Trading by Numbers

Trading by Numbers
Author: Rick Swope
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118237536

Get the E*Trade experts' inside track on playing the markets For retail traders, knowing which possible strategies to employ when has always been a challenge. That is, until now. For the first time, popular E*Trade educators Rick Swope and Shawn Howell introduce their two-dimensional scoring system for determining how bullish/bearish a trade setup looks by reading charts. In Trading by Numbers, they present a scoring system that uses a trend score and a volatility score, removing the guesswork and giving you a solid guide to the markets. Based on the score, the authors provide a toolkit of option strategies that are best to execute in each specific situation. Using common indicators and patterns, the book provides analysis for choosing your right strategy while managing risk. Authors Swope and Howell are accomplished market educators and their partners are the leaders in trading and investing, including E*Trade, CBOE, OIC, NYSE, NASDAQ OMX, CME and ISE An easy-to-use guide that will help you make the best decisions in any situation, the book is essential for traders at all levels Trading by Numbers outlines a proprietary market scoring system that helps traders determine the best option strategies to execute in any market climate.

The Trading Game

The Trading Game
Author: Ryan Jones
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471316985

Nahezu jede Woche veröffentlichen Experten neue Ratschläge, wie man am Aktienmarkt garantiert gewinnt - wann man welche Aktien, Wertpapiere und Optionen kaufen, halten oder verkaufen sollte. Mancher Tip funktioniert in der Praxis, die meisten versagen, und alle gelten nur für einen kurzen Zeitraum. Um langfristig Gewinne zu erzielen, gibt es nur einen Weg: Kapital- und Risikomanagement. Alles, was fortgeschrittene Investoren und Makler darüber wissen sollten, finden sie in diesem Buch. (04/99)

Trading Stocks by the Numbers

Trading Stocks by the Numbers
Author: Grant Henning, Ph.d.
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517283261

This book is a sequel to "THE VALUE AND MOMENTUM TRADER: Dynamic Stock Selection Models to Beat the Market" published by Wiley & Sons in 2010. It provides in-depth disclosure of information gathered subsequent to the earlier book. In it the author provides detailed instructions on how to create mathematical trading models for the ranking of stocks for purchase and sale. These tried and tested trading systems capitalize on both technical and fundamental market anomalies and have been found to be effective in both bull and bear market conditions. The book provides a wealth of information on appropriate use of Excel spreadsheets, selection of the best variables for ranking stocks, trading strategies, and timing methods. Actual formulas, tables, and figures are given. Lists of recommended readings and useful websites are provided. Clear guidelines are given for further research. Although clearly written, the book is so concise that its size is no indication of the vast amount of information provided. It has taken the author five years to compile and present the present work and to test it in daily trading experience.

What's Behind the Numbers?: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio

What's Behind the Numbers?: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio
Author: John Del Vecchio
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071791981

Learn how to detect any corporate sleight of hand—and gain the upper hand with smart investing Investing expert John Del Vecchio and “Motley Fool” Tom Jacobs offer a compelling arguement that the secret to stock-market success today isn’t finding the next Google or eBay, but avoiding the next AIG or Enron. To that end, they offer simple, clear techniques for detecting when and how legitimate companies make their numbers look better than they are. What's Behind the Numbers? offers seven rules for finding companies playing with—rather than by—the numbers and explains how to avoid losing money by determining exactly when a stock is about to head south. John Del Vecchio, CFA, serves as a Principal of Ranger Alternative Management and principal of Parabolix Research, Inc. Tom Jacobs is lead advisor for the Motley Fool Special Ops, a stock service where he manages a special situations and opportunistic portfolio. He is cofounder of Complete Growth Investor LLC.

Magic Numbers for Stock Investors

Magic Numbers for Stock Investors
Author: Peter Temple
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-12-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780470821244

A quick and accurate way to calculate key investment ratios Written by a leading finance expert, this book offers readers simple explanations on how to calculate and interpret key financial ratios-information that is essential for the accurate assessment of a company's financial condition and the true value of its shares. This comprehensive resource is packed with numerous examples from actual company reports and features a supporting Web site at www.magicnumbersbook.com. Readers will also find many online reference sources, including company Web sites and free software offers. Peter Temple is a graduate in economics and statistics from the University of Wales, and is a Fellow of the UK Securities Institute. After an 18-year career as an investment analyst in fund management and investment banking, Temple turned to full-time writing in 1988 as a freelance financial journalist and author.

Winning the Day Trading Game

Winning the Day Trading Game
Author: Thomas L. Busby
Publisher: Wiley + ORM
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118046242

Take a proven approach to short-term trading. Winning the Day Trading Game offers an insider's view of the trading life and provides proven strategies for profitable trading. Professional trader Tom Busby explains how the strategies that made him so much money early on in his career ultimately failed during the 1987 stock market crash and then reveals how he reinvented himself as a high-percentage day trader. He interweaves personal experiences with technical explanations to outline the cornerstones of his technique. In highlighting his own trading experiences, Busby clearly explains how to beat the market by balancing the impulses of greed and fear, managing risk at all times; and taking responsibility for your trading. Thomas L. Busby (Mobile, AL) has been a professional trader and broker for 25 years, working with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. He founded the Day Trading Institute in 1996 and it has grown into one of the most successful trading schools in the world.

Chart Trading

Chart Trading
Author: Daryl Guppy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 299
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1876627131

This approach to Chart Trading puts you beside an experienced trader as he uses charts and chart analysis to unlock profits in the market. Everywhere you look on the Internet there are stock charts, but what do you do with them? These charts use indicators included with every charting software package, but do you know how to use them? What makes them tick and how can you use them to make money in the market? This book explains how to use charts to make better trading and investing decisions. It starts with the basics, making it suitable for the novice. Step by step it moves to more advanced techniques so even seasoned chartists will be inspired by the author's unique practical approach to the subject. Already most serious share and derivative traders make their buying and selling decisions with the help of charts. Other investors are beginning to realise the value of charting and technical analysis in providing a second opinion to an analysis of the fundamentals. With this book you can join them in using charts to increase your profitability.

Fibonacci Trading: How to Master the Time and Price Advantage

Fibonacci Trading: How to Master the Time and Price Advantage
Author: Carolyn Boroden
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071596739

Made famous by the Italian mathematician Leonardo De Pisa, the Fibonacci number series holds a Golden Ratio that is universally found in nature and used by architects, plastic surgeons, and many others to achieve “perfect” aesthetic proportions. Now, in this groundbreaking guide, noted technical trading advisor Carolyn Boroden shows you how Fibonacci pattern studies can be used as an extremely effective method for achieving greater profitability in stocks, futures, and Forex markets. Fibonacci Trading provides a one-stop resource of reliable tools and clear explanations for both identifying and taking advantage of the trade setups naturally occurring in the markets that will enable you to reach the highest rate of profitable trades. Inside, you'll find a unique trading methodology based on Fibonacci ratios, and the author's personal experience analyzing and setting up the markets in real time, which makes this practical volume invaluable to the self-directed investor. Complete with detailed charts and insightful graphics in each chapter, Fibonacci Trading features: Dependable guidance for determining important support and resistance levels, along with expert advice for using them to maximize profits and limit losses Step-by-step processes for using Fibonacci analysis to predict turning points in the market far enough in advance to generate substantial profit Valuable tips for using Fibonacci analysis to establish optimal stop-loss placement Revealing coverage on how Fibonacci relationships can create a roadmap for the trader based on high percentage patterns Fibonacci Trading also provides a four-step formula for applying the covered techniques in a highly effective approach. Flexible enough for all markets and trading styles, the formula helps you focus your newly developed knowledge and skill sets into a solid trading methodology, defined trading plan, successful trading mindset, and disciplined trading approach that stacks the odds for profit in your favor. This hands-on guide is packed with a wealth of actual trading situations, setups, and scenarios that bring the four-step formula to life so you can immediately use it in the real world.

Trade What You See

Trade What You See
Author: Larry Pesavento
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118044932

Trading the financial markets is extremely difficult, but with the right approach, traders can achieve success. Nobody knows this better than authors Larry Pesavento and Leslie Jouflas, both traders and educators of traders, who have consistently used pattern recognition to capture profits from the markets. In Trade What You See, Pesavento and Jouflas show traders how to identify patterns as they are developing and exactly where to place entry and exit orders. While some patterns derive from the techniques of Wall Street’s earliest traders and other patterns reflect Pesavento’s emphasis on the geometry of market movements and Fibonacci numbers.. Filled with hard-won knowledge gained through years of market experience, Trade What You Seeoutlines both a practical and sophisticated approach to trading that will be of interest to both novice and seasoned traders alike. Larry Pesavento is a forty-year veteran trader. He operates a Web site,