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How to Win as a Stock Market Speculator by Alexander Davidson
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    • Product code: 23719
    • ISBN: 0749444940, ISBN13: 9780749444945, 320 pages, paperback
      Published by Kogan Page on 2005
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    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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