Starting Out in Futures Trading
One of the best-known futures traders explains how to trade for profit in today’s global futures marketplace Look into the bookcase of any successful futures trader, and odds are you’ll find a worn, well-used copy of Mark Powers’s Starting Out In Futures Trading. In this new edition–the best-selling book’s first update since 1993–Powers reflects on the many new forces that are shaping the industry. From new rules and regulations to the emergence of electronic trading and the Internet, Pow
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The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
This concluding volume of Larry Williams’ revolutionary work. Includes over 50 pages of Larry’s personal day trading knowledge. A money management technique to give you a 99% probability of doubling your money. The Ultimate Oscillator, the Zero Balance Method, loads more. This book is filled from cover to cover with usable hands-on trading strategies and tools.
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For the price this is a great book to learn and help understand the specifics that make up all the basics in trading commodity-futures. After reading this book, I felt as if I had taken a formal college course on the subject of Futures and understood it much better from various angles now. There’s no “hype” in the book, no agendas, no further products or services to buy being pitched to you, just plain vanilla (ok, french vanilla) basics being laid out for you in textbook fashion for you to digest in your own terms. I like that – it’s refreshing in a way. It is probably like this because it was really written 20+ years ago (don’t worry, it’s been revised many times to be modernized – 5th edition, 1993). The book was originally written and printed in “Commodities” magazine as a popular mini-course series (before the magazine changed it’s name to the modern “Futures” magazine we know it as today). Even though I knew much of the content from personal experience (the most costly way) or from other readings, my CTA, etc, I did not always understand the “why” behind the rules I was following & how the markets work the way they do from both a technical and fundmental perspective (dynamics). Of the some 28 chapters, I really took interest in almost every one. I can’t say that about most of the other trading books I’ve read. Put it this way… if I could keep only 5 trading books, this would be one of them. You’ll likely dump more than that on the commissions for 1 trade – or, worse yet, even more than that on 1 bad trade. ** Beginners, I recommend the following: If your goal is to have deeper pockets from trading – then you must first go deeper in your understanding of futures markets & trading them (i.e. Read the book).
Review by Javier Dominguez for Starting Out in Futures Trading
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Please note: This review refers to the 1991 edition.
It is a good book, but this edition is plagued with typos, and mistakes in at least one chart. Don’t make the same mistake I did; buy the last edition (I bought mine on the store with very little time …) I haven’t had the chance to check out the latest version (Starting Out in Futures Trading), my guess is that it’s corrected and updated.
About his writing, I like the fact that he mixes personal experience with academic and corporate studies about the market. I think the book becomes very useful that way.
Review by Brian D. Kelley for Starting Out in Futures Trading
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This is a good book for the basics of futures trading. It has a lot of the basic
terms and information you need to get a quick edge in trading. Will it be the last
and only book you buy on futures? Probably not! This is a good start that will
peak your curiousity. I recommend it.
Review by R. Pawlikowski for Starting Out in Futures Trading
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This book definitely provides a lot of information regarding futures. It is the best reference book on futures that I have ever read.
Review by Super Trader for The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
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Mr.Williams never ceases to amaze me. He has done a phenomenal job of putting this compendium together. He doesn’t get bogged down in trivial mathematics. He makes futues accessible to the lay person. I have been trading futures as an investor and broker for the past 11 years. … With my experience I find it is very important that new investors feel like futures is accessible. Mr.Williams does that in all of his books. The is definitely a great reference guide.
Review by Paul Holt for The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
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It’s a good place to look into one of the greatest trading minds of all-time. The techniques and strategies outlined here are good, but not great. Personally, I felt as if he was holding back a little. I didn’t expect him to reveal his best stuff, but he just did the impossible (11,000%+ one year ROE) the year before it was published. The second volume is much better and there’s no loss of continuity if you read the second one without this one. 4 stars for 1988, but only 3 by today’s standards.
Review by Cerius for The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
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If he spent as much time giving real ideas as he did talking about all the money he made it may have been worth it. His add a contract when you lose on a trade, trading system is a recipe for disaster. Hardly definitive. I wish I could get a refund….
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VERY GOOD BOOK. WORTH EVERY DIME. IT HELPED ME TO REESTABLISH MY THINKING AND ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET. I WILL DEFINITELY REREAD THIS ONE SEVERAL TIMES.
Review by forweekend for The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
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i feel larry is giving a morsel here and a morsel there and not giving away the real meat! Disappointed.besides it a dated book, needs an upgradesatish paul