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Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets

Effective Strategy and Tactics for Short-Term and Long-Term Traders

Publication Date December 2007
Publisher McGraw-Hill Professional
Product Type Book
Pages 352
ISBN Number not applicable
Product Code MGH00018
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Summary

Get the edge on commodity futures and trade like a pro

Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets shows how anyone, whether small trader or the manager of a large hedge fund, can mine commodity futures markets profitably. This insider's guide offers the step-by-step techniques used every day by veteran trader, Colin Alexander. Having refined his method over twenty-five years, Alexander reveals everything you need to know to target investments with a high potential for extended moves, while staying clear of marginal and high-risk trades.

Blending traditional and newly developed tools to generate market-beating profits, Alexander's techniques work for all regularly traded futures markets. He carefully explains how to combine the most reliable indictors in order to develop a sum that is greater than its individual parts.

Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets is packed with such useful tools as:

  • Entry and exit checklists
  • Short-term trading techniques
  • Case studies for buying and selling short
  • Price rules
  • And much more

In no other resource can you find a more comprehensive trading strategy presented in such readily understandable terms as in Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets.

Content

  • Introduction
  • 1 Industry Background
  • 2 Defining Direction: An Established Trend Keeps Going
  • 3 The Building Blocks for Charts
  • 4 Price Rules
  • 5 Candlesticks: A Useful Tool
  • 6 MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence)
  • 7 Moving Averages for Direction and Support and Resistance
  • 8 Stochastics and RSI: Overbought/Oversold Indicators
  • 9 The Magic of Gaps: Three-Bars Open and Go!
  • 10 Support and Resistance: Horizontal Barriers
  • 11 Diagonal Support and Resistance
  • 12 Bollinger Bands
  • 13 Chart Patterns that Work
  • 14 Cycle Theory: Time-based, Cyclical and Seasoned Forces
  • 15 Commitments of Traders: Who Trades What and How Much?
  • 16 Stock Indexes: The Prime Vehicle for Day-Traders and Position Traders
  • 17 The Entry Checklist
  • 18 Stops: Theory and Practice
  • 19 Getting out of the Market: The Exit Checklist
  • 20 Case Study: Buy
  • 21 Case Study: Sell Short
  • 22 Short-Term Trading Techniques I
  • 23 Short-Term Trading Techniques II
  • 24 Final Thoughts