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Books for Beginners

Trading 101: How to Trade Like a Pro
It's a step-by-step "how-to" guide that gives you all the trading basics and starts off as simple as A,B,C. Everything's covered including basic questions (what is a put, what is a call?), explanations of all the important market jargon, how do you place a trade, pick a broker, open an account. Readers will even learn how to create a personalized trading system, backtest it, and evaluate performance. Harris' famous "Trading 101" seminars are now captured in this detailed guide.

Trading 102: Getting Down to Business
Once you master the trading basics, you could be ready for the big leap into starting and managing your own trading business. Here's a complete start-up guide covering all the bases - from regulations and taxes to systems development and money management techniques.

Getting Started in Futures, 3rd Edition
To enjoy the rewards of the futures market with minimal risk, this newly revised primer should be your first stop. Learn: how contracts are bough and sold, how to hedge risk, and speculate like an expert. Grains, metals, and all the new markets changes are covered in this new 3rd edition.

Getting Started in Options, 3rd edition
In non-technical, easy-to-follow terms, Getting Started in Options, Third Edition arms you with the facts you need to make informed decisions about choosing stocks, tracking options, selling calls, and much more.

Derivatives Demystified: Using Structured Financial Products
Find state-of-the-art instructions for understanding and using structured securities. Gives full descriptions of the most favored structured securities, shows their comparative risk levels, disclosure requirements, and customer suitability provisions. Special Resource Guide has sample proposals to issue and sell structured securities plus a checklist for developing and marketing them.

Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
In this book the authors, Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high-school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market.

All About Futures: From the Inside Out
Ideal for beginners and those who need to brush up on the essentials. Complete how-to guide includes: technical/fundamental analysis basics, how to develop a trading system, portfolio selection, choosing a timeframe, how to evaluate professional money managers and more. Fortune Book Club selection.

Getting Started in Technical Analysis
Jack Schwager, who is an industry expert, presents the perfect technical analysis primer. He introduces investors to oscillators, price and time charts, on-line charting applications, deciphering chart patterns and much more. The best hands-on guide you'll find written by one of the best investment experts today.

The Futures Game, 3rd Edition: Who Wins, Who Loses & Why?
The Futures Game, Third Edition, walks you through the universe of futures trading possibilities and opportunities, starting with an in-depth discussion of market basics that includes the nature of the contract, the organized markets for those contracts, and the relationship between cash and futures prices.

Charting Made Easy
Here is a treasure trove of easy to use tools for mapping your course through today's market. Whether you're using online charts or a professional charting software program, these techniques from master technician John Murphy can increase your trading success.


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Starting Out in Futures Trading | Economic Indicators for Futures Traders  | Resources for Futures Traders | Futures Trading Articles | Futures Trading Books and Book Reviews | Futures Trading Links
Home | Futures Contracts | Types of Futures Orders | Placing Futures Orders | COT Reports | Open Interest | Volume | Futures Margins and Maintenance | Fundamental Analysis | Technical Analysis | Reading Futures Prices | Seasonals | Intermarket Relationships | Money Management | Futures Contract Specifications | Commodity Month Symbols | Limiting Risk Exposure | Larry Williams | Jake Bernstein | John Murphy | Ryan Jones | Alexander Elder | Jack Schwager


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