Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading - Softcover

Lupien, Bill; Nassar, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071626409 ISBN 13: 9780071626408

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2003

Synopsis

Strategies for grabbing inand-out trading profits in fast-changing markets

Bill Lupien and David Nassar are two of today's most influential, respected voices for traders seeking profitable trading techniques without the hype. Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading focuses their combined expertise and name recognition on the swing trading skills, techniques, and mind-sets that seasoned pros have used for years to work markets to their own advantage.

Lupien and Nassar explain and reinforce ideas and strategies that work today and should continue to yield strong results well into the future. Areas covered include:

• Methods for reading the strength of bids and offers
• Strategies for recognizing supply/demand imbalances
• Ways to spot, and profit from, market maker trading patterns

About this title

From the Back Cover:

High-Percentage Swing Trading Strategies, Proven and Perfected by Today's Top Traders

David Nassar and Bill Lupien wrote the rules. Now, in Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading, Nassar and Lupien combine their knowledge into a multidimensional guidebook for dramatically improving your profits when trading OTC, listed equities, options, or futures in every timeframe or prevailing market environment!

Praise for Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading:

"The authors' combination of market psychology and risk management as important techniques make this book vital for every trader's or investor's understanding of the markets."

--Lawrence G. McMillan

President, McMillan Analysis Corp.

Author, Options as a Strategic Investment

"Short-term trading is not a sure path to riches, it is a tough business that requires hard work and iron-willed discipline to succeed. This book tears up and throws away many of the myths surrounding short-term trading and replaces them with tools and techniques designed to increase your probability of success."

--John Bollinger, CFA, CMT

www.BollingerBands.com

"Having been a specialist, and now trading electronically, the strategies covered in this book transition the psychology of risk management of floor trading into sound technical methods that work."

--John W. (Jack) Nick, Jr.

18-year veteran NYSE specialist

"A Japanese proverb states, "To hear it told is not equal to experience." By giving us the benefits of their years of real experience, Nassar and Lupien have done the trading community a real service."

--Steve Nison, CMT

President, Candlecharts.com

"Both David and Bill have tremendous success from the very methods and techniques explained in Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading, and are eminently qualified to be your guides. This book is a culmination of methods and insights from experienced professionals who live it every day."

--Christopher Doubek
President, Terra Nova Trading

From the Foreword

Swing trading has become the strategy of choice for taking profits out of virtually every type of market. With Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading, electronic trading legends David Nassar and Bill Lupien demystify the swing trading techniques of the professional traders and market makers, closely examining them to determine how and why they work, what to use in different market environments, which strategies will ramp up effectiveness in hyperspeed electronic markets, and more.

Beyond just examining the techniques, Nassar and Lupien walk through actual trading scenarios and examples to show the techniques in action, putting theory into practice. Demonstrating what works, when, and why, they cover the entire field of swing trading:

Psychology and Patterns

• Cyclical trends versus momentum markets
• Elasticity rules and tactics
• Technical analysis
• Fibonacci levels
• Cycles
• Support and resistance
• Trends
• Volume
• Moving averages
• and more

Methods and Tactics

• Preferred indicators
• ADX
• Relative strength
• TRIN
• The Intraday Momentum Approach
• Trading the open/close
• Openings and gap play and methods
• E-minis tactics
• Systems trading
• Seasonal trading
• Tax loss selling
• Risk management
• and much more

Successful swing trading isn't easy. But when you're hitting on all cylinders, getting in and out of trades with precision tactics and outwitting market pros on their own playing fields, nothing is more thrilling or profitable. Get the lowdown on how electronic trading really works and how you can enter tomorrow's market with renewed knowledge and confidence, straight from the mouths of two of today's guerrilla trading pioneers and experts, in the outstanding and rare book Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading.

About the Author:

David Nassar is founder and president of MarketWise, the oldest and most influential trading center and school in the world. An active trader and author of numerous influential books, including the Wall Street Journal, Amazon #1, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and New York Times bestseller How to Get Started In Electronic Day Trading, Nassar is perhaps best known for his live trading seminars, where he demonstrates his methods in real time with real capital for institutions and traders.

Bill Lupien is the former chairman and CEO of Instinet, the largest and most liquid Electronic Communications Network (ECN), and one of the industry's most legendary and emulated traders. A former specialist on the Pacific Stock Exchange, NASDAQ market maker, and member of the SEC's advisory committee on development of a U.S. national market system, Lupien has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Money, BusinessWeek, Wired, and other national publications. He continues to trade most days from his home in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0071626409
• ISBN 13: 9780071626408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364