Trading for Dummies
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Product Description
The friendly, easy-to-understand guide to stock trading
Trading For Dummies presents practical, how-to guidelines on observing market behavior, identifying trends and patterns, and predicting future performance. Readers will discover how to develop strategies for when to buy and sell stocks, spot easy chart patterns, choose the right stock to trade, and develop a personal trading strategy. Readers will also find information on choosing a broker, using a trading center, and protecting their principal. Further sections provide advice on designing and keeping a trading log and using the Internet for research-plus strategies and tips for swing and day trading. Trading For Dummies is an approachable, non-intimidating guide to finding stocks that move and trades that pay.
Michael Griffis (Winchester, VA) is a stockbroker who has helped businesses and individuals manage investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement plans, 401(k) plans, and asset management programs. Lita Epstein (Coconut Creek, FL) designs and teaches online courses on topics such as investing for retirement, getting ready for tax time, and finance and investing for women. She is the author of Streetwise Retirement Planning and the coauthor of Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours.


This book is especially good for the person who wants a broad overview of investing. It will give you a solid foundation to begin growing your money from. After reading, I opened a Scottrade account because they had the lowest rates ($7), and no inactivity fee. [...] to get a referral for 3 free trades.
Rating: 4 / 5
Overall this book covers important aspects of day trading. However, a beginner day trader will need more focused trading strategies to make it in this game.
Day trading keeps getting competitive and the stock market doesn’t make a difference between the experienced and the newbie traders. So either youre going to make money trading or you are going to lose it in favor of the more seasoned ones.
As a trader your homework is all about studying and testing different strategies. That’s the only way youre going to know what works and what doesn’t for you. Just always keep in mind that a good strategy is simple and practical. Complicated systems will always make you slow in your decision making process.
There are some very good sites on the web where you can access practical trading strategies that are easy to implement. One of those sites is Smart Day Trading ( SmartDayTrading com)
They focus on short term momentum trading tactics that can help you identify and handle hot stocks while reducing your trading risk.
All in all day trading is all about following your buy and sell signals with ease and simplicity. Once you learn to master your trading decisions, you can aspire to produce consistent profitable results.
Rating: 4 / 5
The product Trading for Dummies is great, easy to read and even easier to understand.
Rating: 5 / 5
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Rating: 5 / 5
I thought hhhhhmmmmmmm i think i could get into this trading thing after reading a book like this but even this book which is for dummies is too hard to understand sometimes
Rating: 2 / 5