A Beginner'S Guide To Short-Term Trading Paperback – 1 June 2008

This is the best book to start swing trading. Read it, trade and then read again. This is enough to be a profitable trader. People might suggest that this is for beginners but what I have understood in all these years is that you advance from beginner to intermediate and then finally to an advanced trader but improving you skills and not by reading books on advanced methods. Keep it simple as they say in trading. This book will help one to start understanding the structure of market and how to trade them. Simple strategies. I love this book. You will too. Good luck.

The book is nearly a textbook of investing. I would rate it seven if there were an option.I have 20years of experience in stock market Investing. Earned lacs of rupees by investing, even then I found the book quite useful in adding to my learning. I recommend it for every novice and experienced Invester

After I read this book I feel so connected to the author.. The complete knowledge She shared with us.. My memetic mother.. Thank you dear..

This book is absolutely for beginners who want to learn positional and swing trading [I write my reviews on books I am ranked 21000 among the reviewers so I feel I can add some comments on it] after completing this book please and must read another book titled"Mark Minervini's - Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market"(I wrote review about this book even you can check it). After completing these two books you can definitely seen your principal turning into green.

I learn a lot with this book. Highly recommended for beginners, so as I. For a technical analysis introduction, It fullfill his purpose with excelente.

Good book for short-term or swing trading. This focuses more on 2 days to 1 week style of short-term trading and not so much on day trading. The book contains a lot of good information but if you are an absolute beginner I think you should start with something simpler. The author does a good job of giving a lot of examples and a sort of introspective view at the end of each chapter that might be helpful for some. While I thought the book was a bit "dense" for the quantity of information it provides, it is nonetheless a good book on the subject and I do not regret having read it and learnt from it.

Really well thought out book. As the title says "A beginner's guide to short term trading" its just that a beginners guide. Aside from the tips and tricks that is shown in this book it also goes one step further and dives into the psychology of trading. I also really like how the author explains the trading cycle from start to finish in a very concise manner, nicely done. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone that's looking for a "beginners guide" for trading. Its also very easy to read and understand the concepts that this this book is trying to convey.

Really excellent book, it gives clear direction and even strategy on how to trade. You may or may not make money right away but i think eventually you will. It's an A-Z guide on trading.

This is a really excellent book. I rarely find a book on a particular subject that can't be beaten, but I doubt whether any book on the subject could be much better. This certainly beats the pants off the Trading For Dummies book that I also have in my possession and have read.You'll find that a lot of books of this kind contain a few useful ideas and then a lot of filler, but this isn't one of them. The chapters are well organized and every one of them is packed with relevant information and useful practical tips that anyone who wants to understand investing and short term trading will want to know. It also contains step by step instructions on when to buy and when to sell, what kind of profit to aim for, how to avoid losses, what proportion of your capital to invest, and a great deal more. There is a decent glossary, and a comprehensive index.Ms. Turner writes clearly, and although I find that occasionally her style is a little whimsical in an attempt to be entertaining, and reveals a kind of California hippy-dippy mentality this is only a very small minus. On the plus side, she is very good at explaining things that might seem very complex and technical in a very straight forward, albeit simplified way. I suspect she also has an excellent editor.I would like a little more explanation as to the actual mechanics of WHY resistance and support occur. Her analogy of a ball bouncing between a floor and a ceiling in a house, then penetrating a hole in the ceiling and going up to the next floor is OK as far as it goes, but simplifies a bit too much. If we stick with that analogy, one would like to know some possible reasons why holes appear in ceilings and floors.The example she includes from her own experience of trading in and out of Juniper networks during its course up from $20 to $240 and back down again is an excellent example of investor discipline as she makes several trades, each of which profits thousands of dollars, yet maintains trading discipline at all times when it would have been tempting to just let the stock run and run in the hope of making millions.For the basic investor who is perhaps disappointed with returns in a deferred compensation plan and wants to manage their finances more actively, this book is a lot of help. For example if one wanted to move from a cash position to fully invested in stocks for part of the year, she would gives you the tools you need to figure out the best way of timing that decision and hedging so that you have a chance to invest when the indexes are on a pullback or correction. Over the course of a few years, this could save you a fortune.Often the simplest ideas are useful for the newbie investor. For example not leaving a purchase order overnight, because a stock gapping up or down at the open may leave your plan in tatters. Or not buying after two or three successive up days.This probably isn't the only book you will ever need, but if it is your first one, it will put you on a very sound footing. Highly recommended.