Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits: The Complete Guide to Short-term Trading [Hardcover]

This title presents strategies to take advantage of today's fast-moving markets and short-term trading opportunities. Time horizons of a week, an hour, or even a few seconds have become the standard for today's aggressive breed of trader. "Short-Term Trading, Long Term Profits" reveals how the short-term trading systems and tools of these cutting-edge traders can be harnessed, tamed, and integrated into virtually any trading program. Rather than concentrating on one particular strategy, this wide-ranging book discusses pluses and minuses of several of the most popular, to help you determine which will work best for you. It gives you information on: Strategies - from day trading to position trading, how to determine which short-term strategy is best for you; Technical analysis - how chartists use price, volume, and volatility numbers to accurately forecast price movements; and Psychology - methods to understand traders' psychology, and make it work for you instead of against you.Short-term trading has become a central component of many of today's most successful trading programs. Let "Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits" introduce you to the numerous alternative trading systems available to you, and help you determine which can most easily be integrated into your own long-term trading program. Short-term trading is one of today's fastest growing strategies, with quick-trigger traders regularly taking advantage of fast-changing markets and whipsaw price reversals. Sitting on the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional buy-and-hold investors, these short-term 'buy-and-sell' traders recognize and exploit the profit potential hidden within each day's market volatility, understanding and seeing trading opportunities as they occur."Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits" explains how you can take advantage of the current trend toward shorter-term trading. Realizing that successful trading is more than just entering buys and sells, experienced trader and trainer Jon Leizman discusses everything you need to know to succeed. Containing types of stocks, the pluses and minuses of short selling, technical analysis versus fundamental analysis, Level II day trading strategies, and trading psychology, this all-in-one guidebook examines short-term trading through the prism of all these and more, helping you to understand the entire world of trading before you move on to the specific advantages inherent in a short-term approach.Incorporating the best aspects of both the volatile world of day trading and the more measured pace of long-term investing, "Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits" blends in-depth analysis with quizzes and examples to introduce you to: well-known value investing approaches of legendary investors from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett; principles of technical analysis, and how they can be used to highlight short-term trading opportunities; psychological techniques for understanding dangerous emotions; and, controlling trading risk."Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits" provides an overview of the modern world of trading and trading strategies, then reveals how short-term trading can be used with each to regularly augment trading profits. Short on hyperbole, long on hands-on techniques and examples, it will show you how to design and utilize a strategically complete trading program, ideal for increasing your overall returns while limiting your downside risk in today's sharper, more turbulent trading environments.

Strategies to Take Advantage of Today's Fast-Moving Markets and Short-Term Trading Opportunities

Time horizons of a week, an hour, or even a few seconds have become the standard for today's aggressive breed of trader. Short-Term Trading, Long Term Profits reveals how the short-term trading systems and tools of these cutting-edge traders can be harnessed, tamed, and integrated into virtually any trading program.

Rather than concentrating on one particular strategy, this wide-ranging book discusses pluses and minuses of several of the most popular, to help you determine which will work best for you. It gives you information on:

• Strategies­­From day trading to position trading, how to determine which short-term strategy is best for you
• Technical Analysis­­How chartists use price, volume, and volatility numbers to accurately forecast price movements
• Psychology­­Methods to understand traders' psychology, and make it work for you instead of against you

Short-term trading has become a central component of many of today's most successful trading programs. Let Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits introduce you to the numerous alternative trading systems available to you, and help you determine which can most easily be integrated into your own long-term trading program.

Short-term trading is one of today's fastest growing strategies, with quick-trigger traders regularly taking advantage of fast-changing markets and whipsaw price reversals. Sitting on the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional buy-and-hold investors, these short-term "buy-and-sell" traders recognize and exploit the profit potential hidden within each day's market volatility, understanding and seeing trading opportunities as they occur.

Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits explains how you can take advantage of the current trend toward shorter-term trading. Realizing that successful trading is more than just entering buys and sells, experienced trader and trainer Jon Leizman discusses everything you need to know to succeed. Types of stocks...the pluses and minuses of short selling...technical analysis versus fundamental analysis...Level II day trading strategies...trading psychology...this all-in-one guidebook examines short-term trading through the prism of all these and more, helping you to understand the entire world of trading before you move on to the specific advantages inherent in a short-term approach.

Incorporating the best aspects of both the volatile world of day trading and the more measured pace of long-term investing, Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits blends in-depth analysis with quizzes and examples to introduce you to:

• Well-known value investing approaches of legendary investors from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett
• Principles of technical analysis, and how they can be used to highlight short-term trading opportunities
• Psychological techniques for understanding dangerous emotions­­and controlling trading risk

Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits provides an overview of the modern world of trading and trading strategies, then reveals how short-term trading can be used with each to regularly augment trading profits. Short on hyperbole, long on hands-on techniques and examples, it will show you how to design and utilize a strategically complete trading program, ideal for increasing your overall returns while limiting your downside risk in today's sharper, more turbulent trading environments.