The New Trading for a Living

The best-selling trading book of all time-updated for the new era

The New Trading for a Living updates a modern classic, popular worldwide among both private and institutional traders. This revised and expanded edition brings time-tested concepts in gear with today's fast-moving markets, adding new studies and techniques for the modern trader.

This classic guide teaches a calm and disciplined approach to the markets. It emphasizes risk management along with self-management and provides clear rules for both. The New Trading for a Living includes templates for rating stock picks, creating trade plans, and rating your own readiness to trade. It provides the knowledge, perspective, and tools for developing your own effective trading system.

All charts in this book are new and in full color, with clear comments on rules and techniques. The clarity of this book's language, its practical illustrations and generous sharing of the essential skills have made it a model for the industry-often imitated but never duplicated. Both new and experienced traders will appreciate its insights and the calm, systematic approach to modern markets.

The New Trading for a Living will become an even more valuable resource than the author's previous books:

• Overcome barriers to success and develop stronger discipline
• Identify asymmetrical market zones, where rewards are higher and risks lower
• Master money management as you set entries, targets and stops
• Use a record-keeping system that will make you into your own teacher
  Successful trading is based on knowledge, focus, and discipline. The New Trading for a Living will lift your trading to a higher level by sharing classic wisdom along with modern market tools.

About the author

ALEXANDER ELDER, MD, is a professional trader and teacher of traders. He is the author of several best-sellers, considered modern classics among traders. He also wrote books about Russia and New Zealand.

Dr. Elder was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship's doctor, he jumped a Soviet ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States. He worked as a psychiatrist in New York City and taught at Columbia University. His experience as a psychiatrist provided him with unique insight into the psychology of trading.

Dr. Elder is an active trader, but he continues to teach and is a sought-after speaker at conferences in the US and abroad. Dr. Elder is the originator of Traders' Camps - week-long classes for traders. He is the founder of the SpikeTrade group, a community of traders whose members share their best stock picks each week in competition for prizes.

www.elder.com
www.spiketrade.com

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About the author

ALEXANDER ELDER, MD, is a professional trader and teacher of traders. He is the author of several best-sellers, considered modern classics among traders. He also wrote books about Russia and New Zealand.

Dr. Elder was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship's doctor, he jumped a Soviet ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States. He worked as a psychiatrist in New York City and taught at Columbia University. His experience as a psychiatrist provided him with unique insight into the psychology of trading.

Dr. Elder is an active trader, but he continues to teach and is a sought-after speaker at conferences in the US and abroad. Dr. Elder is the originator of Traders' Camps week-long classes for traders. He is the founder of the SpikeTrade group, a community of traders whose members share their best stock picks each week in competition for prizes.

www.elder.com
www.spiketrade.com

Texte du rabat

Why teach?

Why not simply stay in front of the screen and quietly grind out profits?

Whenever I hear this question, I say: "Preaching is good for the preacher." Showing specific chart patterns and stressing the need for discipline reinforces my own performance.

To master a concept you have to be able to teach it to others. If you can't explain what you think you know, then you really don't know it.

Once or twice each year I run a live trading workshop with Kerry Lovvorn, my partner in SpikeTrade.com. At the time of this writing, we had six such workshops, traded our accounts in each of them, and both of us made money in all six classes.

If you were to take six random days from my trading, I wouldn't be able to deliver 100% profitability. Neither would Kerry but we've done it in our classes because working in front of a group creates extra pressure to succeed. That's what I mean when I say that preaching is good for the preacher.

Read this book carefully, take notes, test its lessons on your own data. I want this book to help you as much as writing it helped me.

-Dr. Alexander Elder

Résumé

The best-selling trading book of all timeupdated for the new era

The New Trading for a Living updates a modern classic, popular worldwide among both private and institutional traders. This revised and expanded edition brings time-tested concepts in gear with today's fast-moving markets, adding new studies and techniques for the modern trader.

This classic guide teaches a calm and disciplined approach to the markets. It emphasizes risk management along with self-management and provides clear rules for both. The New Trading for a Living includes templates for rating stock picks, creating trade plans, and rating your own readiness to trade. It provides the knowledge, perspective, and tools for developing your own effective trading system.

All charts in this book are new and in full color, with clear comments on rules and techniques. The clarity of this book's language, its practical illustrations and generous sharing of the essential skills have made it a model for the industryoften imitated but never duplicated. Both new and experienced traders will appreciate its insights and the calm, systematic approach to modern markets.

The New Trading for a Living will become an even more valuable resource than the author's previous books:

• Overcome barriers to success and develop stronger discipline
• Identify asymmetrical market zones, where rewards are higher and risks lower
• Master money management as you set entries, targets and stops
• Use a record-keeping system that will make you into your own teacher
  Successful trading is based on knowledge, focus, and discipline. The New Trading for a Living will lift your trading to a higher level by sharing classic wisdom along with modern market tools.

Contenu

Preface xiii

Introduction 1

1. TradingThe Last Frontier 1

2. Psychology is the Key 3

3. The Odds against You 5

One Individual Psychology 9

4. Why Trade? 9

5. Reality versus Fantasy 10

6. Self-Destructiveness 16

7. Trading Psychology 19

8. Trading Lessons from AA 21

9. Losers Anonymous 23

10. Winners and Losers 27

Two Mass Psychology 31

11. What is Price? 32

12. What is the Market? 33

13. The Trading Scene 36

14. The Market Crowd and You 39

15. Psychology of Trends 43

16. Managing versus Forecasting 46

Three Classical Chart Analysis 49

17. Charting 50

18. Support and Resistance 55

19. Trends and Trading Ranges 60

20. Kangaroo Tails 65

Four Computerized Technical Analysis 69

21. Computers in Trading 69

22. Moving Averages 74

23. Moving Average Convergence-Divergence: MACD Lines and MACD-Histogram 80

24. The Directional System 89

25. Oscillators 95

26. Stochastic 95

27. Relative Strength Index 99

Five Volume and Time 103

28. Volume 103

29. Volume-Based Indicators 107

30. Force Index 112

31. Open Interest 117

32. Time 121

33. Tra…