Patel The Online Trading Cookbook

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-66182-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Trading Series

The Online Trading Cookbook is a unique resource for busy online traders of all levels, addressing the need amongst the growing number of those trading and investing from home for solid, low risk trading strategies which they can incorporate into a busy lifestyle. Suitable for all levels of retail trader and is supplemented by useful advice on the best trading tools, websites and brokers, the different markets available to trade, tips on risk and money management.
The book is divided into sections based on levels of complexity and contains specific strategies used by profitable hedge funds as well as strategies used by other professionals, all of which can be implemented by private investors. The opening chapter discusses the professional tools traders will need, from multi-screen hardware, best websites, trading software, data services, brokers, trading products and the types of traders suited to each type of trading. The following chapters give concise novice, intermediate and advanced strategies for short and long term traders.
The cookbook format is one of the most popular for teaching complicated subjects. Trading skills are presented and learnt as simply as recipes. This book provides exactly that from trading strategies to risk and money management. Each page presents as ingredients what the trader needs to do, the tools and the preparation with successful examples illustrated on the facing page. Both the proven format and its simplicity are compelling and unique in their application to trading.
Written by two celebrated experts in the field, The Online Trading Cookbook is the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to learn to trade or for advanced traders wishing to further their knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patel, Alpesh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
About the Authors xv
Introduction 1
PART I APERITIF
Recipe 1 Uncle's Favourite 11
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 2 What Good Dishes Taste Like - The Recipe forTrading Success 21
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 3 Trend Lines and Channelling: Mind the Bumps 31
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 4 Japanese as Easy as Sushi: Exotic but not Complicated37
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 5 Moving Averages: Decisions Decisions 43
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 6 Breakfast at 8 49
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 7 Let's Get a Takeaway! 55
Difficulty Level: Beginner
PART II HORS D'OEUVRES
Recipe 8 MACD, MA and Stochastic - Mixing Cocktails 69
Difficulty Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Recipe 9 The Breakout 75
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
PART III AMUSE-BOUCHE
Recipe 10 Natural Diet: Don't Forget Your Roughage 85
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
PART IV ENTREMET
Recipe 11 MACD (Mac-D) and Friends 101
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 12 Nouvelle Cuisine: New Issues 107
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 13 Momentum: Short Termism Does Pay! 111
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 14 Turtle Soup: The Most Famous Trading Recipe of All117
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 15 Pairs Trading: One of Your Five a Day! 127
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 16 Double Big MAC-D 135
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
PART V ENTREE
Recipe 17 English Breakfast or All-Day Lunch 151
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Recipe 18 Surfing the Waves: Fast Food 159
Difficulty Level: Advanced/Expert
PART VI MAIN
Recipe 19 Coffee Options and Spreads 173
Difficulty Level: Advanced/Expert
Recipe 20 Bonds: Shaken Not Stirred 185
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Recipe 21 Buffet: Today's Special at McDonald's193
Difficulty Level: Advanced
PART VII DESSERT
Recipe 22 Common Cooking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 203
PART VIII PANTRY
Recipe 23 Utensils and Common Ingredients 209
Recipe 24 If You Can't Stand the Heat: Taking Risks in theKitchen 221
Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Alpesh Patel launched asset management company PraefiniumPartners in 2004. He is a former Visiting Fellow in Business andIndustry at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. He haswritten 13 books on trading, translated into 8 languages. ForBloomberg TV he co-presented shows for three years as theirin-house online trading specialist. He has had over 200 columns ontrading published in the Financial Times through hisDiary of an Internet Trader column. He is the founder of investingbetter.comwhich is an online trading education company and has his owninvestment software in partnership with Sharescope.
Alpesh has lectured on trading from Beijing and San Francisco toGuatemala and from Spain to India, Singapore and Hong Kong. Alpesh is also the founder of TraderMindMarkets.com, anonline trading portal and alpeshpatel.com offering FX education aswell as eglobaltrades.com, an online FX broker. He writes the TheTraderFather.comblog.
Paresh Kiri has vast experience as a floor trader on theworld's second largest derivatives exchange LIFFE and as aPortfolio Manager. He is an FSA regulated investment manager.
Starting his career on the LIFFE floor in 1993, Paresh was oneof the first traders to embrace screen trading, through the LIFFEonline trading platform APT (Automated Pit Trading). Paresh was oneof the founders of Kyte Securities. Since leaving Eden Financial in1999, Paresh has been managing private client and institutionalmoney, and developing very specific operational services going backto Kyte Group to assist the development of an Index Options Desk,and seeking ways of bringing the strategies he developed to thewider public audience by structuring managed accounts servicesusing on-line trading platforms. Paresh regularly coaches and holdsprivate seminars on trading the markets. He sits on the AdvisoryBoard of Sterling Group.