November 2008
Becoming
Your Own China Stock Guru
Fibonacci
Analysis
Inside
The Investor's Brain: The Power Of Mind Over Money
Trading
ETFs: Gaining An Edge With Technical Analysis
Trading
Futures For Dummies
Trading
Option Greeks: How Time, Volatility And Other Pricing Factors Drive Profit
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 Becoming Your
Own China Stock Guru (203 pages, $34.95 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-22312-3)
by James Trippon, published by John Wiley & Sons.
The author runs the largest independent equity investment research firm in mainland China, and in this book he reveals how to profit from the investment opportunities available in the world's new economic superpower. He offers a definitive how-to guide for the average investor. He provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals and then details what every investor needs to know before venturing into the Chinese stock markets. Investors need guidance to discern the between the winners, risky bets, and outright losers. This book will show you the way. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Fibonacci
Analysis (182 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-1-57660-261-4)
by Constance Brown, published by Bloomberg Press.
Fibonacci analysis is an effective tool for understanding market movement, but it can be difficult to understand. This work gives traders a concise and clear explanation of what this tool is, how it works, and how to apply it in today's markets. A range of topics are covered including: Fibonacci analysis of cycles, Fibonacci ratios for price projection, and applications for time analysis. This is a practical book that shows the most effective use of a technique that can increase the probability of trading success. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Inside The
Investor's Brain: The Power Of Mind Over Money (392 pages,
$60 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-06737-6) by Richard L. Peterson, published
by John Wiley & Sons.
Unfortunately, the way the human brain is wired is not conducive to making money when it comes to making decisions in the financial markets. The author, a former trader and founder of a market consulting firm, understands firsthand how subconscious mistakes (biases) can sabotage the financial decision-making of market participants. This detailed guide explains the fundamental "hardwired" mistakes made by investors and reveals the simple steps you can take to overcome these obstacles. Starting with examples of past basic and prevalent biases, this book goes on in four parts to describe everything from brain function to advice for managing your mind. With many real-world examples helping you to identify subconscious biases, you will understand when thinking will (or won't) improve your investment process, and learn to focus on the investment process, not the outcome. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Trading ETFs:
Gaining An Edge With Technical Analysis (233 pages, $55 hardcover,
2008, ISBN 978-1-57660-305-5) by Deron Wagner, published by Bloomberg Press.
An ETF consists of a pool of individual securities. Even though fundamental factors have an impact on the long term, in the short to intermediate term, the correlation between the actual price action of an ETF and its fundamentals is rarely significant. Technical analysis, however, reveals what a trader needs to know about the odds of a security continuing in the current direction or reversing. The strategies offered here can benefit both professional investors and individuals looking for new techniques for actively managing a personal portfolio. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Trading Futures
For Dummies (364 pages, $24.99 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-28722-4)
by Joe Duarte, MD, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide, written by an occasional STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor, gives you the surefire strategies you need to be a successful trader with up-to-the-minute advice on the various types of futures, conducting research, finding a broker, entering and exiting positions, and minimizing your losses. You will learn how to protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market and you get bearish and bullish strategies and tips for trading online. Here's where you can discover how to understand trends in the global economy, use charting patterns and indicators, execute successful trades, set realistic goals, and avoid common trading pitfalls. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Trading Option
Greeks: How Time, Volatility And Other Pricing Factors Drive Profit
(330 pages, $59.95 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-1-57660246-1) by Dan Passarelli,
published by Bloomberg Press.
With an introduction to option basics as well as chapters on all types of spreads, put-call parity and synthetic options, trading volatility and studying volatility charts, and advanced option trading, this book has pertinent new information on how more accurate pricing can drive profit. Most option traders focus on strategies such as covered calls, vertical spreads, butterflies and condors, and so on. But traders often don't know how to use the five "greeks," factors that influence an option's price to trade more effectively. The greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho) are tools to measure minute changes in an option's price based on corresponding changes in interest rates, time to expiration, price changes in the underlying security, volatility, and dividends. Using these tools can lead to more accurate pricing information that will alert an option trader to mispriced derivatives that can be exploited for profit. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Originally published in the November 2008 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2008, Technical Analysis, Inc.