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Trading book reviews on futures and commodities trading.
And The Roof Caved In
And The Roof Caved In by David Faber - Book Review. Faber does an excellent job explaining how the financial crisis began and how it came crashing down. He ties in most of the parties from wall street to main street home buyers who couldn't afford their loand in the first place.
The Truth About Day Trading Stocks by Josh Dipietro
Book Review of The Truth About Day Trading Stocks by Josh Dipietro. This book gives a real world view of what it takes to establish a career of day trading.
Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar by Al Brooks
Book Review of Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar – The Technical Analysis Of Price Action For The Serious Trader by Al Brooks. This is an exceptional book on trading primarily of price action on the charts. Al Brooks uses only a 5 minute chart with a 20 period moving average to trade.
Trade To Win: Proven Strategies to Make Money by Thomas Busby
Trade To Win: Proven Strategies to Make Money by Thomas Busby - Book Review. Thomas Busby describes some trading strategies for commodities, futures and stocks, but they lack many details.
Trade Chart Patterns Like The Pros by Suri Duddella
Trade Chart Patterns Like The Pros by Suri Duddella is detailed explanation of how to trade 65 different chart patterns with specific entry and exit points from the viewpoint of a seasoned trader.
Book Review of New Trading Systems and Methods Fourth Edition by Perry Kaufman
Review of New Trading Systems and Methods Fourth Edition by Perry Kaufman. This book has more than 1,100 pages that describe numerous commodity trading systems and various methods you can use in your trading. Kaufman also provides a great service to his readers by providing insight into the pros and cons of many different trading methods.
Book Review -Day Trading Grain Futures by David Bennett
Day Trading Grain Futures is one of the few books that focuses solely on day trading the grain futures markets. The author, David Bennett, details his complete trading methodology in this book.
One-Way Formula for Trading in Commodities by William Dunnigan
Review of New Blueprints for Gains in Stocks and Grains and One-Way Formula for Trading in Stocks and Commodities by William Dunnigan. This book details an excellent trading system that can be used on any actively traded commodity or futures market.
Rigged by Ben Mezrich
Book review of Rigged by Ben Mezrich. The true story of an Ivy League kid who changed the world of oil, from Wall Street to Dubai.
Short Term Trading Strategies That Work by Larry Connors
Short Term Trading Strategies That Work by Larry Connors reveals evidence that buying on weakness provides a statistical edge in trading. He also provides several trading strategies using a 2 day RSI and many uses of it.
Trading Day By Day by Chick Goslin
Trading Day By Day is a book I was lucky to find from an author I actually never heard of before. This industry is full plenty of self-promoters who care about getting their name in front of the public than being successful traders. So, I look at this an undiscovered gem. The author, F.H.“Chick” Goslin, has been trading futures since 1970 and his experience and knowledge of trading is very evident.
The Art of The Trade by Jason Alan Jankovsky
Book review of The Art of The Trade - What I Learned Trading The Chicago Futures Markets by Jason Alan Jankovsky. The author gives his brutally honest story of his career as a commodity broker and the struggles he went through while learning how to trade successfully.
Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
Book review of Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom, Second Edition by Van K. Tharp. This book covers the psychology of trading and how to develop a trading system with many of the features that successful traders use every day.
The Handbook of Commodity Investing by Frank Fabozzi
Book review of The Handbook of Commodity Investing by Frank Fabozzi. This book covers the fundamentals of commodities and how to invest in commodities.
Day Trading by Joe Ross
Book review of Day Trading by Joe Ross. This manual covers how to day trade futures contracts, while understanding how to read the futures markets. Joe Ross also includes many of his day trading methodologies that are easy to understand.
The Complete Guide To Selling Options by James Cordier and Michael Gross
Book review of The Complete Guide To Selling Options by James Cordier and Michael Gross, which explains their strategies of selling commodity futures options. The book explains option selling, risk controls and profit objectives.
The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2008 by Commodity Research Bureau
The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2008 by Commodity Research Bureau provides an enormous amount of research and data on more than 100 commodities. In my review of The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2008, I describe how useful this commodity refernce material is to the commodity trader.
Street Smarts by Larry Connors and Linda Bradford Raschke
Book Review of Street Smarts - High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies by Larry Connors and Linda Bradford Raschke.
How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years In The 21st Century by Howard Ruff
How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years In The 21st Century by Howard Ruff explains the dire situation with the national debt and how it may cause rampant inflation in the coming years.
Mastering Futures Trading by Bo Yoder
Book review of Mastering Futures Trading: An Advanced Course For Sophisticated Strategies That Work by Bo Yoder. The book covers futures trading strategies, money management and the basics of trading futures.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
Book Review of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. The book covers the trading exploites of legendary trader Jesse Livermore. He was one of the best traders in stocks and commodities in the early 1900s.
Book Review: Trading The Ross Hook by Joe Ross
Book review of Trading The Ross Hook by Joe Ross. The book details the Ross Hook trading method for commodities and futures. Joe Ross covers the Ross Hook, stop placement, trading tricks and an overall explanation of how to use the Ross Hook strategy successfully.
What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
Book review of What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan. The book is a real life story of a commodity trader who lost $1.6 million dollars trading commodities. The story is entertaining, but the focus of the book is what he learned from the process, which may be invaluable to many commodity traders.
The Logical Trader by Mark Fisher
Book review of The Logical Trader by Mark Fisher. The book details the ACD Trading Method that Mark Fisher has been using as a professional commodity trader.
Fibonacci Trading by Carolyn Boroden
Book review of Fibonacci Trading – How to Master the Time and Price Advantage by Carolyn Boroden. The book details an explanation of Fibonacci ratios and how to use them in trading commodities.
Book Review: Trading By The Book by Joe Ross
Book review of Trading By The Book by Joe Ross. The book details trading methods for commodities and futures from the many years of trading experience of Joe Ross.
WD Gann Treasure Discovered by Robert Krausz
Book Review of WD Gann Treasure Discovered – Simple Trading Plans for Stocks and Commodities by Robert Krausz. The book details trading plans created by WD Gann and refined by Robert Krausz.
The Commitments of Traders Bible by Stephen Briese
The Commitments of Traders Bible by Stephen Briese teaches readers how to interpret and trade the COT reports.
Mastering the Trade by John Carter
In Mastering the Trade, John Carter discusses trading strategies for commodities and stocks with a detailed trading plan.
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski
Book Review of Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns Second Edition by Thomas Bulkowski. The author compiled in-depth research on technical chart patterns and rates the success of each pattern.
Hot Commodities - Book Review of Hot Commodities by Jim Rogers
Book review of Hot Commodities – How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World’s Best Market by Jim Rogers. The author covers the basis the the new bull market in commodities and how long he expects it to last.
Book Review - Psychology of Trading
Book review of Psychology of Trading. The book contains 28 articles that help traders deal with the mental issues of trading.
Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets by Colin Alexander
Book review of Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets by Colin Alexander. The book covers trading indicators, patterns that work and how to put it all together for a commodity trading strategy.
The Three Skills of Top Trading by Hank Pruden
Book review of The Three Skills of Top Trading by Hank Pruden. The review covers the Wyckoff Method and how the author implements his trading strategies.
The New Option Secret – Volatility by David L Caplan
Book review of The New Option Secret – Volatility: The Weapon of the Professional Trader and the Most Important Indicator in Option Trading by David Caplan. The review covers utilizing volatilty in your futures option trading strategies to increase your odds of success.
The Complete TurtleTrader by Michael W Covel
Book review of The Complete TurtleTrader by Michael Covel. The review covers the story of Richard Dennis and his bet with William Eckhardt on whether the could teach traders their trading system for trading commodities, futures and stocks.
Market Rap - The Odyssey of a Still-Struggling Commodity Trader by Art
Book review of Market Rap - The Odyssey of a Still-Struggling Commodity Trader by Art Collins. Explains the story a commodity trader who left a comfortable, yet boring job to become a commodity trader at the Chicago Board of Trade.
Entries and Exits - Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms by Dr Alexander Elder
Book review of Entries and Exits - Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder. Interviews of sixteen traders of commodities, futures, stocks and options. They discuss their trading strategies and trades, while Dr Elder analyzes their trades.
Dr Alexander Elder - Come Into My Trading Room - A Complete Guide to Trading
Book review of Come Into My Trading Room - A Complete Guide to Trading by Dr. Alexander Elder. The psychology of trading is discussed as well as his Triple Screen System and the techniques he uses to trade futures and stocks.
Larry Williams - How I Made $1 Million Trading Commodities Last Year
Book review of How I Made $1 Million Trading Commodities Last Year by Larry Williams. He discuses the strategies he used in his commodity trading as well as other helpful advice on trading commodities.
The Four Biggest Mistakes in Futures Trading - Jay Kaeppel
Book review of The Four Biggest Mistakes in Futures Trading by Jay Kaeppel.
Commodity Fundamentals by Ronald Spurga
Book Review of Commodity Fundamentals - How To Trade the Precious Metals, Energy, Grain, and Tropical Commodity Markets by Ronald C. Spurga. The book covers the fundamentals of commodity fundamentals.
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