- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (18 Dec 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471514063
- ISBN-13: 978-0471514060
- Product Dimensions: 26 x 18.6 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,266,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Presents day traders with a systematic and rational framework for decision–making in the futures, options and equities markets. Offers complete coverage of day–trading methods including price, time and volume analysis techniques, money and position management strategies, trading systems, computerized trading tactics and much more.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm an advanced trader and only bought this book because a very good friend who is a retiring physician suggested I do so. The book is written in three separate parts. The first part discusses the theory of day trading. The second goes into the details of applying current strategies. The third, and this is where the meat is, takes about 14 trading examples and applies the thinking process of how to trade to actual markets. This book goes far beyond what most other "how to" books on market trading is all about. The other books I've read goes and tells the intricate details of what techniques and how to use them. What Eng does in this book, and other books, is to tell how to use the techniques to make money. This is what I am, as a trader trying to make money, looking for. I don't want to know that a 7 day moving average is better than a 13 day moving average. I just want to know how to make money. Eng tells me how to do so without bogging me down with useless details. I hate to say it (and I wonder what readers of this will say) but most books on trading is really "masturbation of the mind." All play and no substance. Here, Eng gets down to the details: it's all in the management of the trade, once you have it on. This is what Eng writes about: manage, manage, manage. The last part, where the successful trades turn to profits, is where he guides me through the successful management of the trade. I think most beginning traders will find this book to be too advanced because it concentrates on how to make money and it doesn't concentrate on how to make the reader a proficient technical analyst. Take it from me, I've spent years learning about moving averages. It's only when I figured out that I had to do something to make the trade profitable that I started to really make a lot of money. Eng might be too far ahead of the curve for the rest of the readers to figure out. I've read some of Eng's works and he does go into tremendous details in his other books. In this one he does token explanation and focuses on the management of the trade. As far as I know there are no books out there by other writers that concentrate on the real money-making aspect of trading. I spent years learning the details, but in this one book Eng makes it very succinct: it doesn't matter what techniques you use, just use them, and then successfully manage that trade to money!! In my library this book is highly ranked.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I returned this book primarily because it is fairly dated, given the technical advances in electronic trading since the publication date of 1993. I am a fairly active trader and have an earned doctorate in physics; Mr. Eng's discussions of Chaos, Entropy and Randomness left me with the suspicion that scientific buzzwords are employed to justify the empirical ideas of chart analysis. Friedfertig and West's 1998 book, The Electronic Day Trader, is a far more useful and current title.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was looking for "How To" Day trading book. Reading this book was torture. I felt Mr. Eng was trying harder to impress upon the reader his vast knowledge of the theory of economics, rather than teaching one how to day trade. I admit, I couldn't force myself to read the whole book. By the time I finished part two, feeling I'd gained nothing out of those 186 awful pages, I moved on to more exciting authors.
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This book is soooo technical, it turns you off...
This book looks good, had one or two good reviews. But I wasted my money on it, because it put me to sleep. Written for the older crowd, with techniques used in the 80's. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 1999
Buyer's remorse
Although this book appears at first glance to contain an impressive discussion of technical analysis as it may be applied to day trading, a more thorough reading reveals that the... Read more
Published on 6 Jun 1999
A disapointing book
With all due respect to Mr. Eng, the book really skimped on detail. It mentioned myriads of techniques and styles, but failed to provide adequate information to fully understand... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 1998
A must for all serious day traders...
The simple and straight to the point title, The Day Trader's Manual, says it all. This is a compact (at just over 300 pages, with pages of detailed graphs -- no frills, nonsense,... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 1998
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