Full Title: Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets

Author: Colin Alexander

Publisher/Date: McGraw-Hill (2007)

List Cost/Pages:  $65 Hardcover / 266 pages

Cover Notes:
In just a few years, futures trading has grown from a specialized area to a major sector that is attracting pension funds, hedge funds, and other capital pools. Technological advances have led to increased globalization and around-the-clock trading, which has generated huge volumes that can be traded at minimal cost.

In Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets, expert stocks and futures advisor Colin Alexander explains how to make money in all market conditions. He shows you how to set up monthly and weekly charts with indicators that determine which markets may be worth trading. Then he shows daily and intraday charts tell you when to pull the trigger and get into a trade and stay until market action generates an exit signal.

With Alexander’s proven approach to evaluating markets, you’ll learn how to avoid high-risk and marginal trades without sacrificing the high-potential ones. And, you’ll see how informed applications of today’s most effective indicators-including MACD, moving averages, stochastics, and Bollinger Bands-can help identify markets with the potential for extended moves.

Through a focused examination of how money determines markets, Timing Techniques for Commodity Future Markets shows you how to:

  • Define a trend
  • Interpret who trades what and how much
  • Set stops and get out of trades
  • Fine-tune short-term trading

Along with expert advice on such fundamental practices as building charts and reading candlestick charts, Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets provides an insider’s edge with rare information on the best chart patterns for all time frames, cyclical and seasonal forces and price rules for knowing when to pull the trigger on a trade. To illustrate real-time use, the Alexander includes two revealing case studies–one based on a prospective long position on gasoline and one based on a short position in copper.

Stendahl Comment:
Well beyond the basics this book covers a lot of trade related information in only 250 pages. I’d suggest this book for traders looking concise and distilled information before tackling full books on specific topics. In the end … Timing Techniques offers traders a major time saver as it covers topics with enough detail to get them started in the correct direction.

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