Book Description
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. You'll walk through the physical process of placing and liquidating currency orders. Later chapters introduce various trading strategies and tactics in detail, along with some fundamental and technical analysis that will help you win in the exploding foreign exchange trading market.
Download Description
An accessible introduction to the exploding foreign exchange trading market 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 clear description of the Forex market and a section of Forex terms that are clearly defined with examples. Readers are then shown how to open their own trading account with step-by-step instructions-accompanied by numerous screen shots of what to expect inside a dealer's trading platform-that walk them through the physical process of placing and liquidating currency orders. Other chapters introduce various trading strategies and tactics in detail, along with some fundamental and technical analysis to assist the trader in their decision-making process.
Customer Reviews:
Exactly what you should get in a beginner's Forex book.......2007-07-12
This book is exactly what a beginner's Forex book should be. It gives you a very brief history, terms used in Forex, the mechanics of Forex, how to open an account with a broker or online, the calculations, some money management techniques and a chapter on fundamental and technical analysis and resources. It contains just enough information for a beginner to get started without overwhelming her / him.
broad over view.......2007-05-19
but abit lacking on knowledge.not enough indepth knowledge and wisdom for me. but none the less useful. more of a quick reference i think.a book more if want a sneek peak at the forex market. easy to read and understand.
USELESS.......2007-04-25
The authors brief treatment of what are very complex topics will lead readers to falsely believe that they can trade these markets with little training. It appears that the authors basically cut and pasted brief paragraphs about a variet of topics and called it a book. Other reviewers have called it a 'big picture' book, the truth is it is a complete waste of time and money.
Boring and Just a Bunch of Information stuffed in There.......2007-04-12
I found this very hard to follow and it seemed like a lot of of info was just copy and pasted into the book. Who knows. That's just my humble opionion.
Wonderful primer for forex trading!!!.......2007-03-18
Before someone can write poetry he must learn the alphabet and some grammar rules. Before you trade forex you should read this book to make forex "poetry" by trading well. This book is a concise and clear presentation of all of the basic ideas needed to trade forex.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of people who will not enjoy this book. The first kind of person will never understand the difference between a "pip" being a trading unit of currency and the funny thing on the end of an orange! Beware of this kind of person. They should spend more time watching the food channel to pick up on new cooking techniques. The second type of person is looking for trading techniques and would do well to read the author's excellent work on charting techniques for forex trading.
Take note, these men are SERIOUS traders and have the rare talent to bring complicated ideas to different levels of readers. This is a primer, nothing else. If you read this book and do not "get anything" from this then you should not be in the forex trading game. You will have learned a very inexpensive lesson. If this book makes no sense to you consider going to cooking school.
However, there are thousands of newbie traders that should own and use this book. Between page 1 and page 182 is a collection of all of the basic ideas that you will need to play this amazing game of forex trading. Good trading to all.
Book Description
EXPERT ADVICE FOR EVERYDAY SUCCESS!
The coauthor of the bestselling Getting Started in Online Investing now brings her winning expertise to the increasingly popular day trading arena-along with the methods of today's most consistently successful trading practitioners. From a solid overview of the functional basics to a frank assessment of the pros and cons of day trading, Getting Started in Online Day Trading provides you with the know-how to begin, the information to speculate on the future of the medium-and the knowledge to decide if day trading is right for you. In this indispensable book, Bentley:
* Approaches day trading by examining the basics from the perspective of the novice trader
* Shares her years of experience and industry connections in online finance, and introduces you to some of today's top traders
* Offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges and realistic rewards of online day trading
Get the solid, accessible, and practical guidance you've come to expect from the Getting Started In series with this outstanding and timely resource for today's hottest investment vehicle.
Customer Reviews:
Here's the entire book in 5 sentences........2007-03-09
1) If you have no money, don't invest.
2) Don't invest money you can't afford to lose.
3) You have to spend money to make money
4) If you're poor don't even think of investing
5) Thanks for buying my book now I'm richer.
Thanks for the info Bentley.
Exactly what I needed!.......2007-01-26
Regardless whether you're daytrading or not, it's full of layman's terminology in order to understand the complex nuts and bolts of trading in general. Yes, there can be information overload as one reviewer stated ... which is why I found this book invaluable. It's technical, without being stodgy and complicated. The sidebar definitions are fabulous for quick access to terms. I found it to be logically and succinctly organized ... and allows the reader to learn as little or as much as they need. Ms. Bentley states up front that daytrading may not be for the lighthearted, but even daytraders needed to start somewhere. With many individuals trading from their desktop computers, it's important to learn as quickly as possible with as much correct information as possible. Take one trade at a time, utilize the directions ... do the "faux" tutorials on other sites where you don't have to lose money. Then if you find daytrading IS for you, "Online Day Trading" can be your bible. Thanks greatly, Ms. Bentley ... it helped me considerably!
Read it, but You will need more specific strategies.......2005-08-04
This book is ok for a trader that needs to start from scratch. But you will be needing more specific trading strategies.
Keep in mind that the stock market doesn't really care if you are beginner. The rules and the trading opportunities are the same for every one. When you trade you compete against more seasoned traders, therefore you MUST go beyond the basics and employ a clear strategy to make your buy and sell decisions.
There are many "fantastic" strategies outhere, but you need to test them in order to discover which ones help you the most. That's part of your homework as a stocktrader. Test, test and test again.
Complicated systems that rely on a "boat load" of technical indicators can make you slow, and being slow in this game can be as dangerous as not knowing what to do in the first place.
I think the worst thing that can happen to a beginner trader is to get information overload. It's better to go step by step, and test a simple strategy that can show you how to focus on concrete ways to make money.
Fortunatly there are some good sites on the web today that can show you how to trade in a practical and effective way. One of those sites is Stress Free Traders ( StressFreeTraders com)
In the end, day trading is all about buying and selling according to your knowledge FILTER. Once you master and follow your proven filter parameters like a clock, you can expect to start making serious amounts of cash on a consistent basis.
Not worth it.......2004-11-26
This book was a waste of money. It's meant for beginners that aren't familiar with the terms and concepts of stock trading in general. If you don't already know these terms or the basic concepts you shouldn't attempt to day trade. If you do know these terms and concepts, then this book is a waste. The day traders survival guide is a much better intro book and I highly recommend it over this one. Other recommended trading books to start you off are High Probability Trading by Marcel Link and Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder.
Good book for explaning the nuts and bolts of day trading.......2003-11-29
I wanted a book that would take me step by step through all the technical day trader jargon and explain what all of it meant. Getting Started in Online Day Trading by Kassandra Bentley was just what the doctor, or in this case, the beginning day trader ordered. She takes a very solid approach to explaining what the stock market is all about, what day trading is all about, the procedures of doing day trading and the pitfalls of day trading. She is not shy in pointing out other books in order to gather good day trading information. This shows that she is very open to learning herself. Her book does a good job of not assuming that the reader already knows all about day traderese. There are plenty of sidebar notes that refer to terms and phrases within each chapter. This is a very good way of reinforcing what your have just read. One specific area that was very clear in explaination are the terms bid and ask. While other books use these terms almost interchangably and do not explain correctly who is the buyer and who is the seller, she does an excellent job of clarification on this subject. This point is probably obvious to old pros, but her insight that a beginner is not savy to these nuiances is good thinking on her part. She also goes into some detail on charting and day trading methodology, but not too much in depth. If anything, this was the only negative about this book. However, after reading other books on day trading, I believe that this book is the most straight forward and understandable of all of them. The book is well thought out and very concise.
Book Description
An accessible introduction to A PROVEN TRADING STRATEGY
GETTING STARTED IN SWING TRADING
Swing trading is not a new idea. But, only recently-with the Internet opening up markets to virtually everyone-has this short-term technical trading strategy become a viable option for individual investors.
There are many ways to profit from the swing trading method, and with Getting Started in Swing Trading, author Michael C. Thomsett will show you how to use this approach to quickly take advantage of short-term price movements found in today's dynamic markets.
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Swing Trading:
- Explores many of today's most popular charting signals and explains how to recognize them
- Provides suggestions for picking stocks appropriate for your swing trading strategy
- Illustrates how options can be used within your swing trading program to mitigate risk and improve performance
- Analyzes the effectiveness of short selling within a swing trading strategy
- Outlines some restrictions on swing trading, including brokerage rules and requirements, and regulations about high-activity trading
- And much more
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Getting Started in Swing Trading will enhance your understanding of this proven trading method as well as improve the overall profitability of your portfolio.
Customer Reviews:
Don't trip over pennies getting to dollars.......2007-08-11
After attending a workshop with "The Market Guys" in June, I was on the hunt for good info to help me start my expedition of options trading. I was finishing up on "Technical Analysis - Plain and Simple" by Michael Kahn when I came across the "Swing Trading" book. It is a great compliment: easy to read, but hits many key points like "trading against the box" (that I applied in a recent Starbucks' trade in combination with Put options).
The book worked really well for me because it starts off with Support and Resistance, and how to establish trend setup points. I especially like how it emphasizes that traditional investors are missing out on 50% of trading opportunities because they only play up hill.
Surprisingly, the book gives a good intro to Technical Analysis. Like most "Getting Started ..." books, there's a certain amount of general stuff but I found this book to be very useful and has lead to several conversations with my broker.
If you're a beginner like me and are considering options, I'm currently reading "Options Strategies" 6th Printing by Guy Cohen. If you decide to read this book ...
1) Don't try to make sense of the strategy icon system (very confusing)
2) It has a number of typos and missed edits that will throw you off a little
3) Descriptions often don't make sense until you've SEEN the example so
a) review the example first
b) then go back and read the description
PS: Always, do paper trades for at least a week before trading with real money.
Best wishes
Too elementary even for beginners. Not swing trading specific at all.......2007-08-10
If it were not for the very meaningful front cover, I might have just rated this a one star. As a professional trader I can tell the book is too shallow (and in lack of passion, insight and substance from the author) to be of any help at all. Some may argue that I am too demanding to require a book of less than 200 content page to be compleat but I assure you "the market" is a killing field arguably with a casualty rate of over 70% that forgives no mistake nor ignorance. Of course, if you think a lukewarm mix of Candlestick, patterns, FA and options is good enough, please simply neglect this review. Otherwise,..............
p.s. If I had read the backcover which said, "the author has written more than sixty books on investing, real estate, business and management", I would certainly have given this book a pass.
Book Description
Written specifically for the novice, Getting Started in Trading explains the basics of trading, in any time frame. While most beginner books answer such technical questions as "What is a put" and "What is a call", this book describes both the "what" of trading and the how: how do I place a trade, how do I select a broker, and what do I tell them when I open my account? It provides detailed information on selecting a computer, software packages, and data sources.
Customer Reviews:
A very good place to start.......2003-12-08
This book is definitely for the beginner. The title says it all Getting Started in Trading. It briefly touches on all the different aspects of trading, and shows the reader exactly how many different choices and decisions have to be made before one can even start to "practice" trading.
The author lists resources (other books, web sites and organizations) for the reader to seek out for further research, and nicely pairs the resources listed with the many choices the reader should be making along his/her path to becoming a trader.
I chose to check this book out from the library. It's not one I feel the need to have sitting on my bookshelf. I got exactly what I needed out of it - a starting point and a list of places to go next for more information tailored to my specific research needs.
dowman.......2003-05-13
very little practical advice...more like a giant bibliography...
.....the author merely introduces many concepts, then recommends other books for actual information.
dowman.......2003-05-13
very little practical advice...more like a giant bibliography...
.....the author merely introduces many concepts, then recommends other books for actual information.
Book Description
An accessible guide to Forex trading that allows readers to select a strategy that matches their trading style
Getting Started in Forex Trading opens with a detailed look at a select set of proven strategies and explains how they function. Readers are then shown how-and why-a particular trading style may (or may not) work with each strategy. After discussing the various trading strategies, Getting Started in Forex Trading reveals how to best implement them in real-world situations. With this book as their guide, readers will not only learn excellent Forex trading techniques, but also discover which techniques are right for them.
Michael Archer (Golden, CO) has been an active commodity futures and Forex trader for over thirty years. He is also the author of Getting Started in Currency Trading (0-471-71303-1) and The Forex Chartist Companion (0-470-07393-4).
Average customer rating:
|
Getting Started in Online Brokers
Kristine DeForge , and
Loren Fleckenstein
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Investing
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Stocks
| Investing
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Online Trading
| E-commerce
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Network Security
| Networking
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
Investing
| Personal Finance
| Software
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
Internet
| Home Computing
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
| Internet & Education
| Online Searching
| Web Browsers
| Web for Kids
Directories
| Catalogs & Directories
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Finance
| Accounting & Finance
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
All Amazon Upgrade
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Business & Investing
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Computers & Internet
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Professional & Technical
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Reference
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0471394254 |
Book Description
What every investor should know before investing with an online stock broker
Getting Started in Using Online Brokers provides a quick survey of online brokerages and guidance on how to decide between them. Investors will find information on the many factors one must consider before opening an account. It's one book every investor should keep next to the keyboard when venturing into the lucrative but risky world of online investing.
Customer Reviews:
Buy the updated version!!.......2001-05-12
It is a well written book, but this edition is plagued with print errors, and mistakes in at least one chart. Don't make the same mistake I did; buy the last edition (I bought mine on the store with very little time ...) Anyway, I guess the last version is corrected and updated. I like the fact that mixes personal experience with academic and corporate studies about the market!
Good Content / Great Value.......1999-07-02
For the price this is a great book to learn and help understand the specifics that make up all the basics in trading commodity-futures. After reading this book, I felt as if I had taken a formal college course on the subject of Futures and understood it much better from various angles now. There's no "hype" in the book, no agendas, no further products or services to buy being pitched to you, just plain vanilla (ok, french vanilla) basics being laid out for you in textbook fashion for you to digest in your own terms. I like that - it's refreshing in a way. It is probably like this because it was really written 20+ years ago (don't worry, it's been revised many times to be modernized - 5th edition, 1993). The book was originally written and printed in "Commodities" magazine as a popular mini-course series (before the magazine changed it's name to the modern "Futures" magazine we know it as today). Even though I knew much of the content from personal experience (the most costly way) or from other readings, my CTA, etc, I did not always understand the "why" behind the rules I was following & how the markets work the way they do from both a technical and fundmental perspective (dynamics). Of the some 28 chapters, I really took interest in almost every one. I can't say that about most of the other trading books I've read. Put it this way... if I could keep only 5 trading books, this would be one of them. You'll likely dump more than that on the commissions for 1 trade - or, worse yet, even more than that on 1 bad trade. ** Beginners, I recommend the following: If your goal is to have deeper pockets from trading - then you must first go deeper in your understanding of futures markets & trading them (i.e. Read the book).
Average customer rating:
|
Getting Started in Online Investing (Cliffs Notes)
Jill S. Gilbert
Manufacturer: Cliffs Notes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Investing
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Introduction
| Investing
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Personal Finance
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Online Trading
| E-commerce
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Network Security
| Networking
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
Investing
| Personal Finance
| Software
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
Internet
| Home Computing
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
| Internet & Education
| Online Searching
| Web Browsers
| Web for Kids
General
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0764585401 |
Book Description
This authoritative guide to investing online, part of a new expansion of the trusted CliffsNotes brand, will help new investors achieve success.
Books:
- Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Weight Watchers New 365 Day Menu Cookbook: Complete Meals for Every Day of the Year
- The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
- National Identity As an Issue of Knowledge and Morality: Georgian Philosophical Studies, I
- Parasitoids
- Stalemate
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
- The Confession of Brother Haluin
- Dream Floors: Hundreds of Design Ideas for Every Kind of Floor
- Straw Bale Details: A Manual for Designers and Builders
- Stud Rites
Day Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies To Profit from Market Swings (Wiley Trading)
ForeX Trading for Maximum Profit: The Best Kept Secret Off Wall Street
Forex Made Easy : 6 Ways to Trade the Dollar
Technical Analysis of the Currency Market: Classic Techniques for Profiting from Market Swings and Trader Sentiment (Wiley Trading)
Beat the Odds in Forex Trading: How to Identify and Profit from High Percentage Market Patterns (Wiley Trading)
