"Trading Realities" teaches investors and traders the universal principles that apply to every market. Augen illuminates key issues such as leverage, liquidity, risk, valuation, and the impact of events, and shows how to apply this knowledge to trade and invest more profitably.
Ambitious young city trader, Mark Fairfax, finds his own life is in danger when he takes over the reins of his murdered brother's innovative virtual reality company. By the author of Free to trade.
A straightforward guide to successfully trading options Options provide traders and investors with a wide range of strategies to lock in profits, reduce risk, generate income, or speculate on market direction. However, they are complex instruments and can be difficult to master if misunderstood. No-Hype Options Trading offers the straight truth on how to trade the options market. In it, author Kerry Given provides realistic strategies to consistently generate income every month, while debunking many myths about options trading that tend to lead retail traders astray. Along the way, he makes a conscious effort to avoid complex strategies that are appropriate only for market makers or professional traders, and instead focuses on low-risk strategies that can be easily implemented and managed by a part-time trader. Shows how you can use option spreads in conjunction with stocks to produce a regular stream of income Each chapter includes exercises to help you master the material presented Examines how you can adjust option positions as market conditions change in order to maintain an optimal risk/reward profile Written for anyone interested in successfully trading options, this reliable resource cuts through the hype and misinformation that surrounds options trading and presents a realistic path to profits.
Bruce Jacobs sifts through the history of modern finance, from the efficient market hypothesis to behavioral psychology and chaos theory, to determine the cause of recent market crashes. Includes a Foreword from Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz. Showcases the expertise of an author who identified and predicted the causes of 1987, 1997 and 1998 crashes. Explains the risks of little-understood option replication. Offers chapter summaries, appendices and a glossary.
Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.
Required Reading for the Serious Options Trader This book is an expanded revision of "Options: Perception and Deception" and "Coulda Woulda Shoulda". "Options Trading: The Hidden Reality" (OTTHR) is printed in color and has 100 more pages than previous versions. In addition to 3D graphics and Skew Library, OTTHR features Position Dissection (the Market Maker Risk Management Tool) illustrations on popular wingspread (stretched-out condors, slingshots and skip-strike-flies) and calendarized spread (double diagonals, straddle strangle swaps and double calendars) configurations.
Trading is absolutely the most difficult challenge that you will undertake in your life and will test your emotions, patience and be more than you ever could be prepared for as a self-directed beginner trader. While trading is certainly easy once you know what to do, learning it and becoming successful at it can be long and brutally hard or slow and consistent, that part is up to you. The brutal truth is that there does not have to be failure to gain success if you have the right information from the very first day you start off learning this business. Unfortunately though, brand new investors and traders are given mostly the wrong information and taught to do things that in the real world of trading in live markets are not even realistic to do and can cause them to lose money right away. Some of the things you will read in The Brutal Reality of Day Trading for Beginners are harsh for sure however they are the truth in trading. The Brutal Reality of Day Trading for Beginners is designed to give the brand new self-directed beginner investor and trader a harsh reality check on trying to do this business and not having thought it through or having and working from a rule based plan. The basic information they need to get going and start making money right away in the financial markets is within this short book. Everything that is in this book must be done by all brand new investors and traders. All successful market participants have had to do everything that is discussed in this book, there are zero shortcuts and should you try to take one and not learn what The Brutal Reality of Day Trading for Beginners tells you, you will most assuredly lose some or all of your hard earned capital. The information The Brutal Reality of Day Trading for Beginners will help you to cut down your learning curve and put you on the fast track to making real income from the live financial markets right away if you can grasp the basic principles right away. There is no timetable set in stone on how long it should take to learn to do this business the right way from the first day, you don’t need to be in any hurry because the market is always going to be there waiting to pay you!
Trading is generally far more difficult in practice than in theory. The reality is that no trade set up or individual trader or system can identify profitable trades in advance with complete certainty. In A Year of Trading, long-time trader Peter Brandt reveals the anxieties and uncertainties of trading in a diary of his 2009 trades. He explains his thought process as he searches for trading opportunities and executes them. Each trade includes charts, an analysis of the trade, and a play-by-play account of how the trade unfolds.
Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas: * How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader * How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd * How to use a computer to find good trades * How to develop a powerful trading system * How to find the trades with the best odds of success * How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion volume--Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills. For example: Question Markets rise when * there are more buyers than sellers * buyers are more aggressive than sellers * sellers are afraid and demand a premium * more shares or contracts are bought than sold * I and II * II and III * II and IV * III and IV Answer B. II and III. Every change in price reflects what happens in the battle between bulls and bears. Markets rise when bulls feel more strongly than bears. They rally when buyers are confident and sellers demand a premium for participating in the game that is going against them. There is a buyer and a seller behind every transaction. The number of stocks or futures bought and sold is equal by definition.