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Textbook Details

  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0071363092
  • ISBN-13:
    9780071363099
  • PUB. DATE:
    December 2000
  • PUBLISHER:
    McGraw-Hill Companies, The
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The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities / Edition 1 by Alan Farley

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The Educator Who Can't Teachby Anonymous

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This book deserves one star because the author sounds like Kung Fu's main character, Kwai Chang Caine. Mr. Farley fails miserably at clearly communicating his ideas/concepts and the writing is verbose. An educator is supposed to make complex concepts simpler to understand 'think Einstein and his theory of relativity'. The prose in Master Swing Trader is pretentious, redundant and roundabout.

Don't bother.by Anonymous

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Talk about re-inventing the wheel! Apparently the standard terms of technical analysis per Edwards and Magee, Elder, Murphy et alia aren't good enough for Alan Farley: he invents his own. The reader, to follow Farley's exposition, must therefore translate. Farley's way with words would make that task painful even if it were to prove worth the effort - he's a terrible writer, and if there is some...

Wordy and not very practicalby Anonymous

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I really can't recommend this book. Its long winded and never really seems to get to the point. It also not very practical in terms of what I see when I trade.


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The Master Swing Trader

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: December 2000
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Sales Rank: 569,478

Synopsis

Swing trading is gaining popularity as a powerful method to increase returns—and potentially lower risks—by profiting from short-term price moves. The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops.

This complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades—based on the author’s popular “Mastering the Trade” online course—uses dozens of charts and graphs to illustrate proven swing trading concepts and strategies. Experienced day, position, and online traders will benefit immediately from:

- The 7 Bells – unique tools to uncover

promising short-term prospects

- Techniques to profit from low-risk short sales

- The 4 repeating cycles for perfectly

timed trades

Biography

Alan S. Farley is publisher and editor of the Hard Right Edge web portal (www.hardrightedge.com), a well-respected resource for short-term trading that provides thousands of traders and investors with free educational materials covering technical analysis, short-term trading tactics, and more. An accomplished private trader and nationally recognized educator on technical analysis and short-term trading tactics, Farley has been featured in Barron’s, SmartMoney, Tech Week, Active Trader, MoneyCentral, Los Angeles Times, Online Investor, and TheStreet.com.