Description of How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator
How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator provides a crash course for both beginners and more advanced traders on speculating on the stock market. Far more than just another book about trading, it is a comprehensive guide that focuses on proven strategies for making money - whether the market is up or down.
This book shows you how to develop a successful trading system, and presents some important and little-known rules of the game. The author casts a professional eye over the choices traders have and advises which financial instruments to use, how to limit losses and how to maximise gains.
It will teach you the essentials of stock market speculation, including:
- how to find the right type of stock broker
- how to ascertain the style of trading that suits you best
- how to interpret financial statements and to calculate ratios
- how to detect creative accounting
- how to read the charts and time your trades better
- how to select what is useful from technical indicators
- how Fibonacci and Elliott Wave applications can make you money
- why CFDs are more cost-effective and better than spread betting
- the advantages of covered warrants over options
- how to exploit mergers and acquisitions, rights issues and other special situations, secrets of penny shares and new issues
- how to make fast money selling short
The author also addresses the pitfalls awaiting the stock market speculator and issues that so many books gloss over, such as choosing the right software, how to cope with the loneliness of stock market speculation from home, and how far it's possible to combine trading with full time employment.
How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator will help you to conduct your own trades based on sound principles of money management. It is an indispensable read, and a work of reference that you should always keep near your trading screen.
Contents of How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator
PART 1: How to start speculating
Seminar 1. The truth about stock market speculation
Introduction
Basic principles
Speculate from financial strength
Become a streetwise speculator
Shake off your bad old habits
The next step
Seminar 1 golden rules
Seminar 2. How to find a suitable stockbroker
Introduction
Types of stockbroker
How to make a complaint
The next step
Seminar 2 golden rules
Seminar 3. How to get started as a trader
Introduction
The trading mentality
Get ready to trade
Your trading system
The next step
Seminar 3 golden rules
Seminar 4. The art of money management
Introduction
The basics
The next step
Seminar 4 golden rules
PART 2: Become your own analyst
Seminar 5. How to profit from the accounts - part 1
Introduction
The basics
The financial statements
The next step
Seminar 5 golden rules
Seminar 6. How to profit from the accounts - part 2
Introduction
The financial statements
Discounted cash flow analysis
Advanced accounting
The changing face of accounting
The next step
Seminar 6 golden rules
Seminar 7. The basics of technical analysis
Introduction
The basics
Dow theory
The broader picture
Further research
The next step
Seminar 7 golden rules
Seminar 8. Your choice of charts
Introduction
The charts
The next step
Seminar 8 golden rules
Seminar 9. More secrets of technical analysis
Introduction
Trend analysis
Patterns
The next step
Seminar 9 golden rules
Seminar 10. Further chart patterns
Introduction
Gaps
Outside and inside days
More about candlesticks
The next step
Seminar 10 golden rules
Seminar 11. How to use technical indicators
Introduction
Technical indicators
The next step
Seminar 11 golden rules
PART 3: Speculating secrets
Seminar 12. How to profit from the information age
Introduction
Software
The media
The next step
Seminar 12 golden rules
Seminar 13. Special trading situations
Introduction
Taking a short position
Mergers and acquisitions
New equity issues
Rights issues
Scrip issues
Share split
Penny shares
Emerging markets and Russia
The next step
Seminar 13 golden rules
Seminar 14. How to trade contracts for difference
Introduction
The basics
Speculating
Money management
Resources
The next step
Seminar 14 golden rules
Seminar 15. How to make financial spread betting work for you
Introduction
The basics
Getting started
Your open position
Money management
Advanced financial spread betting
Risks and reassurances
Information
The next step
Seminar 15 golden rules
Seminar 16. Success in covered warrants
Introduction
The basics
Placing your order
Valuation
Trading
Information
The next step
Seminar 16 golden rules
PART 4: Further speculating secrets
Seminar 17. How to profit from trade options
Introduction
History
How options work
Valuation
Getting started
Strategies
Further research
The next step
Seminar 17 golden rules
Seminar 18. How to win at trading futures
Introduction
The basics
Trading
Specialist trading techniques
Futures traders
The next step
Seminar 18 golden rules
Seminar 19. Fibonacci and Elliott Wave
Introduction
Fibonacci
Elliott Wave theory
The next step
Seminar 19 golden rules
Seminar 20. Secrets of William Gann and financial astrology
Introduction
William D Gann
Astrology
The next step
Seminar 20 golden rules
Seminar 21. The speculator's guide to reading
Introduction
Beginner's books
General
Trading
Fundamental analysis
Technical analysis
Growth investing
Economics
Derivatives
Scams
Emerging markets
Motivational
The next step
Seminar 21 golden rules
A final word
Appendix: Useful Web sites
Index
About Alexander Davidson
Alexander Davidson is a leading financial journalist who has written widely for national press. Formerly a successful City share-dealer, he has since worked in other areas of investment banking. He has written several books, including the best selling How to Win in a Volatile Stock Market.
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