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Book: A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators (Wiley Trading) :: Book
Date: Thursday, 08 January, 2009 :: 18:11
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A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators (Wiley Trading)
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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A thorough trading guide from a professional trader
The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics can help the new individual investor understand the mechanics of the markets. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book details what it takes to trade and shows readers how they can broaden their horizons by investing in the futures and options markets. The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics outlines a variety of proven methodologies?pivot points, candlesticks, and other top indicators?so readers may use those that work best for them as well as make their own trading decisions without a second thought. Author John Person also shares his insights on a variety of trading technologies that will allow readers to gain a competitive edge in the market. John L. Person (Palm Beach, FL) publishes The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter, a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental new developments as well as technical analysis using his trading system.
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Average Customer Review: 
Summary: An Amazing Book
Date: 2008-04-17 - 
Comment: John L. Person is not only a brilliant trader, but more importantly a very wise and level-headed individual, at least from what I can gather after reading this book. He has a very clear understanding of what it takes to be a successful trader, as well as a very comprehensive understanding of the tools that are required to be at such a level of consistency.
If you can approach this book with a open mind about all the issues he delves into, you will be undoubtedly put in the right direction to success. This is definately one of the best books I have read on trading, from an overall perspective. I only wish someone had referred it to me before I read the 15+ other books prior to obtaining a copy of this one, because it definately would have sped up my learning process.
For whatever it is worth, I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is the field of trading and isn't already highly accomplished (in fact, this select group may even benefit from his carefully selected quotes at the start of each chapter - they are all amazing).
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Website Subscription marketing...
Date: 2008-03-14 - 
Comment: What I really wanted to comment on was the website that is frequently mentioned in this book. Navellier does the same thing, for example. These websites are useful as resources, as confirmation of one's own independent analysis and research. A variety of analytical techniques, combined with a rating from one of these websites for some more confirmation, is not a bad way to trade. However, I find subscribing to a lot of these services as not only expensive ($50 a month subscriptions add up quick) but not so useful to RELY ON. (notice I said rely on, rather than not useful to use... they are very useful for providing extra information.)
By the time you move into a suggested position the "real" clients of these trading strategies have already taken their positions and possibly run up the price, making the ideal bottom point of a run difficult to get in on.
It is really common for trading manuals to seem like marketing ploys for their websites. If the site is a FREE SERVICE and provides research and technical details, then use it. Books that get one revved up by saying how much money their clients are making, "Go to my website to see how we do it..." (fine print- thanks for buying my book, but now you have to subscribe to my website) Be wary. Very wary. Use this information as a RESOURCE, not a crutch. As I mentioned earlier, as confirmation of one's own analysis these sites can be excellent informational sources, and can provide easily accessible, time-saving analysis. The more information from a variety of sources you employ, the better off you are.
Summary: Very Informative
Date: 2006-08-01 -
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed the book and appreciated John's candor and willingness to share methods to achieve profitablity in trading.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to learn a methodology
of trading using candlestick formations and pivot points.
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: This was a dissapointing read...
Date: 2006-06-23 - 
Comment: I agree with a couple of posts that say this is a very basic book, and that most of the information could be found for free on the internet. I would go as far as to say that some information would be better if read on the internet.
The examples about pivots (the key part of the book), one chart after another were not easy to follow. The section on TA was woefully lacking. The author has a section on Gann theory, and more or less advises to go buy the book that Gann wrote. As it turns out, there is some pretty rich information about Gann on the web.
My biggest pet peeve about this book were the continual subliminal references (advertisements) to the author's subscription based website. Besides that, I did not like the blatent plugging of the people who praised his book on the back cover. It's okay for an author to put their website on the back of the book. If the information stands on it's own then I can go to the website to learn more. What's not cool is to give vauge trading strategies, then give some glowing account of how your subscription newsletter called the shots.
I did give the book two stars, which means I wasn't totally dissapointed. He does stress a couple of good points regarding pivots, but it's all pretty basic beginner stuff.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: An excellent Forex trading book
Date: 2005-08-30 -
Comment: This book is very easy to read and follow a lot of concepts the author has mentioned. It provides a very good trading guidelines about how to make a trading decision based on the pivot point calculation and candlestick charting technique. If you know a little bit of candlestick charting, you would enjoy this book very much. In addition, it warns the traders to utilize other technical indicators as well. The more technical indicators support your conclusion, the better of placing a successful trade in the spot market. As you know every technique has some pitfalls. The author mentions that "Once in a while you will lose your shirt, but do not lose your pants because the money is in the wallet.". A very true statement. The trader always tries to survive for the next trading opportunity. I have started incorporating a lot of concepts in my trading decisions. I would encourage every trader to read this book. Learning is the ultimate way of surviving in this very volatile market.
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