Trend Trading for a Living: Learn the Skills and Gain the Confidence to Trade for a Living

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• Breakthrough techniques designed specifically for today’s electronic trading
• Powerful new ways to profit from news, trends, market psychology, and more
• By Commodity.com’s George Kleinman, one of the world’s top experts in commodities trading

Commodities are basic essentials for life and, because of increasing demand, commodity trading is heating up. More investors are trading commodities with unprecedented opportunities to earn huge profits, but commodities markets have changed radically in recent years. If you don’t understand those changes, you’ll get hammered.

That’s where this book comes in.

This book provides traders with strategies for today’s electronic, global commodity markets. George Kleinman uncovers new trading techniques...new risks and the ways to avoid them...new approaches designed for today’s faster-moving futures markets. Want to profit from commodity trades right from the start, in today’s markets? Don’t get yesterday’s book. Get this one: The New Commodity Trading Guide!

Over the long term, commodities prices are expected to rise based on massive increases in global demand. But, as many investors have discovered the hard way, merely knowing this is not enough to make consistent profits. Fundamental changes in the commodities markets have occurred that have implications most investors do not understand. For instance, century-old “open outcry” trading floors have now been replaced with computerized trading. In The New Commodity Trading Guide, commodities expert George Kleinman reveals the new practical realities of worldwide electronic commodities trading and specific strategies for capitalizing on today’s radically different markets.

Kleinman shows how to leverage the one indicator that consistently drives commodity prices today…introduces the right ways to trade on news and profit from trends…reveals consistent seasonal price shifts that mean huge profits…shows which conventional strategies still work (and which don’t!). Finally, he introduces the Natural Number Method, a breakthrough approach that any commodities trader can use to supercharge performance!

• Capturing the 5000% return
  What you can learn from one of history’s fastest price moves
• “Breaking par”: how you can profit from market psychology
  How to make profitable trades right after market barriers are shattered
• The trend’s your friend--if you know how to use it
  Discover the best times to go with the flow
• Why markets behave differently at significant break points...
  ...and how to use that knowledge to make big profits
• What hasn’t changed--and how you can profit from it
  Two classic chart patterns that continue to work!

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The essential guide to launching a successful career in trading—updated for today’s turbulent markets

“Mastering the Trade is an excellent source for a basic understanding of market action, be it day and/or longer-term trend trading. A programmer will have a field day with the many ideas that are in this book. It is highly recommended.”
—John Hill, president of Futures Truth magazine

“John Carter’s new book focuses quickly on the critical area of trader psychology, a realm that will often separate the trader from his wallet if it is not mastered first. The in-depth trading strategies clearly show how to respond to market moves based on real-world examples.”
—Price Headley, founder of BigTrends.com and author of Big Trends in Trading

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About the Book:

When it was first published in 2005, Mastering the Trade became an instant classic in the world of day trading. Now, veteran day trader and educator John F. Carter has updated his time-proven swing trading technique to help you succeed in an environment vastly transformed by volatility and technology.

Universally acclaimed for its sophisticated yet easy-to-execute methods, this practical, results-driven guide provides everything you need to make a lucrative career as a day trader—from preparing yourself psychologically for the unique demands of day trading to timing the market, managing risk, and planning future trades.

Mastering the Trade sets aside timeworn basics and rehashed ideas to examine in detail the underlying factors that cause prices to move. Providing the tools you need to make the right decisions at the right times, it helps you enter market shifts early and either pull out before losses accrue or hang on for a long and refreshingly predictable ride. Mastering the Trade covers:

• The five psychological truths that will transform you from a mistake-prone novice into a savvy trading professional
• Exact entry, exit, and stop-loss levels for the intraday trading of stocks, options, ETFs, e-mini futures, 30-year bonds, currencies, and more
• Seven key internals, from $TICKS to five-minute volume—critical for gauging pending market direction from the opening bell
• Premarket checklists for analyzing recent market behavior and calculating on each trading day what you plan to do, how you plan to do it, and why
• Airtight risk control techniques for protecting trading capital—the most important component of a professional trading career

After spending many years on various trading desks, Carter has developed an intuitive understanding of how the markets work. In Mastering the Trade, he gives you unlimited access to everything the markets have taught him—so you can make an exceptional living on the frontlines of professional trading.