Strategies for the Electronic Futures Trader - Hardcover

Bernstein, Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071352325 ISBN 13: 9780071352321

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

Breakthrough strategies for trading futures--on-line! Futures traders are leaving the pits and phones behind to trade on-line. In The Electronic Futures Trader, legendary trader and author Jake Bernstein reveals the winning strategies and techniques traders will need to bolster their trading fortunes--via the new and efficient electronictrading systems. Bernstein introduces a wide range of trading strategies designed especially for electronically trading the futures markets. Covering everything from beans and cattle to currencies, bonds, and stock indices, he discusses: nine new trading systems expalined in step-by-step detail; techniques for breakout, trendfollowing, and market pattern systems; the role of artificial intelligence and neural networks in electronic trading's future.

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Faster Fills...Fresher Data...Everything You Need to Start Trading Futures with Your Computer in One Information-Packed Book!

Constant price swings and nearly instantaneous fills make today's futures market a happy hunting ground for savvy electronic traders - and an expensive school for the untrained! Strategies for the electronic Futures Trader will help you keep from becoming food fish in a sea of sharks by arming you with proven futures trading methodologies, risk management tools and, most importantly, the unbridled confidence you need to start building a career in today's high-potential, electronic futures, short-term and day-trading arena.

From the hardware and software you must have to the psychological make-up that's required, veteran trader, researcher, and author Jake Bernstein covers every angle of this no-limit profession to make sure that you'll enter the trading game completely prepared. Strategies for the Electronic Futures Trader features:

Strategies to take advantage of lightning-fast price swings in stock index futures, T-bonds, crude oil, and foreign currency futures. Rules to become a disciplined trader - managing each risk, evaluating every situaion, and controlling your emotions. Nine innovative trading systems explained in detail - back-tested and complete with historical results.

The electronic revolution has yanked the rug out from yesterday's floor-based futures traders, and thrown open the doors to all traders with a personal computer and a hunger for trading success. Strategies for the electronic Futures Trader gives you all the information you need to get started and details the tools you need to control risk, while reaping profits in this fast-moving market.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071352325
• ISBN 13: 9780071352321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256