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Day Trading For Dummies
By Ann C. Logue

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Day trading is undoubtedly the most exciting way to make money from home. It's also the riskiest. Before you begin, you need three things: patience, nerves of steel, and a well-thumbed copy of Day Trading For Dummies—the low-risk way to find out whether day trading is for you.

This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies its all-too-numerous pitfalls, and get you started with an action plan. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty of daily trading practices, it gives you the knowledge and confidence you'll need to keep a cool head, manage risk, and make decisions instantly as you buy and sell your positions. Learn how to:

Set up your accounts and your office
Connect with research and trading services
Plan and research trades carefully and thoroughly
Comply with regulations issues and tax requirements
Leverage limited capital
Cope with the stress quick-action trading
Sell short to profit from price drops
Evaluate your day-trading performance
Use technical and fundamental analysis
Find entry and exit points
Use short-term trading to establish a long-term portfolio

You'll also find Top-Ten Lists of good reasons to go into day trading, or run from it in terror, as well as lists of the most common (and expensive) mistakes day traders make. Read Day Trading For Dummies and get the tips, guidance, and solid foundation you need to succeed in this thrilling, lucrative and rewarding career.

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #11312 in Books
Published on: 2007-10-29
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
360 pages

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ISBN13: 9780470171493
Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Features sample trading plans

Know the markets, gain confidence, and buy and sell like the pros

Want to succeed as a day trader? This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies the all-too-numerous pitfalls, and gives you a step-by-step action plan to get started. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty daily practices, you'll see how to keep a cool head and manage risk while you buy and sell your positions.

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About the Author
Ann C. Logue is the author of Hedge Funds for Dummies (Wiley, 2006). She has written for Barron’s, The New York Times, Newsweek Japan, Wealth Manager, and the International Monetary Fund. She is a lecturer at the Liautaud Graduate School of Business at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current career follows 12 years of experience as an investment analyst. She has a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago at Illinois, and she holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Customer Reviews

More than for just Dummies
I received this book as a gift and, at first, I was skeptical. I spent 20 years working for investment banks starting as a runner on the floor and retiring as the head of a trading desk. "What," I asked, "does this book have to teach me?"

Ah, beware of hubris! I was pleasantly surprised at what I learned. The book has a good introduction to how to obtain the sorts of information that a real day trader will need, but is best on the emotional. Emotions are almost always overlooked. I've seen lots of bright people rise to a certain point on a trading desk and then just implode because they couldn't handle the stress. And these were people working with other's money. It is even worse when it's your own dough on the line. The guy who practices day trading until he has his system all ready and then blows out a month after going live is very common.

Early in my career I started my own firm. This was before day trading was even technically possible and the firm was in the options pits. I got on the emotional roller coaster: on good days it was "Come on Honey, its steak dinner time!" On bad days I tried to save money by rationing toothpaste. It all ended in tears.

This is all by way of stressing the role emotions play in successfully trading the market. Forex Trading for Dummies. This book discusses strategies actually employed by some of the best traders on Wall Street and the book is worth looking into for that alone.

Great for beginners
This book has been wonderful for me explaining the very basics of day trading! I would highly reconmend this book to anyone who wants to see what it's all about and how things work. It's obviously not meant to be a detailed book but more of "what this means and what that means". Perfect for dummmies!

A good start
"Day Trading for Dummmies" gives the reader a very basic overview of the various stock markets and other financial instruments available for trading. It also discusses various aspects of technical analysis. Very clearly presented and useful information.

The only downside to the book is that the author constantly states that you should "pick a trading strategy and stick to it" but doesn't give any guidance about legitimate strategies. There are a lot of cracked pots who have written books on trading strategies. A book like this, designed for introduction, should give you a little more information about where to go for the next step in your trading education.