Market Timing For Dummies - Softcover

Duarte, Joe, M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470389753 ISBN 13: 9780470389751

Publisher: For Dummies, 2008

Synopsis

Want to improve your market timing so you can send your investment returns soaring? Market Timing For Dummies takes the guesswork out of developing a trading strategy and provides all of the tools you need to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market trends and changes.

This authoritative guide is packed with expert advice on how to increase your profits and limit your risk. It helps you grasp the psychology behind market timing as you learn the basics of the method, analyze our finances, select the right software and equipment, and define your market trading style. You’ll get the hang of using technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and manage risk as you track general market trends, develop a feel for when a particular trend is vulnerable to change, and seize the moment! Discover how to:

• Understand how Wall Street really works
• Use a wide array of market-timing tools
• Anticipate and prepare for trend shifts using technical analysis
• Time the stock market with the seasons
• Time with a feel for the pulse of the market
• Execute successful timing trades
• Time the stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets

Yes! You can make money in any market, whether trends are rising, falling, or moving sideways. Let Market Timing For Dummies show you how.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The tools and techniques you need for market-timing success

Want to apply timing methods to your overall investment strategy and send your returns soaring? This completely practical guide is packed with expert advice on increasing your profits and limiting your risk. It takes the guesswork out of market timing and provides tools you can use to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market changes.

• Understand how Wall Street really works — grasp the psychology behind market timing and the basics of the method

• Recognize the tools of the timer — analyze your finances, use the right software and equipment, and define your market and trading style

• Anticipate and prepare — use technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and limit risk

• Time the stock market with the seasons — track general market trends and the impact of holidays

• Time with feeling — use the pulse of the market to know when a particular trend is vulnerable to change

• Execute a successful timing trade — seize the moment, choose a strategy, execute the trade, and review the results

• Expand your horizons — apply your timing strategy to stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets

Open the book and find:

• Tips on timing strategies and choosing a market

• Technical analysis how-to's for market timing

• Advice on using economic reports to anticipate market trends

• Proven techniques for rising, falling, and sideways trends

• Strategies for successful timing trades

• Guidelines on timing sector investments

• Secrets of timing interest-rate-sensitive sectors

• Rules for staying solvent in difficult times

About the Author:

Joe Duarte, MD, (www.joe-duarte.com), is a leading independent analyst focusing on intelligence, energy, and geopolitics and their effect on the financial markets. One of CNBC's original "Market Mavens," Dr. Duarte has been writing about the financial markets since 1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470389753
• ISBN 13: 9780470389751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341