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Book Description
When people think of stock trading, they often think of the glory days of the Internet, when stocks just kept going up and everyone seemed to be making a fortune. Since the bubble burst, many people are scared of investing in the stock market. Sure, stocks are risky—just like any other investment—but with the right knowledge and tactics, there’s still money to be made.
Trading For Dummies isn’t about high-risk, fast-paced day trading. It’s a simple, straightforward guide to the ins and outs of stock investing that offers a measured, level-headed approach to trading. You’ll learn the basics of portfolio management, measuring stock value, market analysis, and much more—all with a focus on risk reduction and steady profits. Inside you’ll learn how to:
- Understand market cycles
- Choose a great broker
- Master technical analysis
- Manage your risk exposure
- Build a balanced portfolio
This friendly guide presents the kind of honest advice you won’t find in the typical get-rich-quick books on trading. Full of practical tips and tactics—as well as hardnosed insider advice—this handy resource shows you how to build a strong, balanced, and profitable portfolio. Whether you want to save up for your retirement or pay for college, Trading For Dummies will show you how to:
- Prepare yourself with the right tools and information
- Develop your own custom trading strategy
- Analyze companies and stocks
- Understand all the exchanges and markets
- Understand broker fee structures
- Analyze market behavior
- Decipher income statements, balance sheets, and ratios
- Read charts and graphs
- Spot trends and profit from them
This book has all the tools and honest advice novice stock traders need to get set-up quickly and safely. Basic strategies and stock valuation methodologies let you control your risk exposure and make wise decisions. Trading For Dummies includes everything new traders need with advice on every type of stock or derivative, every kind of trade, and every popular strategy.
Customer Reviews:
Not up to the Dummies standard.......2007-06-16
I had hoped that, since this book discusses both fundamental and technical analysis, it would be a balanced blend of the two. However, it is almost entirely a technical analysis book, that acknowledges the existence of fundamentals and not much else.
The fact that the book doesn't match my investment style isn't enough on its own to earn a two-star rating from me. Unfortunately, it is also poorly written, and poorly edited. It is wordy, jargony, confusing, vague, and occasionally (as near as I can tell) inaccurate. Most significantly, it is missing the spark that made the reputation of the Dummies books - the inspired organization and careful choice of topics that allow a single book to provide a useful foundation in a complicated subject.
That said, I did (laboriously) read the whole thing. It added some polish to my chart-reading abilities. It also helped me to understand some previously inexplicable aspects of market behavior. I am not likely to become a technical analyst anytime soon, but I now feel slightly better prepared to share the marketplace with them.
Excellent foundation for the beginning trader.......2007-01-05
Trading for Dummies is an excellent book for anyone interested in starting to trade stocks. This book really kept me wanting to read on and on because every section was filled with plenty of information. The way the chapters are arranged were very good in that you don't have to be going back and forth to understand the whole concept. One thing I noticed was that this book is for someone who wants to be a position trader as opposed to a day trader, which is good because that is what I want to do. For someone who knows absolutely nothing about how the stock market works, this book is an excellent read. Overall I give it the full five stars.
Must read for those who want to make money.......2006-08-04
Great book. Covers all the bases, including fundamental and technicals. I have read a few of the other Dummies books on investing and all were well written. This book is for those who want to make money, not just buy and hold and hope for the best. I learned more about trading/investing with the Dummies series than 4 years of college majoring in finance. And yes, I have made money.
Great Introduction.......2006-04-14
IMHO The reason the "for dummies" brand has been successfull aside from the catchy name, is the actual content and material of the books themselves.
This book has been a great read for some one like myself that already had an idea of what investing entails, but that does not preclude total beginners with no idea from gaining an immense amount of great information from this book.
It is written in plain language and is a great place for a beginner to start his journey.
Good book + Free trading.......2005-10-30
This book is especially good for the person who wants a broad overview of investing. It will give you a solid foundation to begin growing your money from. After reading, I opened a Scottrade account because they had the lowest rates ($7), and no inactivity fee. [...] to get a referral for 3 free trades.
Book Description
A simple, straightforward guide to the fundamentals of technical analysis
For active traders and investors who don't understand the complicated art of technical analysis, this commonsense resource covers all the bases. Explaining the basic principles of analysis and showing how to implement them, Technical Analysis For Dummies dumps the confusing jargon and unreadable charts for basic explanations and practical guidance. In no time at all, readers will see how to make better trading decisions.
Barbara Rockefeller (Stamford, CT) is one of the foremost authorities on technical analysis and founder of Rockefeller Treasury Services.
Customer Reviews:
There's gotta be better than this.......2007-08-15
The author attempts a very difficult subject and falls flat on her face.
Very unclear. Sentences an English professor couldn't diagram. Most any other book on Technical Analysis would be better
Great and easy to read.......2007-08-10
My investment friend was surprise when I told him that this book help me a lot. I keep this book by me at all times if I need to go back and review something. You should have this in your library.
Good as a reference.......2007-03-16
This book is pretty good for a reference, it covers all the basic issues and ideas that one should know when dealing with technical analysis.
My disappointment is that it lacks the prctical section. OK, so I know the basics, I open the chart at any charts system, and now what??
It doesnt give any methods of analysis, it just gives the tools.
Bottom line, as I see it, after reading the book you can't just go and start working...
NOT CLEARER THAN BEFORE STUFF.......2006-08-19
God help the "dummies" who like to learn from this book. Don't get this book if you are new to technical analysis, which will NOT make you money either. It will just confuse you. I recommend Martin Pring to start out with.
THE BEST.......2006-07-25
I've checked out lots of books on Technical Analysis and I've found this far and away the best, both for its understandability and its breadth. It's not a simple read, because technical analysis isn't a simple subject. But if you dedicate yourself to understanding it (with more than one reading), it will pay you back every step of the way.
This is definitely the book to start with (and maybe end with too) if you're serious about learning the discipline of technical analysis, rather than just dabbling in it. It's like being taught by a friend who's "in the business."
Book Description
If you’re like the majority of the estimated 12 million employees in the U.S. who have stock options as a key component to their compensation packages, you have a vague notion, at best, of how options work and what they can mean to your financial well being. What’s the vesting schedule for your shares and how will their strike price be set? What type of stock option grant will you receive, an ISO (incentive stock option) or an NQSO (non-qualified stock option)? What tax rules apply to your option program? Your financial future could depend on your knowing the answers to these and other questions regarding your company’s stock option plan.
Confused by all the brouhaha surrounding stock options? Let expert Alan Simon demystify this often-confusing investment vehicle for you. Featuring clear explanations of how your stock options might make you money—or not—this friendly guide fills you in on what you need to know to:
- Understand different types of stock options
- Read and find traps in your stock option agreement
- Evaluate the pros and cons of company investment vehicles
- Assess vesting schedules and tax laws
- Tap Web resources
Simon demystifies the jargon, rules, and tax consequences of stock options. He provides a realistic picture of what to expect from your options, and he helps you see past the hype to understand what your employer is really offering. Important topics covered include:
- What you need to know before accepting a compensation package that includes options
- Developing a stock option philosophy and clear-cut goals
- Knowing whether you’re being treated fairly by your company
- Making sense of the language of stock options agreements
- Getting a handle on key restrictions on how you exercise your options
- Stock option valuation
- Tax rules and how they apply to different types of options
- How stock options can be affected by changes at your company
Stock Options For Dummies is the only guide you’ll need to get the most out of this important investment vehicle.
Customer Reviews:
Misleading title.......2007-05-07
This book is aimed at employees elegible to receive stock options in the company they work for from their employer.
It is NOT for investors wishing to buy and sell stock options through a stock broker.
Author response to "misleading title" complaints.......2006-03-21
First, disregard the 5-star rating. *I* think the book is good of course, but that's not why I'm writing this comment.
To the two recent reviewers who complain that the book isn't about puts and calls but rather about ISOs, NQSOs, etc. - look, I'm sorry for your inconvenience but if you had taken about 2 minutes to skim the table of contents and the editorial review on the amazon.com page ("...your company's stock option plan..."), you would CLEARLY see what type of stock options this book discusses. In fact, taking less time to do so than it took you to write your complaint-reviews and give the book a poor review would have saved each of you $20 or whatever the book cost you.
So my sympathies to you for your misspent $, but come on: blaming the author and publisher for your own haste and, further, feeling the need to do so publicly on an amazon.com review with one- and two-star rankings? (At least the other reader who did the same thing back in August, 2003 had the courtesy to give a 5-star ranking because of the reselling experience on amazon.com to rectify his/her error.)
I sincerely hope that if you do begin to dabble in puts and calls - the other kind of stock options - that you do so with much greater care than you took in making your respective book purchases. Otherwise, you should really think twice about that side of the investing world.
To the one reader who is looking for a beginner's book about the other kind of stock options: see "Futures and Options For Dummies" by Joe Duarte. But do your homework first before buying!
Title misleading.......2006-03-21
I was misled by the title of this book am disappointed. This book is NOT for individuals who want to take their investing to the next level and start trading options on the open market, as I had expected -- rather, it is for people who are offered stock options through their employer.
If anyone knows of a good beginner's book for trading stock options, please clue me in.
Book has the wrong title.......2006-01-01
I wanted a book that went through the publically traded options market.
Almost everything in the book deals with employee stock options.
There is very little information about trading options on the open exchange. The real title of this book is "Employee Stock Options for Dummies".
Good book + Free trading.......2005-10-30
This book is especially good for the person who wants a broad overview of investing. It will give you a solid foundation to begin growing your money from. After reading, I opened a Scottrade account because they had the lowest rates ($7), and no inactivity fee. [...] to get a referral for 3 free trades.
Book Description
The days of buying and holding stocks and mutual funds for years are gone; nowadays, futures and option markets offer some of the best opportunities to make money trading in volatile times. But like all investments, high risk is involved, and in order to become a successful trader you must be prepared to work as a geopolitical analyst, a money manager, and an expert in all types of commodity markets.
Futures & Options For Dummies will show you how trading is done and how to survive and succeed in these ever-changing markets. Filled with nuts-and-bolts advice, you’ll soon discover how to manage the risks involved and reap the rewards of futures and options trading. This straightforward guide gives you the tools you need to understand:
- Ins and outs of trading futures and options
- How to analyze the markets and develop strategies
- Interest-rate futures and speculating with currencies
- How to stock up on indexes
- The direction of commodity futures
- Organizing your financial data and calculating your worth
- Developing strategies now to avoid pain later
- The execution of successful trades
Trading takes an iron-cast stomach and nerves of steel to perform, and this book features ways to keep yourself sane and secure. It also lists resourceful Web sites, commodity exchanges, books, newsletters, and magazines to assist in your trading endeavors. From technical analysis to finding a broker, Futures & Options For Dummies has all the information you need to capitalize on these markets!
Customer Reviews:
Good as Always.......2007-03-25
Helped pass the Series 3 license, and helps with understading the industry.
Not much help for option trading.......2007-01-25
If you don't have a lot of money to invest, don't think seriously about reading this book.
not for dummies, but for serious traders.......2006-11-04
I would assume people who read this book would be the ones who already have good experience in stock trading. The author did a good job in explaining the macro-economic factors (money supply, interest rate,...). You have to get good understanding on all these before you can do good in future trading.
The author also did a good job in describing complicated topids in a simple and clean way. He is writing the book base on his experience and insight. He definitely is the kind of person who knows a lot and also know how to teach you things in a simple form.
A future in options.......2006-10-28
This author has explained concepts and strategies which I have used to make money. One trade, 100% return in one month, another 40% in two days!
This is the reason I read this book, to make money. No one should try to make money in options based on simple formulas. One must have a deeper understanding of how things work. Duarte has a firm grasp on this concept and ably communicates to his reader.
Particularly helpful is the section on recognizing trends and getting ahead of the curve. His 'Developing Strategies' does help the careful reader avoid pain in the market. Also helpful are his ten killer rules.
Futures and options trading isn't for the faint of heart. Useful information contained in this book offers information needed to have confidence in developing a trading plan that you understand and can make work. This is very useful indeed.
A very credible tome on a subject written with obvious insight and judgment that can only come with experience.
Book Description
A intuitive and powerful approach to mastering one of the most important options trading tools
In 1997, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for the work that led to Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory. Black-Scholes has become the dominant way of understanding the relationships among options prices, stock forecasts, and expected stock-market volatility. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy, a book and interactive, animated tutorial, makes this sophisticated way of thinking accessible to everyday traders. Animations and simulations present the material in a simple, visual and interactive manner. They allow readers to understand easily and intuitively the concepts and outcomes of Black-Scholes and probability distributions. Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory revealed that investing in options is a probability game. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy shows you your odds.
Jerry Marlow (New York, NY) is a freelance financial writer and marketing consultant. For investment firms, he creates marketing and educational presentation that bridge the gap between how sophisticated financial mangers think about investing and how the firms' clients think about investing.
Customer Reviews:
A Must-Have for Any Options Trader.......2007-10-02
This book makes it relatively easy to understand the mathematical principles behind the Black-Scholes theory. The CD guides you through various scenarios and plots everything for you. You don't have to be a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Chicago to appreciate the explanations and diagrams depicted. A "must-have" for every options trader or investor - a definite "keeper"!
Outstanding!.......2003-01-16
Fantastic software!
The book is really a step by step tutorial on how to use the
probability forecasting software that is on the CD.
Excellent learning tool as well as a decision-analysis tool for investments.
Really great. Loved it. Learned a lot!
Many thanks to the author.
One Caution: It doesn't work on a Macintosh
(unless you have PC emulation software for your Mac).
Cheers,
---Freddy
Informative book read..........2002-08-14
I was skeptical to buy it since there were more than 100 different books available on options... but I am glad I choose this book. Its easy and the software developed beats anything I have seen yet... All the free softwares available are excel based but do not offer such insight on the subject as this book.
I would strongly recommend it to anyone. Only hitch is that the software is bit slow to run but it performs...
Can't praise this interactive book highly enough.......2002-05-10
Any student or trainee having to study this topic really should buy this tutorial.
Having a degree in Mathematics and a professional accountancy qualification did not prepare me for the explanations of Black Scholes to be found in most text books.
They may have got a Nobel prize for their option pricing model but Black and Scholes were never going to get an award for clarity of explanation.
Having grappled with this area for a few months, I decided I needed a little more innovative help; hence my purchase of Jerry Marlow's interactive tutorial.
Two days later and I feel I could go for the next Nobel prize myself!
So many things click into place so quickly, it's marvellous.
Jerry gives his email address which I had to resort to for one query. He answered most helpfully within a couple of hours.
I suspect that it helps to have had an overview appreciation of the area before starting the tutorial but this shouldn't deter first timers from starting with this.
First Rate.......2002-02-08
The visual presentation the book offers combined with the interactive CD-ROM make this indispensable to anyone who really wants to understand how option pricing works. It's right here on my desk for easy and quick reference - which is my advice to everyone!
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Candlestick Charting For Dummies
Russell Rhoads
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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A useful guide to the traditional--and effective--price predicting method
Candlestick charting is a traditional method of technical analysis designed to help traders make better decisions in the securities markets. Candlestick Charting For Dummies teaches investors how to recognize and implement various candlestick patterns and lines in today's real-world trading environment, giving them a decided advantage over other traders. The book includes detailed information on observing market behavior, predicting trends and patterns, analyzing data, and developing effective trading strategies. Both Western and Japanese-style candlestick analysis are covered.
Russell Rhoads (Lawrence, KS) has over 15 years experience as an analyst and trader, and has been involved in equity, option, and futures trading as well as fundamental and quantitative research. He has a Master of Science in Finance degree from the University of Memphis and a Master's Certificate in Financial Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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High-Powered Investing All-In-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Consumer Dummies
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A big, smart, user-friendly guide to investing in anything
High-Powered Investing All-in-One For Dummies offers readers a wealth of information on investment techniques and options ranging from stocks and bonds to hedge funds to dabbling in exchange-traded funds. It covers virtually every kind of investing. This hands-on guide to profitable investing educates investors by offering a succinct framework and advice to confidently invest in the marketplace.
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Trading Options For Dummies, is for those investors who are curious about this exciting and popular form of investing.
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