Trading Books

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.

I have several economic books, yet this book (written by economic investment professionals) is the most understandable, readable, and usable book on economics I know of. You can understand this material without knowing economics! Since it gives web site addresses for the actual data, you can view the economic results online or sign up to have the results e-mailed to you. It includes tables, so you have a comparison guide to help you figure out whether the data fits in the recession, recovery or expansion phases. As someone who came to economics through the back door (from observation of the markets), economic data does MOVE the markets......This book should be considered essential for traders or investors!

The new edition of "Trading The Fundamentals" is a book no trader should be without.

This book explains what is important about each release, how they are compiled, and how the market interprets them.

If I could choose only one book - THIS WOULD BE IT.

Kevin Cotter, The Cents Financial Journal

I wanted to congratulate Shaun on a great book that successfully covers the important aspects of technical analysis in today's trading environment and its relevance across all the financial markets.

He has produced a piece of work that clearly shows his profound experience from a trader's perspective and from the development of trading models.

The end product is clear, precise and educational.

Very few people get to see inside the worlds biggest and best trading operations. Shaun Downey, through his role at CQG, has personal contact with professional traders and institutions from around the world. He truly is at the cutting edge of financial markets. Even rarer is someone possessing the quantitative and qualitative skills combined with three decades of trading all markets in all timeframes.
Everyone with an interest in trading will benefit from this unique collection of original thoughts and trading ideas.
Shaun Downey should be in the Technical Analysis Hall of Fame.

The chapters describe some of the more intangible processes used by sophisticated securities analysts and portfolio managers in identifying undervalued stocks. These types of processes are often overlooked in textbooks on securities analysis, which emphasize more the analysis of financial statements. Both types of analyical approaches are required for identifying truly unique investment ideas. Several of the chapters are also very amusing, especially the one on Howard Hughes and investing in Las Vegas.

I have known Allan Tate for twenty years and consider him one of the finest analytical minds in the investment community.

I worked for Allan clearing his institutional trades at Henry Swift & Company in 1979. I could not get a job in research, but was able to attend his research meetings. Allan turned me on to such classic tests as the parking lot test, where one would count the number and types of cars in company parking lots in order to determine the health of the company. Later, I was able to use this technique when I became a stock analyst myself. The chapter on "Is Howard Hughes in Town" shows how important good intuition is to investing. Throughout the book there is a great deal of dry and subtle humor, which makes the book a great deal of fun to read. Nice job, Allan.

In "Tricks of the Active Trader" Neal Weintraub has done it again. He has provided an insightful book that any trader will benefit from. A combination resource directory and trading guide, Neal's latest work will add value to any trader's library. Using just one tip will more than pay for the book and the information in the chapter "Lisa Loves Russell" will pay for the book many, many, times over.

I.B.
Professional Trader
California

When I first picked up "Tricks of the Active Trader", I was pretty certain it was written with people like me in mind. After all, I reasoned, I spend much of the day at least following the markets, and trade (stock and index options) on average once a day. In addition, I write an online options advisory newsletter. I felt that these two criteria qualified me as an "Active Trader", so I was more than ready for some of those "Tricks".

However, I quickly read into the title a second and even deeper meaning. When he discussed "active traders", I do believe Neal Weintraub includes "frequent" traders such as me in his definition. However, I also believe he is targeting traders at all levels who take active responsibility for their own trades and risk management, as well as those who should take active responsibility but prefer to hold someone else responsible for converting their trading capital into a fortune. So in short, Weintraub is directing his "tricks" to all of us, whether we trade once a month or once an hour.

Although the title suggests only "tricks", it actually contains tricks, tips, and traps. It's broken down nicely into three major sections: Tricks, Tips, and Traps; Computers, Software, and the Internet; and the Trader's Notebook. Weintraub, a former floor trader, currently an "active trader" and teacher of various trading-related topics, brings a great deal of personal expertise to bear in the various sections. Additionally, various sections were written by a broad range of experts such as hedge fund managers, trading software system developers, and analysts.

The book is quick paced, and easy to read and digest. I chose not to skip a word, but it is laid out in such a way that you can easily skip the segments that may not apply to your trading situation.

Weintraub closes the book with three rules for the active trader:

1. The less you do, the less can go wrong.
2. If you are in a financial hole, stop digging.
3. If you want to learn from your financial mistakes, stop making them.

Although these "rules" are a bit "tongue in cheek", they typify the brisk, light writing style of Weintraub and his contributing authors.

If you trade, even a little, and you hold yourself responsible for the outcome of your trading (is there any other real alternative?), Neal Weintraub wrote this book for you.

Kerry O'Hallaron, active trader and author of "The Perfect Play Newsletter" ( www.CheatTheStreet.com )

If you invest in mutual funds this book is guaranteed to worry you. Easy to read with lots of lists and charts and inside information on the pitfalls of mutual funds. This book has saved me thousands.

Read why 80% of all mutual funds fail to even match the market, let alone "Beat the Market". After reading this book you will buy nothing but index funds.

That's all I now own. Mutual funds are passe.

This book gives you the tools to perform proper risk analysis and gives excellent guidance on trade sizing and risk analysis with a focus on asset allocation and portfolio management.

Gerald Ashley's book is a trenchant analysis of many issues associated with the stock market. Calling on his own extensive experience and utilizing a variety of keen arguments, he clearly explains the failure of technical analysis, the appeal of behavioral finance, and a host of other matters. A very satisfying read.