Trading Books

As my title suggests, need i say more? Thanks to the authors for this great piece of work

This book is well structured, written in an excellent style, with illustrative and relevant examples and figures. It treats in a systematic way all things a programmer should be aware of when designing and optimizing high performance applications. Beyond a reference for Sun's development environment, it is compulsory reading for a novice or intermediately experienced in this field, conveying a lot of information about compilers and hardware alongside. Again, I want to have this book in my bookshelf since it is a gem in the category of software books. Its graceful style complements the density of information. It is not a quick read, if you want to digest everything.

Introduction: A New Look At A Lost Art
Chapter 1: What Fundamental Analysis Is (And Is Not)
Chapter 2: Lessons The Market Taught Me
Chapter 3: Trends, Cycles, Seasons, and the Random Walk
Chapter 4: The Building Blocks of Technical Analysis
Chapter 5: A Key to TechnoFundamentals: Supply
Chapter 6: How To Look At Demand TechnoFundamentally
Chapter 7: TechnoFundamental Referencing
Chapter 8: Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and Related Science
Chapter 9: Practical Applications
Chapter 10: Synthetic Investing

I read this book because the title seemed interesting and I was already familiar with technical trading techniques. I've always been curious about how fundamentals might be interpreted to apply to technical timing. This book was a real eye opener. I got a top to bottom commodity education in less than 300 pages. Not to sound corny, but traders will have a hard time putting this one down. So many situations we all encounter are clearly explained so they make sense. I always wondered about the cattle and hog cycle, or how old crop/new crop grain spreads work. This book told me a lot about market sectors. It's full of charts and illustrations. I recommend this book to the novice and the professional. I really enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to reading other titles by Philip Gotthelf.

This book is a hymnal to Texas golf, chapter-and-verse on everything from the finest resorts to the dustiest backroads 9-holers. Much more than just a dry recitation of course info, the Texas Golf Bible provides colorful comments on almost every one of the state's 1,000 golf courses. The perfect bathroom book, which is meant as a major compliment.

What a great book even for me, a golfer spouse! I love the fact that it includes details about the cities where the golf courses are, like shopping, dinning, and lodging. Excellent book for traveling the state (easy to follow directions) as well as for the golf information. I read one review on the website which was obviously written by someone who does not play or understand golf or enjoy traveling Texas. Mr. Stone has a terrific sense of humor displayed in this book. I would highly recommend it!

This is a great introduction to the textiles of Japan, particularly for people just beginning to develop their interest in this area. The book presents a balanced discussion of the subject by providing a good amount of information on history and technique, without spinning the reader with overwhelming detail about either. Of special interest to us were the practical (functional) aspects of the fabrics, as well as the effects the fabrics and Japanese society have had (and continue to have) on each other. The most important types of textiles are covered, along with the relevant terminology.

The book also has many excellent photographs of everything from uchikake on display to vats of indigo dye. The color pictures not only help the reader get a better understanding of the topic at hand, but also realize the beauty of the fabrics and the hard work that goes into them.

Good book. Recommended.

A book on textiles that have many beautiful pictures as well as details on Shibori.It also shows some of the techniques of weaving, and kimono painting.Excellent.

I have a bookshelf full of trading books and this one is one that will be used over and over again. The key to making money in the stock market is using a money management system that will protect you against big loses. The wins come along every once in a while , but when your wrong, (which for me is a lot) a system that can keep your losses small so you can stay in the game is critical. This book gives you straight forward, easy to understand advice on how to determine how much you should be risking based on your experience level and how to keep track of your successes and set backs. I provides you with examples of tracking forms and the how-tos for all of the advice. The book is simple, yet very detailed and to the point. Great Book!! I highly recommend it to experienced and novice traders alike. Thanks Bennett!!

This one's a brand new book to add to your collection of Ralph Vince and Nauzer Balsara. Difference, though, is that this book really simpllifies the essentials and makes it easy for even the beginner to understand the sometimes complex money management formulas that truly are essential to trading success. I've got the other books too -- but this is the one that helped me effectively and profitably implement the formulas to calculate what percent of risk to take on each of my trades so that I'm not risking too much (which has exposed me to risk of ruin in the past) and then again -- McDowell's formulas help me not risk too little so that I'm not maximizing my return. The formulas are all based on your performance statistics at any given moment (which will be different during drawdown VS a winning streak) and they are basic algebra -- so you don't need to be a mathematical expert to use them. The other really valuable tool that has helped me is the record keeping forms that come with the book. Now I'm caputuring the data I need on each transaction and my analysis gives me the answers I need.

Just got my book delivered from Amazon a couple of days ago -- two weeks early! Was at the LA Trader's EXPO last week and everyone was trying to buy this book but it wasn't out yet -- so I'm glad it's here early.

The book covers McDowell's philosophy on Money Management which encuorages you to always set a stop BEFORE you enter a trade. By doing that you can then determine your risk amount on each trade by adjusting your trade size to ensure no more than -- say -- 2% loss on any one trade - based on your entry and your initial stop.

Then based on your current payoff ratio and win ratio you can go to the risk-of-ruin tables and customize what your risk truly should be. Based on your current performance maybe you should be risking less than 2% or maybe more. Thing is you want to refer to the risk-of-ruin tables to find out what percent risk gives you a ZERO "probable" (not guranteed) chance of ruin. This subtle adjustment can make a difference on improving your payoff ratio. And there is a sample of a risk-of-ruin table in the book so you can see how it works.

The other tool in the book that I like is the record keeping forms that help track and calculate payoff ratio and win ratio. Anyway, this is a great money management book with lots of formulas and tools to help design your own system.

I have read 400 books on trading ...and this one is by far one of the best if not the best...it is written people who have learned the markets in The City(London)...and is simply amazing.

This small (in size) book is all the more remarkable for its density of details including (but not limited to): how markets work, how traders make money (most of the ways), a concise summary of many of the contemporary of theories of mind and motivation as well as what it might mean to develop traders as professionals and trading as an actual career path.

While this book will not make the individual trader richer, by hints and by nudges, the authors suggest how the strategic reorganization of a trading firm could.

Charles Faulkner - featured in The New Market Wizards, The Intuitive Trader and Trend Following.

This is the only trading book you need in your library. If I was going to do it all over again as a trader I would buy this book and Mark Douglas' The Disciplined Trader. Better than most of the seminars being touted today and in my opinion better than software that predicts with almost XX% accuracy for 50 times the cost of this book. I have all of Joe Ross's books and this is by far the best one.

Joe Ross has written the best strategy guide for trading options I have ever seen. This book shows you how to blend the best features of option trading together with the best of futures trading. The book is a classic, and with each reading, I gained more and more understanding of how the markets really work, and how to take advantage of combining options and futures.

If you are an option trader, you need the understanding of the underlying futures as presented by Joe. If you are a futures trader, Joe shows you the simple and most straightforward way to bolster your futures trading by adding to it the world of options.

To say that this book is outstanding is to vastly underrate its contents. A bargain at any price and worth far more than its cost.

This book really grabs you. From start to finish it feels like you never get a break from the trauma experienced throughout the book. It was fascinating to take a look into the dark world of "cutting." This book makes you wonder how many people might be inflicting this kind of pain on themselves.

I read this book in 2 days and my daughter in 1. You are grabbed by the characters and just can not put it down until you finish the book. I think it is a must read for teachers, parents and teens. It looks at a very real and difficult part of growing up and facing the incredibly difficult challenges of life. Laura does a fabulous job of bringing the characters and their situations to life. I highly recomment this to anyone with teens in thier lives.

My book club students really enjoyed this book and helped create this review. They felt that this book is realistic because dads can lose their jobs and sit around in their underwear. He was stressed and depressed. The main characters, Todd and Amy are twins and very different from one another. This story is mainly about how the twins did not know things in their life could change so quickly. They both find out they have talents they never knew they had. Todd is upset about the family dog and thinks it may be dying.

Trading Places is one of those rare books that a reader can easily connect to. I read this book to my fifth graders, and we were able to make many text-to-self connections through this book. The book allowed us to have open class discussions about family changes, peer pressure, and self-identity. This is a book that I will continue to share with my fifth graders.

Notorious glamour queen Sharlayne shakes up high society when she announces plans to write her memoirs. However, Sharlayne tells her publisher Lindon Wilbert that U.S. Eye muckraker Gina Godfrey will not allow her the peace and quiet needed to complete her autobiography. Lindon is more worried that one or more of his client's ex-husbands or even the "family" members of one dead husband might object. He believes it is a possibility that Sharlayne will be fitted for cement shoes to get their way.

To buy her time, Sharlayne informs employee Alice Wynn that she will impersonate her. To insure no one gets close enough to see Alice masquerade as Sharlayne, Lindon hires Jed Kelby of S.J. Slade Insurance Agency as a bodyguard. Expecting a prima donna, Jed breaks rule number one of bodyguarding by falling in love with his client. The fake Sharlayne reciprocates, but wonders if Jed loves Alice or her glamorous alter ego? Then again someone is using bombs and a bullet to insure that book never is finished.

TRADING PLACES is not the Ackroyd-Murphy movie. Instead it is a fun to read romantic suspense. Alice is a brave heroine, who finds celebrity status lacking. Though Jed feels like an idiot when he learns just whose body he protects and loves, readers will adore the dolt. The story line is fast paced though the attacks on the fake Sharlayne seems stretched, as exposes are a way of life. Still what makes the novel is the lead couple's love blossoming even when Alice is Sharlayne.

Harriet Klausner

"People see what they expect to see, not what's actually there."

TRADING PLACES details an everyday woman who gains an opportunity to trade places with her celebrity boss. Alice Wynn prefers cotton rather than spandex, au natural to bleached and made up. Then one day notorious boss lady Sharlayne Kenyon convinces Alice to trade places to throw the press of her track while she retreats to an island paradise to pen her autobiography. A little bleach, a haircut, a change in wardrobe and viola -- Alice becomes Sharlayne. But little does Alice suspect how quickly a dream come true can turn dangerous.

Alice retreats to lush Beverly Hills with security guard Jed Kelby and Sharlayne's assistant, the dragon lady Tabitha Thomas. She agrees its worth a little stress and strain to insure a debt-free future since she's still paying her grandmother's hospital bills. A registered nurse, she'd spent nearly ten years caring for her grandmother before going to work for Sharlayne. But soon Alice wishes she could break out of her silken prison. Despite Jed's prostration that he must follow his boss' dictate that "Thou shalt not get involved with thy client."

As he tries to juggle the dictates of his boss and his conscious, Jed knows he's in trouble. He resents the press labeling him Sharlayne's newest boy toy. Further, the woman he believes to be Sharlayne is the sexist, hardest to resist woman he's ever met. One moment she acts like a playgirl and lives up to her reputation as an adventuress; the next moment she is as shy and naive as a teenager. The more Jed tries to remain cool and professional, the more she kicks up her campaign to drive him wild.

For this reviewer, TRADING PLACES by Ruth Jean Dale was one of those rare novels that I couldn't put down. Dale's quick paced, neatly constructed plot combined with extraordinary characters held me enthralled. Indeed this unforgettable combination of tension and sizzle goes on my keeper shelf. Very highly recommended.