Position Trading : BUY Like and Trader and HOLD Like an Investor (UK and International Edition)


Book Description

You have no doubt heard the phrase "a long-term investment is a short-term trade gone bad," meaning that when a stock falls in price soon after purchase we tend to hold on 'for the long term' in the hope of a recovery. This book turns that phrase on its head by presenting the position trader's mantra: "a long-term investment is a short-term trade gone well." Learn how to pick the right stocks at the right time; but not until you have mastered the essential arts of: * diversifying to spread your risk. * cutting losses and securing profits with stop orders. * not risking too much money thanks to effective position sizing. * pyramiding funds into your winning positions. * leveraging your investments for greater gains. In a nutshell, learn how to: BUY like a Trader and HOLD like an Investor. Find out if a position trader could make a market-beating 55% return in just over three months and a spectacular 3000% return in as little as six months. Website at www.lotontech.com/positiontrading




High Performance Trading


Book Description

High Performance Trading provides proven practical techniques and strategies to help traders of all abilities, experience levels and styles to enhance their trading performance and psychology. Based on practical coaching and training interventions, personal experiences, the latest research and feedback, and advice from leading traders, trading coaches and trading psychologists, this book offers something for everyone who wants to become a better trader. - Discover how to avoid the common pitfalls of trading and how to take the practical steps that can set you up for trading success. - Strengthen your trading discipline as you discover the art of flawless execution. - Develop and hone your mental edge through learning to think like a successful trader. - Programme yourself for trading success with powerful mental conditioning techniques. - Develop unshakeable focus and concentration and learn how to get into the trading zone. - Understand how to achieve and sustain a core of trading confidence. - Learn how to utilise simple techniques to manage your emotional states. - Build resilience to cope with trading stresses, and pressures and manage losses, setbacks and errors. - Move towards greater consistency and success in your trading performance.




Trading For Dummies


Book Description

Making informed trading decisions regardless of the market's condition Savvy traders can make money in both up and down markets. Trading For Dummies, Second Edition is for investors at all levels who are looking for a clear guide to successfully trading stocks in any type of market. It is also for investors who have experience trading and who are looking for new, proven methods to enhance the profitability of their investments. This no-nonsense guide presents a proven system for analyzing stocks, trends, and indicators and setting a buy-and-sell range beforehand to decrease risk in any type of market. It stresses the practice of position trading, conducting technical analysis on a company and its performance, and research methods that enable the trader to strategically select both an entry and exit point before a stock is even purchased. This updated guide features updated stock charts, position trading tips and techniques, and fresh ways to analyze trends and indicators.




A Practical Introduction to Day Trading


Book Description

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.




Lore of the Global Trader


Book Description

Reading trading books has always been necessary for traders, whether experienced or novice. Today, rapidly changing and hostile global stock markets have permanently altered the playing fields, rendering traditional trading methods practically obsolete. Consequently, everyone has the same uncompromised access to financial markets around the world, but with a stockbroking twist. This unique opportunity to turn novice traders into professional billion-dollar dealers is also inextricably linked to discipline, work ethic, experience and knowledge. Lore of the Global Trader maps out a clear plan for the online day trader to achieve unbelievable success in any market - anywhere in the world, simply from a personal computer. The book focuses on the interests of the online day trader, who wants to access global markets. It hones into a variety of trading styles and gives clear guidelines on what makes a person a successful trader, how to prepare for global trading, how to create an inter-market trading plan and how to use technical analysis to follow one's predetermined global trading strategy. While this book will guide new investors to becoming self-employed traders with balanced and diversified global portfolios, it will equally appeal to more experienced traders in terms of rethinking their strategies and reinforcing their trading disciplines.




The New Trading for a Living


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The best-selling trading book of all time—updated for the new era The New Trading for a Living updates a modern classic, popular worldwide among both private and institutional traders. This revised and expanded edition brings time-tested concepts in gear with today's fast-moving markets, adding new studies and techniques for the modern trader. This classic guide teaches a calm and disciplined approach to the markets. It emphasizes risk management along with self-management and provides clear rules for both. The New Trading for a Living includes templates for rating stock picks, creating trade plans, and rating your own readiness to trade. It provides the knowledge, perspective, and tools for developing your own effective trading system. All charts in this book are new and in full color, with clear comments on rules and techniques. The clarity of this book's language, its practical illustrations and generous sharing of the essential skills have made it a model for the industry—often imitated but never duplicated. Both new and experienced traders will appreciate its insights and the calm, systematic approach to modern markets. The New Trading for a Living will become an even more valuable resource than the author's previous books: Overcome barriers to success and develop stronger discipline Identify asymmetrical market zones, where rewards are higher and risks lower Master money management as you set entries, targets and stops Use a record-keeping system that will make you into your own teacher Successful trading is based on knowledge, focus, and discipline. The New Trading for a Living will lift your trading to a higher level by sharing classic wisdom along with modern market tools.




The Little Book of Trading


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How to get past the crisis and make the market work for you again The last decade has left people terrified of even the safest investment opportunities. This fear is not helping would-be investors who could be making money if they had a solid plan. The Little Book of Trading teaches the average person rules and philosophies that winners use to beat the market, regardless of the financial climate. The market has always fluctuated, but savvy traders know how to make money in good times and bad. Drawing on author Michael Covel's own trading experience, as well as insights from legendary traders, the book offers sound, practical advice in an easy to understand, readily digestible way. The Little Book of Trading: Identifies tools, concepts, psychologies, and philosophies that keep people protected and making money when the next market bubble or surprise crisis occurs Features top traders in each chapter that have beaten the market for decades, providing readers with their moneymaking knowledge Shows how traders who beat mutual fund performance make money at different times, not just from stocks alone Most importantly, The Little Book of Trading explains why mutual funds should not be the investment vehicle of choice for people looking to secure retirement, a radical realization highlighting the changed face of investing today.




The UK Trader's Bible


Book Description

This is the only comprehensive UK-published guide to short-term trading, combining detailed reference information with the author's advice on strategy and tactics. Every serious trader in the UK needs this book - not a nice-to-have, but a must-have! The 10 key things you will learn: - Detailed description of the different trading platforms (SEAQ, SETS, SETSmm, SEATS Plus) on the London Stock Exchange. - How to deal inside the spread in market making stocks and get the best price. - How auctions work on the London Stock Exchange platforms. - The importance of direct market access for active traders. - The secrets of programme trading, index arbitrage and block deals. - How the cash, futures, lending and derivatives markets interact. - The secrets and risks of short selling. - Which directors' deals to follow and which are irrelevant. - How to make money from takeover situations. - Secret strategies from an established and successful trader.




The International Political Economy of Investment Bubbles


Book Description

Providing a historical appraisal of bubble investments, and blending theory with field observations, this insightful work will benefit academics, researchers and professionals observing the nexus of relationships between speculation, states and markets. The book presents an analysis of the development and decline of investment bubbles and helps develop the models that inform the risk assessment of bubble behaviour. By identifying particular trends and consequences, the book presents insight into the operation of speculative activity and its social, economic and political repercussions.




Swing Trading For Dummies


Book Description

Increase profit and limit risk with swing trading basics Swing trading is all about riding the momentum of brief price changes in trending stocks. Although it can be risky, swing trading is popular for a reason, and Swing Trading For Dummies, 2nd Edition, will show you how to manage the risk and navigate the latest markets to succeed at this lucrative trading strategy. In this updated edition, you’ll find expert guidance on new accounting rules, the 2018 tax law, trading in international markets, algorithmic trading, and more. Plus, learn about the role social media now plays in moving asset prices, and how you can tap into online trends to ride price swings. Understand money management, journal keeping, and strategy planning Focus on fundamental analysis to increase your chance of success Evaluate companies to screen for under- or overvalued stocks Develop and implement your trading plan and calculate performance Starting from the basic differences between swing trading and other trading styles and progressing through plain-English explanations of more advanced topics like charts and reporting standards, Swing Trading For Dummies will help you maintain and grow your assets with swing trading in any market!