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The Naked Trader, 2nd edition by Robbie Burns
  • The Naked Trader, 2nd edition

  • How anyone can make money trading shares

  • by Robbie Burns
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    • Product code: 27120
    • ISBN: 1905641516, ISBN13: 9781905641512, 360 pages, paperback
      Published by Harriman House, 2nd edition, 2007
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    Rating: 2.6/5 (28 votes cast)

    Description of The Naked Trader, 2nd edition

    It's back - and this time it's even more revealing. In this completely updated and expanded edition, top trader Robbie Burns gives you the lowdown on the strategies you need to make money from the stock market without having to sit at a screen all day. Robbie quit the rat race in 2001, and believes you can do it too.

    The original Naked Trader flew off the shelves as the glowing reviews from readers mounted up. This new edition contains loads of new stuff: more essential tips, more key facts, more ideas, more insights, more real-life tales and an awful lot more toast.

    Robbie, aka the Naked Trader, is your expert and highly entertaining guide to the often baffling world of the stock market. In between cups of tea, rounds of toast and the occasional 'cuddle' with Mrs Naked Trader, he describes the straightforward techniques that have enabled him to succeed in the markets, escape the rat race and make a lot of money.

    This book tells you all you need to know. If you're a complete beginner you can start here or if you're currently trading but want to learn some new ideas - get reading now!

    Robbie reveals his trading secrets gathered from ten years of money making. From how to find good shares in the first place, ensuring you don't buy a complete stinker, to using spread betting to enhance gains and how to make big returns quickly from smaller companies. There's also his simple "traffic lights" system, which makes reading company reports a doddle, and real traders reveal their horror stories and winning tips!

    This time, Robbie reveals his top 10 secret winning strategies - 10 sure-fire ways to ensure only the best shares get bought. Plus, how to get the confidence to hold onto winning shares and get rid of losers, and how to buy and sell at the right time.

    Packed with practical and easy to follow advice, everything is explained simply with none of the incomprehensible jargon found in so many other books. Whether you just want to make a few quid on the side while you're at work or you want to go on to make money from the markets full-time and quit work like Robbie, this book is all you need to get started - so grab some tea, toast and relax, and just maybe a richer future awaits!

    Contents of The Naked Trader, 2nd edition

    1. Introduction
    Welcome To The Crazy World Of Shares
    Escaping The Rat Race
    A Day In The Life Of A Naked Trader

    2. Getting Started
    Is Trading Right For You?
    Who are you?
    Types Of Traders/Investors
    What Do You Want From Your Trading?
    The Trader's Toolkit
    Introduction
    The toolkit
    Your trading environment
    Important Things To Know About Trading Or Investing
    Get to know your area of expertise

    3. The Knowledge
    What You Need To Know To Start Trading
    Spreads
    Trading costs
    Normal market size
    Trading hours
    Why shares move up or down!
    Market makers and the crowd
    Dividends
    How do you buy and sell a share!
    How Do I Find Shares Worth Looking At?
    How To Select Shares
    Picking undervalued shares - my secret!
    WAGS & SHAGS
    Charts And How I Use Them
    Buybacks, AGMs and Perks
    Share buybacks
    Shareholders' meetings/AGMs/presentations
    Share perks
    The Perfect Portfolio

    4. Trading Strategies
    Market Timing
    Volumes
    Setting Stop Losses And Profit Targets
    IPOs - How They Can Make You Money
    Buying into new issues
    Main market new issues
    AIM new issues
    Trading Tips - Times Of The Year
    Time For Tea And Toast
    10 Winning Strategies
    Strategy 1: seek companies starting to change
    Strategy 2: find cheap shares!
    Strategy 3: buy a hot sector
    Strategy 4: recovery plays
    Strategy 5: play short-term trends
    Strategy 6: buy boring companies!!
    Strategy 7: buy shares "doing the splits"
    Strategy 8: companies doing well in specialist markets
    Strategy 9: finding bid targets
    Strategy 10: buy shares moving up to the main market from AIM
    Other strategies

    5. More Knowledge
    SIPPs
    Bulletin Boards
    Bulletin board shorthand
    Level 2 and DMA
    Direct Market Access (DMA)

    Spread Betting
    Naked Trader's Ten Golden Rules For Spread Betting
    Directory
    Shorting - making money when shares fall
    Other Instruments
    CFDs
    Covered warrants
    Investment trusts

    6. Trading in Real Life
    It Shouldn't Happen To A Share Trader!
    Avoiding the stinkers (don't eat prunes)
    Mistakes new investors make
    Top ten mistakes
    And now, my big mistakes!
    Dear Naked Trader!
    Traders' Tales
    The Market Can See You Coming

    7. The End (Almost)
    The Naked Trader Rules
    Finally!
    Appendix
    Websites worth a look
    Books
    Quiz - What sort of investor are you?
    Naked Trader seminars
    Three Little Letters Addendum

    About Robbie Burns

    Robbie Burns has been a journalist and writer since he graduated from Harlow Journalism College in 1981. After starting life as a reporter and editor for various local newspapers, from 1988-1992 he was editor of ITV and Channel 4's teletext services. He also wrote ITV's daily teletext soap opera "Park Avenue" for 5 years. He then went on to freelance for various newspapers including The Independent and The Sun, and also helped set up a financial news service for CNN. In 1997, he became editor for BSkyB's teletext services and set up their shares and finance service. While there he also set up various entertainment phone lines in conjunction with BSkyB including a "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" phone line which made him nearly £250,000.

    He left full-time work in 2001 to trade and run his own businesses which included a cafe in London which he sold, doubling his money on the initial purchase. While at BSkyB, Robbie broadcast a diary of his share trades which became hugely popular. He transferred the diary to his website, www.nakedtrader.co.uk, which became one of the most read financial websites in the UK.

    Between 2002 and 2005, he wrote a column for The Sunday Times, 'My DIY Pension', featuring share buys and sells made for his pension fund which he runs himself in a SIPP. He managed to double the money in his pension fund from �40,000 to �80,000 in under three years as chronicled in the Sunday Times.

    By mid 2007, he doubled it again, reaching £165,000. Robbie now writes a weekly column for the leading financial website, ADVFN.com.

    Robbie has made a tax free profit of well over �500,000 from trading shares since 1999, and has made a profit every year, even during the market downturn of 2000-2002. Public trades made for his website have made more than £400,000.

    He lives in a riverside apartment on the Thames with his wife, Elizabeth, toddler son Christopher and cat Diddle. His hobbies include chess, running, swimming, horse racing, and trading shares from his bedroom, erm...naked. After all, he wouldn't be seen dead in a thong...

    Reviews of The Naked Trader, 2nd edition

    • This was the first book I have ever bought on trading/stock markets. It is a must for any would be investor explaining the potential pitfalls in trading shares and handy tips on how to spot a winner. There is no get rich quick schemes here, but, if you follow the authors advice you should minimise the losses and maximise your gains. It's written in a clear easy to follow style and my advice would be read this before you start trading.
    • by William J.Harkins on 07/07/2008
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