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ISBN10: 0071544208 | ISBN13: 9780071544207

Trend Trading for a Living: Learn the Skills and Gain the Confidence to Trade for a Living, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0071544208
ISBN13: 9780071544207
By Thomas K. Carr

© 2008 Published December 6, 2007

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Trade the trend and you can trade for a living

If you're going to play the stock market, play to win by using a fundamental strategy of most hedge fund managers-trend trading. In Trend Trading for a Living, the trading coach and hedge fund manager known on Wall Street as “Dr. Stoxx” shares his personal strategies for analyzing markets, picking stocks, and knowing when to buy and sell.

This step-by-step book offers a practical road map to get yourself familiarized with the stock market and into the driver's seat of your financial future. In five progressive parts, Trend Trading for a Living helps you:

  • Configure your platform: setup your home computer to trade online with the best brokers
  • Learn the basics: understand trend trading, select stocks to watch, and interpret market signs
  • Get in the game: select the most profitable bullish and bearish stocks and pick your entry and exit prices
  • Leverage your portfolio: learn how to trade with options to increase your financial rewards
  • Turn pro: with patience, determination, and a strategy grounded in fundamentals, you can “trade for a living”

Part I Preliminaries

1. What you Need to Get Started

2. Becoming a Chart Reader

3. Developing the "Trader's Mind"

4. The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Traders

Part II Trend Trading Basics

5. What is Trend Trading?

6. Setting Up your Watch Lists

7. Determining General Market Direction

Part III Get Started Trend Trading

8. Selecting Bullish Stocks to Trend Trade

9. Selecting Bearish Stocks to Trend Trade

10. Entries and Exits

Park IV Trend Trading With Options

13. Options Strategies: Bearish Trends

14. Options Strategies: Market Neutral

Part V Reading for a Living

15. The Bigger Visiion

Final Thoughts>p> Appendices

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