30 Days to Market Mastery: A Step-By-Step Guide to Profitable Trading Hardback - 2007 - 1st Edition

A solid foundation for those looking to succeed in today's marketAn excellent book for new traders, 30 Days to Market Mastery outlines an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement approach to learning how to trade. This book covers the fundamentals of how to structure trades in a disciplined fashion, so as to avoid vague decisions and acting on unclear trading signals. It also provides a number of strategies for entering and exiting the market in a way that maximizes the chances of making money and minimizes the potential for losing money. With this book as their guide, readers will learn the proper organizational, analytical, and behavioral skills that are vital to consistent success in trading. In 30 Days to Market Mastery each trading day contains a single lesson, and each lesson contains a quiz to help the reader master the material.

The nature--as well as the structure--of financial markets around the world has changed dramatically over the past thirty years. The fact is, we no longer live in a world of disconnected markets; rather, we live in a world that is intricately intertwined and interdependent. And while the volatility and large daily price swings that are characteristic of this environment have opened the door to huge trading profits, they have also brought with them substantial risks.

With more than thirty-five years of experience as a trader, analyst, and teacher of traders, author Jacob Bernstein knows what it takes to make it in today's markets. He believes that with the right tools and motivation, you can become a consistently profitable trader, and with 30 Days to Market Mastery he wants to show you how.

Divided by chapter into twenty-two specific trading lessons, 30 Days to Market Mastery outlines a profitable approach to trading that has proven itself time and again--especially when used to trade stocks, commodities, and futures.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this comprehensive guide opens with a detailed discussion of how to properly structure your trades and outlines the three essential elements of this process--the set-up, trigger, and follow-through (S-T-F). From there, you'll be introduced to the tools you can use in conjunction with the S-T-F structure to achieve maximum returns.

• Seasonality

• Momentum

• Moving averages

• Price patterns

• Short-term breakouts

• The Commitment of Traders (COT) Report

With a firm understanding of these issues in hand, 30 Days to Market Mastery will round out your education in this field by addressing why it's important to diversify across markets and time frames; and examining how psychological pitfalls can cause you to take losses no matter how good your systems, methods, or indicators may be.

You don't need a degree in finance, banking, or economics to obtain your financial freedom. What you do need is the discipline to make the right decisions and the determination to stick with them. 30 Days to Market Mastery can show you how to do this, and much more, by providing you with the organizational, analytical, and behavioral skills needed to achieve success in today's dynamic markets.