Study Guide for Entries and Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms

ISBN-13: 9780471659822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str.

Alexander Elder

Opis

These 101 questions, including twenty-five case studies, will challenge you to master the essential aspects of successful trading. Be sure to work through this companion volume to Entries & Exits: Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms before you risk a dollar in the markets.

Each of the seven chapters in this Study Guide for Entries & Exits--Organization, Psychology, Markets, Trading Tactics, Money Management & Record-Keeping, Case Studies, and Traders Speak--covers a major area of trading. Every chapter includes a rating scale, allowing you to measure your competence level. Now, you can discover and fill dangerous gaps in your knowledge without risking any money. The comments in the back of the book provide detailed explanations of the right and wrong answers to the multiple-choice questions. A large number of those questions and the case histories in this Study Guide were contributed by the traders interviewed in Entries & Exits, combining both books into a single, powerful tool for developing effective trading skills. Use Dr. Elder's Study Guide together with Entries & Exits to learn how to make the most of market opportunities.

Spis treści

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 Sherri Haskell A Logical Way of Looking at Things 12

Chapter 2 Fred Schutzman My Computer Can Do the Trading for Me 30

Chapter 3 Andrea Perolo Simple Charts, Clear and Uncluttered 48

Chapter 4 Sohail Rabbani The Discipline of Loss Control 66

Chapter 5 Ray Testa Jr. Developing a Consistent Approach 84

Chapter 6 James (Mike) McMahon A Successful Engineer Has a Disadvantage 100

Chapter 7 Gerald Appel Looking for Favorable Probabilities 118

Chapter 8 Michael Brenke To Keep Repeating What I Did Right 136

Chapter 9 Kerry Lovvorn A Squeeze Play 158

Chapter 10 Dr. Diane Buffalin Dancing Like Fred Astaire, Only Going Backwards and in High Heels 176

Chapter 11 David Weis Price–Volume Behavior Is Steeped in Reality 192

Chapter 12 William Doane The Bigger the Foundation, the Taller the Building 208

Chapter 13 Peter Tatarnikov We Analyze People Who Analyze Markets 224

Chapter 14 Damir Makhmudov Technical Signals in the Fundamental Context 240

Chapter 15 Pascal Willain Effective Volume 258

Chapter 16 Martin Knapp Do It Right the Next Time Around 276

Conclusion

Your Trading Room 307

Bibliography 319

Reading Lists 321

Acknowledgments 329

About the Author 331

Index 333

O autorze

DR. ALEXANDER ELDER is a professional trader, a teacher of traders, and a practicing psychiatrist. He is the founder of elder.com, an educational firm for traders worldwide. Dr. Elder is the author of two international bestsellers, Trading for a Living and Come Into My Trading Room (and their companion study guides), both published by Wiley. He is an avid traveler, as chronicled in his book Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand (Wiley).