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Book Editorial:3
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Alexander Elder
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Rank: 2298
Book Description
Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind,
Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those
three areas:- How to become a cool, calm, and collected
trader
- How to profit from reading the behavior of the market
crowd
- How to use a computer to find good trades
- How to develop a
powerful trading system
- How to find the trades with the best odds of
success
- How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take
profits
Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you
the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in
your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the
game.
To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living,
look for the companion volume—Study Guide for Trading for a Living.
It
asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales
for sharpening your trading skills.
For example: Question Markets rise
when- there are more buyers than sellers
- buyers are more
aggressive than sellers
- sellers are afraid and demand a premium
- more
shares or contracts are bought than sold
- I and II
- II
and III
- II and IV
- III and IV
Answer B. II and III. Every change
in price reflects what happens in the battle between bulls and bears.
Markets rise when bulls feel more strongly than bears.
They rally when
buyers are confident and sellers demand a premium for participating in the
game that is going against them.
There is a buyer and a seller behind every
transaction. The number of stocks or futures bought and sold is equal by
definition.
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Alexander Elder
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![]() | | 2. | From AudioFile | | The author, a psychiatrist, talks about how human nature intersects with
the investment world. Narrated with over-the-top gravitas start to finish,
the program warns the listener to keep a close eye on emotion and to... read full editorial |
![]() | | Current Editorial | | 3. | Book Description | | Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind,
Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those
three areas:How to become a cool, calm, and collected
traderHow to profit from... read full editorial |
![]() | | 4. | The publisher, John Wiley & Sons | | An eminent futures trader explores crucial factors in the markets that most
experts overlook--time, volume and open interest--and describes
little-known indicators to profitably track them. Covers all the popular
technical... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Alexander Elder
![]() | | | Really good and useful!!!! | | (NY, USA) April 2, 2001 - 5.0/5 stars | | This book contains nearly all the necessary materials for a beginning
trader to start trading. I think the only area which is missing is
fundamental analysis. O'Neil's book has better covering of FA but the part
about TA... read full review |
![]() | | | If You Read and Implement this book, You Will Make Money | | (Australia) January 27, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | I'm new to Trading, and have now read over a dozen books.
This is by
far the best book I've read on trading.
Dr. Elder outlines early in
the book the attributes of a looser, and by evaluating my own character, I
could... read full review |
![]() | | | An excellent addition to your trading library! | | (Boise, ID) August 2, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars | | Elder does an excellent job of addressing the three pillars of trading:
method, mind, and money management. Most other authors just focus on the
trading methodology, but neglect the other equally important areas. This
is... read full review |
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