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Summary: Truly a fine work for mature traders
Review: This is for the serious student, and doesn't read like the typical comic book. The effort is worthwhile and has great impact on trading performance and bottom line. I found it full of detailed content and strategy. Clearly not for the impatient reader.
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Summary: Thank you Mr Farley
Review: I would like to strongly recommend this book to everyone. I have been trading stocks for over 15 years and read almost every book ever written on investing and trading. What I liked the most about this book is the fact that it covers the most important elements of short-term trading: TA, trader psychology, strategies and risk. It explains them thoroughly with detailed illustrations. In fact, I counted over 170 charts, each annoted with original observations. If you're like me, you'll appreciate these visual aids. The book is very well organized, with each chapter building on previous chapters. This makes the text a very smooth read. My overall rating is 5 stars. It is well worth its price tag. In this case, you will get what you pay for.
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Summary: Excellent and Detailed Trading Book
Review: I just finished reading this book for the second time. The content of the materials run so deep many readers will want to tackle it a second or third time. This is the best trading book I've read. And believe me, I've read a ton of them. This one gets around the common approaches to trading and adds a dimension I've never seen in another TA book. I guess I would call that "context". Farley adds the trader to the equation and shows how complex strategies rely on the individual who is buying and selling. A fascinating and informative approach.This book is not for everyone, as some reviews make clear. But it deserves absolute respect and consideration. Don't trust those not willing to give it.
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Summary: Horrible...Utterly Horrible
Review: This book is so bad in so many ways that I don't even know how to begin to explain the magnitude of it's awfulness, but I will give it a shot. Try to imagine reading a 440 page telegraph message. Better yet, imagine a book that reads like a standard-shift car that sorely needs a new clutch - being driven by a BRAND new driver - in Korea. Herky-jerky to the nth degree is the idea that I am subtly trying to convey. Alan Farley rapes the English language with such ferocity and reckless abandon that one can't help but wince throughout the entire read. Vlad the Impaler's handling of the Islamic hordes was charity compared to Farley's treatment of English. I could go on much longer and still not feel half-satisfied that I explained Farley's (ab)use of the language, but there are other pressing matters of equal terribleness that must be warned about. Alan Farley is a dude on a serious guru head-trip. I am convinced that this guy has done a lot of acid and Trancendental Meditation in his life, and probably at the same time. I wouldn't be surprised if he's suffered from a nervous breakdown at some point - maybe it was after his pilgrimage to the Ganges in the 70's. This book is replete with spewings of cosmic debris; the gist of which is that in order to become a "Master Swing Trader", Grasshopper must merge left and right brain before "Master Pattern" will enfold like the lotus flower and release it's secrets to lowly Swing Trading aspirants. I have a suspicion that this screed is actually a compendium of all of the notes that were taken by Master Farley's acolytes during his deep trances when he communed with the "Master Pattern". This could partially explain my third big complaint with this travesty of a book: There are literally hundreds of repetitive sentences that are written in ever so slight variation. I [kid] you not that this book could have been edited down to a 35 page pamphlet. To add insult to a swift kick in the genitals, there is NOTHING NEW that Master Farley fatuously twaddles about. I believe a goddamn cookbook could yield more knowledge about trading than this book - and be infinitely more engaging. Read Edward and Magee, read Murphy, read Rotella. DO NOT buy this book or even borrow it. It's not worth the anguish. I'll fade this review to the last scene in "Apocolypse Now". The horror...the horror...the horror........
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Summary: Skip the first seven chapters
Review: If you run a scan swing 7 bell in this book against simple chart patterns you'll get almost the same results. 10 out of 12
The scan of simple chart patterns at investtech.com and the seven bells at his web site hardrightedge.com. So "Master swing trader" or "Encyclopedisa of chart patterns".
However, daily scans will do you much good when compared to real time signals.
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Summary: outstanding read
Review: Solid book, from start to finish. Good style and content. I learned many new ideas and strategies. Much much better than the usual trading book garbage. Recommended.
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Summary: Excellent Addition to my TA Library
Review: This is an informative and well-written text on swing trading and technical analysis. Farley's teaching methods are outstanding, with layers of information presented to the reader in each chapter. He highlights many aspects of market behavior and strategy I've never thought of in my 10 years of trading, This is truly a unique book, which will likely be studied for decades.
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Summary: What a total waste of money and time....
Review: This is most awful book I have ever read on any subject. The style, if you can call that, is total rambling, repeating vague and general statements over and over. Every page is filled with that kind of garbage.
I had to read and read sentences and paragraphs several times to make some sense out of them, with little success. How can anyone rate this book 4 or 5 stars and call it excellent work.
The impressive looking charts are over-complicated, confusing and mostly meaningless.
This was a frustrating reading, especially that I wasted so much time trying to understand something that wasn't there....
What a rip!...
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Summary: Awful book..big waste of money and worse...waste of time
Review: On the surface this book looks impressive and full of impressive looking charts. Once I started reading this book, however, I realized that it is horribly written. Vague and general sentences abound everywhere, and I had a hard time getting any decent concepts out of them. Totally general statements are on virtually every page, such as "The swing-trader carefully chooses his entry point." Period. No further explanation. Yeah-right and no kidding...but how? Seems that the reader just has to figure that one out for him/herself...great ! The charts, overly complex, contain a few sentences within the chart captions, vaguely describing some pattern that should be obvious by now...but it is not (if it were, why would I need this book in the first place). Until chapter 7, there are absolutely NO reference points from the main text to any of those fancy charts. This book is totally awful and I am unhappy that I paid money for it and worse, that I wasted all this time grinding through the meaningless pages.
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Summary: AWESOME MATERIALS IN AWESOME WRITING STYLE
Review: As a foreigner in non-english country,I think the book is not
so difficuly to read.I think like reading the Bible you must
keep patient and to dig the wisedoms scattered in the book.
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