The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
Part I: The Gateway to Short-Term Trading. Chapter 1. Trading the Pattern Cycle. Chapter 2. Preparing for the Market Day. Chapter 3. Analyzing the Market. Chapter 4. Building a Swing Trading Strategy. Chapter 5. Mastering the Tools. Chapter 6. Understanding Time. Part II: The 7-Bells: Tools to Locate Outstanding Opportunities. Chapter 7. Mastering the Setup. Chapter 8. Dip Trip. Chapter 9. Coiled Spring. Chapter 10. Finger Finder. Chapter 11. Hole-in-the-Wall. Chapter 12. Power Spike. Chapter 13
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Jul 31, 2010 2:54 pm |
Review by RICHARD DIBONA for The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
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I realize there are many people who are very passionate about this book, but I am not one of them. I bought this book when it first came out and have tried multiple times to get something out of it. I just can’t. It is an impressive looking book to flip through, though. There are complicated looking charts throughout, and the natural first thought is how exciting it will be to be able to utilize these charts and the tools behind them. I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to get to his point. It just never comes. And the book is written in this almost sing-song like tone. I wish I was an English major so I could better describe it. It’s almost like reading an endless string of fortune cookies. Here’s a random example from a random page I just opened up to (all of the writing in the book is just like this): “Modify personal style frequently as skills grow. Experience awakens fresh tactics. Trading rules should not strangle fresh ideas. Update them to incorporate your trading evolution. Decide where to place focus at the beginning of each market day. Choose wisely and setups will explode as predicted.” Picture over 400 pages of this kind of writing and you have this book.I realize I will get panned by those who are, for some reason, really into this book. I am writing this review to try to appeal to those who can be objective. There is a common thread among the negative reviews for this book. Pay attention to it. It is not just a coincidence.
Jul 31, 2010 3:46 pm |
Review by Ed Davis for The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
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After reading this book, I thought that the author is extremely dishonest, and that the book should be named as
“Swing Rambling On Specially Selected Stock Charts By A Random Mind”.
If there is anything that could be called “new” in this “book”, it is the dishonesty of the writer who made such “tardemark-claim” on the so-called “seven bells”. Yet there is nothing, not a single “bell” is defined in any way, even not defined loosely. That’s only useful for the writer: since nobody could test it, or claim whether or not they actually work. Sound familiar? Uh!!! It reminded me the infamous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
I would like to give the writer a second chance: If he could define a single thing out of the “7 bells” on this board, I will be more glad to tell him what is wrong with his “work.”
Jul 31, 2010 4:04 pm |
Review by Mink Sahafi for The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
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I can only read a few pages of this book at one time before becoming brain-fogged from the choppy, over-dense writing style.
An example that is typical of nearly every sentence without relief: “Each fresh piece of information shocks the common knowledge and builds a dynamic friction that dissipates through volatility-driven price movement.”
Huh? It’s rather fascinating in a way because one can understand all the words, but still not quite get the sentence. Page after page after page of this stuff until you want to scream from having to read the same sentence repeatedly.
The book was expensive enough that I regret having bought it, because I’m sure I’ll never wade through it. He may have some good ideas, but he definately doesn’t have the skill to communicate them through writing.
One almost gets the feeling the author is a foreign speaker with a too-extensive English vocabulary or that he consulted a thesaurus every third word.
I’m giving it 2 stars because one can’t help but believe all that verbiage must mean *something.*
Jul 31, 2010 4:59 pm |
Review by Daniel Littman for The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
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I just spent more than 6 weeks reading and enjoying every single chapter of The Master Swing Trader. What a great addition to my trading library. Of course, it’s possible to get through this excellent text much more quickly, but doing so misses many of the valuable TA lessons and insightful trading observations. This book is much more than a well-written trading manual, although it does a great job in that regard. Its real power lies in the way that it shows us how to escape the “trading knowledge game”. It is possible (and very likely for some) to spend an entire lifetime reading TA books and attending live seminars, but NEVER learn how to successfully trade stocks or futures. The book goes directly to the heart of this issue and clearly describes the building blocks that create trade setups in the first place. It then shows the reader, in great detail, how they can construct any trading strategy they can imagine from these individual pieces of price patterns and market behavior. To me, this is a revolutionary point of view, and definitely NOT one that will please the current crop of mediocre trading writers and seminar leaders. An astute reader (with a decent background in the markets) could realistically never read another trading book after this one, but still grow their skills and strategies for an entire career by applying these classic principles.Finally, I have to agree with almost all of the book comments that I’ve seen here so far. I think The Master Swing Trader will definitely stand the test of time, like Elder’s Trading for a Living or Murphy’s Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets. It is also obvious that a few readers will never “get it” and walk away from the book in a bad mood. Many of today’s traders are used to getting their knowledge spoon-fed to them in little bits and pieces. The complexity and deep content of this major acheivement may just be too much for them to deal with. Better for the rest of us, who will be using these classic trading strategies for at least the next decade.
Jul 31, 2010 5:18 pm |
Review by Steve for The Master Swing Trader : Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
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This book is probably one of the best books on Swing Trading to be published in the last twenty years. It is a concise book on what you need to learn about trading stocks. I feel that the author should have broken the book down to three books, becasue human nature forces us to try and finish the reading as fast as we possibly can. We must however remember that it took a full semester in college to study a book of this size, and I feel it will probably take even longer than that to master the content in this book. So my only complaint to the author is that he has given us too much great content at once. It is similar to having your favorite desert at a restaurant. How much of it can you possibly have before you you surrender and say no more today?Take your time with this book and study it! It will imrove your knowledge of the market. My favorite section of the book was the 7 Bells. I feel that that section alone is worth far more than the price of the book!
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