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Summary: Inaccurate info!
Review: This book tries to cover a wide range of subjects in one go. It could have been useful for the *complete* beginner, if only the information given did not include so many factual errors. Get separate books for each of the various subjects you have to study: execution systems (ECN's, SOES etc), technical analysis, money management. Do not believe that one simple book will make it for you. You have to work hard before you are able to play the game.
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Summary: Background info on day trading and never takes off
Review: This is a book written at a time when Nasdaq was very close to its pinnacle in 1999. Not from hindsight (of the index level today), but sheerly by content, the book is full of flaws in nearly every topic it covers, especially those on Technical Analysis. Facts, and pure facts were abundant. However, trading system, strategy and insight were in short supply. The authors might have been so optimisstic and carried away by the beautiful picture they painted about trading in Nasdaq that money management and discipline had rarely been mentioned, and the "real tactics for real profits anytime anywhere" on the front cover were by and large absent. p.s. This book contains the highest number of cartoon (eight) in those trading books I ever read. Sadly, most were drawn with one single theme, that "Day Trading would annihilate the brokers". That should have implied something about the direction and quality of the book, which I had mistakenly ignored.
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Summary: I LIKE THE HELL OUTTA IT!
Review: THIS IS A GREAT BOOK FOR FAST LEARNING SELF-STARTERS. THE LANGUGE IS BRIGHT, CONCEPTS HUMOROUS AND INSTRUCTIONS SALIENT. THE AUTHORS, BLESS THEIR HEARTS--TELL US EVERYTHING NOBODY WANTS US TO KNOW. RIGHT ON!
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Summary: One of the better Day Trading for Beginners books.
Review: This is one of the better day trading for beginners books. There are a lot of cartoons in there where the authors diss full $ervice broker$. Written in a logical and readable style.
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Summary: Best Book on learning day trading, straight to the point
Review: This is the best book on day trading I have read among many books. It is straight to the point without wasting the reader time. The preferences in the book are extremely easy to use. The approach and the language of the authors are user-friendly, in other words the authors of the book explain the concepts and ideas as if your best friend is explaing to you. This is what I liked the most about this book. I would definitely recommend this book to persons who are thinking of getting into day tradering as well as persons who need help in day trading. I would like to thank to the authors of this book from my heart for giving me oppurtunity to read about their ideas.
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Summary: The best on day trading basics.
Review: This is the my very first review on any trading book.For a year now i've been studying the markets with regards to day trading and technical analysis.I have studied page to page all the hyped books.Some 30 of them. Some of them were of great value indeed. But this one i wish i had read at the very beginning of my journey. The writing is clear and most importantly, specific. These two authors can communicate to the beginner the reality he is going to be faced with, once he opens his/her trading screen(and how to set the RT III up).In the jungle of computer trading this book gives you the confidence that with care and planning you can make it without being eaten alive. You also feel that the authors are not trying to sell you a service or a seminar as many others do through their books.
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Summary: I would have bought this sooner if I knew....
Review: Too bad this book wasn't called "Daytrading for Dummies", I would have bought it sooner! Baird and McBurney put together a great manual that teaches the neophyte how all of the levers and buttons work in the world of daytrading. EDTTW also goes over all the daytrading terms that everyone assumes you know in good detail. Whereas Jeff Cooper's Hit and Run book gives you the roadmap to the daytrader's promised land, this book teaches you how to operate the vehicle to get you there.
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Summary: One of the best Electronic Day Trading books around!
Review: Very informative. Cuts to the chase and leaves the fluff writting to other authors. If you plan on day trading using ECNs or SOES this is a must read. A little bit of everything: Market Psychology, best news and charting sources, daily schedule, understanding NASDAQ level 2, a bit on technical analysis, and an incredible screen for your real time data that has revolutionized my trading. I highly recomend this book and uses many of its principles in my daily trading.
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Summary: Our book about Freedom!
Review: Welcome, dear reader. It brings me great pleasure to introduce to you our book about Freedom (as defined in Webster's - exemption from an obligation, discomfort, etc. Being able to quit a crappy, dead-end job comes to mind!) Where to begin? First, to speak to the truth about this so-called scourge of daytrading (again with the enough, it also means 'to whip or flog'. (The author recommends that you stay tuned to our website for use of this word in the latter context!) Now for the TRUTH. Day Trading is the second oldest profession in the world. There has always been day trading just like there has always been surfing. Now there is 'web' day trading and 'web' surfing! Just like most folks won't manage to well in the 20 footers off the Hawaiian coast, relatively speaking, few people will achieve the Freedom about which I speak from 'web' day trading. But those that do will truly be free (see above definition). So, let's cut to the chase. What does it take to be one of these chosen few? It's like most anything in life - you must first choose a path (to freedom of course) then, and here's the hard facts, commit!! I have taught many people how to trade. I have determined that there is one quick test to predict whether a prospective trader has any promise and here it is, for the first time in print. What do they do at night? Watch Seinfeld reruns or finish reading the Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com. Every night. I am convinced that if you are not a voracious reader you cannot trade. So forget it sitcom addicts. You are too lazy or ignorant to play this game. Please don't take offense. You are certainly entitled to sit on the couch and let your brain turn to mush. But I have found that people who read have control of their minds and this is the key to competing in the most challenging and exciting game ever invented, Day Trading. Now, for those of you who have chosen the path to Freedom, start reading. Today. Before you read our book here's your homework assignment. Read 'Trading to Win' by Ari Kiev. Email me three sentences explaining the 'creative gap'. I will intelligently and promptly predict your chances for success. (hint - if you are actually motivated enough to order Mr. Kiev's book after reading this and to complete this homework assignment your future may be bright!). You can succeed. You simply have to sustain the effort. Trade smart, Craig McBurney
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Summary: WORTHLESS
Review: What a joke. I have never read a book with more erroneous, misleading information. The only person who stands to make a dime from this waste of paper is the Author. Skip this one!
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