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Summary: A True Contrarian
Review: A common theme among all the fundamental and technical analyst books is that you need to become a Contrarian investor in order to consisitently make money trading stocks. This book provides a true blueprint for accomplishing that goal.
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Summary: A Better Way to Invest and Trade In Volatile Markets
Review: After reading my fair share of investment and trading books, I have to say that this one stands out - Headley offers a lot of practical, detailed ways to trade successfully in various market environments. I'm not the only one who learned since 1999 that simply buying and holding stocks can actually be quite risky - the point of the book is to show the way that bullish and bearish market and sector cycles have accelerated tremendously. As a result, you can either get punished during the rough stretches or take some steps to take advantage of the market's directional moves along the way. Best of all, the book takes some traditional ways of spotting big trends in stocks and updates them with new methods I've never seen before. A couple of areas really stand out: The well-researched explanation of conventional technical and relative strength indicators used by William O'Neil, John Murphy et al. with new tools like Headley's Acceleration Bands and Momentum Divergence signals. These are things I was able to use immediately, thanks to the indicator formulas he provides. I've been able to enter and exit positions profitably overall without being badly affected by big market swings. I think that's the big difference here. Too many other investing guides simply rehash existing knowledge (or advertise someone's service) without helping you be a smarter investor. The book also opened my eyes to several key option strategies to help generate income or protect profits in difficult markets. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to expand their trading knowledge and apply the concepts to real-world trading.
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Summary: For those who had read over four trading books
Review: As a trader who had read tens of trading books, I still found this one interesting and helpful. I like its variety of content (that the author introduced a lot sentiment indicators like CBOE Put/Call Parity + Volatility Index, RYDEX Mutual Fund Flows, Volume indicators for QQQ and S&P 500 Depository Receipts), plus the author's writing style and integrity (the author did quoted frequently from other writers). Some technical tools like MACD, ADX were discussed, but only briefly. In fact, I like Chapter 12 about trading psychology and money management, Appendix D favorite quotes the most. To conclude, if you want to read an intermediate to advanced level trading book, and that you are appreciative of logical and contrarian trading, this one is for you. p.s. I like Mark Douglas, Bernard Baruch and Jesse Livermore very much. As the author does appreciate these "gurus", I admit that my positive comment may be a little bit biased.
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Summary: Practical Strategies for Building Wealth
Review: Big Trends in Trading really helps you understand what makes the markets tick. Headley gets right to the bottom line, which is helping investors make more money with a better understanding of the best ways to put your money to work. Headley highlights some key indicators that look beyond the news headlines to gauges of investor sentiment and key sentiment indicators that help you see where the markets are heading over different time frames. And in my experience, that can make a big, big difference in your portfolio. What's more, he also offers some very specific ways to spot the best stock opportunities, as well as stock and option strategies designed to help make money in different market conditions. He definitely doesn't "dumb it down" - the material is detailed, with complete information on results from the various trading strategies spelled out.
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Summary: No Rehashes...Ideas Traders Can Use Immediatly
Review: For everyone who reads this highly original book, there will probabably be a chapter or two that will be most significant that can add to ones bottom line. For me, it was the discussion of managing a straight put or call position once entered and how to exit that position. Exiting markets is critical to success...as those who have suffered through the 1999-2002 meltdown in the stock market now know. Hadley's ideas on trade management and exiting strategies have already made me money and helped solidify my approach to this important aspect of the market. I have had excellent entry point strategies, but just was really struggling with how to exit in a way that made sense to me. Hadley provided the missing piece. Of course as already noted, there is some very highly original research on using VIX, put/call ratios, etc. to help time the stock market. In short, this book is packed with outstanding information that will help any stock market trader turbocharge his/her trading results.
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Summary: Very Bad Customer Service from BigTrends
Review: i bot the book and later subscribed to its Bigtrends newsltter service and i had the worst experience ever in my whole trading career. I wrote to them several times for problems i had in its service and i received no replies. They charged me upfront for thousands of dollars and no refund despite cancellations after two weeks.
This is one newsletter that i would not recommend...trust me ! there is no customer service at all !!
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Summary: Practical Strategies for Building Wealth
Review: I did not care for this book! Almost all of his data is limited to 1999 to 2000. A much better book on the subject is "The Research Driven Investor" by Timothy Hayes. Save your money on Headley's book, you can have mine for free!
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Summary: Mr. Headley should have a PhD in Trading Psychology.
Review: I loved this book! From the contrarian aspect of going against the crowd in the early chapters to the part I found most invaluable, the "Trading Psychology and Money Management" section at the end the book was very informative. Mr. Headley takes you into the mind of what it means to be a trader and to be successful in the markets. He may be a CFA and a Market Techniciaon MTA, but he should be given a PhD in trading psychology. The last chapter on this is worth twice the price of the book. Of the books I've read on trading in recent years, this one is one of my favorites. I've had the privilege of reading Trading for a Living by Dr. Elder, and Pit Bull by Martin Schwartz, (two of my favorites I'll list) and've now been given a new and fresh angle on trading, while holding true to some of the basic disciplines of what it means to be a trader. I found Mr. Headley's "crowd sentiment" indicators to be impressive, while the last chapter on psychology will be referenced many times over to be sure. Of the tens of books I've read on trading, this one has been given a forceful shove into my top three, which I'm sure I'll read over and over.
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Summary: Mr. Headley should have a PhD in Trading Psychology.
Review: I loved this book! From the contrarian aspect of going against the crowd in the early chapters to the part I found most invaluable, the "Trading Psychology and Money Management" section at the end the book was very informative. Mr. Headley takes you into the mind of what it means to be a trader and to be successful in the markets. He may be a CFA and a Market Techniciaon MTA, but he should be given a PhD in trading psychology. The last chapter on this is worth twice the price of the book. Of the books I've read on trading in recent years, this one is one of my favorites. I've had the privilege of reading Trading for a Living by Dr. Elder, and Pit Bull by Martin Schwartz, (two of my favorites I'll list) and've now been given a new and fresh angle on trading, while holding true to some of the basic disciplines of what it means to be a trader. I found Mr. Headley's "crowd sentiment" indicators to be impressive, while the last chapter on psychology will be referenced many times over to be sure. Of the tens of books I've read on trading, this one has been given a forceful shove into my top three, which I'm sure I'll read over and over.
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Summary: A Real Gem
Review: Price Headley successfully combines his obviously well-tested market analysis and trading theory with practical step-by-step guidelines in this compact but amazingly complete trading treatise. There are so many real gems contained in this small book I can only urge beginning and advanced traders alike to grab a copy and read it...several times over. Headley introduces a few unique and intuitively appealing indicators for determining market trends, stock selection and entry-exit techniques, as well as his considerable insights on working with more well-known indicators like the VIX, Ryder and put/call ratios. However, the book really makes it's mark with his work on directional options trading and his superb treatment of the type of money management and psychology that is absolutely critical if one is to develop consistent success at trading. I suspect that even long-term professional traders will find much that is new, or at least refreshing and useful, in these pages. "Big Trends in Trading" is certain to join the short list of must read classics in the years to come.
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