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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: high-impact nothing
Date: 2005-08-19 - 
Comment: When closing price goes up N times, buy. When it goes down N times, sell. Exit when profitable enough. If exited too early, re-enter. Use stops. Different markets are profitable in different time frames, from one-minute to hourly bars. This strategy is very profitable and has been tested on one month of data. If this sounds interesting - buy this book.
Alternatively, read this review again and implement it in your trading.
Summary: Mountain/Valley Trading System
Date: 2004-07-02 - 
Comment: Basicly, this is a trend following system. It's designed to hang on to winning trades as long as possible and to dump losing trades quickly. It's similar to a trend breakout system, execept that you control, with two input values, when a valid breakout and a trend begins. It has money management logic built into it. I have created a Tradestation program based on this system which I use to automatically execute trades in Diamonds, Spiders, and E-minis. It's a robust system, works with any security, and is very profitable when the market are trending.
Summary: 1 Technique Explained in Dull Fashion
Date: 2003-01-04 - 
Comment: This book was written in '96 and as such, Easy Language could have been included since it was available then. The system requires high maintenance observation (in 1 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute and 60 minute charts in each future discussed) that would require programming assistance in the background. NB Another reviewer states he has programmed this in ELA & offers his email address.There are many charts which take up half of the book, but since most of the time the chart being referenced in the text is on another page, it's a hassle to jump back and forth. The writing style could cure insomnia. As in Larry Williams' daytrading book, this book would have benefitted greatly by inclusion of Performance Reports with Profit Factors, ROI, consecutive losers and the like. In fairness to the author, he provides the results of all trades in a month period for the different time periods (1-minute through 60-minutes) for various futures including the DM. These could have been enhanced with profit targets, it was surprising to see better than potential $1000+ trades allowed to turn into losers. Once the single system was explained, the various futures could have been presented with 1 time frame Performance Report and the best value, on successive pages. Unfortunately since Barnes limited himself to 1 month of trades, there is insufficient information on those time frames greater than 1 or 5 minute charts, to determine the validity of the system. One needs a minimum of 30 samples and in many instances there are only 3 trades for the time period presented. Better editing would have enhanced the value of this book in making it more comprehensible and capable of the system being confirmed as being viable.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: High impact day trading
Date: 2002-06-23 -
Comment: VERY HELPFULL BOOK FOR THE NOVICE. QUICK DELIVERY
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Original thinking!
Date: 2001-01-25 - 
Comment: I used the system outlined in the book to develop a highly successful longer term system that makes very good returns with low drawdowns. It also recovers very quickly from losses. Enough said!
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