Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder (Hardcover - John Wiley &...

Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas:How to become a cool, calm, and collected traderHow to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowdHow to use a computer to find good tradesHow to develop a powerful trading systemHow to find the trades with the best odds of successHow to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profitsTrading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading a...ccounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion volume—Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills. For example: Question Markets rise whenthere are more buyers than sellersbuyers are more aggressive than sellerssellers are afraid and demand a premiummore shares or contracts are bought than soldI and IIII and IIIII and IVIII and IVAnswer B. II and III. Every change in price reflects what happens in the battle between bulls and bears. Markets rise when bulls feel more strongly than bears. They rally when buyers are confident and sellers demand a premium for participating in the game that is going against them. There is a buyer and a seller behind every transaction. The number of stocks or futures bought and sold is equal by definition.