The Electronic Day Trader: Successful Strategies For On-line Trading
The Electronic Day Trader: Successful Strategies For On-line Trading (208 pages, $34.95 hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0070158088), by Marc Friedfertig and George West, published by McGraw-Hill. Computerized daytrading has ushered in a new era on Wall Street. Nowadays, folks no longer have to depend on a retail broker to buy and sell stocks; modern technology has made it possible for individual investors to practice do-it-yourself trading. According to a recent article in Time magazine, online trading could account for nearly 30 percent of the projected 227 million securities exchanges at retail houses this year.
The Electronic Day Trader provides both an overview and a step-by-step explanation of the online trading process. The authors, who are both successful traders, present rules, techniques and investment strategies necessary to become an effective trader in this new environment. Much of the material in the book is derived from their personal experience.
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The Options Course: High Profit & Low Stress Trading Methods (301 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0471249505), by George A. Fontanills, published by John Wiley & Sons. The Options Course offers, for the first time in book form, a complete options trading course based on George Fontanills's seminar series. Using a systematic, step-by-step approach, this text equips you with the tools -- from basic concepts to sophisticated techniques -- necessary for trading in the world of options.
Although many investors recently have been bitten by the options bug, many lose money because they either don't understand the fundamentals of the options market, lack a strategic plan, or fail to manage risk effectively. Drawing on his years of experience, Fontanills has designed his course to help you avoid these common, costly and unnecessary mistakes.
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How To Invest The Smart Way In Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds (259 pages, $19.95 paperback, 1998, ISBN 0793126959), by Stephen Littauer, published by Dearborn Financial Publishing. According to the American Association of Individual Investors, if you had invested $1,000 in the stocks that make up the S&P 500 index at the end of 1940, you would now have $791,000. But if you had invested that same $1,000 in smaller companies, you could now have more than $4.9 million! You don't have to be a financial guru to invest wisely. Best-selling author Stephen Littauer shows you how to develop your own solid investment program. Littauer has counseled investors for more than 30 years.
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The Four Biggest Mistakes In Option Trading (70 pages, $19.95 paperback, 1998, ISBN 188327222X), by Jay Kaeppel, published by Traders' Library. You can potentially earn big profits in options trading by avoiding the four most common -- and most costly -- mistakes that most traders make.
System and software developer Jay Kaeppel shows you how to avoid common pitfalls option traders encounter that cause them to lose money in the long run. In Kaeppel's easy style, you'll learn to isolate the four most common mistakes, see why they are so common and easy to make, and discover a simple strategy to avoid these mistakes altogether. Concise and to the point, here's an action plan you can read and put into place immediately to work toward becoming a more profitable trader.
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Trading Index Options: An Intutitive Approach To Basic And Advanced Strategies (312 pages, $64.95 hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0786312300), by James B. Bittman, published by McGraw-Hill. Leading analysts believe that as much as 70 percent of a stock's performance is based not on its well-researched fundamentals, but instead on the direction of the overall market. Trading Index Options shows speculators how to bypass hard-to-protect individual stocks and put their money where it should be -- directly in the market, by investing in index options.
The book is written for active traders, and every page delivers practical information that can be used on an everyday basis. By presenting techniques to help traders evaluate situations, and presenting methodologies for managing market positions, the book shows traders how to set goals, prepare position management alternatives and keep a winning trader's intuitive psychology.
Contrarian Investment Strategies, The Next Generation: Beat The Market By Going Against The Crowd (464 pages, $25 hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0684813505), by David Dreman, published by Simon & Schuster.
After a long bull run, the stock market tends to exhibit increasing volatility and uncertainty. This is a climate that tests the mettle of the pros, the worries of the average investor, and the success of author David Dreman's contrarian strategies for the next millennium. This book shows investors how to outperform professional money managers and profit from potential Wall Street panics.
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The CRB Commodity Yearbook: 1998 (316 pages, $99.95 hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0471247057), by Bridge Information Systems America, Inc., published by John Wiley & Sons. Since 1939, professional traders, commercial hedgers, and speculators around the world have come to rely on The CRB Commodity Yearbook to help them navigate the uncertainties of the commodity markets. The 1998 edition has more than 900 tables, charts, and graphs for more than 100 commodities, seasonal patterns and historical data since 1986. This edition also contains special articles on understanding the effects of El Niño, as well as option market basics.
Breadth and depth of information make the Yearbook helpful for identifying changing trends in supply and demand and for projecting important price movements. The Yearbook provides crucial information on 103 domestic and international commodities, from alcohol to gold to zinc.
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