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Summary: All new information never before available in print.
Review: Readers should be aware that the authors originally published a tutorial and a software guide of their own trading system. The guide was called Electronic Day Trading. The reader from NJ and Collins accurately describe the "soft cover" Electronic Day Trading. But inaccurately confused it with Electronic Day Trader. Electronic Day Trader is all new and quite different from the other. Watcher (our system) is barely mentioned. The book is far more than just a SOES book. Sections are dedicated to trading listed securities, using ECN's and philosophy. I am quite certain that readers will find Electronic Day Trader far superior to Electronic Day Trading. They will read all new useful information that has never before been described in print. Reveiws from many of the industries experts have been outstanding and this book is clearly a must read for day traders.
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Summary: The hottest book I've read on day trading
Review: I think I've read just about every book on day trading...and there aren't a lot out there. This one is the best I've read. Goes into the kind of detail I was looking for. Now I have an understanding of day trading that I could not get from any other book I've read. At the end of the day, this is the one book every investor should buy!
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Summary: The first book to explain how the market really operates
Review: I have been a member of the New York Stock Exchange for 30 years, and this is the first hands on explination of how the markets actually work. I have never seen a floor trader or specailist with a computer doing fancy technical analysis such as: RSI. or stocastics etc. etc., for all that stuff has nothing to do with the stock market. Friedfertig's and West's book the Electronic Daytrader shows how to really trade by analysing order flow and market maker movemenets.
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Summary: Pioneering effort that discloses how to day trade!
Review: This book is a true pioneering effort. It contains new and original information about day trading using the new, electronic tools now available to the average Joe. Specifically, this book details methods used by successful traders. Their methods are layed out is such a way that nothing is skipped. The book is so rich and deep in new content that I plan read it again to fully absorb the information. I believe it paints and accurate picture of how our markets really work. This book is definitely not a rewrite of some other book. Hats off to Marc and George and their editor. I look forward to their next book effort. I'm sure it will contain examples and more illustrations of day-trading processes they described so well here in their first book. I suggest all traders get a copy. It is MUST READING!
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Summary: Very informitive for one who has an idea of trading
Review: This book was very informitive to a person like myself who already had an idea of trading and did not need to know the step by step process, but rather the options I had for trading. It also gave me a better overview of other basic principles of the profession in a clear and entertaining way.
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Summary: How to out smart the Market Maker and lose.
Review: OK, I did not read the hard cover, but have read the softcover. Anything that sounds to good to be true is. I am ex SOES trader. Ran out of funds after 8 months. Most people I saw in the two SOES office's that I work in lost $5,000 - $10,000 before they got the hang of it. See Forbes and Business week. On positive side you must understand tricks and methods of Market Makers if you are a Day Trader. Someone who is back in cash every night. Also tips on trading out of an office with others is a plus. Remember that in last two years anyone with a buy button made money investing. Trading is not investing.
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Summary: A mediocre overview of the direct online trading systems.
Review: A slim overview lacking the detailed understanding and assessment of market making strategies, individual stock gyrations, and obvious broker dealer advantages. Sounds more like an infomercial to sell the authors' (ie George West and Mark Freedfertig)trading sysytem to inexperienced investors. Additionally , for the money , one of the most poorly written pieces of literature ever published under the fine auspices of McGraw-Hill.
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Summary: Much Ado About Nothing
Review: Having purchased "The Electronic Day Trader", I had high hopes of learning how to become a day trader. I was utterly disappointed. My criticism of this book is made up of the following points: 1. The book is not well written. In many instances, the explanations given by the authors are unclear and downright confusing. 2. No usable trading methods or techniques are described in the book. Even if I was to attempt to trade electronically, I would have no idea whatsoever on the how-to of choosing what to buy and sell, when to buy/sell it, at what price, etc. 3. Descriptions of what market makers and their ilk do are so simplistic as to be useless. 4. No real life examples of trading are given to help clarify what the authors are talking about. 5. The only decent portion of the book talks about the different systems available to trade electronically. Even this portion of the book is hurt by being poorly written. In short, don't buy this book! END
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Summary: Play the Market Makers Game as an Individual!
Review: This book is great! It is like a trading tutorial. Especially when you are new to electronic day trading it tells you how to understand Nasdaq Level II data, Time&Sales, charting etc. and how to interpret it. Do you know how market makers play their game or why they sometimes acting as you would call "unpredictable"? This book uncovers it!
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Summary: I wanted it to be better
Review: After carefully reading The Electronic Daytrader, I feel like I'm still not ready to start. The book's first 2/3rds explain general market practises, and only the last 1/3rd talk about Daytrading.
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