Trading For Dummies

Lita Epstein, MBA, has authored more than 40 books, including Reading Financial Reports For Dummies and Bookkeeping For Dummies. Grayson D. Roze is the Vice President of Operations at StockCharts.com and the author of Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery.

• Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Trading 5Chapter 1: The Ups and Downs of Trading Stocks 7Chapter 2: Exploring Markets and Stock Exchanges 19Chapter 3: Going for Broke(r): Discovering Brokerage Options 31Chapter 4: Putting Your Key Business Tool to Work: The Computer 47Part 2: Reading the Fundamentals: Fundamental Analysis 63Chapter 5: Fundamentals 101: Observing Market Behavior 65Chapter 6: Digging Into Fundamental Analysis 83Chapter 7: Listening to Analyst Calls 103Part 3: Reading the Charts: Technical Analysis 117Chapter 8: Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Technical Analysis 119Chapter 9: Reading Bar Charts Is Easy (Really) 131Chapter 10: Following Trends to Boost Your Probability of Success 151Chapter 11: Calculating Indicators and Oscillators 167Part 4: Developing Strategies for When to Buy and Sell Stocks 189Chapter 12: Money Management Techniques: Building a More Robust Portfolio 191Chapter 13: Combining Fundamental and Technical Analyses for Optimum Strategy 209Chapter 14: Minimizing Trading Risks Using Exchange-Traded Funds 229Chapter 15: Executing Your Trades 239Chapter 16: Developing Your Own Powerful Trading System 257Part 5: Risk-Taker’s Paradise 277Chapter 17: The Basics of Swing Trading 279Chapter 18: The Basics of Day Trading 293Chapter 19: Doing It by Derivatives 309Chapter 20: Going Foreign (Forex) 327Part 6: The Part of Tens 343Chapter 21: More Than Ten Huge Trading Mistakes 345Chapter 22: Ten Trading Survival Techniques 353Index 359