Product Description: A new and updated edition of the most readable, comprehensive textavailable on derivatives markets. Utilizes an even more applied approach than previouseditionsProvides an excellent balance between introductory and advancedtopicsExtensively updated to incorporate and explicate development inthe field including the areas of electronic trading platforms,globalization of markets, hedge funds, financial scandals involvingderivatives, and government regulationRevised to include over 50 text boxes with applied vignettes ontopical issues, product profiles, and historical anecdote...read more

Product Description: Completely updated, this practical guide has the information investors need to keep up in the complex, fast-paced, and highly profitable world of options and futures, where everything is in play—from oil to diamonds, poultry to vaccines, franchises to coffee...read more

Product Description: Trading Rules has evolved into a classic among trading books. In simple, no-nonsense style, William Eng pulls from his own experience to offer 50 hard earned rules that lay the foundation for lasting success in the markets. Eng s book isn t about surviving the fluctuations of the market, it s about mastering the moves and making money...read more

Provides a guide to trading options and futures, including how to understand and analyze financial markets, choose the right broker, devise effective option strategies, and trade commerical and financial futures.

Product Description: The top-selling title in McGraw-Hill’s popular Streetsmart series, now with updated timing techniques to transform the marketplace Renowned timing expert Colin Alexander revises and expands the Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market for the new trading era, explaining the impact demographic changes have on demand for stocks and bonds...read more

Barron's Business Keys have gained a deserved reputation as easy- to-read books of sound advice for consumers and non-experts. These brief, fact- filled volumes cut through business and financial jargon and speak to consumers in plain English. They offer information and advice on saving, investing, protecting one's assets, coping with taxes, and prudent management of personal finances. This volume describes options and futures investments as high-risk ventures with potentially high rewards. The authors discuss both the complexities and the risks in detail for those investors who can afford to place some of their capital at risk.

Efficient market theorists contend that markets are random and thus not predictable. With the publication of Trading Against theCrowd, however, noted author, economist, and professional trader John Summa convincingly shows that investor sentiment can be incorporated into profitable stock and stock market trading systems. In this groundbreaking book, Summa explains how to use popular gauges of crowd psychology, such as put/call ratios, option-implied volatility, short sales, investor surveys, and advisory opinion to trade against, or contrary to, prevailing market sentiment. He also makes compelling arguments against the efficient markets hypothesis with the presentation of his own quantitative weekly bear and bull news-flow intensity indices, which he builds from news scans. This data series, and other popular measures of crowd psychology, are processed through custom indicators that are programmed into profitable trading systems, such as Squeeze Play I & II, Tsunami Sentiment Wave, and the Fourth Estate. Trading Against the Crowd is the first book to provide a comprehensive assessment of investor crowd psychology, offering valuable market timing tools and trading techniques, including: MetaStock and Trade Station system and custom indicator code; comparative statistical studies of CBOE, OEX, and equity-only put/call ratios; straightforward instructions for combining price triggers with sentiment indicators; a practical guide to understanding put/call ratios, short sales, investor surveys, newsletter opinion, and stock market news-flow intensity; how to use LEAP options as trading vehicles to avoid use of stop loss orders; use of put/call ratios for trading the Treasury bond futures market; and test results and evaluation of trading system performance. Many of today’s professional money managers rely on investor sentiment for improved market timing. They know that at extremes of market sentiment, markets tend to be the most predictable.Trading Against the Crowd shows how you can begin to profit from these short- to medium-term sentiment waves generated by the actions of the speculative crowd. Put into practice powerful sentiment data using thoroughly back-tested trading systems, and rise above the herd mentality of the investor crowd, where potentially large profits await.

A thorough trading guide from a professional trader The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics can help the new individual investor understand the mechanics of the markets. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book details what it takes to trade and shows readers how they can broaden their horizons by investing in the futures and options markets. The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics outlines a variety of proven methodologies-pivot points, candlesticks, and other top indicators-so readers may use those that work best for them as well as make their own trading decisions without a second thought. Author John Person also shares his insights on a variety of trading technologies that will allow readers to gain a competitive edge in the market. John L. Person (Palm Beach, FL) publishes The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental new developments as well as technical analysis using his trading system.

Product Description: Skilled stock traders and investors are increasingly turning to futures trading to augment their overall performance. Mastering Futures Trading introduces these traders to proven and popular Strategies, concepts, and methods for becoming experts in this high-potential, highly leveraged game...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Portable Financial Analyst is a unique collection of essays that addresses the heart of every investors and analysts dilemma: how to make decisions in the face of unknown forces and how to assert some control over the outcome. Originally published in The Financial Analysts Journal, these self-contained articles address often controversial and difficult quantitative topics without the technical jargon and mathematical symbolism that often permeates other writings. With a rare degree of lucidity and impeccable logic, Mark Kritzman shows investors how to employ the tools of mathematics, statistics, and common sense when evaluating past results and projecting future performance.

Single Stock Futures are regarded by many as the ultimate derivative. Having finally made their US trading debut in November 2002, the market is set for explosive global growth during 2003 and 2004. Written by experienced traders, this is the first practical guide to this exciting new product as increasingly traded throughout the world.

Product Description: Providing an educational tool for stock and futures trading professionals and sophisticated individual investors, Bernstein offers an introduction and overview of single stock futures (SSFs), a new investment vehicle that allows investors to trade futures contracts on their individual stock investments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rules for successful trading, direct from the traders who practice them every day Even with today's high-speed computers, online accounts, and information access, traders still live or die based on their abilities to control fear, greed, and emotion...read more

Product Description: Everything you need to know about Single Stock Futures "Single stock futures are an incredibly important new financial instrument for managing risk. Kennedy Mitchell provides an outstanding and easy-to-read explanation of these new products for either an expert futures user or for someone learning about futures markets for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)