Spread Trading: Low- Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships - Softcover

Abell, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592800246 ISBN 13: 9781592800247

Publisher: Marketplace Books, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

Spread Trading. It's exciting. Stimulating. Highly profitable. Yet - it remains a mystery to most traders. Despite the benefits offered by this dynamic hedge tool, many traders don't understand how to recognize relationships in the commodity and financial markets - and use them to enhance their trading performance. Now, renowned market maker Howard Abell offers the definitive book on this exciting technique, outlining strategies for analyzing opportunities, tactics for implementation, and savvy advice on overcoming the psychological barriers that hold most spread traders back. Four easy-to-follow sections reveal exactly what it takes to trade based on the concept of differential - or the relationship between commodities or similar products - including .1) Psychological factors that make for the most successful spreaders, and developing a strategic game plan for spreading success.2) Technical analysis and spread trading - seasonal, cyclical and historical spread relationships to exploit, such as using spreads in the grain market to profit from summer drought.3) Spread trading methods of the top market experts. 4) Every principle & benefit spread trading affords from discovering opportunities in seemingly dull markets to earning greater long-term profits with highly calculated risk. Good spreaders are daring yet disciplined, focused yet flexible, well-prepared yet able to think on their feet - and Abell arms readers with the analytical and psychological skills required to be not just good, but great traders, as he outlines techniques for .Trading to win, instead of trading not to loseBuilding the inevitability of draw downs into your strategyIdentify the market signal, or 'spread entry point"And many more important tools for winning big by spread trading.With a foreword by the CBOT's chairman Patrick Arbor, this timely handbook will equip you to face head-on the challenge of spread trading in the real world.

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Praise for Spread Trading
"Spread Trading by Howard Abell serves a critical function in clearly delineating the mechanics of spread trading, as well as distilling the nuances of the concept with relevant, sucessful trading strategies involving spreading techniques...Spread Trading by Howard Abell strikes me as unique in the annals of technically oriented books." -Patrick H. Arbor, Chairman, Chicago Board of Trade

"Howard Abell does it again!...In his new book, Spread Trading, Howard concisely reviews the literature, synthesizes his personal views with the experiences of contemporary masters of the game and delivers a coherent understanding of the process of winning at spread trading." -Jeffrey Silverman, Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

"Spread Trading fills a generational gap in knowledge about a market sector much neglected but pregnant with opportunity. In clearly demonstrating how spreading can enhance trading performance, Howard Abell's new! ! est book will appeal to the novice and experienced trader alike. Highly recommended!" -Jerry Toepke, Editor, Moore Research Center

"I wholeheartedly reccomend Spread Trading to all serious traders and inverstors." -Marshall Stein, Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Edition details

• Publisher: Marketplace Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592800246
• ISBN 13: 9781592800247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212