Making Money in Forex: Trade Like a Pro Without Giving Up Your Day Job - Hardcover

O'Keefe, Ryan

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9780470487280: Making Money in Forex: Trade Like a Pro Without Giving Up Your Day Job

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ISBN 10: 0470487283 ISBN 13: 9780470487280

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

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A practical guide to trading around the commitments of career and family

Making Money in Forex will help aspiring traders successfully enter this field while maintaining a job. With this book, author Ryan O'Keefe explains his own personal journey to becoming a trader and shows you how to follow a similar path.

O'Keefe describes his approach to trading and reveals his bargain hunting trading style, which is designed to capitalize on market trends. Throughout the book, O'Keefe pays a great deal of attention to trading psychology, learning to read price instead of indicators, and emphasizes that aspiring traders must find a strategy they are comfortable with and can implement with confidence.

Addresses how you can successfully trade around the demands of your job and personal life
Reveals the author's "bargain hunting" style which can be used to reduce risk and maximize profit
Discusses how common trade management techniques may impact overall performance
Provides insights into structuring trading to minimize stress

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Making Money in Forex utilizes a conservative approach to trading that will help you build your trading competency over time.

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"There must be options for someone who is stuck in a staff meeting when the market is roaring."—From the Preface

Author Ryan O'Keefe is a private spot currency trader who has studied, traded, and written about the foreign exchange (Forex) market since his introduction to it at age seventeen. Although he has been around the currency markets his entire adult life, O'Keefe is not your typical "Wall Street" type. He learned to trade around the demands of his career and family, and developed a long-term trading style that resonates with retail currency traders who are trying to do the same.

Now, with Making Money in Forex, O'Keefe explains his own personal journey to becoming a trader and shows you how to follow a similar path.

Page by page, O'Keefe describes his approach to trading and reveals his "bargain hunting" trading style, which is designed to capitalize on market trends. Throughout the book, he pays a great deal of attention to trading psychology, learning to read price instead of indicators, and emphasizes that aspiring traders must find a strategy they are comfortable with and can implement with confidence.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource:

Addresses how you can successfully trade around the demands of your job and personal lifestyle can be used to reduce risk and maximize profits
Reveals how O'Keefe's bargain-hunting style can be used to reduce risk and maximize profits
Discusses how common trade-management techniques may impact overall performance
Provides insights into structuring trading to minimize stress
And much more

Engaging and informative, Making Money in Forex utilizes a conservative approach to trading that will help you build your skills over time and capture consistent profits without sitting in front of a computer screen all day.

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Praise for Making Money in Forex

"This book is truly superior and brimming with new strategies on supply and demand trading. If you have a 9-to-5 and are interested in trading forex, this book is a must-read. Ryan takes what for most is a complicated and hard-to-learn subject and breaks it down to its simplest form. Supply and demand is what moves prices, and anyone serious about making it in forex trading should read this undeniably compelling and terrifically rewarding book. It is an easy read with excellent explanations and plenty of chart examples."—Kulu Moyo, Actuarial Associate, part-time trader

"Having traded the forex around a day job for the last two years, I cannot think of a time during my growth as a trader that I would not have been able to use what Ryan has put in this book. It contains direct and to-the-point information that WILL make you a better trader. He helps you think through your trading and the market. This book is packed with information about forex to get you where you want to be as a trader." —Doug Hayward, Logistics Planner, part-time trader

"Finally! A trader and book that TEACHES how to trade the forex market that works around MY schedule and time frame and not their own. Ryan arms the trader of all seasons with the tools and skills to trade in any market condition. Making Money in Forex is a must-have in any trader's arsenal if they are serious about trading!"—Sung Choi, Software Engineer, part-time trader

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