This book is essential reading for every commodities trader. Commodities expert Kevin Kerr shares the insights, tips, techniques (and even trading tricks) that he's learned through the school of raw experience on the trading floor and in the pits, right alongside legends such as Paul Tudor Jones. He demystifies the language and ritual of the commodity markets; shows the basics of fundamental analysis; and explains how market makers create pricing. Readers will explore the world of "open outcry trading," and learn how the markets have evolved, w…

Getting to the real value of a business and assessing what its shares are really worth suddenly looks less clear cut. In an investment environment that is extremely challenging even for experienced City professionals, doing your homework has never been more important. And with the current accounting scandals rocking confidence and the markets being able to accurately value copmpanies, stock has just taken on a whole new dimension. The book goes beyond investment ratios to explore what these ratios tell us about the company as an investment or …

In Applying Elliott Wave Theory Profitably author Steven Poser shows readers how to trade using Elliott Wave Theory-a powerful technical analysis tool used to forecast the stock market-through easy-to-follow trading strategies, while offering clear explanations on how to interpret this method's numerous patterns. Step-by-step guidance breaks down the Elliott Wave Theory and provides strategies that a trader can put into action along with a complete explanation of how and why the Elliott Wave Theory works. Applying Elliott Wave Theory Profitably…

An inside look at how to successfully day trade the currency market. Written by Kathy Lien. the chief strategist from the number one online currency broker in the world, "Day Trading the Currency Market" reveals a variety of technical and fundamental profit-making strategies for trading the currency market. Lien describes everything from time-tested technical and fundamental strategies that individual traders can use to compete with bank traders, to a host of more fundamentally oriented strategies drawn from the author's own experience, with th…

Use elite day trading strategies for impressive options trading results. Electronic day trading of Internet stocks may be making the headlines...but the entire field of day trading has exploded! "DeMark on Day Trading Options" is the first book to combine two of today's hottest trading phenomena - day trading and options trading - into one exciting blueprint for making money in volatile markets. After first reviewing the basics of options, Tom DeMark, renowned as a pioneer in technical analysis breaks new ground by introducing methods and techn…

Gets traders and investors up to speed on the hottest new approach to predicting the markets One of the most talked-about new forecasting tools in today's international markets, dynamic technical analysis (DTA) arms traders and investors with unprecedented insights into market volatility, price changes, and market trends. DTA is also a valuable money management tool and is much easier for money managers to master than traditional technical analysis techniques. The first practical introduction to this powerful new approach, Dynamic Technical…

"A great achievement that fills a void for everyone who uses charts. Bulkowski has taken an intelligent and thoughtful approach to producing a practical guide to evaluating chart formations."

The ability to make money in the world's financial markets depends critically on an individual's ability to make decisions independently of the crowd. To attain such independence, the investor or trader must acquire the capacity to understand the forces at work in logical terms, recognize (and neutralize) any emotional responses to market fluctuations, and design an investment process or trading system that generates objective 'buy' or 'sell' signals. This fifth edition has been completely updated to take the author's latest research into accou…

This monograph develops the franchise value approach to analyzing the prospective cash flows that determine a company's price-to-earnings ratio. The franchise factor model retains the simplicity and intuitive appeal of the dividend discount model, but it offers the advantages of flexibility in application and insight into the components of P/E growth.

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