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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

List Price: $29.95
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An absolute must for all traders. No exceptions
Review: As both a trader and someone who helps others get into trading, I was thrilled when I came across Tharps latest book, which is apparently a distilation of his expensive, though worthwhile, course. It is the culmination of many years of research and the combined awareness of other great traders.

I now recomensd this book in all my seminars and to anyone who asks me "where to start?" The one thing that I must say is that it is a very time consuming book to read. Not because it is hard to read, because it isn't. But because it so easy to read, so thorough and so enlightening, and I keep going through it over and over again.

If you are interested in investing and / or trading at any level I am sure that after reading it you to will feel that it is one of the best investments you have made in recent times.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best books on trading
Review: The best two books on trading thus far have been Market Wizard I & II. These books are incredible for their insight into the mind of a trader. The problem is each one of these traders uses a different technique that is unique to their psychological and financinal makeup at the time of the trade. This books puts everything together and completes and eliminates much of the confusion from reading about 20 different traders who use entirely different methods to extract profits from the market. Van Tharp, explains that in trading like all other areas of life it's the simple things that work and those who focus on elaborate indicators are wasting their time and money. This book is truly an incredible piece of work and would have saved me thousands of dollars had it been available to the public years ago. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All the tools you need to develop your trading system.
Review: This is a great book in which the author gives you all the tools, principles and calculations for you to develop a trading system which matches your personality. The author doesn't impose his system on you, rather, he guides you into developing your own.

I agree with gordmill, the guy who wrote the April 16th review is totally clueless and couldn't have possibly read any part of the book other than the front cover. His review lacks any credibility.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worth its weight in platinum
Review: This book is probably the best book I've ever read about analyzing your trading style and building a trading system.

There's a review by a reader in Chicago, dated April 16, 1999. From his review, it's obvious he hasn't read anything other than the front cover. What he wrote was NOT a review of the book, but rather his opinion based on his limited perception of reality. It would be nice if he could provide some fact for a change. Which firm / hedge fund spends $100 million on research and computer systems? Does that Chicago reader know that part of that money is probably spent on hiring Van K. Tharp (the author) as a consultant / trainer. Does that Chicago reader know that the author has studied over 4,000 traders in 15 years and is the internationally recognized #1 psychologist and trading coach? It is ludicrous to suggest that 99% of market participants lose in the long run. Could he show us that study, I think he just made up those numbers. Another clue that the reader has obviously not read past the front cover: He asks why anyone would give away trade secrets. If he had read the book, he would have seen that the author is showing you how to apply his principles and calculations to some very well known "trade secrets", systems used by Warren Buffett, William O'Neill and The Motley Fools. If the Chicago writer would have taken the time to read and understand the book, he also would have rated it 5 stars like everyone else.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The accolades written above are deserved.
Review: Also see "Technical Market Indicators," Bauer & Dahlquis

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All aspects of successfull trading are covered in the book
Review: Once, a trader has gone thru many different stages and experiences within his personal "learning curve" (if he survived until here anyway) on the way to become a successfull trader, he will know by looking back in retrospective, that all he would have to know about from the beginning on would be:

1. Knowledge in statistics ( as much as there is statistical evidence possible to extrapolate into the future)

and

2. Knowledge about himself and the individual nature and tendency to act within special and abnormal situations.

These 2 important points are the main focus Dr. Van K. Tharp, the author, puts emphasis on. Not more, not less. This is it.

Its very, very worthwhile to read this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Valuable information no one lse addresses.
Review: Van Tharp discusses and explains thoroughly the topic of position sizing in a trading account. This topic is virtually ignored in the literature of speculation and yet no other feature of one's trading will have as big an impact on long term results. I have made my living as a professional trader since the early eighties and cannot emphasize enough the value of understanding this subject. The great bull market we are experiencing is attracting many new traders and all of them should take the time to truly understand this topic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If something looks too good to be true it usually is
Review: I feel that the author takes the game of trading and tries to simplify it way too much. Does he know that firms and hedge funds sometimes spend $100 million a year on research and computer systems and most barely break even. This last statement is not an opinion, it is a fact which sadly is true. Does he know that there is a new study stating that over 99% of market participants lose in the long run. People should realize that when one trades, one is competing against many professionals who have devoted the better part of their lives to trading. These professionals are better equipped and have better information. By the time the average investor gets this info it is better to fade it. I appreciate the author trying to help others, but why would anyone want to give away trade secrets? The title is very misleading and so is the book, but I guess that is why people will buy into it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Priceless
Review: I've read tons of trading books and this was by far the most helpful and informative. Nothing else went into money management in even close to this detail, and absolutely nothing is as important as money management. The experiment where trades were made based on a coin flip, and were long term profitable all due to proper position sizing, stops etc. was fabulous. Now I know I can be a successful trader over the long run.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sound advice on developing a winning trading system.
Review: This book takes you through all aspects of trading system development from the psychological preparation necessary for success in the market to analyzing the results of your system. It has three major benefits that most investment books do not share: 1) it is very readable, 2) it makes sense (no voodoo here) and 3) it actually WORKS! The chapters on stop management and position sizing alone can cure most of the problems that individual investors usually have. This book is a solid winner. My only hesitation in recommending this book is that investing is a zero-sum game. If everyone used these principals, it would be hard for ME to make money. Fortunately, most investors are not that wise.


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