The Online Trading Cookbook
Wiley Trading Series
1. Auflage Juni 2012
256 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The Online Trading Cookbook is a unique resource for busy online traders of all levels. Featuring a variety of short- and long-term trading strategies, the book addresses the need amongst the growing number of those trading and investing from home for solid, low-risk trading strategies which they can incorporate into a busy lifestyle, and which will allow them to balance successful trades with a 9-5 job. Written by a trader and investor of great experience - once described as the 'UK's best-known internet trader' and author of numerous books on the subject - the book also carries the authority which anxious traders seek in uncertain times (as witness the recent success of titles detailing the strategies of proven investing experts, such as Warren Buffett). The book caters for all levels of home trader, and also contains both short-term and long-term strategies, based on trader preference. The core of the book is supplemented by extremely useful advice on the best trading tools, websites and brokers, the different markets available to trade, tips on risk- and money-management and a final chapter featuring a selection of trading success stories.
Acknowledgements xiii
About the Authors xv
Introduction 1
PART I APERITIF
Recipe 1 Uncle's Favourite 11
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 2 What Good Dishes Taste Like - The Recipe for Trading Success 21
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 3 Trend Lines and Channelling: Mind the Bumps 31
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 4 Japanese as Easy as Sushi: Exotic but not Complicated 37
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 5 Moving Averages: Decisions Decisions 43
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 6 Breakfast at 8 49
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Recipe 7 Let's Get a Takeaway! 55
Difficulty Level: Beginner
PART II HORS D'OEUVRES
Recipe 8 MACD, MA and Stochastic - Mixing Cocktails 69
Difficulty Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Recipe 9 The Breakout 75
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
PART III AMUSE-BOUCHE
Recipe 10 Natural Diet: Don't Forget Your Roughage 85
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
PART IV ENTREMET
Recipe 11 MACD (Mac-D) and Friends 101
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 12 Nouvelle Cuisine: New Issues 107
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 13 Momentum: Short Termism Does Pay! 111
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 14 Turtle Soup: The Most Famous Trading Recipe of All 117
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 15 Pairs Trading: One of Your Five a Day! 127
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Recipe 16 Double Big MAC-D 135
Difficulty Level: Intermediate/Advanced
PART V ENTREE
Recipe 17 English Breakfast or All-Day Lunch 151
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Recipe 18 Surfing the Waves: Fast Food 159
Difficulty Level: Advanced/Expert
PART VI MAIN
Recipe 19 Coffee Options and Spreads 173
Difficulty Level: Advanced/Expert
Recipe 20 Bonds: Shaken Not Stirred 185
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Recipe 21 Buffet: Today's Special at McDonald's 193
Difficulty Level: Advanced
PART VII DESSERT
Recipe 22 Common Cooking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 203
PART VIII PANTRY
Recipe 23 Utensils and Common Ingredients 209
Recipe 24 If You Can't Stand the Heat: Taking Risks in the Kitchen 221
Index 229
Alpesh has lectured on trading from Beijing and San Francisco to Guatemala and from Spain to India, Singapore and Hong Kong. Alpesh is also the founder of TraderMindMarkets.com, an online trading portal and alpeshpatel.com offering FX education as well as eglobaltrades.com, an online FX broker. He writes the TheTraderFather.com blog.
Paresh Kiri has vast experience as a floor trader on the world's second largest derivatives exchange LIFFE and as a Portfolio Manager. He is an FSA regulated investment manager.
Starting his career on the LIFFE floor in 1993, Paresh was one of the first traders to embrace screen trading, through the LIFFE online trading platform APT (Automated Pit Trading). Paresh was one of the founders of Kyte Securities. Since leaving Eden Financial in 1999, Paresh has been managing private client and institutional money, and developing very specific operational services going back to Kyte Group to assist the development of an Index Options Desk, and seeking ways of bringing the strategies he developed to the wider public audience by structuring managed accounts services using on-line trading platforms. Paresh regularly coaches and holds private seminars on trading the markets. He sits on the Advisory Board of Sterling Group.
