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Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets by Carley Garner : the book

Currency trading offers immense potential to stock and futures investors seeking new speculative opportunities. However, there are several ways to trade in currencies, and many unsuspecting traders have been burned by aggressive marketing campaigns and gimmicks luring them into unfavorable trading environments. In this book, best-selling trading author Carley Garner covers everything new currency traders need to know to avoid those pitfalls and start earning big profits. Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets begins by demystifying all the essentials, from quotes and calculations to the unique language of Forex trading. Readers learn all they need to know about choosing trading platforms and brokerage firms; working with leverage; controlling transaction costs; managing liquidity, margins, and risks; and much more. Garner thoroughly explains the currency spot market (Forex); currency futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME); and currency ETFs. She candidly discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each, cutting through the "smoke and mirrors" often associated with currency trading. Readers will also find a full section on currency market speculation, including a clear introduction to fundamental and seasonal analysis in currency markets. With her guidance, new currency traders can identify the markets and approaches that best fit their objectives, and avoid the pitfalls that have often victimized their predecessors.

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The New Reality of Wall Street: An Investor's Survival Guide to Triple Waterfalls and Other Stock Market Perils : the book

An investor's survival guide to avoiding costly dangers in today's uncertain markets That the "bubble burst" in 2000 is really a misnomer. The fall of the markets actually marked a seldom-seen--but always dangerous--triple waterfall. In The New Reality of Wall Street, Donald Coxe--a huge name in institutional investment circles--provides shaky investors with the reassuring knowledge and guidance they need to recoup recent investment losses, and weather a financial storm that is still far from over. While Coxe warns that the third leg of the triple waterfall is still alive, he shows there are profits to be made. The New Reality of Wall Street tells investors where to look--and what to look for--to invest profitably despite the prevailing doom and gloom as it discusses: How to understand and profit from the triple waterfall phenomenon What the fall of the dollar means to future investors Which direction inflation should turn, and why

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The Nature of Risk: Stock Market Survival and the Meaning of Life : the book

Mamis--who has been hailed as a "wildly prescient man" by the Milwaukee Business Journal, named to the Wall Street Letter's 1991 All-American Research Team, and called one of five leading gurus of the stock market by Barron's--reveals the great paradox of making money in the market: the less you know about a stock or company, the better off you are.

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The Master Swing Trader Toolkit: The Market Survival Guide : the book

With more than 50,000 copies sold, Alan Farley’s The Master Swing Trader has become the definitive guide for maximizing profit from short-term price moves. Now in his highly anticipated companion volume, The Master Swing Trader Toolkit: The Market Survival Guide, Farley builds on his proven strategies and techniques and delivers new tips for consistently beating the markets— today and in the future. The Master Swing Trader Toolkit is a powerful application-oriented handbook that shows you how to identify and grow wealth from the opportunities resulting from the steep market crash. Additionally, this full-service volume offers prescriptions for prospering in the postcrash environment and provides guidance for finding new, reduced-risk market prospects during virtually any economic scenario to come. The author’s trading style has evolved since the publication of The Master Swing Trader. This follow-up companion helps you adapt and gain an edge as the author has, specifically in the vein of “defensive trading,” to achieve profitability in the modern electronic markets. Because The Master Swing Trader Toolkit is a survival guide for the real world, Farley presents an abundance of authentic case studies to show his defensive trading strategies in action, and he illustrates a broad variety of other patterns and observations acting in specific market scenarios. The Master Swing Trader Toolkit prepares you for success in the financial landscape of today and tomorrow with insightful, up-todate coverage on: Cross-market analysis Convergence-divergence relationships Relative strength Managing multiple positions Remote trading Risk management At its core, The Master Swing Trader Toolkit: The Market Survival Guide is a book about tape reading. The ticker tape is immune from manipulation, deconstruction, regulation, and fragmentation, which makes it the most powerful tool for attaining wealth. Get the most out of what you read by starting with The Master Swing Trader Toolkit.

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Option Greeks in Plain English: Mastery in Under 60 Minutes by Steven Place : the book

Would you buy a stock without knowing anything about the company or looking at a stock chart?

Heck no!

But so many people do that with options trading, blindly trading options without knowing the true risks in options, as well as not knowing how they will really make money.

This book will teach you about the kinds of risks and rewards in options trading, known as the option greeks.

Move above the complex equations and see how stock options can be much simpler when you learn about them visually and through stories.

In 60 minutes, you will have enough practical knowledge to trade stock options with ease.

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Multicriteria Portfolio Management By Panos Xidonas, George Mavrotas, Theodore Krintas, John Psarras, Constantin Zopounidis : the book

The primary purpose in this book is to present an integrated and innovative methodological approach for the construction and selection of equity portfolios. The approach takes into account the inherent multidimensional nature of the problem, while allowing the decision makers to incorporate specified preferences in the decision processes. A fundamental principle of modern portfolio theory is that comparisons between portfolios are generally made using two criteria; the expected return and portfolio variance. According to most of the portfolio models derived from the stochastic dominance approach, the group of portfolios open to comparisons is divided into two parts: the efficient portfolios, and the dominated. This work integrates the two approaches providing a unified model for decision making in portfolio management with multiple criteria.​

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The Taylor Trading Technique by George Douglass Taylor : the book

For those interested in day trading and short-term trading in futures, this classic 1950 work is an indispensable reference. The 3-Day Method (a.k.a. The Book Method) described therein, maintains that markets move in a three-day cycle that can be tracked by measuring rallies and declines. Linda Bradford Raschke highly recommends this book and the principles it teaches. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: How the Market Trend is Made Chapter 2: How to Make Up a Trading Book Chapter 3: Uses for the Columns and Marks Chapter 4: The Symbols as Trend Indicators Chapter 5: A Buying Day Chapter 6: A Buying Day Low Violation Chapter 7: A Selling Day Chapter 8: A Short Sale Day Chapter 9: A Short Sale at High of Buying Day Made First Chapter 10: Failures to Penetrate Chapter 11: The Trend Line and Trading Areas-Market Trends Chapter 12: Limit Day Moves Chapter 13: The Three Day Swing Method Chapter 14: The Investor and Swing Trader Chapter 15: Pertinent Points Many illustrated plates and cuts

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The LIBOR Market Model in Practice by Dariusz Gatarek : the book

The LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is the first model of interest rates dynamics consistent with the market practice of pricing interest rate derivatives and therefore it is widely used by financial institution for valuation of interest rate derivatives. This book provides a full practitioner's approach to the LIBOR Market Model. It adopts the specific language of a quantitative analyst to the largest possible level and is one of first books on the subject written entirely by quants. The book is divided into three parts - theory, calibration and simulation. New and important issues are covered, such as various drift approximations, various parametric and nonparametric calibrations, and the uncertain volatility approach to smile modelling; a version of the HJM model based on market observables and the duality between BGM and HJM models. Co-authored by Dariusz Gatarek, the 'G' in the BGM model who is internationally known for his work on LIBOR market models, this book offers an essential perspective on the global benchmark for short-term interest rates.

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Markos Katsanos, "Intermarket Trading Strategies" : the book

This book shows traders how to use Intermarket Analysis to forecast future equity, index and commodity price movements. It introduces custom indicators and Intermarket based systems using basic mathematical and statistical principles to help traders develop and design Intermarket trading systems appropriate for long term, intermediate, short term and day trading. The metastock code for all systems is included and the testing method is described thoroughly. All systems are back tested using at least 200 bars of historical data and compared using various profitability and drawdown metrics.

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Getting Started in Currency Trading: Winning in Today's Hottest Marketplace by Michael D. Archer : the book

Getting Started in Currency Trading is both an introduction and reference tool for beginning and intermediate foreign exchange (Forex) traders. This information-packed resource opens with a description of the Forex market and a section of clearly defined Forex terms with examples. You'll learn how to open your own trading account by following step-by-step instructions and numerous screen shots that show you what expect inside a dealer's trading platform.