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Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities by Alan S. Farley


Product Description

Swing trading is gaining popularity as a powerful method to increase returns—and potentially lower risks—by profiting from short-term price moves. The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops. This complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades—based on the author’s popular “Mastering the Trade” online course—uses dozens of charts and graphs to illustrate proven swing trading concepts and strategies. Experienced day, position, and online traders will benefit immediately from: - The 7 Bells – unique tools to uncover promising short-term prospects - Techniques to profit from low-risk short sales - The 4 repeating cycles for perfectly timed trades
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #55683 in Books
Published on: 2000-12-13
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
443 pages
Editorial Reviews

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The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops.

Book Info
A proven course for short-term traders for making investments that produce a profit, every time. Offers dozens of trading strategies and setups that include precise reward, risk and stop-less considerations, with more than 200 charts and dozens of proprietary setups that make it easy to see where the money is. DLC: Speculation.

From the Back Cover
Powerful Strategies to Slip Between Day Traders and Long-Term Investors—and Grab Hidden Trading Profits!

Located in the gray area between the lightning-fast day trader and the endlessly patient buy-and-hold investor, the modern swing trader executes intermediate positions that offer highly lucrative results with less volatility. The Master Swing Trader contains a wealth of practical insights and information for using this powerful trading method to profit from short-term price moves often missed by other market participants. After beginning with a detailed background on Pattern Cycle applications and the trend-range axis, The Master Swing Trader presents:
* Dozens of specific trading strategies and setups that include precise reward, risk, and stop-loss considerations
* Concrete tips, tactics, and workflows to make informed choices at each stage of short-term trade evolution
* The 7 Bells – unique tools to uncover high-probability short-term trading prospects

With more than 200 charts and dozens of proprietary setups that illustrate both classic and highly original short-term tactics, The Master Swing Trader doesn’t leave your trading profits to chance. Coldly analytical and backed by real-time trading results, this proven course for short-term traders will help you improve your bottom line, lessen your risks—and increase your confidence in building solid profits in today’s volatile markets!

Biased news stories spun by insiders to manipulate options prices…Questionable stocks pushed by analysts so their trading departments can unload bloated inventories … Quick-trigger day traders chasing the latest chat room buzz …

Today’s top market players understand that our "efficient" markets are actually highly inefficient, driven by insiders with hidden agendas and an irrational pack mentality that has little to do with underlying value. Fortunately, this constant imbalance generates repeated, high-probability trade setups—and Alan Farley’s The Master Swing Trader reveals how you can find and profit from these difficult-to-spot opportunities before they disappear.

Farley’s innovative system is based on Pattern Cycles—shifting market stages that repeat in an orderly, predictable process through all price charts and time frames. These classic Pattern Cycles:
* Describe the machine language within market opportunity
* Reveal the origin of the trade setup
* Explain how to capitalize on inefficiency through every bull and bear phase
* Show exactly where to uncover consistent profit opportunities
* Offer natural methods to shift tactics quickly as conditions change
* Predict the impact of the emotional crowd on trend, range, and price development

The Master Swing Trader will help you apply Pattern Cycles to your advantage, over and over again. By encompassing virtually all market action, and revealing how price moves in a highly predictable manner, its powerful tools will give you the edge you need to take other people’s money before they take yours.

In today’s lightning-fast markets, open information makes profit opportunities decidedly more difficult to spot and capitalize upon—with the investing herd becoming far more skilled at spotting inefficiencies and closing them up quickly. The Master Swing Trader will teach you to recognize these trade setups one step ahead of the crowd, dive in for solid profits, and close out your position before the majority has even caught on.

Pattern Cycles are not easy or automatic; they require concentration, discipline, and skilled execution. But the payoff of these classic strategies is virtually unlimited. Turn to page 1 of The Master Swing Trader now, and open a new world of trading possibilities and profits—the world of the master swing trader!
Customer Reviews

A truly outstanding book for the advanced trader
A lot of people seem to love or hate this book, and I am without question in the love this book category. I have been in the market for many years, and I can say without hesitation that this book is the most advanced and thorough study of trading psychology and tactics ever written. If there's a better one out there, I've never seen it (and I've read hundreds of them).

This is not a beginners book. This is a book for people who have at least a couple of years experience trading and investing actively in the market. I don't mean someone who has a few mutual funds or a stock or two they just hold; I mean someone who follows the market closely day in and day out and has felt the fear, panic, and greed that comes from buying and selling in real time on a regular basis. If you're one of those people then this book is for you. If not, then you should look into something a little less advanced and come back to it in the future.

It was clear to me even after a couple of chapters that the author really knew what he was talking about and had advanced experience. I think many people have been frustrated by this book because they were either too inexperienced to understand it fully or because they were confused by the author's deeply intuitive writing style. Myers-Briggs intuitive types (N's) will feel instantly at home with this, but sensory types (S's) will have a hard time with it because he writes about the deeper meaning behind patterns and movements rather than the obvious visual aspects that are the focus of most books on trading. If you are someone who thinks deeply and looks for the deeper meaning of things then you'll probably like the style of this book. If you are not, then it might not be for you. I am an intuitive N, and I recommend it to others like me without hesitation. It's the equivalent of a capstone course in a master's degree program in trading.

he uses many words to say very little
The book feels like Farley is trying too hard too impress, instead of to truly educate. A few good insights, but buried beneath the weight of all those self-important words.

Very disappointing
The book is badly written and difficult to understand and to follow even for graduated people. All thinks are put inside without any logical framework. The reader get lost after some pages.
The book is too long and worth of nothing interesting.
Avoid to waste money for this book. I bought one copy kidded by the high rating and looking for some good insight in swing trading.