Swing Trading: Power Strategies to Cut Risk and Boost Profits - Hardcover

Markman, Jon D.

 
9780471206781: Swing Trading: Power Strategies to Cut Risk and Boost Profits

Synopsis

Provides a trading strategy that offers a viable (and profitable) alternative to day-trading and the buy-and-hold mentality. Jon Markman is an established name in the financial community. Offers clear, step-by-step guidance that will help traders apply swing trading to substantially grow their portfolio.

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About the Author

JON D. MARKMAN is Senior Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Pinnacle Investment Advisors. He was previously managing editor and is currently a weekly columnist at CNBC on MSN Money, and an investments columnist, investigative reporter, and executive news editor at the Los Angeles Times. Markman won Society of Professional Journalists awards in 2001 for his coverage of Enron and the post-September 11 trading environment, and was news editor on the Los Angeles Times staff when it won the Pulitzer Prizes for spot news reporting in 1992 and 1994. He specializes in the use of stock-screening software to develop securities-trading strategies and is co-inventor of two Microsoft investment software patents. The author of the bestselling book, Online Investing: How to Find the Right Stocks at the Right Time, he is a graduate of Duke University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

From the Back Cover

A Profitable Trading Strategy That Fits Between Day Trading and Long-Term Investing

"If you think the fifty-year-old practice of buy and hold is passe, you might add Swing Trading to your tool kit for the next decade or two."

----Dean LeBaron

Chairman, Virtualquest

"All traders know the power of a good idea, and Markman's Swing Trading is loaded with great ideas. The profiles of successful traders and in-depth research studies can help you gain a fresh perspective and a trading edge."

----Price Headley

Founder of BigTrends.com and author of Big Trends in Trading

"Jon Markman's writing mirrors the characteristics you need to be a great trader: the precision of a scientist, the insights of a psychologist, and the wit and wisdom of a storyteller."

----Craig Columbus

Market Strategist, Thomson Financial

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ISBN 10:  047173392X ISBN 13:  9780471733928
Publisher: Wiley, 2005
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