Product Description

The top-selling title in McGraw-Hill’s popular Streetsmart series, now with updated timing techniques to transform the marketplace

Renowned timing expert Colin Alexander revises and expands the Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market for the new trading era, explaining the impact demographic changes have on demand for stocks and bonds. He also reveals how recent market developments can help you spot pending turnarounds, detailing short trading opportunities as well as warning signs of a short trade about to turn bad, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #195120 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover
Use time-honored futures trading techniques to find the big winners! And stay with them!

Risk-conscious futures traders wouldn't think of trading without using timing techniques. Yet many otherwise savvy stock market professionals reject or ignore timing, either for individual stocks or for the market in general­­mainly because they don't understand timing or because they don't know how to use it.

The Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market is the first book to bring to the stock market the timing techniques used by generations of futures traders around the world. This groundbreaking book is based on strategies proven through state-of-the-art computer testing to be profitable in all North American financial futures markets, including stock index futures. It demonstrates:

• Step-by-step instructions for identifying the best stocks to buy and the time to buy them
• When to let profits run (but not give back all your profits) and when to cut losses short
• Strategies for the long term that avoid the disaster of riding a bear market to the bottom
• How to sell a stock short in a bear market

About the Author

Colin Alexander has been involved with the trading industry for twenty-five years as a publisher, broker, trader, and system developer. The former publisher of The Five Stars Futures Bulletin, which was consistently ranked in the top ten advisory services, he also founded the stockscom.com advisory service. He is the author of several top-selling trading books, including Five Stars Futures Trades and Capturing Full-Trend Profits in the Commodity Futures Markets.

Customer Reviews

A Great Book for the Stock Market System Builder
Many of the technical analysis books only show you the patterns, they don't go deep enough into what you should do when you see those patterns. This book tells you what you should do and gives you case studies. If you want to build a system for trading stocks, this book should be in your library.

A good and practical book on Technical Analysis
As good a book as you will read on Technical Analysis as it relates to the Stock Market. Very well written and edited with lots of charts demonstrating real case histories of the strategies employed. All the material was practically presented in a clear and logical manner. In short it was a an easy read which is good because you will want to return to it often to review key points of interest. Stresses the importance of looking at the markets from first the long term (months) to the intermediate term (weeks) and finally to time your trades using the short term (days). Well done and thanks.

RockRoys two thumbs up. Always picking it up again...
This book has an exellent balance between TA and prescriptive action. It's not enought to be able to read a chart, you have to know when to act and what action to take given what the chart is telling you. This is not the very best book on TA, it is the very best marriage of TA and practical advice as to what to do with the TA. For example. Both for long and short positions he has a long check list you should make copies of and go through for each stock you take a position on. Further, he has three excellent case studies on buying into an established trend, buying a long term breakout, and buying into a repidly moving market. His 6 chapters on Selling Short are the only reference materials I could find when researching a book on shorting, still in print, of any substance. Again there is a checklist and case studies. Finally, his two chapters on Market Myths should be posted above every online investor's computer.

As a long-time avocate of investing on both the short and long side of the market I love the symetrical thinking throughout this book. There is just no way you will become a good investor unless you adopt this symetrical view because as every investor must realize by now, the market doesn't just go up, it goes up 2/3'rds of the time, and down 1/3rd of the time at twice the rate. It's a pitty this book is so little known. If you are on the perverbial desert island, this is the investment book you want. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of TA look at the Bible, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends 7th Edition by Edwards and Magee. ISBN 0-8144-0373-5. Mere mortals should prefer Alexander's book. Best of trades!

RocketRoys