading other markets. With low entry costs, 24-hour accessibility, global players and high degrees of leverage, there are enormous opportunities but also very real potential hazards along the way if you don t know what you re doing. Leverage can work both ways you control large positions, but small moves in your favor can mean big returns on your investment. For these reasons, forex trading deserves its own volume, devoted entirely to SFO (Stocks, Futures, Options) Magazine articles explaining the ins and outs of currency trading. Forex traders don t need to follow hundreds of stocks or commodities to get a flavor for the market just the movements of eight major currencies: the U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, European Union euro, British pound, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar and Swiss franc. Trading a country¿s currency is like trading the outlook for the country, so it helps to have a bit of fundamental knowledge. But it s also a highly technical form of trading. This book helps you assess how to best synthesize your forex strategies to make the most of market movements. Learn from the top forex trading experts in the world. The key to trading currencies is figuring out what central banks will do before they actually make their moves.
