Online trading has unlocked the secrets of the trading floor for budding investors worldwide. It has leveled the playing field among market participants, and more people are making money in the financial markets than ever before. Whether you re just entering the world of online trading or are already a Level II player, you will find practical advice and insightful ideas to incorporate into your trading practice. SFO, the premier American journal on stocks, futures and options, has published some of the most successful traders and market analysts in the field today. With this book, we ve done the rip-and-save for you by selecting the best articles from SFO over the past six years, from authors like William O'Neil, chairman and founder of Investors Business Daily and New Market Wizard Linda Bradford Raschke. You ll find practical advice like how to set up your home office with the right equipment, how to develop a solid trading plan and how to incorporate technical analysis into your trading decisions.SFO Personal Investor Series: Online Trading is an essential manual for your online trading toolbox. In addition, this comprehensive anthology includes: articles from 28 of the most knowledgeable traders in the industry;dozens of charts and graphs; a complete index to assist you in finding pertinent topics of interest; and full glossary of trading terms.

SFO Personal Investor Series: Online Trading

Business & Money

Boris Schlossberg

Linda Bradford Raschke

William O'Neil

Bernie Schaeffer

Toni Turner

David Nassar

STOCKS

john-carter

Futures and Options Magazine

The Official Journal for Personal Investing

Investing

W & A Pub

Technical analysis has come a long way over the last two decades to become the most commonly used and successful method of market analysis worldwide. This collection of the top technical articles from SFO, The Official Journal for Personal Investing, will take you from the Dow Theory origins of technical analysis to the cutting-edge synthesis of Eastern and Western technical methods. You'll learn myriad ways to draw a chart, see a trend and spot the patterns that foretell price direction. Learn the basics and more advanced tools of analysis from 25 of the most revered names in the trading field.

SFO Personal Investor Series: Technical Analysis

At some point, every trader every trader encounters a mental block, makes a trade he or she regrets, or faces an emotional challenge related to an investment. All the technical expertise in the world won't help you succeed if you don't have the right mindset. This collection of the top psychology-related articles from SFO, The Official Journal for Personal Investing, will help you assess what kind of trading is right for you and how to manage your personal mind games. This book explores managing mind games and controlling emotions, as well as behavioral economics and how the act of trading affects the internal workings of the brain. Learning about the hard science behind economic decision making and how brain function contributes to trading decisions can help give you the edge you re seeking.

SFO Personal Investor Series: Psychology of Trading

Brett N. Steenbarger

Van K. Tharp

Christopher Terry

Philippa Huckle

Adrienne Laris Toghraie

Learn to use options from veteran option trader Mark D Wolfinger, who spent more than 20 years as a market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Learn why stock options, a versatile investment tool that has seen explosive growth over the past few years, should be used as part of your overall investment strategy. Whether you are new to options or already trade them, this book provides a thorough understanding of option pricing, strategies and the importance of risk management. Learn to adopt more advanced option strategies: iron condors and double diagonals; learn to protect your nest egg and, at the same time, earn healthy returns. Unlike many options guides, this book features step-by-step instructions on how to write covered calls, with extensive examples that outline the pros and cons of writing each call option. Wolfinger shows you how to analyze alternatives and explains why each may be appropriate for a particular investor with specific investment objectives. You will develop a basis for deciding what is suitable for you and your investment philosophy. A thorough understanding of option basics will help you move on to powerful strategies than may earn high returns with limited risk. Wolfinger's suggested strategies help ensure that your portfolio survives a market downturn. Stock options first traded on an exchange a mere 39 years ago. More than 4 billion options traded in 2011. Many people dabble in options without understanding how they work and how they can be used most effectively. The Rookie s Guide to Options: The Beginner s Handbook of Trading Equity Options will give you the basic trading tools you need to start trading options profitably, as well as help you move on to more advanced strategies. You will be guided step-by-step as the author takes you through the decision-making process. Learn the language of options: puts, calls, strike prices, expiration dates, synthetic equivalents etc. This book, is aimed at the beginning to intermediate options trader. You have been using options for years, even if unaware. Ever bought car insurance? That's very similar to a put option. Ever use a rain check at a discount store or used a bus transfer? Those are call options. If you thought options were too complicated, Wolfinger gives a clear and detailed explanation that puts that myth to rest. You will see how to adopt basic options strategies, how to use them to earn profits and how to manage risk effectively. Learn how you can use options to: 1. Sell your stock above market value. 2. Turn a non-performing stock into a profitable investment. 3. Protect your holdings against a disastrous bear market and even profit in a bear market. 4. Create steady income. 5. Manage risk. 6. Earn profits more often than those who buy only stock. 7. Limit losses. 8. Own investments that earn a profit when the market moves higher or lower. The Rookiess Guide to Options shows you how to get the most out of these versatile tools.

The Rookie's Guide to Options: The Beginner's Handbook of Trading Equity Options

Wolfinger, Mark D.

This book is about letting the little guy do what the big guy has always done. Hedge funds, pension funds, and other institutions have always used relative strength investing to rack up big returns, yet the methodology has never been presented to the individual investor as a viable, easy-to-understand investment strategy, as it is in this book. Michael Carr, a personal investor with a longtime background in system design and analysis, has applied his professional expertise to investing. After running millions of relative strength calculations, Carr proves that relative strength investing works in any market climate. By strictly following his methodologies outlined in this book, you can more than double the returns of the S&amp;P 500, with less risk. Carr shares his results, methodology, and step-by-step instructions here in this book. Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing will show you how relative strength strategies allow you to invest successfully in both bull and bear markets. Even in a market downturn, something is always going up. Relative strength will help you pinpoint that stock, currency, or commodity that s on its way up. Recent advances in computing capability and the widespread availability of ETFs have now opened up relative strength strategies to virtually any investor. Relative strength has been widely used for years by financial institutions; however, it was never accessible to individual investors because of complex custom programming requirements. Computing advances, coupled with new ETFs that limit risk have made relative strength a viable strategy for long-term investors and day traders alike. Carr has broken down his technique to the level that any Microsoft user can implement his strategies successfully.

Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing

Carr, Michael J.

Dow Theory Unplugged is the most complete collection of Charles Dow s original writing ever assembled.Dow Theory is widely credited as the basis for modern technical analysis. Yet its origins, Charles Dow's original writings, have been all but forgotten. Dow Theory Unplugged contains a critical selection of 220 original Wall Street Journal columns from more than one hundred years ago, the raw material that led to the development of Dow Theory and remains relevant for the twenty-first-century trader. In addition, top Dow Theorists, including Richard Russell, Charles Carlson and Paul Shread, contribute modern-day analysis to help you apply Dow principles to your trading practice today.
Charles Dow understood the markets better than anyone in his own time, and perhaps any time since. As co-founder of the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Indexes, he developed the framework for monitoring market movement that we have been using for the last century. Dow also wrote hundreds of columns in the Journal outlining a groundbreaking market strategy that became the first chart-following systematic approach to investing.
 Dow s columns are reprinted here as they originally appeared in the Journal and organized by topic around the six modern-day tenets of Dow Theory:
 1. The averages must confirm each other. 2. The averages discount everything. 3. The market has three trends. 4. Major trends have three phases. 5. Volume must confirm the trend. 6. A trend continues until signals reverse.
 Market movements are really a reflection of human nature on a massive scale. And Dow was as astute a judge of human nature as they come. Taking in Dow s editorials can help you see your trading from a new perspective, from the original master of technical analysis. * INCLUDES BONUS INFORMATIONAL DVD WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

Dow, Charles

Shread, Paul

Finance

More than 30 years ago Ken Wood, also known as, Woodie, discovered a revolutionary way of trading on the CCI, a little-known moving average index. Woodie noticed that patterns forming on the CCI reveal how the market is moving. The CCI is a leading indicator, and Woodie figured out how it could help him get into a trade ahead of standard trend lines. Over the years, as Woodie perfected his techniques, he quietly built an online following of millions through Woodie s CCI Club. Woodie is sharing his time-tested methods with the world because his personal philosophy and the CCI Club motto has always been, Traders Helping Traders. Unlike most trading clubs, participation in Woodie s CCI Club has always been free of charge, and countless traders have expanded upon Woodie s original ideas to create the systematic way of trading the markets illustrated here. Woodie reveals the steps that led to his discovery of the CCI, including the original materials that inspired him. He walks you through, step-by-step, the process of learning to trade on the CCI. Woodie shows you here how to recognize and trade patterns on the CCI, starting with a basic trend pattern like the Zero Line Reject, to a more advanced Ghost or Vegas Trade. The CCI will keep you one bar ahead of the rest of the herd!

Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI

Ken Woodie Wood

Many writers focus on economy time series, but James B. Cornehlsen and Michael J. Carr are the first to outline a comprehensive, rigorously tested, easy to understand model. In Conquering The Divide, the authors provide documentation of their model's validity. Using statistical verification, Cornehlsen and Carr don't dumb down the economy; they lay out its signals and indicators. Here, they offer a plan for risk assessment that shows you how to maximize returns, forecast inflation, and get out before big declines.

Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends

Cornehlsen, James B.

You may know Robert James Waller as the man who brought the world to Iowa's storied covered bridges. What you may not realize is that before and since becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist, Waller has grappled with a very real puzzle: How can an individual, a group, and/or a society cut through the confusion of everyday life to successfully navigate its pitfalls and traps?
Through intense reflection, shrewd reasoning, and not a little trial and error, the reclusive author has developed a unique and inventive paradigm for thinking clearly and logically. In The Summer Nights Never End...Until they Do, Waller shares a methodology that can be applied to everything from governmental gaffs and immigration reform to losing weight and financial freedom.
Like so many things that make sense, Waller's words are complex in their simplicity, turn from the madness of short-term, quick fixes and toward time-tested, reasonable goals. 
The devil is in the details. So, too, are the answers. 
 Table of Contents: Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Part I: The Blueprint Chapter 1 Weight Gain, Infidelity, and Retirement Savings Are the Same . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 Love, Money, and the Paths We Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 3 The Value of the Small Increment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Chapter 4 Getting Trapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Chapter 5 Social Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Chapter 6 Vicious Circles, Beneficent Spirals, and the Power of Feedback . . . . . . 47 Chapter 7 Getting Out of Trouble: Conventional Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Chapter 8 Getting Out of Trouble: Incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 9 Avoiding Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 10 A Tsunami Trap: The Case of Public Pension Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Chapter 11 Democracy and Its Saboteurs (Intentional and Otherwise) . . . . . . . . . 117 Part II Matters Personal and General Chapter 12 Views of Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 13 Political Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Chapter 14 Miscellaneous Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Part III Loose Ends and Recapitulation Chapter 15 Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Epilogue A n Essay: What the Rivers Taught Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 Appendix Financial Versus Personal Discounting (Optional Reading) . . . . . . . 221 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run

WALLER, Robert James

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