This brand new Second Edition of a former best seller offers specific and current guidance on accessing commodity markets cost-effectively, avoiding common mistakes, and improving your odds of successful profitable trades. Covers the newest trading platforms, contracts and strategies in an in-depth manner. Provides a comprehensive overview for novices while being honest about the risks.

Binary options offer fixed risk and reward, and provide savvy market players a way to react quickly to event-driven opportunities and trends. This is a complete how-to guide to trading this unique instrument to hedge risk, make smarter bets during volatile periods, and for improving overall returns.

Walks you through the ins and outs of using TradeStation - the premier investment software on the market today. This book is the definitive user's manual for anyone looking to learn the fundamentals of creating and utilizing trading systems with TradeStation.

Global currency markets offer immense opportunities to prepared and intelligent traders. In this concise, candid, and practical book, you are taught everything you need to better your chances at earning your share of the profits. Includes unique insights into the new currency ETFs.

The ideal guide for those interested in building long term wealth using the buy and hold strategy. Explains value investing and tests fundamental factors - such as book value, price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios - to see how important they are to stock selection and performance. Also analyzes position trading and how it introduces market timing to help remove the risk of buying and holding a stock for years.

Designed to help readers identify where market averages have given investors an edge and how to exploit those edges over time. The book is based on one central theme: buying short-term weakness has outperformed buying short-term strength over the past 15 years. You'll be shown how to identify overbought and oversold conditions with precision.

Explains what really happens on the often chaotic trading floor and helps to interpret the conversations and roles and responsibilities of key players. Learn how what goes on down on the floor directly impacts global financial markets. Walks you through common financial transactions and sheds light on opaque terminology.

Provides a well rounded understanding of the commodities markets, including how they relate to stocks, bonds, and foreign exchange...and how they affect the average person's world every day. Explores both the technicalities and fundamentals that determine commodity prices and shows you how you can use that knowledge to your advantage.

Introduces you to powerful trading techniques based upon the methodologies pioneered by market legend William O'Neil. The authors made a fortune using O'Neil's original stock trading strategies...and then set out to improve upon those techniques. This book is the end result, and will help you identify and capture stock breakouts at the earliest possible moment.

Skillfully explores many of the time-tested investment philosophies that have allowed investors to reap financial rewards over the years. Takes an in-depth look at value investing, growth investing, technical analysis, market timing, arbitrage, indexing, and many more paths to profit.

Exposes the truth about the cherished assumptions and fallacious thinking at the core of some of the most respected investment theories and models. The emphasis throughout is on how markets really work, and how they don't.

A straightforward manual on the proven techniques of two giants in the field of technical analysis, L.M. Lowry and Richard Wyckoff. Discover unique insights into price/volume interactions...and the macro-forces of supply and demand. The overriding goal here is advance detection of major trends, and then how to best capitalize.

Offers a well-rounded approach to market timing by combining technical tools with sector and seasonal analysis. Helps you to answer the all-important question: What is the value of a certain stock, commodity or ETF?

This updated and revised fifth edition of the all-time options bestseller gives you the latest market-tested and business-tested tools for improving the earnings potential of your portfolio while reducing downside risk - no matter how the market is performing.

This practical guide takes the mystery out of the math behind options, making them both understandable and usable. Provides you with a solid conceptual foundation of options behavior so you can make more informed decisions when choosing an option strategy. Comprehensive coverage of the three factors an options trader must consider when putting on a trade, including direction, magnitude and time.

Explains how to use chart patterns to swing and day trade. It first reviews the basics, then drills down into specific trading strategies, including the "inverted dead cat bounce", the opening range breakout and the opening gap setup. Includes new research on major reversal times.

Shows how to identify "strategic gaps" with high profit potential. The main focus is on piecing together practical, actionable trading strategies by properly interpreting gap size, volume and previous price movement.

Trains you to capitalize on the dual nature of the markets; which tend to vacillate between being dominated by trend followers and then by contrarian bargain hunters. Learn to profit on either side of the fence, with an "out-of-the-box" trading approach developed by the winner of the 2003 Charles H. Dow Award from the Market Technicians Association.

Introduces a complete, practical "insurance business" framework for trading options: a framework built on techniques proven in the world's largest financial institutions. Identifies the option concepts most critical to long-term success and present core income strategies based on selling rather than purchasing options.

Outlines a unique trading method called the Rotating Directional System (RDS) that combines both technical and fundamental concepts. The primary goal here is to understand and interpret the ebb and flow of prices to reveal when to get on and off a trend. All five core RDS rules are presented in an in-depth and comprehensive manner.