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, [...]
Full Title: Trade Like a Hedge Fund: 20 Successful Uncorrelated Strategies and Techniques to Winning Profits Author: James Altucher (Twitter @jaltucher) Publisher/Date: Wiley (2004) List Cost/Pages: $74 Hardcover / 224 pages Cover Notes: High-performing and highly leveraged, hedge funds are among today’s most talked-about subjects in the world of investing. But it’s not the hedge fund managers doing the talking. These [...]
Full Title: Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors Author: Gerald Appel Publisher/Date: FT Press (2005) List Cost/Pages: $70 Hardcover / 241 pages Cover Notes: Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Practical Power Tools! offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, [...]
Full Title: Trading Systems Author: Bruce Babcock Publisher/Date: Irwin (1989) List Cost/Pages: $ Hardcover / 316 pages Cover Notes: Comprehensive and authoritative description of the theory, creation, and use of mechanical trading systems. Presents historical tests of various trading systems approaches in 10 markets over a 5 year period. Stendahl Notes: Bruce Babcock in my mind was a legend who past [...]
Full Title: One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading Author: Mike Bellafior (Twitter @MikeBellafiore) Publisher/Date: Wiley (2010) List Cost/Pages: $60 Hardcover / 368 pages Cover Notes: Proprietary trading firms do somewhere between 50 and 70 percent of all the equity volume in the U.S. markets on any given day. But unlike most firms on the Street, [...]
Full Title: The Prop Trader's Chronicles: Short-Term Proprietary Trading Strategies for Both Bull & Bear Markets Author: Francis Chan Publisher/Date: Wiley (2012) List Cost/Pages: $20 Audio / 155 pages Cover Notes: Part trader's memoir, part day-trading how-to, The Prop Trader's Chronicles takes you inside the fast-paced, "you eat what you kill" world of proprietary trading to offer an unparalleled look at who [...]
Full Title: The Complete Turtle Trader: The Legend, the lessons, the Results Author: Michael Covel (Twitter @Covel) Publisher/Date: Harper Business (2007) List Cost/Pages: $26 Hardcover / 272 pages Cover Notes: What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules. Convinced that [...]
Full Title: The Geometry of Stock Market Profits Author: Michael Jenkins Publisher/Date: Wasendorf & Associates (1996) List Cost/Pages: $80 Hardcover / 176 pages Cover Notes: This book is about Jenkins' proprietary techniques, with major emphasis on cycle analysis, how he views and uses the methods of W. D. Gann, and the geomery of time and price. Among the many topics, you [...]
Full Title: Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market Author: John Mauldin (Twitter @JohnFMauldin) Publisher/Date: Wiley (2004) List Cost/Pages: $35 Hardcover / 433 pages Cover Notes: The key to successful investing today is knowing where the markets and economy are going, not where they have been, and focusing on absolute returns––real profits in [...]
Full Title: Tail Risk Killers: How Math, Indeterminacy, and Hubris Distort Markets Author: Jeff McGinn Publisher/Date: McGraw-Hill (2012) List Cost/Pages: $35 Hardcover / 384 pages Cover Notes: The world does not unfold according to a fixed set of rules. It is a dynamical system whose evolution looks like a bell curve with fat “tails.” The same is true of financial markets. [...]