The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities

Rating:
Summary: Frustrating !!
Review: This book is sadly disappointing. There are some good ideas that you can gleen from this text but overall I would save the money and avoid it for other more professionally written books (ie. Schwager stuff). Reading this tome is akin to wading through a quagmire of well meaning but ill structured ideas and concepts. I kept thinking that Farley is writing in a schizophrenic, stream-of-conciseness style as the text wandered aimlessly. Randomly, good ideas would jump disjointedly from the droning text and I would highlight them but in the end though, it was a chore to finish, and a book not enjoyed is hard to follow and retain. Sorry Farley.

Rating:
Summary: Much better than most
Review: I have made money using some of his ideas.
He is worth the time and effort.
Organization and illustration placement could be better.
But he has good present day profitable ideas.
Nothing phoney.



Jack Stern

Rating:
Summary: Ever wonder why TA got a bad name?
Review: Look no further, and just read this book...

The only thing that I wish to stress here is that if you wish to believe any positive reviews on this book, either on this amazon website or anywhere else, you ought to find at least ONE SINGLE theory from this book which the reviewer(s) dare to make any claim that he/she had benefitted so far, and then try to reproduce yourself. If you cannot, you might as well just forget all about this book and be very confident that you would not MISS ANYTHING important, except hypings.



Rating:
Summary: Good ideas but difficult to read
Review: Pros - The ideas in this book are great. It really helps beginning traders focus on the right things. Too many traders focus on all the wrong things because not many books stress the significance of time, cross verification, and S&R. They focus on outdated chart patterns that usually fail. This book focuses on practical setups that are reliable and helps mold a winning trading mentality which is the most important of all.

Cons - This book has very little structure. Each section seems to be nothing more than a list of random trading facts written in paragraph form that have little to do with the title of the section. This is not a book you can expect to easily highlight and flip though. It takes time to absorb but I can assure you it will be time well spent.

Suggestions - If you don't have much technical knowledge, start off with John Murphys "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets". Its a great introductory text. After you have a basic knowledge of Technical Analysis, take you time and read Farley's book.