Foreign Currency Trading: From the Fundamentals to the Fine Points

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Summary: Send ME your money instead of reading this
Review: PFG (the authors company) was GIVING this away late March '02... Good thing too as its extremely weak. Almost half is devoted to Glossaries, Charts, and "standard FX agreement - easily downloadable from any FX firm). In fairness, the reading is a decent commentary regarding risks involved in FX. If your looking for some real "meat" to further understand FX, you wont find it here!

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Summary: Pointless Book
Review: This book contains a lot of useless information concerning the world of Foreign Currency Trading. For example, useless graphs which take up the majority of the book, a chapter dedicated to describing law cases which involved foreign exchange trading, and pointless facts. This book is just as informative and useful as a mailing sent by some boiler room brokerage firm that is trying to solicit business from you. In my opinion....KEEP THE CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN THE SECTION WHERE THEY BELONG!!!

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Summary: One interesting chapter
Review: this book has one helpful area; it gives you a good list of questions to ask your forex broker/dealer before you sign on as customer; appears to be casting for clients for his firm; otherwise a waste of eyeballs.

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Summary: fair treatment of topic
Review: this book is very heavy on the operational, functional aspects of fx trading. it is not a book on strategy, but does not claim to be either. for someone looking to get into fx trading, the material here is useful to provide a macro view of the process and the background of the rise in popularity of fx trading, and what to look for in terms of fx service. if you do not get that information from this book, you would be well-served to get it somewhere. if you already have the basics, history, fundamentals, etc. you can find more thorough treatments of strategy elsewhere. this book is a little misleading in the sub-title "from the fundamentals to the fine points". one might expect that the book covers everything one needs to know to mount a trading strategy, when what the book really delivers is "fundamentals and the fine points often overlooked because they are not necessary in determining future success or failure in the fx markets".

Rating:
Summary: fair treatment of topic
Review: this book is very heavy on the operational, functional aspects of fx trading. it is not a book on strategy, but does not claim to be either. for someone looking to get into fx trading, the material here is useful to provide a macro view of the process and the background of the rise in popularity of fx trading, and what to look for in terms of fx service. if you do not get that information from this book, you would be well-served to get it somewhere. if you already have the basics, history, fundamentals, etc. you can find more thorough treatments of strategy elsewhere. this book is a little misleading in the sub-title "from the fundamentals to the fine points". one might expect that the book covers everything one needs to know to mount a trading strategy, when what the book really delivers is "fundamentals and the fine points often overlooked because they are not necessary in determining future success or failure in the fx markets".